Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ram Swami is apparently trying out something new and he is
trying out something new. Not because he says, you know, things are going badly. No, no, no,
no. Things are awesome with his presidential campaign. Don't you worry about that. But, uh,
he is gonna just test out paying his grassroots supporters to go out there and find him people to
donate money to his campaign because you know, that's totally what you do. When everything
is going perfectly and your campaign is exactly where you want it to be, you start paying people
to go beg people to give you money, right? That is absolutely not a sign of desperation
by Ramis Swami's campaign. Now, here's what's gonna happen under his new plan,
they have set up a system and they're gonna do background checks on people,
right? We can't just have anybody going out there and getting donations for us, right?
So you're gonna sign up, you're gonna go through the background check, and if you get approved,
what they're gonna do is they're gonna give you a link. And that link you can send out
on your Twitter, on your Instagram, on any of your social media emails,
you can send it to everybody you know, and say, Hey, how about giving some money to Ramis Swami
here? Because you know, you give him money and I get a kick of it. Cuz that's what's
happening. You know, whatever amount they donate, if they donate a hundred dollars,
but they use your link, you will get a percentage of that money. But the Ramis Swami campaign says,
Hey, you gotta pay taxes on it. We're gonna make this totally legal.
So that's all above board, right? But you, the individual get to get paid for finding us new
donors, which again, is not something, a campaign that was in good shape would even consider doing
because you wouldn't need to do it cuz you'd have enough people coming to your campaign
website or using the Republican fundraising tool when red to raise money in the first place.
But Ramis Swami again swears it's not because anything bad is happening with the campaign or
because they're struggling to find donors. He says they've already got 60,000 donors,
which technically would mean that he is qualified for that first Republican debate. But
he says that all these other groups that raise money are the charities that raise money. They,
the people who raise the money get a cut of it. So why not do the same thing with political races?
Because political races aren't like everything else. You idiot. I can't believe I even have
to say that, but apparently I do. Okay? We're not talking about a a, a company
that is hired by a charity to raise money for them. By the way, I've worked for those companies,
the telemarketers calling, raising money, you know, for the, we're with the
Fraternal Order of Police. They're actually not. And by the way, the percentage they took that I
worked for was so big that once I found out about it, I actually quit. But yeah, you hire third
parties to do it and that's why they get paid. Oftentimes they take, you know, well over 50%
of it, but those are also private companies. We're talking about public campaigns for federal office.
We're dealing with a country that already has some of the most lax, virtually non-existent campaign
finance laws ever. And Rama Swami, what he is doing here is setting up this new system to where
campaign fundraising becomes a bit of a pyramid scheme, right? Like we'll give you a link and then
you send the link out to your friends and then whatever you raise from them, we get the big cut
of it. But you still get a small cut of it. And then your friends, maybe they wanna set up their
own link and then they can do the same thing. Thi this is a nightmare. This is a nightmare
scenario for campaign finance that I can promise you is not going to end well for anyone.
Most likely it's gonna get challenged in court, end up in front of the Supreme Court,
and then we're gonna kill even more campaign finance laws. That's how disastrous this decision
by this idiot never gonna make it candidate is. It's also, by the way, one of the reasons we
should probably limit people running for president to people who have held an office in their life,
which of course Mr. Ramaswamy does not check that box. That's why politics keeps getting dumber cuz
we keep getting people trying to enter it who have no business entering it in the first place.
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