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.
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?
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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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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It has to do with respecting someone’s identity and maybe not accuse them of pretending to change her ethnicity when there’s no evidence since, you know, that’s pretty fucking bigoted.
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I never said she can’t be scrutinized. I said it’s fucking bigoted to say that the reason why she is called Nikki is so she can sound white when that is not in any way the case since, again, it was a Punjabi childhood nickname.
You do understand that Punjabi isn’t English, right? And that non-English names can sound like English ones? You know, like Asian people named Li or Lee? And you know that Punjabi doesn’t use the Latin alphabet, so it can be spelled however you like with the Latin alphabet, right?
There are so many legitimate things to criticize her for, but you are going with, “she’s trying to make people think she’s white by using a South Asian name.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_(given_name)
I suppose she could calll herself ਨਿੱਕੀ, but that is pronounced the same way, so…
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How can it both be true that she has always been called Nikki and that she changed her name to Nikki to sound more white?
Again, there are so many legitimate things to criticize her for, so why are you going for the bigotry of “South Asian people don’t have South Asian names unless they’re being deceptive?”