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Seeker of Clarity |
Vivek Ramaswamy brings it all into focus. Mike Rowe's podcast -- Episode 308. Can You Handle the Truth with Vivek Ramaswamy. You may have to navigate around a bit, but it's available to listen at this site, and anywhere else you might prefer to get your podcasts. It's a longer story, and a little more complicated of course. But the gist is, Wall Street post 2008, and big investment firms like Blackrock and Vanguard have mandated the ESG nonsense and are making their investments based on those scores in a way which FORCES companies to do some spectacularly crazy shit. Friends, I promise you, this is worth the listen. I knew there was a gravitational energy at work. I honestly thought it had to be the tech. But this, FINALLY, makes complete sense. Doesn't make it any better. But I feel better being less rudderless in my understanding of it all.  | ||
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Not going to take the time to listen, but I am curious about whether big money names attached to Blackrock, Vanguard, et. al. are called out as the impetus behind their "going woke." Money talks, you know. | |||
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| So let it be written, so let it be done...  |
Thanks! I like Mike Rowe a lot and will give episode 308 a listen... 'veritas non verba magistri' | |||
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| Seeker of Clarity |
That's the interesting thing about the discussion. It didn't seem quite as coordinated as that. It was more like, after the bailouts, special interests were (rightly) mad at Wall Street, and they got their pound of flesh through the reformation. my simplistic interpretation/words. A portion of the podcast is about Vivek, a successful CEO who quit his job so that he could speak freely without damaging his company and stockholders. He's an interesting guy, with all of the right ideas in my judgement. But again, it was when he explained the significant foundational cross-wiring that has occurred within the financial sector, that made everything so clear for me. Maybe sometime you can find the time. | |||
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In all honesty, I like all that I’ve been hearing from and about Vivek. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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Ramaswamy did an hour-long interview on Tucker Carlson Today which is on Fox Nation about a year or two ago. He's not what you would expect from someone with degrees from both Harvard and Yale law. If you have access to Fox Nation, it's definitely worth watching. | |||
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They sure are not giving Vivek any coverage. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
Thanks R0gue. It's amazing how you've never heard of someone and then you run across them several times. I had never heard of Vivek Ramaswamy before last Tuesday when I saw a short talk on woke capitalism he gave at Hillsdale College (link: https://youtu.be/a5gwJ382dIw). I was blown away by him. That night, I was scrolling YouTube and come across an interview he gave to Jordan Peterson (link: https://youtu.be/JX9B5tnj-xI). Then Wednesday, I see an oped by him in the Wall Street Journal, "The President Can Pardon Trump". (no link because it's behind a paywall). And today you post this. He's everywhere!  I would really like to see Vivek become a force in America._____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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will check it out | |||
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Don't overlook the fact the the left has wormed its way into critical institutions and industries for over a century, patiently waiting for the right time. I think they expected Hillary 2016 to be that time, when it didn't happen the left lost all that patience. They opened the floodgates and yeah, it has seemed come down on us all at once. A lot of people saw what was happening, not enough cared to listen. The left's long march through American history. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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I thought Obama's presidency was a big turning point. The pests started creeping out of the woodwork en masse, especially from the un-elected executive branch. | |||
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The Incubus. | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
The rate of moral decay has always been on an exponential rate. A man=man and a woman=woman has been in effect for all of mankind until just recently. When "always what they wanted is JUST homosexual marriage" was the goal even though homosexuality has existed though out the history of mankind ~ it was always viewed as abnormal. Compassion however, has always existed with conservatives and relented under pressure and the fact that conservatives view freedom of adults to do as they wish - right/wron moral/immoral. THEN and an exponential rate the relentless left always utilizing "get an inch, take a mile" promoted the man ≠ man and woman ≠ woman. Hence the trans mess of today. Just connect the dots. One extreme to another.  | |||
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Thanks for posting. This also came out today. interesting guy. | |||
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| Team Apathy |
I first heard of him a couple weeks ago when he announced his run and appeared on the Michael Knowles show shortly thereafter. I liked what he had to say, a lot. Then he appeared on Mike Rowe's podcast, which I listen to, and I liked him even more. I haven't listened to the Tucker or Tim Poole ones yet, but I will. Poole is on my regular rotation. That being said, realistically I don't think he has a chance.... my thought is he is running for a VP slot. | |||
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| No ethanol! |
Agree completely. Add that it was only possible with prior infiltration of a complicit media. O'bummer promoted leftists as well as removing critical thinkers and conservatives. ------------------ The plural of anecdote is not data. -Frank Kotsonis | |||
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Not to mention how he gutted military leadership. | |||
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| Sigforum K9 handler |
We can’t simply blame this on Obama, or infiltrators. It’s us. We have become a nation of hypocrites. And that fact has been exploited by those who want to destroy us. Until we figure out that it isn’t possible to have things both ways, to say stuff like “I support the Second Amendment, but…. “(Or insert any other topic), we are done. We have convinced ourselves that we can compromise our way out of this. My favorite is “I will never trust the media ever!!!!!!” (Also that same day) “ermaghad, did you read this article? I am outraged!!!” It doesn’t matter the media source, it’s being spun and sensationalized. You know, the whole reason you said that you weren’t going to trust the media to begin with? | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
If you think you're a hypocrite, fine, but you speak for yourself. | |||
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