(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Can You Pass the Vivek Ramaswamy Civics Test?!? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-31 Republican Presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy has a swell idea. We all know that younger voters, aged 18 to 24, are a bunch of social media-besotted dolts who would vote for anyone proposing to slash the tickets to Taylor Swift concerts. That’s why gleeful provocateur Ramaswamy is proposing that the voting privileges of these dullards be yanked UNLESS they can pass a basic civics test, presumably written and approved by President Vivek Ramaswamy! This Department has acquired a preliminary version of this civics test. Why don’t YOU take it, and see if you deserve to vote in 2024! ITEM 1: TRUE OR FALSE: The United States Constitution (ratified 1788, implemented 1789) won the American Revolution! (ended September 3, 1783) ANSWER: TRUE! So says the man himself! “The U.S. Constitution, it is the strongest guarantor of freedom in human history. That is what won us the American Revolution.” ITEM 2: TRUE OR FALSE: The Vice-President of the United States, at the moment that Electoral College ballots are certified, has the unilateral power to create, pass through both houses (by psychic vote), sign, and implement a law that mandates single-day voting, paper ballots and voter identification. ANSWER: TRUE AGAIN! The only stipulation here is that the Vice-President must really believe this a lot, and refuse to put up with any shilly-shally from feckless, wimpy “professional liberals.” ITEM 3: TRUE OR FALSE: Black people secured their freedoms after the Civil War only after their Second Amendment rights were secured! ANSWER: TRUE TRUE TRUE! Here’s President Ramaswamy talking to CNN’s Don Lemon: “Black people secured their freedoms after the Civil War — it is a historical fact, Don, just study it — only after their Second Amendment rights were secured.” It’s a fact! Look it up! We all remember newly freed Black persons (many with impressive blacksmithing skills) rampaging through the former Confederate states asserting their Second Amendment rights with assault rifles, shotguns and pistols. White people cheered them on, and graciously invited them to participate in free and fair elections. Why isn’t this history being taught in schools? Besides Florida?? ITEM FOUR: TRUE OR FALSE: The President of the United States has the power, on day one of his administration, to disregard unconstitutional civil servant protections and fire half the federal workforce, dissolve public sector unions, and shut down whole agencies without consulting the House or Senate. ANSWER: WHAT ELSE? TRUE! Here’s President Ramaswamy once again: “I take a strong view of Article Two of the Constitution. It says the president of the United States runs the federal government, runs specifically the executive branch of the federal government. That means, I think, a lot of those civil service protections are unconstitutional.” QUESTION FIVE: TRUE OR FALSE: Donald Trump was the best president of the 21st century. ANSWER: TRUER THAN TRUE! Let’s look at the facts! Trump prevented the United States from being incinerated in a nuclear holocaust by North Korean missiles! He lowered taxes, balanced the budget, created 50 million high-paying jobs, got Mexico to build a wall to keep its citizens from crossing our border, and “repealed and replaced” Obamacare with something twice as effective that cost half as much! And he personally created the COVID vaccine that was tampered with by radical Democrats so that it kills users. And he did all this without playing golf even once!! The only reason Donald Trump isn’t President is that the election was stolen, and people just got so darn tired of winning! BONUS QUESTION: TRUE OR FALSE: Okay, slavery maybe wasn’t the BEST idea America had in 1789, but…well, it DID provide valuable blacksmith training for many enslaved persons. And they never even said thank you! ANSWER: TRUE! (source: Florida State history textbooks, based on repeated viewings of the documentary film “Gone With The Wind”) So how’d you do? 7 out of 7? Then maybe you can answer a question that even Vivek Ramaswamy can’t answer. If Donald Trump was the best president of the 21st century and he’s running again in 2024, why should even Vivek Ramaswamy vote for Vivek Ramaswamy? [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/31/2190827/-Can-You-Pass-the-Vivek-Ramaswamy-Civics-Test Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/