Vivek: Pitching to be a Younger Trump
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Max Burns filling in one more time for John on his long extended vacation. He discusses Vivek Ramaswamy's rhetoric as he ramps up his presidential bid. He talks with Steven in Kentucky on Vivek and gun safety legislation and Norm in Tampa on Ramaswamy and slavery. Then, he speaks with Parker Molloy who is the writer and author of The Present Age, a newsletter about communication in a hyperconnected world. Between 2018 and 2021, Parker was editor-at-large at Media Matters for America, writing about the role right-wing media played in the rise of Donald Trump and the creation of alternate perceived realities. They talk about the life and death challenges facing transgender Americans. Next, he talks with Mike in Michigan on Trump's indictments and he plays a clip of Vivek on TV telling what he would have done on January 6th. Then, he talks with Brian in Oregon on how to fight gerrymandering and Bill in New Jersey on the lunacy of Ramaswamy. And then finally he discusses the freezing up of Mitch McConnell.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to Tell Me Everything. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome back to Tell Me Everything. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Max Burns, Democratic strategist and |
| 0:14.4 | Serious XM Contributor sitting in for the great John Pugel saying. We're taking your |
| 0:18.6 | calls at 866 9974747448, so come on and join the conversation. But first I want to talk about this |
| 0:27.0 | Republican debate and particularly the one candidate who kept talking and talking. |
| 0:34.3 | Vivic Ramaswami, the first timer, who seems to be everywhere in the media nowadays. |
| 0:39.7 | And like any good infomercial, he's using his time in the spotlight to try and sell you junk. |
| 0:45.0 | And I thought it'd be fun to take a minute and just go over a few of Ramaswami's great ideas. |
| 0:50.0 | Like this one, here's Bivik Ramaswami talking about what won us World War II and it wasn't our troops or our leaders. It was polio. |
| 1:00.0 | Listen to this. |
| 1:01.0 | With every other kid who's growing up in this country as well, does that mean that one of the 25% of kids, and it is that high, who are born into fatherless homes or raised in fatherless homes today, don't have a shot at achieving everything |
| 1:17.0 | that I have or people like me have in my life. No. No, in fact, if I'm speaking to one of those kids I will say that in your unique |
| 1:26.8 | experience there is still sources of strength that you will be able to find. It doesn't have to be exactly what |
| 1:32.3 | mine was. Would we have one |
| 1:36.0 | World War II if the FDR didn't have polio? I don't know, actually. I just, it's a |
| 1:42.0 | weird question to ask, but I don't know I mean but does that mean we wish |
| 1:45.7 | polio upon every US president or every citizen because that's how we protect ourselves no and so both of these |
| 1:52.0 | things can be true at once that when you encounter hardship, |
| 1:55.2 | you don't have to be victimized by it. |
| 1:56.8 | You still can derive at an individual level fortitude from it because if it isn't the |
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