#ramaswamy — Public Fediverse posts

Someone on Amy Acton's staff said about her Republican opponent: "As life becomes even more expensive for Ohio families, Vivek #Ramaswamy is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars flying around the world to luxury destinations on his private jet, treating Ohio like a flyover state. Ohioans know they can’t trust a billionaire who looks down at us from 30,000 feet to understand the challenges we’re facing or to fight for us”:
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/21/ohio-governor-race-vivek-ramaswamy-spent-more-than-500000-leasing-private-jet-for-campaign-events/
#politics #OHgov #OHpol #AmyActon

#CorruptionGOP
#Ohio #Ramaswamy #OligarchWatch

popularinformation.substack.com

Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.

In 2014, Ramaswamy founded Axovant, a company he used to buy the rights to an inauspicious Alzheimer’s drug that had repeatedly failed in clinical trials. Axovant then hired Ramaswamy’s mother, who, despite lacking relevant research experience, helped massage data from old clinical trials to make the drug appear more promising. The extent of the elder Ramaswamy’s role has not been previously reported.

In 2015, touting his mother’s reinterpretation of the data to potential investors and regulators, Ramaswamy led Axovant to a $1.4 billion initial public offering, the largest in biotech history at the time. He spent the ensuing two years promoting the drug intepirdine as a possible breakthrough for the millions of Americans who have Alzheimer’s disease.

Then, after structuring the company to insulate himself and other insiders from potential losses, he cashed out through a private back door weeks before another clinical failure cratered the stock price. One state retirement fund for teachers lost more than $1 million.

Ramaswamy, whose gubernatorial candidacy has received tens of millions in combined financial backing from fellow right-wing billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Yass, and Bill Ackman, reaped an estimated $260 million from Axovant’s parent company.

Ramaswamy has maintained that he is “proud” of his work on intepirdine. “There is probably nothing in a meaningful way we could’ve done differently in the decision of advancing that drug,” he said at a 2018 conference held as the Axovant share price hovered around the $1 mark. “Given those same set of facts… with a different drug today, I think we would make the same decision.”

@Axomamma

I unironically think #Ramaswamy is the perfect #Republican nominee. What could better represent the #fascist values of Republicans?

“THE TALMUDIC CULT INSIDE MAGA:
How a Yale‑built power circle slid into MAGA while pretending to be nothing but ‘outsiders’”

by Nouri in Manufactuting Dissentbon Substack

“MAGA was supposed to be the movement that rejected this entire system — the grooming networks, the Ivy League pipelines, the foreign‑aligned influence circles. Instead, two of the most prominent voices in the room are tied into one of the most elite, foreign‑aligned, Yale‑built networks out there.

It’s not ‘America First’, it has always been ‘Israel First’. It’s the same establishment slipping into the movement through people who were packaged to look like outsiders”

https://open.substack.com/pub/mandissent/p/the-talmudic-cult-inside-maga

#Press #SocialMedia #US #MAGA #IsraelFirst #Yale #Epstein #Vance #Ramaswamy #Shabtai #Israel #India #BJP #Networks #Theil #Palantir

Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican, is on the ballot today in Ohio. He spoke in favor of taking away some people's right to vote. Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting ago to 25:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/05/ramaswamy-trump-define-ohio-indiana-elections/89881096007/?tbref=hp
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #VotingRights #Ramaswamy #extremism

JD Vance has endorsed Ramaswamy as well.

https://www.ashlandsource.com/2025/10/16/vivek-ramaswamy-to-make-campaign-stop-in-ashland-on-friday/

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#Vance #Ramaswamy #Politics #Ohio #USPolitics

Ramaswamy has been endorsed by Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5162524-donald-trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-endorsement-ohio-governor-bid/

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#Trump #Musk #Ramaswamy #Ohio #USPol #Politics

J.D. Vance spoke Sunday at Turning Point USA’s annual #AmericaFest conference,
where Erika #Kirk, widow of the group’s slain founder, endorsed Vance for president in 2028.

👉Vance demonized “the left,”
👉promoted Christian nationalism and right-wing populist conspiracy theories,
and, unlike other speakers,
👉refused to criticize far-right and antisemitic elements of the conservative movement like fascist personality Nick Fuentes. 

Other conference speakers were willing to challenge the movement’s bigots and extremists.
Podcaster Ben #Shapiro took on Tucker #Carlson for having provided Nick #Fuentes with an overly friendly platform from which to spread his poison.
(Carlson, also invited to speak, mocked Shapiro’s concerns.)
Former presidential candidate Vivek #Ramaswamy challenged Fuentes's bigotry along with racially coded ideas like “Heritage Americans” that have taken root in the MAGA movement.

But Vance, who has his eye on 2028, was apparently not willing to risk alienating anyone on the right,
-- demonstrating the concept of #NETTR
—“no enemies to the right”
—that has been at the center of the ongoing turmoil over Heritage Foundation President
Kevin #Roberts defense of Carlson’s promotion of Fuentes.

“President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self-defeating purity tests,” Vance said from the stage

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/jd-vance-delivers-demagoguery-christian-nationalism-tpusa-fest-refuses-criticize-far

Of course the token #minorites in the #racist, #ChristianNationalist #TurningPointUSA movement feel left out and mistreated. Seriously, #BenShapiro. If you want to be a Nazi, move to #Israel. And #Ramaswamy, you'd fit right in with #Modi's cabal. I think you guys missed #CharlieKirk's point.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/turning-points-americafest-ben-shapiro.html

Xtian-panderers Kash, #Ramaswamy are not very convincing. I know y’all chow down on #Diwali jalebis. Just cut the shit and make the appropriate secular noises

In February, #Marc #Andreessen described the #Chatham #House group chats to the podcaster #Lex #Fridman as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] #samizdat”
“The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.”
They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between #Mark #Cuban and the Republican entrepreneur #Vivek #Ramaswamy, which started in a chat.

But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media.
Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit #Curtis #Yarvin to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer #Taylor #Lorenz.

They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s #disappearing #message features,
and in part because the groups had formed out of a mix of fear and disdain for journalists they believed were “out to get us,” as one member put it.
“People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media, and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone,”
said #Erik #Torenberg, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt.
As #Krishnan was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, #Torenberg independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.

“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast,
after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups.
“If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”
Their creations took off:
“It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,”
the Substack author #Noah #Smith wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday.
“Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

On the last Friday of September 2023, #Elon #Musk dropped in about an hour late to a dinner party at the Silicon Valley mansion of the technology investor #Chamath #Palihapitiya.

Musk’s visit was meant to be discreet -- Still skittish about getting involved publicly in politics, he told the guests he had to be careful about supporting anyone in the Republican nomination fight.

And yet here he was
— joined by Claire Boucher, the singer known as #Grimes and the mother of three of his children
— at a $50,000-a-head dinner in honor of the presidential candidate #Vivek #Ramaswamy, who was running as an entrepreneur who would shake up the status quo.

As the night wore on, Musk held forth on the patio on a variety of topics, according to four people with knowledge of the conversation:
his visit that week to the U.S.-Mexico border;
the war in Ukraine;
his frustrations with government regulations hindering his rocket company, SpaceX;
and Mr. Ramaswamy’s highest priority, the dismantling of the federal bureaucracy.
Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a technology challenge.

He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter, the key was gaining access to the company’s servers

Wouldn’t it be great, Musk offered, if he could have access to the computers of the federal government?

Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, and he would make the government fit and trim.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The group at Mar-a-Lago brainstormed ways to terminate #FederalWorkers. One idea was to motivate them to quit, by forcing them to return to the office 5 days a week or, as #Ramaswamy suggested, moving #CivilServants to work on admin priorities like border security. Ramaswamy predicted to the team that many federal workers would not want to be part of an #immigration crackdown & would leave govt — a win-win situation.

#Musk #Trump #coup #law #Technocracy #kleptocracy #plutocracy #idiocracy #DOGE

#Musk had still not figured out the #legal structure for his effort or how it would work. He & #Ramaswamy …tried to answer fundamental questions, pressure-testing ideas w/prospective cabinet members & budget experts.

It was “spaghetti against the wall,” per 1 person in touch w/Musk at the time.

In the wk after the election, Smith gave Musk a presentation that amounted to a basic budget & civics lesson, explaining how #Congress appropriated funds & noting major items like defense & health care.

The group included #Musk; #Ramaswamy, who was then #DOGE’s co-leader; the #billionaire #HowardLutnick, who was running #Trump’s transition & would become his #commerce secy; & a health care entrepreneur, Brad Smith, who had worked w/Trump’s son-in-law #JaredKushner…. [but more importantly] Smith was a close business associate of #AmyGleason, who had worked at one of his companies as a chief product officer.

#coup #law #regulation #Technocracy #kleptocracy #Technofeudalism #NRx #DOGE #USpol

This is still about the racial class hierarchy Dixiecrats turned Republican have raged and fought to hold on to for the past 60 plus years. The last thing on earth, the white Christofascist patriarchy wants are clear-minded, educated, empowered #BIPOC organizing for a secure, equitable, justice society.

Trump Preps Order To Eliminate Department Of Education
#SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #Politics #Project2025 #TrumpRegime #Broligarchy #Musk #Ramaswamy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Z3Yl4X3eE

The last and only remaining nuclear arms deal between the U.S. and Russia
—the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, otherwise known as New START
—is set to expire on February 5, 2026.

The deal capped the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the two nations could deploy, as well as the number of land and water vehicles used to deliver them.

Legitimate international disarmament would, of course, be a good thing.

But whether or not Putin would actually follow through on diminishing his nation’s nuclear stockpiles is unclear.

For decades, Russia has spent millions working to replace and upgrade its strategic and non-strategic nuclear systems.

As of early 2024, Russia possessed a total of 5,580 nuclear warheads,
the most of any country in the world, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The nonprofit organization argued that the war in Ukraine had drastically depleted Russia’s “conventional forces,” pushing it to deepen its reliance on nuclear weapons for its national defense systems.

“Russia’s nuclear modernization programs
—combined with frequent explicit nuclear threats against other countries in the context of its large conventional war in Ukraine
—contribute to uncertainty about the country’s long-term intentions and have generated a growing international debate about the nature of its nuclear strategy,” read a Bulletin’s column.

The global security group further argued that the U.S.’s ballistic missile system could stand in the way of Russia’s eventual nuclear disarmament,
claiming that the missile system “constitutes a real future risk to the credibility of Russia’s retaliatory capability.”

Some of Trump’s domestic decisions prior to entering the White House were reportedly “thrilling” to Russian mouthpieces.

#Margarita #Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, mocked American politicians in December for their stupidity while claiming that some of Trump’s more unqualified choices for his cabinet
—such as one-time DOGE co-chair nominee Vivek #Ramaswamy and director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi #Gabbard
—are friendly faces that bring the Kremlin “lots of joy.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/190605/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons

T•••• is constitutionally barred from fed office. Uno reverse: T•••• strips citizenship from #Haley, #Ramaswamy

T•••• is a domestic terrorist who belongs in prison. Uno reverse: T•••• springs his villager Y’all Qaeda.

White power is a hell of a card

"A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” is one way to position Ramaswamy's exodus from DOGE! #DOGE #Ramaswamy #Musk #USA #fedgov

So why is Ramaswamy suddenly gone? Simple. Neither trump nor his co-president Musk is able to be near a brown or black face for an extended period. The suggestion that they might all be in the same political or social group is anathema to these two racist fascists.#racism #fascists #Ramaswamy #DOGE

Three lawsuits were filed in D.C.’s federal district court alleging Trump administration DOGE doesn’t comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).

FACA mandates federal advisory committees meet transparency requirements like having a charter, fairly balanced membership and a designated federal officer to call meetings. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5095750-doge-sued-trump-administration-elon-musk-ramaswamy/ #FACA #Potus #Lawsuits #Doge #Musk #Ramaswamy

@Wileymiller They and their team are not elected officials and have no authority or power under law but this clown show will serve the purpose as directed - dismantle career public service jobs across the government [which means offices in all states] and eliminate experts who together perform critical services for our country in all sectors. #doge #musk #trump #ramaswamy #politics #maga #lies #democracy #civilservants #federalgovernment

The mediocrity of the MAGA movement:

"This current [MAGA] fight is between mediocre white people who want to get plum jobs without having to work hard & mediocre tech bros who want to profit off other people’s intelligence... Then there's Trump himself, the avatar for spoiled white morons who keep failing upward."
- @AmandaMarcotte

#Musk #ElonMusk #Ramaswamy #Trump #MAGA #Kakistocracy #Tech #Jobs #US #USA #Politics #USPol

The #MAGA party is at it again. They rail against immigrants taking #AmericanJobs and lowering wages. They want immigrants out so Americans can work low paying jobs while #Musk and #Ramaswamy want immigrants to work higher paying jobs that they can end up paying less than they would to Americans. And #Trump caves in to #PresidentMusk.

I like to put "ding dong" at the end of #Ramaswamy. Try it, it's #fun‼️🤩