Is Vivek Ramaswamy A Taco Or A Fajita?

Apparently Vivek Ramaswamy is like the noisy plate of fajitas that goes by you in the restaurant. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Agents reported dozens of migrants with injuries, including those broken
limbs you reference, and drownings, including several children under the
age of one.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Should those booyes be removed? Now?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I don't think the booys are the problem, honestly, Margaret.
This has been happening every single week. We've seen people
drown Last year there were hundreds of migrants that are drowning.
The reality is the buoy is only a very small
little portion of the river.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
So we're going to hit a whole bunch of stories here,
things that you may not have heard, we haven't touched on,
but just a little bit if you haven't seen the videos.
They've got this new string of booys through the river
there separating the United States and Mexico. It's basically they
built a wall in a much cheaper version in the
water that you can't get passed by swimming. And of

(00:47):
course it's become controversial because walls are wrong.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay, fine, that reminds me. I saw the other day
Washington Times was reporting that the United States military has
over twenty thousand of those giant metal panels to construct
the wall, just laying around, and we're paying hundreds of
thousands of dollars a month just to store them because
the Biden administration said bill bridges not walls and stopped
the wall building lovely soon.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Anyway, that is happening down in Texas. The Biden administration
is saying they've got to move them. It's the federal
government's business to deal with the border, not yours. Governor
Abbott of Texas is saying, bring on the lawsuit, mister president.
And uh I kind of thought he was going to
run for president. But anyway, we'll see where that goes.
Another story. We mentioned this last week, but it's official

(01:34):
now the Biden administration has blocked Wuhan Lab, the Wuhan
Lab from further funding. How this isn't a big story,
I do not know. I mean, it seems like it's
an admission of that was a problem with the whole
pandemic thing.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
But there you go. Yeah, the New York Times covered it,
but they didn't leave in the fact that, by the way,
we spent like a year and a half saying anybody
who said that the Wuhan Lab might elite was a
dangerous lunatic and probably ought to be jailed. We feel
bad about that. Now they forgot they're busy.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
So they have what some call the biggest crisis in
Israel internally that they've ever had in the nation's history.
They've had some pretty big external crisises, like a whole
bunch of wars where many many countries tried to destroy them,
but internally they've never had anything like this where you've
got pilots not showing up for duty. That's never happened before.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Right, Yeah, military pilots, their reserve forces, active duty. I'll say, no,
we're not showing up for work. If you're going to
do this.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Doctor's not showing up to hospitals, protesting various moves in
the government. And so I have taken in a couple
of different podcasts with people that like Israel's really their beat,
and they say that the representation of what's going on
with the protests is very well, it's drive by media
like Russia embodies to talk about it. What's actually happening

(03:02):
is they're having their reckoning that they were able to
put off since nineteen forty nine or whenever Israel became
a country. The reckoning is happening now of are we
a Jewish state or not? Is coming to the head.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, Yeah, the more religious religionist nationalist forces are now
in an open fight against the more secular kind of
modernist or so they have, you believe forces. And it's
really interesting. I've tried to figure out what's going on,
and there are a lot of subtleties. There are a
lot of different ways of looking at the arguments, and

(03:38):
there are a lot of politics going on. But net
Yahoo has formed the right wing yist Israeli government really
for many many moons, and they think the courts have
way too much power to overturn their laws, and so
they're trying to rewrite what powers the courts have. It's
a major major move in how the society functions. Whether

(03:59):
it's right or wrong is in the eye of the beholder, obviously,
but they're not fighting over trivia's.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
It's a big question, right And uh so that's that
I mentioned this earlier. Never got to it is Vivek
or a swami, a fahida or a taco Ramaswami. I
left out a syllabl.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Uh he's a fahida or a taco. Right, So that
is perhaps the most ridiculous and absurd question I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
The answer, please, so Jonathan Chait wrote this, So why
the shoulder shrugging about Ramaswami's rise. It's pretty simple. His
rivals don't think his last. He'll last. By the way,
I watched his interview on Fox News Sunday. He's good.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah he is.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
He has I hate to say it, but he has
it in a way that poor DeSantis just does not.
He can't. If DeSantis could like encapsulate his thoughts or
feelings or mood or whatever the Ray Vivey can, he
would be well, he wouldn't be forty behind Trump.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah. I read somebody trying to take a shot at Ramaswami,
and their shot essentially was you know, he wasn't the
great scientist he claims to be. He was the sales
guy for all of these endeavors that made him rich.
And I'm like, okay, So you're saying he's such an
incredibly successful salesman he became a billionaire or whatever he is,

(05:22):
and that's like to say, therefore he won't succeed as
a politician. You haven't watched much politics.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh, by the way, another tangent before we get to
the tacos and fahidas. So some have made a big
deal out of in a critical way, the fact that
two Republican candidates. Ramaswami is he's set up kind of
like a selling Tupperware pyramid sort of thing for fundraising,
where like you get ten percent of the haul, or

(05:49):
I think that's the amount. Like if I sign up
five people to fundraise for Vivik's campaign, I get ten
percent of the money, and then you got the North
uh North Korea, North Dakota governor, the billionaire he's actually
paying people like if you donate ten dollars, he'll give
you a twenty dollars gift card.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Right, Yeah, so he can get enough donors to be
on the debate stage.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
But this has been hailed as horrible by some people,
leaving out the fact that all your bundlers, like a
third of Joe Biden's ambassadors are big bundlers from the
last election. That's somehow better than the two examples I
just gave.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right being a professional fundraiser essentially, what the hell.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Doesn't bother me anyway?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think I'd like to be an ambassador. But that
Diplomat show with Carrie Russell no looks kind of stressful.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Jonathan Chait wrote, Vivik is like the fahitas that go
by you at the restaurant. One advisor on the Rival
campaign told a reporter the fijtas make noise, look exciting
and come on a fun plate, but if you order it,
it's too much, too annoying to assemble, and you wish
you'd just ordered the tacos.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I appreciate a good metaphor, perhaps even more than the
average person, but I freaking love fajitas.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I don't care abou politics of this. I just was
wondering about the fajido taco. Does anybody anybody look at fidos,
think that looks fun and exciting, and then get them
and think that's too much work. I wish i'd got
in a taco. Does that happen?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
I suppose it might. I mean there's a little labor involved,
but that's it. You've got these sizzling fresh ingredients. You
combine them into what is to me a super taco,
a taco of surpassing deliciousness. So it's like the best
taco ever assembled on earth. So it takes you thirty seconds.
How lazy is this person? How busy are they? Do

(07:51):
they have fifteen kids and three jobs? Okay, then that's
a terrible metaphor. You wish you'd just ordered the taco.
You don't deserve f hades. I'm not sure I've ever
had a feed. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Boy,
I love fajitas.