Vivek 'Rhymes with Cake' - The Next Governor of OHIO
- Michael Cronin
- Dec 11, 2025
- 7 min read
Updated: Jan 1
Vivek Ramaswamy's Christmas Message to the U.S. in 2024 after departing from DOGE and making the case for more H1B Visa Workers:
'The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know multiple sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness. That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it.
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Israel hacked Iran’s Missile Defense Systems -
Causing actual missiles to launch into the air. And they did the ‘pager’ thing too. Which was ‘celebrated’ by some prominent right-wing pundits. Christians.
How are you domestic Christians doing these days?
Israel shoots protestors with a water cannon when they block the streets.
Are we tolerating? How is everybody ‘tolerating’ these days?
That is the keyword that I remember Jesus saying - ‘forgive and tolerate.’
There are lots of good jokes based on the Bible. Like when Sara Palin told Jesus she could see his house from here.
The story about Trump sliding a picture of the home of a terrorist to him across the table from him during a negotiation is one of the most inspiring things I have ever heard from the Trump administration. Bit even a broken clock is right twice a day - of course, Brian Cole Jr. knew that.
A family friend of none other than Ben Crump could not provide a reference for a suitable attorney. How disappointing for the guy who accidentally started a revolution. Which just happened to be ‘after’ we were all told to shut up and wear masks during a campaign year. Symbolism that defies speech. About Trump, about the lockdowns, about the fact that we now know how Covid funds were being used when they were supposed to go to payroll for small businesses that the government shut down - because those dumb asses paid taxes and obeyed the rules.
Well, some people might say that their lives changed in other ways that they do not maybe remember correctly from the ‘before time’ - B.C. Before Covid.
Tensile strength. Tenstile strength, is the spelling I remember. There is a certain amount of bouyance involved with the idea of tensile strength. Large buildings and Bridges have allowed for a certain amount of ‘sway’ to the left or the right or the north or the south on a sphere relevant to the equator.
In that way it is kind of like a moving time bomb - the media, the debt clock, various economies.
It reminds me of this film by Lars Von Trier. Melancholia. The world is coming to an end to the main character does not give a fuck and she is kid of a bitch, but they did try to take her family at Ruby Ridge
The Pantone Color of the year.
Does not reflect the economy.
I am ‘this close’ to starting to take a gig with the Mexican Cartels. Not trafficking drugs, not trafficking people, you know, just like gig work.
I will be glad when self-driving cars take over the road because we won’t have to worry about the 400,000 complaints of sexual assault that Uber had to handle ‘in house’.
But Sherrone Moore could tell you more about that.
He’s free on bail. Great interview if somebody over at Fox News could interview him before the sports media broadcasts his story like they did with Matt Gaetz.
Not bad.
But Trump laid all his cards on the table when he slid that picture of a house across the table to someone. Who he did not know and had never seen before, but based on the intel that he received.
The harshest critics are sometimes the best teachers when they have nothing to lose.
‘Beware the light at the end of the tunnel, it might be a train’ - Kafka, supposedly.
I feel as if Ted Cruz needs to clarify his position on free speech as it pertains to cancel culture with regard to what is ‘widely’ and ‘wildly’ misinterpreted as ‘anti-semitic’ speech. I had to ‘edit’ the ’S’ in semitic because ‘auto-correct’ capitalized it for me even though ‘semitism’ refers to ‘speech’ and therefore should not do the heavy lifting of capitalizing itself.
As it pertains to the first Amendment, which Vivek Ramaswamy is a fervent supporter of as a new member of the Republican Party as of the 2020 election.
OHIO.
Both a shape and a name and a territory itself. A territory that has experienced a recent demographic influx. But also one of those states where the next Governor of Ohio left this Christmas message last year right before his picture appeared right next to the mayor-elect of NYC on a Billboard in Times Square.
Vivek’s Wikipedia page said that he had tried to remove the entry that he received a Grant from the Paul and Daisy SOROS Foundation. Not because it was not true, but because it was. The page literally said that. This is the guy who is talking about free speech and everything else associated with his Wikipedia page and whose campaign allegedly sues people, or threatens to sue anyone who inquires into his whereabouts over the last few years.
Great High School Valedictorian Speech, Vivek. So what have you done between now and then, really? Family business, changed parties, wrote a few books in a very short period of time given your new found fervor for the Republican Party. The talking points are easy to memorize, I know. You could do that inside of a week. But to be welcomed so warmly by the media seemed almost as if an angel was looking down upon you and graced you with highly admirable decision making skills.
I think about how Taylor Swift had to navigate the ‘music industry’ and I have to admit that I am very impressed. About 15 years ago, I was siting down to watch 60 Minutes on an early Sunday evening as usual. Taylor Swift was the guest on the show. I debated turning it off. I was a 35 year old man at the time and I did not listen to Taylor Swift’s music.
I watched the interview and it was good. She’s a marketing genius, she very carefully influences her own brand. Impressive. I still did not listen to Taylor Swift’s music after that because I was a 35 year old man and did not listen to ‘young lady’ music. I did listen to her last album right after it came out because I could not avoid it. I listen to music. I don’t watch music videos. The videos kind of distract from the music. SHOWGIRL transcends space and time in a way that a modern day living figure will never achieve ever again when it comes to identifying with an audience through a non-visual artistic medium.
It felt like I was listening to a painting when I listened to that album. In a living museum. Beautiful in all of its splendor. It took Ms. Swift, soon to be Kelce, but forever Swift, 15 years to navigate a most difficult path through a business institution that is very complicated, and that cannot be overlooked. That is what impressed me the most about that album. It is genuinely really good.
Difficult industries through which to be navigated are certainly most easily not achieved in 5 years. The difference between Taylor Swift and Vivek Ramaswamy is that she actually has a good product.
Vivek and Ronna McDaniel.
And Charlie Kirk
You don’t know who shovels your snow or who cuts your grass? Neither does J.B. Pritzker.
Karoline Leavitt didn’t even know her sister-in-law was here illegally
Shoulda been born Somali
Should been born Mamdani
It’s a ‘think piece’ about a mid-level band struggling with their own success in the face of stardom. - That is a line I remember from the character actor who played Lester Bangs in ‘Almost Famous’.
I am formally offering Alina Habba a job - She can contact me at MichaelRCronin.com
How many ways can you see to find Waldo?
Do that in 1500 hundred words or less and have it on my desk by Monday. No typos, clean. As many words as necessary and as few words as possible.
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