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Vivek Ramaswamy, the youthful entrepreneur who briefly threatened to disrupt the Republican primaries, has suspended his campaign for president, his team said on Monday after disappointing results in the Iowa caucuses.

“As of this moment we are going to suspend this presidential campaign”, Ramaswamy said. “There’s no path for me to be the next president absent things that we don’t want to see happen in this country.”

Ramaswamy’s withdrawal from the race comes after the 38-year-old failed to build on a strong start to his campaign in a state where he spent significant money and time hoping to gain traction.

Virtually unknown before he announced his run for president, Ramaswamy rose to third place in national polls over the summer, amid a slew of appearances on cable news.

Potential VP.

Kameleer 'arris is an Indian, why not a Trump VP?
Nikki Haley is Indian. The Google chief - or is it Apple?- is Indian. Karnal, too. Mohemmadan Indian but still. They are everywhere.

Get it Indi'ya.

Frank wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:08pm:

Potential VP.

Oh man, I needed that laugh.

;D

Frank wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:08pm:

If you think that Donald Trump - the narcissistic rapist who steals money from kids' cancer charities - would choose a loud-mouthed, intelligent, young black person to be his VP, you obviously haven't been paying attention.

Oh man, that was the best laugh I've had in years.

Having said that, I have no idea who he will actually choose.

It will be someone white, boring, stupid, and always ready to suck Donald's tiny orange cock.

I am unsure why he even ran?

He was running as a Trump candidate. Why vote for him when the real deal is on the ballot?

None of the candidates will be Trump's VP. He doesn't want an alternative president as his VP (even though that is what they are).

People like Ben Carson are a possibility though.

MattE wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:39pm:

I am unsure why he even ran?

He was running as a Trump candidate. Why vote for him when the real deal is on the ballot?

He's an attention whore.

He just did it for the publicity.

It's backfired, though - absolutely everyone hates him.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:18pm:

Frank wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:08pm:

That sounds like your application for the job, turd.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:45pm:

He's gone - he never had a chance against Trump.

Nobody has a chance against Trump the rapist.

But aquascoot still swears that Meatball Ron in High-Heels will win ;D

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:18pm:

It will be someone white, boring, stupid, and always ready to suck Donald's tiny orange cock.

That sounds like your application for the job, turd.

[thank you, Sigmund]

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:46pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:45pm:

He's gone - he never had a chance against Trump.

Nobody has a chance against Trump the rapist.

But aquascoot still swears that Meatball Ron in High-Heels will win ;D

When are you leaving?

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1668494558

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:53pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:46pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:45pm:

He's gone - he never had a chance against Trump.

Nobody has a chance against Trump the rapist.

But aquascoot still swears that Meatball Ron in High-Heels will win ;D

When are you leaving?

Lol ;D

Buh bye, Booby [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]

You lose ;)

So does aquascoot - Meatball Ron will drop out of the race in three days' time.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:18pm:

It will be someone white, boring, stupid, and always ready to suck Donald's tiny orange cock.

That sounds like your application for the job, turd.

[thank you, Sigmund]

Frank wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:08pm:

Just so. A Paki VP. It has such a nice ring to it, no?

As you always said, old boy: colonialism ended far too soon, ya?

Well, slavery too, but let's just leave it at that.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:55pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:53pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:46pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:45pm:

He's gone - he never had a chance against Trump.

Nobody has a chance against Trump the rapist.

But aquascoot still swears that Meatball Ron in High-Heels will win ;D

When are you leaving?

Lol ;D

Buh bye, Booby [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]

You lose ;)

So does aquascoot - Meatball Ron will drop out of the race in three days' time.

Bobby's off in October, 2024. The Storm, dear. Bobby promised.

And as we all know, their word is gold. Aquascoot, Bobby, Frank, the lot.

So sincere, no?

Karnal wrote on Jan 17^th, 2024 at 12:23am:

Frank wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:08pm:

Just so. A Paki VP. It has such a nice ring to it, no?

As you always said, old boy: colonialism ended far too soon, ya?

Well, slavery too, but let's just leave it at that.

And pappadums to die for, no?
You?

Karnal wrote on Jan 17^th, 2024 at 1:20am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:55pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:53pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:46pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:45pm:

He's gone - he never had a chance against Trump.

Nobody has a chance against Trump the rapist.

But aquascoot still swears that Meatball Ron in High-Heels will win ;D

When are you leaving?

Lol ;D

Buh bye, Booby [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]

You lose ;)

So does aquascoot - Meatball Ron will drop out of the race in three days' time.

Bobby's off in October, 2024. The Storm, dear. Bobby promised.

And as we all know, their word is gold. Aquascoot, Bobby, Frank, the lot.

So sincere, no?

I never said I'd go but Greggy promised he would:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 17^th, 2024 at 10:11am:

Karnal wrote on Jan 17^th, 2024 at 1:20am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:55pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:53pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:46pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:45pm:

He's gone - he never had a chance against Trump.

Nobody has a chance against Trump the rapist.

But aquascoot still swears that Meatball Ron in High-Heels will win ;D

When are you leaving?

Lol ;D

Buh bye, Booby [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]

You lose ;)

So does aquascoot - Meatball Ron will drop out of the race in three days' time.

Bobby's off in October, 2024. The Storm, dear. Bobby promised.

And as we all know, their word is gold. Aquascoot, Bobby, Frank, the lot.

So sincere, no?

I never said I'd go but Greggy promised he would:

Greggery can promise what he likes, Bobby. Do you stand by your claims of The Storm?

If you've changed your mind, you just have to say, but I'm afraid we're going to demand serious consequences for future lies.

Frank wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:08pm:

They are indeed everywhere, including our ancestry.

~As you'll have noticed, the world's most uniquely unique peaceful transition of power turned suddenly violent over Christmas with various of America's super-brainy Indians beating up on each other: Nikki Haley, the Boeing board's token Sikh, lit up Hindu monotheist Vivek Ramaswamy's tweet like Air Canada overhead baggage in objection to Vivek's remarks on US "mediocrity". The offending Ramaswamy tweet was in response to MAGA objections to Trump's appointment of Madras techie and open-borders fanatic Sriram Krishnan as his AI advisor. This was a very 2025 brouhaha: while you knuckle-draggers down in flyover country were arguing about sub-minimum-wage Hispanics turning down the sheets at Motel Six, the Hindu billionaires have been busy taking over the country.

Is everyone in this all-American punch-up an Indian? Well, no, eventually a South African weighed in. The Boers don't like the Hindus, do they? I think I got that from Gandhi. Ah, but in this case Elon agrees with Sriram and Vivek.

A couple of very general observations:

1) The MAGA base intuits that H1B visas are a racket. Why wouldn't they be? Everything else the federal government touches is - from presidential pardons to West Point to Jan 6 justice. America is the third largest nation on earth - a third-of-a-billion people, officially (rather more in actual reality). Why does it need to hire entry-level workers from the first and second largest nations? Yes, yes, too many Americans graduate in non-binary studies rather than any serious academic discipline but simply because you've bollocksed up your entire education system is no reason to (as my former National Review colleague John Derbyshire puts it) "import an overclass".

The MAGA objections to mass immigration (ie, not just illegal immigration) are primarily cultural. They didn't like it eight years ago when Trump would add to his wall-building promises the line about "and that wall will have a big beautiful door", and he should have got that by now. Besides, to address the counter-argument more seriously than it merits, a nation of a third-of-a-billion that "needs" to import entry-level accountants is so structurally dysfunctional that no amount of immigration can save it. How about entry-level lawyers? Do we need more of those?

As an aside to that, for all you Constitution fetishists, I'm increasingly sceptical that a Constitution designed for an homogeneous population of two-and-a-half million people can be applied to a third-of-a-billion with a cratering fertility rate of 1.6. The only two more populous nations - China and India - are both more or less conventional ethnostates. Which is a great advantage. America is the only large-scale polity founded on a proposition - that, simply by setting foot on US soil, one becomes American. Immigration on the present transformative scale will nullify the Constitution. So the Dance of the Constitution Fetishists will get even sadder.

The Constitution is increasingly for judges rather than citizens. May be time to import more Supreme Court justices.

To most Americans, Elon was largely unknown until he started weighing in on and then buying social media; Vivek was entirely unknown until he ran for president; Sriram is still unknown. But they are far above not just the schlubs who lost their jobs to cheaper H1B types but also to the more famous political class whose poll numbers in Iowa so obsess the hamster-wheel media but which are increasingly irrelevant to anything that matters. Among Sriram Krishnan's minor claims to "fame" is that he's the guy who introduced Boris Johnson (remember him?) to Elon Musk - and you can bet that was after desperate wheedling and pleading from the Shagger, not because Elon had any desire for dating tips.

This is not a healthy development in world affairs.
https://www.steynonline.com/14886/indian-wars

Frank wrote on Jan 17^th, 2024 at 9:21am:

Karnal wrote on Jan 17^th, 2024 at 12:23am:

Frank wrote on Jan 16^th, 2024 at 8:08pm:

Just so. A Paki VP. It has such a nice ring to it, no?

As you always said, old boy: colonialism ended far too soon, ya?

Well, slavery too, but let's just leave it at that.

And pappadums to die for, no?
You?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnKMehoLaF8

Frank wrote on Dec 31^st, 2024 at 3:23pm:

Great replacement, innit.

Birdy num num, no?

Not satire.

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