If you’re not in the know, be warned, this is a whole new level of vile.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the republican ghoul who formerly ran for president, is now running for governor of Ohio against Amy Acton. He’s recently run an ad featuring her estranged mother saying that Amy is a liar. Pretty striking type of ad, but what’s she saying she lied about? Well, Amy’s step dad started r*ping her at age 9 until she was 12 until she was able to get away… Mom defended the pedo through an indictment from a grand jury and promptly skipped the state with him before the charges dropped. She stayed with him on the run until his death in the early 2000’s. Literally hasn’t had contact with her mom for 50 years or something.

And Vivek just rolls with the ad after the backlash because Trump of course sides with the pedos and their enablers.

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Vivek Ramaswamy supports pedophilia. JD Vance supports pedophilia. Donald Trump supports pedophilia. Republican Party is a party for pedophiles. Republicans overwhelmingly oppose child marriage bans. Dennis Hastert (who died last month) was the longest serving Republican speaker of the house of the US congress for 8 years and he was a pedophile who abused high school boys.

    People who defend the attack ad starring a child abuser are supporters of pedophilia. Republicans accused transgender people of being “groomers” because Republicans are projecting.

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    Yeah, not too much shocks me anymore, but that was a really monstrous thing to do. Vivek and everyone involved are pieces of shit.

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    I posted a bit of it in the news mega, mostly this responce he had about his ad

    NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother.

    “In politics sometimes it’s a tough sport.”

    He should be beaten with hammers

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    This is what billionaires are like. Absolutely sociopathic pieces of shit. It becomes easier to see how evil they are when their actions can’t be abstracted away by the layers of bureaucracy that is designed to do just this under capitalism (along with other functions ofc). In his business career he bought up patents for medication before jacking up the prices. Such innovation and such a brilliant mind 🤮

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      It’s mask-off even by their standards, but they have now for some time campaigned successfully on issues like keeping child marriage legal, stripping women of basic human rights, catering to abusive parents, defending known members of Epstein’s mass r*pe club, or allowing parents to bully their trans kids to the point of suicide. In the end, even something as vile as this is just saying the quiet part out loud, that in the society they dream of, women and children should be the patriarch’s property.

      It’s another issue how far being so bluntly pro-abuser will get them outside of their core electorate, but the 30% ride or die MAGA hogs want exactly this kind of shit, they love their President Pedo and his henchmen precisely for this kind of open depravity. And if they keep getting away with it, they will normalize it among the respectability politics neocons as well, because they need to for the dystopian trajectory they are on. An anti-consent society is what they aim for.

    • According to the Chapo boys, this isn’t even an ad that’s running on TV, it’s an internet ad.

      So while he’s getting a whole bunch of negative press for it, it’s not actually getting in front of a lot of eyeballs organically. Basically the people that know about this, are the ones most likely to be mad about it, and the ones that would take it most uncritically probably haven’t seen it or aren’t aware.

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    A quote for when the Predator class rigs the midterms:

    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

    Think of the children. Think of your children, and what they will do to them. They will not stop. The midterm results won’t constrain them, and they have already proven they’ll turn to violence to preserve their power.

    That’s what Vivek means when he says “politics is a rough sport”. It means his side is ready to rape and kill to enforce their will.

    This is not a call to violence. That bell was already rung by the GOP. This is a call for revolution, and it’s coming from the Founding Fathers.

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      The founders were slaveholders and capitalists. You may want to check out Gerald Horne’s The “Counter-Revolution of 1776”. The revolt helped protect slavery and preserve the power of those who benefited from it, and furthered the settler project of manifest destiny.

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        I’m fully aware of that. But even those backwards motherfuckers had the balls to rise up and try to create something better when it became clear that George III was a senile, insane despot. Regardless of the flaws of its authors, the Declaration of Independence is a timeless document and one written for us.

        Like you and me. For what’s happening right now. That’s the point of the post above.

        The government the founders built was not the free utopia they envisioned, and has become as broken and corrupt as the monarchy that spawned it. And now that it no longer works as envisioned or intended, it’s time to find a new solution.

        This is really what they were saying - you have the right and duty to get rid of a government that no longer serves the people’s interest.

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      it’s coming from the Founding Fathers.

      The founding fathers were all slavers and childremoved themselves. They’d be fine with this. The revolution we need is going to look a lot more like anti-thatcher-action