Mayor Pete’s cuntiness continues to ripen like cheese wheels in a French cave

He's right on Warren - it's crazy that she said she won't do big-dollar fundraisers if she's the nominee. We need the big guns to take on Trump, period. And she'll kill the downballot races that way as well. She had zero issues with big money just last year, but now it's of the devil?

As for Beto, he's goading him so the moderators will be forced to turn this into an issue tomorrow --> more airtime for him. Brilliant strategy. You can see on Twitter today that both Booker and Kamala want to get in on the action as well...

He's right on both counts so can the cuntiness, OP.

He's not wrong. And I'd like to add that I'm so tired of Cory Booker using every new breaking news item/controversy as a way to get some face time on every TV show. He just latches on to the next big crisis. I have no idea what he stands for except to be desperate for attention.

He's young and scary smart. He's transmuting all the energy he's saving from not having sex with that Chasten thing. Barry did the same.

So will the real Pete show up tomorrow? I think that pocket change argument is stupid. The candidate avoiding big dollar fund raisers is good PR. Back in the day Presidential candidates always had surrogates on hand to ask for money and votes. I'd rather Warren or whomever spend that time at a rally rather then behind some close door event for the 1%. This is what true populism looks like. The DNC should host the big dollar fundraisers for their nominee and invite a rotating cast of politicians to headline. Either our party is going to embrace the poor and middle class, which means candidates focusing their energy on them, or we continue forward with the frustrating corporation first, center left policies.

Hillary Clinton's 2016 press secretary Brian Fallon called him MEAN on Twitter. That's what happens when a lil' homosexual boy speaks up, I guess.

r4 That made me laugh.

[quote]The candidate avoiding big dollar fund raisers is good PR.

Good PR doesn't win elections; cold hard cash poured into digital and TV ads wins elections.

[quote]The DNC should host the big dollar fundraisers for their nominee and invite a rotating cast of politicians to headline.

Yes, I'm sure rich donors will be falling over themselves to open their purses at the event where Warren isn't present, and for a candidate who is promising to tax the hell out of them. Especially when they already saw her at similar fundraisers in Martha's Vineyard and Silicon Valley last year, back when she had no problem talking to the 1% face to face.

Again r7, why can't the DNC or her VP candidate raise that extra cash and allow the candidate to remain above it all? Hillary had tons of money, yet still lost. It't going to come down to the messaging and luck. Dems are furious with Trump, money will pour in. It may not match Trump's haul, but it will come. Now is the time for the DNC to put on their big boy pants and start petitioning the traditional high dollar donors.

r8 please note Warren only made this rule for the Primary. She has repeatedly said that she would be open to high dollar donor in the General. Warren's fundraising has been consistent and she beat Biden and Pete this quarter so the money is out there.

The Hill is panicking...

[bold]Progressives fume at Buttigieg, warn him not to attack Warren at debate[/bold]

[quote]“It’s sad to see the potential self destruction of @PeteButtigieg, a rising star,” tweeted Adam Green, a cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which backs Warren. “Tuesday will be a key trajectory moment. Does he attack the next President of The United States or take the high road and make positive waves by adding his unique voice to progressive issues of the day?”

We really are a sorry bunch if one of the candidates is untouchable from all criticism. We've apparently learned absolutely nothing from the 2016 coronation.

[quote]Good PR doesn't win elections; cold hard cash poured into digital and TV ads wins elections.

ROFLLOL

r10 You're wrong. She changed her stance just last week. That's what Pete has a problem with.

Cuntiness? OP is such a super-delicate snowflake.

Go fuck with Trump in the White House, Ivanka! That's putrid-cuntiness for you.

I love when Pete gets feisty.

Hopefully all of the candidates will take aim at Warren to see how she handles it. Attack her policies, which are out of touch with reality, but consistent with elites who don't understand anything past the east coast.

Stop trying to make Pete into one of those kinds of gays.

It's not going to happen.

His husband is going on a European tour to court donors who are living over seas. Not great optics considering what’s going on and the only Americans living overseas are wealthy ones. Pete is a total corporate shill who only cares about money. That pocket change comment pissed a lot of people off. Not too smart of a campaign strategy to insult the supporters of other candidates. When Beto drops out Pete is gonna need a lot of his supporters and he isn’t gonna get them.

r19 I don't give a shit how rich or poor they are; they're Americans who have the right to vote. Period.

Well some of us think it’s grotesque that big money plays such a big role in politics and would like to change that. Those donors in the hamptons want something in exchange for their money. That’s why you have Biden promising rooms full of millionaires that “nothing will fundamentally change”. I’ll never trust a candidate that buddies up with Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

[quote]Pete is a total corporate shill who only cares about money.

Name one corporation that has donated to him. Or any other Dem candidate, for that matter. And yes, of course he cares about the money - he didn't have $10 million of rich people money conveniently lying around from 2018 to neatly roll into his presidential campaign like Warren and Bernie.

And speaking of tens, I recall Warren being worth $10 million, while Pete is six figures in student debt. But please tell me some more about who's the corporate shill here.

[quote]Well some of us think it’s grotesque that big money plays such a big role in politics and would like to change that.

That's nice, but you play with the tools you've got. When we get the White House and the Senate, we'll change the composition of the Supreme Court and do away with Citizens United. Until then, principle stands will only result in defeats.

[quote]...the only Americans living overseas are wealthy ones

This is phenomenally stupid.

Clinton spent $500 million more than trump did in 2016. How’d that go? Money isn’t everything despite what donors in the Hamptons want you to believe.

Pete is sounding very bitchy.

Is he a DLer?

R23 you only do that with candidates that support that. Wall Street Pete clearly doesn’t. 23 billionaires have donated to him. 0 donated to Bernie. Guess who made more this quarter? Grassroots donations are much more powerful than beltway billionaires.

Any Dem who takes corporate money will lose.

Someone called him “the sentient college admissions essay.”

R29s guy also called him this very DL insult

Odd AF-- Basche, the Tweeter at R29 and R30 is a tech guy who has held a series of midlevel product jobs at not very successful startups and now is living in Johannesburg working for a not very successful startup there.

Odder still--his Twitter feed is 98% about tech things ("Snapchat is not really mobile! It's something else!") but for some reason he's got a major hardon for Pete Buttigieg and the only political things he's tweeted are about how much he hates Pete.

Wondering if there's more to it, if Pete turned him down or fucked and dumped him or something

The heterosexual cannot stand an uppity homosexual.

[quote]Well some of us think it’s grotesque that big money plays such a big role in politics and would like to change that.

And another 4 years of Trump isn't grotesque to you, fat Log Cabin bitch? Change yourself first by gobbling less. Such a stupid concern troll.

Pete is correct. OP, you are the nasty catty one

R32, if money won elections then Clinton would be president. Whoever the dem nominee is isn’t going to be looking in the couch cushions for spare change. She will be well funded by the people. There’s no need to ass kiss billionaires and be in debt to them. Just ask Obama what that’s like, to have to answer to Goldman Sachs before Americans.

I don't necessarily agree with all of his policies - but he is the only candidate I don't want to put my foot thru the TV when he comes onscreen. America - WAKE UP!

Beto doesn't need to pick a fight about guns to stay relevant; he's sticking up for what he truly believes about guns and it doesn't have anything to do with Pete other than the fact that Pete is on the wrong side of the issue.

AOC just tweeted about the little homosexual boy

Here's hoping that Pete will grind Warren into the ground tomorrow night. And AOC needs to shut the fuck up with her little boutique district. Try to run statewide and see how far she'd get.

Warren is so unlikable

Warren is fine. Buttigieg is like nails on a chalkboard.

“Mayor Pete is going peak White Guy Who’s Not Getting His Way.”

He a nasty boy. I see through his choir boy act.

What did Beto say about Pete?

R43 Beto called him “un pequeño niño homosexual.”

Here's Jason Johnson - of all people - correcting the record. I'm so disappointed in AOC for not reading the whole thing / watching the whole video. Also, it would help her argument if she could spell his name right.

And fuck Beto for immediately licking her ass. Could you have imagined him as this super progressive hawk even a few months ago? Bitch, please. Reinvented for a millionth time by now, and it still isn't helping.

Pete is not wrong, and many people took Pete's words out of context.

I love it R37 she didn’t come to play

Pete is the centrist left standing when Biden goes down.

Too bad for Pete that Biden supporters second choices are Warren and Sanders lmao R48

Sanders is out.

Out of context? The context is him criticizing Warren for not doing closed door, high dollar fundraisers and instead relying on the “pocket change” that us peasants in the 99% can donate to her. He’s carrying water for the billionaire establishment and demeaning small dollar donations. Pete’s a smart guy. He knew exactly what he was saying.

Chris Hayes is about to report that Mayor Pete is going to do very well in Iowa. NEW POLLS

Pete Buttigieg does not have a snowball’s chance in hell. Therefore, his comments are equally as irrelevant as he is.

I know a woman on disability who donates all the money she has to his campaign. I'm sure she'll appreciate his comments. Then again, his small pocket donors seem to very stupid and would probably thank him for spitting in their face.

He should stop wasting time on O'Rourke. He's been toast for some time.

“An incel looking nerd who thinks he has all the right answer.”

The precious Mayor Pete is desperate. 5.1% in the polls compared to 24.7 for Warren and 27.4% for Biden.

If only that money could buy him some ideas. It will pay for a lot of photo ops with celebrities, though.

[quote]If only that money could buy him some ideas

He's the smartest candidate running. I do wonder what it is about Pete that brings out so much vitriol.

[quote] I do wonder what it is about Pete that brings out so much vitriol.

He’s gay, white, and male.

He's the smartest human being who has ever lived!!! It brings tears to my eyes when I think of the brilliance of his mind.

He's the mayor of Hooterville.

I realize as a liberal democrat I'm expected to like AOC. But I'm sorry, I mortally despise that nasty bitch. Hopefully she'll be a one termer.

Did someone really say that they’re “disappointed” in AOC because she hadn’t read something completely?

Is Beto above 1% in Iowa yet? What a loser.

Lots of people are smart. That doesn’t automatically mean they should be president. Pete has no reason for running. His policies are wishy washy and he tries to have it both ways. Tries to talk like a progressive but also wants to appease republicans. No thanks. We’ve had enough of that

People can’t stand Pious Pete because he’s pious. It really isn’t that hard to understand.

[quote]AOC just tweeted about the little homosexual boy

And little gay boy wath me!

[quote]Beto doesn't need to pick a fight about guns to stay relevant; he's sticking up for what he truly believes about guns

Beto doesn't need to pick a fight about guns to stay relevant; he's sticking up for what he truly believes today about guns

Love when his inner bitch comes out.

And what is Pete going to do about gun violence, R69? Pray about it?

You can find Pete's stances and plans here, but you knew that you lazy, hypersensitive git.

I like a cunty Pete, though I don't think he was being cunty here.

Sister Pete is DESPERATE for attention so she will trash talk anyone and everyone if it gets her camera time. It's the death rattle of every failed candidate. See you in the funny papers gurl!

Doesn't Pete's Dr. Zaius-like upper lip bother anyone else? It's too big and doesn't really have a philtrum.

This is why we need the Aloha Angel, R11. It’s also why the DNC has been out to destroy her.

Same thing with Pete (“blacks hate him! He’s bought and paid for!”).

Speaking truth is inconvenient.

Pete Buttigieg is smart, but he is not smarter than Elizabeth Warren. Best of all, Warren would not go anywhere near McKinsey & Co.

Go with Buttigieg for brains. Go with Warren for brains, experience, and principle.

But Warren is a woman, r77. No way is a woman smarter than a man!

r77 Cut the crap about McKinsey. Warren's own daughter is an employee of McKinsey.

If Warren is so intelligent she wouldn't have listed herself as a cherokee on application form. Pete or any one with an IQ above 100 wouldn't do that.

R79, Warren likely had some connection to McKinsey herself. These politicians kids never get their jobs out of their own merit, it’s always a connection.

Warren is so intelligent and compassionate and fighter that when she was in her late forties she fought for big corporations against the interests of women with breast cancer. So intelligent. So big a fighter.

Pete's detractors on DL are all Warren supporters. They live on the east coast and think that the rest of the country will embrace her socialism.

[quote]Pete's detractors on DL are all Warren supporters.

Yep. They are as out of touch as she is.

[quote] If Warren is so intelligent she wouldn't have listed herself as a cherokee on application form. Pete or any one with an IQ above 100 wouldn't do that.

Yep, it's a good thing Pete never sticks his foot in his mouth!

Warren is not the child of politicians.

That is living in the midwest and embracing irrational religious dogma.

Why did Warren hire this hateful trans if she is so smart?

Tough titties, R86, the Midwest is going to determine the next election and they don't like socialists. East coasters are irrelevant next year.

r84 Isn't it any wonder that you, a Warren fan, think that the true statement made by Pete is more offensive than Warren lying about her ancestry on her job application ?

Please, he positions himself as an everyman, when he is in fact the elitist that Americans suspect him to be. He is very rehearsed and controlled, but every once in a while, the mask slips and you see what he really is.

Beto is right on guns. His proposal isn’t radical. We’ve done it before and an overwhelming number of Americans agree that these weapons of war should be banned. In addition, a majority of Americans also support a gun buyback program. The NRA opposes such a program. Thus, it would appear that Pete is taking the side of the NRA.

Odd.

Pete is Episcopalian. Say no more.

I'm convinced the Warren looney tunes are even more unhinged than the Bernie bots and will once again ensure Trump gets a second term. The history books will show Sanders & Warren as pariahs who cost the Democrats dearly with their unelectable nonsense and idiotic fanbase.

[quote]You can find Pete's stances and plans here, but you knew that you lazy, hypersensitive git.

If you have to go a website to get his position on the issues then they're worthless. The same was true with Hillary. What is it with Democrats and websites? A candidate needs to be able to state it succinctly and in a way to make people remember it.

[quote]I do wonder what it is about Pete that brings out so much vitriol. - He’s gay, white, and male.

That's obviously not why people on DL have a problem with him.

[quote] he smartest candidate running. I do wonder what it is about Pete that brings out so much vitriol

Is he really, R59? Because these statements don't strike one as being particularly bright.

Denouncing small donors (and the majority of the U.S. public) could have a boomerang effect on his own campaign. Plus, it just isn't a great look to bash other candidates. Haven't we seen enough of that with Trump? Notably we have corrupt money flooding the government and a "billionaire" president with no experience grifting his way through the White House. Big money in the US government isn't a good look at the moment (ask Putin). Also, as others have pointed out, Clinton had the big donors and look how she fared.

And the Beto thing? Again, don't think it savvy or smart.

Peter may be a mayor, but the havoc and destruction writ large in the wake of the Trump administration seems hugely significant. And the 2020 election could be one of the most important for democracy in the USA.

Genuinely sense that leadership to straighten the ship, so to speak, (as its going to be very tough) needs to come from someone who has experienced the US governmental system on a larger playing field than South Bend.

He's too green at the moment.

And his injudicious statements in regards to other candidates (and the small "coin change" public) do nothing to change that perception.

Kamala is the best option. BUT...neither she nor Pete (also great) will be the Dem nom. VP is the best that either can expect - they are getting their names out there however.

R95, That's why a number of people on DL dont like him - . We have SJWs here and a lot of people that are influenced by SJWs on social media who only want a woman or a POC.

[quote] That's why a number of people on DL dont like him - . We have SJWs here and a lot of people that are influenced by SJWs on social media who only want a woman or a POC.

Many of the people who don't like him support Bernie Sanders, who is neither a woman or a POC. Try again.

I support Warren and think Pete is a silly lightweight. His work as mayor is not very impressive. He has the same condescending air as Obama. I didn't support Obama either-- I supported Hillary.

"The midwest" is not going to decide the election. A few toss-up states will; some are in the midwest (OH, possibly MI and WI if 2016 is repeated), but some not (FL, NC, PA).

[quote]Kamala is the best option.

The best option as AG or to remain in the Senate.

[quote]Pete is a silly lightweight

Pete is the real deal and is the breakout in this primary season. A strong moderate voice, in a primary that is catering to the fringes of the party who are 1) not reliable voters and 2) living in some kind of bizzaro world.

Buttigieg is the private school educated only child of two academics. Right there we can identify three applicable support groups that he should attend.

He was raised to be a special little thing, indeed, and his parents achieved their goal. With that problematic background, of course he's cunty.

Warren has proven herself to be a self-serving liar. She’s the overachieving, cheating woman stereotype (similar to Loughlin and Huffman). Trump is the male version.

Yeah, we get it, r104. You'll never vote for a woman, no matter who she is.

he's a racist, bitchy, (and ugly) white gay™ personified. No wonder he has so many old sad queens for rabid fangirls here.

Pete's elitist tendencies are definitely becoming more apparent. If he's going to talk up his friendship with the creepy Mark Zuckerberg, he'll lose me for good.

Wow. He doesn't even have to talk it up. If a friendship with Zuckerberg exits, at all, at any level, then Buttigieg is dead to me.

Exists. Grrr.

R105,

I voted for Hilary.

I’m no SJW, and I’m not a fan of Pete. He’s comes off as having an air of superiority — as if he knows everything better than anyone else. So, of course the 37-year-old Mayor of South Bend, Indiana should be President of the United States. 🙄

Yes, of course, if he’s the nominee, I’ll support . . . Blah, blah, lab.

[quote] Why did Warren hire this hateful trans if she is so smart?

Warren is an imbecile for having hired that black whore Transbeast. That thing is notoriously anti-Asian, homophobic, and anti-Latino.

Beto and Pete would have never allowed such a thing.

The little homosexual boy is at it again this morning

[quote] I voted for Hilary.

Whatever. Saying she is the equivalent of Trump tells me all I need to know about you.

Are we really going down this road again? Someone doesn't like Elizabeth Warren and they automatically hate women?

Do the people calling Pete "little homosexual" hate all gay men?

OP is a troll

Calling someone running for president "overachieving" like that's a negative, is like saying, "stay in your place, little lady" I am not stupid.

^^Pete checks all those boxes herself without having to hire anyone.

Is Kevin Robillard related to Ellen Robillard?

Would I care about that if I were not gay?

Private jets and being nasty. He’s learning from his biggest LA donors.

[quote]He's not wrong.

He’s completely wrong. So are you.

Why go to Fox News for homophobia when it’s all nicely packaged right here.

PACs are where the big money makes the difference. Warren sitting there eating chicken or drinking wine with high dollar plate fund raisers is not where the money will come from.

The problem is that many democrats are trying to treat this like a normal election. It is not. We are going to need as much money as possible to unseat an incumbent president who already has a huge war chest. I don't care how unpopular he is, it is difficult to get rid of an incumbent. Democrats need to be armed and ready and that takes cash. You have to pay for staff, you have to pay rent for state offices, you have to pay for vehicles to get our voters to the polls, you have to pay for rallies, you have to pay for advertising, and after all that you still have to give money to down ballot races. None of that is that cheap.

Exactly, R122; why vote for Republicans when even gay Democrats like Mayor Pete defend Chik Fil A and their funding of conversion therapy? Why vote for a Republican war hawk when Soldier Pete is here to wave the flag and “support the troops” and “spread democracy” through the barrel of a gun? Why voted for a conservative Christian Republican when Pious Pete is talking about his Personal Relationship With Jesus ChristTM?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Pete is just a Republican from 20 years ago pretending to be even remotely liberal. He’s the darling of Wall Street billionaires and wealthy white gay men. That’s his base.

R117,

I did not say that running for president was overachieving. I said that lying about your race to get positions for which you’re not qualified is overachieving. You’re an idiot if you didn’t understand my post.

R122, how is it homophobic to take exception to his dismissive comments?

Yeah right. I know what you meant. And the fact that you want to say she is equivalent to Trump is more proof of why you really don't like her.

From Twitter:

•Pete is the Fyre Festival candidate.

•Pete is a blue republican wrapped in rainbow colors.

•Pete is the Elizabeth Holmes of Democrats

Seeing blowback from his statements, courting rich donors, Chasten flying abroad for money, his friendship with Zuckerburg, and his wooden, robotic appearances in public. (People are posting his snarky comments from earlier, for example, where he states he has to "ingratiate" himself to voters by "standing on things".....an arrow strike to Beto from earlier in the year.)

Will be interesting to see him tonight at the debate.

^^Zuckerberg

Wow, so many people trying to take Pete down with a bunch of bullshit. First he's not the right kind of gay. Then he's too young and experienced. Now he's too moderate. When will the crazies

I like them all except Tulsi, but his A-gayness is getting on my nerves.

Off-topic, but I just read R87’s link about Warren’s “LGBTQ” campaign team rep, “Ashlee” Preston. Wow, how do psychos like that get campaign jobs? That guy is a total whack-job sociopath:

[quote] “Elizabeth Warren is being heavily criticized for failing to vet a high-profile campaign surrogate with a history of making homophobic, racist, misogynistic and xenophobic comments on social media. Activist “Ashlee Marie” Preston was featured in a Warren campaign video released October 10.

[quote] Then it’s revealed her new LGBTQ surrogate, “Ashlee” Preston, has a horrifically bigoted past ... You have to ask, what is going on in Warren’s campaign?”

[quote] A Tweet from [Preston] reads: “Just cussed that Asian bitch clean the fuck out…u mess up my order & THEN blame me?? #englisismyfirstlanguage bitch. Never ordern again.”

[quote] [Another] Tweet from [Preston] reads: “Asian hoes act like they wont get karate chopped in they muthafukn throat. What is this hoe staring at. Mind ya beeswax. #Bitch.”

[quote] [Another] Tweet ... reads: “I LUV gay men but THIS county clerk at window G is a mahfukkan Faggot wit it…hes bald but rokn jewels, acrylic nails,&silk scarves #andshit.”

Holy moly, why was this lunatic allowed to be featured in Warren’s campaign? Lol, he pretty much publicly insulted almost every group out there (Asians, Latinos, pregnant females, gays). What a circus.

Thanks for that, R133. Didn't know about it. She's a surrogate trans rep. They need to fire her.

All I want for Christmas is for Pete to turn Beto ! Yum!

Honestly, I think these comments are quite tame. It's a presidential election, not a playgroup. (Mind you, even as I type this, I'm realising that Trump has made those two things fairly indistinguishable.)

Fire *him, R134. That sociopath is a self-loathing gay guy, dressed up in T drag, who calls other gay men “faggots”. All he does is hurt Warren’s campaign.

Tulsi is "closeted" GOP TRASH in every way. Other than her, I am on board with every other candidate.

Ashlee Marie blamed her bad tweets on her "drug addiction." Good lord!

He really turned it up tonight...and looked like a wuss about controlling automatic weapons.

The promo banner of the movie, "Chasten & Beto: the Secret Love Affair," is out tonight.

He's not going to win the nom, but he's not wrong.