• Veedem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can’t imagine having to watch this dope live out his child hood fantasies of being slim shady.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Vivek Ramaswamy thought he could show off his rap “skills” on the campaign trail — but he’s getting a legal halt from Eminem instead.

    BMI, the company in charge of Eminem’s compositions, sent a cease and desist letter on Aug. 23 to the Republican presidential hopeful, asking that he stop performing Slim Shady’s tracks.

    His response comes after he received a letter from BMI that asked that Eminem’s work be removed from a licensing contract Ramaswamy had in place.

    “BMI will consider any performance of the Eminem Works by the Vivek 2024 campaign from this date forward to be a material breach,” the letter read.

    To the American people’s chagrin, we will have to leave the rapping to the real slim shady,” a spokesperson for Ramaswamy’s campaign told DailyMail.com Monday.

    This story was updated on Aug. 29 at 6:30 pm ET after Vivek Ramaswamy agreed to stop using Eminem’s music on the campaign trail


    The original article contains 478 words, the summary contains 154 words. Saved 68%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • player1@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If this dude thinks trump was the best president in the 20th century why is he running against trump?

    This question is not my own but it is a great point lol

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      1 year ago

      This guy is definitely one of those dudes who’s using this campaign to get a cabinet position or a job as a pundit.

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    1 year ago

    This guy has a mix of great policies mixed with actual crazy, I hope he fades into obscurity

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        I just looked him up. He’s hyper religious and anti-“woke”. He is an out of touch billionaire. He’s everything Republicans want. Too bad his skin tone is so dark, he’ll never make it past prelims.

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        Wow your right the website I originally pulled up was flat out lying saying he was anti billionaire etc.

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        Well it’s the GOP, some something to do with being a Nazi I would imagine (not that that’s a great policy, just saying that pretty much their thing)

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        I looked up his main platform goals.

        Destroying public education by abolishing the department of education and banning teacher unions. Disenfranchising young voters because they don’t lean conservative, and allowing blatant discrimination again by getting rid of all affirmative action laws.

        Oh yeah, the disenfranchising young voters would also implement a sort of literacy test.

        He also seems to really hate Lyndon Johnson, not for starting the Vietnam War, but for passing the civil rights act.

        He’s claimed (repeatedly) that black people were instantly fine after the civil war because they had the Second Amendment and guns, which is just wrong on every count.

        Vivek is a bit too brown skinned for the KKK, but he sure does love their policies.

        He’s got some other dogshit policy ideas, like solving climate change by burning more fossil fuels, and the standard right wing nonsense of banning speech he doesn’t like in the name of “fighting wokism”

        The entire campaign seems to be an attempt to funnel money from said campaign to himself, while also promoting his shitty book on how he loves capitalism so much that he wants to prevent companies from making cynical “woke” PR efforts that help them do a capitalism.

    • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world
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      Doesn’t he believe that we should stand up to China by letting them invade Taiwan in the near future, which is idiotic at best?