Called out Nikki Haley's daughter for using TikTok. She then called you scum. Why did you go after her family and her clothing? No woman is going to like that. Vivek Ramaswami is getting some real heat today after he did in fact target [00:00:16] Nikki Haley's family. Now, this was during last night's GOP primary debate, and the topic at hand was whether or not TikTok should be banned. And so let's get into the next video. I'll give you more afterward. Ramaswami, we've talked about this. You campaign on TikTok. [00:00:35] How do you get TikTok banned if you use it? Well, I want to laugh at why Nikki Haley didn't answer your question, which is about looking at families in the I. In the last debate, she made fun of me for actually joining TikTok while her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time. So you might want to take care of your family first. [00:00:51] Leave my daughter out of your voice. Adult daughter the next generation of Americans are using. And that's actually the point. You have her supporters crapping her up. That's fine. Here's the truth. You're the easy answer is actually to say that we're just going to ban one app. [00:01:06] - We got to go further. - Look, I agree with Nikki Haley. Family should be off limits. Absolutely off limits. Now, I think the same can be said of Hunter Biden. I mean, the hyper focus on Hunter Biden when he is not in government is ridiculous. [00:01:22] Yes, there's nepotism at play when he serves on the board of a Ukrainian gas company when he has no expertise on that. But putting that aside, I just think families should be off limits. And I think she showed a great deal of restraint there. Yes, she used the word scum. [00:01:38] I don't know how I would contain myself if anyone on that stage had attacked a family member of mine. Yeah, I have a nuanced opinion on that. So I think that if there's some corruption you can show with the family members and there, then they come within limits. Like, for example, Ginni Thomas, the wife of Clarence Thomas. [00:01:55] Yes. Getting funneled money from right wing billionaires for a job she's doing at a think tank, or. Joe Manchin's daughter serving as the executive of a pharmaceutical company and engaging in an effort to prevent the release [00:02:10] of a generic version of the EpiPen. - We did coverage of that. - Yeah. So if they had evidence connecting Hunter Biden to Joe Biden, I would say that's totally within bounds right now. In this case. The daughter in question, I think is a grown up. I don't think she's, you know, a teenager or anything like that, but who cares? [00:02:28] It's not in bounds. No, that has nothing to do with corruption. It has nothing to do with policy. It has nothing to do with anything. Don't bring family members randomly into a discussion like this. That's the thing with Ramaswami. He has no bounds. And and he's constantly trying to get attention in a way that's so shameless. [00:02:46] I have less problem with the actual statement, which I don't like at all. I have a bigger problem with the way he conducts himself overall. Yeah, I. Agree. Like he's constantly like, look at me. I'm willing to say something terrible and immoral to get your attention. [00:03:02] I don't find it cute at all. I'm going to say something that some people are not going to like, but it's what Ramaswami reminds me of is there are some people I don't think it's representative of the entire millennial or Zoomer generations, but there are people [00:03:17] within that generation who, like, enter a new workplace fresh out of college. They're like the new kid on the block, and they come in basically trying to call the shots as if they're the experts in the profession when they have, like, no experience. That's what Ramaswami reminds me of. [00:03:34] I think Ramaswami might actually be a millennial. - No, he's very young. - I don't know. But look, I you know, I've said this for now, decades. I'm not impressed by the experience of the politicians. But on the other hand, when you come into a situation like this, [00:03:53] you better if you're going to claim that you know everything and that everybody else is wrong, you better have your stuff. Correct. Okay. Yeah. And he has often not had it. Correct. So in this one it's I have an extra thing to say. Okay. Go bring your family and totally wrong. [00:04:10] No justification for it in this particular case. But on top of that, what's the conversation we're having? We're really every Republican wants to ban TikTok. They're just going to literally make it illegal in America. Like if you say, hey, I got an issue with the Chinese ownership and is there [00:04:25] anything we could do to ameliorate that? Is there any way that we could fix that? Can we put pressure on them to hand it off to an American subsidiary? Whatever. Okay. Those are interesting conversations. You're just going to ban them. You all agree, by the way, this is also the party that talks about how they're in favor of freedom of speech. [00:04:42] But all of you TikTokers we found out are progressives. And you're all voting for Democrats, and you cost us the 2022 election. And and we're worried that you just cost us the elections in Virginia and Ohio and Kentucky. So we're going to ban all of you from speaking. I mean, I'm really worried about the Chinese and the blah, blah, blah. [00:05:00] What was her official excuse, again for banning all opinions against us? And if you notice, Vivek, at the end there didn't say, I don't think banning TikTok is enough. Yeah, you'd like to ban everyone who disagrees with you, I'm sure. I think in favor of freedom of speech. I think you say so. I think it's hilarious that they they're under the impression [00:05:18] that the pro-Palestinian movement in the country is due to TikTok and the Chinese Communist Party poisoning the minds of America's youth. - No, but. - Seriously, guys, look, these guys are. [00:05:34] I mean, look, if you're in the younger generation, you already know this, right? But if you're above 45, like, I am, like, these guys are full blown lunatics. Like, in the real world, the Chinese own TikTok. And hence we have an issue with the data privacy. [00:05:49] Right? But are the Chinese saying to young Americans, go on TikTok, do propaganda for us until you poison the minds of Americans in favor of Palestine? Well, okay, so one thing I will say, I don't I do not think that China [00:06:08] is pushing a pro-Palestinian message. Now, do I think China would have the ability to tweak the algorithm in order to enhance issues that lead to divides within the country? Yeah, of course they would do that. Why wouldn't they? No, no, they could. [00:06:24] First of all, there's no evidence that they. Are there is no evidence that they are. But I mean, anyone who is suspicious of them potentially doing that I think has the right suspicions. Yeah, we'll see if they I've never seen any evidence of that. So I'm not saying like that's impossible. No. Russia tried to do it back in 2016. [00:06:41] Divide us. ET cetera. And I know if you're a Maga go cry. Go, go. I'm not saying that they work with Trump. I'm saying that there was overwhelming evidence. And your beloved Mueller report, which you think proved Trump innocent, also said, [00:06:57] yeah, the Russians tried to divide us. They went on social. - Of course they. - Did. Of course they did. Of course, any adversary to the United States would use any tool to weaken the United States. That's why are we pretending like this isn't a thing? This is a force thing. This is a thing that the United States engages in. [00:07:13] - Yeah. - Come on. Look, by the way, could allies use it, too? Like Israel has never done propaganda inside the US? Israel never does anything. Come on. Israel is full of angelic. The Israeli government is full of angelic beings who have never done anything wrong [00:07:29] and should be supported no matter what. But my but my point though, is the people that are on TikTok are not secret Chinese agents, okay? They're regular Americans, and anyone who's been on TikTok knows that. And I've never seen any evidence of algorithm manipulation or manipulation [00:07:48] to favor one side over another. And and I don't know why. Like, I don't even know a policy position that affects the Chinese where like the thing I can think of is tariffs. There's there a lot of pro or anti. He terror propaganda on TikTok. If so, I haven't seen it. [00:08:04] So I think this is just an excuse to shut down younger voters speech because they're worried that the younger voters are kicking their ass. Yeah, I think that there's there's that's definitely one of the main motivating factors here, which is why the topic got brought up on that debate stage. [00:08:21] So one other thing I want to just quickly mention is, man, Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley despise each other. There was another moment on the debate stage where they went at it, and it had to do with footwear of all things. Let's get to it. The fact of the matter is, the Republican Party is not that much better. [00:08:37] You have the likes of Nikki Haley, who stepped down from her time at the UN, bankrupt or in debt is was her family. Then she becomes a military contractor. She joins the board of Boeing and otherwise and is now a multi-millionaire. So I think that that's wrong. When Republicans do it or Democrats do it, that's the choice we face. [00:08:53] Do you want a leader from a different generation who's going to put this country first, or do you want Dick Cheney in three inch heels? Yes. At first like to say there are five inch heels and I don't wear them unless you can run in them. So we got two of you on stage. The second thing that I will. [00:09:11] Say is I wear heels or not for a fashion statement there for ammunition. - So I don't know what that means. - I don't know what it means either. But I know I prepared talking points because I know you said that earlier. You said it about me and DeSantis. [00:09:26] I knew you'd bring it out in the debate again. So here's my zingers that me and my consultants came up with. Now, he was asked about that as well. By the way, when I first heard her statement about her running heels, which she doesn't run in heels. No. Okay. Anyway, but that's beside the point. [00:09:42] I didn't hear what Ramaswami had said to her, which spurred that reaction. I was distracted, but yeah, I mean, look, I think what Ramaswami said there could actually potentially hurt him because he didn't make a distinction. Remember, he basically started that off by saying, like, Republicans suck. [00:10:01] And I personally know that he's referring to the candidates on the stage. He's referring to the politicians. But I'm not sure Republican voters are going to make that distinction. Right. So it sounds like he's just critiquing and crapping on Republicans in general. [00:10:16] - Yeah. - So that could be a problem for him too. But look, we do we're filled with nuance here because every situation is a little bit different. And and you've got to use your judgment, etcetera. On the other hand, for Ramaswami, who I as you can tell, I'm not a big I'm not a big fan of him. [00:10:32] But he pointing out that Nikki Haley is acting like Dick Cheney in in being a neocon, pushing for more and more wars. That part is 100% accurate. So he's frustrating often because he'll take a good point. Hey, aren't these guys the same exact guys we hated when, you know, Trump said, [00:10:50] oh, we don't like George W Bush and all those neocons and Dick Cheney. Well, here they are again. There's no difference between Nikki Haley and Dick Cheney. That is totally true. But then he screws it up with his stupid lines about the three inch heels and the daughters and stuff. He thinks he's being clever, but he just he's being intensely unlikable. [00:11:07] Totally talking about how his how her family was in debt. Now just shut up like it's the attacks on the family. It really rubs me the wrong way. And I'm not a fan of Nikki Haley either. So finally, Vivek Ramaswami was asked to answer for the statements [00:11:23] that he made on that debate stage while he appeared on Fox News. Let's take a look. Why did you go after her family and her clothing? No woman is going to like that. Well, I did well, I'm going to tell you, she called me four letter words in each of the last two debates. Stuart, the reality is this the Republican Party has, appropriately, I think, [00:11:41] had scrutiny of Hunter Biden for years. I mean, you know, not only the media, but even Republican politicians correctly, in the last debate, she is actually saying that I'm on. She said, I feel dumber every time I hear you speak. That's what she said for using TikTok. The criticism wasn't of Nikki Haley's daughter. [00:11:58] It was of Nikki Haley for having been completely oblivious to where the next generation of Americans is actually getting their information. So my view is that we do better by showing up. Nikki Haley wants to go the way of censorship. I want to go the way of free speech. She wants to go the way of withdrawing from talking to young people. [00:12:14] My point is, young people, even in your own family, are on that next generation platform. We need to talk to them directly. Okay. She's on the other side. Nikki is of this generational divide, and that's what I was pointing out. He loves to talk about how young he is. He's like super cutting edge. So look, in regard to Nikki Haley, she was later asked about that whole experience [00:12:33] with Ramaswami on the debate stage. And she says, let's go to graphic three. That was showing a lot of restraint. That's all I'll say. She said. It was showing a lot of restraint. Meaning calling him scum was showing restraint. And you know what? I agree with her. And then even Ron DeSantis thought that Ramaswami's comments were inappropriate. [00:12:51] He said, quote, I think the kids are out of bounds. I didn't think that was an appropriate thing to do. All right. Yeah. I'm going to give you the last word to one of our members who slightly disagrees, engineer wrote in Nikki Haley's daughter is not a minor, so why should she be controlling her TikTok use? [00:13:08] So. But that's agreeing with us saying that. Like why bring up her daughter like. Nikki Haley can't control her adult daughter anyway, right? So it's not on Nikki Haley. But they added also, she was also she was almost smiling during the exchange with Vivek. So was this all faux outrage and that part I kind of agree with. [00:13:27] Like I think that she thought, oh my God, he stepped in it. He's such an idiot. Okay, now I'm going to get to say he attacked my family and he'll wind up looking worse. I think that's largely true. - But he did step in. - He did step in it. - I agree 100%. - Hey, thanks for watching the video. [00:13:43] We really appreciate it guys, and we appreciate it if you become members because that allows us to be independent, honest, progressive, all the things that you don't get from corporate media and all of that is because of you guys. Hit the join button below and become one of us. Become a young Turk.