Sadly we'll never see a woman elected at this rate to the office of president. They're both qualified and fighters but bigotry and rigging are too strong. 😔😒😠
Assuming we still have elections. I think he’d wield far more influence as the official spokesperson for the Democratic Party with daily press conferences as put forward by @cherijacobus.bsky.social
I love Pete & would vote for him. But if Kamala (one of the most qualified) couldn't beat one of the most corrupt/unqualified (especially after Impeachments/J6th/the ending of Roe), I don't know what to say. It will take Dems losing the midterms for them to realize the fix is in. Not normal times.
Helps me feel better knowing he’s visibly out front on a daily basis like all good Democrats at this point, where we are all either fighting or staring into a freakish hellscape.
I have to question if we will have any elections but the reality he would potentially be a great president but the one thing this country has in spades is bigotry. No way a gay man gets elected president with the volume of MAGAts & republicans (specifically in the fly over states)
Or the governor of California.
These people cheering this are delusion if they think either of these guys are going to carry WI, MI, or PA. The infantile understanding of US politics on display in this thread is why Dems keep losing to Trump.
The country is much more conservative than ppl realize
Buttigieg is a good communicator, but he takes lots of billionaire money I want to hear what he is going to do for working people and I want to know what he has done for working people.
I'm really hoping D.S.A can find some interesting candidates for the primaries.
I love Pete! We even went to the same high school, but can we get a Gen-X president first? I’ve got just a bit of my 40’s left and am not ready for a Millennial to be President.
Senate first. If Michigan is able to send a married gay man with biracial children to the Senate, then maybe they’ll send him back to DC as VP. Not President, yet. He’s a young man, one step at a time.
What gives you the idea the felon will allow midterm elections? He's fucking calling himself king!! You think he's gonna let one little tiny bit of the power he grabbed with both his grubby hands and Elmo's help go anywhere except to his devoted cult?
I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see this earnest insight. I can't foresee myself or my generation (millennials) clamoring over ourselves to decide what kind of world the younger generations will have to live through. I'll be dead!
Exactly!! Someone 65 or older has NO damn business running for or holding elected office. The average life expectancy pre-Covid was 77 years. They need to step back and get their fingers out of the pie. They've had enough.
I am so sick of the wait your turn / is he ready / are they ready narrative. Everyone told Obama he couldn’t do it. The only way you know if someone is electable is for them to be elected.
No, no no he is ready to be president right now. He was in 2020 when I got onto his campaign.#TeamPete I was with Kamala first, and I went to him because I felt he was much more prepared a better campaign and then she had… he’s ready now!
I love Pete, I’d vote for him in a minute .. but if we couldn’t elect Kamala or Hillary Clinton due to misogyny, racism & hate - I don’t see people electing Pete realistically. If Gavin Newson ran for president & Pete as VP ran I think that may have a better chance.
I wonder if the pain and misery and death this Trump term will bring could inspire people to rise above their bigoted notions? Gavin can run too and give everyone a hetero white guy alternative. See what happens perhaps? Forget MAGA. They are out. Plenty who picked the couch might vote next time 🤔
Even if someone who's not in California, his National perception is one of either scum if you're Progressive or some radical leftist if you're conservative, and only scum is true.
It’s a sad state of things to have to endure the challenges of being wholly qualified but denied because of your gender or sexual preference. Fucking America!
Before Kamala was chosen, I thought Newsom and Wes Moore would be tough to beat.
Kamala was much better than I thought she would be, and deserved to win by 90 points.
Buttigieg would be amazing, but he has no realistic chance.
The US is still a really stupid backwards country in a lot of ways.
I used to take some comfort in knowing that Hillary won by 3 million votes.
But seeing Trump continue to receive more votes in every election despite his corruption and incompetence has revealed that much of the US is fascist and/or really stupid.
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He should run for Senate.
Pete is a great orator, well spoken, intelligent and kind, but in the theatrical part for President, I think Tim Walz, or Gavin Newsom, have a better chance.
Assuming we somehow survive this coup.
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He might be gay, but I really think with his military history and his masc presentation, he could win. (Maybe it's just me but he comes across as a strong, masculine man to me)
Yes- it is- and all of the quiet bigots stayed home on Election Day- some of them didn’t even realize it was because they were bigots… to not face this reality- is a recipe for disaster again.😖
Yes Pete! We need you to bring back normalcy back to the White House. With your intelligence, no non sense approach & love for the country, LGBTQ communities, veterans, experience with transportation, we NEED you desperately.
Run Pete Run
#2028
I really feel like there won't be elections in 2026. Or if there is, Trump will issue a slew of executive orders that will make it impossible for democrats to win anything, and why not? He has already shown he can do whatever and no one can stop him.
Great to think about and hope for but do you genuinely believe that there will be elections in the future? And, if there are, do you think they may be fair! What has happened to Putin's or Jong UN's competitors? #differentplanneeded
He's a brilliant and talented man. I'd like to see him step forward now and lend us his energy, knowledge and leadership. He doesn't need to be an elected official to do this. We're listening.
If Americans aren’t ready to vote for a women, they won’t vote for a gay male either. I’m tired of loosing. The only way for a Kamala or Pete to get the presidency is being a VP and the president dies. Don’t hate me. I don’t want it to be this way.
I disagree with the first part. Those were never the complaints of voters. Just the media.
I think Kamala would have had a stronger campaign if Biden had retired and gave her the Presidency. Instead of swooping in as the VP still. When the election came, she could've already been doing the job.
Honestly, I think having the black President might have been what triggered the racists to decide cheating by using a Russia’s help was acceptable. They cheated with Hillary, but it wasn’t flipping enough votes for Biden to loose,or software got changed, not sure but Elon turned it around for them.
But was it easier for Elon’s minions to find a misogynist or racist or homophobe working at the election offices who would plug in their thumb drives? Remember when Rudy was accusing the two election workers of passing a thumb drive? It’s because they were already doing it themselves that way.
This is correct and there's evidence, including but not limited to, actual public admissions by Trump himself.
And yet - where are Democrats to counter this? Nowhere to be found due to decorum and the need to pretend our electoral system is perfect, unhackable, and not impacted by gerrymandering.
I'm sick of losing, too.
America is obviously not evolved enough to elect a qualified gay man (or woman!!!) for President. We prefer white male blowhards.
I’m not sure why Gavin Newsome isn’t stepping up. No amount of skeletons could be worse than another trump term. Pete could be VP. Not sure if repuglicans hate women or gay men more.
Wednesday morning after the election the entire country simply rolled over onto its back, with it's belly fully exposed, and accepted the results like a good dog.
Trump lost by millions in 2020 and never accepted the results. It's a sucky way to play the game, but he made the rules.
Our mistake was not demanding a forensic audit that may have shown the vote flipping software or the connection to Elon’s Starlink satellites.
No way she lost all the swing states. Not possible.
True. I agree. The votes were flipped and had been since Hillary, but if Biden pulled off a win it may have been because Republicans weren’t freaked out about a woman and stayed home. It may be possible to get past the rigging. Elon improved it though so not sure if it matters without paper ballots.
I feel the same. I love Mayor Pete but we have to get these fuckers out of the White House. And unfortunately we have too many people that won't vote for someone who's gay. It's lame but that's the way it is. We have to stop pushing the envelope a bit for awhile to give people a chance to adjust
The chances of either of those two getting elected is 0%.
A gay person or a Latino woman? I don't think you understand how a lot of this country thinks.
I'm Canadian and I'll gladly tag along. Gotta get Pete to appear more on Fox. He has a knack for outlining facts to their viewers whilst making the host(s) look like complete imbeciles with grace and finess...
Wish. But America is not ready or willing to elect a woman president. I love aoc but in this moment we are 0/2 with female candidates. Don’t shoot the messenger I voted for Kamala. I’m not even sure how well Pete would do being a scary gay person. Sigh.
It will be a generation before the dems nominate a woman again, sadly. Not until we eradicate this fascist fetish. I think the first woman president will have to be Republican unless we can get a MASSIVE backlash to this idiocy whipped up.
I’m all for equality but do you want to lose the election again? Woman are 0% win rate or 0/2 in presidential elections and those were against a terrible candidate. Not saying it’s the only thing that caused it but we need to stabilize the country before we risk striking out.
Sadly, women can't win top spot yet, til we topple this shit and bury it forever. We can't afford to lose ground right now.
I'm afraid for CA Dems not picking a "comfortable" white male for next Gov. We gotta do more than edge these magats out next few years. Gotta smother them. Whatever it takes.
Can women win top spot? Hillary actually did win the popular vote. If not for the electoral college she would have been President. As for Kamala, she just may have won if the election was fair and the votes were not manipulated.
Unfortunately, Faux News regularly wins more viewers than any other news broadcast. That is the reality. Sticking our heads in the sand won't accomplish anything
Ideally, sure. Unfortunately, we have to live in a reality where the right has shown us how they feel about women candidates. If we want to take the high road, we go this route. If we want to win, we produce a Populist who can speak down to a 4th grade level.
Unfortunately because of how the electoral college is set up you can't win an election without moderate votes and this country has swung so hard right that it'll probably be 20 years before someone as progressive as AOC would have a chance at winning.
not if she's the only politician with enough apine to stand up to DT. I don't think you understand the anger boiling underneath as they realize they've been had. I bet a lot of them would love nothing more than to hurl AOC at his face.
And that is certainly your choice. No candidate will please everyone. Heck Barack Obama wasn't fully embraced by the party during his primaries with Clinton but he walked away with the victory. While many might not vote for AOC or Pete Buttigieg, many others will. Thanks for your opinion on this. 💙
Also... I knocked on doors in Florida for Obama. I got a lot of doors slammed in my face but I still loved the feeling and knowledge that I was doing something solid that I believed in. I believe in AOC & Pete Buttigieg.
Depending on who was running against her, I would either vote for her opponent or not vote. But do you not realize that Trump won, at least in part, not because people liked him, but because many felt we had already gone too far left?
And others felt we had not gone far enough. Democrats have been being pulled to the center for so long that they have crossed the line. Today's democrats (old school ones) look like yesterday's center right Republicans. I feel comfortable with this.Trump also got in because people chose not to vote.
The number of republicans and independents who feel we have not gone far enough left approaches zero. You can’t win an election without at least some republican and independent votes. And although there are some democrats who feel we haven’t gone far enough, even they are outnumbered.
This is the kind of living in the past thinking that ends up with our team losing. Old school democrats have been losing for a long time because they do not want to evolve to fit the needs of their constituents. The experts keep weighing in and keep being wrong. I respect your opinion but disagree.
As qualified as Pete is, the DNC needs to STOP this swinging for the fences bull crap for now. Prop Hillary and tout her the first woman president, we get Dump 1. They put Kamala up there and tout her the first woman of color president, we get Dump 2. Just stop swinging for firsts and striking out.
I love Pete but don’t totally disagree. Although I don’t think he would make his campaign about running as the first lgbt president, do you? What are your thoughts on Gavin Newsom??
I think Gavin would be a good choice. A challenge as the other side would talk about all the failures of "Hippie Lib California" but I think people would see through that easier than their prejudices of Blacks, Women and Gays. Sad state of affairs but our reality
He wouldn't make it about that, but whoever runs against him would. I don't want folks to get me wrong, in a perfect world Pete would be a more than fine choice, but we can't lose again. And too many people aren't over the racism that came with Obama's election; let alone homophobia or mysogeny.
Considering how brazen they are now it just can’t be ignored unfortunately. For as many people out there that are accepting and only care about the qualities that really matter, there are enough that are foaming at the mouth to reenact WWII. The extremism is out of hand.
This… it’s Gavin. He’s the best bet. An attractive successful white man who runs the world’s 5th largest economy. Pair him with someone from senate with a ton of foreign policy experience, man or woman.
Right now, yes. I agree. The only reason I say right now is there could be someone in the shadows who remains to be seen. I wouldn't mind him teaming with our Governor Josh Shapiro as VP. I would say Walz but MAGA would use his run with Kamala as false equivalence.
Yeah Gavin can win but who is he entangled with? More corporation bosses. He backed out of Medicare for all and he sold out. He didn't have the guts to challenge Biden, that was his chance and he bent to the party line. We need progressives that really want to deliver for the working class.
I thought that Obama giving us 8 straight years of greatness (true greatness) would make people see competence matters most, but here we are. I would love for Pete to be able to just be the candidate but we all know it wouldn't go well and we cannot lose again.
There’ve been conspiracy theories about Newsom for years. Some people will have a problem with whatever candidate the dems run. Buttigieg is from the Midwest & served in a cabinet.
If we have elections again Pete should be considered IMO
I don't know. I just know that he being part of the LGBTQ+ community will be a HUGE thing for not just the Magats but for swing voters. We don't need the Magats, we do need the swings. If it were up to me it would be Pete or Gavin, either or but there are lots of people less progressive than I.
Love Pete. But he’s gay. He won’t win, not w/ states so gerrymandered and suppression so high. We need a conservative leaning business friendly white man to bridge the gap. He needs to be pretty and articulate. I’m not worried about scandal. We’ve seen if they can’t find it, they’ll make it up.
Of those two options?? Gavin and Walz. Kamala, while a more than qualified candidate has been showing that she was disillusioned by the last campaign and may want to step away for a while. I don't blame her at all.
Kamala and AOC would be powerful in the cabinet, but the running ticket will need to be two white men at this point. Newsom would be the most appealing.
I like it! Her as VP. I like her fire. My only concern are the same concerns I had for Kamala but folks (passive Racist/Misogynist swing voters mostly) dont seem to mind as much when it's VP vs the top seat.
I want her to use that fire but not let it consume her when the name calling starts.
Love her for a cabinet position. But we’ve seen men won’t elect a women and even black men won’t vote for a black woman. We can’t loose again, if we even get the chance to have another election.
What we need to do is fix all the voter suppression. That’s what took the election from Kamala. She’d have won if not for nearly 3.6 million votes tossed in purges or KKK era vigilante “challenges” targeting black communities.
I don't disagree with you. There were many anomalies in this election; a ton of evidence that this election was manipulated in many different ways but I don't think they're going to stop doing that (if we get free elections at all) so looking forward we need to stack the deck so they can't.
I voted for Kamala and thought she was the right candidate for sure; but I also know a large cross section of our population is, if not racist, misogynist and I think we need to get from under Cult45, then we can focus on qualified female and gay/lesbian candidates.
I agree 100%, but as you see, we are not beyond racism yet. We had the nerve to elect a qualified black man and we get... All this. They are willing to hurt themselves to "show us a lesson." We need to get them out! I don't care how. Then we can focus on repairing the damage they did
He’s gay he will lose oh my God Democrats don’t start with this again. We just went through this with the sex change operations. Did you people give it a rest people are not going to vote for a gay person not to get him over the top. If you’re real with yourself right now, I’m not a homophobe
After Trump is done, folks everywhere will be so grateful for something/anything/anybody with a brain rather than the candidate’s bedroom activity so I disagree. The pendulum will swing.
All I know the Democrats better be assholes all the way through. I don’t care if you see how trump lies and then he does shit, the Democrats should do the same thing. Forget that be a nice shit that doesn’t work anymore man these people have no discipline no respect no morals know nothing.
People here will hate you for your comment, but it's true. He's a useless Neo-Lib who has no principles. It really showed during the debates with Bernie and Kamala years ago. I'll get called names, but Pete is absolutely not the guy. But knowing Democrats, I can totally see it.
Senate okay, but not President. As much as I admire Pete, and think he could do the job in stellar fashion, they couldn’t manage to vote for a woman so a gay guy wouldn’t be a winning candidate….yet.
It hurts to say so, because it is so sad, but if the dems had run with a white male they could have beaten trmp. Having said that I think Muskow helped trmp cheat. I also don't think there will be another election if you don't stop them.
Love me some Pete, but the Democrats would be buried if he ran for president. The Dems need to stop sucking the tits of powerful money czars and get back to representing working people and citizens of all stripes. Dems are losing ground faster than a leaking sieve. Find a way forward!!!
There will be no country left. Literally. Nothing left. People seriously need to wake the fuck up. Tomorrow Dump is dismantling the USPS. We'll be on day 30. It took Hitler 53 days. Democrats did nothing to stop Dump while Biden was president and they are doing nothing to stop Dump now. KYAGB.
I love Mayor Pete, but seriously, if Democrats cannot figure out how to get the 80-90 million dumbasses, who are over 18, but do not vote, off their asses, elections will always be decided with narrow margins. Extreme policies will continue to dominate. Spend the next 2 years getting to know them.
If mayor of a small city to SecTransportation is the depth of our bench, we're cooked. We do have others, including some elected to federal office. Many great governors.
I mean Trump didn’t have any qualifications in 2016 besides being a d list democrat celebrity that flipped parties. If we played our cards right we could probably get a successful d list celeb in office from our side too. Qualifications didn’t matter in this election either.
I think Pete is very personable. He has a way of relating with people that touches common humanity. If he wins the democratic primary, he can win the general election. That September switcheroo was a factor in the last election.
A smart move would for him to showcase his family - and both set of grandparents on camera as much as possible. This will pull on women’s hearts because a lot of us aren’t going to be grandmas. To get to #booksky and middle age women that read #Romantasy .
Nope. Obama was an anomaly. There wasn’t much in terms of social media and disinformation. He also ran against normal candidates who were not backed by Russia.
There is a part of me that believes that sexism beat out racism in 2008 and that fear of President Palin drove people to vote for Barack Obama. But I then can't explain 2012 when voters had the whitest white bread option ever with Romney/Ryan. I also don't think it explains 2020 with Biden/Harris.
George W Bush completely fucked the country after his wars. We also were learning at the time that he lied about weapons of mass destruction. We were in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Obama won because of how badly the republicans did and how much people wanted out of wars.
As for Biden Harris, most of America was suffering and had realized that Trump was an awful leader. They turned up to vote him out. Plus, Biden was a popular candidate. He would have beat Trump in 2016.
Definitely sexism was the downfall for McCain. And Obama getting reelected against 2 white guys likely had to do with the fact that Romney was a normal candidate running a regular campaign, and social media wasn’t influential. Plus, people really liked Obama and turned out to vote for him.
You know Trump kept saying that he and Mike Johnson had a secret and he told his MAGAS at his Rallies that he had all the votes he needed and they didn't need to worry about voting ever again!
Clinton and Harris both lost due to misogyny. 80 million Americans voted for a male idiot felon rather than a highly experienced, extremely qualified, well educated woman.
I agree, to a point. I don’t want to risk it all. I love Pete and would vote for him tomorrow. But I fear homophobia in this country could put another right wing devil in the oval. IF we actually have another election
My sentiment as well. Let’s get our foot back in the door and build a firewall first. We don’t hold a majority in any branch and are hanging on by threads on state level election and local elections. We don’t have the deep roots the gop has. We just don’t. There is no time to risk anything here.
I think Andy basher and newsome have a better shot than Buttigieg even though Kamala and Pete could run circles around them. The voters don’t care. They elected a 34 time felon and it wasn’t based on merit or qualifications. We have to reorganize and change our tactics.
I hope he chooses the Senate. While I'd love to vote for him as POTUS, I think the bigotry of MAGA shows America is not ready for a gay president. Too bad because he'd be terrific at it.
Same, also I'd like to see him get the experience of the Senate under his belt first and maybe that will give enough time for people to grow up and not make being gay an issue.
No, it will be the other side and they will use it to rally their voters.
I think he would be an outstanding president and I'd be proud to vote for him. He has proven his humanity, intelligence and competence. But the Dems absolutely need to win the next election.
Not saying you're wrong, but please remember that MAGA is 77 million ignorant Americans.
There are 340 million of us.
What we need to FOCUS ON is how to have the free & fair election to which we are constitutionally entitled. We didn't get that in 2024. Elon, gerrymandering, etc = not free & fair.
It is sad but true that he might not stand a chance for president even though he would probably be a great choice. But I'd love to see him in the Senate.
She lost because the left wing of the party abandoned her. They led the largest civil protests since the Vietnam war, and she called them unpatriotic and unamerican for it. They were protesting against genocide, and she literally called their protest unamerican. Let that sink in.
100%.The 2024 Election signaled that there are millions of assholes in this country who would not accept a well-qualified woman or a woman of color. Dems are 0 for 2 with women candidates. I doubt that America would go for a gay Presidential candidate because we have morphed into a shithole country.
Bingo. Pete has a 0% chance because he's gay. Kamala Harris? A black woman? I can't believe her bid for office was that close. We need to front a tall, white, heterosexual male between 50-65 with zero baggage. I'd vote for Pete in a second, but the rest of this awful country? Not a chance.
This.
The only reason the shitface won the both times is because dems put up women. America would vote for a pile of 💩 💩 💩 attached to a white micro penis over intelligent/well qualified women.
Thank you! All these people blaming it on her being a black women are the reason the democrats will likely lose the next election too. The democrats have showed time and time again that they would rather have a fascist, then a socialist.
Not sure I agree, mate. No one running this election was a socialist. Or even particularly left. Even in the bluest cities in the bluest states, moderates usually win office.
And to be clear, Dems only represent 1/3 of voters. Both parties need independents to win. Ind tend to be rather moderate.
Not saying Kamala was a socialist, she is far from it. I’m saying the Democratic Party was afraid of socialism more so than fascism, and that’s one of the factors that led her to be the nominee in the first place, instead of a true progressive. The progressives want democratic socialism.
Dems simply know socialism is a poisoned term in US politics. It's a nonstarter. If a socialist candidate can't win in deep blue areas, who is dumb enough to think they'd win in a national election?!?
And as I've said, you NEED independents to win any election & most of them are firmly centrists.
History will prove that Harris really won, but Musk used Starlink to tamper with the votes. Harris almost had the popular vote, but the somehow states with the most electoral vote went Red before the night was over. Very strange.
Weeks before the election, Trump said, “ we don’t need any votes - we have the votes”. Yeah, Starlink was used to rig the votes. He couldn’t do it in 2020, but Musk did it for him in ‘24. Now what does he owe Musk?
When AOC came on board, they knew she had something that would bring people in. So they started the Hillary treatment. The slow drip drip drip of negativity coming from old white GOP men. And, damnit, it worked. People didn't like her but didn't know why. THEY WERE SPOON FED DISGUST from the get go.
I was watching his speech on Rachel’s show last night. The more I heard, I started saying to myself that he needs to run. He’d make an excellent president. Lots of respect for him.
Bernie is really good at saying what people want to hear, but he has done absolutely nothing in his long career. He's just another old white guy, which we do not need.
I am deciding what to have for dinner, but that does not make it newsworthy. If he said "I will be running for X" that would be newsworthy. But this is just a sign of a slow news day.
That narrative is why we lost. She supported Israels genocide, taking an opposing stance to the largest civil protests since the Vietnam war. The youth turned against her, and the Democratic media downplayed it hoping not to cause division. Instead, in doing so, they buried the progressive voice.
We could have asked that about Obama, too. He didn't have much of a track record (community organizer) but his charisma was overwhelming and people just wanted to get on board. Pete is just as inviting. He's caring and honest. Empathy is big. But I'd like to see him in the senate ... for now.
Americans would only deviate from moral norms when there’s recession and economic collapse sadly.Before Obama, there was a recession and they didn’t care if he was black but voted him. Trajectory of economic decline of this admin might lead to his approval eventually
I am so sick of this. I think it's time for the Blue team to practice what it preaches. We scream "Equality" but throw away an awesome candidate who could save this country because "the country is not ready" MAGA wasn't going to vote for him anyway.
I'm beginning to think Dems don't live in reality. I love Pete. I think he can win a Senate race but not a Presidential election. At least not yet. We refuse to believe that our fellow Americans won't vote for the best candidate out of hate even when they have shown us more than once.
I think they'd vote a gay male over a woman. Clearly, America is too racist & misogynistic for a non-white woman for sure. Even a white woman will be labeled as a "bitch," or that she slept her way to the top. I no longer claim to be an American. My values are not 'Merican values.
Right, look what they did to Hillary for calling them out and calling them Deplorables. Which they are!! They wore it like a badge of honor and unleashed their true disgusting selves. No longer having to hide in the shadows and meths houses from which they crawled out of.
S lost because the Christian Taliban in US are more determined to vote than Dems are. And let’s be honest, most of the country are now racist, bigot, homophobic empty shells anyways. We've proved that, twice
The majority of white women literally voted against their daughters, sisters, for a racist
She lost because she tied her anchor to Joe Biden as he was mummifying in real time. If she bullshitted her way through a primary it would've been a different story
Very true. They are actually the people that allowed all this happening now. But if they are still on their high horse, they won’t admit it and remain in denial.
She lost because of voter suppression which came in many forms in 2024- purged voting rolls, bomb threats to polling sites, redistricting & gerrymandering. Watch Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen by Greg Palast. It was released in 2024 before the election. It's on YouTube.
No she lost because she's a black woman. Trump ran a campaign on identity politics and she ran a campaign on issues. Get your mind right. White men hate black women.
Incorrect.
The amount of ballots thrown out would have given her the election.
The vote manipulation shown in the tabulator data shows she would have won, even without the thrown out ballots.
#VerifytheVote #ElectionTruthAlliance
You can rage about racism all day, but it doesn't change the facts
People like to live in their safe little bubbles and believe that we have "free and fair" elections. Others take advantage of them, and pull the rug out from under them while simultaneously screaming that only Dems could possibly cheat in an election... Its fucking infuriating.
And putting a new face on the same stale Democratic policies is not going to get them out to vote next time.
Why would they vote Trump Lite when they can vote for the real thing?
Well, and all the votes that got thrown out in the swing states for people who did vote. So many stories of returned ballots or uncounted ballots, so little time. But yeah, that too.
Clinton and Harris both lost due to misogyny. 80 million Americans voted for a male idiot felon rather than a highly experienced, extremely qualified, well educated woman.
Yes, there was nothing wrong with her either, she was very smart and also had a great sense of humor and was very relatable, why would this nation of fucking stupid Americans not vote for her? white people in this country would cry if there was a black person as President, it will never happen EVER
I think people are more bias on the “black” than they would be on the gay. Even in our little red neck red hat towns they know gay people, so not so scary to the little minds of ignorance.
Thank you!! When are people going to realize that and stop blaming "people who stayed home and didn't vote"???
There's proof of election interference for gosh sakes!
I actually believe 2008 was the last honest election, the last three were rigged, but they underestimated the backlash from Trumps first term and didn't count on the number of people who would actually come out to vote in 2020
Close but same thing they refused 4 million votes and nullified them because trumps campaign reported them to be voter fraud when it wasn't. She won the election if they didn't do that, but unfortunately Here we are.
beware, @on.orken3.bsky.social thinks queer people are mentally ill, thinks nazis are sane and rational, and routinely spreads pro-putin propaganda. please just block him and move on.
I live in a rural area and surrounded by Trumpers. The only reason Oregon is blue is because of the big population centers, where they tend to be liberal (thankfully). Rural people are very conservative, churchy, ignorant, have always voted Republican. Democrats are never going to win them over.
Well, it needs to be the Senate because if we can’t get some of these people in America to vote for a woman, well they sure as shit aren’t gonna vote for a gay guy. IMO
I have hope as well. I believe we should try every intervention available to us before we throw in the towel. We protest in large numbers. We participate in economic boycotts. We rally as many people as we can. We protect each other no matter what.
#Resist
#StopFascism
#NoKings
You have power without an election. It is messy though and doesn't work more often than it does. Still...
Serbain protests (weekly) and blockades did throw down the Prime Minister.
Ukrainians overthrew a corrupt president in 2014
Romanians put their corrupt dictator up against the wall in 1989...
Yes, violent overthrow of the U.S. Government is really the only remaining option as a nation but it's implausible as Trump has solid core support of many states. Both Ceausescu and Al-Assad were brutal dictators of Romania and Syria for 25 years.
The less-implausible possibility is secession by blue states like California and New York. It would result in civil war as Trump can legally consider it insurrection and deploy U.S. military to end it.
I don't read that in the 2nd Amendment. A power of a state governor would be established in the state constitution. Regardless, the President can call up the National Guard and deploy U.S. military domestically, a power permitted by Posse Comitatus Act.
Even without elections, people have power. The country and economy don't just magically run themselves. The hard part is getting enough people to organize and participate to cause disruption.
As you've observed, it's hard to motivate enough people. Even without that, organizing an uprising requires comms & media but Trump already owns the most powerful voice, Fox News, and has frightened rest of MSM (WaPo, NYT) and comm platforms (FB, TikTok, Google) into obeyance.
Sure, but there are alternative platforms. We're talking on one right now with 30 million potential viewers. We need to build up and support alternative media. It only takes a fraction of the country to cause waves.
Pete has been and still is my first choice for any public position he decides to pursue. In addition to having a "once in a generation" mind, he is a deeply good and decent man who loves his country.
He had the brains, too. I believe he was in a lot of pain. If you have arthritis, pain can take over your quick thinking ability. But Biden had good people around him that he would listen to before making decisions. History will show that Biden was a great president that got the economy going again
Trump is destroying the economy out of spite for Biden and Obama. He knows he can never do better so he’s being the petulant child and destroying it all. Trump will come out unscathed, so he doesn’t care.
I’m with you 💯‼️ He can out debate and do it in a calm composed manner. He’s a Veteran and a sharp badass! We need Pete’s strength. We need someone who can fight and who’s also youthful. He’s a family man and so squeaky clean, boyish looks!
Do you really think the dude went from working for McKinsey to dismantle the country to loving it all of a sudden? I've never even heard him say he regrets working there.
Most of the country is not going to support a gay president or a woman President. Too much of a cultural shift. Dems need to accept these unfortunate truths.
He went from unknown mayor nobody had ever heard of outside of south bend to leading presidential candidate. He won Iowa and came in a close 2nd in N.H.. I think if he had had more experience nationally he would have won but he couldn't get past bidens experience. He can definitely win this time
I LOVE @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
BUT just as @diretalks.bsky.social with @electiontruth.bsky.social explains with @rolandsmartin.bsky.social Having elections won’t matter if it isn’t FREE AND FAIR. Why do you think Putin is “winning” every election?
#VerifyTheVote 🗳️ https://youtu.be/6G8fu50VRXo
Pete should run for the Senate and think about 32 or 36. Although I think the best stepping stone would be Governor to prove his admin skills on the way to the White House.
Senate seat is for 6 years. He would have to give up his seat to run for potus, thus weakening the Senate.
Also, under Citizens United, every election is obscenely expensive, and most oligarchs are jumping to team fascist.
Oligarchs path to ownership.
We've been primed for internal unrest through years of disinformation and cancerous legislation. We've too many guns on our streets and private militias empowered by the felon in charge.
We have some House elections in April in Bright Red areas of Florida and NY. It’s slim, but if we could put all those resources into flipping those seats, it would go a long way in helping.
Senate. After two extremely qualified women lost to an absolute fucking idiot white man, we can't risk running a gay man. Too much of america is too backwards to make it happen.
The more he’s out there, the more people will pay attention to what he’s saying. Less and less focus will be on his personal life. Also, a lot of Trump voters…I’ve heard them say they’re fine with gay adults, but that the bigger movement beyond gay adults is what they hear too much about.
I would have voted for Pete if he got the nomination. I think Pete is great. The work he's done is great. I'm not the one who needs convincing. What I'm saying is that too many Americans are too uneducated and too ignorant STILL in 2025 to elect an over qualified gay man over some idiot tv star
I ran out of room to say, eff Trump voters…I’m just putting it out there. Pete is a moral man, who can connect with voters. He’s intelligent and quick.
What about the third of people entitled to vote who didn’t? They need to be woken up. It’s the apathy of those who couldn’t be bothered to vote that is to blame for this catastrophe.
There is a narrative going around that a lot of voters stayed home on Election Day. This article proves that was a lie. They didn’t stay home. Their votes were stolen - tossed in the dumpster via vigilante “challenges”. https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
It’s risky for sure but he is such an amazing leader and would be one of the best presidents in history - I’d bet on it! I’d not bet on the American people to do what’s right though, you may be right about that. Infuriating.
I think he is amazing but our country is going so far backwards 2028 might not be the best time for him, or a woman to run. Our country needs to strengthen, we will be lucky to even get a Democrat in the White House, or even have a 2028 election. Maybe things will be so bad people will embrace it.
I don't know - maybe 2028 IS THE TIME...people will be so completely down-trodden that ANYONE would be preferable to whoever the republiFASCISTS put forward. At this point, I would LOVE to see an AOC/Crockett or Crockett/AOC ticket in 2028....why the fuck NOT????
I know, that’s why I said maybe they will embrace it, things will be so horrible people will welcome change. It’s a risk tho, our country will be so broken and brainwashed. My hope based on how this month went is it will be so bad maybe some tRump supporters will be fed up with the horror show.
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But you Americans need the likes of AOC/Crockett in times of war.
I envy you!
Pete might be more useful in the Senate. Where he might win
If America is afraid of a woman president, we are a long way from a gay one.
You NEED Kamala Harris to take on Trump again...
These people cheering this are delusion if they think either of these guys are going to carry WI, MI, or PA. The infantile understanding of US politics on display in this thread is why Dems keep losing to Trump.
The country is much more conservative than ppl realize
I'm really hoping D.S.A can find some interesting candidates for the primaries.
But you know, we have a king now, so…
I'm good either way!
My generation needs to get the ever loving fuck out of the goddamn way and let younger people take the lead. We've had our time.
Enough of the old guard and their bullshit.
What's the point?
I will vote for Pete!
Kamala was much better than I thought she would be, and deserved to win by 90 points.
Buttigieg would be amazing, but he has no realistic chance.
The US is still a really stupid backwards country in a lot of ways.
But seeing Trump continue to receive more votes in every election despite his corruption and incompetence has revealed that much of the US is fascist and/or really stupid.
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We need someone that appeals to a broader voting group. Biden beat him in the primary. Adam? A white straight man.
Pete is a great orator, well spoken, intelligent and kind, but in the theatrical part for President, I think Tim Walz, or Gavin Newsom, have a better chance.
Assuming we somehow survive this coup.
🚬😎
We just learned about the bill inability to elect a black woman president.
A gay man has no chance.
He’d be great but read the room.
Run Pete Run
#2028
I’d vote for him in a heartbeat but at least 30% of voters vote for people who hate them, but also hate the same people they do…
I think Kamala would have had a stronger campaign if Biden had retired and gave her the Presidency. Instead of swooping in as the VP still. When the election came, she could've already been doing the job.
Actual full primaries are important.
Not only does it identify the popular candidates, it also enguages the likely voters themselves, who then help get their friends to vote as well.
Trump cheats.
And yet - where are Democrats to counter this? Nowhere to be found due to decorum and the need to pretend our electoral system is perfect, unhackable, and not impacted by gerrymandering.
America is obviously not evolved enough to elect a qualified gay man (or woman!!!) for President. We prefer white male blowhards.
Trump lost by millions in 2020 and never accepted the results. It's a sucky way to play the game, but he made the rules.
No way she lost all the swing states. Not possible.
A gay person or a Latino woman? I don't think you understand how a lot of this country thinks.
Christ people with the half assed excuse for analysis
Worst cycle for incumbents worldwide in memory. The black woman with 107 days comes closer than any other incumbents were doing
But yeah that’s enough “proof” to exclude women forever
Laughable
I'm afraid for CA Dems not picking a "comfortable" white male for next Gov. We gotta do more than edge these magats out next few years. Gotta smother them. Whatever it takes.
America isn't changing in 45 months.
Straight white moderate same man at top or lose again.
Dems are getting delusional again.
Probably in a landslide
But damned Kamala’s boobs got in the way
You couldn’t put her on fox. Not yet.
If we have elections again Pete should be considered IMO
it has to be Gavin..
@governor.ca.gov
She might run for Gov - that’s would be good .. great !
She needs to be high on any list. Sharp as they come.
I want her to use that fire but not let it consume her when the name calling starts.
but i just think he is the best for top spot and they should start pushing it asap.
Pretty please, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social ?
BOTH. WE NEED YOU FOR BOTH!
I hope people can get over their fears because we need his leadership.
I don’t even believe Obama would win today with the amount of foreign influence and the current state of social media.
Get new material.
Seems perfectly logical. They all but admitted it repeatedly.
But, one of the primary considerations has to be the ability to reach voters on both sides in order to be elected.
Pete Buttigieg has an uncanny ability to speak common sense to the FoxNews crowd.
If you don't get alerted, then go for President. You have my vote everytime!
✅ He can do both!
#TeamPete
#PeteButtigieg
And he would kick ass
I think he would be an outstanding president and I'd be proud to vote for him. He has proven his humanity, intelligence and competence. But the Dems absolutely need to win the next election.
There’s going to be another one?
Free and Fair, just like in Russia?
There are 340 million of us.
What we need to FOCUS ON is how to have the free & fair election to which we are constitutionally entitled. We didn't get that in 2024. Elon, gerrymandering, etc = not free & fair.
As for magats being in the minority, Trump still won. So clearly the culture in the US is still in its infancy.
He won't win, Harris losing was a wakeup call.
What is wrong with us?
Dems need to start getting someone sorted out, stat.
The only reason the shitface won the both times is because dems put up women. America would vote for a pile of 💩 💩 💩 attached to a white micro penis over intelligent/well qualified women.
More blacks, Hispanics, Asians & women voted for Trump this election than just about any other Republican in history.
You are not helping matters if you keep on perpetuating this played-out race card or sexist card.
Dems forgot middleclass exists & they paid dearly for it.
And to be clear, Dems only represent 1/3 of voters. Both parties need independents to win. Ind tend to be rather moderate.
And as I've said, you NEED independents to win any election & most of them are firmly centrists.
Bernie is a solid champion of the working class whose honest and who people know by name.
We need working class credibility and a winning smile.
If it's Vance, he'd win easily. Vance is an idiot and a Nazi, which would be obvious if they ever debated.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2fnYAXK/
Comments were made about the voting machines being messed with she should’ve demanded a recount and not just gave up.
The majority of white women literally voted against their daughters, sisters, for a racist
The amount of ballots thrown out would have given her the election.
The vote manipulation shown in the tabulator data shows she would have won, even without the thrown out ballots.
#VerifytheVote #ElectionTruthAlliance
You can rage about racism all day, but it doesn't change the facts
Why would they vote Trump Lite when they can vote for the real thing?
The, "I would've done nothing different," thing didn't really sit well with anyone that's frustrated about prices on stuff either.
Are we sure people weren't tired of DNC bullshit?
That's why people didn't vote Dems
You need to get foreign government out of your politics, whether it's Russia with trump or Israel with the Dems
There's proof of election interference for gosh sakes!
I actually believe 2008 was the last honest election, the last three were rigged, but they underestimated the backlash from Trumps first term and didn't count on the number of people who would actually come out to vote in 2020
It's really as simple as that.
More people than not realized that, so she lost.
FDR brought electricity to rural Americans with the New Deal.
Republicans have never done anything for farms
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#Resist
#StopFascism
#NoKings
It’s obvious to the rest of the world.
Whatever your plan is — it CAN’T be: waiting for a different election result that is never going to come.
@nytimes.com
@usatoday.com
#election2026
When trump & musk have already orchestrated a coup, most likely interfered & stole the elections, & disregard the law at every step!
You can “elect” fascism, you can’t “unelect” them 🫤
Serbain protests (weekly) and blockades did throw down the Prime Minister.
Ukrainians overthrew a corrupt president in 2014
Romanians put their corrupt dictator up against the wall in 1989...
Sorry, you have to be realistic.
Now that would be a devastating combination.
BUT just as @diretalks.bsky.social with @electiontruth.bsky.social explains with @rolandsmartin.bsky.social Having elections won’t matter if it isn’t FREE AND FAIR. Why do you think Putin is “winning” every election?
#VerifyTheVote 🗳️
https://youtu.be/6G8fu50VRXo
Also, under Citizens United, every election is obscenely expensive, and most oligarchs are jumping to team fascist.
We've been primed for internal unrest through years of disinformation and cancerous legislation. We've too many guns on our streets and private militias empowered by the felon in charge.
Deplorable comments, email shenanigans, overall being an establishment🤮🤮🤮
And she fucked over Bernie Sanders, seemingly one of the only good ppl in US politics!
https://youtu.be/mV1CkKDWUeI?si=Q1BmLyYafqlLNduH
Are you saying god doesn’t love his children?
He’s an amazing man, husband, and scholar who is honest with integrity. That’s what you vote for.
What characteristics made you vote last time?
The point is , she's an active Democrat who would not support a gay candidate. Unfortunately, she is representative of a typical voter.