'Woke, Inc.' author Vivek Ramaswamy enters White House race
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) Vivek Ramaswamy, a wealthy biotech entrepreneur and investor and the author of Woke, Inc., has entered the Republican race for president.
In a video released Tuesday night, Ramaswamy, 37, formally launched his longshot bid by decrying what he called a national identity crisis that he claims is driven by a left-wing ideology that has replaced faith, patriotism and hard work with new secular religions like COVID-ism, climate-ism and gender ideology.
We have obsessed so much over our diversity and our difference that we forgot all the ways were really just the same as Americans, he says.
In a Wall Street Journal editorial published at the same time, he pledged to repeal civil service protections for federal workers if he wins, as well as work to eliminate affirmative action, including directing the Justice Department to prosecute illegal race-based preferences.
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TheBlackAdder
(28,266 posts)lonely bird
(1,703 posts)The second I see or hear faith from one of these assholes I know they are full of shit.
As for hard work? Go work in a steel mill or as an STNA in a nursing home, you little piece of crap.
Why does this country think that success in business arbitrarily means a damn thing outside of business?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,426 posts)strong points, obviously, which makes me think investors shouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole.
Oh, he's another subsidiary of Peter Thiel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy
So this is about the anti-democratic "big tech and science is wrong, except when it's my billionaire tech backer, who should be allowed to run the world through a series of puppets" movement
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Another Republican with nothing to offer that would be of benefit to regular working people.
IronLionZion
(45,686 posts)Vivek and Nikki can really help racist MAGA heads explode
Srkdqltr
(6,401 posts)Maybe. Of course he has to get past Trump first.
IronLionZion
(45,686 posts)since civil service protection is a motivating factor for recruiting people into government service, they think screwing federal workers will cause quits, early retirements, and shrink government through less hiring. It's stupid.
keep_left
(1,803 posts)...from the MAGA chuds. They're delusional enough to think that civil service rules are all that's holding back a Trump revolution. Of course, the real reason they want to eliminate civil service protections is to bring back the corrupt spoils system that will allow their MAGA president to fill those positions with servile toadies.
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Ray Bruns
(4,132 posts)His money in a political race in which he has no chance of winning.
Botany
(70,678 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,401 posts)Botany
(70,678 posts)No he wouldn't because he is really scummy promoting scams and pushing the meme that
"being woke" is a real problem when in reality it is used by the right as a cover for not being
able to talk to the issues. The minute I hear the word "woke" my bullshit alarm goes off.
Srkdqltr
(6,401 posts)Botany
(70,678 posts)... something that deep down he knows is not true and that is the meme of "being woke" as
something that evil liberals do.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)are also firm in their beliefs or goals, but perhaps fluid in opportunities for pursuing them?
My main thought was just being glad to find this one's running as a Republican. I'm dreading the odds and ends who'll show up again to grab this golden opportunity to polish dulling brands, pump up book sales and donations, get a national stage to act out on, reassure themselves at least of their greatness, etc. Some from a long list of the usual wrong reasons from people who lack the right stuff.
Srkdqltr
(6,401 posts)Skittles
(153,328 posts)distracting me from his buffonoish parents (yeah who would want to be married to someone like that?)
FakeNoose
(32,930 posts)Mawspam2
(747 posts)... "I got mine, fuck you."
EarthFirst
(2,906 posts)Every one of those so called platform ideologies that supposedly denies us of our national identity as Americans is the material for which the White Nationalist cloak is woven
LeftinOH
(5,360 posts)the raised seal" on it. It's OK to demand this, right? Or is that only for Democratic candidates?
((I am being sarcastic here - for the sarcastically-challenged))
Srkdqltr
(6,401 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,282 posts)I guess if it helps dilute their votes, I'm down for it.
But, what the living hell is "COVID-ism"?
DBoon
(22,441 posts)than take any sort of effective public health measures
Because one million dead isn't enough for these ghouls
Initech
(100,159 posts)Already the ugly hate has surfaced on conservative blogs, based on national origin and skin color.
tonekat
(1,839 posts)What an ego-centric fool. Give him a one-way ticket to Afghanistan.
Historic NY
(37,464 posts)generalbetrayus
(508 posts)pfitz59
(10,429 posts)trying to outdo each others rattiness.
Oneironaut
(5,553 posts)GenThePerservering
(1,893 posts)are magats, and they're, as usual, a dollar short and a day late in their obsession. No one else talks about it.
Skittles
(153,328 posts)it's apparent that everyone who whines about WOKE is a fucking bigot
zanana1
(6,140 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)who think being wealthy and having a pathologically over-inflated ego is a qualification for president. If anything, I think those qualities should automaticaly DISQUALIFY someone from public office.