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Pete Buttigieg Responds To Kamala Harris Confession He Wasn't VP Pick Since He's Gay
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I don't think there was much against him for the 2024 election cycle. 2020 he was still some guy we didn't really know and he had a weird victory speech in Iowa when they had all kinds of counting issues and we didn't really know the results yet.
In between when he was transportation secretary I think we got to know him and how much he could dominate those guys.
WOW THERE WAS. Holy shit, it was prolific. The Fox News crowd they'd have no chance against this dude in a debate, and they laid into that angle SO heavily.
Even the lefty people were turning against him, for no good reason. He's a good dude, smart as fuck, a family man, but gay. As if that's a fucking drawback. Insane.
Leftists didn't like him because he used to work as a managing consultant for McKinsey & Company...which is seen as a highly corrupt PR firm. In a nutshell, they view him as an accomplished propagandist for the Capitalist class.
McKinsey is a consulting firm, not a PR firm.
Leftists do not like him because he is a nihilist Politician believing in nothing but his self-advancement. Like All of our establishment politicians.
He is as fake as Kamala and biden were and there is no way he overcomes the Party Machine in 2028 to take the election as vice president or anything.
Hold on, are we even talking about the same thing here? I understood your comment to mean that the left was hating on Pete, who was never a serious contender for 2024 POTUS candidate, in that cycle. If that's correct, can you tell me what people did that would be considered "hating" on him? Not just overlooking him when the spotlight was on Biden and later Harris, but actively speaking negatively against him?
Yes, the Progressive left commentators were hating on Pete.
Seder and Emma, those Turks whoever they are, Piker...they all have wavering things to say. Very disappointing.
Didn't one of those Turks fall down the Terf rabbit hole? 'Cause if so, maybe it was never that "progressive left" to begin with. 😬
Fox owns the venue and controls the terms of the debate. Just like Kirk's phony "debates." There's no fairness when the referee is paid for by one of the participants.
Yeah, based on that, he's a great guy. But the fact that he's former McKinsey is a dealbreaker for me. I've dealt with those weasels before and would support a former Goldman Sachs person rather than one of them.