Musk had suggested earlier on Oct. 24 in a discussion on Twitter spaces that the U.S. was "sleepwalking" into World War III and that it should seek to normalize relations with Russia, which he suggested could happen if the U.S. pressures Ukraine into a ceasefire.
Later in the discussion, #Musk was joined by U.S. presidential candidate Vivek #Ramaswamy, who proposed giving away Ukrainian territory to Russia in exchange for peace.
As he notes that Elon Musk "is actively promoting anti-semitism, both through his tweets about George Santos that echo Jewish conspiracy tropes, as well as through refusing to be an active gatekeeper against anti-semitic hate speech," Kareen Abdul-Jabbar adds:
"Vivek Ramaswamy has announced he wants Musk to be his presidential advisor. Just imagine."
"What’s important about Ramaswamy is not his ideology—he has no coherent one—but how susceptible our political and media ecosystem is to a charismatic phony."
~ Molly Jong-Fast
It says something about us Americans — and about our media — that we're such sitting ducks for these phony, sham, scam artists-cum-grifters. As Jong-Fast notes, citing Kurt Andersen, look at our religious history, which is full of these types!
We'll go for the glitter, the fake and phony, any day in the week. It's built right into our culture, and our religious history absolutely has much to do with this predisposition: those periods of "great revival" which were essentially big tent shows in which people went hog wild rolling on the ground and barking and dancing and babbling "in the Spirit," with a preacher man or several of them moderating the show and passing the collection plate….
"The GOP has a crowded field of habitual liars. But Ramaswamy is perhaps the current master of what Kate McKinnon’s SNL version of Laura Ingraham described as 'feel facts, which aren’t technically true but just feel true.'
Ramaswamy’s favorite rhetorical tactic is to label a transparent falsehood as a 'truth,' and to then declare that a corresponding fact is a 'hoax.'”
As Max Burns notes, the limelight Vivek Ramaswamy enjoys after the Republican "debate" has come with some challenges to him:
Namely, he keeps making statements which show that he knows very little about how government works — though he has proposed a civic test for prospective voters.
He's young, callow, brash, and arrogant, and while that may carry the MAGA crowd, sober folks will look twice before supporting him.
So this is why vivek said climate change was a hoax!
How Vivek Ramaswamy makes money from climate denial
"At Wednesday's debate, Ramaswamy said he was the "only candidate who's not bought and paid for." That couldn't be further from the truth."
"Ramaswamy has reported more than $50 million in holdings in Strive, which to date, is mostly a fund to promote fossil fuel development. As Semafor reports, the largest fund at Strive—called DRLL—“ invests in U.S. energy companies and urges them to keep drilling for oil so long as it’s profitable.”"
Hey @msnbc, how come you guys aren’t doing any actual digging before you throw your worst “Journalists” out to do soft ball fascist friendly “interviews” with Putin loving scumbag #Vivek? #VoteBlueEveryElectionhttps://t.co/fDNh0seMsk
#MSNBC can #AndreaMitchell please retire?
It sounds like she's falling asleep! #Democracy in the developed world is crumbling; fascist little fuck-ups like rapping #Vivek and his angry pointy finger are chewing up air time!
Get Andrea OFF TV!!
The Fox #GOP#Debate Melted Down When the Word “Climate” Was Mentioned
When GOP presidential hopeful #Vivek#Ramaswamy declared that the “climate change agenda is a hoax,” a crowd full of Republicans started to boo.
He was responding to a question posed by Fox News moderator MacCallum, shortly after the network showed a clip of a Young Americans for Freedom member saying that climate change was number one issue“Do you believe human behavior is causing climate change?”
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Students should be expelled and criminaly prosecuted.