Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸

[Ashley @AshSavesUSA]

👏🏼THIS👏🏼 is why Vivek is built different.

A planted question from the front row:

“How can Ohioans trust a jet-setting billionaire who promoted a failed Alzheimer’s drug?” 🙄

Vivek doesn’t dodge it. He looks at the guy and says, “You look like a plant, so I wanted to make sure I gave you a question.” Then he answers anyway.

Born an heir to nothing. Built companies that developed life-saving therapies.

Doing unscripted town halls across Ohio while Amy Acton still won’t get on a debate stage.

That’s not a politician. That’s a fighter. Ohio is lucky to have him.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

The SC/ST Act in its present form is a blot on Indian democracy. It has, exactly how the Supreme court had warned before it was overruled, become an instrument of rampant blackmail and extortion, of both the citizens and the State.

Here, I dissect its alarming weaponisation:

[Deepak K Viswanathan @DeepakVisva]

To be alive in India:

1) Even if you aren’t wrong, say sorry and move on. Don’t get into arguments on the road with anyone. Control your anger and move on. Nothing is worth risking your life over.

2) Live in a good gated community that matches your social wavelength. Not saying this because I’m in this business. It genuinely saves you from a lot of unnecessary problems.

3) Buy a car as soon as you can. Even if you’re a safe two wheeler rider, Indian roads can disappoint you and sometimes, the consequences can cost your family a lot.

4) Don’t drive fast just because the road is empty. You can control your driving. You can’t control the idiot coming from the opposite direction.

5) Don’t pick fights with strangers. You have no idea who they are, what they are capable of, or what they are carrying. Walk away.

6)If you’re travelling late at night, use the safest option available. Saving ₹500 is not worth putting yourself in a situation you can’t control. Skip night drives > 30 km post 11 PM as much as possible.

7)Avoid roadside food as much as possible. It may look tempting and harmless, but hygiene, water quality, oil quality and food storage are things you simply cannot control.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@RekhaS1990 It's a cheetah, not leopard. Cheetahs are extremely friendly with humans. On the other hand, leopard will always attack and devour given a chance.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@CanisPariah @ShaukeenBharat Madagascar was connected to African super continent millions of years ago before it got detached.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@IndianGems_ LOL! Finding or reporting pothole or any failure was never the issue. It is always bringing in accountability which India lacks.

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

The State Government claims to have spent nearly ₹5,500 crore on Bengaluru’s roads over the last few years.

Yet, the condition of our roads is there for everyone to see.

Now, Minister Krishna Byre Gowda has announced another ₹8,000 crore for fixing the city’s roads.

Where is all this money going?

I had earlier demanded a White Paper on the ₹5,500 crore already spent. Even today, at the meeting called by the Hon’ble Minister, I reiterated this demand. The Government is yet to release it.

Before spending thousands of crores more, Bengaluru deserves an account of the thousands of crores already spent.

Pothole-filling seems to have become a very lucrative business for those involved.

Terrible state of affairs.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

The SC/ST Atrocities Act, by its very design, encourages misuse rather than genuine grievance redressal.

1. In a country where people kill each other over few hundred rupees, offering 1,00,000 rupees simply for filing a case under this Act, for offenses as minor as verbal abuse, creates a obvious perverse incentive. Up to 50% of this amount is disbursed upon the filing of the FIR alone, requiring no prior investigation. Another 25% is paid when the chargesheet is filed. The best part is, if the case is later proven false, the compensation is not automatically recovered. How could this setup not encourage misuse?

2. There is no requirement for a preliminary inquiry. Someone makes a complaint, and you are arrested, that's it. With anticipatory bail explicitly barred, you are left entirely at the mercy of the legal system. Depending on your financial resources, getting bail can take anywhere from a few days to many years; a man in UP spent 20 years in jail before being acquitted of false charges. While defenders of the law argue that the innocent will eventually be freed, the process itself becomes the punishment. Why should innocent individuals endure humiliation and severe mental, physical, financial, and social hardship in the name of skewed social justice?

3. There are virtually no consequences for deliberate false accusations. A complainant can fabricate allegations, land an innocent person in prison, collect govt compensation, be exposed as a liar in court, and still face zero accountability. Instead, they can simply play the victim, claiming that the justice system fails the marginalized.

This framework has spawned a lucrative extortion ecosystem. Syndicates exploit the threat of non-bailable arrest to blackmail citizens, business owners, and public officials. When unverified cash payouts, absolute immunity, and guaranteed incarceration align, a law designed to shield the vulnerable inevitably becomes a tool for institutionalized extortion.

[Paulo Spitzbarth 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱 @PauloSpitzbarth]

🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥

CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”

Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”

CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”

Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”

CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”

Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”

CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”

Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”

CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”

Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”

CNN: “Você está polarizando.”

Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@ANONYMO52826141 @methri_uday Having said that, I do have high regards to Sri Annamacharya and don't want to be caught in this silly Kan vs Telugu feud and end up making any distasteful comments knowingly or unknowingly.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@ANONYMO52826141 @methri_uday A simple gemini search provides wealth of information documented by Annamacharya's grandson & others too about their meeting and their conversation. While the exact dialogue of the movie might be exaggerated I'm sure it won't have deviated much.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@methri_uday @ANONYMO52826141 When young Purandara dasaru met Annamacharya in Tirumala in the presence of Sri Vyasarajaru, Annamacharya credited Purandara dasa that folks like himself (Annamacharya) has been trying to teach children music time immemorial, but only Dasaru could it in simple & successful way.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@TenzinTselhaTib @NoopurOffice Chinese don't trust Tibetan people. Hence they keep some of their own for border crossing/immigration check.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@NoopurOffice LOL! This is what happens when dimwits skip high school science/geography class and act like know-it-all.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@Banknifty14 @IndianSinghh One can fake it for few days, not all the time.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@sreemoytalukdar LOL! You misunderstood. He clearly said this doesn't apply to India before making the statement. And he also praised India by saying India is also screening people who apply for visa.

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@ravikeerthi22 Looks like the leadership change didn't help 😆

[Vikram 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @vkeyshru]

@nitinsharma1 While traffic congestion due to lack of infra is a real problem half of the problem can be solved if the roads are smooth and pot-hole free. How hard is it solve this problem? Most of the African countries have seen better roads.