Ramaswamy Gets Weird in Iowa – People
Stare Uncomfortably as Republican Candidate
Starts Rapping, Yes Rapping!
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
8/14/2023 10:51:42 AM
Things are a little weird in Iowa as one of the candidates thought it would be a great idea to start rapping on stage, and then things get really uncomfortable. There are moments in every eco-chambering campaign where the responsible voice in the room says, “no – just no” and protects the candidate from the big stupid.
I’m not exactly sure what the goal and objective is here, but (a) Ramalamadingdong did not have that voice in the room; and (b) apparently no longer wants to be considered as a viable candidate. Nothing else quite explains this level of cringe. WATCH:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/14/2023 10:55:44 AM (No. 1534144)
Comment from poster sunrei at CTH:
Vivek’s long-time “stage name” is actually (for real ) –Da Vek.
According to Politico in a recent July 26 article, Vivek had a successful rapper career while at Harvard and continues to perform.
“The Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper . . .described Ramaswamy as someone who could go back and forth between two different personas: “The Chairman,” named for his role atop the Harvard Political Union, and his rapper alter-ego.Da Vek “only emerges when Ramaswamy is outfitted entirely in black, complete with a black Kangol hat,” the Crimson said.“
Time to put away childish things...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 8/14/2023 11:04:10 AM (No. 1534154)
If that's the worst thing he ever does, it is forgivable. Lighten up, he's 37, and trying something different.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 8/14/2023 11:04:58 AM (No. 1534155)
Good grief people, we’re always trying to get younger people to pay attention to conservative ideas, this isn’t a bad way to do that. I have my own suspicions about Vivek but cut him some slack for trying to connect with a different age group.
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Not ready for prime time..... and maybe never will be.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/14/2023 11:17:42 AM (No. 1534161)
So he gets young voters who think he’s cool … and loses those who beliee he’s too lightweight o lead our ountry?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/14/2023 11:19:15 AM (No. 1534163)
Do those who say “lighten up” also think he’s cool to “consider pardoning the Bidens”…?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 8/14/2023 11:42:30 AM (No. 1534185)
When I read over the weekend that Vivek Ramaswamy would pardon Hunter Biden or the Bidens, I cringed. The message that certain people can skate and the deplorables have to do the time does not sit well with me.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/14/2023 11:44:58 AM (No. 1534186)
This tops "I have a Scream".
He needs to be careful eating corndogs with photographers around.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kono 8/14/2023 11:52:36 AM (No. 1534195)
"Consider" isn't a synonym for "certainly". And I still remember that prosecuting Hillary for her high crimes was a prominent plank in Trump's campaign. I wouldn't implicitly trust a promise to go after Quid Pro Joe after that; although Vivek's bits of political pandering doesn't endear me more to him. Just 'bleah' in general.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kono 8/14/2023 11:53:51 AM (No. 1534196)
(sorry, meant "don't endear" there...)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Msquared112 8/14/2023 11:54:04 AM (No. 1534197)
He had better be careful and more measured. Young people may be attracted to rap but they don't vote in numbers as great as older people who are not enamored by rap. In fact, most of us hate it. It's dissonant, crude, and often profane, requiring no real talent. Remember when people who were musicians or singers had to actually learn how to do same? Not everyone is good. Many are just shock-jocks, including such women as "Lizzo", a corpulent, crude, coarse "entertainer."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/14/2023 12:24:17 PM (No. 1534217)
How Vivek made his billions. This makes me muh more uncomfortable than his penchant for rapping:
https://www.nanalyze.com/2017/08/roivant-axovant-myovant/
https://youtu.be/59qQfV2_9w4
(The roi in roivant stands for “return on investment”.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 8/14/2023 1:40:25 PM (No. 1534291)
Is Vivek trying to top Obama in being cool? I hope Trump doesn’t want him as his Vice President. Oh, I forgot, Vivek said he would consider giving Trump a job in his administration.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/14/2023 2:00:13 PM (No. 1534308)
#13, maybe he’s trying to top Clinton playing his saxophone. That made the soccer moms swoon.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 8/14/2023 2:05:25 PM (No. 1534315)
Maybe Ramaswamy is getting cold feet and is realizing he just might become a VP candidate if his campaign keeps rolling along. I guess he felt he had to torpedo his campaign with the pardoning of Hunter comment, now this before he was considered a viable candidate.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
AltaD 8/14/2023 2:28:35 PM (No. 1534325)
If the headline isn't an exaggeration and people were actually uncomfortable, I'd say they need to lighten up. And get out more!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/14/2023 3:45:20 PM (No. 1534354)
Conservative Treehouse is the place to be if one wants to read a story critical of any of Trump's opponents. Rather than doing a rap, Ramaswamy would be better off explaining how current economic policy is destroying the country. or he could explain how the debt and out of control spending is destroying the country. He could explain how preferential treatment is dividing and destroying the country. He could talk about how defunding the police is destroying the country. There are all kinds of topics to discuss. Instead he raps.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PostAway 8/14/2023 8:59:31 PM (No. 1534525)
Well, there goes my vote. The kids can have him. As an article posted earlier today on Lcom said, we have enough ugliness in our culture. Next thing, Ramaswamy will sport face and neck tattoos, sleeves, a nose ring and a grill. We need serious people not childish squishes.
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Cringeworthy understates. And his statement that he would consider pardoning the Bidens? Off the rails...