Pete Buttigieg suggested he would “assess” a 2028 presidential run. While visiting Iowa, he said in a live interview that he'd consider “what I bring to the table.”
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No thanks
may 13, 2025, 11:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I love Pete and would vote for him but I think half the country would not give him a chance even though he is brilliant. Republican are trying to erase anything lgbt. Maybe Pete should wait another cycle until republican “shit” can clear. Vote out republicans.
may 14, 2025, 2:09 am • 2 0 • view
We need him desperately to save our country
may 14, 2025, 3:26 am • 1 0 • view
He said asses.
may 13, 2025, 10:15 pm • 2 0 • view
No
may 14, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I love all this assumption about how elections will “be” in a y future date
may 14, 2025, 2:06 am • 1 0 • view
Would love to see it except he has zero chance
may 13, 2025, 11:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Love the idea of him entering the primary season, along with all the other candidates for the democratic nomination! He would make an excellent president.
may 14, 2025, 1:37 am • 2 0 • view
I wonder what it would take for him to do more than just consider.
may 13, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Bad move by Pete. His chances are about the same as other Pete, the drunk one! The normal Pete has a lot of great ideas. He is high IQ. Unfortunately, America is not ready for a gay guy. America appears to like crooks and thieves. America likes a guy who accepts jumbo jet as gift! Crude but true.
may 14, 2025, 4:55 am • 3 0 • view
Great idea- Too bad there won't be 2026 midterms. Assess that. Law-abiding democratic procedure is dead in America. 1776 2.0. Prepare.
may 14, 2025, 11:25 am • 1 0 • view
Sadly, most Americans are afraid of an intelligent honest man who is fighting for his country because this man is gay. America voted for Trump because of these same prejudices.. We are a sad country because we cannot see the good in people who we perceive as different from the majority.
may 14, 2025, 11:02 pm • 4 0 • view
Walz/Buttigieg 2028?
may 13, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Sorry Pete, but you're gay and have zero chance of being elected President in today's America. I just saved you the need to "assess". You're welcome.
may 14, 2025, 3:03 pm • 5 0 • view
Sad, but true. We’re just not that mature.
may 14, 2025, 4:57 pm • 3 0 • view
He’s what we desperately need but not for right now 😫
may 14, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
This is sadly true
may 14, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
If we couldn't get enough people to vote for a white woman, a black woman, we certainly won't get enough people to vote for a gay man. I think it's a mistake! I like him, but he won't win! And I don't care if he's gay or not I'm just saying he won't win!
may 14, 2025, 10:23 am • 6 1 • view
This country has a strange aversion to a woman president. Think that a gay man would have a better chance than a woman.
may 14, 2025, 12:40 pm • 3 0 • view
He will win because he's a good man.
may 14, 2025, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view
, Harris was a good woman, and she didn't win. There was no scandal.
may 14, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
She was a woman. That was the scandal, her existence.
may 14, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I love Pete but we have a SWAMP*filled government which is worshiped by millions. *Straight White Anglo-Saxon Male Protestant Christian Nationalist
may 14, 2025, 11:56 am • 0 0 • view
Folks are finding flaws in his identities ability to win, but the real problem is his neoliberalism. We don't need another neoliberalism to counter fascism. We need progressive, systemic change, starting with Healthcare, because that's the biggest pile of voters. Let's learn from past mistakes.
may 14, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Fucking autocorrect. *identity's *we don't need another neoliberal
may 14, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
There isn’t going to be an election in 2028 so this is a moot point.
may 14, 2025, 2:01 am • 3 0 • view
I disagree. And so do 100 million of my best friends
may 14, 2025, 2:19 am • 3 0 • view
Are those 100 million people going to disagree when Dump declares marital law and locks up protesters?
may 14, 2025, 8:56 am • 2 1 • view
💙💙💙
may 14, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe Pete is the right one to chart a new course for Democrats. Pointing to the misdeeds of the opposition is not going to win the day.
may 14, 2025, 2:43 am • 1 0 • view
YES!!!!
may 14, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
Nothing brings out the BBro vitriol more than a Pete post. No rats? No Canadian bread price fixing? Yawn.
may 14, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
👏👏❤️
may 14, 2025, 6:34 am • 1 0 • view
Let’s just get past the midterms, please.
may 14, 2025, 9:29 am • 5 0 • view
HE'S ONE OF THE CANDIDATES WHO AGREED TO LET THE DNC APPOINT THE NOMINEE AFTER THEY CHEATED BERNIE OUT FOR THE SECOND TIME IN 2020! HE WILL NEVER BE ELECTED PRESIDENT! I PROMISE! 6 MILLION VOTERS WALKED AWAY FROM THE PARTY FOR FUNDING GENOCIDE, THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TO ANY ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS!
may 14, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
More than most that's a fact
may 14, 2025, 7:48 am • 0 0 • view
y'all know good n gotdamn well this country WON'T allow for a gay man to be president. cut this nonsense or make a 3rd party with a shot in hell.
may 14, 2025, 1:48 am • 4 0 • view
I would vote for him in an instant
may 14, 2025, 1:26 am • 3 0 • view
I would vote for Pete.
may 14, 2025, 12:06 am • 3 0 • view
may 14, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
He’d bring sanity, intelligence, political acumen … and a whole lotta sexiness !!
may 14, 2025, 2:48 am • 11 0 • view
He is literally a racist small town mayor
may 14, 2025, 7:00 am • 0 0 • view
Hey dear
may 13, 2025, 11:16 pm • 4 0 • view
I wish
may 14, 2025, 10:48 am • 1 0 • view
There will not be elections by 2028, do something NOW!
may 14, 2025, 4:12 pm • 3 0 • view
IMO this *is* doing something now. PB is creating a platform that forces "the media" to pay attention to him as a first-announced 2028 candidate.
may 14, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
If he's in Iowa speaking....is it really that hard to guess?
may 13, 2025, 10:05 pm • 4 0 • view
I'd vote for Pete or Pritzker.
may 14, 2025, 4:59 am • 5 0 • view
I'm never going to vote for Pete. Did we all forget his 2020 campaign where he was very pro military and fascism?
may 14, 2025, 9:13 am • 0 0 • view
God forbid we have another president (Obama) who is brilliant, can communicate, string together coherent thoughts, understand domestic and foreign policies and needs, and have a squeaky clean background. Surely we’ve evolved to having a gay man in comparison to a 34 felonious dictator wannabe
may 14, 2025, 2:29 am • 3 0 • view
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may 14, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
G O O D HE'S SMART AS A WHIP, IS A VET, SPEAKS INTELLIGENTLY AND ELOQUENTLY, HAS EXPERIENCE, AND COMES ACROSS A VERY DOWN TO EARTH PERSON. NOT THAT HARRIS WASN'T, OR SHOULDN'T RUN AGAIN. AOC WOULD BE A GOOD RUNNING MATE. THEY SHARE THE SAME QUALITIES
may 13, 2025, 11:35 pm • 2 0 • view
They share none of the same core values or beliefs. He's completely against universal healthcare.
may 14, 2025, 12:12 am • 3 0 • view
NAZISM NEED TO DESTROY THE GENERAL HEALTH OF THE POPULATION, THUS ENSURING INCREASED SUICIDE, BANKRUPTCIES, AND MORTALITY RATES FROM DISEASE. THE SOONER SOMEONE DRIVES A TANK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE OR DROPS A PLANE ( AKA D.B SWEENEY STYLE ) THE BETTER.
may 14, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
He would bring a lot to the table.
may 14, 2025, 12:57 am • 4 0 • view
Go Pete!
may 14, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
We all know you're running, Pete. I can't believe anybody is stupid enough to post stories like, "This obvious presidential candidate is only kinda maybe thinking about running and you should believe that."
may 13, 2025, 11:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Mayor Pete supported Biden's genocide. He's another warmonger.
may 14, 2025, 1:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Is the warmongering he’s done in the room with us right now?
may 14, 2025, 2:55 pm • 18 1 • view
He can speak in full sentences for one thing. And his thoughts are coherent and don't need the media to translate them into sanity.
may 14, 2025, 3:31 am • 17 1 • view
No kidding. But I think that’s why the repugs don’t like him. I think they feel less than with someone intelligent. That’s why they dislike higher education.
may 14, 2025, 5:13 am • 8 0 • view
Perfect. 🤣
may 14, 2025, 4:41 am • 2 0 • view
I would vote for him without hesitation
may 14, 2025, 12:07 am • 21 1 • view
So would I. But not enough people would.
may 14, 2025, 12:47 am • 10 0 • view
I think by 2028 there will be enough people. The toll this asshole in office is taking on our collective psyches is just so unbelievable that I think we'd vote in a cartoon character to have someone NORMAL in the office!
may 14, 2025, 12:57 am • 6 0 • view
I don't. I think his being gay is a problem with the way too many bigots in this country. I think he's great. But this country is so awful. I want him to run for Senator in Michigan.
may 14, 2025, 2:03 am • 4 0 • view
When it comes to bigotry we're pretty damn special, aren't we? No matter if the person is exceptionally talented, who they take to bed is far more important than it should be for some of us. when it's none of our damn business. But except for the pedophiles. they're sick.
may 14, 2025, 6:13 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly. I don’t know why he didn’t run for Senate. Being a senator from middle America would be a perfect stepping stone to the presidency. He was a successful transportation sec, but he needs to hold office to prove himself electable.
may 14, 2025, 6:20 am • 4 0 • view
And the Democrats can use another voice. We have to retake the Congress next year at all costs.
may 14, 2025, 6:27 am • 2 0 • view
The one dem who would make me not even show up to vote at all.
may 14, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
He would lose. No U.S allies. in European Countries ' never elect a gay men prime minister . Still he would lose
may 13, 2025, 10:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Do you realize how homophobic this take is
may 13, 2025, 10:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Didn’t they say once a black candidate has no chance?
may 13, 2025, 10:20 pm • 8 0 • view
' back then it was Barack Obama.. yeah .
may 13, 2025, 10:22 pm • 2 0 • view
may 13, 2025, 10:29 pm • 3 0 • view
What is this is propaganda???
may 14, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
no. the point is to show how trump is worse than nixon.
may 14, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I know, but this feels like normalizing the 2nd worst president in history as "not so bad". Like if we have a worse dictator in the future, looking back at Trump as being a "hero" because of Covid.
may 14, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
i guess my point was all my life I heard from the media and a lot of leaders was how bad Nixon was. Trump is worse than Nixon. Why isn't the media and leaders saying that? Like Nixon, there should be a call for Trump's resignation. Instead, there's silence. I was just trying to point this out.
may 14, 2025, 5:04 pm • 3 1 • view
I hear that, as I've wondered the same. But Nixon was when I was like 8, so he has no relevance to today. Most under 40, don't know who he even is. I'm not making an excuse, just the reality of why it's not portrayed as we think it should be.
may 14, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
i see what you're saying. i've gotten about 35 likes and 7 reposts on this post. 6 people said they thought neither was a hero -- good answer. and about 6 people including you thought the post made Nixon a hero. i'm taking the post down because I don't want people to think I'm promoting nixon.
may 14, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
That was just my immediate reaction to it. It just seemed weird, that's all. I respect your decision.
may 14, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry. The Bastard Nixon didn’t end the war willingly. He had to have his nose rubbed in it through protests. He’d promised to end it for his first 4 years. He did not.
may 14, 2025, 4:48 am • 3 0 • view
not a post praising Nixon. a post showing Trump is looking worse than Nixon.
may 14, 2025, 6:15 am • 1 0 • view
I like this guy. The real deal. Educated. Experienced. American. Bold. Brave. Articulate.
may 13, 2025, 10:34 pm • 12 0 • view
You are correct. He is all those things. However, he will not be able to win.
may 14, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
may 13, 2025, 11:03 pm • 2 0 • view
I'd say America is probably not ready for a gay president yet... but by the time 2028 rolls around, if America still exists at all, people are going to be so absolutely sick to death of Trump and Trumpism that by then they might just vote for ANY other option.
may 14, 2025, 12:11 am • 5 1 • view
Yeah Vance or someone worse. No gay man or woman will be elected President in my lifetime. If either are the nominee, they will lose, no matter who they are running against. People chose the literal worst human being alive instead of a woman. Twice.
may 14, 2025, 12:44 am • 4 0 • view
That is extremely discouraging. I can only hope that having to deal with the consequences of their decisions will make people change their minds. If they still vote for their own suffering over a gay candidate, then there is really no hope for them.
may 14, 2025, 1:32 am • 1 0 • view
There is no hope.
may 14, 2025, 2:34 am • 2 0 • view
Can't exactly blame you for feeling that way.
may 14, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
Anyone who denies this has been asleep for a decade.
may 14, 2025, 2:42 am • 2 0 • view
Bring it Pete!
may 14, 2025, 12:29 am • 2 0 • view
Brilliant man.
may 14, 2025, 3:27 am • 5 0 • view
Let's see. The country voted in a racist nazi so the democrats feel that success could be found in the polar opposite of that.
may 14, 2025, 11:12 am • 7 1 • view
That might be the whole point. The alternative is to go just a *bit* racist and Nazi. How do you think that will go?
may 14, 2025, 11:48 am • 2 0 • view
Who is just a bit racist and Nazi?
may 14, 2025, 12:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean you have two choices: 1. Be as anti-racist and anti-Nazi as possible in the hope this gets you enough votes to win, or.. 2. Become a *little bit* Nazi/racist (sympathetic at least) in the hope of picking up some of the voters who are only a little bit Nazi & racist
may 14, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
To be clear I think 2 is a spectacularly bad idea as it legitimises nazi-racism.
may 14, 2025, 12:18 pm • 5 0 • view
At the risk of sounding lofty, I'd like to think we've all finally figured out that division doesn't just divide. It subtracts. Get a sincere person who can rally the population around that, we may just weasel our way off our current ledge. Carter, Bill Clinton, and Obama all fit that bill.
may 14, 2025, 12:23 pm • 5 1 • view
It would also help next time around if lefty’s refrained from campaigning against the chosen democrat candidate.
may 14, 2025, 12:27 pm • 7 1 • view
It would be nice if the independent folks could be a party instead of just independents. I'm over the 2 party nonsense.
may 14, 2025, 1:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm an independent but understandable the quickest route to changing policy goes through the two major parties.
may 14, 2025, 1:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Changing this year to independent when I get the new DL.
may 14, 2025, 1:39 pm • 2 0 • view
They won't. Purity test. They mock GOP for being hypocritical but MAGA and Republicans are getting almost everything they want. Overturned Roe v Wade, Courts, House and Senate, tax cuts, making Affirmative action illegal. Black people didn't get voting rights protected, police reform...
may 14, 2025, 12:32 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m fortunate that I’m in the uk but at the moment we have a nominally left-wing technocrat (I.e. opposite of inspirational) who is busily trying to placate the right wing Trump-style bigots by accommodating their wishes - It’s not going to end well just watch!
may 14, 2025, 12:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes!!!!! 🌈🇺🇸
may 14, 2025, 2:47 am • 4 0 • view
He will bring what #AIPAC and his billionaire owners let him bring.
may 14, 2025, 12:57 am • 2 0 • view
I hope this is true 🇺🇸
may 14, 2025, 9:51 am • 1 0 • view
I’d prefer he’d look at Sec of State. That’s gonna need his kind of talent more.
may 14, 2025, 1:28 am • 4 0 • view
The lesson of the past 4 months make it pretty clear that, from here on, the outcomes of America’s elections will not be determined by voters.
may 14, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view
Just no. Democrats are so fucking Dumb. This is not hard. Just play down to the lowest common denominator and keep the fucking Trumpists out of power. No more inspirational candidates.
may 14, 2025, 4:28 am • 26 0 • view
Thanks for the absolute worst take I’ve seen today. Most people support progressive policies, despite not supporting progressives, 2024 (and 2016 really) showed that when you run on a platform of “the other guy is bad and we don’t like that,” people stay home
may 14, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
If the Dems are just going to run another milquetoast, bland campaign then they need a milquetoast bland candidate that dumbass middle America won’t get their collective undergarments in a twist over.
may 14, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah dawg 😭😭😭 that’s why I’m saying that they need to run a candidate who isn’t bland because that isn’t winning them elections either.
may 14, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They did NOT run against Trump in 2016 or 2024, and that was the problem. Harris promised to go after him, and here in AZ that did not happen… and he won. They dropped the ball so badly. If the Dems follow their same tired playbook again, they will just squander it. Again.
may 14, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
You want to win an election, you get people excited to vote
may 14, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Show me how he gets enough people excited to vote in the swing states and I’ll change my mind.
may 14, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Well I would assume by going out to town halls and talking to people in this time but that’s just me spitballing
may 14, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, we need to be able to steal as many tax dollars as we can to give to ourselves via foreign NGOs.
may 14, 2025, 7:55 am • 1 0 • view
And in other news, the sky is blue. 😃
may 14, 2025, 2:34 am • 2 0 • view
Don't wait until 2028.Get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think about any issue important to you. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.co
may 14, 2025, 9:45 am • 2 0 • view
He does know that he lives in the US right? 😂😂😂
may 14, 2025, 2:32 am • 2 1 • view
pete's great, but if 'murica wasn't ready for a black woman last time, they're sure as hell not going to be for a gay man
may 14, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
And he's a centrist
may 14, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
🤞
may 14, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Pete would bring the entire banquet to the table. Sadly, at this moment, there are probably too many prejudiced cretins who would never vote for him just because he’s gay
may 14, 2025, 12:49 am • 29 0 • view
Pete's political career is defined by racism you fucking ass.
may 14, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
I’ll listen. Please tell my fucking ass why you think so.
may 14, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Care to share some examples and provide sources.
may 14, 2025, 2:53 am • 0 0 • view
That’s just not true. Do racism and homophobia exist? Absolutely. But if Obama threw his hands in the air and gave up because he thought he couldn’t win over the color of his skin, he never would have made history. We can’t think small. People want to feel something, the country is ripe for it
may 14, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Or because he wasn’t even a successful mayor.
may 14, 2025, 1:09 am • 10 0 • view
What makes you say that? My friends from South Bend adore him. When I went back to visit after he’d been mayor, the city was so much cleaner & nicer
may 14, 2025, 2:30 am • 6 0 • view
It would be nice to have an intelligent president. Run!
may 14, 2025, 1:59 am • 4 0 • view
I have NO objections to Pete whatsoever, but we live in a very closed-minded country. He wouldn’t even make it as vice president because of the Nazi-MAGA party. IS PETE THE SMARTEST GUY IN THE ROOM? Of course he is. Maybe our most intelligent candidate ever.
may 13, 2025, 11:46 pm • 10 1 • view
My exact thought, unfortunately.
may 13, 2025, 11:57 pm • 7 0 • view
I love Pete❤️
may 14, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
America doesn’t deserve Pete Buttigieg. We are unworthy.
may 14, 2025, 12:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Buttigieg / Booker 2028 Make it happen.
may 13, 2025, 10:12 pm • 4 0 • view
NONONONONONONON
may 14, 2025, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
His track record is shit
may 14, 2025, 6:15 am • 2 0 • view
The reason I like Pete it’s because he is smart. He can handle anything anybody throws at him, but not only that I think he’s an honest man. I think he’s a fair man. I don’t think he would use his power for a legal means like the fucking felon it is doing! He wouldn’t take bribes!
may 14, 2025, 12:37 am • 5 1 • view
I'd vote AOC , but not Pete, sorry Pete
may 14, 2025, 1:13 am • 1 0 • view
That would be an absolutely cursed neoliberalist campaign on steroids a reincarnation of shrill blair-clintionion proportions and just as soulless This guy vs Vance would be battle of the scolds where each debate is just declaring they won first then asking for the manager
may 14, 2025, 12:46 am • 4 1 • view
As a person from another country, please for God’s sakes put this man in office at the next opportunity. He’s the best option for the USA and the world at large.
may 14, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 1 • view
Maybe he should run for vice president.
may 13, 2025, 11:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Or as we say in English, HELL YEAH I'M RUNNING!
may 14, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
He's more than capable and has certainly earned the position....but that's not what people vote based on......but sure, let's roll the dice again?
may 13, 2025, 10:40 pm • 3 0 • view
So he's going to run. No surprise. And guess what? I think he'll do well in the election. Doesn't mean he'll win. But he will do better than Kamalaladingdong
may 14, 2025, 4:16 am • 2 0 • view
God, do I wish he were president.
may 13, 2025, 11:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Prtizer and Pete as VP? Unfortunately, I worry about his connection with the Biden Adm. Pritzer and Walz would be a strong ticket. Two governors who know how to get things done and put things back together.
may 14, 2025, 10:32 am • 11 1 • view
A billionaire and a Biden enabler? Jesus we're cursed
may 14, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately, a Jewish man and a gay man would never win in this country. I’m Jewish & have a gay family member, and I know this. But , WOW, what a terrific ticket!!
may 14, 2025, 11:00 am • 17 1 • view
People are not gonna remember what Joe Biden did or what it was like when he president by 2028
may 14, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
We want him in Canada. You don't deserve him.
may 13, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Lets get real. Hes way too incorruptible - he would be more suited post rebellion - we need to remove the puppet masters before we fix our govt.
may 13, 2025, 11:28 pm • 2 0 • view
"Assess" is a pretty weighty word, Pete. Kind of like deciding between mild and extra spicy at a wings joint. Either way, it seems 2028 might be bringing us a hefty serving of Buttigieg-flavored politics.
may 13, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Do it
may 14, 2025, 1:25 am • 3 0 • view
Fuck off, absolute cynical panderer. Man takes corporate money for his own enrichment, does anyone really think he'll actually stand up for regular people when their interests clash with those of his wealthy donors?
may 13, 2025, 10:53 pm • 3 0 • view
We need competent, fast thinking debaters, who are capable of clowning someone on the spot. It's the only way to break into the MAGA bubble, and the only requirement of Pete. Nothing else matters
may 14, 2025, 12:47 am • 2 0 • view
I’m in!
may 14, 2025, 3:51 am • 1 0 • view
If the so many American people are misogynistic enough to vote against a female just because she’s female, against a man because he’s old, even more are homophobic. Pete would make the best President ever, but unlikely to win 😢 Too many stupid bigots in America.
may 14, 2025, 7:52 am • 47 2 • view
Yes obviously Obama seems to disprove my theory. Is there research? I could well be wrong but Trump’s victories suggest they would rather vote for a charismatic criminal than a woman
may 14, 2025, 7:52 am • 11 1 • view
I read that (the excerpt) last night and it verified what I had been thinking back then, when so many were acting like Biden was a victim. Well, maybe he was a victim of his inner circle. It is all beyond infuriating. Is there anyone we can trust? It's devastating.
may 14, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
The primary issue is that Americans are utterly fucking dumb and it doesn’t translate well in the ballot box. Anyone still ass-hurt on Election Day that Biden didn’t drop out and so they didn’t vote for Harris is a fucking moron. That’s just the gotdam truth
may 14, 2025, 9:54 am • 8 0 • view
I don’t think that demographic exists
may 14, 2025, 10:57 am • 1 0 • view
Welll according to all these social media historians the way Biden exited was some sort of conspiracy and it caused a lot of people to not vote Harris or to not vote at all. And again, IF that’s even the case, IF that was their reason, it was an abjectly stupid one
may 14, 2025, 11:31 am • 0 0 • view
It's a reality that any and all candidates take time to build rapport. Biden failed to secure enough to be electable.
may 14, 2025, 11:35 am • 0 0 • view
Charisma is a weird little monkey thing that’s hard to figure out. So who knows.
may 14, 2025, 11:08 am • 6 0 • view
If people won't vote for a woman for being a woman. I don't see why those people would vote for a gay man for being gay.
may 14, 2025, 8:41 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah so that’s the neat thing, he’s not just a gay man, he’s incredibly accomplished, has a track record of success and is literally right now holding town halls despite holding no public office. If you think he’s just a “gay man who is gay,” you’re either disingenuous or not paying attention
may 14, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly. Dems want to lose again. Sad.
may 14, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
We live in a society which not only condones, but encourages our SWAMP* filled government. Straight White Anglo-Saxon Male Protestant Christian Nationalist They are so filled with hate they would never allow Pete to take office.
may 14, 2025, 11:58 am • 1 0 • view
Pothole Pete has been a complete failure! People who don't want a complete failure in the oval office are NOT bigots! They simply use common sense.....
may 14, 2025, 8:36 am • 0 0 • view
Too many stupid bigots in America, as I said
may 16, 2025, 6:58 am • 0 0 • view
They already have a complete failure in the WH.
may 16, 2025, 6:57 am • 0 0 • view
So says a maga. Pothole Pete, lmao 🤣
may 14, 2025, 9:08 am • 1 0 • view
Call Congress Senate 202-224-3121 TELL them to improve Health care do not take healthcare from anyone Where were The DOGE BOYS Starlink 11/05/24 WTF were they doing Whitehouse 202-456-7041 DONNY WE owe you & Elon NOTHING Our Not so SUPREME COURT 202-479-3472 AMERICA WE want her BACK NOW
may 14, 2025, 12:07 pm • 0 1 • view
Please run for president. That way the republican suicidal rate will skyrocket.
may 14, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Bring it, Pete!!!
may 14, 2025, 12:44 am • 2 0 • view
hope he runs and loses again
may 14, 2025, 12:38 am • 4 0 • view
Mr President Pete.
may 13, 2025, 10:56 pm • 3 1 • view
FINALLY, a middle-aged, white, Neolib, considers taking a shot at the big one!!
may 14, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
America is banning books about LGBTQ, kicking trans out of the military, won't elect a woman, let alone a black woman, so now they'll vote for a gay man? @#$%! Do Dems want power, so they actually might change this hellscape? Or do they want to keep virtue signaling? Because it's one of the other.
may 14, 2025, 5:26 pm • 3 1 • view
He's McKinsey, they lobby both sides. It'll be at least enough to Biden a primary youtu.be/nJBxKT7EGKI?...
may 14, 2025, 6:32 pm • 2 2 • view
YES!!
may 14, 2025, 4:13 am • 2 0 • view
Be a great leader
may 14, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
I love this man. He is intelligent and well-spoken. I would vote for him. Sadly, the country isn't there. I wish it was. We need a charismatic, 40-50 ish, white man. Someone who will campaign on making life better for the average american.
may 14, 2025, 1:34 am • 2 0 • view
In a better world, we could elect the best person. Trump is the opposite of the best person. He is president because people aren't ready for a woman president. I deeply wish we were.
may 14, 2025, 7:08 am • 0 0 • view
He's president because Blue MAGA wouldn't listen when millions of us said we wouldn't vote for genocide. We could have pressured the WH to protect children vs murder them by the thousands. America got the president it deserves.
may 14, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
He left the Aviation in the Dark Ages and now is like Mr. Presidential material? We need a Hillary/Kamala 2028 ticket. No more preppy spoiled privileged white sissies boys.
may 14, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
No, Pete, No. In case you hadn't noticed, the majority of this country is filled with racist, sexist, homophobic, gun-toting, uneducated rubes. Do not assume the country is full of educated and compassionate people of honor. It isn't. This should be an easy sweep, don't make it hard.
may 14, 2025, 5:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes please!
may 13, 2025, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Omg I would so 100% be backing a Pete Buttigieg presidential run in 2028!!!
may 13, 2025, 11:26 pm • 5 1 • view
Hell Yes!
may 14, 2025, 3:00 am • 7 0 • view
He'll never get in. Sad but true. He'd make a great President.
may 13, 2025, 11:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Yaaaaaaassssss!!!! LFGO PETE!!! 🥳🤩😍✊🏼🤟🏼
may 14, 2025, 12:30 am • 2 0 • view
A gay man will NEVER win crossover votes in battleground states. Two women candidates lost elections and gay issues were the reason why they lost. So why is he out there and exactly who is pushing his candidacy on social media?
may 14, 2025, 6:45 am • 12 2 • view
100% only because they were women. If we can vote in a black man, we can vote in a gay man. Especially one who is as non-gay presenting as Pete.
may 14, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
People pushing his candidacy are naive or delusional about how bigoted this country actually is.
may 14, 2025, 7:48 am • 6 0 • view
We are so bigoted we had a Black last man win 2 terms and a woman win the popular vote? Interpreting factual events as positives isn't naive or delusional, the numbers are right there for you to see. You are in fact the delusional one for denying reality.
may 14, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
The best candidate is the one who can get elected in battleground states. We can’t afford to run a gay man who will only be a Lightening Rod causing much debate and drawing the wrong conclusions. The best candidate is Senator Mark Kelly. We don’t need a guy who speaks 5 language’s and plays a piano
may 14, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I disagree but we will see what transpired in the next2-3 years.
may 14, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m a big fan of JB Pritzker myself but ultimately I’ll vote for the nominee that runs against fascism.
may 15, 2025, 12:50 am • 2 0 • view
Look how the right treated that black man while he was in office. Look at how this country is treating undocumented immigrants. Trump just shipped in a plane load of white racists from South Africa. Which books are they banning? Whose history are they erasing??
may 14, 2025, 1:03 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't care what "the right" does. I care about what the whole population does. And by every metric we are supportive of diversity and even immigrants. It's unfortunate that at this moment we are on the other side of the pendulum swing, but I have full faith the swing back will be amazing.
may 14, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ll believe it when I see it.
may 14, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Look what they’ve done with DEI. Look past your own nose for a minute and see this country for what it is. If we were so liberal, open minded and decent, Donald Trump would be in jail not the White House.
may 14, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
:(
may 14, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Pete/AOC ticket!! In either order.
may 14, 2025, 12:53 pm • 19 0 • view
No, we don't need an idiot and a cracker, we already tried that. We need a strong black woman like Jasmine or a Trans woman.
may 14, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
You should get some help. Seriously.
may 14, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow, you're just a transphobe. Reported.
may 15, 2025, 4:43 am • 0 0 • view
The last thing we need is a man in a dress with his balls duct taped to his taint parading around calling people idiots and crackers. Your comments are despicable, so you deserve my comments. You should be ashamed, but I doubt you have the capacity for that emotion.
may 14, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Reported. You are a transphobic POS. This is genocidal language.
may 15, 2025, 4:46 am • 0 0 • view
Oh no, I've been reported as transphobic! Whatever shall I do? My life, as I know it, has been destroyed. You are an incredibly knowledgeable piece of work. Thanks for the laugh, you made my day.
may 21, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Pete is a swamp monster, they’re essentially ideological opposites
may 14, 2025, 2:52 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re absolutely wrong, but you probably get that a lot.
may 14, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The former military officer who had a map of mineral sites in Afghanistan in his living room and worked for McKinsey then pretended to disapprove of their work? Yeah I’m sure AOC is ideologically aligned.
may 14, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re both brilliant and caring people that we do not deserve. But damn, just imagine!
may 14, 2025, 4:28 pm • 6 0 • view
Right?!
may 14, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
We will lose. We can’t even elect a woman! Too many Americans are narrow minded but hey a criminal and adjudicated rapist is fine. As long as it’s a white man.
may 13, 2025, 11:05 pm • 8 1 • view
Currently one of the best communicators we have in the Democratic Party. I have yet to see anyone get the best of him in a debate. Does his homework and comes prepared for the fight. Definitely my candidate of choice for 2028.
may 14, 2025, 12:41 am • 2 1 • view
I love him, but he cannot win. I'm sorry to say.
may 14, 2025, 12:12 am • 5 0 • view
Sadly, I agree. Americans refuse to acknowledge, accept or just have blinders on to what is going on around them. It doesn’t matter how nice he is, or what ppl think they see on TV or at dem rallies The # of ppl who hate our LGBTQ+ communities in swing states is high. Scary AF, dangerous & high
may 15, 2025, 12:26 am • 2 1 • view
Yeah you are right 😟
may 15, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view
I 100% disagree. He's adored by centrists and leftists, And he's an attractive white man. White women will come out of the woodworks to vote for this guy. Kamala was not liked by progressives and this country isn't fond of intelligent women apparently
may 14, 2025, 3:37 am • 2 1 • view
In that EVERYTHING political has been scrambled, I think he could win also. The 800 lb gorilla I see is our voting system HAS to have been compromised, not once but twice. WE NEED TO WREST THAT BACK into the realm of legitimate and fair. Paper ballots and hand counts.
may 14, 2025, 4:45 am • 2 1 • view
Mayo Pete's table: Trained by the CIA to overthrow democracy. Worked at McKinsey, finding new ways for private equity to eliminate American jobs and concentrate wealth for capitalists. Sold S.Bend to private equity, forcing locals to move & killing sm biz. Oversaw the largest rail disaster in 40yrs
may 13, 2025, 10:23 pm • 17 1 • view
Lol...you're an idiot
may 13, 2025, 10:47 pm • 9 0 • view
Well, you've convinced me. I presented a fact checked and verifiable list of things that are objectively true and you, in response, have told me I'm an idiot. Clearly this is the kind of big tent bridge building that has made the Democratic party so successful lately. I see the error of my ways.
may 13, 2025, 11:08 pm • 8 0 • view
Thata boy. Glad you can see the error of your republican MAGA stupidity.
may 13, 2025, 11:17 pm • 5 0 • view
MAGA? Sorry sir. You must be confused. America was never great. The whole thing should have been torn apart and the colonizers separated from their scalps. But hey, you've got yourself a CIA MAGA boy to root for now, so you can feel better when the ICE agents rounding you up have rainbow badges
may 13, 2025, 11:28 pm • 7 0 • view
💙 PETE 💙
may 13, 2025, 10:10 pm • 13 0 • view
It would take someone like him to heal allied wounds.
may 13, 2025, 10:13 pm • 5 0 • view
Until we grind this country to a halt, a nationwide work stoppage, we slide deeper into the subservience of the neo-fascist Christian billionaire Abyss!
may 13, 2025, 10:48 pm • 12 2 • view
I would vote for Pete
may 13, 2025, 11:28 pm • 9 0 • view
I love him but being a gay man with a husband would be too much for the same people who didn’t vote for Kamala!
may 14, 2025, 12:53 am • 38 0 • view
So disappointing to see this type of garbage comment on bluesky. Facebook-tier honestly.
may 14, 2025, 1:33 am • 10 0 • view
I wouldn't call it a garbage comment and dismiss the point being made. We have to face the reality that we are in. America is not as progressive of a country as we thought as evidenced by the last election. We need a candidate that will stand a chance in the next election. Is he it?
may 14, 2025, 3:17 am • 13 0 • view
So white supremacists are OK but not gays. I refuse to just "accept" that. It lets the bigots off the hook. You don't win by surrendering.
may 14, 2025, 4:54 am • 3 0 • view
No, they're not ok and will never be ok. We're not surrendering. We are having a discussion on how we proceed and I just don't know where we go from here. I feel defeated and I thought we as a country had progressed, but this last election showed just how backwards everything is.
may 14, 2025, 4:58 am • 1 0 • view
Imagine if this had been the narrative in 2008, we never would've had Obama. Plenty of good reasons to prefer another candidate over this one, but "He's gay" is not one of them. Pete is a great communicator and even has the "right skin color" but y'all wanna proactively surrender because he's gay.
may 14, 2025, 5:04 am • 1 0 • view
Personally I'd prefer Pritzker but the electability comments are lame and cowardly.
may 14, 2025, 5:04 am • 1 0 • view
I agree, but a commentary on a potential reaction is not surrendering. I have hopeful optimism that it doesn't matter but realistic understanding that it matters to many.
may 14, 2025, 5:12 am • 0 0 • view
Bingo
may 14, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
Trust me, those people will NEVER EVER EVER vote for a liberal. So why let them decide who your candidate will be?
may 14, 2025, 5:19 am • 0 0 • view
Why would you think he's a liberal?
may 14, 2025, 5:52 am • 0 0 • view
That's not an answer.
may 14, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
He believes in universal healthcare, unions, pathway to citizenship, gun control, environmental protections, overturn Citizens United, public financing of elections and equal opportunity. For starters. He self proclaims himself a progressive Democrat. Why do you you think he’s not a liberal?
may 15, 2025, 5:44 am • 0 0 • view
He's a shifty corporate Democrat who either doesnt advocate the issues you mentioned (he is opposed to universal health insurance) or is vague at best on his policies. He got called out when he first ran. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/03...
may 15, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Because he is.
may 14, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
This is how absolutely stupid Americans are, sadly A nation of fucking idiots.
may 14, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
Please be a legislator @petebuttigieg.bsky.social I think youll shine there with a Dem majority
may 14, 2025, 3:59 am • 5 0 • view
I love you Pete but stay away. We ran two competent women that lost only because they are women. You are also competent but you will lose because you’re gay. Our country is still extremely misogynist and bigoted. A gay president will be viable in 20 years.
may 14, 2025, 5:02 pm • 12 1 • view
We weren’t ready for a black president either. The GOP have nobody for 2028. MAGA is done after Trump. Pete can rip out its heart and stomp that sucker flat.
may 15, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
If you think MAGA is done after trump then you’re as dumb as his voters. MAGA ideology didn’t even start with Trump. It started when the Tea Party and Gamer Gate mixed their racism and misogyny respectively.
may 15, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Now that it’s been normalized it’s not going away. You think that Mike Lee, Tom Cotton, Ron DeSantis, Kari Lake, MTG, JD Vance, Blake Masters, Vivek Ramswhatever, or his three asshole sons are just going to go away?
may 15, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Ideology just doesn’t go away. We’re still living under the ideology that Barry Goldwater created and inspired AND HE LOST. MAGA is going to be something we reckon with for half a century at least. It’s going to be something we both deal with for the rest of our lives.
may 15, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
The impacts, yes. The movement, no. The impacts of the Holocaust still reverberate. The Nazi Party fell apart once Hitler was gone, and the German government spent decades rectifying the factors that let it happen.
may 15, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Some of those people are playacting. Without Dear Leader and his mindless followers, those people couldn’t organize a two-car funeral. Vance, for example, has no political skills whatsoever. MAGA don’t like him anyway. And yes, ideologies do go away without leaders. None of those people is one.
may 15, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Yet I’m smart enough to know it began with the Contract With America and Newt Gingrich. Perhaps you should write less and read more.
may 15, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I have a master’s degree in history education. From a university that’s more prestigious than yours.
may 15, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Newt was inspired by Goldwater. He was a direct result of Goldwater ideology. That’s HIS 361 material, an undergraduate class.
may 15, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I disagree, misogyny definitely played a role in Clinton and Harris losing, but it wasn't the only reason they lost. Back in 2019 something like 70% of voters said they would vote for a gay president, and honestly I could see a gay man winning before a straight woman would.
may 14, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The exit polls in 2016 said Clinton was going to win in a landslide. She didn’t. People lie when asked these sorts of things.
may 15, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
Naysayers made exactly the same argument against nominating Barack Obama. "I'M not a racist of course, but we still need a nominee who can APPEAL to racists because unfortunately America isn't ready for a Black President." Forget about the bigots. Let's just nominate the best person for the job.
may 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 5 0 • view
We’ve tried that. We can all be idealistic or we can win. At the end of the day we must acknowledge the realities of the situation and who we are as a country and spoiler: We’re not who either of us wish we were.
may 15, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
We can get there but it’s going to take multiple election cycles. If we don’t win then we lose our country, if we haven’t already. We must win so we go forward because we’re going backwards now. Iran went backwards, here’s photos from 1971. What happened there can happen here too.
may 15, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I disagree with your premise. Pandering to bigots by choosing a milquetoast candidate who is guaranteed not to offend any voters isn’t just moral cowardice, it’s also bad election strategy.
may 15, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool we can just end this conversation then.
may 15, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Again, people made exactly the same argument explaining why Dems would never win if they nominated Obama in 2008. Those people were objectively wrong.
may 15, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah so lightning struck once. Don’t be a fool and think it will reliably struck twice. We’re not going to agree so we don’t have anything to discuss. We’re just going to go around in circles.
may 15, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
And against John McCain that was a fine bet to make. I would’ve not have liked McCain, but I know that if he would’ve been president, he would’ve ran the country just fine. That’s not true with Republicans now.
may 15, 2025, 2:55 am • 1 0 • view
All the more reason to stop trying to find a candidate who can appease the bigots; we’re not going to win those voters over anyway so why bother? Better to focus on finding someone who can effectively rally progressives to get out and vote.
may 15, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Political consultants are probably telling him to impregnate 5-6 women via IVF to appeal to the Musk, pro-natal, fan base.
may 14, 2025, 12:51 am • 3 0 • view
may 13, 2025, 11:45 pm • 7 0 • view
#aipac sending their Horse early 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
may 14, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
Definitely smartest guy around. He’d make a great president.
may 14, 2025, 9:44 am • 1 0 • view
I campaigned for Pete in 2020 and I would love to do it again. He'll have to refuse money from AIPAC, though. All loyalty should be to the US and the constitution.
may 14, 2025, 12:16 am • 10 0 • view
Assuming there will be another election...
may 14, 2025, 5:34 am • 29 1 • view
Which is highly optimistic at this point
may 14, 2025, 6:53 am • 7 1 • view
You people are nitwits.
may 14, 2025, 7:54 am • 1 0 • view
Show me an example when a dictator has given up power in a fair & free election, and I might listen to what you have to say.
may 14, 2025, 9:17 am • 5 0 • view
Oh, Putin and maduro have “frequent” elections and they “win” with “commanding” leads. The guy that called us nitwits does not get that populists who are afraid of the law are willing to go to extremes to avoid being regular citizens
may 14, 2025, 10:17 am • 3 0 • view
I voted for you in the primaries. NOW is your time!
may 14, 2025, 4:31 am • 4 0 • view
What Pete brings to the table: Intelligence Decency Respect for rule of law Experience Humility Compassion Honesty Listening skills Intellectual curiosity Diplomacy Statesmanship Humor Dignity Empathy A sense of right and wrong Run, Pete, Run. Please
may 14, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
You forgot genocide. He served in the infamous Genocide administration.
may 14, 2025, 12:46 am • 1 0 • view
I would totally be for a Mayor Pete run. But I kind of think he needs to veep first. Let's just say Benito Cheeto was to kill off the 22nd amendment. And you had a dem ticket of Obama/Buttigieg. I'd vote for that all day long, and twice on Sunday.
may 13, 2025, 10:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Murphy has been baller in the Senate. Pritzker is strong exec. Unless MAGA shrivels up and dies on the vine in the next 2 years, either one of them needs to be the #1 choice.
may 13, 2025, 11:33 pm • 3 0 • view
He is exceptional
may 14, 2025, 1:48 am • 1 0 • view
I would absolutely vote for him. For starters, he has a soul.
may 14, 2025, 1:07 am • 5 1 • view
Instant vote
may 14, 2025, 12:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Go Pete GO! It may be the only way we'll get a First Gentleman into the White House!
may 14, 2025, 2:43 am • 1 0 • view
This country who voted trump in is certainly not going to vote for a gay democrat. Ain’t no way. America has a lot of closeted bigots.
may 13, 2025, 10:54 pm • 12 0 • view
Exactly. We need to be realistic.
may 14, 2025, 12:52 am • 3 0 • view
If he runs he will win.
may 13, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I think Pete is great and he would be phenomenal for the country as President. But I can’t see that happening in a MAGA world. As we saw w Harris, the poles might say one thing but when people vote the ignorance and insecurities bubbles to the surface.
may 13, 2025, 11:17 pm • 3 0 • view
We need an adult to help lead us out of this mess! Pete...I'm with ya.
may 14, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Buttigieg has a proven ability to go on Fox & speak truth to MAGA. And he changes minds. I don’t care about his orientation. I don’t care if America is not ready for that. I liked Harris. I voted for her. But Buttigieg is the only Dem who can win MAGA votes. “If” there is an election, I hope he runs
may 14, 2025, 3:27 am • 6 0 • view
The natural conclusion
may 14, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
My brother Pete!!! It's nice to hear someone speak in full sentences with intelligent subject matter. #PresidentPete2028!!!
may 14, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Smarter and tougher than any R he would face.
may 14, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
No, no no no! I like him but damnit ya'll got to get serious! 2016-a woman=trump. 2024-a black woman =trump. Nominate a GAY MAN = pres jd vance!
may 13, 2025, 10:52 pm • 8 0 • view
you hit the nail on the head,in order to be elected prez you must win the swing states, which means voters that backed maga/ Trump homophobic misogynistic racism, have to do a combined flip-flop 180° handbrake turn which your 2 examples prove is a step too far
may 13, 2025, 11:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Don't run, Mr Buttigieg, please!
may 14, 2025, 1:24 am • 2 0 • view
You live in a fantasy realm if you believe Pete Buttigieg is electable in America. It's the same kind of thinking that made KH a candidate, or that paid any attention to why Democrats have become electorally impotent, nationally, why 77m voted for Trump and why 85m didn't vote.
may 14, 2025, 1:44 am • 5 0 • view
He'll have my vote.
may 14, 2025, 12:14 am • 9 0 • view
He'd have mine in a general, but I definitely won't support him in the primary. Because he can't win.
may 14, 2025, 12:49 am • 3 0 • view
Yep. This. He can’t win. We need a safe white man. And I hate saying that.
may 14, 2025, 3:13 am • 2 0 • view
We have a Congress chock full of “safe white men”. I’m sick of it.
may 14, 2025, 6:11 am • 5 0 • view
I’m so very sick of it. I NEED to be represented by quite literally ANY other demographic.
may 14, 2025, 11:46 am • 2 0 • view
Why give up already? Trump's administration is incredibly unpopular and losing support. I see a lot of people dooming about candidates' identities but Clinton and Harris ran very centrist, uninteresting campaigns. (And Biden screwed Harris.) This is legitimately just discrimination.
may 15, 2025, 3:41 am • 2 0 • view
And don't get me wrong, I don't fuck with Pete, but that's based off ideology and not that I'm too scared not to run Romney (D) 2020.
may 15, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
I'd vote for Pete in a heartbeat.
may 14, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
Great way to continue to lose elections. C’mon Democrats, present an electable candidate and pack it with a hyper cabinet. Learn something from the fascists.
may 14, 2025, 12:37 am • 62 1 • view
Another old white straight man millionaire? No thanks
may 14, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
Unfortunately it's unclear if that means they should go left or go right. Unfortunately it's also weird.
may 14, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
I'm all for progressive politics. We don't need to shy away from message. Unfortunately, we need to consider the vessel more than the contents.
may 17, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
Mayor Pete can actually communicate to people using common sense and intelligence. He's talks in ways that are easy to understand. And not Washington speak. He goes on to right wing media outlets all the time. Something democrats have refused to do which is part of the reason they lost.
may 14, 2025, 2:09 am • 29 1 • view
You don’t get it. He’s great, he’a bright. Capable too. But unfortunately, he’s gay. In a country where people CLAIM to believe in god (lol), that’s an election loser. With all due respect, now is not the time for progressive stuff. Get in power with a traditional candidate and diversify the cabinet
may 14, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
Bullshit. Progressivism is our only future. Compromising that is what makes us lose.
may 14, 2025, 2:20 am • 2 0 • view
It’s not compromising. It’s accepting that your ideals do not translate well into real-life politics. You will lose badly with a gay candidate, end of. The american people are too stupid for that.
may 14, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
Isn't that what people said about Obama too? Pete is not my first choice and I'm worried about how he's not been very attractive in the past to voters in racial minorities. But if he has the skills to win, then I don't see why we should say "oh, he's gay, so America will never pick him"
may 14, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
You are spot on! I’m tired of this centrist BS.
may 14, 2025, 6:51 am • 0 0 • view
No, this dipshit racist small town mayor can't talk good.
may 14, 2025, 2:21 am • 6 0 • view
I don’t know if you’re right or wrong, but I hate the idea that someone like him isn’t “electable”. We’re depriving ourselves of a lot of competence and quality for terrible reasons like being gay. It’s like DEI, but for stupid people.
may 14, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
We cannot afford to take risks with their ability to mobilize hate.
may 17, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
He is a white man which makes him most electable however still too many white men homophobes and misogynists to elect someone who’s gay..
may 14, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
Stating the obvious isn't always very popular here.
may 17, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
I’d vote for him!
may 14, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
So will I if he wins the nom.
may 17, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
How is he not an electable candidate? He went to Harvard, earned a Rhodes scholarship, is a veteran and speaks 7 languages. Or are you just homophobic? If you think you can do better, then you run for President. Or just STFU
may 14, 2025, 12:41 am • 9 0 • view
You are hilarious. "If you think you can do better, then you run for President." 🤣🤣🤣 No need. We already have AOC
may 14, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
Wtf? Why are you calling random strangers homophobic? 😂 The stuff you listed makes him a lot LESS relatable to average people. Why do you think going to Harvard helps him in an election? 🤣 No one cares that he speaks 7 languages. All voters care about is does he speak their language. He does not
may 14, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
He’s polarizing. You won’t get the suburban woman to vote for a gay man to do anything but her hair. I think prog’s need to nom a progressive white male and fill the cabinet with a diverse and highly talented staff. Sorry but I’m tired of losing to fascism.
may 14, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh look another homophobe. I'm a suburban woman, & he already has my vote, as well as the dozens of other suburban women I know, including Republican women. Pound sand.
may 14, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Ad hominem attacks are not discussion. I'll vote for Pete, If he's the candidate. Just because he's your dream, doesn't mean he will command the enthusiasm and turnout required to turn back this fascist tide. He's great, he's smart and extremely capable. So was Hillary and Kamala and here we are.
may 17, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
He was part of the Biden Admin and helped cover up the Feckless Oathbreaker's decrepitude I will never support him or anyone who was part of that Admin
may 14, 2025, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
Oh fuck off. That’s how we got trump. You self righteous pricks won’t vote for anyone other than Bernie.
may 14, 2025, 2:08 am • 4 0 • view
I voted for the Oathbreaker before he broke his Oaths And the lady who still refuses to denounce genocide Bernie? nope, way too old No Oaths After 70 It was the Oathbreaker that loosed the rabid dog but he's always been fine with that beast
may 14, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
Throwing out accusations without proof, you sound like orange Caligula & his gestapo. Show your proof or STFU.
may 14, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
You need proof he was Secretary of Transportation, or that the position is part of the administration?
may 14, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
Proof that he covered up incompetence by the President. Or did you forget what you just typed Boomer? 🖕
may 14, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
The administration as a whole covered up the Oathbreaker's decrepitude Mayo Pete was part of the administration, therefore part of the cover up Tainted
may 14, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
Chump orchestrated an insurrection The man who swore an oath to preserve protect and defend the constitution, just days later, did fuck all to Establish Justice, the first duty of government under the constitution He hid his decrepitude and imperiled the nation with his hubris
may 14, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Huge mistake. They need a vanilla Clintonian straight white guy with no baggage. Two women losing in a row against a horrendous and widely disliked Republican can’t just be dismissed, sorry. A gay man will almost certainly lose. Dems rely heavily on socially conservative blocs (black & Hispanic).
may 14, 2025, 2:19 am • 55 1 • view
I don’t think this is a forgone conclusion. Assuming DT doesn’t run again, no one else has shown to any momentum promoting his message. It’s possible if his final term is considered a success, a Rubio or Vance could try to simply run on that. But I think Pete would destroy another Maga candidate.
may 14, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
Democrats want to blame everything on racism and sexism instead of admitting that it's their inability to even pretend to offer voters what they want. Obama won by campaigning on health care, hope and change. Kamala lost by campaigning on genocide and more of the same.
may 14, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
She was hamstrung, according to (highly believable) rumor. Biden wouldn't endorse her unless she promised not to distance herself from him in any way, which killed her campaign for many people.
may 15, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
K did not lose. She was cheated out of it by the 🍊.
may 14, 2025, 4:13 am • 0 0 • view
Clinton is the reason your party has been in decline
may 14, 2025, 6:57 am • 0 0 • view
1) I'm not a Democrat, I don't even like them, I just want them to purge Trumpism 2) Clinton was highly popular and the more Obama governed as a Clintonian the more popular he got. 3) If anything is dragging down the Dems it's the left wing of the party who aren't electable outside urban centers.
may 15, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
Ok conservative. I'm surd you actually want to purge your ally, Trump. There is definitely evidence of that in your right wing apologia.
may 18, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
Not a conservative either. I'm all for gun control, I don't support Israel, I think defense spending should be cut, I think taxes should be raised to the level of spending, I'm for relatively open immigration, and I think Trump is the worst President we've ever had.
may 18, 2025, 1:54 am • 1 0 • view
You are literally whining about gender and sexual minorities. If you aren't a conservative you must be a fascist.
may 18, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
But you support the opposite of literally all of that. Like what the fuck you don't support Israel. You voted for a Zionist. Your entire life you've never done anything other than vote against these values.
may 18, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
You know who I voted for?
may 18, 2025, 6:55 am • 0 0 • view
I really don’t understand why you think and why a lot of people think that, a loss because she’s a black woman. Racism is definitely a part of it for sure. But it’s not the only thing. There were definite reasons to vote against her.
may 14, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t agree with it at all, but I definitely get why there is so much distrust with the Democratic Party. People need to fucking understand that the Democratic party is broken. And using race and gender as an excuse is it absolves them of blame. The party deserves to be blamed.
may 14, 2025, 4:04 am • 0 0 • view
Everyone said that Obama could never win and he won twice. Pete Buttigieg can win. If anything, I don’t think that people wanted a woman president. But again, it’s not THE or even a major reason.
may 14, 2025, 4:04 am • 0 0 • view
Anybody saying Obama could never win was clearly basing that on their fears, and not the actual data. The polling was pretty clear that the GOP would lose hard in 2008, and as early as 1996 Colin Powell polled better for POTUS than anybody.
may 15, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
This***
may 14, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
Dems use your head, not your heart.
may 14, 2025, 7:28 am • 0 0 • view
yep, Newsom 2028. only one right now getting my money
may 14, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
You deserve to lose to trump a third time.
may 14, 2025, 3:44 am • 1 0 • view
California, for all its wealth, is a very badly ran state and Newsom will get saddled with that crime and CoL baggage (even if these problems are city-level not state). Plus the French Laundry incident. Shapiro, Beshear, or Kelly are better picks.
may 14, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
u send your money to whom u like, I'm only sending to Gavin.
may 14, 2025, 2:47 am • 0 0 • view
Nope
may 14, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
Yep. We lost to Trump 2 times with women. Americans are bigots. We need a safe white man. And I hate that.
may 14, 2025, 3:14 am • 5 0 • view
It’s such a shame but I’m afraid you’re right. Most of our country passed on a great president because she had a vagina and darker skin. So they voted for a criminal instead and now we all pay the price. I don’t know if they would elect a gay man even though he’s super qualified.
may 14, 2025, 2:33 am • 46 1 • view
I don’t believe race was part of it. Obama had two terms. He won states like Florida, Ohio, the Carolinas, and Indiana. The evidence supports (but doesn’t prove) the notion that gender was was part of it, but not race.
may 14, 2025, 2:43 am • 17 1 • view
Race was definitely part of it. People seem to forget that Obama wasn’t some ordinary black man. Obama was an EXTRAORDINARILY GIFTED man, who just happened to be black. He was a once in a generation kind of leader. Pete doesn’t have that kind of swag or charisma. Pete is ordinary.
may 14, 2025, 11:04 am • 0 0 • view
Really? I think Pete is a brilliant man and a great politician. I’d vote for him but I don’t care if someone is gay, but sadly a lot of Americans do. 😭
may 14, 2025, 11:43 am • 1 0 • view
I think the combination was too much for some folks.
may 14, 2025, 3:14 am • 0 0 • view
He won Indiana one time. And times are different. Pete can’t win.
may 14, 2025, 3:15 am • 1 0 • view
I think it was both.
may 14, 2025, 2:44 am • 24 0 • view
Yeah, the unpopular old nazi dementia danced to half empty rallies, when he even showed, trailed in the polls all the way to the election, and then won all the swing states for the first time in 25 years. Anybody who believes that is brain dead.
may 14, 2025, 3:58 am • 14 1 • view
I've been saying this since November. He's admitted to having had the election fixed in his favor several times -- on camera. That, "We'll fix it so good, you'll never have to vote again!" at the rally should have been the d3ad giveaway.
may 14, 2025, 5:57 am • 1 0 • view
Some people aren’t terribly smart.
may 14, 2025, 3:38 pm • 2 0 • view
🎯
may 14, 2025, 5:00 am • 0 0 • view
If there is proof. I haven't seen any in Wisconsin. rump excites the rubes, and they show up is another explanation. WI is to a certain degree voter suppressed.
may 14, 2025, 5:29 am • 4 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKDw...
may 14, 2025, 6:43 am • 3 0 • view
And I think Tim is a wonderful person and a great governor from all I’ve heard, but he also may have been too much of a puppy dog for those people who think tough talk makes somebody tough.
may 14, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view
It wasn’t gender. MAGA would vote for a woman Republican Trumpist. 2016 and 2024 weren't the same race and there's are a multitude of factors that has to be considered for each. Just chalking it up to gender is simplistic and sexist. Now the solution is women can't run for President. Really?
may 14, 2025, 5:10 am • 0 0 • view
I wish you were wrong
may 14, 2025, 6:07 am • 0 0 • view
💯 correct- unfortunately. everyone forgets that Trump only won because he ran against women. our country is still too childish. sad but true
may 14, 2025, 3:27 am • 0 0 • view
Bingo. Why are ppl not understanding this.
may 14, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view
Because they live in a hyper-progressive bubble where things (that supermajorities of Americans disapprove of) like racial quotas and puberty blockers for transgender children are nonnegotiable. Repubs have their bubble too, but in many ways it covers more ground.
may 14, 2025, 2:38 am • 1 0 • view
I sadly agree, however, I do think it depends on how much damage Trump does. People may be ready for a, what they would consider, radical change. I think Pete would be great.
may 14, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
I used to think this was true, but it’s a whole new ballgame now. Impossible to predict who could win now, and imho that’s a good thing.
may 14, 2025, 5:20 am • 0 0 • view
This is 2025. Haven’t people gotten over that yet? My uncle was born in the 1800s and he was flaming gay. The only difference now is that they’re allowed to get married and they can have children.
may 14, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
I hate that I agree with you. 😢
may 14, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
I like that you agree with me, it feels way better than everybody hating me.
may 15, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
Hate the message, not the messenger. We are still a grossly misogynistic society, I respect that you’re honest enough to call it out. ✌🏻
may 15, 2025, 2:43 am • 0 0 • view
True AF! Pete wouldn’t stand a chance! 😿😿😿
may 14, 2025, 5:08 am • 0 0 • view
Why is the Democratic bases' reaction to a Republican populist: stomping a moderate, losing to a moderate by 70k votes in a election he was projected to lose by millions, and stomping another moderate, to be just cause to run, ANOTHER FUCKING MODERATE?
may 14, 2025, 3:00 am • 2 0 • view
The problem I see is the progressives make their litmus test so long and stringent that even someone like Kamala who took so much heat for consistently supporting transgender opportunities, is considered a moderate! The ONLY argument I as someone who wants to win elections would hear is: Pete’s gay
may 14, 2025, 3:17 am • 0 0 • view
He's also pretty inexperienced. He's one of those people that punched above their weight in media coverage because they spoke well, but what are his actual achievements? He was mayor of a town in Indiana? Everything else he's done he was appointed to (as a favor for dropping out).
may 15, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
Because they'd rather have fascism than give poor people health care.
may 14, 2025, 3:43 am • 2 0 • view
He’s the only one person in politics that has the ability, knowledge, ethics and skill that could galvanize the diverse groups dissatisfied with the current state of America. He even appeals to red hats when he goes to them and discuss their needs, fears, and ignorance in a very gentle way.
may 14, 2025, 11:21 am • 26 1 • view
All that is true. However, the country will be needing a leader with legislative, executive and foreign policy experience to help the country rebound, rebuild, and move forward after Trump. Pete has lots of talents and key experience at the DOT. He lacks the other required experiences.
may 14, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
So worry to see this from Dems, dems shall focus on the key point, instead of chasing things that are meaningless. Blinken is the most reliable and qualified leader for this crisis time, and Ossoff can be the Deputy.
may 14, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view
AOC has been getting the red hats nodding along recently. Let's not annoint him because he's articulate. His allegiance to the economic status quo is a problem, whether Demorats want to admit it. His support for the health insurance system to the exclusion of M4A is nauseating.
may 14, 2025, 1:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Let’s see what the primaries behold. It’s going to be a crowded field. Women have been on top of two Dem tickets and lost both times and will a plurality of voters pull the handle for a Gay president? What I’d like to see and what I’ll have to chose from are never even close to being the same.
may 14, 2025, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
For sure Dems need to focus less on candidates' identities and more on a compelling platform for voters. And then they all need to get onboard with that platform, like Republicans do.
may 14, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
We usually have a few good planks in the platform, but Dems suck at simple messaging. They appeal to informed voters, but forget the simple, the working class, and those too busy to engage. Make America Great Again is horse shit of course,but it’s a simple message that can have 100s of meanings
may 14, 2025, 8:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Ayyy he checkin out asses
may 13, 2025, 11:28 pm • 2 0 • view
may 14, 2025, 6:03 am • 0 0 • view
may 14, 2025, 3:35 am • 4 0 • view
If we get to have another president election you could put in the worse Democrat and they would win !
may 14, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I really like him but this country won’t vote for a gay man or woman.
may 14, 2025, 12:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes it will.
may 14, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
As if there will be midterms...
may 14, 2025, 4:45 am • 3 0 • view
Exactly. Elections will be long gone by then. Emergency declaration of sorts will cancel them moving forward
may 14, 2025, 5:06 am • 3 0 • view
Even if they happen, they will be manipulated like the 2024 election.
may 14, 2025, 5:16 am • 2 0 • view
I'd vote for him
may 14, 2025, 5:24 am • 1 0 • view
I love Pete. One of the smartest guys to serve in any admin. I’d love to see him in the WH. That said, it’s critical that the dems retake the WH. It’s the only way we can defeat fascism. I think that there’s too many homophobes out there that will vote against him or abstain. Society isnt ready yet
may 13, 2025, 11:28 pm • 7 0 • view
go for it, pete!
may 14, 2025, 3:07 am • 2 0 • view
We need @petebuttigieg.bsky.social for POTUS
may 13, 2025, 11:38 pm • 3 0 • view
I love Pete, he speaks the truth in the fewest words possible, and is always on point. He's a freaking genius. But this country will never elect a gay man or a black woman in our lifetime.
may 13, 2025, 11:00 pm • 30 2 • view
I’d LOVE a President Pete! But it’s too risky with this fucking Neanderthal country we live in for the 2028 cycle . . . Pete’s only 43, right? We have lots of time to elect him & I bet he WILL be President one day! 😄
may 14, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
And it’s that kind of thinking right there that will make it so. Something like half of Republicans subscribe to the racist extremism that Trump panders. Do you know how much of the country that leaves? People need to be inspired and they want CHANGE. And Pete, AOC, they’re listening.
may 14, 2025, 3:18 pm • 2 0 • view
I would vote for either of them, but I don't think a majority of Americans would.
may 14, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I understand. We have to push past the fear of that and elevate smart young fresh leaders regardless, because it’s what’s right, not what’s easy. They want us to believe that someone like Pete couldn’t win. We have to keep pushing and stay hopeful.
may 14, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree about him being a genius but hope to be able to prove you wrong someday.
may 14, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I grew up hearing that I would never see a black president in my lifetime. I remember hearing someone say that you had a better chance of looking up and seeing Jesus before you'd see a black man elected President. My grandkids will probably see a black transgender President, IMHO.
may 14, 2025, 5:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Especially not in 2028. The best we can hope for is a swing to the center by both parties.
may 13, 2025, 11:20 pm • 5 0 • view
Pete needs to run for statewide office or congress, or perhaps serve as a Secretary of State. I’m thinking Pritzker can win.
may 13, 2025, 11:58 pm • 3 0 • view
I so hoped Pete would run for office in Michigan--for governor or for retiring Gary Peters' Senate seat, but he declined. Polarized America won't elect a gay man in 2028. I like Pritzker too.
may 14, 2025, 12:08 am • 4 0 • view
Yes. Baby steps. He's young enough to build a strong resume
may 14, 2025, 12:10 am • 3 0 • view
I think Pritzker can win too! And I agree with you about Pete..
may 14, 2025, 5:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Thing is, Trump has shown that people will not care about how ideological you are as long as you make the right promises on the right issues (in 24, it was the economy, which Trump farcically promised to improve). Doesn't matter who it is; just talk about what people want
may 13, 2025, 11:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Nominating Pete would be surrendering in advance.
may 14, 2025, 12:47 am • 1 0 • view
It’s just reality. We ignore that reality at our peril. trump, literally the worst human being alive, beat two women. An old man beat him.
may 14, 2025, 12:39 am • 13 0 • view
It’s only reality if you project that. Why lock into that now? Why not just listen.
may 14, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Good point.
may 14, 2025, 12:45 am • 4 0 • view
It’s straight white men all the way down.
may 14, 2025, 12:46 am • 5 0 • view
Inspire me with universal healthcare.
may 14, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view
I love Pete! He is the best and the brightest imo. It’s sad we live in such an ass backward country.
may 14, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Not with that attitude it won't. Sheesh.
may 14, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
And definitely not elect an atheist.
may 14, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
I'm not sure. I think he has a real shot. He gets my vote!
may 14, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Mine too.
may 14, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
mmm hmm bsky.app/profile/joey...
may 14, 2025, 12:13 am • 1 0 • view
Whoever is gonna run better be bringing single payer healthcare, paid leave, and worker protections or fuck em. These will show us who works for capital and who works for us Both parties are compromised. They both serve capital. There's like 5 dems that would have a good platform, fuck the rest
may 14, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
I'd support Pete in a heartbeat. He has the intelligence, temperament, and yes experience to do the job. But, I can't help but be afraid the American people would reject him the same way they rejected a competent black woman.
may 13, 2025, 11:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Can we please run some one who can win?We’ve got Season 7 of The Real HandMaid’s Tale going on right now,the young in in the DnC is acting up also oblivious to the fact it’s not the time for his shenanigans.Let’s just concentrate on saving our country&everyone from concentration camps, can we?
may 14, 2025, 12:04 am • 3 0 • view
He’s a great pick and would be good for America. He has no chance. Zero Zilch
may 14, 2025, 1:05 am • 7 0 • view
I’d vote for him in a heartbeat!💙
may 14, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Ditto!
may 27, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Pete, you bring an ability to communicate with and connect to a wide swath of Americans. We need you - you are the man for the job.
may 14, 2025, 12:29 am • 7 1 • view
If you get to vote again? Probably a stale, pale, straight guy might be the safest bet. What a sad indictment of a country that is!
may 14, 2025, 7:14 am • 0 1 • view
I hate that this gives me anxiety. I would vote for him in a heartbeat. I think he is great. And…could easily see him losing just because he is gay. I wish this country was better but I kept getting reminded we aren’t.
may 13, 2025, 10:09 pm • 253 4 • view
Sadly reading some of the comments, I think US is far from ready to embrace diversity not to mention sexual liberty! I voted for Pete in the primaries and will vote for him even when I know there is little chance. US needs a brain enema!
may 14, 2025, 11:54 am • 1 0 • view
Agree!
may 14, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
He is amazing but not the right time in this political climate. Too many Americans haven’t woken up.
may 14, 2025, 12:46 am • 2 0 • view
He would lose because he’s a centrist and their policies suck
may 14, 2025, 2:03 am • 8 0 • view
*unapologetically right-wing
may 14, 2025, 2:13 pm • 5 0 • view
I know you’re correct and see my post above you
may 13, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel exactly the same. The U.S. has let me down too many times lately to trust that the best person will be elected. I firmly believe that is Pete.
may 14, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
A gay man has a better chance than a woman.
may 13, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Completely right. The reality is huge parts of America will not accept a gay man, who is married to another man. Selecting him just gives ammunition for Fox News, right wing commentators and conspiracy theorists.
may 14, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
Lets face it, if you are gay, an atheist, a woman, a Muslim, childless, disabled or not photogenic (with the exception of Donald Trump) you're chances of being US President are close to zero.
may 14, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
Would I vote for him? Yes, in a split second. Can he win? No. Not in the United States.
may 14, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
I think Pete can win. A lot of dems thought that Obama couldn’t win because he is black.
may 13, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Pete should run! I think he’ll win regardless.
may 14, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
This is a fear people express with Pete all the time. Remember, Pete was the Mayor of South Bend in Mike Pence’s Indiana, and was overwhelmingly re-elected for a second term. Pete won Iowa in the Presidential primaries. Iowa! Fox viewers know his spicy side and respect him. But Pete says it best:
may 14, 2025, 12:07 am • 3 0 • view
Not too long ago, the saying was: could easily see him losing just because he's Black. Many whites voted for Obama; many straights will vote for a gay man.
may 13, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't think being gay is much of a deal breaker for current Americans, being a woman is a much higher barrier to climb.
may 13, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
✅
may 13, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Clinton Almost got impeached over a bj, melon felon has broken Moral AND Legal laws and he's fèted and Grifted things... There Better NOT be an issue with Pete Or his family!!! #peteforpres2028
may 13, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
The man checks every single box for a dream candidate. Veteran. Rhodes scholar. Goes to enemy territory (Fox) and communicates better than anyone else we have. And yet I fear you’re correct.
may 13, 2025, 10:15 pm • 188 4 • view
My only hope is just how damn good he is at talking to be in a relatable way.
may 13, 2025, 10:21 pm • 19 0 • view
I truly hope that’s the case. I’ve hoped for a President Buttigieg since he joined the primary last time. However a not insignificant portion of the electorate chose the convicted felon because they couldn’t handle a heterosexual woman in office. I foresee some overlap. Please let me be very wrong.
may 13, 2025, 10:33 pm • 20 1 • view
Yes, however Kamala Harris was a remarkably bad candidate and it's time we admit it. We can't win again if we're not honestly assessing why we lose.
may 13, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I voted for him in the primary. Sad this country doesn’t recognize how great he would be, they only see “GAY”.😡😢🤦🏻
may 13, 2025, 10:54 pm • 18 0 • view
Americas addiction to white men.
may 14, 2025, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
We had one of those in obama. He ran as a center left candidate and immediately capitulated with the right. I want someone with a record of supporting more progressive causes.
may 14, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
As a straight male, father of a daughter, I will vote, campaign for this guy however, because he is gay the USA would never elected him We had to great women running for POTUS but the electoral college elected a Dumb ass for POTUS
may 13, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I actually think they’ll vote for a male, gay or straight, over a female.
may 14, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
“But her laugh” will turn into “but his…husband????” We’ve had misogyny and racism take out qualified candidates. Let’s go for the homophobia trifecta.
may 13, 2025, 11:00 pm • 1 0 • view
The only qualifications are be a 35 year old natural born citizen eh has resided in the U.S. for 14 years. You really don’t see any policy’s where Kamala wasn’t good on that could have effected her chances in the election?
may 13, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw his policies. Or concepts of a policy. And project 2025.
may 13, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I asked about her policies…
may 13, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Well clearly you didn’t like them so I’m not going to bore you with why I preferred them to his. Because I wasn’t voting 3rd party.
may 14, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
Because of our election system my vote didn’t mean anything one way or the other, my state was going blue before any votes were even cast.
may 14, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
That’s the electoral college I assume.
may 14, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Correct
may 14, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Did you even pay attention to her policy positions?
may 14, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
Yes
may 14, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
So you can’t see why anyone would find issues with any of her policy positions?
may 14, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t have an opinion about your issues. It was, then, a free country and you could have whatever issues you wanted and vote for whomever you pleased.
may 14, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe I misclicked, was it you saying how racism and misogyny were the reason she didn’t win? If not I’m sorry to bother you and for the confusion.
may 14, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
Add courage, a brain, and a heart. I would support him!
may 14, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
There is one box he hasn’t checked, and that is being elected to any kind of state or national electoral position. There have been military presidents before, but they were generals. He doesn’t have experience running an organization that big. Yeah yeah Trump but I’m not talking about cult leaders.
may 13, 2025, 11:54 pm • 35 2 • view
He was mayor of a large metropolitan city in Indiana and ran the Department of Transportation. Definitely qualified.
may 14, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah I’m like….HUH? He was absolutely elected Mayor of South Bend. 🤷🏼♂️ Running DOT was fantastic experience.
may 14, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
The way the GOP is going, by 2028 it will be illegal for anyone who isn't a white straight man to be president....
may 14, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
I really wanted him to run for Senator in Michigan. He needs to be elected to a Federal position.
may 14, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
Nobody would say a failed game show host could be president and yet here we are.
may 14, 2025, 12:15 am • 1 0 • view
Apparently policy ideas don't mean a damn thing to you identity politics corporate tools.
may 14, 2025, 5:55 am • 0 0 • view
that’s what they thought when they groomed him for power too.
may 14, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
✅ Doesn’t give a fuck about average Americans
may 14, 2025, 12:27 am • 2 0 • view
Fake vet, CIA spook, racist, anti democratic cheater.
may 14, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
Well if you’re saying it then it must be true. Who needs evidence or facts?!?
may 14, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
may 14, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
I’m right
may 14, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
Except he doesn't support universal healthcare. That's a big box to be checked.
may 14, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
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may 14, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
Agree, totally. America wouldn't vote for a woman, even with fascism looming. They are unlikely to vote for a gay man, despite his accessibility and extraordinary communications skills. Andy Beshear, maybe? Dems really need red state votes.
may 14, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
If they won't vote for a woman they will not vote for a gay man who is married to another man.
may 13, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
He would lose because he fucking sucks shit not because he’s gay
may 14, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
💯% agree.
may 14, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
You are right to feel anxious. Folk won’t vote for qualified women.
may 14, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
I am close to my 70’s and am just sick and tired of the selfishness the ignorance and bigotry in this country. I pray that I will be able to see Buttigieg and his family in The White House doing what I know they will excel at and that’s taking care of this Country and it’s people.
may 14, 2025, 12:22 am • 2 1 • view
I like Pete, but he's a man whose biggest election win was for South Bend Mayor. I won't support him.
may 14, 2025, 12:34 am • 2 0 • view
We need new progressive, social democratic leaders who are not status quo protecting politicians. Center left just ain’t left enough for me anymore.
may 14, 2025, 1:56 am • 3 1 • view
If he can win a primary I'd have no choice but I doubt he can do that, ala how Medicaid for All Who Want It killing his primary chance. And I don't like him either, he's very corporate first at his core.
may 14, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
I’ll be surprised if the U.S. has elections in 2028…. Maybe Russian style elections….
may 14, 2025, 12:39 am • 4 0 • view
Liberals would lick dried dog shit if the media put it in front of them. In 2020, Bernie got 6,000 more votes than Buttigieg in Iowa but Buttigieg claimed victory. And his campaign was downhill from there. The more people heard from this guy the less they liked him.
may 14, 2025, 11:22 am • 1 0 • view
Bernie is 10,000 years old though. No more of that.
may 14, 2025, 12:33 pm • 1 0 • view
The more people heard from Buttigieg the more they disliked him. He had to drop out before Super Tuesday. He's a loser but liberals know how to pick em.
may 14, 2025, 3:15 pm • 1 0 • view
That seems to be the opposite from here in Texas. He is a well spoken young man, a father, a military veteran, a local elected official and now has experience as a Cabinet Member. He hasn't cheated on his spouse, has no illegitimate bank accounts, no high profile lawsuits. I think he's perfect.
may 14, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
He got money from 61 billionaires. You'd have to be extremely stupid to believe he would represent you or me. Same with Pritzker. www.forbes.com/sites/michel...
may 14, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
No more stupid than thinking a billionaire reality show serial cheater draft dodger felon represents me. Pete is at least 60% closer to my life experience than Trump.
may 14, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I would add it's equally dumb and I'm not someone who believes dems should run their own oligarch to challenge Trump. It's not gonna work.
may 14, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh how many Billionaires have contributed to your campaign? Not quite 61 but close?
may 14, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Im not running for president but I acknowledge that you need a shitload of money to run. Having like-minded billionaires on your side certainly helps. Rihanna is a billionaire but I wouldn't consider her as evil as Elon Musk for example.
may 14, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
You don't understand class. It's okay. Rhianna pays subpar wages for her undergarment brand. You are a worker. Stop licking boots.
may 14, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
If I was running for president and needed $350,000,000 then yeah, I probably would need some billionaires help, especially if they agree with my platform. What does class have to do with a monetary amount? Rihanna, Elon, and Warren Buffet are all billionaires.
may 15, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
This story from 2020 pretty much sums up what's wrong with Pete. He also fiercely defended raising money from billionaires in dark wine caves.
may 14, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I just showed you he couldn't compete in a primary but I don't think it's sinking in.
may 14, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
You did, and I appreciate the information you posted. Given what you showed me (and I read), I still support him over most other Democrat hopefuls except for a scant few like Booker or AOC (who im sure is definitely not running for POTUS yet). I also don't see any reasonable Republicans running.
may 14, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
the only thing that'll piss off the base more than a smart black chick is a white gay patriot.
may 14, 2025, 3:53 am • 30 3 • view
Patriots are conservative. You should aim to be better than that.
may 14, 2025, 6:57 am • 2 0 • view
We need to start reclaiming the word
may 14, 2025, 11:45 am • 1 0 • view
No, peanut. Patriots are liberals- they believe that everyone has the same rights and have fought & died for that, defending against the conservative mentality that no one has rights but them. Maybe you should aim to be better.
may 14, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
And people that served Pete served .. they hijacked the term .. Pete is a literal patriot
may 14, 2025, 7:42 am • 2 0 • view
Or maybe we should judge candidates by their competence and not by their status as a minority That said, I hope Buttigeg runs
may 14, 2025, 5:52 am • 15 0 • view
You're absolutely right. But that's not how this country works. Not enough of it. I'd love to see Pete in the oval. I hate to say it, Unfortunately, it is not realistic.
may 14, 2025, 11:05 am • 1 0 • view
After a disastrous Bush administration, we were able to elect a Black president After Trump, we can elect anybody we want
may 14, 2025, 12:27 pm • 5 1 • view
He'd be TERRIFIC!
may 13, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Please run. The entertainment value will make great content
may 14, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Love me some Pete. He's a wonderful and intelligent man who happens to be Gay Vet. A wonderful family. But.. this country isn't ready for a Woman prez? (2 chances. Both would have been great.) A GAY prez ? I just don't think the country is they're yet. Yes, I'd vote for him. ( I'm gay Vet)
may 14, 2025, 10:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Always happy to see more LGBT people in the animal care sector. Didn't realise Pete was a veterinarian. Respect!!
may 14, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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may 14, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Yesssssss
may 14, 2025, 5:58 am • 0 0 • view
Oh my God I would work the phones and do everything possible to get this amazing intelligent man elected!
may 14, 2025, 1:24 am • 2 0 • view
We'd be a lot better off if we had elected him in 2020. Biden letting Trump off to get bipartisanship with people who want us dead is why we're a dictatorship now.
may 14, 2025, 9:43 am • 1 0 • view
Meaty Petey the Rectum Ripper? Really?
may 14, 2025, 3:14 am • 3 0 • view
I believe he would bring just what this country needs & is clamoring for!!
may 14, 2025, 5:10 am • 0 0 • view
Why? No one wants you to be President @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
may 13, 2025, 11:59 pm • 4 0 • view
I would vote for him and work in his campaign ! I believe that Pete is a great candidate for president, he could turn this country around and make the country better than ever. The military would be greatly improved and education would be so much better, he would truly drain the swamp.
may 14, 2025, 3:42 am • 4 0 • view