Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@bertluck2 Actually that was precisely my critique of the Republican Party. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

The proponents of “The Great Reset” boast about it. But those who object to it are dismissed as a conspiracy theorists. Ben does a nice job cutting through that dynamic. Worth a read. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

The proponents of “The Great Reset” boast about it. But those who object it are dismissed as a conspiracy theorists for simply disagreeing. Ben does a nice job cutting through that dynamic. Worth a read. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@_BarringtonII Is this fake? — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

A preview of coming attractions, if we don’t get our act together in the next few decades. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

In America, political parties generally get what they deserve at the ballot box. Today’s Republican Party is no exception. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

This raises an interesting pickle for the government: on one hand, it wants to ban TikTok for national security reasons. On the other hand, a TikTok ban helps an Elon-owned Twitter since it means one less choice for advertisers who are otherwise pushing the pro-censorship agenda. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

Advertisers are now shifting $$$ from Twitter to TikTok. So they’re more comfortable switching to a Chinese-owned platform that harvests U.S. user data and hands it over to the CCP than sticking with a U.S. company that *plans* to (but doesn’t even quite yet!) promote free speech https://t.co/prTcQY28QN — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@pulte Probably right. But I’m not as sure as you are. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

This is mostly just a fun financial thought exercise and not meant to be taken super seriously, but it wouldn’t be the craziest thing that’s ever happened in bankruptcy before either. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@SourSage1857 @AAMortazavi If that’s true, then this wouldn’t work out - you’re right. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@Pushkin_Street Actually, it’s a negotiating game between a buyer and debtors-in-possession. Depends on where that negotiating game lands. The alternative for the debtors could well be $0. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@AAMortazavi Actually, it’s a negotiating game between a buyer and debtors-in-possession. Depends on where that negotiating game lands. The alternative for the debtors could well be $0. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

Here’s the irony if Twitter files for bankruptcy: Elon could probably buy the company out of bankruptcy for a song. Just for fun: say the post-bankruptcy price is $1BN. That means he’d have bought Twitter for $27B instead of $44B, entirely debt-free, and 100% wholly owned by him. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@WarrenDavidson I think people have mostly forgotten the connotation that you and I know we ought to ascribe to the term “social credit score,” so we have to find new ways to explain it beyond using that term. At least that’s what I’ve discovered from experience. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@petervanham I wouldn’t have posted it if I thought it was a fringe view, but this says it’s a rating by a “FactSet” company which is viewed as pretty mainstream. Do you disagree? I don’t wish to distort anything. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

Crypto-dude Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraudulent company received a higher ESG score on “Leadership & Governance” than did Exxon Mobil. This is of course predictable: SBF donated $30mm+ to Democrats & called for greater regulation. He’s one of the “good guys.” That’s ESG in a nutshell. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@FistOfTrafalgar Exactly. That’s what I was getting at: it’s the act of feeling good about themselves for doing the great service of buying the movie ticket. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@DanAronstein No. The job is an administrative one at its core, not one that has much room for vision. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

I have in mind an intellectual sequel in spirit, not substantively tied to the original movie plot or characters but just inspired by its themes. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

I’ll put up some seed funding for a serious filmmaker who wants to take on an ambitious sequel to American History X. Track record matters, needs to be someone serious, but if so then I’ll do it. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

Turns out that modern “anti-racism” and intellectual nuance don’t mix well. That’s a shame because at least the original critical race theorists like Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw actually had something interesting to say, but that ended with the likes of Kendi & DiAngelo. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

It’s too bad Hollywood can’t make movies like American History X anymore and settles for god-awful Black Panther sequels instead. The racist assumptions of “anti-racist” movies like this are so glaring yet liberal white audiences eat it up anyway because it makes them feel good. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@ErikVoorhees You’re narrowly right, but there are some underappreciated parallels of crony capitalism. For example: SBF was an old-school fraudster who may escape prosecution for it…because he was a mega-donor to “the good guys.” It’s the same reason that Goldman Sachs got bailed out in ‘08. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

The irony is that if FTX was actually nothing more than an old-school centralized exchange that happened to offer the ability to trade in cryptocurrencies, but a truly *decentralized exchange* would have never allowed SBF to do what he did. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

Parallels between the FTX fiasco & the 2008 financial crisis: the pro-regulation “good guys” turned out to be fraudsters who imploded but saddled the actual good guys with regulatory backlash. FTX is a *centralized* exchange, but now tars decentralized finance with the same brush — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

It’s been over a year since I published Woke, Inc. I hope I don’t have to publish a second edition, but the same crap still keeps happening and people act surprised every time. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

History repeats itself: former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn won ESG awards and waxed eloquent about the energy “transition” while his company rigged emissions measurements in its cars. Obsessive virtue-signalers are usually the least virtuous and often the most fraudulent. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

Crypto-dude SBF’s pro-regulation schtick and his mega donations to the Democratic Party weren’t just a matter of hypocrisy. They were an essential part of the trick: it duped people who would’ve otherwise scrutinized him into thinking he was one of the “good guys.” And it worked. — PolitiTweet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

@JustHere4Stonks The 2008 bailouts that I discussed in this very interview were committed under a Republican administration. It is obviously a problem with both parties. — PolitiTweet.org