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Vivek Ramaswamy: “Affirmative action has created racism that otherwise would…”

Featuring: Vivek Ramaswamy, Libertarian, Conservative | Former Candidate, President of the United States | National

Tucker Carlson & Vivek Ramaswamy Full Interview | Censorship, Identity, and Wokeism

Published July 14, 2023 | Video Starts at 22:12

It's the thing that cleaves us as a country. You didn't mention that. So why do they keep telling me that they blow what I call woke smoke to deflect … Affirmative action has created racism that otherwise would not have existed. … that otherwise would not have existed. I've seen it. I have hired black executives at companies I have founded on merit. I could care less for the skin color. (22:12–22:18)

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“They're converting South Shore High School into an encampment for migrants, who they're spending $7,000 per person per month on.”
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“The US President already has statutory authority. The Presidential Reorganization act of 1977 says you can shut down redundant agencies.”
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“Civil service protections protect against the individual firings of employees for supposedly political reasons. They do not apply to mass…”
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“Why are vaccine manufacturers specially exempt from liability when any other manufacturer bears product liability?”
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“I think the country is doing poorly.”
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“We have a void in our country.”
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“These things [faith, patriotism, hard work, family] are gone.”
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“We have to put the interests of this country first.”
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“Nearly our entire field is indistinguishable in practice from where Biden is on this [war] issue.”
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“We can end this war and start prioritizing the interests of actual US Citizens here at home.”
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“I've lost many large donors or prospective donors over this issue [war].”
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“The Russia China alliance is the single greatest threat that the US Actually faces today.”
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“We are pushing Russia closer into China's arms by actually continuing to arm Ukraine.”
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“I would negotiate a deal that ends the Ukraine war, frees the current lines of control.”
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“That means giving part of the Donbas region to Russia.”
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“I would make a hard commitment that NATO never admits Ukraine to NATO.”
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“You had to be locked down, had to take a vaccine that was mandated and forced down your throat.”
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“You were systematically suppressed [from discussing] the Hunter Biden laptop story being real and suppressed.”
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“Microsoft owned LinkedIn, censored my social media account.”
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“Statements about climate change, about Biden's relationship with China, about the ESG movement's perpetuation of a climate cult in this…”
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“Many CEOs in this country are frightened [of] speaking their mind openly.”
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“Many of them were asking me...why on earth we're sending billions of dollars to Ukraine.”
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“40% of the donors to our campaign are first time ever donors to the Republican Party in any form ever.”
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“Affirmative action has done nothing for Black people in this country.”
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“They are holding in the back pocket the documents case against Biden.”
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“If it's Trump, they're going to run Biden. If it's me, there's no way they let Biden run.”
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“Most of the aid we've put into Ukraine, all of it has been a bad choice.”
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“We can use this as an opportunity to accomplish a different and a more important strategic objective for the US which is break apart the…”
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“The top crowning achievement of the next President of the United States will be to disrupt [the Russia-China] alliance.”
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“Commit that NATO will never admit Ukraine.”
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“Putin in that case would have to exit his military partnership with China and remove nuclear weapons from Kaliningrad.”
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“Putin has to exit his military partnership with China, will then reopen up economic relations with Russia.”
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“Which, by the way, deters China from going after Taiwan.”
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“China's bet now is that they don't. The US Won't want to be at odds with two different nuclear allied superpowers.”
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“Outright bans are dangerous because we will adopt constraints that China will not adopt.”
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“We have to create a framework of strict liability for the developers of any AI protocol for the consequences, including unintended…”
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“Big Pharma is an industry... it is also an industry that is government run by government created monopoly.”
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“I actually think I may be best positioned to revive those Judeo Christian shared values in our next generation.”
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