Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why so many in the GOP keep focusing on candidates with entertainment value rather than actual qualifications to do the job. There were five current or former governors, one current senator, and one former VP on the stage at the recent GOP debate--and this unqualified dude is your guy?
Because the GOP has no actual policy goals.
Their goals are to block everything the Democrats do and to give tax cuts to the rich, that's it.
Because they can't run on policy since they have none, their only choice to attract voters is to stoke outrage via culture wars, so entertainment value is their only option.
This, plus grift.
“Ramaswamy has reported more than $50 million in holdings in Strive, which to date, is mostly a fund to promote fossil fuel development. As Semafor reports, the largest fund at Strive—called DRLL—“ invests in U.S. energy companies and urges them to keep drilling for oil so long as it’s profitable.”
https://heated.world/p/how-vivek-ramaswamy-makes-money-from
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/18/2023/strive-the-investment-firm-founded-by-vivek-ramaswamy-is-dialing-down-anti-woke-rhetoric
He's never hidden that Strive is an anti-ESG fund unlike some other virtue signalers...
https://fintech.global/2023/05/02/esg-funds-are-still-investing-billions-into-fossil-fuels/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why so many in the GOP keep focusing on candidates with entertainment value rather than actual qualifications to do the job. There were five current or former governors, one current senator, and one former VP on the stage at the recent GOP debate--and this unqualified dude is your guy?
Because the GOP has no actual policy goals.
Their goals are to block everything the Democrats do and to give tax cuts to the rich, that's it.
Because they can't run on policy since they have none, their only choice to attract voters is to stoke outrage via culture wars, so entertainment value is their only option.
This, plus grift.
“Ramaswamy has reported more than $50 million in holdings in Strive, which to date, is mostly a fund to promote fossil fuel development. As Semafor reports, the largest fund at Strive—called DRLL—“ invests in U.S. energy companies and urges them to keep drilling for oil so long as it’s profitable.”
https://heated.world/p/how-vivek-ramaswamy-makes-money-from
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/18/2023/strive-the-investment-firm-founded-by-vivek-ramaswamy-is-dialing-down-anti-woke-rhetoric
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why so many in the GOP keep focusing on candidates with entertainment value rather than actual qualifications to do the job. There were five current or former governors, one current senator, and one former VP on the stage at the recent GOP debate--and this unqualified dude is your guy?
Because the GOP has no actual policy goals.
Their goals are to block everything the Democrats do and to give tax cuts to the rich, that's it.
Because they can't run on policy since they have none, their only choice to attract voters is to stoke outrage via culture wars, so entertainment value is their only option.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why so many in the GOP keep focusing on candidates with entertainment value rather than actual qualifications to do the job. There were five current or former governors, one current senator, and one former VP on the stage at the recent GOP debate--and this unqualified dude is your guy?
Because the GOP has no actual policy goals.
Their goals are to block everything the Democrats do and to give tax cuts to the rich, that's it.
Because they can't run on policy since they have none, their only choice to attract voters is to stoke outrage via culture wars, so entertainment value is their only option.
This, plus grift.
“Ramaswamy has reported more than $50 million in holdings in Strive, which to date, is mostly a fund to promote fossil fuel development. As Semafor reports, the largest fund at Strive—called DRLL—“ invests in U.S. energy companies and urges them to keep drilling for oil so long as it’s profitable.”
https://heated.world/p/how-vivek-ramaswamy-makes-money-from
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/18/2023/strive-the-investment-firm-founded-by-vivek-ramaswamy-is-dialing-down-anti-woke-rhetoric
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why so many in the GOP keep focusing on candidates with entertainment value rather than actual qualifications to do the job. There were five current or former governors, one current senator, and one former VP on the stage at the recent GOP debate--and this unqualified dude is your guy?
Because the GOP has no actual policy goals.
Their goals are to block everything the Democrats do and to give tax cuts to the rich, that's it.
Because they can't run on policy since they have none, their only choice to attract voters is to stoke outrage via culture wars, so entertainment value is their only option.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why so many in the GOP keep focusing on candidates with entertainment value rather than actual qualifications to do the job. There were five current or former governors, one current senator, and one former VP on the stage at the recent GOP debate--and this unqualified dude is your guy?
Because the GOP has no actual policy goals.
Their goals are to block everything the Democrats do and to give tax cuts to the rich, that's it.
Because they can't run on policy since they have none, their only choice to attract voters is to stoke outrage via culture wars, so entertainment value is their only option.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why so many in the GOP keep focusing on candidates with entertainment value rather than actual qualifications to do the job. There were five current or former governors, one current senator, and one former VP on the stage at the recent GOP debate--and this unqualified dude is your guy?
Because the GOP has no actual policy goals.
Their goals are to block everything the Democrats do and to give tax cuts to the rich, that's it.
Because they can't run on policy since they have none, their only choice to attract voters is to stoke outrage via culture wars, so entertainment value is their only option.
Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why so many in the GOP keep focusing on candidates with entertainment value rather than actual qualifications to do the job. There were five current or former governors, one current senator, and one former VP on the stage at the recent GOP debate--and this unqualified dude is your guy?