If Biden gets replaced, please be Pete
I like Pete but his name is a problem. It has the word butt in it, and is pronounced like “booty judge.”
Great guy, unfortunate name.
I always thought it was pronounced “Boot - e - jij”
His husband says it’s more like “Buddha-judge.”
the bar is so low. did everyone forget who this guy is?
I shall never forget as long as I live. Katie Porter or AOC would be better choices.
I accept my anger and cynicism; I forgive myself for letting these people anger me. I try to “turn the other cheek” and simply be a better person than them. But…
…the more i hear these people talk, the more I’d love to see something excruciatingly painful to happen to them.
I just wish Mr. Buttigieg wasn’t confined to such a low-stakes role in the administration. It’s great that he gets the occasional moments like this, but he’s not exactly being set up for a run at the Presidency in 2028.
Dude’s only 42. He’s got plenty of time. Hell you can’t even get elected these days if you aren’t getting social security.
Pete 2064!
I dunno if I’d consider Secratary of Transportation as a low stakes role, he’s been out and about getting IIJA funds out across the country and there to present new rail, highway, air and marine infrastructure improvements.
Plus, if an unspeakable fate were to befall thirteen specific individuals, simultaneously rendering them unable to perform their duties, you’d have a President Buttigieg.
I just wish Mr. Buttigieg wasn’t confined to such a low-stakes role in the administration.
Mr. Buttigieg is just a small bean from Indiana. If we want real leadership, we need to look to a more successful set of mayoral candidates. Like Michael Bloomberg or Lori Lightfoot.
He needs to age into his vibe first.
Is it too late for him to replace Biden?
Yes, it will be Newsom
That is probably the only dirtbag Democrat that could sway my vote from them to the Green party. Fuck Gavin Nuisance with a long rusty shovel.
Are you under the impression that the green party is a reliable place to put your vote? Do you believe that this is not a complete waste of your one singular vote?
Stop trying to shame people who want to vote differently from you. It’s not an effective way to change someone’s mind and it’s anti-democratic.
Our voting system is undemocratic. Until that isn’t the case, I will keep trying to push people away from wasting their votes.
They might be in one of the 35-40 states where their vote doesn’t matter anyway.
I will vote for whatever candidate has the best chance of beating Donald Trump.
Whitmer or whitehouse woukd be better, but the way the DNC plays things, they would obviously choose the weakest candidate for no reason other than to not seem biased against their opposition. It’s fucked. The whole thing is fucked.
I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. They’ll obviously choose the most neoliberal candidate they think they can get away with, and try to pass him (and it will be “him”) off as “progressive”
So Newsome
Yeah, likely
If only there was some kind of formal method for identifying and vetting and selecting the party representatives, as part of - like - an election or something. I feel like if maybe we’d started back in January and had a bunch of debates between these people early on, we might be able to include ourselves in the discussion.
Instead, I guess we’re just going to wishcast our favorite blue state governor into the White House, until the DNC Convension disabuses us of our delusions.
central planning model and this dictatorial policy
Fuck you, Scott Perry.
As one of his constituents I approve this message.
Its the same shit from these people day in and day out. The Reagan Playbook is half-disintegrated in their hands but they can’t stop running it.
Lee Atwater playbook, but yes.
Him or Bernie should have been president
They called him Mayo Pete for valid reasons, perhaps a refresher is in order.
“I’m wondering if there’s some point- if you’ve identified some point where you will stop, where the administration will stop, where the federal government will stop this requirement and let the market decide…"
Let the market decide? Sure let’s do that. As of now, let’s have the U.S. government stop subsidizing the oil industry to the tune of $20 billion+ per year and see who keeps buying gas powered cars when gas is $15-20 per gallon. Better still, pour that $20 billion into EV car development and green energy and help save the fucking planet.
not EVs. public transport. or at least mostly that and a little EVs
Both, in particular, EV public transport. Something like this would be nice.
EVs can’t save the environment. EVs are made from oil (tires, plastics), and the metals they are made from are extracted and shipped using huge machines also made from and burning oil.
Switching from pumping oil to mining Lithium isn’t a net improvement to the environment.
Any mode of transportation that is heavy and uses tires is going to be a major source of microplastics.
It is not possible to expand into sustainability when it’s our massive scale that is at the core of our unsustainability. Degrowth is our only chance.
I’ll take the lesser evil of local pollution over sending billions of tons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere every year.
I doubt degrowth will ever happen unless it’s caused by population collapse due to mass casualties.
Good. This is the kinda shit Dems should keep doing. It doesn’t matter if it sounds petty, these assholes are a threat to our democracy, they should not be allowed to spew their lies without consequences. If the press refuses to do their job, it falls to whoever is closest to a Republican.
Buttigieg should be front and center a lot. He’s whip smart, a great speaker, and really relatable
Thank you, I’m so tired of this loyalty to decorum. Call them what they are, authoritarian regressives
Step 1: sell the press to the rich
Step 2: everything is shitty now, but why?
We sold everything else to the rich. Why stop at the press?
All of these hearings serve no purpose other than to give Congress people 4 minutes of time to create some sound bites for the campaign.
Questions are widely leading or very inaccurate or even just lies … If they ask a question at all. Some just spout garbage for a few minutes.
Not always. Both Trump’s NY fraud conviction, and election interference (hush money) felonies came out of the Michael Cohen hearing, specifically from AOC questions.
Your overall point is absolutely correct, though. It’s even more frustrating when it’s easy to see how powerful these hearings can be.
Fishing for a guppy and caught a whale?
A lot of GOP voters don’t really care about facts sadly. I’ve talked to some that insist Jan 6th wasn’t an issue.
A lot? Pretty much all of them. Look at how many lies trump said during the debate… they’ll lie directly to their base and their base isn’t even intelligent enough to question it.
They even know they’re being lied to, and still go along.
Because they somehow think the lying will benefit them and not the people they hate.
Predicting a republican’s reaction to any issue is easy because they are all grifters.
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