Pete Buttigieg 2020 campaign megathread

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I still don't understand the hype.

Honestly I don’t either. He’s not as policy oriented as Warren or as charismatic as Beto.

Yep, I honestly don't get it

Seriously though, he's all media hype. Sure he can speak 13 languages, he's gay, and he and his husband are cute, but how does that make him a better candidate than Warren and Harris? What are his policy proposals? It seems to me he's just winging this entire election. Sure he has some witty attacks against Pence on homosexuality and christianity, but that's it. How is that going to defeat Trump?

He's white and male. That seems more important to a lot of people.

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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1186253985948356609

This pretty much ties "The Russians want Gabbard" for most damning thing I've seen thrown at any D candidate this cycle.

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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1186253985948356609

This pretty much ties "The Russians want Gabbard" for most damning thing I've seen thrown at any D candidate this cycle.

Misleading headline.  Some high-up people at Facebook wanted to join the Buttigieg campaign and asked Zuck to write a letter of recommendation for them.  Standard Operating Procedure in the 'real adults who work' world.

At least from the Bloomberg article, it appears more like this was:

The CEO of Facebook and his wife sent a deluge of emails with lists of potential employees to Buttigieg's campaign manager, two of whom were later hired, rather than,

a couple Facebook employees sent the Buttigieg campaign resumes, including getting letters of recommendation from the CEO and his wife.

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Sassy black women on Twitter are already eating this sh*t up, the article is #1 trending right now.

how can you be racist this early in the morning

How is that racist

Reducing the people sharing this article to "sassy black women"...shouldn't have to explain that one

Well it appears that's the only group of people that's sharing this (and who cares about this). So i'm not being racist, just speaking objective facts.

Ok Trumper. 

(Btw, the idea of a Republican saying "objective facts" and pretending to mean it is real roflmao territory.)

I'm about as white as the snow on the Rockies, and I read it, thought is was very well written, nuanced, and damning. And yes, I shared it, with several people, none of whom are "sassy black women".

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Ocasio-Cortez accuses Buttigieg of pushing “GOP talking point” to vilify tuition-free college plans

Buttigieg, who has positioned himself as a centrist alternative to progressive candidates on issues like health care and education, launched a new campaign ad in Iowa taking aim at the tuition-free college proposals.

“I believe we should move to make college affordable for everybody,” Buttigieg says in the ad. “There are some voices saying, ‘Well, that doesn’t count unless you go even further, unless it’s free even for the kids of millionaires.’”

“But I only want to make promises that we can keep,” he added. “Look, what I’m proposing is plenty bold. I mean, these are big ideas. We can gather the majority to drive those big ideas through without turning off half the country before we even get into office.”

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https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1221584561555025922?s=19

Another glitch emerges in Buttigieg's programming.

You know full well that it’s a common figure of speech.

Not when discussing the NBA

It's pretty commonly used when discussing the behavior of an athlete, regardless of their sport.   

But why not say "on the court and off the court"? I mean, I follow basketball about as much as I follow astrology, but even I know who Kobe Bryant was and what sport he played.

I don't think this is major, but it is an unforced error.

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You believe Trump is a sincere Christian?

Seriously this. Explain your eye rolling, lol.

I can't speak for RI, but personally I find this whole line of questioning a dumb waste of time.  Nobody who knows whom Pete Buttigieg is has any misconceptions about whether Trump is a sincere Christian.  You might as well ask whether the pope is Hindu.

The point is not whether or not people on the right or left know the truth. Everyone knows the truth. The point is to force a confrontation with (one bit) of the endless Republican gaslightling. 

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Impeachment was foisted on her by the party left, to make a statement or something. She was reluctant to even pursue it.

Yet she chose the terms on which it was eventually fought, and gave us an unmitigated disaster. Even if impeachment had to occur, pursuing when she did, in the way that she did, and for the reasons that she did was clearly her choice, and its failure is a failure of her leadership.

Impeachment was a moral imperative after Ukraine revelations, and it went as well as it was ever going to go. Republicans voted to acquit a President they admitted was guilty, and Mitt Romney crossed the aisle to be the first Senator to vote in favor of removing a President of their own party. No Speaker could have gotten the GOP's malign prophet removed.