MAGA world figures describing the ad as a ‘self-inflicted wound’ in private, report claims

Vivek Ramaswamy was reportedly warned by Ohio Republicans and campaign staffers not to run the controversial attack ad on Democratic opponent Amy Acton that featured her estranged mother - but went ahead anyway.

Some campaign staffers are so incensed by the decision to run the ad - which featured Acton’s 82-year-old mother, Donna Arthur smearing her daughter as a “liar” over child sex abuse she suffered - that they have considered resigning, according to Zeteo. Arthur lost custody of her children after her late husband, Cledith Arthur, was indicted for raping Acton when she was a child. She stood by her husband, who died in 2004.

Several Ohio Republican and Trump-world figures privately described the ad as a “self-inflicted wound” to Zeteo as the polls with Acton have narrowed.

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[–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's so funny seeing Ramaswami step back into the public eye after giving Squeex basically half a decade to write a public image for him amongst his audience with his parody character Ramasquamy

Like, I seriously can't think of Ramaswamy as an actual politician that people take seriously after several years of watching Ramasquamy prance around announcing "Day One!" whilst holding up double peace signs, stage a "peaceful protest" at the city hall on Jan 6th after he lost the mayoral reelection, or setting up a fake assassination plot to have his ear get shot during the mayoral debates last month, pretending to be the incumbent mayor because of being referenced as mayor in the trailer despite there being nobody actually filling the mayoral role, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    shout out for bringing up nopixel I’ve been watching it like crazy lately. Only real ones understand. Bogg Dann music is some of the funniest shit I’ve ever heard

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    The funniest part is I'm not the one who watches it, my wife is. Most of it is just background noise to me, but she'll poke me to pay attention when they get something really rediculous setup (like the staged assassination plot. Listening to Chatterbox and Vivek planning it was honestly funnier than the staged assassination attempt itself!)

    But yeah honestly I find the pacing of live streams to be too slow for me, I just can't pay attention for that long without anything meaningful happening, then suddenly I've missed something massive in the 1-2 hour long conversation I tuned out. But having my wife who finds it's perfect second screen content for her ADHD to poke me when I need to pay attention or summarize some of the long meandering conversations between characters (seriously I can never tell when it's an important conversation or not!) it's almost like I'm a viewer

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