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Attack Ad Trashes Vivek For Being A #Tennis Player (VID). WTF?
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Date: October 26th, 2026 10:37 PM Author: יהוה https://x.com/BenRothenberg/status/2113694684765982754 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914852&forum_id=2#50205041) |
Date: October 26th, 2026 10:40 PM Author: יהוה https://www.benrothenberg.com/p/vivek-ramaswamy-ohio-governor-election-ad-tennis-playing-career (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914852&forum_id=2#50205047) |
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Date: October 26th, 2026 10:40 PM Author: יהוה In Ramaswamy’s defense on this general point, I think that’s unfair. I think it’s OK to love tennis! I, certainly, have never thought of less of someone just for playing tennis or being a tennis fan—and I thank you all of you tennis fans for subscribing to Bounces, furthermore.
I also recognize that the way his opponents are using tennis against him is a way to “other” Ramaswamy, to make him seem somehow stereotypically less masculine, or perhaps un-Ohioan and un-American.
As former Trump staffer A.J. Delgado wrote on Twitter when I posted the video:
“It’s bc there is something effete and painfully “try hard upper class” about tennis being one’s favorite sport. An American man’s favorite sport is football, bball, hockey, (in the past 10 years, maybe answering “MMA”), some even soccer - but not tennis, ffs.” |
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Date: October 26th, 2026 10:41 PM Author: יהוה It’s not lost on me that there’s a surge in Indian-American boys playing tennis right now, also: in the Boys 18s singles draw in Kalamazoo this summer, of 192 names, about 30—roughly 15 percent—appear to be of identifiable Indian or otherwise subcontinental origin.1 That’s a huge percentage! There are a ton of Indian American kids who love and play tennis, and I don’t think it should make them or their families seem “less American” to do so.
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Date: October 26th, 2026 10:41 PM Author: יהוה Before and after that stunt, Ramaswamy reliably posts his tennis videos from an angle where you can’t see where the ball is going when he hits it, so it’s tough to get any true sense of if he’s a good player or not.
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Date: October 26th, 2026 10:42 PM Author: יהוה https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jJVa!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4adc0d16-e064-45c4-9b8a-df4ad3466f65_547x721.png (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914852&forum_id=2#50205054) |
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Date: October 26th, 2026 10:44 PM Author: יהוה In 2015, a slurpy piece in Forbes described Ramaswamy as having been “a nationally ranked junior tennis player whose serve could hit 120mph.” That claim sounds immediately dubious, and it doesn’t help the sniff test that the article also described him as “young, handsome and charming” and “any parent’s dream,” for context.
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