Didn’t he also have his physician mother lie about the efficacy of the drug to jack up the price 🤷‍♂️

Rama-smarmy?

Mitt Romney 2.0. Repukes wrote the bible on scams and white collar crimes.

And how is it not a crime for what he did? George do you know the answer because I would definitely like to hear the answer.

Please mention the peaceful protest on January 3rd. It's to bring attention to Trump's ineligibility to hold office. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! For more info and coordination details go to: nowmarch.org

I would rather be mediocre and retarded, than a fraud and a cheat, any day of the week. We don’t all need to be the same. I am ok being me, even if the world calls me the R word for being autistic :) At least I am authentic and genuine, even to a fault lol.

Only ignorant folk would call you the R word for being autistic…

If that page was Republicans against Trump, then they would be anti-Trump, but also pro DeSantis, Vivek, Musk, etc. If they are against every GOP politician, then don't call yourself GOP. It's fine to leave the party; I did. But I don't falsely advertise myself as GOP when I'm not anymore.

A perfect capitalist then?

proves his point

Fucking Vulture Capitalist pigs.

So untrustworthy...

I said it when he was running for office and it bears repeating — not much different from Trump, Vivek is a smarmy con man and fraud. Game recognizes game.

Very different it seems. Vivek seems much more capable. Trump bankrupted casinos multiple times. The insane amount of incompetence it'd take to do that is off the charts...

Disagree. They are much more alike than they are different. While it’s laughable to bankrupt a casino, every Trump bankruptcy is a strategic tax benefit to him. Above ALL else, BOTH are capable and willing to destroy America and her every day average citizens.

Wish someone close to him would wipe that shit-eating, dishonest grin from his face.

I work with a guy that reminds me him - similar pompadour, smile and smarmy speech pattern… 😬

(1/2) I see what you're saying, but those strategic bankruptcies were still the result of a failed business. It was just the best way to fail. Never forget that if Trump had simply invested his inheritance/seed money in a total market fund he would be much more wealthy today than he is.

(2/2) Vivek actually succeeded in beating the markets through his con. That's a major difference. Vivek is a lot more competent

So, one is a competent con, the other a lucky con. Got it.

Yeah, that's an important distinction.

For me, the distinction holds little value because the lucky one, the 34x convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, will soon do everything in his power to sell America to our enemies. But, anyway.

Morally it makes no difference, but practically it's very important. It informs how you resist them.

The not-moneyed fighting against the moneyed doesn't make a huge amount of difference either, regrettably😕

Vivek is younger, perhaps more competent. Trump now has Elon/Vivek as business partners to his Presidency. The model is for profit for the players with the most money. i.E. H1B skilled low wages for Silicon valley entrepreneurs such as Musk and X. Nothing new new here.....

Besides, neither Vivek or Elon have gone bankrupt. This government needs a for profit margin to appease the feedback loop to wealthy donors. Fvck MAGA as they become defunct. No longer serve a purpose except perhaps as canon fodder in a war against allies. Maybe replace dead N. Koreans in Ukraine

The undocumented agriculture, construction workers that contribute taxes without benefits will be deported. I wonder how many MAGA will replace them for the same deal.

Here in the UK, our last government tried the trick, hoping to push UK citizens to replace.

It failed, as nobody can afford to take those low paying jobs that have long hours and insecure.

Trump learned to stick others with his debts. He’s not successful at business. He’s successful at bankruptcy.

After he got his chunk of the goodies.

100%

Ramaswampy you mean?

He’s Andrew Yang, but for republicans.

Isn't that criminal fraud?

Another con man, sleazeball grifting POS, nice. @vivekramaswami.bsky.social #elonmusk #fuckelonmusk #babyelon #presidentmusk #vicepresidenttrump #trump #nevertrump #resist #bluecrew #donotobeyinadvance @vp #vp #potus @potus #scotus

He’s just another POS!

They are all con men of differing degrees

Oh my, a crooked MAGA, how rare LOL

These guys are scum

Clearly the same kind of grifter as trump

Yep, just what the world needs; more sociopaths, particularly in leadership positions!

So a failed drug dealer who exploits elder people. Yea that seems about his level of shittiness

Wow, I did not think that I could dislike him more than I did. I was wrong.

That sounds legal

'murica looooves a grifter

He’s a slimeball

WOOOOOWWW! Well, no wonder he fits right in!

Wow, he should have been sued.

Vivek Ramaswamy, who derides American culture as "mediocrity," built his $850M fortune rebranding a failed Alzheimer's drug, cashing in $37M in 2015 and $175M in 2019—all before the drug flopped again. Now, he’s championing H-1B visas to fix the "mediocrity" he profits from.

I'm curious who fronted him the money to buy in in the first place.

Nevermind, it was Thief Thiel

It was qvt.com/about-us/?ut... Not sure if Theil is involved. But vivek worked there as an analyst. Probably saw the opportunity and convinced QVT. No doubt QVT made a lot of money themselves.

Thanks. Always amazing how a low paid analyst can make such a huge purchase and nobody blinks an eyelash.

Yes, there's more to this story. But Jeff Bezos started Amazon in a similar way. He was a financial analyst and saw the need and potential for Amazon during the early days of the internet. He had his parents invest to start Amazon and the rest is history.

Thanks, George, for posting this---too few Americans know this fact about Ramaswamy.

Yep….a great amerikan redumblican hero!

That is why Rammywhammy & MuskRat get along so well together. They are both fakes & opportunists. Just like MuskRat hasn't come up with a valid idea on his own just tries to steal others.

Buys

How did tRump and all other billionaires get where they are?? By stealing from others. They are all the same, and that is why they’re rich!! Malignant narcissistic sociopaths!!

Tries? The man is a consummate thief

Lol, who invested in a company with an product unlikely to pass clinical trials

Very. 'We the People' allow corporations to exist, ostensibly for the public good. Why are we not insisting that they be regulated and measured on the public good they produce, rather than how much money they put in the pockets of Rich owner/shareholders in the form of profits and stock dividends?

Exactly. A civilized community/country cannot exist where the sole driver is to maximize profits. Venture Capitalists are now acquiring healthcare systems and they are being ruined for this reason. Patient-centered care has been replaced by profit-centered care.

Deny, Defend, Depose. And they are baffled as to why & how, someone in excruciating pain is driven to kill? After paying monthly premiums, with no help. It's only going to get worse. Unless we do something to stop the second #GreatDepression from happening, again. Corporate Greed... 😡🇺🇲🐦

I’m not sure how we stop the Trump-Tech Bros coming Depression. They are poised to strip the government for parts.

Is it always do it till you are caught? Pretty much how it seems to go. Damage done. Then fight for years with appeals. Not all of us forget. ✌🏻❤️

😳. Had no idea.

Good grief these people.

OMG he is a sick MOFO🤮

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Yes sir.They are such huge hypocrites.

Bluesky is silencing @davetroy.com. He’s an important voice on democracy and that tells me what I need to know about Bluesky and it is not good. It also tells me his takes on what is happening must be too close to the truth.

Evidence of this silencing? Put up or shut up.

Bluesky is not allowing him to post. You can find him on Twitter to read further. He has a solid reputation. Your antagonistic response makes me not choose to engage with you beyond that.

Your cryptic and paranoid post is why you got this response and your follow up didn't improve the situation.

How is he being silence? Explain.

He has an account both here and on Twitter. He has not been allowed to post here for 8 days. He’s tried everything. Reported to Bluesky 3 times. Nothing. He’s worked in tech. He knows what he’s doing. They are not allowing him to post. If you have an account on Twitter and read more.

And used his mom, a doctor, to lie and say it had clinical confirmation it worked!

Omg. This should be common knowledge but isn’t😕

Putrid fucker

Pump and dumper, real proud American values.

So he’s essentially a perfect fit and running true to brand?

Yep. Con man

Contrast to this, Jimmy Carter, who built Habitat for Humanity homes for the poor with his own hands and tools, and pushed to drastically reduce guinea worm disease (linked to lack of potable water) in Africa and South America. And to boot, he did not collect speaker's fees post presidency.

Speaking of points ...

Blink, blink, blink⁉️⁉️

Got some Micheal Jackson happening here!

Oh, but that’s just “good business”! At least it is if you’re a business who loves money over people and decent principles! He’s just another greedy bugger like so many of Trump’s cronies!

That's pretty much what he wants to do with America.

He’s a swine to hold out false hope and cheat people, who are worried about their loved ones, out of their hard earned money. There’s got to be a special place in hell for someone like that. Probably right next to those who cut funding for childhood cancer research. I can’t fathom this depth of evil

Pump and dump

Branding him a perfect fit for the Trump Cabal.

Deterioration from Carter to Trump. How easily this occurs.

If you can't con an honest man, and Trump Voters are saying they were conned, Trump Voters are dishonest. It's simple logic.

I guess in a way Ramaswami was hard-working. He just started by stealing something from somebody else and then enriching himself through fraud. That’s all very hard work.

What a disgusting POS.

For him mediocrity would be a character improvement.

So…another grifter-big surprise.

It's kinda like grifters have found ways to cheat capitalism and are now crushing the board. All billionaires are grifters. It shouldn't be possible to have that much wealth in a healthy economy.

So he is a flunky failure.

Incredible, how is this even legal?

I feel sorry for "Republicans against Trump".

and not charged with insider trading? bullshit

As usual with republicans always a grift and no concern who they hurt. That’s why they support tRump king of grift , he keeps the scamming off them, with his outrageous lies and misinformation.

Or...if we are so awful...LEAVE.

Scumbags gonna scumbag...

Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease for both patients and their families. To exploit their pain by selling a drug that does nothing is unbelievably cruel.

It's on point for republicans

He didn’t make money off the drug. He made money off the stock.

That’s what sociopaths do!! They use and abuse. No morals, no integrity,no empathy, no conscience!

We can only hope Vivek faces the same horrific disease one day, sooner rather than later.

And it’s how he made $1 billion

As in it's pure evil to do this to people.

Pure evil.

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Creep

MAGA will tell you he’s just being smart, like dodging taxes.

Snake

He also intentionally wears shoes that are two sizes two large for him which says a lot about his self-esteem & hang ups, frankly.

Well…

Ugh. Typo. “too large” That’s bothering me.

But why does he wear pants that are two sizes too short for him?

Are we sure he doesn’t have flippers instead of feet?

He had to jump in those little pants though lol

So he in fact wears clown shoes

They look like those big, floppy clown shoes...

What's with the pants several inches too short? Does he not look down when getting dressed??

reminds me of a joke: if I have $40.00 in one pocket and $70.00 in the other what do I have..? Someone elses pants...

He dresses like the clown he is.

I had the same thought. Clown shoes.

🤣🤣🤣

What a loser

Scam artist from the jump.

Feels good to finally get vindicated when I predicted that MAGA would implode before it could actually accomplish anything horrific and carry out it’s agenda. This infighting will end up saving our republic.

What an actual slimeball he is! 😠

👀 what? I cant. Crook

Why are the shittiest people rewarded? I guess I’m mediocre for not bilking fools from their money.

And, like Vance, he was financed by billionaire Peter Thiel, starting when both young men were attending Yale. Also...

Look up Curtis Yarvin. Another destructor and Vance's mentor.

I know of him. Major creep. He's a leading figure in Thiel's think-tank, who proposed turning "non-productive" people into biofuel.

And Vance listens to Yarvin. This whole group is vile and must be outed on a daily basis.

The FDA commissioners forgot to take their memory pills that day.

😱😱😱he’s a pos

How is that legal? If it is, it certainly shouldn't be...

Trump being president shouldn’t be legal, but apparently it is!

Remember the GOP cranking it 24/7 about solving "innovation stifling" with deregulation in the 80s-00? Regulation wasn't hindering innovation. It was hindering exploitation.

Regulation is a protective measure for regular people, the few individuals wanting deregulation are those wealthy enough to exploit it, and always to the cost of regular people.

The Republican American Dream, AKA f_ _ _ em all.

Probably why he rails against the bureaucracy for preventing his snake oil from being approved

Scum

It will be more than interesting to watch them all scam and grift one another. Hopefully this keeps them all busy.

No, they will be busily further looting govt agencies as they seek to abolish & shut them down😡 Why would you ever think they'll be perpetrating fraud against & grifting one another? It has been & always will be anyone BUT them!

Of course he did!

Trump only knows scum.

Surprise surprise Ramaswamy is a complete dirtbag like Trump. Everyone in that deal got screwed EXCEPT Ramaswamy. Sounds like Trump’s Art of the Steal.

OMG…just as crooked as tRump.

Its like helplessly watching as a great friend returns to their abusive ex partner.

As much as I detest Ramaswamy, this is to os not accurate. While he indeed have a drug in his pharma company that was a failed Alzheimer’s drug, he had a few others that were successful. Plus, he made a shit load in the biotech industry and with an anti woke platform. Look it up on Forbes… I did.🤷🏼‍♀️

Why do we allow people to make fortunes in such a sketchy way?

He's another con man.

Damn, I have too many scruples

All of his cabinet picks and trump himself should all be in prison. How is it our laws would put any of us in jail,prison,for the same crimes,when he, and these people are going to be in the White House?

Exactly-- so much winning... and so much 'innovation'... and such grift.

😱

Don’t forget mommy helped out

Whoa!!! I did not know this. 😳

Do you know?

It does seem that there's some elements of migrants (especially better-positioned ones) that are trying to kick away the ladder behind them. Decades of American social progress is being eroded because some emigres are bringing their hates with them

Which one is that? Not that regenerative herbal thing they bought from European country and was meant to regenerate tendons, not nerves, rebranded as anti-Alzheimer for 60000% of cost ?

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Another conman with no ethics or conscience.

Wow, it gets worse. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sio_Gen...

That looks like modern-era snake oil vendors. There are afew viable gene terapies whre flaw is well known (a singular gene defect) but they are effective only in childhood. E.g. primary immunodeficiency diseases. Most neurological disorders still have unclear nature, genetic or whatsoever.

#NoOneElectedEloniaOrRamaswarmy

Is that for real?

This is why he is perfect for the T-rump administration and DOGE. He is a grifter like the rest of them.

Trumps kind of the best people that he surrounds himself with.

That explains why he thinks Martin Shkreli did nothing wrong...

not shocked! republicans will never miss opportunities to profit from others pain & suffering. bottomless greed!

Thanks for posting. I had forgotten this little tidbit.

If he did this, why is he not in prison?

He got rich, and the "justice" system loves rich criminals

Because our entire Capitalist system is set up to reward greedy grifters. “Venture capitalists” come in, structure acquisition so the old company holds all the debt, they bankrupt the company, sell the company for parts, and VC rake in huge profit while local folks are left w/ jobless w/ nothing.

Mind bending. In my little part of the world, this action by this guy wouldn't get past first base.

We need to learn from you. Send help!!!

Vile

He tried to hit back at Ann Coulter

Yeah, but who asked the money to purchase a drug company. Sounds like a nepo baby to me

Because of course he did. Fu’ker

Ethics? None. For folks like Vivek, the ends justify the means, especially if the ends are of financial benefit to him.

What ! He’s a swindler then , right ?

Now do stealing money from a children’s cancer charity.

Grifter!

Loathsome isn’t a strong enough word for him

Every single one of them a grifter.

Just another grifter.

How's what he did not a crime??

Yes, well in the corporate world that would be considered a success….. It’s the end result not the means. If it’s one thing, we should be learning about these people they got to where they are not because they’re more intelligent, not because they work harder than anyone they achieved their

Status and wealth on privilege and corruption.

Kinda makes him like a mini me to that other guy.....

Or a hobbit.

Is Trump currently taking that drug? Asking for a friend.

Yeah, 'cause it's NOT working. 😐

Grifters will be grifters… that’s why he left Dems for MAGA!

as someone whose mom is in late stage alzheimer’s, this makes me physically ill.

I am so sorry. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. It is an utterly disgusting disease, and a wretched circumstance for everyone it touches. I am so sorry.

So true. I’m sorry for your loss too

Yes. Truly disgusting people rise to the top. Scum not cream. Best wishes to you both.

BTDT. Hardest four years of my life. But when it was over, the peace of knowing I did the best I could to get Mom the help she needed was tremendous. Best wishes to both of you.

thanks. i’m doing the best i can from afar. hardest thing i’ve ever been through. sorry for your loss and for all you went through.

The thing that made it possible was accepting that today's Mom is as good as it's likely to get, and always meeting her where she was at the time. My acceptance seemed to help her relax and often she warmed up to something approaching her old wit and good humor.

absolutely. and i can now definitively say that laughter is the best medicine…even if it’s through tears.

Yep. 🥲

VERY important point.

Yea speculation in pharmaceuticals is the new casino for the rich

Why hasn’t this come out on MSM? First I’ve heard. Just another vile grifter.

Be fair to vivek. If you had to deal with magas exclusively for the past eight years, as vivek has, you’d think Americans were pretty mediocre too.

Sadly, scams are how many millionaires and billionaires get their wealth.

A good con man. Perfect for the Trump administration!

That's so repulsive. I'm not sure why he wame brought up on charges for this.

***WASN'T. Man, I hate those typos.

Wow. How the USA could do with him now.

all smoke and mirrors, no wonder he supports Trump.

Don’t forget he is pals with that Martin Shkreli scumbag

These people have no souls. Empty fucking money making vessels.

Just another snake oil salesman conning his way to wealth. These are horrible human beings who add nothing positive to human kind.

Maybe he thinks foreigners would have been too savvy to fall for his scheme.

Wow. Thanks for sharing. He said some things during the primaries I thought were nuts.

Sounds like just the type of person Trump adores

Vivek fits right in with Trump and Musk.. A charlatan.

Grifters.

Thank You for posting this. This explains why trump love this guy. He and "Dr." oz are like peas in a pod.

Sadly enough, before he went grifter, Oz was a genuinely great surgeon.

💙🐈‍⬛🐈💙 Trump tends to surround himself with like minded people!

Such a vile thing to do! I have no respect for him!

Cruelty… Taking away Hope…. Cruelty…among many other things

Swindler. These are people’s health and lives he’s playing with for his own gain and excess. To find such a deceitful way to sell the same lousy and ineffective drug - it’s criminal.

Another fact we should see everyday to remind the world. Let's keep it out there people. Let his life be known by this.

A swindler invents a brilliant business backstory and uses the myth to parachute into politics - who would imagine that

Grifters are gonna grift. The worst most unethical people are making a fortune using the current system in our country. We are a broken society. Our downfall will be profound and devastating for all of us. Rome Is Burning.

How is he not facing a trial like Elizabeth Holmes?

OMG!!!!! So GROSS!

Quote @DemocratsDisguisedasRepublicans again

And Americans think business ppl will save the country.😳

“Classic sitcom plot in real life”

Isn't there some fraud statute violation here???

Vivek is just another grifter.

I have no words.

Screwing the investor. This is what dumpty believes is “smart” business. Think about this.

Or another way of looking at it, he wasnt even allowed to be a snake oil salesman

He’ll fit right in

I did not know this - can you despise some even more than you already do??

Wow...just wow😳

An important point indeed but is surely fraud as well?

What a guy😡🤬

Sounds like the people who helped him go public didn’t do any due diligence. Shouldn’t he be prosecuted for fraud?

My mom’s maiden name is Crook - the infamous General Crook may or may not have been a distant relative - and am so very, very sorry for his deplorable actions. Sincerely, me - mom of half indigenous children - dad from NM

Yup. Ramaswamy's the guy (one of two - the other being Musk) that Trump is leaning on to help decide the fate of our government.

exactly the same kind of grifting kloptocracy that trump will enact.

Wow. What an incredible scum bag he is. No wonder 🤡 likes him. He values dishonesty the way Dems value integrity.

and....

the predator class.

He also took scholarship funding even though he was in the 1% crowd.