• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    republicans hated obama. why does Ramaswamy think any of those racist clowns would vote for him? Why is he even running for a party that despises him because he isn’t white?

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      Bobby Jindal learned this lesson too. Nikki Haley as well. They’re token minorities the GOP tries to trot out when things are getting too white.

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      He, like many other minorities, especially Asians unfortunately, think that of they just act a little more white, act a little more of that racist trope of the model minority that they’ll be accepted by the racist whites.

      Also, he’s probably grifting.

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      I honestly don’t think he cares. I think it’s more about being on TV, to be on TV more, to then turn the foolishness into paid appearances and hustle a podcast.

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        You’d think after trump more people would be aware… He was grifting from the start and might of never even thought he had a shot. The campaign donations are basically a slush fund they have access to for anything they can make a half ass excuse to use it for. Never pay for another flight, meal or hotel room in your life after one relevant primary state showing.

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      Money. No one will vote for him, but the party as a whole loves when minorities join them, and they’ll throw cash at them to be to say, “See? We aren’t all white so we can’t be racist.”

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      I’m assuming he’s paid to be a candidate. No he will never win the primary but he’s up there. Also I think they might be able to vote for a black guy, as long as he’s able to go up there and say “there’s no such thing as racism”. I mean they did platform ben carson,