Dear Ohio, you have too many universities these days, please eliminate 3 of them. P.S. I am not a crackpot.

Does anybody here remember Vivek Ramaswamy? The biotechbro billionaire turned Republican presidential candidate who was going to work with Lemu Onsk to wreck the federal government? But for some reason the apartheid princeling took against him and when he decided he would also run for governor of Ohio tRump found a scruple and shooed him out while muttering about how it just wasn’t going to work out?

It goes without saying that racism is always wrong, even when it happens to shithead billionaires who try to hang out with racists. But that was as funny as it was predictable.

Or it was funny. A quick peek at the latest on his campaign suggests the poor man might be suicidal.

The Ohio Republican Party’s candidate for governor, biotech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, says he loves Ohio’s state universities and colleges.

But some say he sure has a funny way of showing it.

Ramaswamy, in a video posted by his own campaign on Threads, said there are too many of them and raised the specter of closing or consolidating some of them.

“I want us to have the best universities,” Ramaswamy said in the video. “We have too many of them. They need to be consolidated.

“And when you consolidate them, they can actually be centers of excellence, who actually are the best in their respective domains, instead of trying to create replicas and clones of one another throughout the state.”

That statement pricked up the ears of state university administrators from Ashtabula to Cincinnati and everywhere in between, puzzled by how eliminating state universities — which are not only educational assets but economic drivers in nearly every part of the state — would be a wise decision.

Amy Acton, M.D, the Democratic candidate quickly made the video part of her campaign. His campaign responded with the standard Republican one-two punch of “Liar!” and “The words he’s saying are not what he meant!”

The proposal to consolidate Ohio’s institutions of higher learning, perhaps until they can be drowned in a bathtub, follows another idea about education.

Last fall, Ramaswamy had to walk back a video in which he proposed a 365-day public school year, with classes running from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. That proposal was met with so much derision and angry opposition that he immediately yanked it off his campaign site.

He’s not suicidal. He’s just another rich dickhead who wants to inflict his shit ideas on people.