Joe Ferguson forever

Anglican is pretty close as well.

You seem to deny a fairly rigid class structure in the US. It's a huge part of populism, resentment and anger. It's what the Richmond song is about. Pretending it doesn't exist doesn't help improve things. discussing the system in the context of the election is relevant and important.

Vivek is elite. No doubt about it. How he'd do as president is a major question (worry). The part about the Soros fellowship is hilarious. From Wiki: Ramaswamy attended public schools through the eighth grade.[3][19] He then attended Cincinnati's St. Xavier High School, a Catholic school affiliated with the Jesuit order,[3][20] graduating in 2003.[21] He was class valedictorian and a nationally ranked junior tennis player.[3] In 2007, Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts, summa ***** laude, in biology, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[22] At Harvard, he gained a reputation as a brash and confident libertarian.[23] He was a member of the Harvard Political Union,[1] becoming its president.[3] He told the Harvard Crimson that he considered himself a contrarian who loved to debate.[1] While in college, he performed Eminem covers and libertarian-themed rap music under the stage name and alter ego Da Vek,[3][24] and was an intern for the hedge fundAmaranth Advisors and the investment bank Goldman Sachs.[3] He wrote his senior thesis on the ethical questions raised by creating human-animal chimeras and earned a Bowdoin Prize.[22] In a 2023 interview, he also said that he was a member of the Jewish intellectual society Shabtai at Yale.[25] In 2011, Ramaswamy was awarded a post-graduate fellowship by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.[26] In 2013, he earned a J.D.from Yale Law School.[22] At that time, Ramaswamy was already wealthy from his involvement in the finance, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries; he said in 2023 that he had a net worth of around $15 million before graduating from law school.[23] Since everyone has that opportunity, why not do the civics test?

One of his parents was a geriatric psychiatric doctor and the other a lawyer, I think. They were/are elite in most conversations. my Indian friends pregnant girl friend (now wife) is white, if that matters......He was Sikh. Smaller sized but I wouldn't advise getting him angry

Halellujah! well, of course. "Us" being MAGA...

He just learned what rabid meant and wanted to use it.

See above. His heritage has nothing to do with my opinion of him. I think he's a player and says whatever will help him win without the least bit of embarrassment. My scientist friends are not players. Just smart and hardworking. Some levity: I drove an Indian grad student (His brother who worked at Roswell picked them up later), my then girlfriend and his girlfriend to Lewiston to meet my parents. His GF was about 8 months pregnant. when we walked in the door, my stepmother said "and which one is Greta".

Don't fit that one either. Several Asian Indian grad student friends attended our wedding. Still friends. I'm just pointing out the strange way today's R's think. They want a voice and a leader who "listens" to them and then quickly champion a guy who clearly won't/hasn't. He was hedge fund manager, which is fine by me but isn't that the devil to many MAGAs? The "investor class".

"a person having a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries" My wife has a European passport. We're thinking of moving to Portugal if trump somehow wins. So, No.

It always makes me chuckle. When people say "we're going to the beach" it's understood they mean myrtle. There are several lovely, much less commercial and developed beaches nearby. But there's nothing better than t-shirt shops, crowded sand and deep fried, battered seafood. To each his own. If that sounds pompous, so be it. Many people think it but don't say it aloud. Neither do I except on this board.

not around here. Myrtle beach is the only vacation spot many people ever go to.

Yes, but I'm not a MAGA...here are some of the questions https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions-and-answers/100q.pdf Just like anything else, there are good and bad elites. He's a bad one. He's acting a part.

He suggested the test for citizenship that he and his parents had to pass. Sounds good to me.

Yes. But now the shoe is on the other foot. It would hurt the current R party much more than the current D, imo. not gonna happen tho.

I loved his civics test requirement to vote tho. Maybe knowing what a brahmin is should also be a requirement... What would FLW say?

Thanks Frank. I wasn't aware of this. He's a real sweetheart....Shkreli's quotes here are golden. Sure Vivek, is out to help the little guy by helping to illegally raise drug prices to ridiculous levels https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/vivek-ramaswamy-martin-shkreli-pharma-00098338 “What was Martin Shkreli really guilty of?” Ramaswamy wrote. “Why did the DOJ go after him so hard, when it lets others quietly get away with much worse? … [W]hom did Shkreli hurt? The people he was convicted for defrauding all ended up richer. The people who used Daraprim didn’t pay more for it; the cost was split up across the whole health insurance system.”

Honor is not an important attribute to most MAGAs

MAGA- the strange paradox. Or more likely, most of them are just stupid. btw, as he rises in the polls, there will be much closer scrutiny of his past. We'll see what shakes out.

All of this is true. My point is that the anti elite cons seem to ignore this fact. And they want their voices heard. Brahmins don't listen to Indian leather workers. He's one generation away from the caste system. Old habits die hard. But he is like fingernails on a blackboard.

I think the rubes value the entertainment value of this clown.

he's brahmin. by definition he's elite.

xRamaswamy was born on August 9, 1985, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Hindu Tamil Brahmin immigrant parents.[3][7][8][9][10] He was raised in Ohio.[5] His family is from Kerala.[3][11][12] His father, V. Ganapathy Ramaswamy, a graduate of the National Institute of Technology Calicut, worked as an engineer and patent attorney for General Electric, while his mother, Geetha Ramaswamy, a graduate of the Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.[3][13] His parents immigrated from Palakkad district in Kerala,[14][15] where the family had an ancestral home in a traditional agraharam in the town of Vadakkencher

for standing up to a corrupt bully and his murderous henchmen. legal is relative and subjective among MAGAs

meanwhile in an alternate reality universe https://apnews.com/article/trump-skips-gop-presidential-debate-ae9bcfd8c3d492277cc3e7f77df9466d There was love in that crowd. There was love and unity,” Trump said of the supporters he addressed on the morning of Jan. 6, before they marched to the Capitol. “I have never seen such spirit and such passion and such love. And I’ve also never seen, simultaneously, and from the same people, such hatred of what they’ve done to our country.”

yes, they want a candidate from a caste system culture...look at the Fox site. they are def in his camp and against Haley and Christie