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Vivek Ramaswamy wants you to think he’s the wünderkind of the Republican Party. He’s MAGA 2.0, a younger Donald Trump with a higher IQ (which, to be fair, he probably has). However, since his debut at the GOP debate last week, many conservatives have raised some really important questions: like what the hell is this guy all about?
Besides his annoying stage performance, which reminds you of that kid in high school you’d most want to push into a locker, Ramaswamy also came across like a film-flam man. An oily salesman, the Indian version of Vince Offer, the ShamWow guy.
But dig a little deeper and some disturbing facts emerge.
An X-user who goes by the handle “Raver” posted some receipts concerning Ramaswamy’s financial shenanigans in a thread which you can find here. With links, too. Some of the dirt that Raver shoveled include the following:
He’s a stock promoter, which means he’s a fraud, pumping and dumping stocks on retail people.
He’s basically a pump and dump artist. See this from 2015 biotech bubble.
… and the inevitable failure in 2018.
A good one on his record of failure .
Here’s more, from Finnish X-user Pekka Kallioniemi:
…drug that's failed 4 trials already, raise more money, take the company public and cash out.
Naturally, the patent failed to deliver in the end, but Vivek and his family got rich so it doesn't matter.
3/16 pic.twitter.com/GKuYPcDBYK
— Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) August 25, 2023
Plus, another X user named Matt Kim produced this video, using information he found from a deep dive into publicly available data.
Should we trust Vivek?
Lots of coincidences here… pic.twitter.com/xVJqM3KisD
— Matt Kim (@MattAttack009_) August 25, 2023
In a article at the defense blog 19FortyFive entitled “Vivek Ramaswamy is a Scam,” Washington Times contributor Brandon Weichert reported this disquieting nugget:
Vivek Ramaswamy’s thesis was on the need to ethically produce human-animal chimeras (hybrids) for medical experimentation. You read that right. Ramaswamy was a proponent of some of the most unethical, ghoulish experiments in modern biotechnology; of sullying the human genome by fusing it with various animal genes, so that modern doctors could conduct morally dubious, dangerous experiments (so long as the results of those lab experiments were treated ethically).
Yep, after Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard in 2007, the New York Times published his biology honors thesis which touts the benefits of human-animal chimeras. He argued:
Unbeknownst to most Americans, today the creation of human-animal chimeras represents a valuable experimental tool that could revolutionize science and medicine.
Calling Dr. Fauci.
Weichert contended:
Only this time, Ramaswamy wanted to do what Chinese scientists and Dr. Anthony Fauci, formerly of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), did with gain-of-function tests on lab-created chimeric illnesses (possibly like COVID-19), only with humans and animals, rather than pathogens.
We should’ve learned by now that just because scientists can do something, doesn’t mean they should. At the next GOP debate, the moderators should ask Ramaswamy if he still thinks human-animal chimeras are a good idea. However, he’d probably give a glib answer designed to obfuscate the average debate viewer. After all, Vivek knows he’s probably smarter than the rest of us when it comes to Science!
During the GOP debate, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley turned to Vivek Ramaswamy and told him:
You want to give Taiwan to China. You want to give Ukraine to Russia. You would make America less safe. You have no foreign-policy experience, and it shows!
Haley was right. Ramaswamy has made some jaw-dropping comments about Taiwan and Ukraine.
When he becomes president, Vivek Ramaswamy told talk show host Hugh Hewitt he’ll make sure to protect Taiwan from China. That is, until the US achieves “semiconductor independence,” around 2029, he figures. Then it’s so long Taiwan. Nice knowing you. Meet your new overlords: Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.
I’m sure our partners Japan, South Korea, and Australia would be thrilled at China taking this chunk of the Asian Pacific region.
But lest anyone believes that Ramaswamy would be acting like a cold-hearted bastard towards Taiwan, he has a counter idea. “We’ll put a gun in every Taiwanese household,” he told Iowans in June.
Here’s how we protect Taiwan without going to war with China: open a branch of the @NRA in Taiwan, put an AR-15 in the hands of every family, and train them how to use it. That’ll give Xi Jinping a taste of American exceptionalism. pic.twitter.com/jLjcown8r2
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) June 4, 2023
Oh, okay.
As for Ukraine, he wants to throw them to the Russian wolves.
National Review writer Robert Zubrin panned Ramaswamy’s solution to the Ukraine War:
In other words, Vivek is saying that if he were president, he would force Ukraine to surrender to Russia. This gift would then make Putin so grateful that he would become America’s firm and trustworthy ally in our effort to defend the free world from Chinese domination.
If ever a geopolitical strategy were based on wishful thinking, this is it. Putin has stated in writing that he doesn’t just want Ukraine; he wants to restore the entire Russian empire, which included not only Russia and Ukraine but Finland, the Baltic states, most of Poland, the Caucasus, and much of Central Asia …
Yeah, let’s appease Vladimir Putin. Pekka Kallioniemi also notes:
In regard to the Russo-Ukrainian War, his views have been heavily supportive of Russia’s goals. He favors ending all US military aid to Ukraine, he would exclude Ukraine from joining NATO & would allow Russia to occupy regions of Ukraine if Russia end[s] its alliance with China.
He’s also called Zelenskyy a “bully”, stated in an interview that “Our goal should not be for Putin to lose,” that the US involvement in Ukraine is strengthening the Russia-China military alliance, and that this can be only prevented by giving Putin what he wants.
Because appeasement worked so well in the 20th century. Sudetenland, anyone?
Ramaswamy also predicted that a “post-Zelenskyy warlord” will take over Ukraine, and the country will become like Afghanistan after the Soviets left:
In one of his recent interviews, Vivek claimed that a “post-Zelensky warlord” will take power in Ukraine with American military equipment, basically comparing the situation to the Mujehadeen & Al-Qaida in Afghanistan after the Soviets left.
Ukraine may not be a wealthy country. But it sure as hell isn’t a land run by backwards religious leaders like Afghanistan is. Could Ramaswamy insult the Ukrainians any more than he has? Just wait.
Earlier this month, Vivek Ramaswamy said in a speech that he’s a modern-day George Washington.
I’m a George Washington America First conservative: act in the national interest. Just as Nixon opened China to win the Cold War against Russia, the next president must open Russia to defeat China – starting with a peace settlement in Ukraine. Just as Nixon opened China to win the Cold War against Russia, the next president must open Russia to defeat China – starting with a peace settlement in Ukraine.
Oh, please. As Bobby Miller wrote in National Review, this pipe dream “is more reminiscent of a freshman poli-sci student’s wishful thinking than a thoughtful peace plan from a serious presidential contender.”
And as for Ramaswamy’s hubris in comparing himself to George Washington: would Washington screw retail investors in pump-and-dump stock schemes? Would he advocate for unscrupulous scientific experiments involving humans? Would he dump our allies to the curb?
You know the answer, and it would be No!
There’s so much more I could say about Vivek Ramaswamy, but I’ll leave it here. I’ll conclude by saying that I had very high hopes for this guy — not necessarily for capturing the White House in 2024, but for a future in Republican politics. But he’s turned out to be just another — as my late father-in-law would say — “silver-tongued devil.”
Featured image: Gage Skidmore/flickr/cropped/CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chris says: He’s a Distraction.
We will see how effective he is.
He reminds me of the “Classic” Used Car Salesman schtick.
I wouldn’t trust this guy with my garbage, let alone More.
Kevin says: I started listening to his podcast last week on my daily 20 mile morning bike ride. I’ve only listened to couple episodes (it’s hard to bike when you’re uncontrollably dry-heaving) but I was shocked to hear something Megyn Kelly said on the June 21, 2023, episode “Megyn Kelly on The Power of Personal Responsibility.”
Vivek and Megyn were talking about how appalled they were about censorship and how the liberal left wanted to restrict what people heard/saw/read. Megyn Kelly then goes on to say, “If you want the facts, listen to NPR. That’s where you’ll get the facts.”
XXXOOO, Kevin 😉
Taylor says: Every four years there is a large part of the Republican Party which falls in love with amateurs such as that 9-9-9 Pizza guy (Herman Cain), Dr. Ben Carson, and now this guy.
Liz says: What makes someone an “amateur”, in your estimation?
Taylor says: Someone who has no political experience at all (not even president of their third grade class) yet thinks they ought to be President of the United States.
Liz says: I’m paraphrasing something i read recently.
Went like this:
“An outsider took office and we got cheap gas, cheap food, became energy independent, no new wars and focused on our country’s own issues. Establishment hacks get back in power and we have inflation, medical tyranny, war, and need a mortgage to pay for gas”.
I’m results oriented and amateurs seem to have much to recommend them, in the world where results matter.
I’m starting to think even Congressmen should be chosen with a system similar to how we pick a jury for a trial. I do not know if that would improve things, but I am 100 percent certain it would not make the current situation worse.
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