Sean Strickland clapped again at Donald Trump aide Vivek Ramaswamy after the outspoken conservative from Ohio commented on America’s alleged tendency to embrace mediocrity over excellence.
Ramaswamy, who based the pharmaceutical firm Roivant Companies in 2014 and has a reported web value of a billion {dollars}, lately supplied his tackle why tech corporations are extra inclined to rent foreign-born engineers over People.
In line with Ramaswamy, the American tradition has “honored mediocrity over excellence for manner too lengthy.”
“A tradition that celebrates the promenade queen over the maths olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, won’t produce the very best engineers,” he wrote.
Ramaswamy then proceeded to try to additional make his case by pointing to a slew of 30-year-old sitcoms from ABC’s lineup of TGIF programming.
“A tradition that venerates Cory from ‘Boy Meets World,’ or Zack & Slater over Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell,’ or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in ‘Household Issues,’ won’t produce the very best engineers.”
To be truthful, Zack Morris went on to develop into the Governor of California whereas each Corey Matthews and AC Slater turned academics at their respective alma maters. And Laura Winslow finally selected Steve Urkel over ‘Stefan.’
So there goes your whole argument, Mr. Ramaswamy.
Respectfully, Sean Strickland disagrees
Responding to Ramaswamy’s publish, the previous UFC middleweight champion positioned the blame squarely on the shoulders of billionaires like him who’ve made life more durable for blue-collar American households by importing labor to cut back overhead prices and hoarding their earnings as a substitute of placing that cash again into the economic system.
“Billionaires are the issue.. You set earnings over individuals and patriotism,” Strickland wrote on X. “I’m not spiritual but when there ever was a satan he works by massive enterprise. Imported labor, devalued wages, hoard cash. Completely ruined the household unit for revenue. Large wage gaps Mother and father work 20 hours a day after which say “go put your children in science camp.”
“You’re so out of contact with the truth and struggles of what a household goes by…. The extent of manipulation and mind washing that billionaires have contaminated this nation with…. You’re the issue…”
On November 12, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump introduced that Ramaswamy and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk had been tasked to guide the newly proposed Division of Authorities Effectivity. The aim of the DOGE is to restructure the U.S. federal authorities by eradicating laws to cut back expenditures and enhance authorities effectivity.
Regardless of displaying his disdain for billionaires, Strickland appears loads excited to see Musk — the richest man on the planet — fully “intestine the federal government” as soon as Trump is sworn again into the White Home on January 20.
