#NimeshPatel: Ravi Patel and I were joking about doing a fake podcast as #KashPatel and Vivek #Ramaswamy https://youtube.com/watch?v=e1n2X2mDyt8

Ramaswamy's TPUSA moment leaves believers asking, 'Why is Hinduism so hard to explain?'
#Ramaswamy #TPUSA #Hinduism #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://reddit.com/r/ABCDesis/comments/1o8n1qg/ramaswamys_tpusa_moment_leaves_believers_asking/

Kash and #Ramaswamy, conservative Indian uncs https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/kash-patel-fires-fbi-agent-trainee-displaying-gay-pride-flag-rcna235306

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

One to keep your eyes on. A tough haul, but early.

New polls in Ohio show Republicans with strong leads: Husted is up by double digits against Brown among men, older voters, and those without college degrees, while Brown leads only among those under 40, women, and independents. GOP nominee Husted, newly appointed to the Senate, faces a yearlong battle against Democrat Brown in a state trending red—bad news for Democrats hoping to retake the Senate in 2026. Meanwhile, Vivek Ramaswamy also leads Dem Amy Acton by 10 points in the governor’s race, and beats Tim Ryan by 8 in a hypothetical matchup. Will Ohio Democrats close the gap? More: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/ohio-senate-race-sherrod-brown-jon-husted-00518510?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nname=playbook&nrid=0000015c-1cd4-dd8b-a7dd-5cf6e00d0000 #Ohio #Senate2026 #polls #Husted #Brown #Ramaswamy #Acton

Troll #Ramaswamy gives the GOP cover, he’s their Tolkien brown guy

Elmo bought a biz putting out real product, yet he’s jealous of #Ramaswamy’s Ponzi multiple so he’s switching to pure-play fraud.

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

The Nazi grift in a nutshell: blame the brown guy, #Ramaswamy

#Haley, #Ramaswamy both freaked out over their Elon T•••• criminal exposure and bailed. Middle-class brown kids turned scammers not used to / not granted the total impunity of apartheidists Elon T••••

#Ramaswamy’s conundrum is he wants to be the face man in a white-power heist ring. Has to get richer to buy his own orangeface

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

Good grief! #Musk already got #Ramaswamy booted from #DOGE https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/doge-musk-helped-eject-ramaswamy-00199487

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