r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 10h ago
No Paywall Ramaswamy Takes Full Credit for Most ‘Disgusting, Pathetic Ad Ever Created in the History of Political Ads’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/vivek-ramaswamy-acton-ad575
u/TheCr1msonShadow 10h ago
Running as a republican is truly racing to the bottom
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u/Significant_Cup_238 10h ago
I feel like it's more trying to prove there is no bottom.
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u/EggCzar 8h ago
Not since Lindsey Graham died anyway
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u/sleepless_in_balmora 5h ago
I had to scroll back up to upvote because it took me a few seconds to process this one
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u/RandyMuscle I voted 9h ago
They may as well just get on stage and compare how many terabytes of CSAM they have on their hard drives at this point.
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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 9h ago edited 8h ago
“We are all domestic terrorists.” from CPAC
Becomes “We are all the Cornell 57”…
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u/dookieshoes97 4h ago
You should hear the somali attack ads in MN. They run nonstop, claiming that somalis are stealing billions of 'welfare' dollars to fund terrorists back home. It's disgusting.
Somalis are our friends, they are our neighbors, and they have been here for decades. At this point, the majority were born here. Alienating and singling out our neighbors is just evil nazi shit.
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u/dblan9 10h ago
Even as Ramaswamy received backlash from across the political spectrum, his campaign manager boasted to Axios that the ad marked “a campaign-ending moment for Amy Acton.”
These people have no souls.
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u/RandyMuscle I voted 10h ago
Begging people to understand that republicans are literally just evil.
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u/Shopworn_Soul Texas 8h ago
I early voted for midterms yesterday and a lady behind me in line was positively giddy to vote for the well-documented criminal scumbag adulterer on our ballot instead of the reasonably decent human being on the other side.
I just don't know what's going on anymore.
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u/RandyMuscle I voted 8h ago
The fact that that description does not narrow down what state you’re even in proves my point. Like if you didn’t have the flair, I would have to guess.
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u/bayleysgal1996 Texas 8h ago
Also early voted yesterday. Uncomfortable number of older women excited to vote for Paxton in line with me. For my own peace of mind I will pretend none of them have daughters
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u/Kahzgul California 7h ago
They’re in information bubbles where they only hear how Paxton is an envoy from god and democrats are literally demons from hell.
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u/R2D2808 5h ago
I feel like this a point that a lot of us Redditors don't really absorb.
They consume what most of us would consider utter insanity.
So it makes total sense that they have zero issues voting/feeling/acting the way they do.
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u/erin_mouse88 2h ago
This is the key to realizing that many arent necessarily bad people....they're just ....idiots.
These idiots have slowly been led doen the tunney to believe the BS theyve been fed for years, theyve been conned, scammed, so slowly they dont even realize. These idiots have no idea the reality of what's going on. Its like the Truman Show.
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u/darsynia Pennsylvania 5h ago
I wish more people who think Democrats are bad would understand the difference between that and the dehumanization going on. You'd think the informant crap from yesterday would twig some of them onto the similarities between previous regimes and this one. If your leaders dehumanize your neighbors, what will they do to them when they get the full power they're asking you to vote for??
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u/in1gom0ntoya America 6h ago
the truth is many people are much, MUCH worse and miserable creatures than they let others believe and that mask has fallen off in the last 4ish years
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u/Chowder1054 3h ago
Been saying this. MAGA is a reflection of what many people truly were on the inside. They could never express it before he came to power.
But I take only 1 consolation from all of this: they exposed who they are, they can’t hide again. When maga collapses.. the retribution will be brutal.
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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 9h ago
The problem is how much of this country loves that. The fact that there are 77 million evil people is compounded by tens of millions more who just shrug. It's like driving down a highway, seeing a guy stringing up a puppy to hang, and thinking "well the puppy is probably an asshole", and driving on.
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u/SanchoPandas Oregon 8h ago
Reminds me of this Desmond Tutu quote from 1984:
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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u/Emotional-Channel-42 8h ago
Yup. Being a bad person and conservative have been synonymous my entire life, and well before.
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u/SnowedOutMT Montana 8h ago edited 2h ago
The reason this is awful - for those who didn't read the article:
Acton was sexually abused by her birth mother's second husband from 10-12 years of age. He was
convictedindicted by a grand jury for it. Her birth mother stood by him and later fled the state with him.Acton has not had contact with her birth mother since 1978. Ramasaway ran an ad featuring Acton's birth mother who calls her a liar and generally disparages Acton.
It is truly disgusting.
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u/thehalfwit Nevada 6h ago
Nothing says Republican like siding with sexual predators and blaming the victim.
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u/ScaleneWangPole 7h ago
I was going to say that Marsha Blackburn in TN crushing fortune cookies to demonstrate that she'll be "tough on China" couldn't be much worse, but no, this is actually worse.
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u/thisdesignup 7h ago
What the heck. And this is someone people want in the government? If they can do that while running then what can they do while in a bigger position of power.
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u/Buntschatten 5h ago
Why her mother? Was the rapist himself unavailable? That would have been even more on brand.
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u/Nika65 5h ago
Not defending him but Grand Juries do not convict anyone and, legally, this is an important distinction, especially in the USA.
With that said, I’m sure the Grand Jury saw sufficient evidence for them to vote that there was probable cause to charge that piece of crap with a crime.
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u/Kumquats_indeed 2h ago
The article says he was indicted by a grand jury, and fled the state, presumably while out on bail.
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u/LeGama 5h ago
Read the second sentence they wrote right after the grand jury conviction... He fled the state with her birth mother. So not the actions of an innocent person. Here's from the article:
"My birth mother’s husband was arrested, charged with rape, and indicted by a grand jury. At 12 years old, I testified in court. I haven’t seen my birth mother since that day in 1978. She and her husband fled the state and he was declared a fugitive.”
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u/welestgw Ohio 9h ago
I don't think the campaign manager quite realizes yet the blowback he's getting.
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u/NerdsRuleTheWorld 9h ago
They were already behind in polling before the ad. I fully believe they don't care about winning, they just want to be as hurtful and ugly and vicious as they can for the rest of the race.
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u/ijustneedaccess 7h ago
Seriously, I'm sure there are conservative women voters who will relate to her.
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u/Blarfk 5h ago
Unfortunately that would requite empathy, which conservatives are incapable of.
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u/Polantaris Illinois 1h ago
Nah, empathy is required to relate to people that are in different situations from yourself, not when they're mirror images of you.
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u/Such_Technician_1682 10h ago
Campaign ending moment as in no one in their right mind will vote for Ramaswamy after this so Acton doesn’t have to campaign anymore?
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u/theythinkitsallover 9h ago
The last decade has proven that a minimum of 30% are not in their right mind...
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u/Gameboywarrior Montana 9h ago
No one in their right mind, you say? So he won't lose a single Republican voter?
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u/Button-Down-Shoes 9h ago
Gee, another "gotcha" strategy. Heaven forbid they opt for reasonable and rational policy as a selling point.
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u/ry1701 9h ago
I always think that these people have always been this way and they made it through the early years like this. No one kicked their ass or challanged them so they keep getting worse.
The bully I had in 6th grade started a fight with me, he was a ruffin. I won, he never bothered me again and now he's literally a good Christian boi who's realized how bad he was lol
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u/Donny_Do_Nothing Texas 9h ago
"Nothing cleanses the soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
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u/RainbowConnickJr 10h ago
Fully divorced from any questions of ethics or morals or basic human decency, I understand why he’s doubling down. That ad is absolutely vile, and only a despicable pig would run it, and Ramaswamy knows that he gains nothing by apologizing for his loathsome act and that his only chance now is to own it and try to get elected King Swine of the Slop Trough.
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u/ThatNewSockFeel 10h ago
It’s from the Trump playbook. Saying you’re sorry just opens a can of worms. Who created this ad? Who viewed it? Who approved it? Why did you think it was a good ad to run? Don’t you think it crosses a line? Etc.
Just deny deny deny until the reporters move on.
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u/RainbowConnickJr 10h ago
Well except he isn’t denying. He’s come out and declares that yes he’s responsible for the ad and he stands by it, and they are spending four million dollars to broadcast it everywhere in Ohio for the last two weeks of the election.
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u/seeker4482 7h ago
most rightoids are incapable of truly apologizing for any mistake, due to weakness of character which they never sought to improve, and a warped degenerate notion that never apologizing makes you strong and powerful.
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u/TheFeshy 9h ago
King Swine of the Slop Trough
That's the only way to win the Republican primary anyway.
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u/gwendolyn_trundlebed 9h ago
Ah, I remember the good ol' days when I thought Trump bringing Bill Clinton's accusers to the debate was the lowest of the low. Sickening where we're at now, all thanks to that orange POS.
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u/jest4fun 10h ago
that “reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core—a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants.”
This is the way of the gop, their way of fascism.
We Must do better. We can do better.
Vote Blue no matter who.
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u/Putrid-Product4121 9h ago
God damn. I came into this article blind not knowing anything about this, but that is some despicable shit. How can anybody think that this was a good idea, let alone support it. Not just politically, but as a human being?
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u/FuriousBuffalo 9h ago
This is not surprising. This billionaire asshole proposed to terminate more than a million federal employees OVERNIGHT based on the last digits of their SSN. He has no morals, no ethics, no compassion.
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u/tweedlebeetle 6h ago
People don’t become billionaires who have ethics. They are mutually exclusive.
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u/LifeguardDry7372 6h ago
Gabe? The Arizona Iced Tea guy? The Costco guy?
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u/Public-Cat2385 4h ago
They earned it through good products and companies, they do a lot of good and keep their wealth moving. They aren't hiding and amassing it through trading and loopholes.
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u/cybah 8h ago
He’s like every similar guy that is brought into a company to clean it up. Talks out both sides of the mouth. No morals. No ethics. No compassion.. as long as he looks good for the board and gets big payday at the end.
I’ve worked with so many slimey people like him in my career. So gross how they act.
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u/Kinto_il 5h ago
this just proves that billionaires did not get to where they are because they're smart, eff em
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u/Desecrated_Potato 8h ago
Our president is a proven rapist and has tens of thousands of pieces of evidence in the Epstein files that credibly connect and implicate him in multiple crimes and people still LOVE him. It’s insane, and indicative of just how deeply our society is infested with straight up evil people
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u/SeaWitch1031 9h ago
In another article he blames Acton for the commercial because she won't debate him and she keeps lying about him.
He's a piece of shit.
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u/beenyweenies 8h ago
They are so desperate that they just attack before doing any basic research.
I imagine it unfolded similarly to Kennedy going after Jack Smith with some stupid "gotcha" about him being at a basketball game, when he had the facts completely wrong. In both cases, they either did no research at all. or someone did the research and found problems, but the facts were ignored because it didn't fit the narrative.
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u/Mand125 8h ago
Because in their minds people are defined as good or bad. Any action a good person does is therefore good, and any action a bad person does is therefore bad.
The rest of us, who live in the world of sanity, believe that actions are defined as good or bad, and that a person becomes either good or bad by their actions.
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u/Omateido 8h ago
To build on this, the reason they believe that people are defined as good or bad is because they are taught that what you believe defines what kind of person you are. This is a core belief of fundamentalist Christianity, if you accept (believe) Jesus is your lord and savior, you are accepted into heaven (are defined as good), regardless of whatever sins (actions) you committed. It is a literal ticket to justifying atrocity.
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u/MirageATrois024 6h ago
All of them support donald KID RAPING trump. They love this kind of disgusting shit
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u/Separate_Hippo_5556 10h ago
He’s targeting Trump voters who consistently support rapists over their victims.
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u/RandyMuscle I voted 9h ago
Rapists and psychotic estranged parents are the GOP base so it makes sense.
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u/SomethingAwkwardTWC 2h ago
Literally saw someone on another app respond to this saying “estrangement goes both ways” and supporting the mom… like ok Tom, I’m sure it’s totally your choice that your kids don’t talk to you anymore.
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u/defroach84 Texas 10h ago
Yet they are only something like 30% of the country.
And he still has a chance to win due to the apathetic people.
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u/HighlyOffensive10 7h ago
He has to be extra despicable so they ignore the color of his skin.
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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 9h ago
If Ramaswamy loses then this ad will be studied as a legendary mistake in political science classes for decades.
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u/FuriousBuffalo 9h ago
And if he wins, I will lose the last shred of faith in our electorate.
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u/universal_cereal_bus 8h ago
As a lifelong Ohioan, I have very little faith that Acton will win.
My state is full of MAGA Republican trash that care nothing more than to vote for whomever has the R next to their name.
They'll claim Amy is lying and that the pushback against the ad is fake news. The same people that accuse liberals of being "sheep" will blindly follow and worship Trump and his cronies, no matter what they say or do.
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u/redaemon 8h ago
All the election rigging only works because about third of Americans don't vote - many years, "nobody" would handily win elections.
If every American turned up, the bot farms would at least need to double their propaganda budget.
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u/ExplorerPup 7h ago
When I left Ohio almost 15 years ago, on the last day I was there, I made a short 45min drive to the nearest Walmart, and in that time I passed 8 trucks with confederate flags flying out the back. It surprised my mom, and she's from the deep south.
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u/Big_Lab_Jagr Wisconsin 7h ago
I left 22 years ago, I've lived in multiple states since then. We considered buying my MIL's house in Ohio for a cheap retirement but after going back to visit this last summer we ruled it out very quickly. Good luck, Ohio, you need it.
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u/ExplorerPup 7h ago
Yeah honestly I have a lot of friends back there and even though I haven't been thinking of moving back they've all been pretty clear I should stay gone. LOL
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u/FuriousBuffalo 7h ago
To think that Ohio was part of the Union and Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan were from there. SMH.
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u/ExplorerPup 7h ago
I think it has one of the largest KKK groups too, or something like that. Crazy that it used to be a destination for free slaves.
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u/ZeppoJR 9h ago
We still learn about how Kim Campbell destroyed an already doomed 1993 campaign for the conservative party in Canada by making an attack ad that seriously looked like they were making fun of the fact that Jean Chretien has Bell's Palsy.
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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 9h ago
I had to watch Michael Dukakis in a tank in one of my classes, yeah.
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u/AbilityRelevant4543 8h ago
With his big ole helmet on. That's the first presidential election I remember as a child.
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u/schad501 Arizona 9h ago
That didn't help, but there were a bunch of issues with the Campbell campaign, along with the absolute disgust with the Mulroney government, that made it unlikely that she could win. The real turning point in the campaign came when she said that unemployment would remain high and she had no plan to deal with it - her support dropped off a cliff immediately.
She was a weak candidate in every way. The PCs were determined to have a woman be PM - good for them - but all of the strong candidates, like Carney and McDougall, declined to run, so they wound up with a political rookie and serial liar, with none of the necessary political instincts.
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u/StoryLineOne 9h ago
Yup, this ad is up there with the absolute worst political ads of all time. Obviously politics can get pretty dirty, but this is SO bad that even Scott Jennings on CNN was essentially saying "Vivek, you're an idiot".
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u/RationalTranscendent 8h ago
Ramaswamy was already a piece of shit. This just puts an exclamation point on it.
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u/craigathan 6h ago
It's not a "mistake" though. This is all bad faith and extremely deliberate and just plain fucked up.
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u/Spicy_Surfer 8h ago
We shouldn’t make legends out of useless conmen whose shtick is a million years out of fashion and undeniably stupid
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u/sexeveg314 10h ago
I don't know why everyone is surprised. The Republicans have proved again and again that they are the pro-pedophile party. Supporting the pedophile and attacking the victim is entirely consistent with Republican values.
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u/PirateCodingMonkey Tennessee 10h ago
I didn’t realize there was any lower campaigns could go. as a girl, long before she had any idea about wanting to be anything other than happy, she was the victim of SA while her mother not only stood by, chose the perpetrator over her daughter. now, almost 50 years later, this piece of excrement is suggesting that this makes her unworthy or incapable of being governor? maybe we should go back in time and see what little Vivek and his parents up to? was he bullying some little kid on the playground? were his parents involved in anything that is really not our business and has no impact on how he would govern? what about his grandparents? is there anything juicy there?
let’s talk about issues and policies. those are what matter in the end
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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad California 9h ago
Even as Ramaswamy received backlash from across the political spectrum, his campaign manager boasted to Axios that the ad marked “a campaign-ending moment for Amy Acton.”
I get why someone in the GOP would think that.
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u/zeroman987 8h ago
Yeah, she won’t have to campaign anymore because Vivek has successfully alienated most people by posting this disgusting ad.
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u/TheAskewOne 8h ago
She’s a Republican, she doesn’t understand that most people tend to stand with the victims of sex crimes and not the perpetrators.
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u/CanIPetThatDawgPls 8h ago
I 100% think Vivek knew this ad would not be received well. I think he assumes he’ll lose the election too. He made this ad and is doubling down because it hurts Dr. Acton. He’s lashing out and trying to break “things on the way out.” The process is the punishment.
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u/cumbersome-shadow 8h ago
Republicans would rather burn down the world than let others save it.
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u/eddiemarshall 7h ago
As an Ohioan, I can confirm that this guy is a despicable sack of shit
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u/AceofKnaves44 District Of Columbia 10h ago
He is genuinely up there with Trump and Elon in being one of the least likable people in this country. He’s an internet troll with money. It says a lot about how unlikable and unpopular he is that he went from being announced as co-running doge to this. And even if he wasn’t so incredibly obnoxious he’s also a brown man asking for republican votes. They’re never going to like him.
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u/Strange-Effort1305 9h ago
Republicans don't think rape is wrong. They are angry at her for reporting it.
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u/BadlyTimedFarnsworth 9h ago
You have to admit that this was the most on-brand ad for the party this election cycle.
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u/RodeoSex 10h ago
This just ties the Republican party even closer to those who support sexual abuse of children. What is wrong with these people?
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u/WallyBBunny I voted 9h ago edited 9h ago
Didn’t he also have a convicted sex offender in one of his ads recently?
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u/Omatzus 8h ago
Trump?
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u/IfIWasCoolEnough 7h ago
Trump: "stop saying it's me every time. There are dozens of other offenders."
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u/Careless_Hawk_9927 10h ago
This is absolutely horrendous. I have hope that this situation will severely backfire, and if there was ever a case where it could be proven that this kind of vile behavior will not be rewarded by the electorate - this is it. A very close race in the polling, let's hope for a landslide beating for this piece of shit.
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u/Kendal_with_1_L 8h ago
So she’s a bad person for being raped as a child by her stepdad? Is that what this POS is inferring? Every Republican voter encourages pedophiles.
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u/DelilahsDarkThoughts 6h ago
If claiming migrants eat pets and nazis are ok with the GOP, then this won't change anything
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u/Pour_Me_Another_ 8h ago
Considering 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys are affected by adult sexual predators, it's not surprising to think of just how many people are out there who attack children and then vote accordingly for people who share their values such as Vivek.
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u/idiotic_joke 10h ago
Can every republican be asked about this disgrace, they love asking democrats about a streamer and his opinions so I hope they have no probelem being asked to condemn this shitty excuse of a humanbeing.
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u/TheSavageDonut 9h ago
Trump has tried to exude and re-set manhood into being tough, strong, always right, and Kegseth talks about american military warrior culture --- and then there's Vivek Ramasmarmy putting out an ad that betrays being a strong man by turning being a man into being desperate, out of touch, willing to commit crimes to win (the ad may have violated federal election laws initially), cowardly and a con man.
Could Dr. Acton or Dr. Acton's family sue Ramasmarmy for defamation? This ad seems to cross a line and serve no political purpose. It's an attempt to trigger trauma with the goal of character smear. I find this hard to defend as political speech, no?
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u/G-tine13 4h ago
I made a contribution to his opponent today just because of the ad. It might not help but I felt better doing something.
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u/gwendolyn_trundlebed 9h ago
At least now Dr. Acton can say her mother did one good thing for her. She basically handed her the governor's race.
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u/agawl81 8h ago
So are they trying to convince the public that sex crimes against children aren’t a crime ?
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u/Buddhavulture 7h ago
Now that the Republicans know that there is sexual abuse behind this commercial, they can use it as a masturbation aid.
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u/jrblockquote 7h ago
Jesus and Howard Dean's campaign crapped out because of a "Yeah!" Somehow this fucking slug's campaign rolls on.
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u/Oregon-outdoors2358 5h ago
MAGA women do you approve of this filth? Of course you do, you elected Trump who rapes children!!
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u/Major_LeeHungg 1h ago
I've seen this damn article all day... Still haven't seen the ad.
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u/Equivalent-Bad-268 40m ago
The ad was probably pulled because it's so bad. It's literally her mother who chose her pedophile boyfriend over her 12 year old daughter.
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u/DouglasRather 10h ago
Ohio, is this really the man you want for your governor? Another billionaire who made his money by ripping other people off? Come on - you are better than this.
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u/debugprint 9h ago
I thought the worst political commercial of all time was the Indiana congressional election in the early 1990's where one candidate (who later made governor and VP) had an "Arab" dressed the part thanking his opponent for high gasoline prices
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/mike-pence-negative-campaigning-229030
True enough though, Vivek's "mom" ad truly dwarfs the above.
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u/Funkybunch2000 8h ago
As a DRP'ed federal employee, I'll never forget this POS was originally named as a co-leader of DOGE. He can fuck right off.
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u/GhostBeefSandwich 8h ago
Does he think if he surrounds himself with enough pedophiles that his potential constituents will forget he's not white?
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u/YoungCubSaysWoof 7h ago
I watched the ad, and thought it was devastating towards Amy Acton.
Then I read how Amy’s mother is estranged, and allowed Amy to get sexually abused / raped when she was 12 years old by her husband (who was tried and convicted)!
I guess they are betting on people not knowing that full story and just hoping that the mother putting down her daughter is a devastating attack? If so, God that is so low.
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u/TurboSalsa Texas 7h ago
The 4D chess move would've been to disown that ad and make Democrats prove his campaign was behind it. Taking the high road, even if he did make the ad, would've made it a little easier for Republicans who were already holding their nose to vote for him.
Instead, he chose to double down even after the ad was debunked and panned by everyone outside of MAGA Twitter, but his campaign is so online they don't even realize how scummy it makes him look to normal people (and he looked pretty scummy before).
He stepped on a landmine and instead of trying to extricate himself from the minefield he's going further into it.
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u/Ok-Horror-4253 5h ago
i'd like to think this is enough to kill his political career as a whole, but, there's a pedo in the white house.
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u/swiftfoot_hiker 10h ago
Vivek may have just sealed the Election for Amy Acton. Just when you think Republicans couldn't be more pathetic, they sink even lower. This ad is going to backfire so badly for him, and the fact that reports are saying he's going to double down and spend more money airing it, shows how desperate he is
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u/Common_Shelter_4605 10h ago
Vivek may have just sealed the Election for Amy Acton
He may have also sealed the election for Sherrod Brown, and a Democratic majority in the Senate
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u/Ok_Key_4731 I voted 5h ago
I am not getting my hopes up. I lost faith in the Ohio electorate in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
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u/Dull_Investigator358 10h ago
With so many pedophile friends, he might truly believe every 12 year old girl is a liar.
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u/dreaganusaf 10h ago
Viv Ramiscammy is such a little weasel excuse of a man. Viv - Go back to Texas with your LazyEyeGuy Ken Paxton.
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u/pogishushu America 10h ago
The pedofile list is continuing down the gop ladder. Looks like it has or will reach even the cultist that support the trump Fascist Regime.
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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 9h ago
Ah, Vivek is clearly angling to be the heretofore successor to James O’Keefe (anyone remember him?)…
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/ye-of-bad-faith/547562/
“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the bad faith that persists on the populist Right than the actions of James O’Keefe as he solicits donations for Project Veritas.”
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u/ProfessorVolga 5h ago
Only the ceaseless depravity of the GOP would create an attack ad going 'oh yeah? Well, my opponent was raped as a child in the 1970s!' and think it was a home run
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u/roscoe_e_roscoe 4h ago
As you know, being an asshole or criminal is a badge of honor for the right wing. Election fraud? No prob! Pedophile? Step right in the tent here!
Sad but true. For the right wing, stuff like this is how become made, like a gangster.
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u/Positive-Room7421 3h ago
Everyone seems to be making the assumption that conservatives are offended by child rape.
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u/SigmaAgonist 1h ago
In addition to not being elected for a despicable ad, he should be arrested for campaign finance rule violations. I know it's a long shot, but it should happen.
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u/BareNakedSole 8h ago
I’m trying to figure out the angle here.
There’s the angle that he figures that Ohio voters are so preprogrammed to vote Republican that this is a good way to solidify the vote against a lying Democrat who abandoned her mother and they just assume she lying about the SA.
Then there the angle where he probably understands that this was a mistake but he HAS to embrace the message at this point.
I would gladly trade the state of Ohio to another country but I’m sure there would be no takers.
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u/jayfeather31 Washington 10h ago
At this point, it's not a question of if Vivek loses, it's a question of by how much.
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u/Timmah73 10h ago
Its Ohio man. I keep telling myself he just ended his chances right? Then I remember they elected Vance for senate and keep putting gym Jordan in there.
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u/Ianthin1 9h ago
Neither of those guys are brown skinned. Vivek would be a runaway lock if it weren’t for that. It’s the one MAGA trait he may not be able to overcome.
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u/Nythoren 9h ago
True, but there's a surprising number of people who vote every cycle that have no idea what the person they're voting for looks like or what their views are. They just see that little (R) next to the name and full in the bubble.
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u/TheRegalOneGen 9h ago
I mean... He doesn't have a traditionally white name either.
Reminder that in Michigan, a literal WITHDRAWN CANDIDATE won over the Trump endorsee because his name was Amir Hasan. The dude who was won was Thomas Smith and he got over 50% of the vote. After withdrawing.
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u/DinosaurHeaven 9h ago
But the (R) is followed by the name Ramaswamy, and there are at least tens of MAGA voters that know how to read before racially profiling a candidate.
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u/Timmah73 9h ago
That part is very true. He is brown and has a foreign sounding name. He can never truly be part of the club
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u/CyberFireball25 9h ago
To be fair, they gerrymandered and twisted Gyms district more than a bowl of speghetti to effectively guarantee he will never lose
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u/asmallercat 8h ago
If you're ever expecting Ohio to do the right thing, prepare for disappointment.
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u/barneyrubbble 10h ago
In further news: Ramaswamy will not be campaigning while he tends to the bullet shaped hole in his foot.
(He is a particularly despicable human being.)
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u/royale_wthCheEsE 8h ago
I wonder how much they paid that disgusting old crone. Maybe she took only 100 cartons of Marlboro Reds.
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u/Dantien 8h ago
Republicans only care about winning, not how they do so. That is their entire character laid bare - no principles, no backbone, no honesty. Just “beat my opponent at all costs” and they never really think about those costs…
Until they have to pay and then it’s “no fair!!” and DARVO. In my 5 decades I’ve never seen humans so lacking in empathy at this scale. Maybe it’s the internet and modern media visibility but when it comes to virtue… I can’t find a single one in the GOP.
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u/gaudiest-ivy 8h ago
The entire MAGA movement is just a deliberate race to the bottom. If more vile a shithead you are, the more they're clamoring to vote for you.
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u/Actual__Wizard 5h ago
I'm a person that left the advertising/marketing industry due to unethical behavior that was way better then that.
It's pretty bad, but it's certainly not as bad as Google manipulating kids with ads for genocide though.
Granted, this campaign was "brought to you by YouTube" as well.
So, thank you Google for the two most disgusting ad campaigns probably in the past 25 years?
They're a bunch of evil monsters...
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u/thegoddamnbatman40 1h ago
He is a very small man and insecure human being. He will hopefully be footnote to history
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