Sean Strickland clapped again at Donald Trump aide Vivek Ramaswamy after the outspoken conservative from Ohio commented on America’s alleged tendency to embrace mediocrity over excellence.
Ramaswamy, who based the pharmaceutical firm Roivant Providers in 2014 and has a reported internet price of a billion {dollars}, not too long ago provided his tackle why tech corporations are extra inclined to rent foreign-born engineers over Individuals.
In response to Ramaswamy, the American tradition has “honored mediocrity over excellence for manner too lengthy.”
“A tradition that celebrates the promenade queen over the mathematics olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, won’t produce one of the best engineers,” he wrote.
Ramaswamy then proceeded to try to additional make his case by pointing to a slew of 30-year-old sitcoms from ABC’s lineup of TGIF programming.
“A tradition that venerates Cory from ‘Boy Meets World,’ or Zack & Slater over Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell,’ or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in ‘Household Issues,’ won’t produce one of the best engineers.”
To be honest, Zack Morris went on to grow to be the Governor of California whereas each Corey Matthews and AC Slater turned lecturers at their respective alma maters. And Laura Winslow finally selected Steve Urkel over ‘Stefan.’
So there goes your whole argument, Mr. Ramaswamy.
Respectfully, Sean Strickland disagrees
Responding to Ramaswamy’s put up, the previous UFC middleweight champion positioned the blame squarely on the shoulders of billionaires like him who’ve made life more durable for blue-collar American households by importing labor to scale back overhead prices and hoarding their earnings as an alternative of placing that cash again into the financial system.
“Billionaires are the issue.. You set earnings over folks and patriotism,” Strickland wrote on X. “I’m not non secular but when there ever was a satan he works via huge enterprise. Imported labor, devalued wages, hoard cash. Completely ruined the household unit for revenue. Huge wage gaps Mother and father work 20 hours a day after which say “go put your youngsters in science camp.”
“You’re so out of contact with the truth and struggles of what a household goes via…. The extent of manipulation and mind washing that billionaires have contaminated this nation with…. You’re the issue…”
On November 12, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump introduced that Ramaswamy and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk had been tasked to steer the newly proposed Division of Authorities Effectivity. The purpose of the DOGE is to restructure the U.S. federal authorities by eradicating rules to scale back expenditures and enhance authorities effectivity.
Regardless of displaying his disdain for billionaires, Strickland appears lots excited to see Musk — the richest man on the planet — utterly “intestine the federal government” as soon as Trump is sworn again into the White Home on January 20.
