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Lot of people Midwest cant trust vivek. Most think he is muslim, n brown so he had little Chance. He is not muslim.

They thought trump was democrat also.
https://www.thoughtco.com/was-donald-trump-a-democrat-3367571

He will be vp or sec of state.

VP will show that rep are ok with minority and will be hard to call rep racist.

Sec of state, if there is china war, they will need asian, specifically indian support to counter china. He can facilitate that.

KgK one says

Lot of people Midwest cant trust vivek. Most think he is muslim, n brown so he had little Chance. He is not muslim.

Haley must have the same problem.

Nikki views are quite different than republicans, she is rino, n cnn promoted her so obviously she is not the one.
Haley looks relatively white, North Indians can pass off as white. East Indians can can pass off as Chinese or other asians. Skin tone depends on how far r u from sunny equator.

Patrick says

The fact that Vivek says nothing about the death jab convinces me that he is a Deep State plant.

@Patrick - images don't load for me frequently now. Neither do videos.

mell says

Vivek smoked asshole warmongers Christie and Haley well. Love this guy. Go Vivek!

I'd LIKE to think he's different, but I don't believe he is. Despite him being a supposed billionaire, he's got a lot of baggage and money he owes to people.

I think he is CIA Trump. He talks a good game, and hopefully I'm just too cynical, but I don't trust him.

richwicks says

images don't load for me frequently now. Neither do videos.

@richwicks Thanks for telling me.

The site was being attacked a few days ago, so I implemented nginx rate-limiting:

limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=one:10m rate=600r/m; # limit users to 600 requests per minute
limit_req_status 429;

Sadly, it caused problems like you describe. I undid it before noon today. Are you still having problems?

@richwicks, welcome back(?). We were getting worried.

He's still saying all the right things:

https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1818288213364236433

It's too bad Trump didn't pick this guy as the VP, as he rivals Trump in several areas. So he's not a threat, but a bit too strong as a support player. I hope he remains in play as a strong conservative voice. We need more like him!

rocketjoe79 says

It's too bad Trump didn't pick this guy as the VP, as he rivals Trump in several areas. So he's not a threat, but a bit too strong as a support player. I hope he remains in play as a strong conservative voice. We need more like him!

For Trump's last term, I think he's perfect and he'd have a good chance of running in 2028.

Vivek or Tulsi would have been great.

mell says

Vivek or Tulsi would have been great.

Tulsi would have been better than Vivek. I'll be blunt but Indians (the country) even if born in America are not really liked in the midwest. Think Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota. Plus he's a smooth/quick talker. Not my opinion just what I witness. The Simpsons didn't do them any favors either.

Tusli would have gotten liberal women votes. She not a slut like Kamala and doesn't look like a cucked hag like Hillary when she ran. So not gay guys would have supported it.

Been watching some JD stuff. Unimpressed. We'll see who the VP pick is for Kamala if it's even Kamala by the convention. All this said, the VP does little for POTUS. Maybe a 1-2 point swing if it's a good/bad pick.

To say America is a free country is f'ing ignorant.

I read that Vivek is out of DOGE due to tension with Elon.

Vivek's tone-deaf defense of H1b, putting the blame on supposedly lazy Americans, probably didn't help.

Patrick says

I read that Vivek is out of DOGE due to tension with Elon.

Vivek's tone-deaf defense of H1b, putting the blame on supposedly lazy Americans, probably didn't help.

As if Elon's was any better.

When/If Trump fixes our Agencies, perhaps he can have the Industry Consensus come up with proper handling and disposal and other regulatory issues, create the rules. They would have to stand up to testing and scrutiny of course.
But at least you wont have lawyers and legislators and aides hired in a job that never existed before making regulations based on their feels and Social Justice.

I still kinda like both guys. I think they mean well, but are a bit blinded by their own wealth to the harm that the H1B program and similar ones cause to non-billionaires.

Patrick says

"Stalin by the river" meme with Elon and Vivek would be better.

Patrick says

I still kinda like both guys. I think they mean well, but are a bit blinded by their own wealth to the harm that the H1B program and similar ones cause to non-billionaires.

I think Musk is more balanced. Vivek looks at it as an attack on his heritage and it causes emotions. I've only met one South African white person in 41 years, but have met hundreds of India Indians.

Fact is both like the cheap labor and mostly skilled. Look at a Space X launch and it's mostly white people in the control room. Laborers are likely mostly white. I have no issue with either group, but just saying Indians are more prominent here as migrants.

I also do think Vivek is a bit of a blowhard and ego driven guy. Fast talker. I'm sure most have seen the video, but when Musk is being interviewed and asked a question, he's basically like shit, I didn't think of that, I'll look into that. I don't think Vivek has that. He's the boss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY73exaVpyw

Patrick says

I still kinda like both guys. I think they mean well, but are a bit blinded by their own wealth to the harm that the H1B program and similar ones cause to non-billionaires.

When one is a billionaire, you forget how life is for ordinary and future American job seekers.

Patrick says

Yeah. Vivek politically castrated himself for sure.

Vivek is a Globalist trojan horse, anyway. Manufactured from stem to stern as a legend, points of origin murky.

Vivek fucks up again:

Vivek is an asshole, would not vote for man who looks down upon us Americans.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Vivek is an asshole, would not vote for man who looks down upon us Americans.

Anyone ever actually take this guy seriously? His bull shit was obvious out the gate.

My last name actually is in that database:

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm#q=killelea

https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/love-of-a-nation

What angered people about the two CEOs’ comments was that – like so many of today’s elites – they displayed no sense of loyalty or obligation to Americans as a nation. A nation is not a corporation. A nation is a particular people, with a distinct culture, permanently bound together by shared relationship with place, past, and each other. A house becomes a home through relationship with the family that lives in it, a connection forged out of time and memory between concrete particularity of place and the lives of a specific group of people present, past, and yet unborn. We can say this house is home because it is our home. In much the same way, a country becomes our homeland because it is ours – and the we of that “ours” is the nation, which transcends geography, government, and GDP.

Unlike a corporation, a nation really is much like a family. And, like a family, it is characterized by strong relational bonds that are covenantal, not contractual. It establishes moral obligations of solidarity and subsidiarity that cannot be simply abandoned. Much as we naturally would, and should, put our own children’s lives and wellbeing ahead of others’, a nation is obligated to distinguish its own from others and to put the wellbeing of its own first. ...

Yet, at least among our ruling classes, this natural reciprocal love between citizen and nation, which sustains our countries and our societies, seems to have long since frayed. This is no great shock, given that in our age the very idea of nationhood is itself decried, or outright denied, the nation-state stripped of the nation, the world reduced to a network of special economic zones. A man cannot love a special economic zone. Nor can its administrators possess any special feeling for its temporary inhabitants.

This grim status quo is no accident, however. It is the result of a deliberate, 80 year conspiracy against love, conducted out of fear. As I’ve argued before, after WWII, with the trauma of war and totalitarianism haunting the world, the American and European leadership class resolved that these evils should never again threaten society. And they concluded that the emotional power of nationalism had been the central cause of the 20th century’s catastrophes, leading them to make anti-nationalism the cornerstone of the liberal establishment consensus that came to dominate culture and politics after the war.

They both fucked up, but both did more for this nation than most bitching about them.

About the magical appearance of Casey, a Republican Primary challenger to Vivek:

Welcome to politics, Casey.
Real politics. The blood-sport kind.

You don’t walk into a statewide Ohio primary six months late with no money, no donors, no consultants, no endorsements, and no party backing and call it a campaign.

That’s not courage. That’s fantasy. This race started a year ago. The frontrunner is Trump-endorsed, JD Vance-backed, and fully wired into the party.

Meanwhile you’ve got online noise and the belief that internet enthusiasm replaces infrastructure. It doesn’t. Coalitions win elections. Factions lose them.

Your entire message is built on federal issues, H-1Bs, immigration, deportations, things a governor does not control.

You’re campaigning like you’re running for U.S. Senate and hoping voters won’t notice. They will. Add in a late entry, a polarizing platform, personal attacks on the frontrunner, and zero path to expand beyond a narrow online slice, and the math is obvious.

This isn’t a movement. It’s a spoiler. The Democrats don’t need to touch you, they’ll just let you do their work for them.

This isn’t cruelty. It’s reality.
And reality is undefeated. 🇺🇸

https://x.com/wcdispatch/status/2003692131626680404?s=20

I think Vivek is likely the best candidate for Ohio governor based on merit...he will do good for the state and Columbus, Ohio...I won't vote for him because of his position of H-1B visa program, that's my short sighted choice, as of now.

gabbar says

I think Vivek is likely the best candidate for Ohio governor based on merit...he will do good for the state and Columbus, Ohio...I won't vote for him because of his position of H-1B visa program, that's my short sighted choice, as of now.

He has said things that show he doesn’t respect America or Americans. Loving people you serve, that’s the main qualification for that position. I don’t think he’s qualified.

He should run for the Governor of Bihar.