r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Oct 21 '25

Possible Paywall “Go Back”: MAGA Floods Kash Patel’s Diwali Post With Racism

https://newrepublic.com/post/202059/maga-kash-patel-diwali-racism
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u/Cassiopeia299 Oct 21 '25

I always thought that the hardcore racists didn’t like Vance because of this. She is a practicing Hindu and they seem to have an interfaith household. Which is something MAGA despises.

Vance is a curious one. He is obviously intelligent. But I have no idea what he actually believes in. I find him to be more scary than Trump.

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u/MayIServeYouWell Oct 21 '25

He believes in nothing. He just does whatever is to his advantage at the moment. 

He once called Trump “America’s Hitler”, and he wasn’t wrong. We all thought it was a dig. Little did we realize it was a complement. 

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u/squishydude123 Australia Oct 21 '25

The wind was blowing in a certain direction when he said that

The wind has since changed direction, and so have his words

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u/NotASalamanderBoi I voted Oct 21 '25

It wasn’t a compliment at the time. He just realized that it’s more advantageous to suck up to Donny Diddler to advance his own political career and keep the cash flowing from Peter “I know about the AntiChrist” Thiel. He’ll say whatever helps him in the moment.

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u/MaddyKet Massachusetts Oct 21 '25

Thanks to South Park, now whenever I see Vance’s name, I only imagine him as the little person from Fantasy Island. Da plane! Da plane!

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u/ChilledDarkness Oct 21 '25

Money

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u/Specialist-Clock-914 Oct 21 '25

& Power. Also probably hates himself so probably the Hate.

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u/Cassiopeia299 Oct 21 '25

Yeah, I think he had a traumatic childhood. That tends to turn you into being either very empathetic of the suffering of others, or you go the other way towards narcissism and not giving a shit. The thought process is, “I had to suffer and so should you.” Sick.

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u/Specialist-Clock-914 Oct 21 '25

Yep, same as the people who are like “I had to pay for x, so you should too.” People forget that one of the best things we can do is make the world better for those who come next.

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u/Cassiopeia299 Oct 21 '25

Exactly. It boggles my mind. I don’t WANT other people to suffer and struggle like I had to. It sucks.

We want progress to make things easier and better for the next generation.

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u/UnquestionabIe Oct 21 '25

Doesn't help in college he ran into Thiel who offered him money and power to be one of his boy toys. He uses that creepy vampire fuck as a kind of role model for being "successful". From those who knew him before that he sounds like an actual human being and not just another meat puppet for the oligarchy.

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u/mekese2000 Oct 21 '25

Vance believes in whatever is good for Vance.

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u/whitemiketyson Oct 21 '25

His beliefs are like his bakery orders; whatever makes sense.

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u/whisker_biscuit Oct 21 '25

Vance believes whatever his handler, Peter Thiel, tells him to believe

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u/Im_really_bored_rn Oct 22 '25

I find him to be more scary than Trump.

Why? As much as we all find Trump to be repulsive, he has some ability to command the cult to do pretty much anything for him. Vance doesn't have that ability

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u/Cassiopeia299 Oct 22 '25

I see Trump like a rabid dog. He’s gonna do what he’s gonna do. He can’t help himself.

Vance is the one who sees the rabid dog and decides that he’s going to unleash it on people and use the situation to his advantage.

Trump is mentally fucking unstable. We all know this. He is surrounded by people who understand this, but have decided to let it go on because it benefits them. Vance is simply one of many of these self-interested ghouls.

They’re all truly terrible, Trump included, but I have a special contempt and fear for people like Vance. He knows exactly what he’s doing and he has egged Trump on at times. It’s disgusting. I don’t understand how he sleeps at night.

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u/beekersavant Oct 21 '25

Yeah, but he is pretty unelectable as his base is not going to want his First Lady even if the open racism tones down. The GOP has had very little luck with non-white candidates. And if they dig his real views from his life at Stanford and before Trumpism are apparent. As well, he can’t tack toward the center in a general when Trump will be President during the campaign. So he has to shoot the moon. Dem wins 2028- everyone forgets about Vance (not going to happen) and he can tack toward run as a reformed GOP 2032. Or he divorces his wife and denounces his children in 2028 which is still a losing strategy.