Here's what Vivek Ramaswamy said to Eminem's CEASE AND DESIST order
Political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy dropped an impromptu performance of Eminem’s 2002 hit “Lose Yourself” at a campaign stop during the Iowa State Fair — and Eminem is not happy about it.
The rapper has sent a cease and desist order to Ramaswamy’s lawyer, demanding that Ramaswamy stop using his music on the campaign trail.
Ramaswamy is taking the issue with a light heart.
“I just want the real Slim Shady to stand up,” Ramaswamy jokes to Jason Whitlock, “because I can’t believe that he just said what I think he did.”
“He was the insurgent man. He was the guy who stood up to the establishment,” he adds, noting that Eminem's lyrics reflected views that don’t represent how the rapper acts now.
“This irreverent guy, who I looked up to growing up, has now become part of, sort of the new woke establishment,” Vivek says. “But that’s all right. I still have high hopes that he’s going to grow out of it and become the real Slim Shady again.”
While Eminem wasn’t a fan of the presidential hopeful rapping his song on the campaign trail, Whitlock actually was.
“There were people at the time, ‘This is unpresidential,’ and I was like, 'Nah, man, we’re well past that.' I just want Vivek to be authentic, and as a guy in his mid-30s, this is pretty authentic,” Whitlock tells Ramaswamy.
Ramaswamy believes Eminem’s problem with his performance goes deeper than just his politics.
“There’s this culture of fear across the country,” Ramaswamy says. “There’s what people will say in private and what people will say in public. And there’s a gap.”
“The best measure of the health of American democracy,” he explains, is “the percentage of people who feel free to say what they actually think in public. Right now, we’re doing poorly.”
This is why Vivek used to look up to Eminem.
“I loved heterodox figures like Eminem,” he says. “They stand up to the establishment. But at a certain point, you become a part of the establishment.”
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Vivek Ramaswamy: Can a Non-Christian champion Christian values?
Vivek Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur who has recently risen to the world stage as a candidate in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries.
While he’s not a Christian, he seems to share a lot of the same values — and Allie Beth Stuckey is curious to know more.
“You are not a Christian, and yet you share a lot of the same principles that we do,” Stuckey says to Ramaswamy. “Where does that come from?”
“Where equality comes from, for that matter, it didn’t start in some piece of paper — it starts because we’re equal in the eyes of God. We’re equal in the eyes of each other because of that,” Ramaswamy says.
While Ramaswamy did attend a Catholic high school, he says his values really were strengthened at home.
“The real answer is the family I was raised in raised me in a tradition that, it so happens, shares those same values. Including overlapping with the same Christian values that this nation is founded on.”
Ramaswamy says these values are “duty, sacrifice, truth, being grounded in the love of the family,” and “a belief that we are equal.”
He admits that while he isn’t qualified to be a pastor, he does feel his value system qualifies him to lead the country as commander in chief.
“I’m also in a position as a young person, as a Millennial, as a first-generation American, and yes, as somebody who’s Hindu, not Christian, to stand staunchly for religious liberty in this country. To stand staunchly and unapologetically for the values that this country was founded on,” he adds.
Ramaswamy is also “unapologetically pro-life.”
“I believe that life begins at conception and that unborn life is life.”
“We all share the same pro-life instincts, nearly all of us do; we’ve just turned it into this artificial men’s versus women’s rights issue, when in fact, it is a human rights issue,” he adds.
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Vivek Ramaswamy joins Lauren Chen and ACTUALLY answers pressing questions
Lauren Chen invites Vivek Ramaswamy to a digital conference during which viewers can ask the 2024 presidential candidate honest questions.
Chen opens the floor with an inquiry of her own: “Why now? Trump has the overwhelming support of the Republican Party, so why not wait until 2028?”
“I don’t think we have a long time to work with ... We’re working within a very short window to lead our way out of a national identity crisis,” Ramaswamy responds.
He believes that the “wokeness, gender ideology, climatism, [and] COVIDism ... are symptoms of a deeper hunger for purpose and meaning.”
And while he respects Donald Trump tremendously, calling him “an excellent president,” the truth remains that “there is about 30% of this country that becomes truly psychiatrically ill when he is in the White House,” he tells Chen.
He goes on to paint a picture of his vision of uniting America, which will involve dismissing “our unconstitutional administrative state,” including the Department of Education, “[declaring] independence from China,” and “[using] our military to secure the southern border.”
The next question comes from an audience member wanting to know why Ramaswamy, at the start of the pandemic, supported vaccine mandates.
His response is admirably humble: “Early on in the pandemic ... based on the data that was reported to the public ... I did get two shots myself and believed that that was a good choice for people to make. I no longer believe that.”
“I can tell you’re not a politician,” Lauren says, because “you actually answered that question.”
But that’s not the only honest answer Vivek gives. He addresses many other questions on topics such as the Russia-Ukraine war, child trafficking, and the border crisis.
To hear their full conversation, watch the clip below.
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Vivek Ramaswamy SLAMS Kamala Harris, labeling her ANTI-AMERICAN
There are a lot of adjectives that might be used to describe Vice President Kamala Harris, including incompetent, incessantly verbose, and, according to Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, “anti-American.”
“I don’t think the dividing line in our country is between Republicans and Democrats,” he tells Tucker Carlson.
“I think it’s between those of us who are pro-American, who believe in the ideals of this country ... and those of us who” can only be described as “anti-American,” he continues.
“The vice president's a great embodiment of this.”
Although Vivek quickly moves his speech in a more constructive direction, choosing not to dwell on the VP’s extensive list of shortcomings, it’s clear what he thinks about her.
And who can blame him?
Between reducing America’s origins to slavery and colonization to essentially facilitating human and drug trafficking via loose border policies (plus a whole lot more), Vivek doesn’t need to explain why he thinks Kamala Harris is anti-American.
She’s proved it all by herself.
Watch the full clip below.
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