holy fuck, Vivek Ramaswamy sure says a lot of stupid shit

Vivek has been making the rounds of all the bobblehead news shows, and we’re all getting an earful of his patented dipshittery

oh, to be blessed with the serene self-confidence of the mediocre man.

we keep hearing what a bright guy Vivek Ramaswamy is — but holy fuck, the dude sure does spew a double metric pantsload of stupid shit.

I’m not talking about your standard Republican “climate change is a hoax” kind of stupid shit — though we do get plenty of that from Vivek. no, what we’re dealing with here is some genuine what-in-the-actual-fuck batshit lunacy.

Vivek has been making the rounds of all the bobblehead news shows, and so we’re all getting an earful of his patented dipshittery.

presented here, in no particular order, are some recent examples.

here’s Chuck Todd, lobbing an easy softball right down the middle of the plate: did Mike Pence do the right thing on January 6th?

does Vivek smack it out of the park? hell no! he comes up with baffling bit of word salad:

“here’s what I would have said, ‘we need single-day voting on election day. we need paper ballots, and we need government-issued ID matching the voter file. and if we achieve that, then we have achieved victory, and we should not have any further complaint about election integrity.’”

I’m sorry, Mike Pence should have done what? called for voter ID and paper ballots? while … counting the electoral votes, two months after the election?

does Viv even know what a vice president’s job is? remember, Viv is the guy who wants people to pass a civics exam before they’re allowed to vote. could he pass one himself?

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here’s Vivek on the Jordan Peterson show.

Viv starts out with some boilerplate “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” yadda, but it’s at the 1:15 mark that the edibles must have kicked in, because out of nowhere comes “would we have won World War II if FDR didn’t have polio?” whoa, that’s a head-scratcher indeed. hey — what if FDR had heat vision? the war would have been over in 20 minutes, tops. hot enough for you, Adolf? ponder that, while you’re fucking with those bootstraps.

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on CNN’s State of the Union, Ramaswamy was asked for his reaction to the mass shooting in Jacksonville.

Vivek’s answer was stunningly cruel, even for a Republican. he said we should take the mentally ill and — instead of trying to treat them — just chuck them into some asylum and throw away the key. you know, because that worked so well in the eighteenth century.

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oh, and by the way, President Ramaswamy would appoint Elon Musk to be one of his administration’s advisors. why? “because he laid off 75% of the employees at Twitter.”

apparently, Vivek wants to be known as “the unemployment president.”

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a lot of wealthy people are utter fucking doofuses who happened to be the in right place at the right time — and because they were lucky enough to enrich themselves off some alleged securities fraud at an opportune moment, people now mistake them for geniuses-of-all-trades who can do anything.

nope, sorry, they’re stumblefucks who believe their own hype.

that’s why the racist game show host went bankrupt running casinos.

that’s why the apartheid-era emerald mine heir is running his social media app into the ground.

and that’s why we should all run screaming from Vivek Ramaswamy.