PETE: “What we have to do now is make clear we do want government to work differently and better than it has, but burning it to the ground won’t do that for anyone.”
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I'll repost Pete and any other voice of sanity speaking against the rapist felon psychopath dictator! Regardless of party ... Cheney, AOC, Jasmine Crockett to name a few.
That would make cleaning the toilet a happier job! I’m smiling & laughing. Where did you find that? Add it along with your heart shaped french toast & you should start a Happy Housekeeper blog. Sort of an updated Heloise or Miss Manners. I think it’d fly!
I would have loved to have seen this dudes policies come to fruition. The government needs to be put back in the place where it works for the people
Looking at some of the policies where I currently am(Tennessee) it looks like a Billions or more is missing for the roads despite our wheel tax.
Yeah, it's a little too late to avoid the 'burning it to the ground' part, I'm afraid. I think we need to figure out how to stop further burning, end the looting and pillaging, reinstate as much stability as we can manage, and find a way to rebuild to insure this doesn't happen again. it's a lot.
A) Since that particular scandal was perpetrated from 2001 until 2015, it includes the period in which Buttigeig was employed by McKinsey, thus his involvement (though uninvestigated) is not demonstrated to be negligible merely because his campaign claimed so.
cooperate in one instance of illegal activity, then it speaks to a willingness to be involved in other instances, especially in a period and/or environment of low accountability. Also, Buttigeig has specifically stated that his work for McKinsey centered around Loblaws, the perpetrator in question.
This! A million times over! As a foreign observer I get the feeling that the new DNC chair might not be happy to share the stage with an intellect like Pete.
Agree!
I haven’t liked Schumer for a while now.
Jeffries has disappointed—thought he would be dynamic.
They want to play lazy old-time politics with old-time methods which aren’t ever going to work again against the traitors&thieves party, and more importantly—with US!
We need AOC & Crockett!
DEMS/opposition to Trump/Musk/MAGA, need to provide daily press conferences to expose Trump and his destruction of government and the rule of law to help educate people about the impact Trump will have on their lives.
Democrats really do have a wonderful opportunity to create a new grand vision and strategy for our country: they need to start from the ground up. Explain it like we are 5 years old and show it’s connected.
Pete- buddy-stop it. Stop with the “we have to make it clear” THEY AREN’T LISTENING. You have to stop them by any means necessary. Come man- I expect better from you than this. Chop chop
I appreciate that as a member of the former administration, Pete is speaking out. It would be good to hear from more the former administration, but he is definitely the most eloquent. Thank you, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
You fucking ignorant, racist, bigoted pieces of shit voted for this behavior? This is 99% of the country he’s shitting on. You have fucked your family up due to the HATE and #lies you harbor. You are a scumbag. You will get yours soon. We’ll be there for it ..
As southern states beg for fed assistance following flooding and then freezing, Trump said, as he stood in NC w/ people bashing FEMA in January, states should pay for their own clean up. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that, if he said words now, they would be "Go pound sand" or in this case "ice."
Farmers, who always vote republican, are complaining bitterly that they already spent on improvements, but promised subsidies aren't forthcoming. It appears that, when Republicans say "pro business," they mean corporate farms, not your family farm. Shoulda, coulda watched more and listened less.
Please DNC, make Pete our 28 nominee & give him the funds to let him campaign every day.
He should hold a 7:00pm News Conference every evening to explain what Trump did that day & expose the people that Trump hurt with his lies & actions.
MSM isn’t going to cover Trump calling himself “The King.”
Clear messaging needs to be the priority. If there were problems in the Dept of Transp. before we should have heard about them. And celebrated when they were cleaned up. Problem is that Democrats get the job done and move on. Republicans do the same but they make sure everyone knows about it.
Exactly! When democrats get things done don’t be quiet about it! Let everyone know they were able to do it nit just for other democrats but for everyone! Can’t do things quietly anymore.
We also need to hear from people who have been fired. They need to tell their stories, their background, what they did and how it impacts the rest of us. So many are clueless that people from all walks of life are federal workers.
It would be a better country if we knew neither side could minim stray from the constitution. Straying requires burning down that government not the constitution.
I desperately wish @petebuttigieg.bsky.social would do daily war room briefings. It would make MAGA own their mistakes + also us know what's being done to fight it, and how we can help.
No doubt the press would cover it, and it would do so much to unite and bolster those who are losing hope.
He needs his own anti-joe Rogan podcast... Radio show... Social media thingy (whatever the hell you call what Rogan is doing). Get him out talking every day!
Pete is the smartest man I’ve ever heard in my entire life. It thrills me that no matter who it is, they can’t get one over on him. He’s just brilliant! 💎
That may be the endgame in his head, but what he may not fully realize is that his own people will be the first to turn against him if it ever gets to that point, because they’ll be the easiest targets of a heavily armed public and won’t have the security detail to protect them. 2nd Amendment, baby…
Please engage the fired civil servants in affinity groups to identify how to prevent these intrusions from ever happening again, how to secure data, and how to rebuild better.
They have irreplaceable knowledge and care deeply about America.
If you get this meme, I want to follow you. If you read between the lines and are a "Critical Thinker" you will understand the underlying message 🤔 Is there really anything revolutionary in these comments? 🤷♂️
Those that have the luxury of time to slowly work on fixing the machine need to directly acknowledge the understandable rage from those without. Their needs are urgent. Action must be swift and impactful, or they'll vote for the "other" option next chance, that's what desperation does to a person.
ALL OF THIS
Until Dems look at,hear, acknowledge and fight for those who are scraping by they will seek out those who make them feel heard even if they're being lied to and used. I see this in my family.
I dunno if I believe that anymore. Back when Obama was president I think we had enough good left. But now? Sometimes you gotta know when it’s time to start from scratch.
My favorite part is the Proactive Message: “Making sure government works for people and serves us well and enhances our freedom. But that’s not the same thing as being content with the status quo.”
The status quo keeps people poor and underserved. Let this be our moment for change!!
The constitution needs to be retired and a whole new one made for the future. This is the end of America 1.0.
A more democratic democracy is needed, not archaic oddities that bad faith actors can game. And the election system should be built on easy participation, not trying to limit it.
A rare time I disagree with Pete. Whats happening now isn’t unexpected. This rot has been perpetuated by billionaries to the system for well over a century. This isn’t ‘just’ about repuplicans. The american political system has been gutted and destroyed beyond recognition. Electoral college -
We're trying to save our democracy-it was working to a reasonable approximation 1/19/24.
Let's worry about how we phrase shit to win votes from independents tipped to the fascists another day when/if the U.S. survives the attack by domestic enemies
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social Democracy needs an Opposition Daily Dem Press Briefing! There’s no better choice than #PeteButtigieg to deliver messaging, provide opposition action items & correct the record in a way that is reportable by mass media! Galvanize the Dems!
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social He’s wrong, of course. Burning it to the ground DOES make government work differently and better for someone. For billionaires. Pretending that NOBODY benefits is the wrong framing to get the right people fighting the right fight.
Yes it will but not by tRump..we are coming unless he is stopped soon and the fire will be just as high to be rebuilt better by people that aren't insane and high on ketamine
I understand he is a well spoken representative. But the votes that need to be earned are not intellectual. They think the pulse club shooter is their Luigi cuz guns, gays, oh god! Seriously. The resond to macho muscle memory and need a bass ass M-F.
Unfortunately, this is over the head of most fox news viewers. Please take a look at their Facebook page comments. They have been listening to the lies for so long, they are buried in them. Sad. We've got to wake up the people who didn't vote! How do we reach them?
Absolutely … every day on every newscast. I’ve written my local stations letting them know they’re complicit. There is no two sides to any of this…his lies need to be called out every day.
Not just one. We need everybody on every show, all at once. While Musk, Trump and Vance are out golfing or whatever, somebody should be holding them account, to the press, from major outlets to podcasts with audiences of a couple hundred thousand. Bernie, AOC, Pete, Tim, Obama, everybody.
And do it on Fox as well so MAGA sees it as well.
Repeat it ad nauseam like Repugs do until it breaks through sbd then keep pounding until even mainstream media can’t ignore it any longer.
It's funny how this sounds like a defense of Capitalism. He demands better yet that wasn't his message when he ran for President, guy who opposed single payer healthcare & used manipulation & gaslighting to trash #MecicareForAll.
I don't agree with both sides, obviously.
Single payer is an "all in" system otherwise it doesn't work. Think of it as Costco vs Walmart.
Agreed about big pharma but let's put that in perspective. Bernie's M4A plan caps yearly out of pocket expenditures for rX at just $200. That's all you pay.
They want to burn it down. They truly believe that they can go back 60 years and treat women like possessions instead of individual people again. It is all about these rich white men controlling women and people of color. That is it.
For the life of me I can’t figure out why the DNC doesn’t have this guy front and centre. He’s clearly the very best of the best delivering a message most Americans want to hear.
Remember when there was a massive train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio when this clown didn't do jack shit about poor working conditions and cutting regulations for profit? Don't let pots call kettles black. He sucked shit too.
Leading up to the election, the Dem war cry was focused on trans rights and gaza for months leading up to November and they let Talib encourage Muslims to vote for Jill Stein (over half of them did as a result).
That’s the Dem message I heard over the last year, anyway.
Pete is usually on spot as a communicator, but I'm pretty sure this isn't a winning talking point, given how many assholes on both ends of the political spectrum do, indeed, want to burn it all down.
He's not a leader, he's an excellent management consultant. He might be a real leader at some point, but right now, we need somebody more spicy than that.
No. Pete was making the contrast of working to make it better vs burning it to the ground. I inferred that you were not satisfied with “talking points”.
Please do not accuse others of disrespect when they are appropriately displaying the flag union-down per Title 36, Chapter 10 § 176 (a) "...signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."
Right, mostly rich business-types that want all laws and regulations gone so they can cheat us with impunity. This is the #1 reason we need a government. To stop them.
We need to make clear that Republicans aren't following the law or the Constitution at the same time they're burning government to the ground. We are a nation of laws. They need to follow them. Doge/Project 2025ers are an end run around the law and Congress
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social is an honest leader, but if Dem leaders cared about institutions, beginning 1/20/21, wouldn't they have ensured the prosecution of all leaders who played a role in coup attempt? Instead, traitor leaders were treated with respect, & Biden said he wanted Trump to run in 2024
Search for sources so you can see there's more than one.
Mar 24, 2022 — President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would be “very fortunate” if he were to face off against former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential ...
“Very fortunate” as in he thought he could easily win. I don’t think you understand the minutia of that statement. Is English your second language? Just curious.
Yes, I did get Biden believed he was so superior that he encouraged a treasonous fascist to run again for USA's power. & you think Biden is so great it didn't bother you one bit Biden treated a ruthless tyrant as fit to run. Biden devotees, like you, are one reason Trump is not in prison.
WE WANT PETE!WE WANT PETE!WE WANT PETE!WE WANT PETE!WE WANT PETE!WE WANT PETE! SOMEONE FUND THIS MAN SO WE HAVE A CONSISTENT SHINING BECON AND OUR ELECTED REPS AREN'T RUN RAGGED BEING ON CAMERA INSTEAD OF SCREAMING IN THE HALLS OF THE CAPITAL
Please, Pete give us a daily report. Make sure the American people hear what you have to say. Go on Fox go on OANN go on all the right wing networks and tell them the truth.
As well as giving unrestricted access to oligarch without any oversight of any kind.
Everyone is up for efficiency and eliminating waste in right way (Previous administration lost this opportunity, well no one ever thought about doing it. Its good that current one is doing it however wrong way as
If you want to help turn this shipwreck of state around, then I have some very specific and doable suggestions and links to more that you can do today.
American voters who refused to vote for a very competent Black woman, an electorate filled with anti semitic, racist voters may not vote for an extremely competent Rhodes scholar, happily married, gay man! Those BIG prejudiced views, allowed by Trump. thrive in a closed election booth!
It’s already on fire.
The embers have been burning for years, this dictator & his cronies have breathed oxygen onto those embers.
Now it’s time to FIGHT, later we rebuild.
The longer we wait to remove these people, the greater the damage and the more innocent lives lost.
#resistance
#timeforwar
Burning it to the ground and than to have Trumps Oligarch friends manage HIS mess and to profit massively from it is not only not a solution, but it is pure evil greed.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social The only way forward as we fix our government is to ensure that all societal constructs, especially our government and courts, are structured to promote mental health. Mental health is primary and the core of democracy.
To resist an authoritarian kleptocracy: organize communities, defend democratic institutions, expose corruption, amplify marginalized voices, vote strategically, support independent media, and demand transparency. Collective action is key to safeguarding democracy and justice.
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America is so lacking on useful public transportation.
https://youtu.be/6G8fu50VRXo?si=2hN3uDWCurVSXNZm
Love it!!!
Looking at some of the policies where I currently am(Tennessee) it looks like a Billions or more is missing for the roads despite our wheel tax.
Enough is Enough!!
Burn it down. Start with the executive branch.
Buttigieg was 19 years old when the Canadian price fixing scandal was initiated.
He coordinated it from his dorm room. 😁
B) if a company is willing to >
Trump is making it work better for billionaires.
NOW DO THIS:⬇️⬇️
PS: ask Pete Buttigieg to be OUR Spokesperson!
(A little list of daily ‘accomplishments’ just isn’t getting the job done.)
They don’t though🤬
I haven’t liked Schumer for a while now.
Jeffries has disappointed—thought he would be dynamic.
They want to play lazy old-time politics with old-time methods which aren’t ever going to work again against the traitors&thieves party, and more importantly—with US!
We need AOC & Crockett!
NOT HIDE OUT.
thanks.
Pete is just wrong here.
Put this guy in charge. He's hit the nail on the head and identified why Trump won.
IF THEY HAD BEEN WORKING FOR PEOPLE, CHEETO WOULD NOT BE IN POWER
March for American Apartheid
Listen. Please.
Intelligence. Sharp.
Rare.
He should hold a 7:00pm News Conference every evening to explain what Trump did that day & expose the people that Trump hurt with his lies & actions.
MSM isn’t going to cover Trump calling himself “The King.”
those who pay the piper calls the tune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
No thanks, Pete.
But still doesn't make Buttigieg a Stud Quo guy.
Wasn’t he a character on parks and recreation?
That is what Project 2025 is. It IS policy written by abused, hate-fueled, isolated Christian Nationalist young adults.
And that’s WHO Trump, Musk and inner circle are. Just add 💰 to their psychopathy.
No doubt the press would cover it, and it would do so much to unite and bolster those who are losing hope.
They have irreplaceable knowledge and care deeply about America.
Until Dems look at,hear, acknowledge and fight for those who are scraping by they will seek out those who make them feel heard even if they're being lied to and used. I see this in my family.
But the message is six months too late. It just feels like “hey we can do it too!”
Making him President someday will bring that change.
He has the same qualities that Obama had.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/opinion/trump-munich-security-conference.html
The status quo keeps people poor and underserved. Let this be our moment for change!!
God understands that the Tables in the Temple must be flipped every so often…
Trust me.
A more democratic democracy is needed, not archaic oddities that bad faith actors can game. And the election system should be built on easy participation, not trying to limit it.
But please cut the nuanced crap
We're trying to save our democracy-it was working to a reasonable approximation 1/19/24.
Let's worry about how we phrase shit to win votes from independents tipped to the fascists another day when/if the U.S. survives the attack by domestic enemies
Pete IS A leader!
Burning it to the ground does fix anything
FIRST
Need anti-Trump bombast.
That's ok we can disagree. I don't know anyone.
Repeat it ad nauseam like Repugs do until it breaks through sbd then keep pounding until even mainstream media can’t ignore it any longer.
Pete IS the status quo. I'd never vote for him.
It seems like you're linking him to fake Dems Manchin and Sinema, who were basically against the Dems wanting to help ppl.
https://www.ontheissues.org/2020/Pete_Buttigieg_Health_Care.htm
His version of M4A isn't - it's a public option.
Understand Pete Buttigieg literally ran ads against #MedicareForAll.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/politics/pete-buttigieg-medicare-for-all-ad-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders/index.html
🛑 Buttigieg Denounced for Spouting 'Pack of Lies' About Medicare for All While Swimming in Insurance Industry Cash.
"Mayor Pete sounds like he's on the payroll of the Republican National Committee."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/16/buttigieg-denounced-spouting-pack-lies-about-medicare-all-while-swimming-insurance
I agree with both sides, and agree that we shouldn't have a single choice, but whatever works for each person/household.
Why is that wrong? Better than ppl getting screwed by big pharma and the hospital greed, right?
Single payer is an "all in" system otherwise it doesn't work. Think of it as Costco vs Walmart.
Agreed about big pharma but let's put that in perspective. Bernie's M4A plan caps yearly out of pocket expenditures for rX at just $200. That's all you pay.
Pete's idea may help to a point, but may have been in a similar situation.
Republicans care about $$, period.
Some help is better than nothing.
they are in a war and they are doing nothing they are being stomped on
all they do is complain
That’s the Dem message I heard over the last year, anyway.
alitos wife did.
My dad was career Air Force .
Thank you.
Mar 24, 2022 — President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would be “very fortunate” if he were to face off against former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential ...
It's built on and still supported by genocide and marginalization.
Let it burn.
So you want to fix your house, upgrade the kitchen, finish the basement. How often do you demolish it to make the project easier?
They've been told the government doesn't work by those who seek to dismantle it.
GOP want the government to NoT function.
Everyone is up for efficiency and eliminating waste in right way (Previous administration lost this opportunity, well no one ever thought about doing it. Its good that current one is doing it however wrong way as
I live in Michigan. You think to think bigger than Gary Peter’s seat. I’d like to see you run for president again and win.
We can't have a weak response
https://wp.me/p7vabV-dQn
The embers have been burning for years, this dictator & his cronies have breathed oxygen onto those embers.
Now it’s time to FIGHT, later we rebuild.
The longer we wait to remove these people, the greater the damage and the more innocent lives lost.
#resistance
#timeforwar
Burning it to the ground and than to have Trumps Oligarch friends manage HIS mess and to profit massively from it is not only not a solution, but it is pure evil greed.
Look at California. 5th largest economy in the world, and it is truly a shithole state to live in as a worker.
#6'Elon
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I hope one day we’ll see him as the president.
I don’t believe that we will never have elections again.