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Climate change and white supremacy are not problems for US, Ramaswamy argues (abcnews.go.com)
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Ramaswamy, who has called himself an environmentalist while also being a staunch proponent of fracking and using fossil fuels in addition to carbon-free energy like nuclear, explained his position on climate change and policies to address rising global temperatures, telling Davis in the interview on Monday night that he believes the "climate change agenda" is a "hoax ... more about pushing global equity" and deferring to China.

"I think that with due respect ... 'Do you believe in climate change?' is not really a meaningful question because climate change has existed as long as the Earth has existed," he said. "Do I believe it is a fact that global surface temperatures are rising over the course of the last century of the last half century? Yes, I think that that is an established fact."

But, as president, he would not take action to address the warming of the planet, he said.

Ramaswamy was pressed by Davis in light of past mass shootings by "self-identified white supremacists," such as the gunman who attacked a predominantly Black church in South Carolina in 2015.

He has been vocal about what he contends is a counteractive focus on race, including through affirmative action and race-conscious policies that seek to address longstanding disparities in areas like university admissions.

Ramaswamy said in Iowa in August that Juneteenth, which marks the emancipation of slaves in the U.S., is a "useless holiday" federalized "under political duress." Weeks earlier, he posted a video saying "Happy Juneteenth" and "we ought to celebrate how far we've come as a country."

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[–] flossdaily 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

This is the nightmare that the GOP has become.

Here we have a guy who is definitely smart enough to understand that climate change is an existential threat, and he certainly understand that if he went to a "small town", white supremacist would be a very dire threat to him and his family.

But he learned from Trump that the cheat code for hacking the Republican electorate is to just tell them exactly what they want to hear, no matter how ridiculously untrue it might be.

Utter shamelessness.

This man has no integrity and no honor.

The GOP is an existential threat to this democracy and the human race.

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