All About Pete.

Prepare for the avalanche of Beto Bitches and Kamala... something starting with K.

Wow, great scoops, OP!

A corporate shill bought and paid for by over 20 billionaires. Heard he has a weekend of fundraising in the Hamptons scheduled next weekend. Nothing will change under him. Bernie is the only way to go for actual change.

Go back to your "i love Beto" thread, r3. No billionaire can donate more than $2,800 to his or any other campaign. I'm sure that buys so much influence. He doesn't accept PAC or lobbyist money.

Anyone ever visit South Bend? If so, what is it like?

His Douglas Plan is great

For Pete's Sake! I love him!

Pete is a God to all of us here, OP. A demi God if u must

5% is a good position to be in this far out. Pete has boundless energy. He really canvassed Iowa while the gaffe machine Biden had to be hidden.

He really doesn't seem to get tired, R9. It's surprising because he's so chill most of the time. But I think he just goes non-stop.

Type A Pete. They never give up.

Charges crazy fees for photo-ops, owned by Big Tech, can't draw POC or the South to the polls. Has no chance to win.

I understand Pete’s chances are not great and I’m not necessarily saying he is the best if the current candidates, but I like and respect him. What galls me is that I feel he is being ignored by the media. Even on NPR, which purports to give deeper, more thorough coverage, it seems like every time they discuss the Democrats, they only talk about Biden, Warren, and Sanders. And THEN folks are surprised that Biden, Warren, and Sanders remain at the top of the polls. It’s all about name recognition. And name recognition stems from mentions in the media. It’s frustrating.

best of, not best if

That 'Mayo Pete' moniker has really stuck. And I like Pete.

What he is doing for the visibility and normalization of gay people is immeasurable.

Pete will be President. It's only a matter of when.

Once you strip away the novelty of him being the first openly gay candidate, there's not much there there. In one word: blah. He's basically the DNC version of Kucinich but far less experienced and, AFAIK, Kucinich never publicly gushed about Chick-fil-A. He may be a nice guy in his personal life but I don't vote with my dick, so...

The only thing buttboy has going for him is the fact that he is a homosexual and besides that he is bald and lacks charisma. There are better candidates.

"We suffered and were outcasts for our entire lives. Do you now what it was like to live through the 80s?? Do you???? Well we are now dedicated to ensuring that NO GAY MAN EVER will be successful. Because that would undermine our position as eternal outsiders. And so we will hate Mayor Pete and any other successful gay man with the heat of a thousand suns!!! How dare he be successful and accepted by breeders!! HISSSSSS!!! HISSSSSS!!!! HISSSSS!!!!"

r19, eat shit and die asshole.

R21. You must have tasted shit to know the taste. Your response is ridiculously childish. I am surprised you were not checking out dick pics because it seems my reply distracted you.

Meant to type bland like vanilla with no other ingredient. That perfectly describes Pete the bland candidate.

Definitely not bald.

HISSSSSS!!!

I WAS MISSSSSSERABLE WHEN I WASSSSS IN MY THIRTIESSSSSSSS

SSSSSOOOO EVERYONE ELSSSSE MUSSSST BE TOO!!!!

HISSSSSSS!!! HISSSSSS!!!!!

r24 I think he/she meant bland, not bald.

One thing I don't like is his choice to use private planes to campaign. I realize private planes are more convenient, but what does that say about his commitment to climate change?

r26 Every one from Bernie to Warren to Harris used private jets for campaigning. Every one of them. Pete used it more because he hails from a small town and have to go to Chicago to fly out of South bend every time.

r27 I respectfully disagree, just because the others do it doesn't mean you should. Lead by example. It's like when Leo says he fears for the planet's future but flies to a climate change conference in a private jet.

He's the perfect candidate for white gay that uses Grindr/Scruff a lot. You know the types that only will be seen with other white guys and prefer to only be with other white guys. He's their candidate and it shows. I hope this neoliberal shill continues to drop in polls and stop spamming his name on this forum. Not all gays and LGBT like him.

R30, oh really? And who do you support?

R30, oh really? And who do you support?

You mean belligerent assholes like you don't support him, correct r30?

R33, R30 no doubt supports Trump.

Pete's support is strongest among highly educated voters, those with advanced and professional degrees.

But the electorate is mostly people easily manipulated and not critical thinkers. Thus, the fans of Trump and Bernie Sanders.

I bought his coffee cup.

I just have to laugh at the troll who feigns shock and disbelief that posters on a gay forum might possibly be excited by an intelligent, shrewd, level-headed out gay man in the top 5 of Democratic primary candidates. He is in every thread.

Lots of things in life must confound him.

R30 is the one with all the Miss Kamala Harris Is My Diva Deluxe! posts.

He's also the one who posts about the lack of POCs in pretty much any photo.

My guess is he's a white guy who thinks it's funny to troll DL by pretending to be a hissy black guy.

Because it would truly suck for him if he actually was the hissy black guy portrayed in the posts

R38, I suspect that person is a fake Kamala fan/troll sowing dissent. He/she misrepresented very basic facts about her political career and background in other posts.

Presidentia?

No comment from the Anti-Pete/"pro Kamala" wing, just like I suspected.

he's ugly, racist, and unlikable

R42, you're stupid, uninformed, and a troll.

C'mon R42, tell me who is better and who you are voting for?

C'mon R42, tell me who is better and who you are voting for?

Millennials like him because he's under 40.

he won't win the nom and if you sad delusional queens think he has any semblance of a chance...well you're too far gone

No old person can beat Trump.

No young person can beat trump. It works both ways.

R49 Okaaay eldergay, go for your geezers. We'll just have to wait to affect something real and suck up whatever destruction more of Trump and other olds hand down.

[quote] Millennials like him because he's under 40.

Why shouldn't they? That was part of Bill Clinton's appeal to Boomers in 1992. Well technically, he was under 50 rather than 40 but he was the first viable Boomer president and represented a changing of the guard.

R46. Who are those millennials. Maybe white millennials.

Probably 'millennials' who don't defend Nancy Reagan in other threads like you do, R52.

R53. So you are also a stalker good to know.

This bitch R52 is all concern trolling about Pete in every thread and meanwhile he's licking Nancy Reagan's snatch in other threads. Bitch, please. You're going to have to try harder than that.

Is there one shirtless pic? I suppose that comes after, in his bid to keep attention.

Pete won't be president. Pete probably won't be Vice President.

Deal with it Queens.

Miss Cleo has spoken at R57.

R55. Bitch shouldn't you be stalking your ex boyfriend somewhere while you are so bothered by me.

I can understand not supporting Pete on policy grounds but the Pete hatred here goes beyond that. So it's either traditional trolling (saying something you don't really believe to rile people up) or it's internalized homophobia (if sincere). I'm a Boomer, born late 1950s, and one reason I support Pete is that he is of a new generation. I also support Castro for the same reason. I would settle for Biden after them. Bernie is not electable and Harris seems like a phony. I would vote for any of them in the general nonetheless. But will cast my vote in the primary on principle.

Because I am more interested in your murder of the English language, R59.

Working out at my gym yesterday and noticed that the husband of a straight couple had a Pete 2020 T Shirt. They were probably about my age, 63. Of course, I had to tell him how much I liked his T Shirt. Side note, our Republican Governor was also working out. I’m from Nashville.

R61. Is that all you have got. You can not defend your stalking tendencies so you resort to focusing on imaginary grammar. It is quiet sad you are full of empty air and bullshit.

[Quote] Millennials like him because he's under 40.

That's good to hear. Because the young have the good ideas. I'm tired of the tired old ideas of the tired old leaders.

He’s so bland and still hits 0% support with black voters in some polls. He’s also been at 5% for months despite two debates and rising name recognition. It’s not happening for him. He’s young, so he can try again. Maybe a short, boring gay man will be a good pick in the future.

Media on Warren: “OMG!!! Hehehe look at her run during her rally! ^_^”

Media on Pete: “LOOK AT HIS SUPER WHITE RALLY NO BLACKS WOW”

Oh my. Look at these poll numbers! #concerned

Of course, Pete is trying WAY ago hard to win black support and if you as me it’s coming at the expense of the midwestern Lindas and their ilk who formed the backbone of his support. He’s trying to “make right” by a narrative that isn’t designed for him to ever win.

Buttigieg/Harris. There. Solved the Black voter problem in the general.

Case in point on how Pete can’t win no matter how hard he tries. He was in Chicago this week in “historically black bronzeville” and this concerned resident tweeted:

“*googles* why is wgn and all these white people at the Harold Washington cultural center on 47th and king.

I’m calling the police”

When she heard it was Pete she went on a twitter hate crusade and Pete’s team found her and made sure they pulled her through the crowd “ of supporters (as she so diplomatically put it, “a sea of whites”) to talk to him, whereby she just chewed him out for 10 minutes.

Why would the campaign do that? It does not help him at all. Just like his stunt where he got SCREAMED at in South Bend.

Regarding the often repeated point about Pete not getting black support, I wonder--

Would black support be more for straight white midwestern candidate?

Who would get more black support, a gay black candidate in the midwest or a straight white midwestern candidate?

r67, you think the solution is that simple? POC aren't dumb, they know when they are being played.

And it's a known fact that people vote for the top of the ticket anyway.

R67 Oh yeah, having a super experienced black female Senator as the VP pick for an inexperienced white man would play extremely well. You should become a political strategist!

Why not r71? Obama had Biden. And if as r16 says people vote for the top of the ticket more white midwesterners will vote for a white candidate

I don't understand the 'he don't click with blacks' thang. They have a choice between Donald Trump- who I think would bring back plantations as a cost-saving measure- and whatever the Dems come up with.

Did African Americans not vote before Obama?

Pete is smart and speaks well, that’s tons better than either trump or Biden

r32 r34 r39 No. My #1 choice is Yang followed by Warren, Tulsi, then Sanders. I am definitely for progressive candidates not establishment. The only relation Pete has to me is that fact that he's gay and that's the only reason why you're stanning for him and spamming the site out of him on these forums. The fact that this is his cheerleader thread and you trolls spam other political threads on here doesn't mean the entire forum is backing him. You're making him seem more popular than what he really is. You centrists are the worse.

Pete has no black support and he's gonna need that to win the primaries. And no it's not because he's gay that he doesn't have the black support 🙄🙄 but of course the "no blacks" folks will use black homophobia excuse to write off black people.

It would not surprise me if the Miss Kamala Troll is the same guy responsible for AIKC.

Both characters exhibit many of the same characteristics.

Pete is the one for me

People don't go for gay outside of NY & CA.

[quote] He’s so bland and still hits 0% support with black voters in some polls.

How many times do you have to repeat saying the same tired thing?

I find it very hard to believe that Ms.Beasley has a degree. Her grammar and spelling is atrocious. But she is right that an event in a black Chicago neighborhood should have been heavily promoted. Pete badly needs better management.

[quote] You centrists are the worse.

I'm not a centrist.

[quote] People don't go for gay outside of NY & CA.

The people of South Bend did. Once before coming out, and then once again afterwards. It seems like the gay thing is more of an issue for you than for people in a small, red midwestern town.

[quote] It would not surprise me if the Miss Kamala Troll is the same guy responsible for AIKC.

Whoever it is, he's really quite dumb and not as informed about his candidate. When I'd stated that I voted for Kamala three times statewide, he said that was impossible. LOL.

AIKC eventually flopped because its creator had only come up with three back stories that he repeated over and over again, like one of those old school CD-ROM games from the 90s.

So no hopes that his Miss Kamala persona will be any more convincing R81

Does experience matter anymore?

it does, pete points out that he still has more experience in governance than trump

r84, citing Trump's inexperience sets the bar really low. My elected mine inspector has more experience than Trump but that doesn't mean he's ready to be POTUS.

r85 Pete has more executive and governing experience than Warren or Harris. He is the only top tier candidate with military experience.

R86. Yawn. He is bland with no charisma. You must be joking that he has more experience than kamala or warren.

A woman who was a Republican until she was 50 has more experience than Pete ? Sure, Jan.

Harris experience is being a senator for 1 and half years. Lol.

r87 is interesting. Says Pete is bland, has no charisma, has no experience, doesn't have any political influence, had literally zero name recognition a few months ago, openly gay in a country where people still kill people for being gay and yet he is one of the top 5 candidates. How is that possible ? I mean there are a dozen other white candidates with "bigger" qualifications like Moulton, Swalwell, Beto, Bullock, Delaney etc. All of them are either dropping out or polling at 0-1%. So what explains populairty, polling and high favorability despite lowest name recognition of all ?

Pete's army service in Afghanistan and his religiosity may help him with moderates and some conservatives.

But being gay and married to a man will not.

Pete has a dynamite resumé: Rhodes Scholar, Afghanistan veteran, speaks half a dozen languages well, thinks well on his feet like Bill Clinton, smart as a whip…

That's obvious, R91. But people weigh factors. Come November the economy is tanking, some of the base have grown tired of Trump's antics or his failures and say " What the fuck, roll the dice again, at least the fag served his country and goes to church."

I remember there were supposedly two types of conservative bases in the last election. The evangelical ones who initially supported Cruz and what we might call the white trash, not religious although really, often divorced, drunks etc. They loved Trump, the evangelicals had to be wooed, hence Pence. Oddly it might be the lazy white trash deplorables who might their nose and vote "for the fag" if they thought he could help them. Buttgreig does have a "plan for rural America" that he's posing and he does "come from the heartland."

R92. Blah blah blah. Just mentioning his name makes me want to take a nap. That is how boring he is. I don't care for other candiadates with very low percentage since they are just as boring. He is like a wonderbread just missing some spicy toppings.

R78

Congresswoman Sharice Davids from KANSAS might disagree with you on the gay thing...

R95 nobody cares what some Reagan-loving cunt thinks on here. Eat shit and die.

R95 I am sure, in real life, you presence just makes others beside you to strangle and beat the shit of your worthless life.

R97. You seem obessesed with me dude. I must turn you on. Take your own advice and eat your own shit. Stop stalking freak. At least Regan was handsome so what is your excuse.

R98. You are projecting your worthless existence onto me. Have a seat dude you don't want to go there. You deserve some bitch slap for your extremely dumb ass response. You are a punkbitch that talk shit online.

r100 suddenly got her nerve hit and got reminded of it's shitty and empty life. Didn't your momma feed you porridge for breakfast in your stinky basement today ?

R101 I doubt that person is American and won't even vote in any election any way. Block and move on. Such interesting haters Mayor Pete has across the globe, hmmm.

He has more experience than Obama when he became POTUS.

As far as bland goes, it may be because he is one's idea of a midwestern AWG - a strength really when it comes to people not from either coast - but he's the only one with star power. Maybe because he's relatable and from outside the Washington beltway.

I would not count him out and at 37, not 73, time is on his side.

R101. Projecting much ho. I have never lived in a basement so your stereotype is stupid. Your life must be shitty for you to be this obsessed about me. Take some time off from this site and do something productive like suck a dick or check out dick pics on grindr.

Just for the record, on behalf of most of us, you people who lock on to unhealthy like or dislike of one candidate or another really look like unhinged fools.

No doubt you're lovely, but that's how you come across.

Obama's success in 2008 was partly because of Bush fatigue, John McCain, and the economic crisis. The country was begging for change (which hurt Hillary in the primary.)

Dump has raised two BILLION dollars for next year! The Dem nominee better be a sure thing or we're fucked.

[Quote] Dump has raised two BILLION dollars for next year! The Dem nominee better be a sure thing or we're fucked.

Obviously the battle cannot be fought on those terms. Time to choose another arsenal, another gladiator, another turf to wage war on.

That rules out conventional democratic and DNC practices and candidates. The failure to jettison them is what will bring defeat to the Democrats, not Trump's 2 billion on whatever.

I don’t know, he can’t seem to break out of that 5% range in the polls..

R108 Don't fret. It's a long race. You gotta stay in it to win it.

As more Dem candidates drop out of the race their followers will gravitate to others in the race. Since they already picked someone other than the front-runners Pete’s support may grow. Conservative Republicans May never vote for him because he’s gay, but really do you think they’ll vote for any other Democrat? Most Democrats won’t really care if he’s gay if he’s strong on all the things that count. The primary season is still pretty far away. We can see how things develop over the coming months without rejecting qualified candidates early on.

You raise a point I had forgotten, R110... the culling of the field leaves people to go other places.

Warren or Bernie probably inherit the support of whichever is out.

I can see Harris' followers going to Pete. Same with Klobuchar.

If Biden fails I could see most of his going to Pete, at least enough to make a difference.

I can’t see AA’s voting for Pete though. He’s just not connecting with them (so far anyway.)

And yet African-Americans voted for him in South Bend.

If Pete wins Iowa and New Hampshire, African Americans will trust enough to vote for him.

If someone like Warren who has been on the national stage for decades and has ridiculou media hype now could barely get traction amongst blacks Pete will do fine if he proves himself in the first two states

True, but not nationally. And I think that police shooting incident hurt his credibility with AA’s.

R115 it didnt. His polling with African americans before and after the incident didn’t change. His favorability with AAs is very high. He just needs to win their trust. They dont know him. They probably heard about him but they dont know what to make of him. And having other familiar and popular faces like Biden, Harris, Bernie , Booker isnt going to help. All this will change when he wins early states which are predominantly white and he is polling pretty high there

I like him

R93, Plus they'll say, "at least the fag isn't an extreme Socialist like Bernie and Warren, and is a little bit younger than pedo Biden." Yes I've heard many Trump 2016 voters say essentially these words, and I know it's still homophobic . However they need an excuse to cross previously held boundaries, just like they called Obama mercifully 1/2 White but still better than cultist Romney or the war traitor/pussy senator from AZ.

Plenty of voters end up choosing what they believe is the lesser of 2 evils. Doesn't mean that they really support their choice. Definitely true of Trump in 2016. Then they pray for the best to occur but are easily disappointed.

I don’t listen to racist trumpers

Nearly $800k in donations from Facebook and $500k from Google.

Ok sorry, that's spending not donations. Still... how can he be tough on these tech monopolies as President when he's a big customer? (Ditto for "break up FB" Warren.)

he can, he should

did he fight it?

He’s angling for a cabinet post.

I’d love to see that

Biden won’t make it through the primaries. His war gaffe was embarrassing and he looked like he was clueless about it.

Biden will need a jolt

African Americans can vote for Donald Trump or the Democrat, that's who the African Americans can vote for.

African Americans can vote