Being a loud obnoxious twatwaffle ≠ confidence
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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He's got the confidence of a frat bro. He talks clearly, loudly, and quickly.
Ramaswamy is dangerous. He's not going to win this election, but the fact that he's gotten so much attention is dangerous. I remember at the beginning, during the first GOP debates, he was all smiles and positivity. His poll numbers started going down and now the last interview I saw with him he starts being aggressive and yelling. I think he's trying to go the angry dictator route now and it's a bad sign that these types of politicians are getting attention.
Fascism is right around the corner
It is to his base. He knows how to sell to them.
He definitely does. At each debate, he continuously strings together right wing buzzwords like "woke" and "Russia hoax" into incoherent paragraphs and every time he says a new buzzword, the audience applauds.
They really are the dumbest people.
But have you heard me rap like a 12yo white boy from the suburbs?
No, but I’d like to….
Aaannndddd… I regret asking.
Nope, not clicking on that.
But it rhymes with cake
His interview series makes it clear he's just out for power and wealth, no matter how he can get it.
Its called "fake it til you make it" and i recognized the false confidence the first time i saw this used car salesman talk
More like “ Fake it till you break it”
@MicroWave Stuff like this is why I "invented" #anagorism (anti-market anarcho-socialism).
In a #market economy, one has to market oneself.
Market economies grade on confidence, definitely at the expense of competence.
What is anti-market anarcho-socialism?
Apps you use?
That must be a bot or something. Both of that user's comments make no sense.
@MicroWave Sometimes I go off topic. Probably not the best thing for a manifesto blog. Point taken. astoundingteam.com/wordpress/a…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ATLANTA (AP) — A political novice and one of the world’s wealthiest millennials, Vivek Ramaswamy has waged a whirlwind presidential campaign mirroring his meteoric rise as a biotech entrepreneur.
In the 2024 campaign, the Israel-Hamas war has refocused the Republican primary on foreign policy and exposed just how much Ramaswamy’s self-declared revolutionary approach puts him at odds with the party’s most powerful figures and many of its voters.
He interned at Goldman Sachs, the most prestigious Wall Street investment house, then won a job at QVT Financial, founded by another Harvard alumnus, Dan Gold.
He named it Roivant — the ROI standing for “return on investment” — and had a clear business model in mind: Buy discount patents for drugs languishing in the development phase, then resurrect them.
In his first big move, Ramaswamy used a subsidiary, Axovant, and paid GlaxoSmithKline $5 million for RVT-101, a potential Alzheimer’s drug already put through multiple trials and deemed not promising enough to continue.
Yet Trump remains such an overwhelming favorite to win the GOP nomination that he has skipped each debate, leaving Ramaswamy to absorb punches most candidates never direct toward the former president.
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So wait, this genius businessman thinks he can make money buying parents for drugs even the large pharmaceutical companies didn't find worth pursuing?
How could that possibly turn out to be a solvent business model?
"He drew attention from the campus newspaper for his alter ego, “Da Vek,” a rapper who performed using libertarian ideology as lyrics." Because country rap isn't horrible enough, this guy brought libertarian rap into the world. Since he wants to deport American-born children of immigrants, let's deport him.