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Ramaswamy was on MSNBC yesterday with Andrea Mitchel and I was sickened that even Fascist Republicans could stand to listen to his total stupidity, arrogance,rudeness,disrespect, and complete incompetence to run for any office.

I do believe Robert Reich’s article clearly explains what Ramaswamy game plan he is following!

Once again, just like Fascist DeSantis, is this type of Americans that are coming out of Ivy League schools today?

I’m beginning to not want to turn on the news due to the traitor trump indictments, the lying non productive Fascist Republican Congress, and the Republican candidates!

If a Democrat or normal American had all these indictments against them, threatened judges, Special Counsel, Prosecutors, jurors, grand jurors, etc., they would be sitting in jail!

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“a perfect loop of nothingness”

An excellent turn of phrase. Right on target!

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Aug 30, 2023Liked by Robert Reich

You wrote "He is the product of a broken media culture that caters to attention spans of fruit flies flitting from one provocation to the next without any intervening thought." My only disagreement with this statement is that it is needlessly insulting to fruit flies. Fruit flies have proved themselves to be extremely valuable to scientific research. Vivek Ramaswamy, on the other hand, has yet to demonstrate any real value.

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Neither! Vivek is yet another symptom of corporate rule corruption and dysfunction, brought on by Citizens United.

SCOTUS gave our POWER to corporate interests so that the power of the people would be inconsequential. Trump was the result, and many more Trumps are lined up behind him.

ONLY HJR54 will end this nightmare!!!

The We the People Amendment, HJR54, will overrule SCOTUS and overturn Citizens United! It will greatly increase the power of the people by establishing that only we are entitled to constitutional rights and powers! And that money in politics must be regulated!!!!!!!

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Nothing is more important because we can and we must fix this root problem of our time, and time is running out.

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Like Trump, Ramaswamy is another hot air blimp full of nothing but hot air. "It’s a perfect loop of nothingness. No critical assessment of what they stand for. No analysis of what they seek to do. No in-depth reporting of their qualifications. Just contentless sensationalism." This one paragraph tells us all we need to know, both about the Republican front runners and the inept media.

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He is a disturbingly obnoxious empty shirt.

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Americans love a circus and every circus must have a clown. *8 years ago TFG fufilled that role and Republicans and blue color workers were only too willing to go to the show. Now TFG is old hat, a mass of grievances impelled by a desire for revenge. Not much entertainment there., even if the failthul fan base will always have a soft spot for the man who brought "fun" and purpose to their lives. He told them that spending weekends in the woods shoot paintballs at each other was patriotic and that they were doing all of that because they knew the country was in trouble. Since that was the case, it was quite alright to hate the Left, the educated , the coastal elities. In other words to hate all thei people their relatives hate. But now, he's run out of shock value and he hasn't gotten any new material to keep the mob entertained.

Enter then next chimera on the right, a man who is so vacuous and whose knowledge and experience is so non-existant that his listeners can enjoy his outrageous suggestions and feel superior to his lack of any political training. He is young, has money-so needn't constantly remind people about his great wealth and did graduate from elite schools. There is no doubt that he is competent in his tech business but he is no more qualified to run anyting than Elon Musk, another rich genius, is qualified to run twitter or X or whatever he decides to call it today. Flaunting your power can be a heady experience but power without knowledge is just the spectacle of a man reeling from one crises to anouther.

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Vivek Ramaswamy DID NOT SAY "climate change is a hoax". What he said was "the climate agenda is a hoax" That's what I heard him say and this source backs me up: https://time.com/6309085/6309085/.

He went on to say “the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.” BS! However, I think this position is more dangerous than simply saying that climate change doesn't exist. He is saying that the necessary actions than Biden is taking to combat climate change are wrong. I believe his position appeals to many Americans who want to do nothing about climate change that impacts their lives or the fossil fuel industry that employs thousands of Americans.

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Vivek is yet another example of a broken media system. It’s entertainment, vying for viewers glued to social media and television, and not real journalism. Anyone with a decent education that includes critical thinking can see through it which is why so much of the GOP has consistently advocated cuts to education.

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He reminds me of every "get rich quick" infomercial I have seen.

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ITS A POPULARITY CONTEST ; STUPID

Maybe it’s his face ; or he is the Tallest,

Or just simply Worship of The candidate with the most symbols of god in his pocket ( US Dollar Bills)...

And his faultless appearance “A Sharp Dressed Man”

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poll response

" all of the above"

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Here is Vivek Ramaswamy running to be an Airline Pilot . . .

ailerons are a hoax

thrust reversers don't reverse

an open engine intake is no intake

I've given 30 interviews explaining how I will be your best pilot

I've logged 12,000 hours of podcast time explaining aerodynamics

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Aug 30, 2023·edited Aug 30, 2023

Where I live we have a colorful character who parades around our public places attired in an impressive array of musical instruments which he manages to play all at once, none of them particularly well. He gets a lot of attention.

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He loves attention and will say anything to get it. just as Trump will. He is probably not looking to be president but for publicity or to be vice president.

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I watched the republican primary debates (debacle?) and witness Vikrams nonesense. If there was an extreme position to be had he sought it out and took it (climate, abortion, immigration). If he has to take 2 positions at once he also did it. Ie strong unregulated police force and no prosecution of Trump. He reminds me of the CEO of a company that plays dress up for whatever theme that company has and is a contortionist to whatever the shareholders (in this case MAGA and more importantly big money donors want). His lips will move in whatever way is needed even if it means immigrants who arent rich are attacked and blacks persecuted by police because of his rhetoric. Whether or not he gets elected Broadcasting his themes in main stream media is a bad idea. You dont need to be white to purport white supremist ideas. Oh wait, if he says it with a big grin on his face that makes it ok right?

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