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Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« on: February 13, 2019, 02:06:15 am »
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/pete-buttigiegs-quiet-rebellion

Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Last week, Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who recently announced that he is exploring a Presidential candidacy, arrived in New York to meet the press. First up, on Thursday, was an interview on “CBS This Morning,” where the show’s hosts seemed slightly impatient, like college-admissions officers who had been asked to interview a benefactor’s son. Norah O’Donnell positioned her eyebrows skeptically. “You’re thirty-seven, you represent a town of a hundred and two thousand people—did I get that right? What qualifies you to be President of the United States?” Buttigieg, who has pale skin, thick brown hair, and a formal manner, gave a self-deprecating laugh. “I know that I’m the youngest person in this conversation, but I think that the experience of leading a city through a transformation is really relevant right now,” he said. “Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can’t just keep doing what we’ve been doing. We can’t nibble around the edges of a system that no longer works.” John Dickerson pointed out that other Democratic candidates were proposing very big ideas—Medicare for All, the abolition of private health insurance—and asked, “What is your idea that is so big that nobody would mistake it for nibbling around the edges?” Buttigieg answered, “Well, first of all, we’ve got to repair our democracy. The Electoral College needs to go, because it’s made our society less and less democratic.” He went on in this vein, suggesting that electoral reform was essential, and promising that other policies, on security and health care, would follow. Viewers were left with the image of an impressive and fluent young politician, whose presence in the Presidential race, and on their screens, had never really been explained.

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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2019, 02:09:50 am »
Wow. You just can't make that stuff up, nor can you make stupid, smart.
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2019, 03:42:25 pm »
 **nononono*

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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2019, 03:47:50 pm »
What a duffus.
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2019, 03:48:48 pm »
yet another Loon in a sea of Loons!
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"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2019, 03:59:24 pm »
Democracy:
Two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner.
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2019, 04:08:53 pm »
Democracy:
Two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner.
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2019, 07:49:31 pm »
Obviously this is just another democrat that has either never recited the pledge of allegiance, or more like was incapable of  understanding the really hard concepts it ellicites and thinks believes the Constitution is a living document.

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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2019, 08:27:03 pm »
He's hitting on all cylinders.
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METROSOURCE: As the first openly gay person ever to run for president. But you don’t want to be identified as a single-issue candidate. What would you prioritize in the first days of a Buttigieg (pronounced Boo-te-judge) administration?

Buttigieg: he first priority has to be democracy itself. I don’t think we’re going to be able to solve most of our major policy issues if we don’t first improve our political system where those issues come to get heard. That means everything from redistricting reform and addressing money in politics to making sure our democracy is more democratic by reconsidering the electoral college and looking at statehood for a place like D.C.and making sure people in the territories have equal rights. Every generation up until now has seen America grow more democratic, not less, and I don’t want ours to be the first where the reverse is true — but we’re on track for that if nothing changes.

So I think democracy is front and center. I’ve talked a lot about ways to enhance freedom as well. The reason I believe in making sure we have universal health care is because I think it makes people more free. I think there are a lot of other economic as well as equality considerations. And third, I think security. I think it’s time for Democrats to get back in the business of talking about security, especially when you have 21st century security challenges like climate security and election security that the other side doesn’t seem to care about at all.
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2019, 08:34:53 pm »
Peter Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend (Over) Indiana


A gay man named Peter Buttigieg. The story would be really complete, if he was the mayor of Manassas.
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2019, 09:04:26 pm »
Peter Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend (Over) Indiana


A gay man named Peter Buttigieg. The story would be really complete, if he was the mayor of Manassas.

Mayor of Manassas, sounds like a fun gig.

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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2019, 09:16:23 pm »
He did such a good job being the Assessor of Manassas they made him mayor?
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« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2019, 09:17:16 pm »
Mayor of Manassas, sounds like a fun gig.


With other things to do nearby, like Mount Vernon. He doesn’t mind.







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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2019, 09:41:45 pm »
In a way I agree with his statement, "the Electoral College has made us less democratic." The Founding Fathers designed it to do exactly that!  We are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

The stupid...it hurts. Trouble is, no media person knows the distinction between a republic and a democracy.

Yeah Pete, good luck in getting rid of the Electoral College... :rolling:
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2019, 09:46:24 pm »
Peter Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend (Over) Indiana


A gay man named Peter Buttigieg.

How the heck do you even say that?

Butty-gig?
Butty-geeg?

Maybe the last 'g' is silent and the 'ie' sounds like 'ay'... you know, like the French...

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« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2019, 09:48:07 pm »
How the heck do you even say that?

Butty-gig?
Butty-geeg?

Maybe the last 'g' is silent and the 'ie' sounds like 'ay'... you know, like the French...


Sorry...
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #17 on: February 13, 2019, 09:50:33 pm »
Democracy:
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I use this simple analogy when speaking to liberals I'm unfortunate to run into. Still too abstruse for them.
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #18 on: February 13, 2019, 09:53:35 pm »
@The Ghost

boot-edge-edge?
WTF is that?

He should change it to buttgieger -at least that makes sense.

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« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2019, 10:16:11 pm »
@The Ghost

boot-edge-edge?
WTF is that?

He should change it to buttgieger -at least that makes sense.

The voice program sure as hell didn't pronounce it like edge-edge.  I think he pulled a "Keeping Up Appearances" type deal.   Were Bucket becomes The Bouquet residence.
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Re: Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion
« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2019, 10:19:22 pm »
How the heck do you even say that?

Butty-gig?
Butty-geeg?

Maybe the last 'g' is silent and the 'ie' sounds like 'ay'... you know, like the French...
I think he prefers BooTAY, for the pronunciation also.


Sorry...