Absolutely Vile and Disgusting😠😠
Christopher Webb
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Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad targeting Amy Acton’s childhood trauma crosses every line of human decency.The ad circulated without disclosing who was behind it. His campaign initially dodged responsibility, then Vivek admitted it was his and plans to spend $4 million to promote it.
1/2Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
· 4h
Court records confirm Acton’s stepfather was arrested & charged w/sexually abusing her when she was 12. He fled prosecution & remained a fugitive until he died in 2024.Her mother chose her rapist husband over her daughter and stayed married to him.
Here, Vivek finally admitting the ad was his.
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https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3myewx7ef2k2j
The Acton campaign responds:
https://youtube.com/shorts/SEAaOx4WYVg?si=R6-ol5SPFa5lUFSi
Josh
@XJosh
The full story of how this ad got made is obvious now.1. Vivek’s team produced the ad.
2. Campaigners refused to greenlight it.
3. Vivek ‘leaks’ the sympathetic right-wing media.
4. Media publishes it for him.
5. He boosts it to circumvent FEC rules.This explains everything:
“Who made it?” Vivek and his team.
“Did it run?”It never ran on TV.
“Why does it look like a real ad?” Was meant to be one.
“Where’s the FEC disclaimer?” It didn’t need one.
“How did it leak?” Deliberately to RW media.“Why did they do it like this?”
Someone very loudly decried it as being below the belt and a bad look, and Vivek (being the 170 IQ elite human capital that he is) realized he could get the message out, smear his opponent, keep his name off the ad, and (most importantly) save money by simply leaking it to imbeciles like Megyn Kelly.His problem, like every midwit who thinks they’re a genius, was going full bore ahead without ever stopping to think “maybe I’m wrong and this is a bad idea.”
30 seconds on Twitter and anyone even slightly critical of Vivek starts searching her early life history, reads public stories about her abusive upbringing, and pulls up the public court records.
Vivek Ramaswamy hired a woman to smear her own daughter. A woman so vile, she slept with a man after knowing he had raped not only her daughter, but his own as well. A woman who probably helped him escape custody after a grand jury indicted him for incestuous rape of a child so he could die of natural causes in her loving arms.
https://x.com/XJosh/status/2112696199748702297
Norman Ornstein
@NormOrnstein
Vivek Ramaswamy did not identify his culpability in the vile ad, then admitted it and is now doubling down. He is simply a disgusting excuse for a human being. Not just unfit for office. Unfit for a civil society.
5:09 AM · Oct 21, 2026
https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/2112848844794847695
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Amy Acton’s brother reacts to Vivek Ramaswamy using their estranged mother in a campaign ad:“…Our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants.”
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2112539087982743986
LOATHESOME.
LOATHESOME.
@DMichaelTripi
Dominic Michael Tripi
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NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy campaign was reportedly aware of the backstory surrounding the neglect and sexual abuse Amy Acton endured, as they polled reactions to the advertisement featuring her estranged mother, yet decided to still run the ad.
5:24 PM · Oct 20, 2026
https://x.com/DMichaelTripi/status/2112671374678585801
Chasten Glezman Buttigieg
@Chasten
Amy Acton’s estranged mother lost custody of her children after her second husband was charged with rape and indicted by a grand jury. In court, Amy’s mother stood by her husband instead of her twelve-year-old daughter. They haven’t spoken since that day in court, nearly 50 years ago.Politics has become such a disappointing sport of outrage-fueled mud-slinging, personal attacks targeting families, and blatant lies designed to divide. Candidates should debate the issues and focus on convincing voters that their plans and leadership will make life better. That’s what politics should be about: bringing people together. Stunts like today’s attack ad against Dr. Acton are beneath anyone seeking to lead. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/…
https://x.com/Chasten/status/2112602171275399594
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Ron Filipkowski
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It appears from court documents, statements from family members, and media reports that Amy Acton’s mother was a pedophile protector. So naturally Republicans use her in an ad against the victim and the MAGA Paid Grifter Network is pushing it because that is who they are.
8:09 AM · Oct 20, 2026
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2112531758264795341
Gas is going crazy again.
My regular gas station.
Last night, coming home – $4.79/gallon
This morning, going to work – $ 4.99/gallon
This evening, coming home – $ 5.19/gallon
W-T-F
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The media destroyed Biden, but they allow trump to yell and fucking growl at them?? What the fuck is this?? And not a single “President lashes out at reporters in Oval Office presser” was written. I didn’t even see this until just now; insane
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The answer should always be NO
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State officials have warned candidates for mid-to-upper level roles that they would assess their donor histories to ensure no Democratic donations.
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SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it’s screening for “fidelity” and execution of the president’s vision👇
8:55 AM · Oct 22, 2026
UH HUH
UH HUH
Good for her
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GOOD
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Valkyries vs Dream is what happens when the Suburban school with the prestige fundamentals & all the funding plays the Black school with a squad full of dawgs with straight HEART! That system won’t work when it’s time to scrap. Valks can’t stop what they never seen before.
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Not so much fun when the rabbit’s got the gun.
Not mad at them.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Mr. Weeks @WonderKing82
Neera Tanden is literally boxing these people out one prick at a time. They can’t take her!!!!
Politics & Poll Tracker @PollTracker2024
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#OhioGovernor Axios: Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign says the ad with Acton’s estranged mother will begin streaming tonight, and will be airing statewide in Ohio.
Sigh…
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Alex Cole@acnewsitics
Despite childhood abuse, poverty, and homelessness, Amy Acton became a doctor and public servant. Vivek Ramaswamy became a billionaire and somehow still managed to be the poorer example of human character.
4:58 PM · Oct 20, 2026·
i just wanna live my life bro..@HeyyDiva
predominantly black schools in predominantly black communities are often underfunded bcs the local government gives funding based on property tax. the tax value is lesser in predominantly black communities. I.e., systematic racism was a very well thought out & intentional thing.
11:05 PM · Oct 20, 2026·
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UH HUH
DA PHUCK??
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scary lawyerguy@scarylawyerguy
Trump, Husted, and frankly, every Republican running for office should be asked by the press whether they support the use of a candidate’s child rape against her as a political attack. Over and over until you get an answer. You know, DOING JOURNALISM but we all know they won’t.
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1/? Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad against Amy Acton highlights yet another reason why POC conservatives are so dangerous. Deep down they KNOW they are not accepted by white supremacists, so they feel the need to be viler and more disgusting in their attacks. That’s what Vivek did. But he likely miscalculated
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2/? I say “likely miscalculated” because the depravity of the MAGA voter seems to be insatiable. That said, the white supremacists were already reluctant to vote for him b/c he is Brown AND Hindu. Most were willing to look past it b/c he espoused white supremacy. But now he attacked a white woman.
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3/? From what I’m seeing in Ohio (remember I’m from the neighboring town Acton is from), the pedestal of the white woman may actually work in the Dems favor. While these white supremacists would NEVER vote FOR Amy Acton, they seem to be more willing to stay home b/c of this attack on a white woman.
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4/4 No matter how much Vivek tries to be a mini Trump, he’s still an East Indian Man who practices Hinduism. And he just fucked up attacking a white woman in a very disgusting way. That is a no-no in white supremacist quarters. A non-white man has attacked a white woman.
Louis Riel@theGhostOfRiel
15h
Truth nuke: The Democrat base IS progressive. And yet the centrists pretend like they make up the majority.
Tim@trouble_man90
lol that’s because normie democrats are already “progressive”, that’s our natural state. Online leftists have skewed and distorted politics so much that yall don’t what a true centrist is. Independent voters are centrists, “both sides” voters are centrists, not people who have voted democratic their entire lives.
Billy Binion@billybinion
20h
Vivek’s campaign has responded. He’s doubling down on the ad. Acton’s mom was married to a guy who was indicted for molesting her. Some things should transcend politics. What an absolute loser.
Oren Oppenheim@OrenOppenheim
Vivek Ramaswamy just told reporters, “It is an ad from our campaign, and the thing that I want to say is that I would love for this race and this election to be about the substantive issues that impact Ohioans, and unfortunately, Amy Acton has been hiding from those issues. She won’t debate me.” He later said Acton’s mother was not compensated. (h/t WSYX ABC 6 on the ground)
Relationships are not Hallmark cards, Vivek
Kay W.
Oct 20, 2026
checked back into the Ohio governor’s race only to find this latest low-down tactic from Vivek Ramaswamy:
A video circulated Tuesday shows a woman who identifies herself as Amy Acton’s mother urging Ohioans not to elect the Democratic candidate for governor.
“My name is Donna Arthur, and I’m Amy Acton’s mother,” the speaker says at the start of the minute-long recording.
Amy Acton had a difficult childhood, which no one disputes. Her parents divorced when she was very young, her mother remarried, and Acton and her mother then followed Acton’s mother’s new petty criminal spouse from town to town, with little Amy attending 18 different schools between kindergarten and 7th grade, when Amy reported that she had been sexually abused by the stepfather. Acton’s mother denied the allegations and the abuse case was resolved by a change in custody. Amy moved in with her father, where she remained until she left for college.
Acton has been estranged from her mother for the last 50 years. Acton recounts how for one brief period during the time with her mother she and her mother lived in a tent at a campground. I have heard her story myself, it was very clear Acton was describing a brief tenancy in the tent.
In the ad Donna Arthur begins with the tent story, where she says “Amy says we lived in a tent, which is a lie”. Okay, well no one said they “lived in a tent”, which of course implies “every day”. Amy makes it clear this campground stay was them hitting bottom, briefly. Arthur then goes on to say Amy is a serial liar with mental health problems.
https://heymistermix.com/p/relationships-are-not-hallmark-cards-vivek
Good morning! I live in Ohio and I hope this sinks Vivek and any future political ambitions he has. Interestingly enough it was the National Review of all publications that confirmed Amy’s story by finding and publishing the court and police records.
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊