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2023-09-03 Home Front: Politix

Can American voters trust rising Republican star Vivek Ramaswamy?

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Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 12:04|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 Quick answer: no.
Long answer: also no.
(Trust a politician? I've heard of playing stupid, but you ain't playin', are ya?)

Posted by ed in texas 2023-09-03 13:14|| 2023-09-03 13:14|| Front Page Top

#2 He is young. I would like to see him be given some job like cleaning up the FDA. If he is a plant, that assignment would reveal him.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-09-03 13:16|| 2023-09-03 13:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Ramaswamy accepted a $90,000 scholarship from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which was founded by Daisy and Paul Soros, the now-deceased older brother of billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.

As I understand it - Paul Soros was nothing like his asshole brother, and the scholarship was for young conservatives. I won't vote for VR til he grows up, learns foreign policy, and has a better track record, but c'mon...

Posted by Frank G 2023-09-03 14:11|| 2023-09-03 14:11|| Front Page Top

#4 There's a clip out there from 8-10 years ago with Vivek on Cramer's CNBC show. Geeeeezus, Cramer can really pick 'em (SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, "don't sell Bear Stearns").

Vivek pulled some b.s. with a pharma company, and he and his family cashed in their stock for billions of dollars. Surely he's not the only one, but he's the the squeaky-clean articulate GOPer we are supposed to believe.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-09-03 15:47|| 2023-09-03 15:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Paul Soros was nothing like his asshole brother

Of course not.
George Soros came to UK as a penniless refugee and became a billionaire by being smarter that everybody else in financial markets.
Paul Soros came to USA as a penniless defector, barely finished his engineering degree without starving, and then made a genius invention that made him a multi-millionaire.
Practically a fairy story of success, albeit without a fairy godmother.
Interestingly, each used his money to gain influence with one of the two USA mainstreams.
And they say life is not stranger than fiction!

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 16:08|| 2023-09-03 16:08|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't trust him. Of course, I didn't trust Trump either.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-09-03 16:25|| 2023-09-03 16:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Give him five talents. Trust him with more based on his track record. He has some charisma, but trust no one until they prove it.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-09-03 17:18|| 2023-09-03 17:18|| Front Page Top

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