This means corporate shitlibs found their pick to get behind over anybody slightly progressive.

so…not frontrunner, then.

He’s a corporate stooge.

So you're tellin' me there's a chance.

I heard he sided with police over black community in south bend, fired black police chief and half of black police force in south bend. He doesn’t push forward a progressive agenda and his personality for some reason gives pence vibes-just a person thing I feel

Endless rage hiding beneath too-placid exterior, yep

He’s a vapid ladder-climbing neoliberal McKinsey sociopath

Perfect assessment. He also lied about winning the Iowa caucus.

Shit, he ran over to Michigan instead of helping the Indiana Democrats have one remotely centrist member to run things. Now all we have are discount Republicans in charge.

For good reason...

[chant] He's here, he's career, get used to it!

this is probably only funny if you were marching in the 80s TBH

Yeah, let’s start ditching contenders now so we can guarantee a fragmented Democratic Party will hand the Republicans four more years. Brilliant strategy.

I would say ditching the entitled losers like Mayo Pete is a good start 👍💯

You’re both stupid and evil?

You're fragmenting it right now.

Zero percent is not a contender

Comment section: "I have icky feelings about the pretty gay overachiever veteran who challenges the establishment...EWWW..." Yeah, we know. Says more about y'all than it does about him.

Youre really reaching to find any shit that sticks huh

And yet this room is ripe. Sometimes hard to tell for those already covered in it.

Cool man

I hate Pete Butt. All my homies hate Pete Butt.

frontrunner has no support idgi

HES THE FRONTRUNNER

lmfao

Sorry Pete, but America will elect a woman President long before they'll ever consider a gay man.

I personally believe the misogyny that is baked into American white women would have them prefer the white gay man over a woman

They didn’t exactly vote for Kamala either.

Cue Rep. Clyburn making one last call while hooked up to life support to destroy the future of the Democratic Party…

Milquetoast is evidently not a favourite of black Americans

Front runner? Maybe if they're listing them by Surname...or going by his dodgy Shadow app data. Or is he just declaring victory while actually being a loser again? His politics suck, his competency is suspect and his history is rife with shady shit

gonna end up nominating Biden again

Democrats. 🤣

They're really going to force the price-fixer on us over AOC 😮‍💨

How about instead of trying to wishcast and anoint a candidate ahead of time, this time around we have a real primary fight where the DNC and establishment actually stay out of it for a change.

They'll never do that because a Republican win is less frightening to them than an anti establishment win

I know, I know, it's wishful thinking.

God Bless Black People.

Lol frontrunner

He's the front runner?

Just like the simulations (last time).

A bunch of haters of homophobes. Makes me sick.

everyone is talking about McKinsey and his professional/political record. what thread are you reading?

Homophobia runs deep.

It’s not because he’s gay, it’s because he sucks ass as a candidate and a person 💯

Lots of Wine moms and "Saturday protesters" that kept saying listen to Black women are panicking on how to explain the fact that they will absolutely not listen to Black women.

Kaylee, put the wine down and listen before you accuse the Black community of homophobia. It has nothing to do with Pete's sexuality & everything to do with his long history of being a corporate capitalist shill. We're in the middle of a class war & we need warriors not shills. Signed, a gay man.

Nailed it...my point is hegemony...

someone get jim clyburn on this

Sounds like he's the perfect Democrat then.

Never under the Pete love. He’s an extremely boring personality and will get bombarded with “WHY DID YOU HIDE BIDENS CONDITION FOR 4 years?!” questions

The fact that it’s zero and has been for so long is genuinely very funny.

There are no frontrunners for an election 4 years from now. Will there be an election in four years?

You know we used to spend most of the four years governing and not running, Trump started that shit.

? Uhm, ok? Will there be an election though?

Well, I'll put it this way: If there isn't an election then that means the laws of this land are worthless, and in the case of that, I'm going to carry on as if that's a fact, I'm sure many others will feel the same way.

Please understand that laws bind some people and protect others.

Yes, but laws like the Constitution do not, historically we've ignored them, but when they're followed properly half of the things happening, wouldn't be. If the right wants to break those laws to harm us, then we need to accept that the time of law is over.

We gained this country from a violent revolution from a King who had no care for us, if we must, we will repeat that history for those who didn't get the lesson.

Nonviolent resistance works twice as often with 1/3 as many participants. That means it is more effective for you to put violence fantasies away and join up doing something before people pull out their guns.

Really, point to me in history where Protesting stopped people from being rounded up. Show me where in History where protesting stopped Genocide. Show me where in History where protesting stopped a president who can't be jailed for his actions in office doing the above and more.

You are confused. Not all non-violent resistance is protesting. Protesting teaches people that they are not alone. Public numbers are what is necessary to launch and sustain effective resistances. People have to know they are not alone.

To think that these actions will carry the day is synonomous with the definition of insanity. Tell me, what did the No Kings Day protests do exactly? Did Trump slow deportations? Did it slow his erasure of the constitution?

fuck you, breeder

They'd only run him if they want to lose. Which is seemingly what they want.

Exactly. Pete is a candidate they can run with the same neoliberal agenda nobody actually wants, and if he wins or loses the big donors still get what they want. And if he loses, they can blame it on the idea that America wasn't ready for a gay president instead of their terrible platform.

Please do NOT buy into OR advance a narrative that African Americans won't vote for Buttigiege. ESPECIALLY this far out. FFS the only poll numbers that matter are Trump's disapproval ones, why are we even talking about someone that's not even a candidate? Why must Democrats insist on cannibalizing.

They still run him.

pack it in pandering pete

Sounds like a real frontrunner.

Is this real?

I still remember how in the 2020 primary, Mayor Pete's idea of outreach to black voters was literally day drinking in a park out of a paper bag. No, really. There's video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhD3...

The Democratic coalition is fractured, and no one is really even trying to bring it back together.

The party abandoned us a long time ago The institution of federal governance is just about destroyed anyway It’ll be gone by the time we get to decide

It’s not even 2026. “Front runner for 2028” doesn’t mean anything

Reading the comments I feel I have to remember that Pete spent his career having to "fit in". If you think he is not gay enough, or too establishment it's because that's what he had to be to survive in the military and politics. I suspect he is further left and gayer in private. Give him a chance

Let me really break this down for you to understand. If he felt compelled to "fit in" by having to be even more of a monster than those around him, then it doesn't matter what he's like in private, no one is going to experience it or care when the boot is already on their neck and he wears it.

I have never seen him being a monster. I have seen him tow the party line on some less than ideal issues, but nothing monstrous. And I have heard him justify some very leftist ideas in conversations with people on the right in very favorable ways. Unlikely, but I think he'd be a good president.

He signed up for naval intelligence specifically to get in on the war on terror. In 2009, well after the the injustice of it was revealed. Excuse me while i'm not fucking jumping for joy for that repugnant fuck and his notions of decorum.

Your going to spend your entire life hating every politician that comes along. Every single one has something you will find distasteful. Yeah, every blood thirsty crazy bigot joins... Military Intelligence... so they can get their kicks killing Muslims. 🙄

Do you think that us military intelligence spends its time sipping tea? Are you so blinkered that you don't understand what your government does, or what its agencies are tasked to do?

This is not a matter of perfection, there is a very basic line anyone who grew up during 9/11 and the war on terror does not cross if they want respect. And joining to help facilitate that atrocity after it has been proven to be so, is so far past that line it begs questioning how human he is.

"leftists" are being actively homophobic in this thread. Gotta love it.

no one is even talking about that. everyone is talking about McKinsey.

"Pete's not the right kind of gay" is absolutely homophobic and some deep seated trauma shit people need to get over.

no one is saying that

Oh there were absolutely some comments in the vein. That's why I started this thread of the convo. People suggesting that he appeals more to LGBTQ supporters than actual LGBTQ people because he sold out or something. It's like a Catholic being the wrong kind of Christian; insane to us atheists.

what does bread price fixing or bulldozing a poor neighborhood on xmas eve have to do with fitting in?

You mean the 1000 vacant and abandoned homes that he wanted to fix or remove in 1000 days. What kind of mayor would want to improve their city like that... horrible. I would hate to own a home on a block where they came and removed the places my kids go to get stuck with rusty nails or worse.

I worked in Detroit, one of my favorite coworkers had a beautiful 2000sqft brick bungalow that was worth less than $0 because of the blight in her neighborhood. Had to pay commissions to sell, and the market was full of cheap homes. Tear down the blight and save the poor who care about their homes

I mean here is a very anti-Pete article and I still can't find fault. The author defends people who own homes but don't maintain them. Yes they were largely in low income neighborhoods. Poor people who care for their homes should have to live next door to rat infested ruins cuz "the homeless!"

Can never win with some people. We need more affordable housing, they chant, and then cry when someone does something about it.

Nope, sorry, it’s got nothing to do with him being gay and everything to do with the fact that he sucks ass 💯

Fan fiction

Perhaps. But as far a politicians go... there are far worse and few better. I have never voted for a politician who I couldn't find fault with... hell, I'd probably have to hold my nose to vote for myself. It's the nature of the job, you're not a dictator, so must compromise to do anything.

"Few better" than a CIA stooge is wild, bud. We're cooked.

That may be true. But the fact remains that there isn't a lot of politicians who I would truly be excited to vote for. I have fairly low expectations anymore... and it's amazing how few of them can even reach that level.

Tied with Trump

"Run him anyway! We can browbeat them into voting for him. Call them Bernie Bros or something. I'm sure it'll work this time!"

Make sure those democratic primaries start in the South again

Would anyone here except him in the next administration as the press secretary?

Knowing his background with McKinsey and everything, I would have a hard time trusting an administration that would hire him at all.

I would continue not caring who the press secretary is. Idk if that's the same as accepting him.

This has been an issue for him since 2020 and he still hasn’t been able to fix it. Clear where his priorities lie. He won’t win an election.

Has -100 support from me and I'm white.

“frontrunner” lol

That's actually higher than i would have guessed

Because infighting helps.

Higher than I expected to be honest

He’s a private equity manager. He will totally let you be gay while he steals from you though

He really doesn't speak to blk community issues and guy isnt a progressive, he's a standard Clinton, Obama democrat. Thats not bad and he's a solid guy and owns fox...but he has ZERO invested capital with the blk community. He's clout is ALL in his community (lgbqt) as far as identity politics.

He doesn't seem very popular in the wider LGBT community either, especially among the Ts. Buttigieg is a straight person's gay man through and through.

My issue with the major who as a blk military special ops guy I highly admire is he is the establishments pic. Im not going to see him in blk spaces talking about our issues bc thats not what he's into. He's the type of candidate they'd have to saddle with a blk person to get him over the hump.

What is that even supposed to mean? Is there a specific way a gay man is "supposed" to be? And if he's not then he's not with the gays? Wild statement.

He comes off as very... Assimilationist. Like he seems like straight liberals ideal of a gay man. Clean, "respectable." He doesn't seem like he is very close to the community or the culture. He's more popular with Allies than he is with actual queer people.

Sarah McBride has the same thing going. Beloved by Allies, unpopular with the Community

He's gay. It doesn't have to be his entire personality. He's literally married to a dude idk wtf else people want from him. There are millions of gay men that "come off" the same way. There is no "right way" to be gay.

You're right, of course. It's hard to explain how a member of a minority community can come off as insincere, and I guess you can't really get it unless you are a member of one yourself. Yes, he's gay, but he doesn't seem to care much for representing the community- and that apathy is reciprocated

Honestly im not in a position to judge the majors gay card personally bc ive never tracked him on that but I know bigots in the republican party give him hell constantly even though he's the kind of American they SAY they want same as they do for my blk self. In the end they still hare regardless.

Right, which is why it's ridiculous to try and cast him out of the broader gay community. If he wasn't gay he absolutely would be a front runner but most of the electorate would never vote for him simply because he's gay.

I strongly disagree with this point tbh. I think most of the electorate dislikes him because he is a conservative Dem. If he represented popular policies, he could have been president already. Just look at Zohran Mamdani's victory in NYC- left populism overcomes so many social barriers.

"Conservative Dems" win elections. Pointing to a NYC mayoral race and thinking that has anything to do with the national voting bloc and a presidential run is just crazy.

Well this queer enjoys having Pete around as a public figure, even if he's "doing it wrong" Meanwhile the same people bitching about his queerness drool over masc dudes on Grindr. Maybe we should just stop eating our own?

I'm glad you feel represented by him. Maybe it's something of a disconnect with cis gay folks I have as a trans person, idk.

Yeah and you're absolutely not wrong . My first thing about Pete besides he's a conservative dem is that he was a Major when I was over seas too. I also get how that can leave some feeling like he's not really THEIR representative personally. This is why kitchen table issues should be the focus

Your last sentence is, of course, correct. The issue is that he wouldn't agree with it.

And what statements has he made that lead you to believe this? It's absurd how people will look at him and listen to him talk and then ascribe a bunch of personality traits and beliefs to him because he doesn't fit their idea of who he should be.

I see what theyre saying and what youre saying. Im seeing ppls response that Pete is more of a clean cut tv friendly kinda gay (like how on tv gay ppl could be flamoyant but never shown kissing like on will n grace). Like Pete isnt the kinda gay person maga describes when they insult them.

Pete Buttigieg is the kind of gay that asks “are you clean?” six times before having sex with a condom

"he's a standard Clinton, Obama democrat. Thats not bad..." No, that *is* bad. Clinton and Obama are a large part of why Trump got elected in the first place. We can't keep running corrupt empty suits who don't give two shits about the working classes and expect to defeat fascism. 🙄

I ment an establishment pick. ITs not bad when his ire is pointed at fox which Pete regularly does and Ive already noted him as a conservative dem and how thats not the same as me. Also pretty sure I mentioned identity politics should be left for after elections and kitchen table issues matter most

I'm not going to aggrandize some corrupt little prick just because he sometimes says pleasing things when it has no effect on anything. I don't give two shits about "owning" Fox News. I want to purge the party of corruption and move on, and guys like him stand in the way. 🤷‍♂️

Thats your view but a minority can get nothing done. Long as he keeps them busy pointing out their hypocrisy to their viewers in a way others cant I'm fine with that, after all hes not in any office atm. You need to be going after aipac with ur views. Long as dems take pac money nothing changes

But lgbt folks I know don’t like him either (I’m gay)

Worse than none. When he was mayor he re Jim Crowed the police department. Covered for some killer cops forced out a popular black chief poo pooed racism the usual.

Admittedly I had read this and some other things...with dems like these who needs maga am i right.

Exactly

I have no bone in this fight, but I don’t really mind who Democrats nominate in 2028. I think they & America are going to need a Unity candidate after Trump. Someone to begin bringing the country back together.

Oh cool so JD Vance presidency?

I prefer an independent for the next 8 years and induction of more parties.

Hey man isn’t that what Biden said he was?

Isn't that always what they say we need and they offer?

Lmao they tried that with Biden and it only worked for TWO years of ONE term! My god ya’ll, Zohran Mamdani just surged into a first-count NYC mayor primary vote, from all the energy of young and working class new yorkers. And you’re out here pitching more Bloombergs and Cuomos? WASHED.

To clarify, that is what demanding a “unity candidate” will do! Pete Buttiege/Gavin Newsome are the MOST favorable “unity” options that we’ll get. They’ll both lose and make everything worse if they somehow manage to win. The DNC will never elevate a working class hero as the “unity candidate”

You say “we need a unity candidate” and i hear “the party is going to nominate another soulless SUIT” and the best possible outcome will be a 1 term, failed presidency

It’s certainly not about a Bloomberg or Cuomo, but Mamdani just toppled a dynasty in New York. I think something is building to reject this regime and we don’t know where it will lead.

If we give the DNC a mandate to send up a unity candidate in 2028, then they will anoint a centrist corporate-backed candidate like Bloomberg/Hochul/Newsome. The primaries havent started and ur calling for a unity candidate? F**k that, I want someone to put fascists in jail! bsky.app/profile/cweb...

Why are the most extreme moments of authoritarian overreach met with a vague cry for unity? Unity? There’s no unity in this. We need a strong candidate who’s not afraid to draw a thousand lines in the sand. Backsliding for unity is what got us here, our tax dollars are bombing american homes rn.

It's entirely possible we haven't been introduced to this person yet, either

There is no path back to normalcy and a future where we are all alive and co-existing peacefully with these freaks. The Republican Party has gone all-in on a fascist takeover and it needs to be DESTROYED.

He looks like he loves Wonder bread miracle whip sandwiches

Unpopular Opinion: He's far better than what we have right now

Are you gonna keep trying this same fail strategy until we’re all dead?

Narrator: Yes

There's a whole discussion already bsky.app/profile/them...

The reason we are where we are is because of the ridiculous notion that voting against your own interests will somehow end up benefitting you in the long run. If the Dems run Pete Buttigieg or anyone remotely like him, I will not vote for him.

Maybe. But I look at the Progressives in Congress for inspiration. They're the largest caucus now, which demands attention. That is, under a Dem majority. They didn't get there by throwing their hands in the air in protest. But now, under the current regime, their progress is being suffocated.

There are no "progressive" Dems (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) currently in place or considering a run for federal office in my swing state. I am not "throwing my hands in the air in protest." I am refusing to vote for shitty candidates.

Blah blah blah. Until the democrats stop destroying progressives they deserve nothing from any of us.

The bar is in hell. Also he would lose the general election. Assuming there are free and fair elections in 2028.

Hillary and Harris were also the lesser of two evils. Sometimes, that just ain't good enough. Aim higher. 🙄

If you're thinking about those who sat out this last election or voted 3rd party for that reason, we're way off the mark now. Fascism is now here. Authoritarianism is on the doorstep. Sometimes we have to accept and play a long game.

I love how y'all keep framing it as the fault of the voters and not the party leadership and their shitty ass candidates who didn't offer voters what they need. It's always "just shut up and vote for whom your told!" Trump is your fault not the voters, so you can shove your 'tude. 🙄

That's just it. The 'tude' needs to be taken down a few notches and replaced by rationalization. We would have had a far better chance working with a Harris administration. But now we're dealing with a most cruel admin hell bent on authoritarian aspirations.

Lesser evil voting over a long period is how we wound up here. There's no winning that long game.

To be fair my cats’ turds would be better than what we have right now. The bar is in hell.

And he will lose an election by a landslide

How are you called a "frontrunner" when you have 0% with ... anybody...

Sadly, I don't think homophobia will ever leave the United States. Too many bible thumpers and bigots ! ! ! 😒

I don’t think they know what that word means

Most of the country don't pay attention to politics and probably doesn't know who he is. Why are they doing polls so early?

neat.

He's still Mayo Pete lol

We're so fucked for 2028

They all support Andre Cuomo 2028.

Let's see if there will be free elections in 2026 and 2028. We have a fascist in the White House, a useless Congress, and a corrupt SCOTUS. We live in a police state, no matter how you turn it. Ppl are arrested and jailed,disappeared, citizens and noncitizens alike if their skin is the wrong color.

What a pity. The smartest of all dems.

Lmao!

Before we start crowning anyone a front runner I wanna see a plan that is in-depth as Mamdani’s. The press needs to cover who will replace Trump. That’s the real question.

Nope, not it

Pete Buttigieg has -12 support from me and I’m white and gay

Same, lol!

Me: "I will absolutely vote for a gay dude. What a refreshing change." Democrats: "What about a gay CIA op?" Me: [inhales through teeth] "You got any more elderly sex criminals laying around? Who am I kidding, we know you do."

just before covid I went to a party with nearly all white gay guys, and Buttigieg had 0% support there also

K

I don’t like it when strangers introduce themselves like this, but I’m not mean enough to go into detail and pull out the 5-year-old tweets and etc. so I’m just gonna say, find the room to believe

I mean sure, but at the end of the day it's still just anecdotal information, information that could be affected by local sentiment and not national.

Did I claim otherwise? Still happened ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cool, well unless your gay friends are the monolith of experience of all gay people it's worth about as much as your opinion. So, thanks for showing me the low bar it takes to sway your point of view.

"Sway"? Yeah you're getting that story wrong, but since it has no value to you anyway who cares, right Was there anything else, or just the shocking news that I and my friends aren't Gallup Polls

Since you don't like Pete why post? Maybe because you chose to, the same answer for me champ. Also, why would I want to ask you anything, I just need to ask your friends their thoughts and cut out the middle man.

"Same answer"? I didn't ask why you're posting, I asked if there was anything else Besides your apparent mistaken belief that I'm straight, there doesn't seem to be anything, but I believe it's courteous to ask. *Is* there anything else, or just more of you having sand in your crotch

Room to believe your... anecdote? 😂 Social media is a trip

…yes? Do you just treat all those as lies by default lol

No, I wouldn't say that. I can believe you attended a party.

what you can believe isn’t a subject of interest for me. What else you got

Two tickets to Paradise

Pass. Have a good one

🤝🤝🤝

why doesn't he have your support?

He is at -50 with me and I am a middle aged balding white guy with 2 gay friends and 2 gay uncles. All 4 of them don’t support the guy either. My gay sister in law does though. She also voted for Trump the last election. She is kinda weird honestly. We love her anyways.

Blood really does run thicker

100%, she is our special little weirdo.

I mean, it sounds like she’s not MAGA so she can be your special little weirdo. I’ll allow it.

Kinda early. Let’s wait until the election is a little closer and then we can nominate a qualified, but completely unelectable candidate.

"frontrunner"

For fucking once. Jfc thank you

Buttigieg may be a great communicator, but I think he should go for Gary Peters' senate seat instead of the presidency And continue going on Fox News etc. to challenge their bs

Man I would love Pete but there's no way Americans are voting for a gay guy married to another gay guy. Sucks but that's the truth.

Frontrunner😂 That's the establishment Dem's wish.

Why is there this obsession, in 2025, about 2028 Presidential hopefuls? The shape of global politics is being upended on a weekly basis and people think they can estimate 2028 politics? Wild...

What the US needs to right the ship during its socioeconomic collapse is a fucking nihilist McKinsey & Company consultant.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

OH SHIT

well, they better involve themselves then. The current atmosphere among black folks appears small minded. and not worthy of attention. That is pure sad. With strong democratic stars like Jasmine Crockett and Hakeem Jeffries, it feels like they could use some support. Crockett 2028.

“f r o n t r u n n e r”

The only group he supports is the one that hands out legalized bribes, so he has zero support from anyone in my household.

That’s not important unless it’s a leftist or socialist

Sounds like they're good at seeing through his bs. 👍

"Welp, time to say some pretty racist stuff." -everyone who still thinks Pete Buttigieg is the future of the Democratic party

Sad

"frontrunner"

Anyone who was part of the Biden administration is permanently disqualified in my book Their actions directly led us here Worse, their inaction directly led us here

He can win them over!

His history with BLM protestors during his time as mayor says otherwise.

Damn guess he's not a frontrunner then huh

I'd take Buttigieg over 47, but I would also take Pizza Rat over 47, so I admit it's a low bar. Not the worst option, but there are so many better and way more progressive. Pete is articulate, though - a good guy to have on staff for sending out to cable news shows for messaging.

🤣🤣🤣

High Hopes joke goes here.

Famously black voters have never been make or break for a democratic primary

Mayo Pete

to be fair the margin of error brings him up to 2-3% support

🤭

We also must entertain the idea that negative 3 percent of African Americans support him.

Finally, the perfect counterpart to Uncle Ruckus.

Which means even people who don't exist have negative things to say about him.

Well deserved

With his communication skill set. Buttigieg at this time is probably better positioned for a run at a Senate seat & good chance of winning.

"frontrunner?" In what lib fever dream? AOC has the highest polling of any Dem. Pete didn't even rank. lol thehill.com/homenews/hou...

OSSOFF for Pres - Pete for VP! -eof

"WAAAAAAA! Why don't bwack peopwe wike Warmbo Buttigieg? Warmbo Buttigieg is bettew dan Mistew Twump and dat shouwd be enough fow dem!"

I want a Crockett/AOC ticket

Whew. That's a relief.

People don't like military-industrial complex spooks? Damn, OK. Next.

Mayo Pete, not popular among black people? Say it ain't so LMAO

That man looks like the game result when Every setting on the character creator was set to medium apart from skin tone.

don't look up who most black voters in that poll ended up supporting, ken

who

Harris with 30%

this is for 2028. is Harris thinking of running again?

I don’t know but the poll is asking people about 2028. I was curious about who the 2nd and third were among black people but I couldn’t navigate the full data set in my phone

My advice is he should double down on talking about how he has an NDA from McKinsey and co

He is he the “front runner?”

But have they seen the beard yet

He’s just gayer Mitt Romney or JD Vance, I do not understand why they keep trying to push him as a possible presidential candidate.

I hope it is because they are smarter than the average American and not because he likes the wrong hole

Agreed. IMO he is about as integeral as a fascade on corner store. Looks good from a distance, but up close lacks any real substance. When your more worried about what your donors think then whats right, you literally sold your soul. He is part of the reason you got Donald, now he wants a turn?🤔

Frontrunner for fucking what?

pretty sure he does lead in some of the *way too early* 2028 primary polling.

Ahh, the "quick, name a Democrat" stage.

Uh, uh, Adlai Stevenson!!

From 2020

He's gonna need a new dance for this one

His supporters are the same people saying Bernie needs to talk to black voters

But he has so much charisma.

Frontrunner according to whom?

Bro it’s literally Summer 2025 rn. 8 months since the election…

surely not for this democratic party

You mean people don’t like Gentrification Pete?

Nope

We'll still be told we're racist if we prefer a different candidate in that eventual primary

If you want to go with the black vote let's just nominate Biden yet again?

The same black community who wouldn’t vote for a woman? 🙄

they did vote for Harris you dipshit racist lib. unlike your pos white relatives.

Not black men. They preferred not to vote rather than vote for a woman. And I’ve given my BROWN relatives & WHITE friends/colleagues a rash of shit for supporting a felon/rapist/grifter/insurrectionist/traitor.

no they didn't. they voted overwhelmingly for Harris. you're too fucking racist to look. and do you blame your pos white relatives for being the reason Trump win? no you fucking didn't.

Do a little research, dumbass.

This is such a weird thing to lie about

Not if you want to straight up lie about reality it's not.

www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

white female voters: what went wrong and what comes next

voters: what went wrong and what comes next

This article doesn't back up your position.

Now post the percent of qualified black males who posted. If I’m wrong, I’ll gladly admit such.

Posted what? For Kamala? How would anyone even measure that? This idea that politicians can never fail voters, they can only be failed is shameful. You're out here blaming millions of Black men for white supremacy instead the opposition party. This is textbook racist scapegoating.

Correcton: qualified black males who voted.

I don't know, what's the percentage?

Yep. Blck community is responsible for the shitshow we have now along with the Dearborn rejects. Enjoy!

white libs still afraid to talk to their white relatives i see.

Not black women. They universally voted for Kamala.

92% voted for her, that’s not the same as 100%

McKinsey MBAs are the servants of Mammon , no thanks!

didn't stop him from running last time

Pete is a frontrunner? Dear God America is fucked.

20% of the 'black community' voted Trump. So, there is that.

"Frontrunner"? We're three years out, you asshats! Nobody's running yet! So tired of this horse-race shit...

people just type up any kind of stupid sentence.

Mayo Pete is a non-entity to me, but I am more into Bernie than the stuffed suit who projected little to no policy in his speeches.

There’s a reason we call him Mayo Pete.

Go Pete Go!

How in the fuck are they defining the term front runner here???

Favorite of the DNC, I assume. They argued in court that they don't have to run a fair primary 🤷‍♂️

I remember that court case. Knew the DNC was beyond reform at that point

frontrunner

buttigeig 2028: or do you really want trump again

When I worked in the 2020 primaries, a Buttigieg supporter chased my co-worker down the street after he'd canvassed the guy's door. He was mad our guy wasn't his guy lol

Zero percent seems kind of high.

Why’s he hated now? I thought people considered him a very apt speaker and good future candidate

Well personally, I think he is very obviously an insincere chameleon motivated solely by personal ambition. Basically this character, but with a husband instead of a wife: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsWL...

siri, what would a black voter's caricature of an out-of-touch white technocrat look like?

Let's ask the residents of E Palestine their thoughts on Pete

very happy about the kinds of people this will enrage

How does one credulously report that number?

Good ol' "All Lives Matter is anodyne." Buttigieg.

they’re pushing him so that they can tear him down later as the stalking horse for gavin newsom he’s so obviously being set up as. they’re both shit, both uninspired, both offer nothing but continuity of the democrats that couldn’t beat as poor a candidate as trump

No. Bluewave types have always loved Buttigieg. Its genuine and naive.

Remember what he is www.theroot.com/mayor-pete-s... though he did seem to learn a bit as Secretary Of Transportation, so perhaps he's better.

i don’t think anyone with real power at the top of the party truly believes buttigieg will be the candidate in the general. he’s the hipster’s choice, someone for airheaded staffers to get excited about, like elizabeth warren was

but maybe i’m wrong, maybe they’ll really try to run this guy, maybe they’re even more divorced from reality than i ever even realised

Kente cloth

this picture will be in history books

In northern and southern states. In the north they will write about democratic leaderships bravery. And in the south they will write about black people rioting over police violence, and how the democrats supported violence.

Yeah but Gavin looks pretty and he's "cultured". What's the chance they all put on dashikis again to try and pander to the black community.

honestly, i doubt they’ll even bother this time. pretending to care about communities with nauseating performative gestures that never come close to translating into policies to help ppl is so 2020. at least that’ll save us those images

Hahaj true. Lots of people went mask off with the mamhdani win. It'll be easier to rake their names through mud and show people what these people really think.

hell yes, they’ve had to go too far already to row back no matter how ridiculous their stunts

They're pushing him because he's smart, telegenic, a member of a marginalized community, and completely corrupt. He's exactly what party insiders want. Besides, Newsom seems to be in the process of transitioning to right wing podcaster/grifter.

Newsome threw both immigrants and Trans people under the bus in recent months… If they want to lose again, sure run him 🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

He’s spent his life cultivating the centrist lane

Well, then how can you call him a frontrunner?

Are you telling me the mayo thing wasn’t a compliment

Literally the only thing he has going for him is that he’s relatively pro train.

>frontrunner

What’s with all the hate on Pete?

Nobody likes a pandering corporate CIA rat that will do and say anything just to get elected

Run it back

The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue.

It’s his turn though. We can’t just skip turns, that would be silly.

They’ll parachute Jim Clyburn in if it looks like Pete’s their best shot against the left.

Lo the loudest of L's at the idea that being the Secretary TRANSPORTATION to Joe fucking Biden would be a natural springboard to the Whitehouse. I'm sure the spreadsheets he drew up were really impressive though.

Please stop trying to make Pete happen. Nothing wrong with the guy but he’s just another tepid neolib in a suit.

also he's never been elected to anything larger than mayor of South Bend IN. he has no real constituency.

Incorrect, there is a lot wrong with the guy. From fixing bread prices to market testing the best way to whitewash his last name to volunteering for an illegal imperialist invasion to improve his political prospects. It's a mess. As a Midwestern raised Maltese-American, I can happily say foxx ommu

Log Cabin Republican.

EXACTLY I’m a gay dude who passes for white, although I’m Latino And I love public transit, don’t get me wrong, but this man is not what we need for president We need someone who is not pro-Israel and someone who will offer the next New Deal to radically improve quality of life

"someone who will offer the next New Deal to radically improve quality of life"? Please explain.

EXACTLY (back atcha') Folks have forgotten, or didn't know, Pete was schmoozing w/ Zuck before throwing in to run. His fundraisers were private events hosted by tech-bros. 7 languages? Uh, no. Folks are gaga because he speaks in full sentences. He's a liability and will never be elected.

Yeah Pete definitely isn’t it. BTW my wife is Mexican. 9 months out of the year she passes for white but once June hits she’s 95% Mexican and 5% white because at the beach she has to wear shoes because she hates the feel of sand. Her feet are like Irish white while rest of her is beautifully brown.

I'm Italian - I get it - ☀️ ⛱️ 👙

Exactly. I don’t dislike him; he’s just not what we need.

He'd be a perfectly adequate director of the committee to determine the date for convening the meeting to agree on whether to decide to alter the boundaries of the local dog park.

He has multiple skills. I believe he could ALSO help you fix Canadian bread prices!

We got enough of those guys already.

🤭

Well, I don't like him even a teeny-weeny bit - creeps me out cuz' he ain't who he presents. Just because he can speak in full sentences doesn't mean he belongs anywhere near the 2028 ticket - he's a liability.

I *do* dislike him. He represents the modern neo-lib, who tries to distract from economic policy through personality and minority status. That's the opposite of what we need to defeat Republicans, help the working classes, and advance society.

Also he's an ethnic minority who is so afraid of dealing with that he market tested how to anglicize the pronunciation of his surname then sold merch of it. As a Maltese-American who grew up in the Midwest, that shit is so pathetic.

I'm a little bit behind on bigoted beliefs. Do anyone but the worst white supremacists really care about the ethnic background of people who look white? I thought they were mostly going by skin color, religion, and potential LGBT status.

I think he's more avoiding the inconveniences of explaining Makta

Malta even lol

Also it would be inconvenient to see a country that is running a functioning national healthcare system.

Okay, I can go along with that.

Being just another tepid neolib in a suit is something wrong with him.

Agreed

There is a lot wrong with the guy.

So much. Market-tested surname pronunciation ass rat.

Lmao

You mean this stunt didnt help him won any support?

I can't see this at 3 am. Come on.

This was in Pete's bag:

😂

Is this real

its 2025 there is no consensus reality, just decide for yourself if you want it to be true 🤷

youtu.be/AhD3fFK3C9U

In a sort of abstract way I'm a little surprised but I think my ability to be shocked by politicians in any real way has long since atrophied bsky.app/profile/bang...

Corn pop was a bad dude. It’s when we knew his brain was melting.

Except…it was proven he was a real guy whose family said he and Biden knew each other…

And?

"One honkey's just as bad as any other" -Joe Biden 🤗

Yep, it was from 2020. youtu.be/AhD3fFK3C9U

Did he just pull out a Lagavulin to drink out of a paper bag? This vid is a piece of art and also shit

i feel like im not supposed to know this exists

And yet. YOU DO

Rinsing my eyes after seeing this by watching the High Hopes dance

Sad. Pete is a very intelligent communicator.

???

0 support in the black community.