Posted on 01/05/2024 1:46:06 PM PST by libh8er
BETTENDORF, Iowa — At a campaign event this week, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy touted an endorsement by a disgraced former congressman who lost his election after defending white nationalism. He refused to directly condemn white supremacy. And he said he didn’t recognize the name of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine people at a historically Black church in South Carolina.
“Was there a point in our prior national history where there have been vicious forms of anti-Black or anti-Brown discrimination in this country, after the Civil War and otherwise? Yes. But you’re looking in the rearview mirror,” said Ramaswamy, while making false incendiary claims that white supremacy was a fabricated threat as he stood in front of a banner that said “TRUTH.” An entrepreneur and first-time candidate who built some momentum last year but has since faded sharply in polls of the Republican race, Ramaswamy has increasingly embraced extreme ideas, far-right individuals and causes, and debunked conspiracy theories. Barnstorming this state in the final stretch before the Iowa caucuses, some Republican strategists see his approach as a desperate ploy to garner attention as a provocateur. It’s one that is also dangerous, some experts warned, as data shows white extremist violence and threats have risen in recent years.
“While most people wouldn’t trust information coming from sources like Alex Jones or Steve King, they are more likely to trust a person like Ramaswamy who is running for the Republican Party nomination,” Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M University who researches democracy and rhetoric, wrote in an email. “This allows Ramaswamy to ‘launder’ narratives from the extreme rightwing fringe into the mainstream of American political discourse, which is how the extreme-right has taken over the Republican Party.”
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Translation: That Indian dude is getting pretty uppity. He needs a lefty smackdown.
Here’s the video of him addressing the smears. He totally punks the reporter who tried a “gotcha” on him.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1743071540172767321
So he is directly over the target.
The corrupt MSM is mad and this is how they begin to smear and marginalize people who say things they don’t like.
“Dylann Roof, the white supremacist”
Roof was a mentally ill teenager. Hardly a KKK wizard.
It’s a not a coincidence that WaPo and CNN are pushing the white supremacy narrative the same time as Biden does his Nuremburg speech at Valley Forge. Meryl is just a tool of the Soros paid propaganda machine.
She sounds skeert.
“Roof was a mentally ill teenager.”
At the time of the murders, he was not a teenager.
Was he ever diagnosed as being mentally ill?
“Ramaswamy, while making false incendiary claims that white supremacy was a fabricated threat”
It is a fabricated threat made by the left. If you live in DC, Meryl, who do you fear more. White supremacists or black youth? Answer the question Meryl.
They fear him.
The lord masters don’t like it when the peasants fight back! Kudos to him!!!
OK, without googling the answer, name the black supremacist who murdered six people at the Waukesha Christmas parade attack barely two years ago.
I'll bet you can't.
Yet, we're supposed to have Dylann Roof seared into our national consciousness for eternity while Darrell Brooks is allowed to be forgotten.
Adjectives.
She’s lying.
The media endlessly hyped stories about “white supremacy” and “extremism” in the U.S. military for years. Was it true? Nope. It was a total joke with no basis in fact. In fact the Biden administration commissioned a report that found extremism was nonexistent and then shamefully buried it by releasing it on the day after Christmas. I'm calling on the following news organizations to retract and apologize for their smears of American service members as white supremacists. @nbcnews @axios @bostonglobe @vice
10:24 AM · Jan 5, 2024 from Ames, IA
People are aware of both events, know the names Roof and Brooks, and were disgusted by both their crimes.
The American justice system dealt with both accordingly.
Name added to the helecopter list.
The left is scared of him-not as POTUS. He scares them because people listen, including lefties.
“Not sure how any person in the United States would have no knowledge of Dylann Roof.”
True. I narrowed it down when I saw the last name. There are so many weirdos named Dylan / Dillon / Dylann, etc., it’s hard to narrow down which one.
It’s a no win situation. We aren’t supposed to remember the names of people who kill to become famous — that’s giving them what they want — but then we are attacked if we don’t remember them.
The entire corpus of Karl Marx’s life’s work is far left fringe theory but you’ll never hear any of the socialist squad accused of “embracing s fringe theory”
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