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Vivek Ramaswamy Agrees to Stop Rapping to Eminem on the Campaign Trail. Thank God (www.rollingstone.com)

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Vivek would make a perfect Parks and Rec politician.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Tom Jamm

[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All these other Slim Shady’s are just imitating.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 20 points 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

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[-] player1@sh.itjust.works 16 points 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

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 20 points 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.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Vivek single handedly proved not all colored people have rhythm

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Macklemore, get ready!

[-] Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah my comments on other posts are landing here. Good times.

[-] Djennik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He is the GOP's Kendall Roy

[-] BleepBlip@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Worst Kendall Roy vibes only

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Good decision from Vivek.

[+] Yewb@kbin.social -31 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Great policies like what

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Yewb@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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 1 points 1 year ago

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?

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