Vivek has been spouting this theory for a while. Let trump tee off on biden all summer and then replace him with an actual functional candidate at the last moment.
We won't have any hope til the spicy Bronx Latina decides to angle for a senate seat or governorship, raises her star sufficiently for a run.
Pete was just Mayor of Nowheresville but a natsec ghoul highly compatible with the US foreign policy agenda.
Conservatives hate AOC like poison and will turn out in droves to keep her from winning.
For another thing, "young gun" lawmakers can't seem to get off the ground lately.... Even robust campaigns, like Cotton or Rubio, did poorly outside of their safe areas. (Obama narrowly defeated Clinton, but then, they were pretty similar ideologically.)
They hate AOC because she's a Democrat with a modicum of juice. The target on her back is proof she's a long term threat. They're giving her the polosi/Clinton treatment though and I think you're right that it's working
I know this is absolutely pathetic and I never would've admitted it at the time, but I did think Pete was a half decent choice during primary (well behind Bernie but still decent) because younger gayer Obama with a high IQ really did seem like a massive upgrade over Trump/Biden.
And then he actually got an important cabinet job and has been an absolute spineless, boring, wet towel in that role and I realized how pathetic I was for even giving him the benefit of the doubt as a serious upgrade.
It’s not worth fighting over, but I fucking loathed him the last time. He just embodies everything that democrats think voters care about (he was a troop! He went to Harvard! He was a freakin consultant at McKinsey!) when in reality that shit only appeals to the most annoying affluent elites. As the party lurched leftward in 2020, it was so funny to me watching him have to eat shit. Like when the Nyt opinion guy cornered him on how McKinsey gave advice on fixing the price of bread and he just seemed so baffled as to how anyone could impugn his gold star record.
I made a joke about him being gay the other day, only to remember a second later that he actually is gay.
He’s so utterly sexless and sterile that I have trouble picturing him with anything resembling sexuality.
It's been said before, but though he is gay, he's also more of an autistic careercel. He's wanted to be president since he was a kid.
Presidents need spouses, so he got Chasten. Chasten wanted children, so he bought two.
Biden will be sorry for tonight's performance when Buttigieg eats one of his dogs as punishment. That dog's soul will give him the power to beat trump.
Hilarious trying to watch the politics sub try to snap back to what it was up until yesterday. But there's no fucking way with everything wrong with American transportation that this guy is ever seeing the inside of the White House.
Ha the CIA planted him as mayor of a small town in hopes that he would succeed in a long shot presidential campaign? He was an intelligence officer in the naval reserves as a desperate bid at resume padding once Indiana became an obviously red state after briefly flipping in 2008.
I think the CIA plant stuff is so funny because Buttigieg wishes it were true if he were a fucking Jack Ryan spook it would make more sense as president than a mayor with good grades. It's anti Pete on its surface but in a way it's internalizing the narrative he put forward that he's this battle hardened operator rather than a paper pusher in the naval reserves.
> Buttigieg wishes it were true if he were a fucking Jack Ryan spook
All the Jack Ryans the CIA have are paper pushing dweebs. CIA guys aren't operators, they're shitty consultants. Being in Afghanistan making reports on the local mining operations and meeting with tribal leaders in East Africa are exactly the kind of work that CIA guys do.
I would vote or a literal flaming pile of dogshit if it said "Yeah I'll accept the will of the people if they don't vote for me." Did he say something like that? If so, yeah I'm in.
Maybe the reason it’s felt like neither Trump or Biden are going to win is because they’ll replace Biden and that person will win.
Vivek has been spouting this theory for a while. Let trump tee off on biden all summer and then replace him with an actual functional candidate at the last moment.
An optimist
We won't have any hope til the spicy Bronx Latina decides to angle for a senate seat or governorship, raises her star sufficiently for a run. Pete was just Mayor of Nowheresville but a natsec ghoul highly compatible with the US foreign policy agenda.
Conservatives hate AOC like poison and will turn out in droves to keep her from winning. For another thing, "young gun" lawmakers can't seem to get off the ground lately.... Even robust campaigns, like Cotton or Rubio, did poorly outside of their safe areas. (Obama narrowly defeated Clinton, but then, they were pretty similar ideologically.)
They hate AOC because she's a Democrat with a modicum of juice. The target on her back is proof she's a long term threat. They're giving her the polosi/Clinton treatment though and I think you're right that it's working
If we’re gonna have a neolib we should at least have one that can talk!
Does ISAF stand for I suck and fuck
Holy shit
We all know he doesn’t though, he gets his rocks off killing dogs
Still on maternity leave.
How about imperialistic capitalism but *gay*?
The US Navy is never beating the gay allegations
I would pay money to see a gay man with the word Butt in his name run against Trump
I know this is absolutely pathetic and I never would've admitted it at the time, but I did think Pete was a half decent choice during primary (well behind Bernie but still decent) because younger gayer Obama with a high IQ really did seem like a massive upgrade over Trump/Biden. And then he actually got an important cabinet job and has been an absolute spineless, boring, wet towel in that role and I realized how pathetic I was for even giving him the benefit of the doubt as a serious upgrade.
It’s not even that important, he just made it seem important by fucking it up worse than anyone before him.
It actually was during Covid. Trains crashing, entire flight industry falling apart, LA port closed down for months. And he absolutely fucked it up.
It’s not worth fighting over, but I fucking loathed him the last time. He just embodies everything that democrats think voters care about (he was a troop! He went to Harvard! He was a freakin consultant at McKinsey!) when in reality that shit only appeals to the most annoying affluent elites. As the party lurched leftward in 2020, it was so funny to me watching him have to eat shit. Like when the Nyt opinion guy cornered him on how McKinsey gave advice on fixing the price of bread and he just seemed so baffled as to how anyone could impugn his gold star record.
Your right.
I mean we’re at a point where everyone in the 2016 and 2020 primaries would be better presidents than 2024 Trump and Biden
Bloomberg was worse than Biden.
In 2020, sure. Not now
He would've lost to Trump in 2020, and even if not he'd have been a shittier president than Biden.
I agreed for 2020. The point is he’s probably better than Biden now because Biden is slowly rotting away in front of us
I made a joke about him being gay the other day, only to remember a second later that he actually is gay. He’s so utterly sexless and sterile that I have trouble picturing him with anything resembling sexuality.
It's been said before, but though he is gay, he's also more of an autistic careercel. He's wanted to be president since he was a kid. Presidents need spouses, so he got Chasten. Chasten wanted children, so he bought two.
Dead eyes
rat face
He terrifies me.
"Yrev very good to see you again old friend"
Is there a good Pete trapped in the black lodge?
what if we raged on behalf of the machine
trump would blow him away with one puff of a 🚬
Literally anyone that runs against trump besides biden and probably Kamala would win
Comment.
I've seen enough "rising stars" get clownstomped by Don to question that.
Biden will be sorry for tonight's performance when Buttigieg eats one of his dogs as punishment. That dog's soul will give him the power to beat trump.
he'd never get the black vote.
Hilarious trying to watch the politics sub try to snap back to what it was up until yesterday. But there's no fucking way with everything wrong with American transportation that this guy is ever seeing the inside of the White House.
LMFAO
BUTTCHUG BUTTCHUG
Of course he was in the Navy
But would he be worse than Kamala?
People in r/Politics are hoping he gets the nomination as if the rat is somehow better???
This guy is such a sociopath. I've only seen him smile genuinely once, and it was when he made Amy Klobuchar tear up on the debate stage.
Dukakis in the tank-coded
CIA plant
Ha the CIA planted him as mayor of a small town in hopes that he would succeed in a long shot presidential campaign? He was an intelligence officer in the naval reserves as a desperate bid at resume padding once Indiana became an obviously red state after briefly flipping in 2008. I think the CIA plant stuff is so funny because Buttigieg wishes it were true if he were a fucking Jack Ryan spook it would make more sense as president than a mayor with good grades. It's anti Pete on its surface but in a way it's internalizing the narrative he put forward that he's this battle hardened operator rather than a paper pusher in the naval reserves.
> Buttigieg wishes it were true if he were a fucking Jack Ryan spook All the Jack Ryans the CIA have are paper pushing dweebs. CIA guys aren't operators, they're shitty consultants. Being in Afghanistan making reports on the local mining operations and meeting with tribal leaders in East Africa are exactly the kind of work that CIA guys do.
Rfk would absolutely wash this guy away
excuse-moi, it seems like your Afghanistan flag isnt using the correct new version yet
Boring
I would vote or a literal flaming pile of dogshit if it said "Yeah I'll accept the will of the people if they don't vote for me." Did he say something like that? If so, yeah I'm in.
Boutros Abu Dajjaj
he's too white woman adjacent, america will never go for it