# And Vivek is out

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-vivek-is-out/996154>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 16, 2024, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-vivek-is-out/996154 "2024-01-16T07:57:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-vivek-is-out/996154/41 "2024-01-20T04:02:08Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#):
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> In fact, a lot of Republicans would vote for a MAGA spouting person of color just to prove they aren’t racists.

A lot of Republicans would say they’d vote for a MAGA spouting person of color in theory. But would then find a reason not to actually vote for them.

“I didn’t not vote for Ramaswamy because of his skin color. I didn’t vote for him because … ummm … because his brother-in-law drives a foreign made car. Yeah, that’s an important principle to me that I had to take a stand on. It had nothing to do with racism. Just like the reasons I didn’t vote for Tim Scott, Larry Elder, Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, Herman Cain, and Alan Keyes had nothing to do with racism.”

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**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-vivek-is-out/996154/42 "2024-01-20T11:31:42Z")

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I don’t think they’d have to work too hard to come up with a rationale. “I liked the other guy better” works just fine. The other guy, who is nice and white.

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**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-vivek-is-out/996154/43 "2024-01-20T17:25:15Z")

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> [@Imuseless](#):
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> I live in Ontario Canada and there were a couple of illegal white Americans I worked with in a job who entered Canada illegally via the Detroit Windsor ambassador bridge.

That’s how I got in sometime around 1981. However, I did it to perform a job Canadians were not willing to do. I actually got turned back once at the bridge because they suspected (correctly) I was working illegally in Ontario. In those days, I just had to go to the next bridge (tunnel?) to sneak in.

I think if Canada wants a wall, they should pay for it.

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**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-vivek-is-out/996154/44 "2024-01-20T17:28:28Z")

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AFAIK, we don’t (at least not more than a handful).

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**Author:** ![Imuseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbce88/32.png) [@Imuseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imuseless)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-vivek-is-out/996154/45 "2024-01-20T18:25:52Z")

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I agree Canada should pay for it. My parents came with me to Canada legally with passport and documents via driving from Detroit to Windsor in 2005 when I was 12 because of the free healthcare which our taxes pays for it.

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