Pete Buttigieg is raising army of Karens!

Rehearsing the Indiana Macarena to Panic At The Disco's High Hopes. It's the saddest thing I've ever seen.

I mean...

I can't imagine why his campaign doesn't appeal to non-white voters....

What is this, North Korea?

We’re here, we’re loud, we’re DANCING. Come say hi!

Welcome to the #TeamPete Dance Party. All are welcome!

Does Pete not realise the optics on this isn’t great?

Does Pete not realise the optics on this isn’t great?

Afterwards, they all went to the local Regal Cinemas to watch the special marathon of Thanksgiving episodes of "Friends."

I don't get it.

Karens be Karening. What else is there to get?

Lauren Wagner, a grassroots volunteer for the Buttigieg campaign based in Illinois, said she taught herself the dance through an instructional video posted on the Barnstormers for Pete website.

“I feel as if the dance is an expression of one of our Rules of the Road on #TeamPete, JOY,” she said, noting that the instructional video was broken down by moves and was adaptable for a wide range of disabilities in an effort to be inclusive.

“You can’t possibly not feel joy while doing the High Hopes Dance,” she said.

[quote]Does Pete not realise the optics on this isn’t great?

You people keep reaching so much that you're arms are going to dislodge from their sockets.

your not you're.

A #DanceForPete is a good idea.

What fun!

Middle-Age Sesame Street comes to the White House.

OTOH, Karens all vote.

Why, R8?

Yeah, for Trump.

Older poor white women R20

R16: HAHAHAHA!! What fun!

45% of white women with college degrees voted for Trump

In 2016, R23

Much less so in 2018--that, if you recall, was the big story of the midterm elections

And there are a wide range of "colleges"

Many of the white people who voted for Trump didn’t like him. They just liked lyin’ Hillz even less.

"I can't imagine why his campaign doesn't appeal to non-white voters...."

I can't imagine why Liz and her program of free giveaways doesn't either.

We get it, OP. White people are sooooo lame. Let's make fun of more white voters!

He’s smart for focusing solely on white voters. Blacks are never going to support him, so might as well focus on the voters who can be persuaded to get on board.

Those are the women who put Trump in the White House.

They did not like Hillary. They do not like Bernie or Warren. They like Pete. Go to his and Chastens Twitter feed and read their comments. It's an eye opener.

We can make fun of them and talk about the black vote, homophobia, deplorables and all, but these white women do the same for Pete as they did for Trump.

[quote]Those are the women who put Trump in the White House.

Exactly. That’s why all the ridiculous focus on the “oh so important” black vote is stupid.

It’s white suburban women who will decide this election, not blacks.

You can hate white women or think they’re fools, but they vote. So here are your two choices:

1. They vote for Trump.

2. They vote for the Democratic nominee.

Which one is better? Because it will be one of the above. Whites got Trump elected. Blacks did not get Hillary elected. Pretty much no blacks voted for Trump. Trump won.

Quit trying to make “Karen” happen, Gretchyn. You’re not cool.

Oh honey, Karen has happened.

Do you really think that Bernie and his army of Bros and Broettes shitting on Pete and some other candidates all the time because they're not pure enough (read not delusional enough) to believe that everyone will get a free pony is better? I'd rather see dorky dancing, as awkward as it is.

No, black people alone don’t decide an election. Black people are like 12 percent of the population. The issue is that so many white people vote republican, that democrats have to rely on the black vote and independents and swing state voters to carry them over the finish line.

Some of you get angry about what you call, “catering to the black vote”. Instead of getting angry at the black people, why not get angry at all of those crazy white people who vote republican time after time and get no real benefit from it.

Do “Y.M.C.A.” next!

It’s embarrassing to watch because the Politics Is Fun! message distracts from real issues. If this is what his team does to drum up support and enthusiasm, the implication is that something is missing.

I thought according to DL, it's middle-aged women who hate Pete because they're homophobic and also want a woman president.

30 Helens agree.

Go on Chasten’s twitter feed, R38. It’s majority middle aged white women, but a lot of seniors too. That’s prime voter territory. He seems to have every soccer mom in America.

[Quote] I thought according to DL,

New around here?

Embarassing for me to watch as a woman.

Pete’s got the frau vote locked up.

Well, this is Pete’s clapback to the MAGA hat-wearing Trumpers hysterically screaming at rallies. People want to be involved. If it works, good for him. Sometimes you have to give people space to be physical so they can be cheerleaders.

It reminds me of my volunteering in 2018. There were some young volunteers in management that were always coming up with ideas like this. It was like when you go to a work event and suddenly they demand you sing karaoke or you’re not enthusiastic enough. Extroverts always run these things and there’s never any room for normal people that don’t want to sing, dance or re-enact Hamilton.

"They have such good taste too. I bet Chasten will redo the White House like something straight out of a Pottery Barn catalog!"

"Oh that would be so awesome, Karen! More pumpkin spice latte?"

Hillary couldn’t get these voters... so you’ve got to give him credit for that.

More faux outrage. Pete’s never danced a day in his life.

"I just couldn't vote for her R46. She was such a phony. And not a very good cat mom either!" -- Karen #4723

[quote] People want to be involved. If it works, good for him. Sometimes you have to give people space to be physical so they can be cheerleaders.

They should go knocking on doors and phone bank. It’s so purposeless, and all about feelings and not about results.

Literally who actually cares about these fucking people dancing? It was funny for 10 minutes 2 days ago.

R49, those probably are the people that knock on doors. They do this stuff for the publicity.

Like I said, I volunteered in 2018. The person who led one of the local offices was a young woman in her twenties, and was constantly making up shit like this for the staff to do. They weren’t random people, they were volunteer staff. They would do this for the cameras, then go door knocking. Then she’d post it on their twitter account.

She did meet all her quotas though, and ended up with a loyal group of young people that would follow her anywhere, so the senior management loved her. But every person on her staff was college age, because everyone else hated it.

I'm fascinated by those of you who just can't stand Pete's hustle. You bitched about Hillary, thinking it was a coronation. And you've tried to paint Biden with that same coronation brush. Pete is actually working for the nomination and not sitting on his ass expecting it to be handed to him. It's great to see his supporters making viral moments. Let's up all this hard translates into votes and the eventual nomination.

Army of Karens is a great band name.

R53 FTW!!!

(Even better: there actually IS an army of Karens!!)

[quote]Let's up all this hard translates into votes and the eventual nomination.

I must have had a stroke while typing that.

It should have read, Let's hope all this hard work translates into votes and the eventual nomination.

[quote]I'm fascinated by those of you who just can't stand Pete's hustle.

It’s mostly blacks who can’t stand him.

R52 most people are sheep. They'll repeat anything others say or the media tells them.

“Oh honey, Karen has happened.”

Sweetie, you’re as simple as that blouse you’re wearing.

YMF, never stop posting. You're like the Cokie Roberts of gay New Yorkers.

People making fun of the Mayor Pete campaign dancing

[quote](Even better: there actually IS an army of Karens!!)

The Karen Insurgency would be another great band name, but you'd have to be explaining Burmese politics all the time.

Good. Keep the hate coming. We don't want so much LGBT support that Pete becomes the gay candidate.

Anyone else remember this?

Buttigieg’s coalition of almost entirely white women and a sprinkling of gay men bring to mind Hillary’s 2008 firewall.

Good for Pete. He's going to needs Karens to win.

He's also going to need Latinos and African Americans, so he better come up with some cooler fucking dances, stat.

Ultimately the emptiness of the current Karen generation can be viewed by comparing the attachment Hillary’s coalition of white women had to her in 2008, through nearly two decades of a national profile in politics and relentless GOP attacks; in contrast, Buttigieg’s white women have decided that a sexless, nonthreatening gay Midwestern mayor who has been famous for a few months should be their standard bearer.

I wonder if the Karens’ attachment to Mayor Pete, whom I have said before looks like he belongs in Middle Management, is simply because he looks like the kind of manager they want to speak to.

[quote]How are there like 14 videos per day of this shitty dance and shitty song with old Pete supporters

This dance was designed from the start so that those in wheelchairs or otherwise disabled could perform it as well. It makes me so uneasy that some are now making fun of it. We've got such a weird shaming culture around these things.

And again, it just goes to show they have nothing else to hit him on, so they went for this. But people hate bullying, so I can see how this taunting won't look well in the long run.

[quote]people hate bullying, so I can see how this taunting won't look well in the long run

What country are you in? Because America LOVES bullying.

The yellow is a eyesore. My goodness, bland candidate and bland color.

[quote]This dance was designed from the start so that those in wheelchairs or otherwise disabled could perform it as well. It makes me so uneasy that some are now making fun of it

We are making fun of it because everyone doing the dance is four-limbed and ambulatory.

R71, no they don't. Anonymous trolls with dubious agendas on the internet love bullying though.

Dude is good. And you think he can't handle the little toadstool?

"...How, he wanted to know, would he deal with leaders of foreign countries where it’s still illegal to be gay? Buttigieg, dressed as he almost always is, in brown shoes and blue slacks and a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, stood in the center of a stage surrounded by more than a thousand people who had packed into the gymnasium of the high school. Buttigieg gripped the hand-held mic and took a few steps forward.

“Sooooo,” he said, drawing out the syllable and the suspense, “they’re going to have to get used to it.”

Those 10 words, tough, almost defiant, elicited a response unlike anything else I witnessed trailing the ascendant Buttigieg on a pair of boisterous recent campaign swings. The sound started with a release of anxious laughter, followed by a hitch of surprise, before giving way to clapping and whistling and shouts and cheers that only got louder as what he had said sank in. It took nearly 30 seconds for the noise to subside.

Unspoken in his answer—maybe unintended but nevertheless true—was that he wasn’t only talking about, or even to, bigoted heads of state in distant, backward lands. He just as easily could have been speaking about his fellow Americans. For months now, Buttigieg’s utterly unprecedented campaign has offered a practically explicit challenge to voters: Can they accept the totality of who he is—the pragmatic, two-term mayor of a midsize midwestern city, the earnest nerd with a facility for language and degrees from Harvard and Oxford, the Navy Reserve lieutenant who did a seven-month stint in Afghanistan … and also the 37-year-old husband of a man who teaches Montessori middle school and with whom he hopes to parent children?"

[quote] He's also going to need Latinos and African Americans, so he better come up with some cooler fucking dances, stat.

LOL! Pete? Sorry, that's not gonna happen. He is the whitest of the white candidates. There's a reason the kids call him Mayo Pete.

This is why Pete has gathered the support he has -

“If I dreamed up an ideal Democratic opponent for President Trump in 2020, I’d locate that candidate in the industrial Midwest,” Bruni wrote. He listed other attributes: “relatively young,” not a Washington insider, fluent on religion, and can “lay claim to being a trailblazer.” Buttigieg met all the criteria.

[quote] This dance was designed from the start so that those in wheelchairs or otherwise disabled could perform it as well. It makes me so uneasy that some are now making fun of it.

If you hate bullying so much, why do you engage in it yourself? Hypocrite.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a NY Times op ed-er pushing an idealized empty suit how we ended up with Sarah Palin?

PEtetette

He's worse than Neil Patrick Harris, Ricky Martin, Luke Evans, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto put together!!!

Hissss!!!!

Hisss I tell you!!!!

Exit stage left!!!!!

As a Midwesterner, I can assure you that we all look to former NYT food critics for political insight into ourselves.

As a Midwestern mer, you should know most of you voted for Trump.

I thought Warren had all the Karens.

What is the best way to describe a woman who is a Karen? Is the old datalounge slang Frau applicable?

r83, 1799 votes cast at my polling location in 2016. 1498 for Clinton. 142 for Trump.

One polling station. Pfft.

R29, the majority of white women have been voting Republican for decades, I don’t know why on Earth you think Pete is going to change that pattern. Hillary couldn’t but somehow Pete can? I have nothing against Pete and predicted that it would come down to him and Warren awhile ago, but the level of delusion in these political threads is just mind blowing. For whatever reason DLers never seem to know what they’re talking about when it comes to politics. And as far as black voters go, while they may only be 12% of the population they’re found in relatively large (and politically significant) numbers in key states, which is why there’s so much focus on them. How anybody who has even a little bit of knowledge about politics wouldn’t know that is beyond me. If Democrats don’t get a high enough turnout (or lose just enough of these votes to Trump or a third party) from blacks, single women, and young voters they’re going to lose.

[Quote] Hillary couldn’t but somehow Pete can?

Yes.

Hillary is DNC establishment. 2/3 to 3/4 of all Americans have liberal values but enough don't vote Dem and consistently give GOP electoral victories.

I see only Pete bringing them back - except for those who vote as their husbands want them to.

[quote]I see only Pete bringing them back - except for those who vote as their husbands want them to.

A lot of women are Conservative, racist and homophobic all on their own.

Better to dance for Pete than vote for Trump.

He has a bad case of Elf Face

They are MidwesternHers

DL is reeling under the revenge of Flyoverstan 😂😂

Karens are what Gen Z has dubbed Gen X. Nice try, OP.

He really needs to do something about his black support. But it's good if he engages the fraus, because white women are probably the group who ultimately decide the election. They're probably the biggest demographic technically and they're less conservative than their male counterparts, i.e., more likely to be swing voters.

Why do lesbians hate Pete? I really wish the L&G would work together more.

Lesbians are jealous of gays.

If I'm going to be jealous of anyone, it's not going to be another sexual minority.

African-Americans will stay home if he remains so dismissive.

A good half think Kamala’s a cop. So better get his ass in gear.

Young black male Karens now joining the movement! 🤗

Oh lord.

That's right, learn them moves, henny. You know you want to. Just give in. 🥰

If Dubya was the one guys wanted to have a beer with, what does that make Pete, the one Karens want to paint ceramics with?

That might be Chasten, actually. He's big on arts.

Pete is more of a bro-ey type of gay.

R26, can you just stop with the "free giveaways" talking point?

GOVERNMENT is a collective body that gives things away for the public good. Like postal service, highways, education, etc.

Snidely sneering at a candidate for promising "giveaways" is either vacuous and ignorant or disingenuous and misdirecting.

You sound like a libertarian, which is just a malformed hybrid of a republican and an anarchist.

'Gosh durn, them dang sozzeshullists. Tryin' ta give away muh frickin' taxes ta them TAKERS. With muh new taxidermy bizznuss on the internet Etsy webpage, I'm gonna be a job kreeator! They best not be thinkin' 'bout takin' muh guns neether! Sheeeeeeeit."

"I'll show these Karen's a thing or to. Bring em' over to your Apples & Bees....."

What R35 said.

This is the whitest thing I’ve ever seen. It will NOT help Mayo Pete.

OMG.

This poll thing is about the Karen-ist thing he's ever done.

Miss Pete needs to get over herself.

[quote] Better to dance for Pete than vote for Trump.

Better to vote blue than break a hip dancing.