Radical Ramaswamy Offers Bizarre Views in GOP Presidential Run

Plus: Wayne Debunks a Popular Pro-Gun Myth and in New Video Discusses How our Gun Glut Fuels Neo-Nazi Fantasies

Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is running for president. He’s a perfect example of how the GOP has become radicalized and gone off the rails.

Ramaswamy is so “out there”, that he wants to potentially invade Mexico to “annihilate” Mexican drug cartels to stop fentanyl from crossing our borders. Of course, doing so would be illegal because you can’t use the military for the purpose of civilian law enforcement.

But Ramaswamy is the latest so-called “constitutional conservative” who doesn’t follow the constitution and “law and order” Republican that only follows the law when it suits his agenda.

Then there is the problem that Mexico might fight back. Yes, the United States would defeat Mexico, but they are still capable of blasting San Antonio and Austin. Russia thought that Ukraine would be a two-week “special military operation” too. It didn’t work out that way. Military campaigns are always dangerous and unpredictable.

Mexico could also retaliate by inviting China or Russia to open military bases on our southern border. Bet Ramaswamy never thought that through, did he?

Additionally, American military might did nothing to stop the export of Colombian cocaine to the U.S. or Afghanistan’s heroin to Europe. What makes Ramaswamy’s plan more effective than past drug war failures? Do we really need military conflict on our currently peaceful continent?   

Ramaswamy said on “Day 1”, his administration would shut down the Department of Education and eradicate teacher’s unions. Maybe the goal is to destroy education, so Americans would be too ignorant to understand the idiocy of his Mexico policy?

The New York Times says that Ramaswamy is portraying himself as a new face of “intellectual conservatism.” If this is “smart” conservatism, I can only imagine what the dumb version looks like. Well, I don’t have to imagine, I could just visit Lauren Boebert’s website.  

You cannot count Ramaswamy out, because he’s very rich, and prepared to spend over $100 million on his campaign. The New York Times says that confidence is Mr. Ramaswamy’s gift. 

Let’s take this moment to remind viewers that the term “con man” is short for confidence man. The swindle seems to already be working on some Republicans. Bob Willis, a self-described “Ultra-MAGA Trump voter” in New Hampshire said:

“He seems like he knows what he’s talking about.”

Yes, he’s rich, looks voters directly in the eyes, and offers an impressively strong handshake. How could he be wrong?   

Ramaswamy believes that there is a “a God-shaped vacuum in the heart” of America, being filled by the “secular cults” of racial “wokeism,” sexual and gender fluidity, and the “climate cult”.

He tends to reimagine history to fit his right-wing political narrative. According to The Times:

[His argument] that Black Americans did not secure their civil rights until they secured their right to bear arms made little historical sense, since the civil rights movement was predicated on nonviolence. Indeed, the arming of the Black Panthers led to a deadly government crackdown.

The Times reports that Ramaswamy accepts the established science that the burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet, but his answer is to “drill, frack, burn coal” and use more fossil fuels to pay for mitigation. 

Isn’t that like accepting the science that sex causes sexually transmitted infections —but deciding that the solution is issuing free government passes to whore houses?

Ramaswamy is also against corporations speaking out on social issues like Black Lives Matter, voting rights and “E.S.G.” — environmental, social and governance investing. 

To prove his ironclad commitment to the cause, he opened an investment firm that operates like a textbook definition of a sociopath. Ramaswamy’s company deliberately invests without regard to societal impact. It celebrates profit, even if it comes at the expense of people. Joe Camel would be so proud.

Just when you think the Republican Party can’t get worse, it somehow finds a way.

Republican’s Absurd Argument: Guns Protects Us Against Government Tyranny

Right wing Republicans make the laughably absurd argument that we need to flood America with guns just in case citizens need to rise up to overthrow the government.

First, the government will always have more firepower. An AR-15’s is effective at firing at unarmed civilians in a mall, like we just saw in north Dallas. But if our government was so evil that we had to fight it, they’d be taking on rebels with fighter jets and tanks.

Sorry, to crush your hero fantasies Ramos wannabes – but you would stand no chance whatsoever against a truly wicked government hellbent on taking over our country.

Second, the only abusive U.S. government that attempted to overthrow America was the one led by Donald J. Trump. He proved that angry citizens and militias with deadly arsenals could be co-opted. A charismatic cult-like leader could induce so-called patriots to lead a seditious coup. Far from protecting citizens from a despotic government, heavily armed goons aided and abetted the January 6 insurrection. 

So, let’s dispense with the crackpot idea that arming Americans to the teeth is a bulwark against tyranny. When the moment of truth came on January 6, our “freedom fighters” sided with the tyrant to end our democracy.  

Third, Republicans quash almost any attempt at gun control by claiming it’s not the guns, it’s our nation’s mental health crisis. But if mental health is the issue, shouldn’t we have a moratorium on guns until we make progress in addressing mental health? 

On one hand, Republicans are saying that we have too many crazies – but on the other they are tearing down barriers that would prevent these violent people from having access to guns. It’s illogical.

Conservatives won’t admit the truth: America has a specifically right-wing extremist crisis that must be dealt with.

A February report from the Anti-Defamation League found, “All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds.”

The Anti-Defamation League counted 450 recorded killings by political extremists over the past decade. Right-wing ideologues are responsible for about 75 percent of deaths. Left-wing extremists were responsible for only 4 percent. Nearly half of the murders were specifically tied to white supremacists.

Sorry, right wingers – you’re the problem, not ANTIFA.

Republicans say we need guns to guard against hypothetical governmental tyranny. You know what’s not hypothetical:

The tyranny of not being able to send your child to school without worrying about a mass shooting.

The tyranny of not being able to shop in a mall without the possibility of a deranged shooter ending your family.

The tyranny of not being able to worship peacefully in your church, mosque or synagogue, for fear of a deranged lunatic bursting in with an AR-15.

The tyranny of not being able to tell your crazy neighbor to stop shooting his damn gun because he’s waking up the baby, lest he slaughter your family execution-style

The tyranny of not being able to go to a movie theater because your life might end like it’s part of a horror flick on the big screen.

This year has seen an average of about one mass killing per week. Anyone of us could be next.

So, I’m not worried about being armed to fight a rogue U.S. government. What threatens our lives today are the Second Amendment extremists who have insanely allowed virtually anyone to buy an arsenal of war weapons.

This is the real tyranny. It's terrorizing Americans. And it must come to an end.

Video: America’s Gun Glut Fueling Violent White Supremacist Fantasies

“You can’t separate this neo-Nazi violence from the ability to secure weapons of mass murder. These extremists have the will to kill, and Republicans are providing the way. The GOP’s refusal to deal with America’s glut of 400 million guns, is assisting white supremacists with their deadly dreams.”