In this video [see below], presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is essentially describing the “splitter strategy” CTH has discussed and outlined in granular detail for years. Essentially, a process where the billionaire donors, hedge fund managers, corporations and multinationals – what we define as the Sea Island group (SIG), control the private corporation known as the RNC.
On this facet of his commentary, Ramaswamy is correct. However, from there he gets things wrong.
Yes, as we have said, the Chris Christie exit is part of the continuum. Remember, within mutually aligned motives the candidate doesn’t need specifically to be an active participant; they only need to be looking out for their individual interests, usually financial.
When the ‘time to exit’ tap on the shoulder is received, it comes via a key backer saying, “there’s no longer a path.” The money stops, and the candidate suspends their campaign. That’s how the process works.
Did Christie get that tap on the shoulder, at the specific time needed to retain the “never Trump” effort, thereby creating further support for Nikki Haley? Yes, absolutely – again, that’s how it works.
The SIG moved all their poker chips to Nikki after they realized the weird behavior of DeSantis meant he was no longer a viable option. When Brian Kemp began creating distance with DeSantis, that’s when the shift to Haley began.
Immediately preceding the shift to Nikki Haley, and specifically because DeSantis was not gaining traction, the evangelical brothers Mike Pence and Asa Hutchinson also received their tap on the shoulder and withdrew from their Iowa effort.
Within the plan of the SIG, Pence/Hutchinson were only camped in Iowa to pull a coalition of evangelicals together to hand them to DeSantis. But that part of the effort never gained traction. As a consequence, the SIG shifted to New Hampshire, where their allied Democrats could assist.
Ramaswamy is correct in the statement that the billionaire donors within the SIG want a head-to-head between President Trump and Nikki Haley, but only because that’s all that remains of the collapsing roadmap. Where Ramaswamy is wrong is that when Haley loses, the SIG/Never Trump group will shift to supporting Biden (Newsom). That’s the UniParty. Ultimately, in the big picture, the foundational effort is not about supporting DeSantis or Haley, it’s about stopping Trump.
The hubris of Vivek Ramaswamy in this video then makes everything else he says ridiculous, and also explains why he cannot gain traction.
Who is Ramaswamy to say, “our America-First movement“? As if this is something he created. :::spit::: Right there, in that statement, is where we notice who Ramaswamy is. He is trying to co-opt the MAGA Trump movement for his own motives and intents.
There is only one person who holds the allegiance of the American working class and the America First movement. That person is President Donald Trump. President Trump alone will decide later who will take that pragmatic economic-based MAGA movement forward – after his four-year term. This is not that time.
At CTH we accept things as they are, not as we would pretend them to be.
If Vivek Ramaswamy was authentic to his words, if he really wanted to advance the America First movement, he would accept the futility of his position and endorse Donald J. Trump. His unwillingness to do that says more about him, about his [¹]’glowing‘ motives and intents, than anything he might say about Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
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[¹] I have stayed generally neutral on Ramaswamy for a reason. However, he is now sending the exact signals I would expect to see if an intelligence community operator was nearing the end of his usefulness. It’s called ‘Linguistic Programming‘. ie “they will never allow,” etc.
I’ve been a non believer of Ramay since day 1 and was clear as to why on others boards only to be downvoted by the naive.
Ramays 20 year history is just too dubious to overlook. The good news is his usefulness is wanting.
Don’t see the gov hooking up with another loser. Two losers never make a winner, just bigger lovers. Gov will head back to FL and try to save his governorship.
Timing is everything, SD. He will endorse P-DJT.
Obama 2.0 Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. We need the 14A to be amended to clarify birthright citizenship applies to American Children born of American Parents. Vivek’s parents were both greencard immigrants when he was born to wit his father “made a choice to never become an American Citizen”. That should have disqualified Vivek (and Nikki and Obama) from being on the ticket as he’s NOT Natural Born. When one is raised by noncitizen parents, and his father still isn’t one, one is raised with dual loyalties and to permit this to go on will destroy our Nation’s Sovereignty.
Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, mine being from the the original settlers in the1620’s, but the parents MUST give up their prior allegiance to their birth country in order to become naturalized as an American, making way for their children to then qualify to hold the Office of the Presidency (and vp). It’s an oxymoron to allow non-Americans, especially those who willfully choose to never become an American legally, raise up American children who then make such claims as being more constitutional than a True Foundational Natural Born Citizen that Donald J. Trump is.
Totally agree. There has to be some love of country to do the job of leading a country like ours. My father grew up picking cotton on his father’s farm, all of them strongly bred patriots who knew (all dead now) what is involved in making a country proud and strong. Obama could give a s**t about the country and its citizens (pretty easy to see), and O’Biden sold his shares of the country to get another mansion. There is only one man in view that is up to the job that needs to be done. Hopefully, a worthy successor will appear before 2028, but not recently foreign born, please. Put some time and effort into improving what we have, and appreciate what is required before trying to lead. President is not just a job for show, though many think a movie star is all that is required. I have always thought that building and leading a large corporation is perfect experience for the job we need done.
my spidey sense tells me not to trust Vivek
he is obviously very intelligent, but I feel like he is working the MAGA ecosystem like any other market
its a learned language, he is working the norms, just not convinced he has an agenda
Make India Great Again style
Ditto my spidey sense.
Clayton and Sparky big sad …
…And there it is!👆👆👆
Watched him but never liked him – reminded me too much of Tony Blair and David Cameron – used car salesmen have fewer narcissistic traits and more integrity than all three!
Never liked/trusted this glib smartass.
Well Sundance you called it.
I’ll admit – I was not in the camp – that Ramaswamy may be an Intelligence agent in the game to hold the line if / when they took out Trump.
A couple of days later you seem to be proven correct – DAMN!!!
How do you see this Sh_T?
President Trump went after Vivek as being ‘not MAGA’ for a reason.
Caveat emptor.
Candace Owens joined Vivek in Iowa for 24 hours. That was the red flag I needed. Hard no.
Vivek is a con man…
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Obama and Vivek
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