Summary
Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Trump, is expected to step down to launch a campaign for Ohio governor.
Sources report friction between Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, and incoming DOGE staff, with Musk’s team criticizing his lack of participation and subtly encouraging his exit.
“Vivek has worn out his welcome,” one Trump associate said.
DOGE, a task force to streamline federal bureaucracy, is not a formal agency.
It’s Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley
I am not cool with that actually. People have a right to use whatever names for themselves they choose. If that applies to trans people, which it does, it also applies to cis people.
If she wants to be Nikki Haley, fine.
Interesting you compare Nimarata’s attempt to cover her origins so she can be more appealing to her conservative audience to the dead names of trans people. I guess you’re saying it’s totally cool to identify as a different race when it works in your favor. Personally, I think such comparisons are an insult to trans people.
No, I think people are allowed to change their names and other people should respect their chosen identities.
I assume you don’t talk about President Leslie Lynch King Jr. despite the fact that he changed his name to Gerald Ford because it sounded more manly, right? Who cares why people change their name?
The whole point is that this should be a universal acceptance thing.
It’s important to remember where she came from
No it isn’t. Self-identity is self-identity. Why should someone be an exception just because they’re horrible? Caitlyn Jenner is a Trump supporter and killed a person. Should we call her Bruce?
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Someone can only run for governor if they use their full legal name to do so? When did this law get passed? As I have pointed out already to two others, Nikki was her childhood nickname and it is a Punjabi word. This is no different from why Beto O’Rourke calls himself that. It was his childhood nickname. And, similarly, people came up with all sorts of nefarious reasons why he was doing it.
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No, but if she started calling herself a humanitarian, I’m not going to. If she started calling herself Native American, I wouldn’t. If she started calling herself god, I wouldn’t.
And neither would you—I hope.
This is a name, not an ethnicity.
Also, she didn’t change it for political reasons, you just decided she did. It was her childhood nickname and it means “little one” in Punjabi. It took seconds for me to find out that out.
So you’re essentially saying that she is lying about being Indian-American by using her childhood nickname. Are you sure that’s what you want to go with?
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Please do show me where she used her childhood Punjabi nickname to convince people she’s white.
My god, there are so many legitimate things to criticize her for and people are just stuck on something that isn’t.
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Exactly. Until she respects trans people, she’s a Nimrod to me.
I’ll default to respecting people’s chosen names, but if they don’t offer that respect to others, they lose it from me.
So if a trans person doesn’t respect someone’s chosen name, you will deadname them? Doesn’t that make you no better than people like Haley?
Doesn’t the trans person not respecting someone’s chosen name make them no better than Haley?
Decency is a social contract. I’ll default to being decent to others, but if they’re not decent to those around them, I feel no qualms with being similarly indecent to them. The difference is that I only do that in response to their indecency and will happily stop if they start being decent. This is no different from the paradox of tolerance.
You didn’t answer my question. Would you deadname them?
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Is that a yes or a no? And please explain why. Insults are not answers.
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I am OK with any and all vitriol being used to fight literal nazis
Don’t you think saying someone is only using her childhood Punjabi nickname is just trying to make people think she’s white is the kind of thing a Nazi might say?
Non-Western names can, believe it or not, sound like Western ones.
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That may not have been what OP meant, I don’t know. But other people are saying she changed her name to sound white and it just isn’t true.
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I looked it up because no one else bothered to. It’s her childhood nickname and it means “little one” in Punjabi.
People here are just assuming it was about fooling people about her ethnicity.
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Do you really think her parents called her a Punjabi name in childhood to make her more American just because it sounds like a Western name?
This actually happens a lot, especially back in the day when America didn’t have large populations of asian immigrants.
As an asian dude who was born in the US in the 80s, I can attest that it is not abnormal to have a “western” middle name and a traditional first name, or vice versa.
Even when I was young, teachers would tell my parents not to speak to me in their native tongue because it would inhibit my English language skills.
I’m guessing Nikki’s parents got the same treatment, and is why she doesn’t speak Punjabi, and why I had to relearn my parents language as an adult.
So, yes I do think her parents and her probably felt pressure to westernize themselves, as America was even more racist back then.
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