Posted on 02/23/2023 6:48:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Vivek Ramaswamy, the anti-ESG investment entrepreneur, had hinted that he was contemplating joining the Republican presidential primary fray, so it wasn’t a complete surprise when he announced on Tucker Carlson’s show that he’s decided to run. And why not? Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign showed that Americans were sick of politics as usual, and that particular illness is probably going to be much worse after four years of Biden. The big question, of course, is what Ramaswamy has to offer. I happen to think that he has a lot to offer.
Ramaswamy, 37, is a Midwesterner, having been born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, to parents who immigrated from Vadakkencherry in India. He attended a parochial high school, where he managed to be a scholar (class valedictorian), athlete (ranked junior tennis player), and artist (pianist).
Ramaswamy then attended Harvard as an undergrad, where he received a Bachelor’s in biology. He also holds a law degree from Yale. Since Ramaswamy’s conservative values seem to be rock solid, we probably shouldn’t hold those truly unfortunate credentials against him. (Same goes for Ron DeSantis, another Ivy Leaguer.)
In 2007, right out of college, Ramaswamy threw himself into capitalism, co-founding a technology company with Travis May that got acquired in only two years. While he attended Yale Law School (2010-2013), Ramaswamy was also a partner and co-manager of QVT Financial, working in its biotech division.
By 2014, Ramaswamy had moved on to found Roivant Sciences, a tech-based pharmaceutical company. Then, in 2020, he co-founded Chapter Medicare, a Medicare navigation platform for ordinary people.
Along the way, Ramaswamy got a snootful of wokeness in corporate America (something American Thinker routinely addresses as a social and economic plague). In 2021, he published Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam, which promptly became a bestseller.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
No baggage but all of those tweets professing his contempt for Trumps base floating around out there.
RE: No baggage but all of those tweets professing his contempt for Trumps base floating around out there.
Can you direct us to these Tweets? ( links would be helpful ).
Swamy! How I love ya! How I love ya! My dear old Swamy!
That said, I don’t want to elect a Hindu as President. Sorry; I just don’t. I heard him for the first time last night. He’s brilliant. He should have a tremendous future
He is not a natural born citizen. Neither is Haley. This issue needs to be decided by SCOTUS.
Come on people. Don’t raise your eyebrows. Open your eyes. Lemme tell ya sumpin’.
Think Pete Maravich. 1970. Ok?
As a newcomer to the NBA how did he get more money? Think. The ABA was out there with it’s red/white/blue rubber ball. Hire him and his father to coach. Then there’s the HARLEM Globetrotters-the first WHITE guy to play for them. That one was as funny as it was stupid. It was right on par with the “Namath Weeps” over his retirement because of Batchelors III. Same time period. It was a dumb as Mantle Men Namath Girls.
RE: He is not a natural born citizen
What if his parents were already US citizens when he was born?
First he has to beat Trump before he can ‘lose’ to Gavin Newsom.
RE: That said, I don’t want to elect a Hindu as President.
Othr than his name and his heritage, do we know his personal religious beliefs?
IN BEFORE SOMEBODY ASKS IF HE IS A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Were either of his parents naturalized citizens when he was born? I have listened to him speak and watch his mind at work and he will be a fierce debator. Trump still has him hands down on experience. I don’t know Vivek’s leadership qualties.
>This issue needs to be decided by SCOTUS.
Agreed. My understanding is that if his parents were citizens at the time of his birth, irrespective of their place of birth, he is natural born.
https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/vivek-ramaswamy
What if his parents were already US citizens when he was born?
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It’s been a while now since I studied the issue, but if either of his parents were naturaized citizens at the time of his birth, I believe he meets Article II requirements.
Ramaswamy was indeed nominated and selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2021, which is an obvious, massive red flag.
However, Vivkek’s response in a Tweet was this:
“Funny you should bring this up. The first chapter of my upcoming book in April has the “receipts” of my exchanges with the World Economic Forum years ago when they *repeatedly* kept trying to get me to be named. I gave them a polite “hell no.”
Tupelo said: “First he has to beat Trump before he can ‘lose’ to Gavin Newsom.”
Yeah. I mean, he sounds like a great guy. I would say, “He seems to have a bright future ahead of him,” but YA KNOW WHAT?
NONE of us has a bright future ahead of him/her if we DON’T START FIGHTING FOR ELECTORAL ACCOUNTABILITY RIGHT NOW. We can’t vote our way out of the 2020 disaster.
If the GOP is just sitting around fighting over who we’re going to vote for in the primary/general election, WE’LL LOSE.
Here is Ramaswamy’s Tweet in response to the WEF nomination:
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1628231811770855426?s=20
Vivek Ramaswamy. May be a great guy, wildly talented and successful, but can’t be POTUS. Too much of a Simpson’s episode character name.
That’s in the link I posted.
Still a weak response IMO.
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