Quite a few people mentioned this appearance, so I’m posting the interview:
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Vivek Ramaswamy on Tucker Carlson — 33 Comments
Vivek, Vivek, he’s our man.
Run Vivek, run!
They will try to smear him and defame him. For the woke crowd he’s a dangerous man. I see him as Sir Galahad in Camelot. C’est moi!
He is fired up.
No way we could be this lucky.
JJ–
Don’t you mean Sir Lancelot with your reference to “C’est moi”? Galahad was the
(illegitimate) son of Lancelot, according to the Grail legend.
Another VP hopeful. Or Cabinet?
For me, Vivek says all the right things, but he has no record of dealing with and being effective within government. As Trump found out, just because you have executive level experience in business it doesn’t mean you will be effective as president (or governor for that matter). Even though The Donald had many policy successes he was hindered over and again, even by his own party.
So in the primary I’ll likely vote for Desantis. Trump is toxic for many in the middle. Now don’t get me wrong. I’ll vote for Trump if he wins the nomination.
Doesn’t it always come down to the lesser of two evils?
Another nice-guy munchkin running to pump up his brand, with the side effect of ensuring another Trump nomination and a Democratic victory in November. No thanks.
“Doesn’t it always come down to the lesser of two evils?”
Always, cuz nobody’s perfect.
Counted ballots matter. If Republicans don’t get their ballots counted, then Biden even being dead will not matter, neither will it matter if Trump is the Republican candidate. See the Kansas post below.
PA+Cat: Thanks for the correction. I should have remembered that. It’s been 57 years since I saw the play. 🙁
That’s why I learn so much here. People know stuff that I either forgot or never knew. 🙂
Frederick’s right, unfortunately.
This is absolutely based. I liked his book “Woke, Inc.” a lot, but I didn’t get his vibe from just reading the book. He made great points and cited great facts, but was also nuanced and sounded very willing to compromise with the Woke/the Left. Here he is clear about where he stands. I will happily vote for him if he makes it onto the ballot.
Elections change nothing.
Wise old anarchist saying:
_____________________________
Don’t vote; it only encourages them.
_____________________________
Actually I don’t believe that, but it is witty.
This guy seems to think Ramaswamy is a WEF/Soros lackey:
Donald Trump ripped the mask off the ugly face of the Deep State, and we’ve watched in horror as they violated every sacred principle of Western Civilization to impose tyranny over us.
Nothing?
Jimmy, thanks for the link. Don’t know the author’s positions and bona fides, but he’s obviously not a fan or Ramaswamy. I’m sure we will see much more and much worse takes on him.
I doubt he will be nominated, but if he can get his points out during the debates, it can’t hurt. I’ve not seen even Trump take on these issues (DEI, ESG, climate change) so directly. These issues are very big for me.
Touched a nerve, eh?
“Schumer blasts Tucker Carlson’s access to Jan. 6 tapes: ‘one of the worst security risks since 9/11’”— https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/chuck-schumer-blasts-tucker-carlsons-access-to-jan-6-tapes/
What? Not the worst thing since the Civil War? Since Pearl Harbor? Since Hunter Biden’s laptop?
(Gosh, Schumer’s really slipping here….)
Oh well. Lying creeps gotta lie….n’ crying creeps gotta cry…
And anything that just might puncture the Narrative(TM) and reveal the Democrats for what they TRULY are…must, by definition, be a “security threat”…(in fact, “one of the worst”!!).
Here’s “Bonchie,” at Red State, on the allegation that Ramaswamy is a Soros plant. He’s not pushing the candidacy, but thinks the Soros/WEF claims are not valid.
Hes suspicious of viveks turn, considering his background
Everyone can run see how they do, some like sununu and hogan dont add up to a molehill but they can come in
Cap’n Rusty: “Donald Trump ripped the mask off the ugly face of the Deep State, and we’ve watched in horror as they violated every sacred principle of Western Civilization to impose tyranny over us.”
Ok then, just vote harder.
As we saw in Arizona last election, it is necessary to outwit Democrats to win elections and even then they can do magic, like make voting machines that worked fine the day before fail on election day.
Dave Smith is turning the Libertarian Party on its ear and will likely be the next Libertarian candidate for President. Smith is a powerhouse and no shrinking violet. He’s also a frequent guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and a friend of Rogan’s.
With the MSM’s waning viewership Smith will fight an intense battle to get on a debate stage with the Republican and Democrat nominees. Smith knows he has no chance of winning, but wants to get onto that debate stage. If he makes that happen he will shake up the next election more than Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders combined.
It’s not his intent, but it could be a huge help for the GOP candidate.
Rufus, how does a strong, interesting Libertarian candidate being in the 2024 race help a 2024 GOP candidate?
He’s not pushing the candidacy, but thinks the Soros/WEF claims are not valid.
Yeah, I wasn’t vouching for the claims, just putting them out there. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s seen the light unless he proves otherwise. Many of us here have “changed” and not looked back.
I’m inclined to take what Ramaswamy says at face value. He’s a first-generation American, like my own husband. Many such are strongly pro-American, having seen the benefits of freedom and individual effort. This doesn’t mean I think he’s the best candidate to take over the administration at this time.
Rufus T.: I just watched a Joe Rogan interview with Dave Smith. Dave Smith is championing the ideas that Mike Bunge brings to the comments here. That would certainly add some controversy to the debates.
IMO, that position opens us up to nuclear blackmail.
Smith seems basically to be anti-U.S. foreign policy of the last 30 years. I know mistakes were made, but cutting our military budget at a time when China and Russia are teaming up to end the U.S. as a world power, that doesn’t make much sense.
He’s also a fan of LtCol Douglas McGregor, who has been wrong at every turn in his predictions about the Ukraine War. Not my cup of tea.
Because Smith will appeal greatly to Bernie Bros., Antifa types and Occupy Wall Street’ers. He is an actual, real Libertarian. Not a politician. He’s very well read and up to speed on the issues. He thinks Trump and Obama should be prosecuted for war crimes and has the data to back up his claims.
Full disclosure; I like what I know of Dave Smith, and I agree with much of what he says. But he is really, really disgusted by the state of political affairs and makes no attempts to color his discourse with politically correct speech. He is a firebrand. He wants the U.S. military off of foreign soil. He wants the Federal Reserve audited, then dismantled, then disemboweled. He wants all the unelected bureaucrats of the alphabet agencies defunded. He wants defense budgets slashed. He thinks the U.S. prison system is a travesty.
Everyone, including him, knows he has no chance of winning. Republicans who dread another Democrat will vote Republican. But if he gets any reasonable amount of time to participate in an actual debate he will force a lot of difficult issues into the fore and he will help open some people’s eyes to the fallacy of the system; just like Trump, Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul did for many. He has spent most of the past several decades as a working, stand-up comic; so he’s good at public speaking, quick on his feet and a good communicator.
JJ,
I’m not defending nor opposing Smith’s viewpoints here. My only point is the MSM’s clout is waning. One day, perhaps in the upcoming election, the old form of televised debates will collapse.
Why does something called the “Commission on Presidential Debates” in conjunction with one of the television news networks get to determine when and how we hear from the candidates? The CPD didn’t sponsor a debate until 1988 and last April the Republican National Committee passed a unanimous amendment prohibiting Republican Presidential candidates from participation in CPD sponsored debates.
For the past several election cycles Presidents have sat for long-form interviews with Youtubers and that is only more likely now. The MSM will not be able to keep non-DNC or GOP candidates from getting their message out and Dave Smith is custom made for getting attention in the Internet age. I think he stands a strong chance of getting an hour or two on stage with the two other candidates and if that happens it has potential for disruption.
Look how disruptive Trump was; a man who has spent decades in the limelight and on television and is a quick wit and has good, comedic timing. The big difference between Trump and Smith is Trump was trying to win. Yet Trump still destroyed the RNC debates. Imagine the affect a glib and well informed candidate could have if he were not trying to win?
Regarding Vivek Ramaswamy, he is very impressive. Successful, very intelligent and appears to be sincerely principled. He will be an asset in next year’s race and should help to elevate the Republican field. I was pleased to hear his announcement.
Rufus T; “Imagine the affect a glib and well informed candidate could have if he were not trying to win?”
Point made. Thanks.
Has DeSantis declared? Maybe Vivek is the better than Trump alt-Trump for 2024?
I saw a couple weeks ago the Paul Mirengoff (?) substack (ex-Powerline; highly Trump critical) where Paul says of Trump:
“He’s still got it” — the touch with common folk.
DeSantis could run and yet lose to Trump in the Rep primaries – which can be big damage (tho maybe far less now, after Biden’s losses). The better Vivek is, the harder for DeSantis to beat Trump.
I really like Vivek’s 8 year term limit on bureaucrats; I’ve long been favoring a 10 year Fed term limit on bureaucrats. I also now follow & like Sarah H. Sanders, who’s putting in Universal school choice as governor of Arkansas.
I’m not weighing in on the merits of any particular proposal (yet), but it seems a tad bit chippy to complain about this one thing when (apparently) the candidate is overall of high quality.
So, is Ramaswamy actually a shill for the WEF despite having positioned himself as a nationalist, anti-woke crusader during his career? There’s no actual evidence of that, and citing the fact that he was part of the organization’s Young Global Leaders list shows a profound misunderstanding or purposeful misrepresentation of what that means.
Ramaswamy did not sign up to be on that list. As far as I can tell, he never endorsed his joining it either. Rather, anyone can nominate anyone to be chosen, and the list itself is, at least ostensibly, non-political, being populated by business leaders and those who make a name doing charity work. For example, Tulsi Gabbard has made the list despite spending her time in the public eye fighting foreign interventions and the prospect of global governance.
Then there’s the clear insinuation that Ramaswamy is actually being pushed by George Soros. (tweet by Jack Posobiec)
In the wake of that, the internet lit up with claims Ramaswamy is actually a Soros plant. Is that true? Again, the answer is no. Rather, Ramaswamy was given a scholarship by the Paul and Daisey Soros Foundation back in 2011. Those scholarships are not political and are given to first and second-generation immigrants (Ramaswamy’s parents came from India). Ramaswamy would go on to earn his law degree with that money.
The obvious retort would be that somehow Ramaswamy is beholden to George Soros given he received a scholarship from his brother’s foundation. But that makes little sense given the presidential candidate is now worth $500 million. Somehow, I doubt a scholarship over a decade ago has any influence over him.
Finally, I’d like to point out how hypocritical this is. Donald Trump (and this isn’t a critique but an observation) was deeply embedded in elite circles before he ran for president. He donated to Kamala Harris, went to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, and had many associations that were no better than those being alleged about Ramaswamy. The right should have consistent standards instead of picking and choosing when to apply these purity tests.
I don’t know much about Ramaswamy except that I think his candidacy is pointless, so I didn’t write this to boost him. I simply felt compelled to lay out the facts because some of the attacks being levied from certain parts of the right are dishonest. We should be better than that. If one doesn’t like Ramaswamy, they should point out the policies he promotes that they disagree with. This conspiratorial game of insinuation being played is garbage.
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Vivek, Vivek, he’s our man.
Run Vivek, run!
They will try to smear him and defame him. For the woke crowd he’s a dangerous man. I see him as Sir Galahad in Camelot. C’est moi!
He is fired up.
No way we could be this lucky.
JJ–
Don’t you mean Sir Lancelot with your reference to “C’est moi”? Galahad was the
(illegitimate) son of Lancelot, according to the Grail legend.
Another VP hopeful. Or Cabinet?
For me, Vivek says all the right things, but he has no record of dealing with and being effective within government. As Trump found out, just because you have executive level experience in business it doesn’t mean you will be effective as president (or governor for that matter). Even though The Donald had many policy successes he was hindered over and again, even by his own party.
So in the primary I’ll likely vote for Desantis. Trump is toxic for many in the middle. Now don’t get me wrong. I’ll vote for Trump if he wins the nomination.
Doesn’t it always come down to the lesser of two evils?
Another nice-guy munchkin running to pump up his brand, with the side effect of ensuring another Trump nomination and a Democratic victory in November. No thanks.
“Doesn’t it always come down to the lesser of two evils?”
Always, cuz nobody’s perfect.
Candidates don’t matter. Positions don’t matter. Speeches don’t matter.
Counted ballots matter. If Republicans don’t get their ballots counted, then Biden even being dead will not matter, neither will it matter if Trump is the Republican candidate. See the Kansas post below.
PA+Cat: Thanks for the correction. I should have remembered that. It’s been 57 years since I saw the play. 🙁
That’s why I learn so much here. People know stuff that I either forgot or never knew. 🙂
Frederick’s right, unfortunately.
This is absolutely based. I liked his book “Woke, Inc.” a lot, but I didn’t get his vibe from just reading the book. He made great points and cited great facts, but was also nuanced and sounded very willing to compromise with the Woke/the Left. Here he is clear about where he stands. I will happily vote for him if he makes it onto the ballot.
Elections change nothing.
Wise old anarchist saying:
_____________________________
Don’t vote; it only encourages them.
_____________________________
Actually I don’t believe that, but it is witty.
This guy seems to think Ramaswamy is a WEF/Soros lackey:
https://dossier.substack.com/p/vetting-vivek-ramaswamy
jrod: “Elections change nothing?”
Donald Trump ripped the mask off the ugly face of the Deep State, and we’ve watched in horror as they violated every sacred principle of Western Civilization to impose tyranny over us.
Nothing?
Jimmy, thanks for the link. Don’t know the author’s positions and bona fides, but he’s obviously not a fan or Ramaswamy. I’m sure we will see much more and much worse takes on him.
I doubt he will be nominated, but if he can get his points out during the debates, it can’t hurt. I’ve not seen even Trump take on these issues (DEI, ESG, climate change) so directly. These issues are very big for me.
Touched a nerve, eh?
“Schumer blasts Tucker Carlson’s access to Jan. 6 tapes: ‘one of the worst security risks since 9/11’”—
https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/chuck-schumer-blasts-tucker-carlsons-access-to-jan-6-tapes/
What? Not the worst thing since the Civil War? Since Pearl Harbor? Since Hunter Biden’s laptop?
(Gosh, Schumer’s really slipping here….)
Oh well. Lying creeps gotta lie….n’ crying creeps gotta cry…
And anything that just might puncture the Narrative(TM) and reveal the Democrats for what they TRULY are…must, by definition, be a “security threat”…(in fact, “one of the worst”!!).
Here’s “Bonchie,” at Red State, on the allegation that Ramaswamy is a Soros plant. He’s not pushing the candidacy, but thinks the Soros/WEF claims are not valid.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/22/we-need-to-talk-about-the-right-wing-attacks-on-2024-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy-n706973
Hes suspicious of viveks turn, considering his background
Everyone can run see how they do, some like sununu and hogan dont add up to a molehill but they can come in
Cap’n Rusty: “Donald Trump ripped the mask off the ugly face of the Deep State, and we’ve watched in horror as they violated every sacred principle of Western Civilization to impose tyranny over us.”
Ok then, just vote harder.
As we saw in Arizona last election, it is necessary to outwit Democrats to win elections and even then they can do magic, like make voting machines that worked fine the day before fail on election day.
Dave Smith is turning the Libertarian Party on its ear and will likely be the next Libertarian candidate for President. Smith is a powerhouse and no shrinking violet. He’s also a frequent guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and a friend of Rogan’s.
With the MSM’s waning viewership Smith will fight an intense battle to get on a debate stage with the Republican and Democrat nominees. Smith knows he has no chance of winning, but wants to get onto that debate stage. If he makes that happen he will shake up the next election more than Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders combined.
It’s not his intent, but it could be a huge help for the GOP candidate.
Rufus, how does a strong, interesting Libertarian candidate being in the 2024 race help a 2024 GOP candidate?
He’s not pushing the candidacy, but thinks the Soros/WEF claims are not valid.
Yeah, I wasn’t vouching for the claims, just putting them out there. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s seen the light unless he proves otherwise. Many of us here have “changed” and not looked back.
I’m inclined to take what Ramaswamy says at face value. He’s a first-generation American, like my own husband. Many such are strongly pro-American, having seen the benefits of freedom and individual effort. This doesn’t mean I think he’s the best candidate to take over the administration at this time.
Rufus T.: I just watched a Joe Rogan interview with Dave Smith. Dave Smith is championing the ideas that Mike Bunge brings to the comments here. That would certainly add some controversy to the debates.
IMO, that position opens us up to nuclear blackmail.
Smith seems basically to be anti-U.S. foreign policy of the last 30 years. I know mistakes were made, but cutting our military budget at a time when China and Russia are teaming up to end the U.S. as a world power, that doesn’t make much sense.
He’s also a fan of LtCol Douglas McGregor, who has been wrong at every turn in his predictions about the Ukraine War. Not my cup of tea.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?&q=Dave+Smith+Joe+Rogan&view=detail&mid=F99EB9AB60EDD9E6B811F99EB9AB60EDD9E6B811&FORM=VDQVAP&rvsmid=07A09CE687EEBD59190D07A09CE687EEBD59190D&ajaxhist=0
Ira,
Because Smith will appeal greatly to Bernie Bros., Antifa types and Occupy Wall Street’ers. He is an actual, real Libertarian. Not a politician. He’s very well read and up to speed on the issues. He thinks Trump and Obama should be prosecuted for war crimes and has the data to back up his claims.
Full disclosure; I like what I know of Dave Smith, and I agree with much of what he says. But he is really, really disgusted by the state of political affairs and makes no attempts to color his discourse with politically correct speech. He is a firebrand. He wants the U.S. military off of foreign soil. He wants the Federal Reserve audited, then dismantled, then disemboweled. He wants all the unelected bureaucrats of the alphabet agencies defunded. He wants defense budgets slashed. He thinks the U.S. prison system is a travesty.
Everyone, including him, knows he has no chance of winning. Republicans who dread another Democrat will vote Republican. But if he gets any reasonable amount of time to participate in an actual debate he will force a lot of difficult issues into the fore and he will help open some people’s eyes to the fallacy of the system; just like Trump, Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul did for many. He has spent most of the past several decades as a working, stand-up comic; so he’s good at public speaking, quick on his feet and a good communicator.
JJ,
I’m not defending nor opposing Smith’s viewpoints here. My only point is the MSM’s clout is waning. One day, perhaps in the upcoming election, the old form of televised debates will collapse.
Why does something called the “Commission on Presidential Debates” in conjunction with one of the television news networks get to determine when and how we hear from the candidates? The CPD didn’t sponsor a debate until 1988 and last April the Republican National Committee passed a unanimous amendment prohibiting Republican Presidential candidates from participation in CPD sponsored debates.
For the past several election cycles Presidents have sat for long-form interviews with Youtubers and that is only more likely now. The MSM will not be able to keep non-DNC or GOP candidates from getting their message out and Dave Smith is custom made for getting attention in the Internet age. I think he stands a strong chance of getting an hour or two on stage with the two other candidates and if that happens it has potential for disruption.
Look how disruptive Trump was; a man who has spent decades in the limelight and on television and is a quick wit and has good, comedic timing. The big difference between Trump and Smith is Trump was trying to win. Yet Trump still destroyed the RNC debates. Imagine the affect a glib and well informed candidate could have if he were not trying to win?
Regarding Vivek Ramaswamy, he is very impressive. Successful, very intelligent and appears to be sincerely principled. He will be an asset in next year’s race and should help to elevate the Republican field. I was pleased to hear his announcement.
Rufus T; “Imagine the affect a glib and well informed candidate could have if he were not trying to win?”
Point made. Thanks.
Has DeSantis declared? Maybe Vivek is the better than Trump alt-Trump for 2024?
I saw a couple weeks ago the Paul Mirengoff (?) substack (ex-Powerline; highly Trump critical) where Paul says of Trump:
“He’s still got it” — the touch with common folk.
DeSantis could run and yet lose to Trump in the Rep primaries – which can be big damage (tho maybe far less now, after Biden’s losses). The better Vivek is, the harder for DeSantis to beat Trump.
I really like Vivek’s 8 year term limit on bureaucrats; I’ve long been favoring a 10 year Fed term limit on bureaucrats. I also now follow & like Sarah H. Sanders, who’s putting in Universal school choice as governor of Arkansas.
I would love to see the Democrats’ heads explode on the election of President Ramaswamy (R) – or any of our other candidates taken from “their” plantation.
However, the right-wing has already started dumping on him.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/23/why-vivek-ramaswamys-idea-to-ban-viewpoint-censorship-is-a-terrible-idea/
“All his proposal would do is expand state interference in speech.” – David Harsanyi
I’m not weighing in on the merits of any particular proposal (yet), but it seems a tad bit chippy to complain about this one thing when (apparently) the candidate is overall of high quality.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/22/we-need-to-talk-about-the-right-wing-attacks-on-2024-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy-n706973