Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump
Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump
Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump
Democrats: "that's ok, we're not going back because we never left and never intend to! Nothing Will Fundamentally Change is our motto!"
“we will win”
People need to stop elevating this one-time college town mayor who rat-fucked their way into a cabinet position.
Wut?
I'm so glad you asked. Can I come in?
Pete Buttigieg primary qualification as a "politician" is his Mayoral victory in South Bend Indiana, 2011, where they got elected with 10,991 in a town of almost 100,000. The next time they ran, they got all of ~8k votes in an election where less than 10% of residence voted (2015).
Somehow this warranted Buttigieg to be present on a national stage, where in 2019, they decided to run for president. They were taken extremely seriously by media outlets like NPR and other corporate media outlets, often being touted as a kind of moderate but still progressive alternative to Sanders. Candidates like Buttigieg were used to split the progressive vote during the primaries, divides which still exist today. Buttigieg then went on to strategically depart the race 3 days before Super Tuesday, a primary consisting almost entirely of states that will never vote D and yet somehow considered the litmus for who the Democratic candidate should be, and then going on to endorse Joe Biden, who up until that point, who had no primary wins before that date.
Buttigieg was principal in the rat-fucking of Sanders in 2020 and was given a token position in the cabinet as a result. They are a cypher, a schemer, and the reason why you are seeing anything about them is because they have substantial backers from their time in consulting who would benefit greatly if they were in power. This article wouldn't exist if not for the fact that Buttigieg will 100% be touted out as the "reasonable" candidate in 2028. And as much as the rat-fucking might seem like the principal critisim I have of them, its actually fine. I can respect some rat-fucking (for example, if Warren had dropped out and endorsed Bernie, I'd have her face tattooed on my right ass-cheek). What I can't respect is the national media taking this guy seriously when they've won no elections of any real substance. Buttigieg doesn't get to be considered seriously as a voice in politics until they win a federal election or a Governership. They need to show that people actually want to vote for them before they should be taken seriously.
*(Earlier, I was mistaken to call them a one-time mayor; they did get re-elected)
That's not fair. His work for private equity to inflate the price of bread is precisely why he got that cabinet position. The man worked hard screwing over the working class so he could get that cabinet position!
Assuming there is an after.
The right thing said by the wrong guy
I skimmed the article, but it didn't seem like he said anything of any real substance?
That's kinda how he works.
He's a "better politician" than the other much older politicians because he can explain the problems and blame Republicans and old politicians for the problems but ultimately his solutions are the same.
Also he comes straight from private equity and refuses to say anything bad about them. As a matter of fact he's the first politician I have ever heard say "no". Full stop, no weaseling out of it. It was when he was asked about his prior employers and their involvement in a price fixing scandal over Canadian bread prices.
So... yeah I don't like him
Favorite video about Pete is from Some More News back a few years ago just before Pete helped Biden consolidate all the fragmented neoliberal support he needed to suddenly turn the tide right before Super Tuesday that was otherwise resulting in Sanders gaining ground.
Pete is a weasel… a well-spoken one and perhaps once a decent dude… and even an ally in our country’s current dark moments… but Pete is NOT fit to lead when the left has a chance at any sort of power.
He will sell us all out for the rich donors who showed up for his wine cave campaign fundraiser. And trading Main Street voters for Wall Street voters is what REALLY has been what most helped Republicans win… at least since at least Reagan’s era.
Can we get an enough buttigieg spam magazine?
They… left the status quo?
That was last time. Too damn late.
So we're going to get Nuremberg trials for Republicans?
There was one question and answer on the past and future of the Democrats. I don't expect Inskeep to do a hard hitting interview, but this should not have been the title.
From memory, they talked about:
• his beard and how Republicans do like it
So the one question and answer:
INSKEEP: Let me put a proposition on the table, and we'll see if you agree with it or not. The country has changed. Politics have changed. Republicans figured that out and captured the moment, and Democrats have failed to do so up to now. Do you agree with that?
BUTTIGIEG: I would mostly agree. Yeah. I think that Democrats have been slow to understand the changes in how people get their information, slow to understand some of the cultural changes that have been happening, and maybe most problematic of all, to attach to a status quo that has been failing us for a long time.
Right now, you've got an administration that is burning down so many of the most important institutions that we have in this country, which is wrong. It is also wrong to imagine that we should have just kept everything going along the way it was. And I think that my party needs to do a better job of addressing the fundamental problems that have led people to mistrust everything.
I don't know what his fundamental analysis is, but how can you not lay a mammoth sized amount of blame at the feet of Democrats since Clinton? I'm sure Mayor Pete will find a way to not look backwards, only forwards.
Pete! My guy! You are the status quo!
The future of the Democratic Party is just the Simpsons Aliens saying "Forward not backward! Upwards not forwards! And twirling, always twirling towards progress!"
Dude is getting his name out there as many times as possible to make you remember he was Mayor in South Bend 20 years ago, back before he was rigging bread prices for McKinsey up in Canada.
don’t forget Andrew ‘Status’ Cuomo, currently running to be mayor of NYC!
Yeah, has Pete given any opinions on Mamdani? Who he supports in that race will clearly show if he believes what he says.