Vivek Ramaswamy says America is already in a cold civil war — do you agree?



According to Vivek Ramaswamy — who just might get the opportunity to serve as Trump’s running mate — America is in a cold civil war.

“We are in a kind of cold war in this country, and I don't use that word lightly,” he tells Dave Rubin.

He gives two reasons to support this claim.

First, “the basic worldviews on either side are, at this point, irreconcilable. Either you believe in merit or you believe in group quotas. Either you believe in free speech ... or you believe in censorship. Either you believe that nations have borders or you don’t. Either you believe in American exceptionalism ... or you don’t,” he explained, adding that we “can’t have both of those things at the same time.”

The second reason is that the left is “weaponizing the basic rules of the road — the financial system, the legal system, the judicial system, the conduct of the political system, even the electoral system,” meaning the party is “using force rather than free speech and open debate to settle a question.”

While the United States is not technically in a civil war, the whisperings of specific red states going their own way are starting to get louder.

“Let's say Texas just doing what it has to do to protect the border and Florida helping as it could ... I’d suspect you’d be okay with it,” granted that’s “baked into the code of the Constitution?” asks Dave.

“It’s not the way I want to see this country go,” Vivek responds.

“When I say we're in the middle of a war in this country, I'm using it (thankfully) still figuratively.” However, “we have to change course in order to be one nation again. E pluribus unum — from many, one — I think that possibility still exists in this country, but I don't think it's going to exist for much longer.”

Do you agree? Is America's figurative civil war on the brink of turning into an actual civil war? Let us know in the comments below.


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Watch Vivek the Destroyer humiliate NBC news airhead, sending her into a full meltdown



The left is triggered by Vivek Ramaswamy. Liberals just can’t understand how he, especially as a person of color, could possibly refuse to denounce white supremacy – the modern version of white supremacy, that is.

Pat Gray plays a recent clip showing Ramaswamy “being pushed into a corner on race issues again,” but thankfully the candidate handled the ambush with expert articulacy.

“When you were talking to reporters last night, you called white supremacy a myth. When someone asked you about Dylann Roof, you said you didn't know who that is. Have you looked up what happened in 2015?” asked Dasha Burns, citing the mass murderer who shot and killed nine African-Americans on June 17, 2015, in South Carolina.

“Yeah,” Ramaswamy answered, confirming he knew about Roof’s crimes. “Invidious racial discrimination is wrong no matter how it happens.”

However, “it's incumbent for us to define what white supremacy is,” especially “what the popular understanding of these terms [has] come to mean,” he continued. “Do you believe punctuality is a vestige of white supremacy … or the written word … or the nuclear family? These aren't my words; these are the words of intellectual proponents from Ibram Kendi to Ayanna Pressley to BLM that have said these are vestiges of white supremacy.”

That’s all it took for Burns to lose her cool.

“This is what you do, though. You choose straw men,” she fired back, accusing him of cherry-picking his arguments.

But Ramaswamy just hit her with more facts.

“If you really care about actual crime against black Americans, let's get to the root causes of it,” he said, citing “black-on-black crime” as the main source of the problem.

“The Anti-Defamation League tracked a 38% increase in white supremacist propaganda last year,” Burns spat back.

“The ADL isn’t a particularly credible source,” Ramaswamy said, before shooting down Burns’ next set of statistics from the FBI.

“What they classify as a hate crime is itself a political judgment. I think that when you actually care about protecting life, if you want to say black lives matter, let's look at where black lives are actually being lost – it's in the cities at the heart of other black Americans and criminals.”

That only made Burns even more angry, but Ramaswamy carried on with his usual eloquence.

“My whole point is, racism has been a major problem for most of our national history, but we’re getting close to the promised land that Martin Luther King envisioned. We’re as darned close to it as we ever have been,” but now “we’re creating new waves of racism, Dasha, that we otherwise would have avoided right when we're closest to having achieved what even the proponents of the civil rights movement would have dreamed of.”

“Obviously she’s got an agenda,” sighs Pat. “She is all pissed off that she can’t get him to cower before the racial gods that are saying ‘everything is so bad in America, and white supremacy is the biggest issue we face.”’


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Vivek Ramaswamy addresses BIGGEST CONTROVERSIES about his past



There’s no question that 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been reflecting the voice of disgruntled Americans who no longer trust that the government is operating in their best interest.

However, there have been several controversies surrounding his campaign — and Glenn Beck wants answers.

Luckily, Vivek doesn’t shy away from controversy and sat down with Glenn to address the rumors.

“A Wikipedia editor alleges that you paid to have your Wikipedia page edited to remove you receiving the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and your role in Ohio’s COVID-19 response team,” Glenn starts. “Is that true, and if it is, why?”

Vivek explains that before he ran for president, “there were a lot of falsehoods” on his Wikipedia page.

These falsehoods included everything from details about his birth to his wife’s name.

“So, before I ran, yes, I wanted to make sure that the public was aware of exactly what the right facts were,” he explains.

As for the COVID-19 response team in Ohio, Vivek claims that "there wasn’t actually ever a formally titled body.”

“There was a lieutenant governor in Ohio, who remains a friend of mine to this day, who asked me if he could call me from time to time to get basic advice through the process,” he says. “I helped him with the reopening plan. That was a short version of the help that I provided him. So I’m actually proud of that.”

Vivek also explains that he was “pro-reopening” and that he was always “dead set against” lockdowns and mandates.

As for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, he explains that he received that scholarship at the age of 24 but that, much to his chagrin, it was listed at the top of his accomplishments on Wikipedia until recently.

“At the age of 37, having achieved a lot of things,” Vivek explains that he didn’t want the first thing on his Wikipedia page to be a “random scholarship” he got at the age of 24. “That’s manipulation,” he says.

“One of the things I’ve learned in this process, Glenn, is there's a lot of left-wing media manipulation, but there’s media manipulation 360 degrees, driven by, not just fake-news media, but a lot of fake, establishment candidates too, who are threatened by my rise.”


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Vivek Responds to Eminem's CEASE AND DESIST Order

Vivek Responds to Eminem's CEASE AND DESIST Order

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 LOSES IT when CNN host ignorantly puts words in his mouth



Journalism used to be about reporting truth but has since become nothing more than leftist propaganda and activism.

That is certainly the case with CNN, which Dave Rubin calls “a far-left activist organization pretending to be a journalistic outfit.”

Recently, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy met with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss some comments he allegedly made about 9/11.

Little did Kaitlan know her gotcha trap was about to blow up in her face.

She begins by reading a quote from an interview Ramaswamy did with the Atlantic: “I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on planes that hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. It probably is zero for all I know, right? I have no reason to think it was anything other than zero, but if we’re doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 9/11, we have a 9/11 commission, absolutely that should be an answer the public knows the answer to,” Ramaswamy allegedly stated.

“Explain to me what you meant there,” Kaitlan says.

“It’s funny, I mean, the Atlantic is playing the same game as CNN,” he responds, visibly frustrated. “What I said is, on January 6 I do believe that there were many federal agents in the field, and we deserve to know who they are; on 9/11 what I've said is that the government lied,” specifically about “Saudi Arabia's involvement.”

“Are you telling me that your quote is wrong here?” she presses.

“I am telling you the quote is wrong, actually,” says Ramaswamy, adding that their conversation is “just lifting the curtain on how media works.”

Apparently he had asked the reporter who conducted the interview to send him the recording, but “he refused to do it,” likely because he intended to misquote him.

“The truth is, there are lies the government has told about 9/11, but it’s not the ones that somebody put in my mouth,” he tells Kaitlan.

But that’s just the beginning. Their conversation gets even more heated when Kaitlan broaches the subject of Ramaswamy’s comments regarding putting guns in Taiwanese households.

Watch the clip below.


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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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