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Omaha Steve

(99,917 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 09:42 AM Feb 2023

'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 we’re 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.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/religion-and-politics-united-states-government-2022-midterm-elections-ohio-e1c1cbe47763bd979b6b47557aee043d?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_05



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'Woke, Inc.' author Vivek Ramaswamy enters White House race (Original Post) Omaha Steve Feb 2023 OP
Post removed Post removed Feb 2023 #1
Is he the guy running those Medicare, Medicaid, and COVID Test scam call centers? TheBlackAdder Feb 2023 #7
Another bigot lonely bird Feb 2023 #2
A "biotech entrepreneur" denouncing "Covidism and climateism"? Biology and technology aren't his muriel_volestrangler Feb 2023 #3
COVIDism and gender ideology are Republican memes vlyons Feb 2023 #4
Good luck with that IronLionZion Feb 2023 #5
I don't understand why civil service protection is a presidential talking point? Affirmative action Srkdqltr Feb 2023 #6
Republicans are all about screwing someone IronLionZion Feb 2023 #8
It's more of the usual OMGZBBQ! Deep State!!1!!!11!!!1! crap... keep_left Feb 2023 #20
Post removed Post removed Feb 2023 #9
He's another millionaire with no political experience with nothing better to do than blowi Ray Bruns Feb 2023 #11
Good luck with the Trump MAGA vote Botany Feb 2023 #10
Nice looking family. He would do better as a Democrat. Srkdqltr Feb 2023 #23
"He would do better as a Democrat." Botany Feb 2023 #26
Just judging from looks. A lot of these folks are rather fluid in their beliefs. Srkdqltr Feb 2023 #27
He is smart. About that there can be no doubt (Harvard and a J.D. from Yale) but he is selling ... Botany Feb 2023 #28
A lot of "these people,' no matter the group you're thinking of, Hortensis Feb 2023 #30
I meant Republicans not folks from India. Srkdqltr Feb 2023 #31
that baby is over-the-top cute Skittles Feb 2023 #34
Maybe he can become Nikki Haley's running mate? FakeNoose Feb 2023 #12
Long story short... Mawspam2 Feb 2023 #13
Bullshit. EarthFirst Feb 2023 #14
We need to see his "original long-form certificate of live birth with LeftinOH Feb 2023 #15
Nicki Hailey too, she is on the darker side (Sarcasm) Srkdqltr Feb 2023 #22
Another tech bro down with the MAGAts... LudwigPastorius Feb 2023 #16
I think it means we should have let more people die DBoon Feb 2023 #19
Yeah good luck winning over the white supremacists you're selling to, Vivek. Initech Feb 2023 #17
Nailed it! at140 Feb 2023 #18
Must be nice to have money to waste tonekat Feb 2023 #21
Who and what is this Historic NY Feb 2023 #24
Another reason to go on living. generalbetrayus Feb 2023 #25
Looks to be a crowded field with GOP rats pfitz59 Feb 2023 #29
Republicans are trying to out-Fascist each other. Oneironaut Feb 2023 #32
The only people using "woke" GenThePerservering Feb 2023 #33
it's like Bigot indicator Skittles Feb 2023 #35
And what is the opposite of "woke"? zanana1 Feb 2023 #36
Hey dude, ya need to serve on the school board or something first. Whats with these guys Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2023 #37

Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

lonely bird

(1,703 posts)
2. Another bigot
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 09:47 AM
Feb 2023

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)
3. A "biotech entrepreneur" denouncing "Covidism and climateism"? Biology and technology aren't his
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 09:49 AM
Feb 2023

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:

Ramaswamy is currently co-founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management, an Ohio-based asset management firm that was backed financially by Peter Thiel and J. D. Vance, among others.

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)
4. COVIDism and gender ideology are Republican memes
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 09:57 AM
Feb 2023

Another Republican with nothing to offer that would be of benefit to regular working people.

Srkdqltr

(6,401 posts)
6. I don't understand why civil service protection is a presidential talking point? Affirmative action
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 10:04 AM
Feb 2023

Maybe. Of course he has to get past Trump first.

IronLionZion

(45,686 posts)
8. Republicans are all about screwing someone
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 10:19 AM
Feb 2023

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)
20. It's more of the usual OMGZBBQ! Deep State!!1!!!11!!!1! crap...
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 02:20 PM
Feb 2023

...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.

Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Ray Bruns

(4,132 posts)
11. He's another millionaire with no political experience with nothing better to do than blowi
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 10:55 AM
Feb 2023

His money in a political race in which he has no chance of winning.

Botany

(70,678 posts)
26. "He would do better as a Democrat."
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 03:18 PM
Feb 2023

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.

Botany

(70,678 posts)
28. He is smart. About that there can be no doubt (Harvard and a J.D. from Yale) but he is selling ...
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 03:40 PM
Feb 2023

... 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)
30. A lot of "these people,' no matter the group you're thinking of,
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 06:24 PM
Feb 2023

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.

Skittles

(153,328 posts)
34. that baby is over-the-top cute
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 01:48 AM
Feb 2023

distracting me from his buffonoish parents (yeah who would want to be married to someone like that?)

EarthFirst

(2,906 posts)
14. Bullshit.
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 11:49 AM
Feb 2023

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)
15. We need to see his "original long-form certificate of live birth with
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 12:21 PM
Feb 2023

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))

LudwigPastorius

(9,282 posts)
16. Another tech bro down with the MAGAts...
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 12:36 PM
Feb 2023

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)
19. I think it means we should have let more people die
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 01:57 PM
Feb 2023

than take any sort of effective public health measures

Because one million dead isn't enough for these ghouls

at140

(6,110 posts)
18. Nailed it!
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 01:42 PM
Feb 2023

Already the ugly hate has surfaced on conservative blogs, based on national origin and skin color.

tonekat

(1,839 posts)
21. Must be nice to have money to waste
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 02:23 PM
Feb 2023

What an ego-centric fool. Give him a one-way ticket to Afghanistan.

GenThePerservering

(1,893 posts)
33. The only people using "woke"
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 12:45 AM
Feb 2023

are magats, and they're, as usual, a dollar short and a day late in their obsession. No one else talks about it.

Kashkakat v.2.0

(1,752 posts)
37. Hey dude, ya need to serve on the school board or something first. Whats with these guys
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 07:19 PM
Feb 2023

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.

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