Pete! My guy! You are the status quo!
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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.
Highly praised him, stopped just short of endorsing saying he needs to know more about his policy proposals. Said there’s room in the party for dem socialists.
Because Mamdani is famous for not answering questions about his policy proposals. /s I refuse to believe Mayo Pete is that dumb.
He said something recently that democrats need to learn from his social media campaigning and remove the "leftist ideology"
Completely missing the point. Mamdani won because of his policies.
no more Status Cuomo, please
Assuming there is an after.
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”
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.
Sounds pretty on brand to me
The right thing said by the wrong guy
They… left the status quo?
Pete is right. Things must change.
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
- the Epstein files and how the Republicans are reacting
- Pete Buttigieg's knowledge or lack thereof of Biden's mental acuity
- Dems going forward
- is President Trump a good president?
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.
Can we get an enough buttigieg spam magazine?
That was last time. Too damn late.