Dude the only reason you are stanning for Pete so hard is because he is a white gay guy in his 30s just like you. That’s it. If a black straight woman, or whatever other identity permutation, with the same exact resume and experience as Buttigieg was running instead, you would be dismissing them and mocking their supporters just like you constantly do with the other 2 dozen candidates running.
Congratulations for buying so hard into identity politics I guess. I see it every time I go to a gay bar… White 30-something guys in Pete 2020 shirts everywhere. Sorry to break it to you, but there aren’t enough white gay men in this country to hand Buttigieg the nomination, especially when his support among black voters is effectively zero.
I want to go to those gay bars. Every gay I know and certainly all of #GayTwitter worships the despicable Warren. And the no black support nonsense is only based on South Carolina which is a unique hellhole of an impotent and apathetic Democratic Party.
You don’t have to be gay to like Pete. He is really, really good at communicating. When he takes the mic, his confident and authoritative demeanor make Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders look like old drunks. And his youth is refreshing - people in their 30s are a thing that exists, you know? It’s energizing to witness someone who looks and sounds like one of my peers, and not my uncle or grandfather, in politics.
His limited appeal to minorities is a problem, no doubt, and will probably limit his electability. But it’s easy for me to see why someone would like him. He’s likable.
Firstly, it’s not the subject of this thread. Secondly, no candidate is perfect. If the worst you can say about Mayor Pete is that he plays up his accomplishments when it helps him to do so, and downplays them when the situation calls for it just like literally every other politician who has ever lived, ever then…okay, I guess. I can live with that.
He’s still better than Pocahontas, Senile Joe, and Crazy Klobuchar, a dollar store Selina Meyer who throws stuff at her staff if her water’s not cold enough. And, as much as it pains me to admit it, he’s more electable than Bernie who’s an amazing guy, but who’s also an 80 year old socialist who’s just had a heart attack.
I don’t dislike him. Or, at least, I don’t dislike him as much as the other ones. He is the smartest person running, just based on raw intelligence alone, no doubt. But he has proven to be a shapeshifter, and despite being a millennial his base is mostly just made up of old white people who for whatever reason don’t want Biden or a female candidate. He had me in the beginning when his pet issue was electoral reform- he lost me once he doubled down on the Jesus shtick and shamelessly became the favorite pet of millionaire donors.
It doesn’t matter anyway- Biden will be the nominee. Warren & Bernie will split the left vote, and after Klobachur’s rumble with Pete in the last debate those two will end up splitting the “moderate” not-Biden vote. It’s so boring and obvious. Thanks to too many people running, who are all snipping at each other instead of the old white whale barely leading the national polls, Biden will stumble his way into the nomination like Mr. Magoo.
Sidetracks used to be fun but it’s overwhelmed with straight women from Lincoln Park who will move to the burbs and start voting Republican once they get married.
Sidestrack was never fun, unless you wanted the most generic Queer as Folk experience possible, or enjoyed wading through a massive herd of identical-looking bottoms who are all desperately searching for a top.
Gotta say that while both statements might be literally true, it reminds me that the stuff GWB said to give Americans the impression that Saddam was in league with al-Qaeda was also literally true. But the goal in both cases was to plant extremely false impressions in the minds of the intended audience.
Dude. If you say one day that you were an all-star major-league ballplayer, and the next you say you never made it past Class A ball, that’s way more than playing up and downplaying.
And that’s a pretty good equivalent of what Pete’s been doing. And along with the switches from being a Medicare for All proponent, to attacking other candidates for being one, and promoting his PAC that supposedly raised money for other Dem candidates but actually it paid twice as much to his comms person than the sum total it contributed to candidates, and so forth and so on - yeah, “Who is Pete Buttigieg?” keeps getting to be a better and better question, the more we learn about him. Whoever he was yesterday, he’s probably not going to be the same guy tomorrow.
So you’ve never written a resume? This is some weak mid to sling at Pete. Oh, and he has been consistent with M4AWWI, but don’t let that get in your way.
God, I hope Warren comes in 4th in Iowa. I know Sanders is enemy #1, but wiping that smirk off of Warren’s face will give me endless pleasure.
I hope you don’t have a nervous breakdown once Pete inevitably loses because the way you are emotionally invested in this political circus is creepy AF.
I’m not at all worried about a nervous breakdown. I expect Pete to win Iowa. And, nothing will ever compare to the awfulness of Hillary losing and 4 years of hell thanks to Shitbag Sanders.
Yeah he will win Iowa and then lose every other state. I hope that pointless sole win gives you comfort just like HRC’s meaningless popular vote win does.