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Vivek Ramaswamy defends calling Ayanna Pressley part of ‘modern KKK’
Yahoo! News ^ | 8/28/23 | Kelly Rissman

Posted on 08/28/2023 5:59:52 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has defended himself from intense backlash after he called Democratic Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and author Ibram X Kendi “modern grand wizards of the modern KKK”.

Mr Ramaswamy made the inflammatory statement during a campaign stop in Iowa after being asked by a voter asked if critics would blame him for white supremacy or call him part of it.

“The greatest racism that I have experienced…comes from the modern left at a scale unimaginable,” Mr Ramaswamy said.

He continued: “Ayanna Pressley, she’s in the Congress today. She’s a member of ‘the squad.’ Her words, not mine: ‘We don’t want any more Black faces that don’t want to be a Black voice. We don’t want any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice.’”

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; ayannapressley; blackkk; blackracistsmatter; israel; ramaswamy; vivekramaswamy; waronterror
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The guy is not like Nixon, who let the press and libs kick him to a pulp.

Seems that when Ramaswamy gets kicked, he kicks back twice as hard.

1 posted on 08/28/2023 5:59:52 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff; Red Badger; dfwgator; thinden

Alan Keyes


2 posted on 08/28/2023 6:01:52 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Whatever happened with him?

Haven’t seen him in ages................


3 posted on 08/28/2023 6:09:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DallasBiff

Why use leftist comparisons like the KKK? Why be afraid to call it what it really is — black racism?


4 posted on 08/28/2023 6:10:36 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: DallasBiff

Glad he’s calling a spade a spade.


5 posted on 08/28/2023 6:11:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

Seems that when Ramaswamy gets kicked, he kicks back twice as hard.
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He has the ‘Donald’ fighter gene in him or he is a fast learner from watching how Trump does politics. ‘Don’t Back Down!’ But to succeed in that world, you have to be very smart with a sharp tongue.


6 posted on 08/28/2023 6:16:36 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: 1Old Pro

They’ll be calling him a “white Indian” racist soon.


7 posted on 08/28/2023 6:16:55 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: Red Badger

He was rewarded for his supporting role in the Republican primary, shining a light on the unelected bureaucracy who would trample on the Constitution.
Today, we call them the Deep State.

He’s still knocking around.
Writing articles (World Nut Daily) and memoirs.


8 posted on 08/28/2023 6:20:37 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: DallasBiff

Whether this guy is for real or not he is doing more to change the narrative than almost anyone else.


9 posted on 08/28/2023 6:25:33 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: DallasBiff

“Mr Ramaswamy made the inflammatory statement”. He just spoke truth to power. Keep it up.


10 posted on 08/28/2023 6:26:19 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: DallasBiff

he’s right. the most racist people on the planet are the People who call everyone they hate racists. if ONLY there were republicans with the balls of pressley who would PROCLAIM OUT LOUD who the real racists are...but alas, there are none. our modern GOP is nothing but a crowd of milktoast benchwarmers only interested in enriching themselves on the taxpayers quarter(used to be a dime) and making hot air noises to their base voters ONLY to keep their gravy train going. seems to me the two party system has morphed into the uniparty, bent and intent on amassing power over the electorate, and the anybody who disagrees with them party, only interested in giving the electorate a voice in government. a voice liberals DEMAND be silenced. IF you like the direction these United States is heading then by all means vote for the same people who are taking us that direction. Lord knows the leftists on BOTH sides of the aisle are counting on you. enjoy your future life of Marxism. if you don’t...do NOT complain about it.


11 posted on 08/28/2023 6:26:25 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: DallasBiff

No matter what you say, when they come back at you, you CANNOT back down. “I’m sorry” never gets you out of trouble. Carlos Santana, call your office!


12 posted on 08/28/2023 6:28:57 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I went on Realclear and American Greatness. Hit a paywall for the first time. Even American Thinker interrupts with an ad covering a part of the posts. Why am I bringing it up here? These sites gotta pay the electric bill and there aren’t enough contributions like there are here on free republic. I turn the other way when asked. They all hit us up. Us older folks are not there for the marketers. I’ll only take what’s free. The left has big contributors. They only need a few. Are we on the run?


13 posted on 08/28/2023 6:32:14 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: DallasBiff

Finally. Someone learning not to apologize and fight back.


14 posted on 08/28/2023 6:35:49 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Truth doesn’t have a paywall.
You are in the right, good (boomer) sir.


15 posted on 08/28/2023 6:58:37 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: stevio
Finally. Someone learning not to apologize and fight back.

Rama is willing to say a lot of things. For example:

The Republican Party seems to be moving towards the position that any races it wins are legitimate and any it loses were stolen. It’s just the preferred conservative brand of victimhood, a knee-jerk kind of sore losing more common to playgrounds than great republics.

I don't know that's the voice you have in mind.
16 posted on 08/28/2023 7:19:10 AM PDT by Observator
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To: DallasBiff

Ramaswampy: Questions you should ask…

https://x.com/mattattack009_/status/1695123026939953661?s=46

Very clear, short, and simple video.


17 posted on 08/28/2023 7:21:27 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: Qwapisking

Whether people can articulate it or not, I think the majority of people agree.

The last time I had the RNC call me I gave them a piece of my mind, very much aligned with your sentiment. Why should I give them a dime when they’re gutless cowards that don’t represent me? To be fair to the lady calling, she tried to convince me that “we can’t push for change unless we win and winning takes money”. My response was that giving to them will only perpetuate the status quo, maybe what needs to happen is that things need to get worse before they can get better - but I refuse to support such cowards.

I’ll keep saying it, we live in a time, yet again, where we have “taxation without representation”. It’s that simple. None of these people represent us, just having the title ‘representative’ is in name only, not by function. They spend our money unethically. They enrich themselves. Their main concern is reelection. It’s no wonder that Oliver Anthony’s song is so popular, it should be considered a canary in the coal mine. What’s interesting is that the song touches most people and not just us here in the USA...but everywhere.


18 posted on 08/28/2023 7:23:23 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Observator

You do know that Ronald Reagan was an FDR democrat, when he was young,


19 posted on 08/28/2023 7:24:21 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Who.gives a crap? I can hear the man’s own words and think for myself. Go find some clips of Reagan or Trump when they were democrats.


20 posted on 08/28/2023 7:26:53 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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