Posted on 08/24/2023 8:07:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“One thing that Ramaswamy has already mastered is a Trumpian ability to blame the media for “misquoting” him on occasion — even when it’s later discovered the media quoted him with deadly accuracy.”
“mastered the Trumpian ability.” Are they trying to win me over with Vivek?
“the media quoted him with deadly accuracy.”
Why does it seem that the media is only interested in “deadly accuracy” when it comes to Republicans?
I think Biden is only the latest Democrat whom the media could quote with “deadly accuracy” if they so chose.
His parents were not.
Yes, that makes a critical difference. Vivek was raised as a Brahmin from the Indian culture. You don't just shake that off in a single generation of emigration.
Indian culture created a 6,000-year-old system of castes and used that system to oppress and control their hundreds of ethnic minorities. The system was created by white conquerors from the northern lands and is frankly and unapologetically racist. It is effective too.
Deception is an essential skill for personal advancement and even survival in that system. Truth-telling is not.
We ignore this at our own peril.
Vivek has superior abilities to discern and tell us exactly what we want to hear. Well, most of the time anyway. He can even be useful to us as he keeps Democrat opponents off-balance with his proposals.
Push that Overton Window to the far right, man!
But Vivek should not be trusted.
Actually, no politician can be entirely trusted. Not Trump. Not DeSantis. Certainly not any of the Republican seven dwarfs, nor any Democrat at all. No one is coming to save us! We will have to do that ourselves.
You are ill informed. When you get your info correct then maybe someone will listen to you
It appears one can watch the debate in a tiny video.
I don’t normally watch videos but I might watch it later.
Agreed. I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise.
“Why is there even a “market”—however small—in the US for a presidential candidate who essentially recently comes from a foreign country and foreign culture? Just why? What is it with us anyway?”
Our systems have been screwed up. They were the best in the world when I was born in 1958.
I have many months to make a primary vote decision.
I will let time work for me.
But were his parents citizens when he was born ?
And the paganistic Democrats are somehow superior? How about pro-abortion Pelosi taking communion?
Isn't that like a "Corporal-Captain"?
My mother had immigrant parents and I sit on a Hepplewhite-style chair she bought in a colonial-style house she had built.
You can make the case for both monotheistic and polytheistic and I suppose it ultimately depends on how you classify things. But just to push back on the insult comment, it works the other way as well and many forms of Hinduism do believe in a monotheistic God. They conceptualize it as the worship a single god as supreme without necessarily denying the existence of others as manifestations of this single deity. There are analogous world views in OT Judaism was well as Islam.
That is correct. He won’t be the nominee and neither will the others. I can see Burgam and Ramaswamy in the administration. Scott is needed in the Senate. Hutchison is needed for a retirement community in the Ozarks.
Let VR defend his own religious views—in public.
I suspect it would not be pretty.
(I knew some religious Hindus—and they would have found “monotheistic Hinduism” highly offensive—and they made a very strong case for their views.)
Don’t know!
Anyway, that ship has sailed due to Zero being elected twice.
They only thing that would bring it back would be a definitive USSC ruling. That’s not going to happen. Ramaswamy’s Americanism is confirmed by his past actions, public attitudes & professional success not by his genetics. Something we cannot say about Zero. The lack of such a USSC definitive ruling on citizenship in the past created the mess.
VR interview with Bret Weinstein on the Darkhorse podcast. He sounds great, but as always, is he telling the truth? Does anyone running for political office tell the truth on everything these days? I look at everyone with some ‘suspicion’. Also, if the media reports someone/anyone said ‘something’, I don’t believe it until I hear it coming out of the person’s mouth, in context. For sure, the media lies about pretty much everything.
https://rumble.com/v2w3dsa-bret-speaks-with-vivek-ramaswamy-on-the-darkhorse-podcast.html
“Hindus all worship a one Supreme Being, though by different names. For Vaishnavites, Lord Vishnu is God. For Saivites, God is Siva. For Shaktas, Goddess Shakti is supreme. For Smartas, liberal Hindus, the choice of Deity is left to the devotee. Each has a multitude of guru lineages, religious leaders, priesthoods, sacred literature, monastic communities, schools, pilgrimage centers and tens of thousands of temples. They possess a wealth of art and architecture, philosophy and scholarship. These four sects hold such divergent beliefs that each is a complete and independent religion. Yet, they share a vast heritage of culture and belief karma, dharma, reincarnation, all-pervasive Divinity, temple worship, sacraments, manifold Deities, the guru-shishya tradition and the Vedas as scriptural authority.”
https://www.himalayanacademy.com/readlearn/basics/four-sects
“As a family of faiths, Hinduism upholds a wide array of perspectives on the Divine, yet all worship the one, all-pervasive Supreme Being hailed in the Upanishads. As Absolute Reality, God is unmanifest, unchanging and transcendent, the Self God, timeless, formless and spaceless. As Pure Consciousness, God is the manifest primal substance, pure love and light flowing through all form, existing everywhere in time and space as infinite intelligence and power. As Primal Soul, God is our personal Lord, source of all three worlds, our Father-Mother God who protects, nurtures and guides us. We beseech God’s grace in our lives while also knowing that He/She is the essence of our soul, the life of our life. Each denomination also venerates its own pantheon of Divinities, Mahadevas, or “great angels,” who were created by the Supreme Lord and who serve and adore Him.”
“dharma is the mode of conduct most conducive to spiritual advancement, the right and righteous path. It is piety and ethical practice, duty and obligation.”
https://www.himalayanacademy.com/readlearn/basics/four-facts
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