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Ramaswamy updates campaign website to push back against what he calls 'myths'
Washington Examiner ^ | 8/28/23 | Mabinty Quarshie •

Posted on 08/28/2023 9:09:05 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy launched a "TRUTH. Over Myth" link on his 2024 campaign website on Monday morning, an effort his aides said will push back against the "lies" surrounding his campaign.

The new link is meant to address "the BS, baloney, lies, and planted trash peddled by insecure campaigns, Super PAC puppets, 'listless vessels' of the political establishment, and fake establishment media," according to the description on the campaign website.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anchorbaby; invasion; ramaswamy
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This guy has guts against the uniparty.
1 posted on 08/28/2023 9:09:05 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

He’s full of BS, which he cannot hide.


2 posted on 08/28/2023 9:11:25 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: DallasBiff
The Brahmin supremacist will never get my vote.
3 posted on 08/28/2023 9:12:22 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: DallasBiff
Casteism threatens constitutionalism
Indians have exported the prejudices of casteism abroad and the oppressed castes across the world need legal protection against this menace.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2022/jun/11/casteism-threatens-constitutionalism-2464146.html

It is high time India tackled the ‘evil’ of the caste system
India's caste system is a vast systematic violation of the human rights of tens of millions of citizens.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/it-is-high-time-india-tackled-the-evil-of-the-caste-system-1.288039

Why I'm haunted by my religion's dark side
By Varun Soni, Special to CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/opinions/believer-hinduism-caste-system-varun-soni/index.html

If you want to be a lower caste, untouchable slave then please vote for Viveck Ramaswamy.

4 posted on 08/28/2023 9:13:13 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: DallasBiff

Read what’s up there so far...

https://www.vivek2024.com/truth-over-myth/

A laundry list of non-denial denials.

That guy IS the uniparty.


5 posted on 08/28/2023 9:13:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: DallasBiff

Just wait until more dirt comes out about his pharma company.


6 posted on 08/28/2023 9:13:36 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Reno89519

You do know that Ronald Reagan was a FDR democrat in his life.


7 posted on 08/28/2023 9:13:54 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: Reno89519

nearly all of the bs people “claim” he spews is mostly people either misquoting him, or selectively editing or interpreting what he has said. Similar to what they do with Trump.

And lets be honest here, if Trump picks him for his VP, everyone here who currently hates him will suddenly love him again.


8 posted on 08/28/2023 9:14:00 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: mewzilla

• Received a fellowship from the Paul and Daisy Soros foundation (red flag).

• Pharmaceutical company executive (red flag)

• Took Soros fellowship money even though he was already a multi-millionaire (red flag)

• Used Soros fellowship money to attend Yale Law School (red flag)

How many more red flags do you need before you realize this guy is not what he appears to be.


9 posted on 08/28/2023 9:16:06 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
if Trump picks him for his VP,

It will be yet another horrible personnel decision to go with Sessions, Barr, Bolton, Wray, and many, many others.
10 posted on 08/28/2023 9:17:56 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

I fail to see how Vivek is responsible for the caste system in India. He is American.


11 posted on 08/28/2023 9:19:05 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert ( Vivek Ramaswamy 2024)
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To: DallasBiff

one of those ‘myths’ is that he is actually a Republican.


12 posted on 08/28/2023 9:19:58 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DallasBiff

Some of the “Myths” He is pushing back against based on his website:

https://www.vivek2024.com/truth-over-myth/

The World Economic Forum Connections:

Two years ago, the WEF tried to throw false bait by naming Vivek a ‘Young Global Leader’ (like they did to other successful people like Glenn Beck, Elon Musk, and Tulsi Gabbard, to name a few.) Vivek explicitly rejected their ridiculous “award.” The WEF repeatedly refused to remove his name from their list despite escalating demands, so Vivek sued them. And succeeded. They tried to put him on their list, so he put them on his. The WEF folded completely and met all of his demands in the lawsuit: a public apology, disavowal, and a commitment to never name
someone again without their explicit permission.

That’s how Vivek rolls: He fights. And he wins. Just as he’ll do for the people of this country. Vivek is Klaus Schwab’s worst nightmare. WEF tried to put Vivek on his list. Instead, Vivek put WEF on his own list – and became the first prominent American to sue them in court.

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Vivek Doesn’t Support Israel: 🤡

WRONG. Keep lying, Nimarata Randhawa. The desperation is showing. By the end of Vivek’s first term, the US-Israel relationship will be deeper and stronger than ever because it won’t be a client relationship, it will be a true friendship. The centerpiece of Vivek’s Middle East policy in Year 1 will be to lead “Abraham Accords 2.0” which will fully integrate Israel into the Middle East economy – by adding Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and Indonesia to the pact which was one of President Trump’s crowning foreign policy achievements.

Vivek will also partner with Israel to ensure that Iran never acquires nuclear capabilities. That’s a hard *never.*

Most importantly, he won’t cut aid to Israel until Israel tells the U.S. that it no longer needs the aid. That’s what true friends do: they’re honest with each other. We expect that of our friends in Israel, And when Israel gets to that point, we should all rightly celebrate it as a mark of achievement and pride for both the U.S. and Israel. That’s what Vivek actually said, so don’t believe the opponents’ lies that he wants to cut aid to Israel – which makes zero sense as a foreign policy priority any time in the foreseeable future. We will not leave Israel hanging out to dry – ever. (But that didn’t stop his opponents from pouncing to lie about his position).

Good friends also learn from each other, and Vivek has said we have much to learn from Israel. He’s traveled there countless times with one of his most important business partners – a founding investor at Roivant – who is based there. Vivek wants the U.S. to learn from Israel’s border policies, crime enforcement policies, national identity, and missile defense capabilities – and will
lead the U.S. accordingly.

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Vivek is really just a secret “Trojan Horse” for George Soros: 🤡

This one is so funny that it feels odd to dignify, but man it comes up a lot! So here goes. When Vivek was 24 years old, he won a generic scholarship that hundreds of students win to attend graduate school. It was NOT funded by George Soros. It was sponsored by a relative of George Soros (Paul, his brother) who is long dead. There were no strings attached. Just a generic scholarship. Vivek would have been a fool to turn down that scholarship and anyone who would have shouldn’t get anywhere near the White House doing trade deals on behalf of our country.

Vivek wasn’t born rich either. Unlike any other candidate, Vivek voluntarily released 20 years of tax returns at the start of this campaign – and challenged his competitors to do the same – in an extraordinary act of transparency. Well, no good deed goes unpunished. Opposition researchers pointed out that Vivek made over $1 million the year he won the scholarship. Well, not quite. Vivek’s first big payday at the hedge fund only came the year after he applied for the scholarship. And even if you’ve made a million dollars, you’d have to be pretty foolish to turn down a $50,000 scholarship if you win it. It’s not that complicated.

Oh, and by the way – there’s another candidate in this race who George Soros has praised and for whom George Soros’ investment partners hosted a fundraiser in June. And another one who got a $160 million loan from George Soros himself. We’ll let you guys do your own homework on that.

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Vivek is Part of Big Pharma and Made $$ on a Failed Alzheimer’s Drug: 🤡

WRONG on both. Calling Vivek part of big pharma is about as inane as calling Rumble part of Big Tech. It’s also funny because most big pharma executives really don’t like Vivek, because he called pharma’s corrupt bluff of soft coordination on which drugs they’d develop versus not to actually rescue medicines that big pharma had abandoned – and he built a multibillion dollar company of his own in the process. That’s how he ended up developing a staggering *five* new FDA-approved products, including lifesaving and life-changing therapies. That’s one of the best track records for a new biotech company in modern history, and it’s why most pharma executives aren’t particularly fond of him.

(Side note: Vivek invested early in Rumble when it was still a private company, to challenge Big Tech’s orthodoxies – in the same way Vivek’s first company Roivant challenged Big Pharma’s orthodoxies).

One of the drugs that Vivek developed was a drug for Alzheimer’s disease, through one of Roivant’s subsidiaries called Axovant. Like 99.7% of all drugs tested for Alzheimer’s disease, it failed. Unlike most of Roivant’s subsidiaries which went on to become immensely successful – and Roivant (the parent company) which is a nearly $10BN public company today – Axovant ended up failing after the Alzheimer’s drug was terminated. But the idea that Vivek made any money on that failure is a total lie. To the contrary: Vivek could have sold shares in Axovant before its failure. But he didn’t. And neither did Roivant. That was an unusual decision, and some would even call it honorable.

(The in-the-weeds critics will say: “But he sold some shares in Roivant, didn’t he?” Answer: yes, he and other shareholders were forced to sell a tiny portion of their shares in 2015 to facilitate an outside investor entering Roivant in 2015. And the shares that Roivant Vivek sold back then are worth a LOT more today than they were back then).

Bottom line: one of the therapies Vivek helped develop is a life-saving therapy in kids – as a father of two young sons, that is the accomplishment in his life that he is most proud of. He has also overseen the development of other medicines, including for psoriasis, prostate cancer, endometriosis, and uterine fibroids.

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Vivek is a 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist!

This one is funny. Vivek isn’t obsessed with 9/11 as a topic, but the media certainly seems to be when they’re around him. Vivek has never once proactively brought up 9/11 on the campaign trail or in media interviews, but he speaks candidly when asked: the U.S. government absolutely did not tell us the entire truth about 9/11.

Here’s the ugly TRUTH: the FBI quietly declassified documents in 2021 that definitively reveal our government lied to the public about basic facts of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11, until documents were declassified and they changed their story 20 years later. Omar al-Bayoumi, a 42- year-old graduate student, welcomed, housed, set up bank accounts, and gave rent money to the first two Qaida hijackers after they landed in Los Angeles in January 2000. Al-Bayoumi claimed to have met the two terrorists entirely by chance: The 9/11 Commission report verified that Bayoumi’s altruism was in the name of hospitality, as he claimed.

The FBI, 20 years later, changed its story. In documents declassified last year, the Bureau affirmed that Bayoumi was in fact an agent of the Saudi intelligence service who worked with Saudi religious officials and reported to the kingdom’s powerful ambassador in Washington.

The reason the people don’t trust the government is because the government doesn’t trust the people. The reason that’s relevant today is the U.S. government continues to lie ever since then – about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, about the justification for the 2008 bailouts, about the Trump Russia collusion hoax, about UAPs, about the Hunter Biden laptop story, about the origin of Covid-19, about the Nashville transgender shooter manifesto, and countless other matters. We can’t just sweep the past under the rug if we are to rebuild public trust in our country.

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Vivek Wants Transgender People in the Military: 🤡

Nope. Vivek is the first candidate who had the courage to speak TRUTH about transgenderism: it’s a mental health disorder. Period. This means that transgender individuals are already disqualified from serving on that basis, and we don’t need to dignify that delusion by creating a separate category for it that we then have to ban – because it already is effectively banned for all intents and purposes. A federal appeals court earlier in recent months even held that transgenderism is covered by the Americans with Disability Act – so that further reinforces the reality.

The real “woke military” issue that NO ONE else seems willing to talk about is…well, the touchy issue of lowering physical standards for women to serve in combat roles. Vivek is against it. And he’s the only one in the field who’s man enough to actually say it.

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Vivek Supports a Death Tax: 🤡

WRONG. Vivek supports a 12% flat tax across the board, while eliminating cronyist deductions and loopholes.

Fake news and threatened campaigns will point to Vivek’s second book, Nation of Victims, where Vivek lays out a mathematical calculation on how to fully eliminate the federal income tax, which wasn’t even constitutional for most of its history. Vivek is an intellectual, not a partisan hack, so he explores ideas. Well, sue him for it. If opposition researchers and career politicians want to misquote his book, they might want to consider doing something they’d never considered: read the whole book, actually. It’s on sale for $15 right now on Amazon, 😉.

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BTW, His so-called “myths” page does not address the issue of hs abandoning Taiwan to China.


13 posted on 08/28/2023 9:20:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: DLfromthedesert

I will vote for Trump, but Vivek is a breath of fresh air compared to the other rinos running


14 posted on 08/28/2023 9:21:49 AM PDT by bboise
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To: DallasBiff

You’re such a good talker and you’re such a likable guy. I think you really could go far,” HBO’s Bill Maher said to Ramaswamy this week on his “Club Random” podcast.


15 posted on 08/28/2023 9:28:43 AM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Deasantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people.)
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To: DLfromthedesert
"I fail to see how Vivek is responsible for the caste system in India. He is American."

Now try to tell me something as equally disingenuous like "diversity is strength." Vivek is an admitted Hindu of the Brahmin priestly caste that has kept Indians living in filth for 3000 years with their evil caste system. Just because he was born in America as the son of Hindu Brahmin immigrants does not make him less of a Hindu. It's as if you were making the claim that a Catholic born in America is not a Catholic with catholic beliefs. The very essence of the Hindu religion is the caste system and he hasn't given that up.

Vivek the Hindu Braman carpet bagger will never get my vote.

16 posted on 08/28/2023 9:30:38 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: Antoninus

And yet, other Freepers have stated they received scholarships from organizations, with whom they weren’t aligned politically. Some Freepers have said they don’t even know the political views of organizations from whom they got scholarships.


17 posted on 08/28/2023 9:31:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The Indians also tried to teach the West the art of burning widowed women alive, a practice called sati. India had slavery plus the fine art of burning unfortunate women alive.

Sati or suttee was a historical practice in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. Although it is debated whether it received scriptural mention in early Hinduism, it has been linked to related Hindu practices in the Indo-Aryan-speaking regions of India which diminished the rights of women, especially those to the inheritance of property. A cold form of sati, or the neglect and casting out of Hindu widows, has been prevalent from ancient times. Greek sources from around 300 BCE make isolated mention of sati, but it probably developed into a real fire sacrifice in the medieval era within the northwestern Rajput clans to which it initially remained limited, to become more widespread during the late medieval era.

During the early-modern Mughal period of 1526–1857, it was notably associated with elite Hindu Rajput clans in western India, marking one of the points of divergence between Hindu Rajputs and the Muslim Mughals, who banned the practice. In the early 19th century, the British East India Company, in the process of extending its rule to most of India, initially tolerated the practice; William Carey, a British Christian evangelist, noted 438 incidents within a 30-mile (48-km) radius of the capital, Calcutta, in 1803, despite its ban within Calcutta. Between 1815 and 1818 the number of incidents of sati in Bengal doubled from 378 to 839. Opposition to the practice of sati by evangelists like Carey, and by Hindu reformers such as Ram Mohan Roy ultimately led the British Governor-General of India Lord William Bentinck to enact the Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829, declaring the practice of burning or burying alive of Hindu widows to be punishable by the criminal courts. Other legislation followed, countering what the British perceived to be interrelated issues involving violence against Hindu women, including the Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856, Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870, and Age of Consent Act, 1891. Ram Mohan Roy observed that when women allow themselves to be consigned to the funeral pyre of a deceased husband it results not just “from religious prejudices only”, but, “also from witnessing the distress in which widows of the same rank in life are involved, and the insults and slights to which they are daily subject.”
Here are some historical images, celebrating the fine art of a woman burning by Hindus.


18 posted on 08/28/2023 9:31:50 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: entropy12

I’m waiting for him to call out the race baiters and say slavery was better for African Americans compared to the alternative. How about colonialism? Would India have learned to be in the modern world without it?


19 posted on 08/28/2023 9:33:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: wildcard_redneck
Vivek the Hindu Braman carpet bagger will never get my vote.

Agree. I'm happy enough to see him out there stirring the pot. Is he sincere? Don't know, don't care.

20 posted on 08/28/2023 9:33:13 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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