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The Ramaswamy Stratagem

RV's says, if elected POTUS, he'll shut down:

Dept. of Education
FBI
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

He wants to fire 75% of the Federal workforce. Considering that's 2.87 million civilian federal employees, that means he'd throw 2,152,000+ workers out of their jobs. Now, that would sure make him popular! :rolleyes:
ATF
 
Stacyhs said:
RV's says, if elected POTUS, he'll shut down:

Dept. of Education
FBI
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
ATF
He wants to fire 75% of the Federal workforce. Considering that's 2.87 million civilian federal employees, that means he'd throw 2,152,000+ workers out of their jobs. Now, that would sure make him popular! :rolleyes:
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Placed ATF in list.
 
Stacyhs said:
Which is a major part of his appeal to fellow bat **** crazies.
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He is trying to out crazy Donald.don't now if ihe is really that crazy or just saying what he thinks will get him the nomination.
I strongly suspect the latter
 
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There was a loyalty and pride in America. Children were leaving school 12, 13 years old and joining the service to protect our country.
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Children waste the best years of their lives in school!
They should be drafted and sent to ... wherever in the world U.S. interests are currently being protected.
MAGA!
(Being a WW2 veteran, he can't have been much older than 12, 13, I guess.)
 
republicans have a pretty long history of picking a real piece of **** for VP, but i'm not sure he's the biggest piece of **** they got
 
Regnad Kcin said:
WWII vet to Vivek Ramaswamy: "You're my hero."
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The man extolled how children started the school day with a prayer. That says a lot about his thinking.

His claim that 12 and 13 year-olds were quitting school to 'defend our country' is nonsense. The youngest any could be was 17 and then only with parental consent. Perhaps he's confusing us with the Nazis who, by the end of the war, were sending children that young and younger to fight.

He said we were "one country. America". Well, yes, but one country with different rights for white people and another for black people and non-Christians. It was perfectly fine to say "No Coloreds" or "No Jews" allowed. He's an example of the far right who really does want to go back to when he thinks America was great...pre-1960's. No thanks.
 
dann said:
Children waste the best years of their lives in school!
They should be drafted and sent to ... wherever in the world U.S. [financial] interests are currently being protected.
MAGA!
(Being a WW2 veteran, he can't have been much older than 12, 13, I guess.)
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ftfy

Be it other countries' resources corporations with US influence need to protect, arms to be sold by military industrial corporations with US influence, or something I learned with the US assistance to Ukraine, stockpiles of unused arms military industrial corporations need to dump.

There needs to be a law that lobbying by war mongers should be made public.
 
I read an interesting article which helps explain why Ramaswamy, Trump, DeSantis, and their ilk appeal to Republicans. It's not surprising because we've heard it directly from many of their supporters: they like their aggressive and confrontational style. They see it as being strong and confident. They like them acting like male silverback gorillas beating their chests to demonstrate their strength and dominance. They prefer shows of strength over intelligence, competence, capability and integrity. With Ramaswamy, this certainly seems to be the case as he has not shown much competence or integrity.

Meanwhile, over in the GOP, [David] French [the evangelical, Harvard Law-trained, Iraq War veteran, Trump-skeptical conservative] writes that “the right’s cult is different.” Sure, it’s beholden to Trump, “it’s deeper. … It’s a cult of a certain type of personality, one that is relentlessly, personally, and often punitively aggressive. The aggression is mandatory. The ideology is malleable.”
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"As for the cult of personality among many Republicans, French writes that in 2008, he and his wife formed a group to help persuade evangelicals that Mitt Romney “was the best man for the world’s most difficult job. In our conversations we emphasized his integrity, his decency, and his competence. Talk about missing your audience—turns out that each of those virtues turned out to be less important than pugilism or aggression. But even then, the message from much of the grassroots was clear. Hit harder. No, hit even harder. Lack of aggression was perceived as lack of effort, a lack of a will to win. Mitt’s primary competitors weren’t necessarily more conservative than him, but they were more aggressive.”

It’s a phenomenon that existed on the right before Trump (and will likely endure long past his era) but which Trump was able to supercharge. “If you pay little attention to talk radio,” French writes, “you’re likely missing the extent of devotion to the cult of aggression. The same thing goes for the top-rated television shows and websites. The same personality characteristics persist. It’s pugilists almost all the way down. Reasoned voices are hard to find.”
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Almost every popular conservative radio/tv host demonstrates this: Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, etc all use aggression and outrage.
 
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i agree with that and i think they've fully embraced that aggression to the point where there's nothing else. most of their legislative efforts for a long time have been based on taking something away they think liberals like and very few new solutions to problems.
 
Stacyhs said:
I read an interesting article which helps explain why Ramaswamy, Trump, DeSantis, and their ilk appeal to Republicans. It's not surprising because we've heard it directly from many of their supporters: they like their aggressive and confrontational style. They see it as being strong and confident. They like them acting like male silverback gorillas beating their chests to demonstrate their strength and dominance. They prefer shows of strength over intelligence, competence, capability and integrity. With Ramaswamy, this certainly seems to be the case as he has not shown much competence or integrity.




Almost every popular conservative radio/tv host demonstrates this: Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, etc all use aggression and outrage.
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Exactly.

If you are not willing to lie and defame other people for your Party, you are ideologically suspect.
 
Stacyhs said:
I read an interesting article which helps explain why Ramaswamy, Trump, DeSantis, and their ilk appeal to Republicans. It's not surprising because we've heard it directly from many of their supporters: they like their aggressive and confrontational style. They see it as being strong and confident. They like them acting like male silverback gorillas beating their chests to demonstrate their strength and dominance. They prefer shows of strength over intelligence, competence, capability and integrity. With Ramaswamy, this certainly seems to be the case as he has not shown much competence or integrity.




Almost every popular conservative radio/tv host demonstrates this: Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, etc all use aggression and outrage.
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They haven't really been subtle about that. It's no great secret that right-wing talking heads give folks an enemy and prop themselves up as the last great defender at the gates. It goes at least as far back as Nixon banging on about "law and order". Their voters are pretty open about the tough talk being what appeals to them.

The question is, can Democrats tap into that? Is there a way to make a show of strength without sacrificing the intelligence, competence, or integrity? I've often wondered what would happen if a Democrat just hauled off and slapped their Republican opponent on the debate stage while the Republican was in the middle of their fake tough guy routine. Obviously, the short term catharsis would pale next to the long term damage (especially if it was anyone but WASP man slapping the Republican), but I can't help but think about how the right-wingers would react.
 
Resorting to physical attacks is not acceptable. What I'd like to see is Dems calling them out immediately with no mincing of words. "Mr. Trump, that is a blatant lie. Your incessant
and pathological lying has been well recorded. During your presidency you told over 30,000 documented lies. I doubt you can even recognize when you're lying anymore which makes you an extreme danger to this country."
 
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