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This ad from @VivekGRamaswamy will go down in history as one of the most disgraceful ever aired, and that will be the only reason anyone ever remembers Vivek at all
Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing.
She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once (the victim in this 1974 indictment); she remembered Amy lived in a tent with Donna and Cledith; it's been terrible for her family to see Vivek's ad run in Ohio; and she heard rumors her father had victimized even more young girls.
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Join the IPK and the Global New Right Working Group for an event with @lkatfield on November 9. She will discuss her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, with @CBeltranNYU, Suzanne Schneider and George Schulman.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-talkâŚ
Happening this Friday! This whole project is so fascinating - born of something called the Social Contract Incubator, Letâs Agree on Poland is a book about constitutional design and depolarization that became a bestseller in Poland. If youâre in DC you should come!
Join us on Oct. 30 for Is There Room for Revolutionary Conservatives in Liberal Democracy? With Sylwia Sysko-RomaĹczuk, @JakubDrozdz, Piotr H. Kosicki, @lkatfield, and @JulianWaller. You won't want to miss it! Register here: tinyurl.com/3976yv78
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) â Serbiaâs strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.
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The visceral disgust people have to Ramaswamy's ad is heartening -- and it goes beyond politics.
NEW on @zeteo_newsâ
Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his final bus tour across Ohio.
âWeâre getting calls that people donât want him there,â a top Ohio Republican says. âItâs that damn ad.â
From @andrewperezdc & Swin Suebsaeng:zeteo.com/p/venues-start-canâŚ
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Humanists should be snobby about the fact that they are stewarding a tradition that stretches back thousands of years rather than doing busy work involving little technical puzzles. Instead they find dumb âresearchâ niches to fill because STEM gave them an inferiority complex.
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ok. this is an actual endorsement of the Vivek ad, unlike his earlier line that he was upset that republicans were upset with the ad. Can't really believe that they're attaching themselves to this thing.
Vance: "And now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because, guess what? Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Court records and 1978 reports confirm Amy Acton's stepfather was arrested and charged with raping her at age 12; he fled Ohio before trial and was declared a fugitive. Her brother has corroborated the events. Vivek and Vance are siding with abusers over a victim.
cincinnati.com/story/news/polâŚ
forbes.com/sites/saradornâŚ
mediaite.com/media/news/ramâŚ
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Shame needs to make a comeback. Iâm glad this ad exists, awful as the story is. Vivek should lose this race in a rout, and disappear from public life.
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Here's an extremely gentle interview between Acton's mother and Operation Rescue in 2020 where she admits: 1.) the allegation was made (one of at least two against the same man) 2.) it got to a grand jury in 1978 and 3.) she left town with the husband to escape it.
Amy Acton claims her mother and stepfather abused her as a child and that criminal charges were filed against them.
Acton's mother says that isn't true.
This conflict can easily be resolved by finding a record of the charges.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
National Review has uncovered court documents showing what they describe as an "extensive record" of abuse by Acton's mother. They also point to Donna Arthur's own criminal history, including a 1996 guilty plea to theft and 2021 animal abuse accusation.
nationalreview.com/news/amy-actonâŚ
ujsportal.pacourts.us/Report/CpDockeâŚ
smry.ai/www.centredailâŚ
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What Vivek Ramaswamy has done here is despicable beyond words
Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad.
"After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amyâs rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core â a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
ALT Dr. Amy Actonâs Brotherâs Statement on Ramaswamy Platforming Their Estranged and Abusive Mother COLUMBUS, OHâ Today, Dr. Amy Actonâs brother, Philip Stearns, released the following statement condemning Vivek Ramaswamyâs attempt to platform their estranged and abusive mother: âItâs not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother's husband into a political talking point,â said Philip Stearns, Dr. Actonâs brother. âAfter he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amyâs rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core â a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants.â
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He says the name just fine when heâs begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-lawâs private equity firm.
Wonder whatâs changed?
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Join us on Oct. 30 for Is There Room for Revolutionary Conservatives in Liberal Democracy? With Sylwia Sysko-RomaĹczuk, @JakubDrozdz, Piotr H. Kosicki, @lkatfield, and @JulianWaller. You won't want to miss it! Register here: tinyurl.com/3976yv78
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In case you missed it, the recording of our event, Liberalism as a Way of Life, with @alex_usyd and @lkatfield, is now on YouTube! Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=Zv-F3lpVâŚ
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Agree. And the tech seems like the problem rather than the solution.
This Apple ad is the epitome of whatâs wrong with modern culture. Truly disgusting. @Apple
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Thiel's well-considered intellectual position is that everything he opposes politically, or that negatively impacts his businesses and pursuit of profits, is the Antichrist.
At his third Antichrist lecture in Nashville, Peter Thiel talks about the International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, the United States, and the Iran War.
He describes the ICC as part of the emerging ideological architecture of the Antichrist, likening language on the ICC's website to the antichristic talk of peace and safety in 1 Thessalonians.
Thiel notes that the ICC's arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have limited where they can travel. The ICC warrant meant Netanyahu couldn't visit Poland on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp; though Poland's president said he wouldn't enforce it, Poland's authority to defy the ICC wasn't clear, and so the Israeli PM didn't come.
While condemning what he describes as the neoconservatives and George W. Bush peopleâwe "made a lot of mistakes in the Middle East wars," and "you're not supposed to torture people"âThiel says the ICC was already emerging as an issue under that administration, citing a 2003 memo from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on what he called the judicialization of international politics.
The investor interprets former VP Dick Cheney's condemnation of Trump as an effort to buy favor with the ICC, "probably too late." He says he's come to suspect that the threat of an ICC warrant is a sword of Damocles over the Trump administration amid the Iran War. Thiel describes himself as skeptical of that war, saying it is possible the US will lose the soft power war before outlining a mildly esoteric interpretation of US policy on the ICC.
Thiel says that, on the surface, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's condemnation of the ICC might look like a favor to Israel. In his reading, though, it could be a means of protecting Rubio or War Secretary Pete Hegseth from potential future warrants that could be enforced by a left-wing president.
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I think about these two portraits from âWho Goes Naziâ by Dorothy Thompson all the time. All the time.
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Canât you feel the thumos?
