{"id":2401442,"date":"2025-02-11T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grow-up-jd-vance-eviscerates-democrat-attempting-to-cancel-doge-employee\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:08:31","slug":"grow-up-jd-vance-eviscerates-democrat-attempting-to-cancel-doge-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grow-up-jd-vance-eviscerates-democrat-attempting-to-cancel-doge-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grow Up&#8217;: JD Vance Eviscerates Democrat Attempting to Cancel DOGE Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrow-up-jd-vance-eviscerates-democrat-attempting-to-cancel-doge-employee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2401442&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent exchange between U.S.\u2062 Vice President JD Vance and Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna regarding \u2064comments made by \u2063a young staffer at Elon Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), \u2063who\u200d resigned after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-to-rehire-doge-staffer-who-resigned-after-media-dug-up-his-tweets\/\" title=\"Elon to ... DOGE Staffer Who ... After Media Dug Up His Tweets\">making racist remarks online<\/a>. Vance criticized khanna&#8217;s demands\u2062 for an apology, \u2064suggesting that such emotional appeals are &#8220;emotional blackmail&#8221; disguised as concern. \u2064He expressed his belief that a culture that does\u200d not allow people to make mistakes stifles growth. In response to Khanna&#8217;s question about addressing the \u200cremarks made about &#8220;Indian hate,&#8221; Vance emphasized that \u200dhe worries more about a culture that encourages such emotional manipulation than about online trolls. \u2064he argued that\u200b his children should grow up\u2062 without fear of past missteps affecting their future, highlighting a clash of values regarding accountability \u2064and personal growth in contemporary discourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Graduate schools in the United States often teach students to cloak their sinful pride and authoritarian sensibilities in fine-sounding jargon.<\/p>\n<p>From time to time, however, those <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">institutions accidentally produce gifted truth-tellers<\/a> who can challenge the authoritarians on their own terms.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Vice President JD Vance, a 2013 graduate of Yale Law School, told Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna to &ldquo;grow up&rdquo; after the congressman, displaying the performative outrage typical of woke authoritarians, demanded an apology from 25-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-rehire-doge-staffer-resigned-media-dug-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marko Elez<\/a>, a staffer from Elon Musk&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who resigned Thursday following revelations that he had anonymously posted racist comments online.<\/p>\n<p>Musk later posted a poll on X asking the public whether DOGE should rehire Elez. The poll&rsquo;s final results showed that 78 percent of the nearly 400,000 respondents answered in the affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, both Vance and President Donald Trump publicly sided with the majority. Musk, therefore, indicated that DOGE would bring Elez back into the fold.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Elez made comments denigrating Indians (those whose ancestors hailed from the Indian subcontinent, not from among the North American tribes that produced Democratic Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-elizabeth-warren-completely-loses-rfk-jr-points-shilling-big-pharma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a> of Massachusetts).<\/p>\n<p>That aroused <a href=\"https:\/\/khanna.house.gov\/about\/about-rep-khanna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khanna&rsquo;s<\/a> indignation, for the congressman&rsquo;s parents emigrated to the United States from India in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Vance&rsquo;s wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harris-camps-insane-response-vances-asked-child-proofing-questions-vp-residence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Usha<\/a>, however, also has Indian parents, which makes the Vance children half-Indian.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are you going to tell him to apologize for saying &lsquo;Normalize Indian hate&rsquo; before this rehire? Just asking for the sake of both of our kids,&rdquo; Khanna tweeted Friday in response to Vance&rsquo;s support for rehiring Elez.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Are you going to tell him to apologize for saying &ldquo;Normalize Indian hate&rdquo; before this rehire? Just asking for the sake of both of our kids. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7NY8m93hJa\">https:\/\/t.co\/7NY8m93hJa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoKhanna\/status\/1887929693258531316?\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jd-vance-expect-breakneck-pace-next-four-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> then delivered one of the most effective arguments against wokeness and cancel culture in the history of social media.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up. Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don&rsquo;t threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children,&rdquo; Vance replied.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up.<\/p>\n<p>Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don&rsquo;t threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xpLjhfk6Bz\">https:\/\/t.co\/xpLjhfk6Bz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance\/status\/1887958058342502623?\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The vice president, however, was just getting warmed up.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jd-vance-lays-one-simple-christian-idea-save-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>Emotional blackmail pretending to be concern.<\/em> Has any conservative voice ever more accurately characterized diabolical wokeness?<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won&rsquo;t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives,&rdquo; Vance added.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, they will not live in the culture of fear promoted by Khanna and others.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong or even gross. I made mistakes as a kid, and thank God I grew up in a culture that encouraged me to grow and learn and feel remorse when I screwed up and offer grace when others did,&rdquo; the vice president added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern.<\/p>\n<p>My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won&rsquo;t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>They will&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance\/status\/1887959472091373906?\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jd-vance-goes-viral-epic-takedown-cbs-interviewer-dont-really-care-margaret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> had not yet finished mopping the proverbial floor with the Democrat congressman.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t worry about my kids making mistakes, or developing views they later regret. I don&rsquo;t even worry that much about trolls on the internet. You know what I do worry about, Ro?&rdquo; the vice president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That they&rsquo;ll grow up to be a US Congressmen who engages in emotional blackmail over a kid&rsquo;s social media posts. You disgust me,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I don&rsquo;t worry about my kids making mistakes, or developing views they later regret. I don&rsquo;t even worry that much about trolls on the internet. You know what I do worry about, Ro?<\/p>\n<p>That they&rsquo;ll grow up to be a US Congressmen who engages in emotional blackmail over a kid&rsquo;s social&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance\/status\/1887960225195638848?\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At this point, could any Democrat seriously relish the prospect of tussling with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fact-check-trump-really-say-vance-wouldnt-successor-absolutely-not\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> in the 2028 presidential election?<\/p>\n<p>For years, agents of cancel culture grew accustomed to silencing dissenters, calling them &ldquo;bigots&rdquo; and then coaxing performative apologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-comeback-huffpost-reporter-goes-viral-no-wonder-thought-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a>, of course, fought back. But he did so in ways that appealed to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-poverty-to-politics-missouri-moms-memoir-adds-working-class-perspective-to-trump-era-gop\/\" title=\"From Poverty To Politics, Missouri Mom\u2019s Memoir Adds Working-Class Perspective To Trump-Era GOP\">working-class base<\/a>. He called Democrats&rsquo; minions in the establishment media &ldquo;fake news,&rdquo; mocked his enemies relentlessly, and personified toughness in every way.<\/p>\n<p>Vance, on the other hand, can beat the Ivy League-educated woke authoritarians on their own terms. A powerful conservative who refers to the denial of grace as &ldquo;emotional blackmail&rdquo; &mdash; all while remaining true to his own working-class roots &mdash; poses the kind of challenge that Democrats have seldom seen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Occasionally, these institutions inadvertently cultivate insightful individuals who can confront authoritarians effectively. Recently, Vice President JD Vance, a Yale Law School alumnus from 2013, responded to Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna&#8217;s demand for an apology from Marko Elez\u2014a young staffer in Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who resigned after making racist comments online\u2014by telling Khanna to &#8220;grow up.&#8221; Musk later conducted a poll on X regarding Elez&#8217;s potential rehiring, which showed that 78% of nearly 400,000 participants supported bringing him back. Both Vance and former President Donald Trump backed this majority opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Khanna expressed outrage over Elez&#8217;s derogatory remarks about Indians\u2014comments that particularly affected him as his parents immigrated from India in the 1970s. In response to Vance\u2019s support for rehiring Elez, Khanna questioned whether he would ask for an apology regarding the phrase &#8220;Normalize Indian hate,&#8221; considering their children&#8217;s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Vance countered with a strong critique of cancel culture: \u201cFor the sake of both our kids? Grow up,\u201d he tweeted. He argued that while offensive comments are troubling, they do not pose a real threat compared to a culture that lacks forgiveness for mistakes and encourages childish behavior among lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Vance further condemned what he termed &#8220;emotional blackmail&#8221; disguised as concern and emphasized his desire for his children to take risks without fear of being judged harshly for past mistakes or opinions they might later reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by expressing greater concern about raising children who might become politicians engaging in emotional manipulation over social media posts than about internet trolls or minor errors made during youth. 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