Woke, Inc. Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

He's the author of the books like Woke Inc., which attacks social justice movements.

He's the author of the books like Woke Inc., which attacks social justice movements.

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He's the author of the books like Woke Inc., which attacks social justice movements.

Just go back and read that book. I mean, like he has flip flopped on all the positions that he had in that book.

And then compare it to what he's saying on the campaign trail now. It's like it's night and day.

He wrote a really good book called Woke Inc. It was really an excellent breakdown of what's going on in the world.

He's been in Iowa. We'll get to Nikki Haley in a second, but Vivek is very exciting to me. He's been as aggressive as Ron DeSantis in fighting the woke wars, but he also knows business better than virtually anybody I've seen throw their hat in the ring so far or even talk about it.

He's kind of like a Trump in that he's a businessman. He knows how to run a successful business. He's done it. He's made, I think, over a billion dollars just in his first 10 to 15 years at a law school.

Well, I mean, I love the guy and his critique of woke capitalism, but I don't think he has a realistic shot.

Twitter and others smuggle viewpoint discrimination into supposedly neutral content moderation categories, primarily misinformation, incitement and hate speech.

They've been wrapping in viewpoint based discrimination by smuggling it into the categories of the supposedly neutral content moderation.

And you can read about some of that from authors like Vivek Ramaswamy and his book woke Inc.

He's using his powers and his monies for good and he has a theory, he has a legal theory along with Jed Rubenfeld of Yale Law School who was married to Tiger mom Amy Chua that we should be we should recognize big tech as essentially government actors for purposes of the first amendment.

He's using his powers and his monies for good and he has a theory, he has a legal theory along with Jed Rubenfeld of Yale Law School who was married to Tiger mom Amy Chua that we should be we should recognize big tech as essentially government actors for purposes of the first amendment.

And by 2019, the company was running on its own two feet. And as I sort of came up for air, I noticed a trend that really bothered me, Megan, which was all of my peers, elite investors, CEOs, et cetera, around 2019, suddenly started issuing carbon copy statements about how they were now not just going to serve their shareholders, but they were also going to serve societal interests and all stakeholders and disempowered communities.

I love this. It's basically a get out of jail. It's a get out of bad person jail free card for evil CEOs.

You'd rather talk about systemic racism than systemic financial risk. If you're a bank after oh, wait, that's exactly what they ended up doing.

It's a defining scam of our time, Megan.

It's not even an arranged marriage. It's more like mutual prostitution where the woke left and big business secretly have disdain for one another, but they're each getting something out of the trade.

Yeah, woke ink was my first book. Wokey, yep, woke ink, yeah that was it.

Prior to this, Ramaswamy was the founder and CEO of the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences. Leaving in 2021, he published "Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam."

I had written three books...

And I've written this is my fourth book I've written in the last three years. But this is different in that it's not actually an academic exposition of any kind.

Vivek's book is called woke Inc inside corporate America's social justice scam. It's all about ESG.

Ah, thanks Vivek Ramaswamy. Is that Ramaswamy?

Yeah, he does. It's one of his books. Anyway, it's a version of that.

That hurt.

But that's what he is. That's what he was wrote a whole book about. But go ahead.

Vivek Vivek's book is called Woke Inc. Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam. It's all about ESG.

He wrote the book Woke Inc., which is his branding thing.

This is horseshit, I'm sorry Vivek, it's just horseshit.

And by the way, if you already read A War on Woke and Woke Inc., you're really not going to learn anything from woke warriors.

And by the way, if you already read A War on Woke and Woke Inc... you're really not going to learn anything from Woke Warriors.

But I did help him with this book. I did help him with this book.

I just said, you know, because he said, cause JD, like JD. And I just said, you know, Vivek, I don't know how to put this, but I just think, um, a story about being the son of immigrants, you know, and a debate champion. And, you know, uh, uh, you know, tennis champ is just not going to be as heart rending as going up, you know, the son of a heroin addict in Appalachia.

It was actually a fantastic book, in my opinion, because it was about ESG and specifically about the takeover and the use of shareholder capitalism to push values that don't necessarily not only align with American public, but really much more hurting the country, using these values and others to go away from the core value of business.

Vivek basically launches his presidential campaign and his media career by writing the anti-woke ink.

Woke ink? Woke ink book.

Woke, Inc. Was the name of his book that really catapulted him into conservative media, et cetera, what started to get him the Daily Wire deal potentially.

In your book, you wrote, quote, the loser of the last election refused to concede the race and claim the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters is considering running for executive office. Again, I'm referring to Donald Trump.

It's exactly what I said in Nation of Victims, and I haven't seen the evidence since, that there was a scale of ballot fraud that would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

I've also said in that same book and ever since, that the real way the election was in a narrow sense stolen was the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story on the eve of the election.

When I wrote my book, Woke Inc., long before the word woke was in the Republican parlance, I was analyzing a problem that at that point was poorly understood by many Americans in this country.

I think wokeness is just a symptom of our deeper void for purpose and meaning in our country.

Brian Seltter I guess to his credit over there over at CNN he invited Bacchia who we've had here on the show who talked about woke news bad news and why wokeness is bad for the media generally.

In order to discuss both her book in the context of the Virginia election and she basically called him out right to his face eliciting a pretty hilarious reaction.

A lot of this conversation around wokeness is actually about class. We are hiding a class divide in America. We are hiding the just disgusting levels of income inequality in America. We are hiding the total dispossession of the working class of all races by focusing on a very highly specialized academic language around race.

It was actually a fantastic book, in my opinion, because it was about ESG and specifically about the takeover and the use of shareholder capitalism to push values that don't necessarily not only align with American public, but really much more hurting the country, using these values and others to go away from the core value of business.

Vivek is a guy who wrote the Woke Inc book. We've had him here on the show. He's been on the realignment as well.

Brian Seltter I guess to his credit over there over at CNN he invited Bacchia who we've had here on the show who talked about woke news bad news and why wokeness is bad for the media generally.

A lot of this conversation around wokeness is actually about class.

We are hiding a class divide in America.

We are hiding the just disgusting levels of income inequality in America.

We are hiding the total dispossession of the working class of all races by focusing on a very highly specialized academic language around race.

And I mean, we already know, I think Abel Yall Shryer that wrote the book about the trans stuff that they won't put on the New York Times bestseller list.

Vivek Ramaswamy's book, uh, "Woke, Inc," I believe it's called.

And he goes through a lot of this stuff where it's not look, they have these, there's this weird thing where like with BlackRock, you know, that they'll be pushing like all the DEI stuff. But then you have these state governments and basically the state governments control the pensions for every government worker in, in the state. So if you think about every government, the only ones who have pensions anymore, you know, government workers, they're controlling hundreds of billions of dollars. And then they will put these rules that say we will only invest it with this financial company. If you insist on DEI regulations and all this stuff, my point is that it's not just coming from the bottom up.

I followed this guy I saw him on CNBC and something told me you know how we used to say back when we were kids something told me to follow this dude I liked what you said it wasn't about politics and ever since then I've been following you uh long since you woke ink book tour I think was yes and you signed that woke ink book to my favorite Iowa legislator thank you very much that's all I gotta say

Several years ago when I wrote my first book woke Inc. I was talking about they were chanting death to America, death to white people, death to Christians.

Woke Inc by Vivek was one of the the first books I read on it that really like set me on this journey of Understanding the high finance like marx's takeover of our economy.

Woke Inc is a wonderful book for people who haven't read it.

Go out and read that book because it really pieces it all together, but he he pieces all of this Together it shows you exactly how these companies have injected themselves into government, right? and And this whole mechanism is using to break down the american spirit.

It's to to to stop us from seeing what we do have in common by constantly throwing in front of our face the politics Of division, you know, and so I'm glad he's running.

And I wrote a couple of books about it and now run another business.

Yeah, Woke Inc.

We definitely talked about this back when it came out or, or something happened where maybe not when it came out but I remember we were talking about last year.

It's, they're both pretty recent.

Yeah, and we were talking about your work and stuff so I'm glad to have you on.

but even a few years ago when I wrote my book Woke Inc before people really knew what the word woke was that's where this road ends.

Even a few years ago when I wrote my book Woke, Inc., before people really knew what the word woke was, that's where this road ends.

even a few years ago when i wrote my book Woke Inc before people really knew what the word woke was that's where this road ends

He is the author of the books like "Woke Inc.", which attacks social justice movements.

So my first book was I think I gave it to you last time we were here. I can't remember. Woke Inc. was my first book.

So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that this is gonna be one of those moments that goes viral. I mean, woke is something that's very hard to define and we've spent an entire chapter defining it. It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and re-do society in order to create hierarchies of oppression. Sorry, it's hard to explain in a 15 second soundbite.

I published that book, enjoyed for a year and a half traveling around the country, no agenda, just speaking my mind freely without any corporate agenda, any political agenda.

But the short version of it is that Wall Street realized they could go from being the bad guys after the 08 crisis to being the good guys if they just said the right things. Muse about diversity and inclusion, the unjust impact of climate change after you fly in a private jet to Davos.

It was a cynical arranged marriage though between two partners in that marriage that did not particularly love or respect one another. Big business in the neo-progressive woke movement.

And so the publisher kind of told me and advisors who helped me put that book together said, look, you got to pick one or the other. Start with the first one.

And the second book is really about the underlying flyer, the fire, the conflagration on which corporations threw that fuel.

My first book, woke Inc is about the merger of what I call state power and corporate power, the woke industrial complex to do what neither can on its own victimhood culture.