Jan 3, 2024
Vivek Ramaswamy SINKS Himself With Unimaginably Racist Steve King Mistake
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy makes massive mistake defending newest endorsement from notoriously racist and disgraced Republican Steve King. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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I'm proud to have
Steve King's endorsement, and
I think that he has been wrongfully
villainized by a media that not once has
quoted the alleged racist remark or
whatever it is that he made.
And I just reject a lot of this mainstream
media narrating, but for my purposes,
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he and I have found common cause in issues
that no other republican candidate's
speaking to.
>> Speaker 2: Okay, so stop for
just a second to point out how
utterly embarrassing is that?
Ramaswamy's big announcement of a new
endorsement is a disgraced former
congressman.
But he also threw out a challenge there.
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He said,
not once has the media ever quoted
the supposedly racist thing that he said.
Okay, well, I like to make history,
so let's do some quoting.
Previously, Steve King
speaking of Dreamers says,
for everyone who's a valedictorian,
there's
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another hundred out there that weighs 130
pounds and they've got calves the size
of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75
pounds of marijuana across the desert.
That's what he thinks about the Dreamers.
Sure, 1 out of 100 is a smart upstanding
person but the rest are drug mules.
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Then during the 2016 Republican National
Convention, King claimed that nonwhite
people have not contributed to
civilizations much as white.
Saying, I would ask you to
go back through history and
figure out where are these contributions
that have been made by these other
categories of people you're talking about.
Where did any other subgroup of people
contribute more to civilization?
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He also, by the way,
was a huge fan of Geert Wilders,
the Dutch politician who's largely
out of the news these days.
But he endorsed him in 2017 tweeting,
Wilders understands that culture and
demographics are our destiny.
We can't restore our civilization
with somebody else's babies.
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He also claimed in 2017 that white
civilization was being wiped out because
of the migrant crisis in Europe.
And he defended a Wilder's tweet, saying,
we're watching as western civilization is
shrinking in the face of the massive epic
migration that is pouring into Europe.
That's the core of that tweet.
They're importing a different culture,
a different civilization and
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that culture and civilization,
the imported one rejects the host culture.
So some fun virus,
talk about migrants there.
When discussing the terminology,
white nationalists,
he had been accused of being a white
nationalist or white supremacist.
He said, white nationalist,
white supremacist, western civilization.
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How did that language become offensive?
Why did I sit in classes teaching me
about the merits of our history and
our civilization?
Yeah, when did white
supremacists become a bad thing.
It used to be great, you could just
claim it, he said at one point.
By the way, we don't have a graphic for
this, the idea of multiculturalism,
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that every culture is equal,
that's not objectively true.
We've been fed that information for
the past 25 years, and
we're not going to become a greater
nation if we continue to do that.
Yeah, some cultures are just
better than other cultures.
But nothing racist has been quoted, right?
Okay, back in 2006 on the House floor,
he did a little science project.
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He demonstrated a model of a 12-foot
concrete border wall topped with
electrified wire that he designed.
Quote, we need to do a few other things on
top of that wall, and one of them being to
put a little bit of wire on top
here to provide a disincentive for
people to climb over the top or
put a ladder there.
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We could also electrify this wire,
we do that with livestock all the time.
Christ, this is literally him acting
out on the House floor a scene from
the Coneheads movie.
Anyway, we could throw out other stuff.
Back in 2005, he sued the secretary of
state of Lowa because they posted voting
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information in Spanish, Laotian,
Bosnian, and Vietnamese, and
he found that to be so
objectionable that he sued them.
He also, by the way,
said at one point cultural suicide by
demographic transformation must end.
In 2017 he recommended the explicitly
racist novel camp of the saints on a radio
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show, he's recommended it multiple times.
I'm just citing one of them,
he said at one point,
in agreeing with Viktor Orbán,
he said, quote,
mixing cultures will not lead to a higher
quality of life but a lower one.
He also endorsed Faith Goldy,
a mayoral candidate for
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Toronto who had recited the 14
words used by Neo-Nazism and
gave an interview to a podcast for
the Neo-Nazism website the Daily Stormer.
Neither of those was an issue.
>> Okay, John.
>> Should I not go on?
>> Speaker 3: But besides that.
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>> Speaker 2: But besides those,
nobody in media has ever
quoted the supposedly [LAUGH]
racist thing that he said.
>> Speaker 3: Okay, but the other quote.
I feel you quoted all those accurately,
but quote one of them inaccurately.
And that was the one that Vivek
was talking anyway, it's wild.
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>> Speaker 2: Ramaswamy is such a joke.
>> Speaker 3: No dude, Steve King
is a Nazi, let's put that aside.
Ramaswamy is an interesting trial balloon,
I think as is Nikki Haley,
given that they're both
South Asian American.
And given that Ramaswamy
specifically posits himself as,
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yeah, an immigrant, yeah, a brown guy.
But who's someone who will not at
all talk about structural racism or
systemic racism against specifically
black Americans and Latinos and
immigrants who come through the southern
border, come from down there,
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not by plane over there, even though so
many Latin Americans come
[LAUGH] by plane, but
we don't have to talk about them.
And the trial balloon is this, has
the MAGA base, have Republicans become so
actually racist and white nationalists
that they would never vote for
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someone like Vivek Ramaswamy?
Or are they comfortable enough
with someone like him because he
gets his fame and his accolades by
throwing communities of color and
other immigrant communities that
isn't him, his immediate family, and
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maybe the town he grew
up in under the bus.
So everyone else can be thrown
under the bus and be sacrificed.
He can buy into there's
multiculturalism is bad for us.
Except for me, except for
me and my family, and
I will be your perfect little Trojan horse
to carry out your white nationalist plans.
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That's the real question.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, look I obviously
could go on for a long time about this,
I will try not to.
I will just say, by the way,
as a white person I don't know what it
must be like if you're not white and
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you're trying to fit in to a group
that is explicitly racist.
But for other reasons,
you do want to be a part of that group.
Maybe you agree with them politically,
maybe you think that they're easier
marks for your grift, I don't know.
Whatever it is, I don't know what
that's like, managing that, but
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I know what he's doing.
He is literally the child of migrants, and
he is touting the endorsement
of a man who has repeatedly said
that migrants like his parents
coming in is how civilization ends.
Not all of them,
only the ones that matter.
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The white western civilizations
fall because they're destroyed by
importing other people's babies.
He's other people's baby,
he's the baby of other people,
migrants from another country.
He has, according to Steve King,
made America weaker by his presence.
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Both his parents and
him have weakened us and
might cause the downfall of our
great lily white civilization.
That is who he is touting right now,
it's just insane,
I'm sure that he's making a lot of money.
I'm sure that he's made the calculation
that this is worth it for audience or
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Instagram followers or whatever the hell
it is that he's doing this for.
But it is sick in multiple different ways.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah,
he wants that honorary whiteness card.
He wants to be one of
the quote unquote good ones.
But he'll still be at the end of the day,
one of the ones.
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>> Speaker 2: Yeah,
literally it is just the entire thing,
the entire grift is so sickening.
I don't even like talking about it
because I feel to talk about it,
you dirty yourself.
You sully yourself by being
involved in something that is so
obviously dishonest and dirty and gross.
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