Ambassador Peter Buttigieg?

Malta would reflect his heritage.

Please OP.

Just stop it.

Oh yes Peter, I want you so bad....

Peter is his preferred name.

I doubt it.

we love our pete !!! hope he gets a good post!!!

Bang Ding Ow!

We're here, we're queer, deal with it!

“Mayor Pete” has a more politically-friendly appeal, but it’s true that in his personal life he has always preferred to be called Peter.

I called this the whole time. I thought he would want canada or england though. Does he speak Chinese?

Ok Mayor P fanboys..deep breath..he is MARRIED

If he doesn’t already count Chinese among his many languages he surely will become fluent in it.

There is nothing Mayor Pete cannot do!

Ambassadress to Russia

r7 你是个白痴

Good, please send him halfway across the world and make him more irrelevant than ever. Chasten will be the Belle of Peking!

神圣的他妈的

what languages does he speak?

what languages does he speak?

Would Peter's marriage even be recognized in China?

Oh yeah, a mayor from Indiana should be the ambassador to the most pernicious country on Earth. Great idea.

Chasten can adopt so many more ugly dogs off the streets of Beijing.

It’s a graveyard for anyone with presidential ambitions.

Pete is more than capable of any job - including this one! He's the best!

Amy K. already out in opposition to this nomination. Says he doesn't have the experience to fill such a position.

R25 She's a jealous, vindictive CUNT!!!

Go Pete!

The Hon. Peter Buttigieg, Mandarincess

this would be a good post and give him foreign policy credentials for later elections

Stop trying to make Petey the Unsuitable happen!

Is Biden trying to kill Pete, by sending him to China??

R30 You're talking about yourself!!!

Lol this ain’t happening. Dream on.

Can't Pete just quick move to Malibu, so Gavin can appoint him to fill Kamala's seat in the U.S. Senate?

All those Chinese boys for Pete

Noooooooooooo! He'll catch the China virus!!

[quote] Is Biden trying to kill Pete, by sending him to China??

Gonna paw him, claw him, saw him in half,

When he cries out for mercy, we'll just laugh

Beat him, heat him, eat him for dessert, YEAH!

Roast him gently so the flames won't hurt!

Turn him into a rice queen

Bad idea. Bad for Pete. It's a passive aggressive offer made in the confidence that no one can succeed in this job. They want him to fail and knock some luster off. He's shining too bright.

I disagree. It’s a great opportunity to burnish his foreign policy credentials.

He doesn't need foreign policy to win. Pete's appeal and base is Middle America.

r41 How will he burn his foreign policy credentials when he has none at the moment ?

Good. Keep him away. Proof that no one like Pete. The centrists think he is beneath them and refuse to engage with him.

Do even his most ardent supporters think he would’ve defeated Trump?

R42 you're just repeating other people who talk about foreign policy creds. No prez but Bush pere had any.

No harm having some of course. Voters are not interested in other countries. They vote on jobs. It's the economy, stupid as Bill said which Hillary famously ignored to her peril. It will hold even more true in 2024.

I wouldn't want to go the China, they are nuts there! The air quality is absolute shit and you have to be careful to not catch any shit disease.

Pet should try to run for congress.

I would have preferred him as secretary of state...... hope he grows his beard again :)

*Pete

It's a shit job and he doesn't have any experience in foreign policy. I call fake news on this.

[quote] Pete should try to run for congress.

I agree, but first, I think he'll need to find a district to move to and establish himself where he can be elected. .. Indiana's 2nd, in which South Bend is located, is pretty red overall, and just re-elected their incumbent rethug by nearly 62% of the vote.

Basically I thnk pete is a guy who can do pretty much anything he sets his mind to. I wouldn't cancel out Congress or governor even in a red state.

hahahahahahahah

Pete won't know what's hit him, the Chinese will run rings around that little creep.

Got to have high high hopes

R20 When it comes to the same sex spouses of Diplomats in China, the Chinese government gives them a diplomatic family visa, although not a spouse visa.

There are a few gay Ambassadors in China, but none as high profile as this. Normally, US Ambassadors to China has some experience with China. Huntsman and Locke both spoke Chinese, Terry Brandstad (the latest one) knew Xi Jinping in the past. However, knowing China isn’t a requirement for the job. There is an entire Embassy that handles all that shit. The Ambassador is more than a figurehead of course, but he doesn’t really need to know much as he has people both stateside and in the Embassy who do the policy stuff.

China is probably the most high profile Ambassadorship there is. The UK or Canada may be fun, but politically totally irrelevant and unimportant.

[quote]I call fake news on this.

Thank you Former President Trump.

China loves the gays

What does [italic]he[/italic] know about 'Gyna'?

If he wants it I hope he gets it. But I can't fathom anyone wanting to move to China for possibly years.

I would love to be ambassador to The Maldives!

Pete speaks French, Spanish, Arabic, some Italian, some Norwegian. But he doesn’t speak Chinese. So this appointment doesn’t make any sense.

Pete should be the DNC chairman. He’s the only one that knows and understands perception in messaging and he’s fantastic beating back right wing conspiracy garbage and making the Democrats case.

Ambassador to China is a wasted appointment.

Besides not speaking Chinese, there's the matter of the lodgings.

The U.S, ambassador's residence in Beijing...

The U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris...

Mr. Buttigieg speaks French.

Although the example of Biden's election at 78 gives someone like Buttigieg a long window in which to become president - although Harold Stassen is a decidedly alternative example - a post like China gives him a possibly more realistic career path, as Secretary of State.

The only thing he might go for is governor.

An ambassadorship does not raise his national profile or recognition. He disappears. Do you know who the current ambassador is? See?

You need a political perch not a resume for a job interview. Obama's resume was paper thin. Trump had none.

R63, you're assuming that this iteration of the US is ready to elect an openly gay president. I'm not so sanguine.

[Quote]The only thing he might go for is governor

Pete is not going to win a statewide race in Indiana. That's his big political problem and why he wants a Biden appointment.

R64 yes I absolutely am.

R65 who knows what he wants. It's all guessing and parlor games. There are more governors that go to the White House than ambassadors or cabinet members. You can buy an ambassadorship btw.

I like the idea of Pete as DNC chair. God knows they haven't had a good one in a long time.

He could impose "message discipline" on the committee the way he imposes it on Chasten at home. Firmly.

Party chair, delegate/ambassador to China, as noted above, this is the resume of Poppy Bush.

[quote]this is the resume of Poppy Bush.

Minus the head of the CIA. Which, let's face it, is the only item on Bush the elder's resume that really mattered.

The Business Insider spin is quite bitchy: he's pissed he didn't get UN ambassador and tuned down Veterans Affairs / Director of the Office of Management and Budget as beneath him.

OMB is a big deal. I don't know why he'd think that beneath him.

The big problem for Pete (apart from the obvious) is that old man Biden like retreads too much to give him anything really big.

He might be best to run his next Presidential race outside the tent rather than in it. Worked for Dumpf

[quote] Pete should be the DNC chairman.

Convince the DNC of that. They elect the chairman. And he already put himself in the running once before and dropped out before the vote. Lack of support? It seems like a very "political" vote, like something out of high school.

They are grooming Pete for future SOS or FBI.

Before Pete goes for any higher office he needs a new husband.

[quote]Before Pete goes for any higher office he needs a new husband.

Maybe Pete can have a relationship with a secret Chinese spy like Swalwell did, and also fail to disclose the fact when running for president.

I can't wait for the Swalwell sex tape

[Quote] He might be best to run his next Presidential race outside the tent rather than in it.

This.

The Americans to win over distrust Washington, and the metropolitan liberals, for good reason.

[Quote] Before Pete goes for any higher office he needs a new husband.

Chasten is a huge asset. He was the only spouse who got his own following. Middle America relates to him. He is one of them.

A hundled mirrion milacres keep happening ev'ly day!

did he present hole to biden for this job?

Loooove the notion of pete sitting on joe's face and joe just slobbering away like his life depended on it. pete's lover destroying joe's tittys.

Ambassador to China?

Do I smell fortune cookies?

i bet pete's lover has a hot big bubble white fine ass to work over hard...

I notice Chasten has a big bulge too bottom though he is.

Biden owes Pete big time for Pete withdrawing when he could have kept the fight going up to the convention.

It really does seem like Biden allowed others to choose his cabinet for him, and those people are clearing the path for Harris. Still, China will be our most important ambassadorship going forward. This is a serious test for Mayor Pete.

AMBASSADOR BUTTPLUG TO THE KITCHEN SINK

I rather doubt China will recognize Chasten as Pete's spouse.

Aaron Schock and Pete would make a hot couple. Imagine the instagram posts.

Tome to ditch Chasten.

[quote] you're assuming that this iteration of the US is ready to elect an openly gay president. I'm not so sanguine.

Sadly I agree. And the huge vote at AW hates him - he's just not woke enough or something. Whatcha gonna do?

Maybe he should move to a gay friendly state.

Great. Finally someone who will be able to coax Bai Ling off of the roof.

No announcement, yet? Maye it's not set in stone.

A DC assignment would be better for starting a family, lots of kids in the foster system there. China is more likely to give a gay couple a panda than a baby.

This seems like it was floated by either Pete himself or his enemies. There have been few if any leaks from Biden's team about personnel picks.. or anything else really. It would be very unusual for such a high profile and important position to go to someone without any experience in the region.

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R97 R98 Thanks for the stereo sound.

OP These postings are kind of amusing. They probably started at the VP level, then were whittled to down from Sec of State to UN Ambassador, and now most recently Ambassador to China.

What's next, attendant in the WH lavatory?

R99 Thank the daily double gremlin at DL, not me.

R100 I've always said Pete should not join Biden and should stay away from DC.

Methinks once he didn't get his desired job as UN Ambassador, he's said no thanks to the rest.

He's likely moving on to Plan B-whatever that is- with regard to his political future and run for President down the track.

He probably has to do that outside the tent anyway with Harris and her cronies likely thwarting him inside the Harris/Biden show.

[quote] What's next, attendant in the WH lavatory?

Wasn't Pete an Uber driver in Afghanistan? .. I was thinking maybe a nice position in the Secret Service where he could become Dr. Biden's driver.

After a few years on the boards of Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. he will have millions in the bank.

R105 That should allow him to buy a congressional seat then!

Yes- plus the special needs adopted baby

Ok I think this thread has worn itself out. See you guys in the next Pete thread! Toodle-oo!

Pete needs a new job. Chasten’s hole needs to take a rest. It can’t take the bearings any more!

ahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha

With top shade like this, I am warming up to Amy a lot.

In Chasten’s book, he refers to his husband as Peter, not Pete.