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Voting for Vivek Ramaswamy has been suspended for the week due to inclusion in Last Week's Top 25 Most or Least Annoying.

Entrepreneur

The Resume

    (August 9, 1985- )
    Born in Cincinnati, Ohio
    Middle name is Ganapathy
    Former investment broker
    Co-founded the investment firm, Strive Asset Management
    Candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination for President
    Author of ‘Woke, Inc.’ (2021) and ‘Nation of Victims’ (2022)

Why he might be annoying:

    His political lynchpin is railing against critical race theory and all things ‘woke.’
    He ran for the Republican nomination for President despite not only having no political experience, but the odds also being overwhelming that he would lose to former President Donald Trump.
    He announced his Presidential campaign on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
    He got into a heated back-and-forth with Don Lemon over racial issues, the Second Amendment, and the Civil War during an appearance on CNN This Morning (April 2023).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He is a second-generation Indian American immigrant.
    Excerpts of his senior thesis on the ethical questions of stem cell research were reprinted in The New York Times in 2007.
    He appeared on a 2015 cover of Forbes for his work in drug development and research.
    He has spoken out against Big Tech censorship and stakeholder capitalism.
    He flirted with running for the Ohio Senate seat, in 2022, but deferred to former Yale classmate J. D. Vance, who went on to win the seat.
    His interview with Don Lemon went viral after the host indirectly insulted his ethnicity, and is widely believed to have been the final straw that led to Lemon being fired from the network.

Credit: BoyWithTheGreenHair


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 180 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 136 Votes: 52.21% Annoying