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Diction lesson
Buttigieg
Buttigieg
Buttigieg
Buttigieg
Not bootyjudge, but-edge-edge.
Buttigieg, Buttigieg, Buttigieg! Why are we doing this again?
Well, sir, if you mispronounce his name in the debates, ahhh, that’s not going to look good.
How is that lightweight going to get in the same debate with me?
Umm, he’s already passed the 25,000 donor hurdle and raised almost as much money as you did in the first week.
How can this happen? I’ve been building my brand for over a year and was in the national news every day during the election! Then the mayor of South Nowhere announces and that’s all the media can talk about. I had to go to that Al Sharpton thing, and he didn’t because he hadn’t announced. How fair is that? I said I’d support reparations and that little. . .Buttigieg stepped all over it by making his announcement.
Too be fair, sir, everyone else said they support reparations.
All the others said they’d “study” reparations; that takes courage. I was the only one who said I’d vote it into law. Until that hick from Colorado, Looperdooper or whatever his name is, jumped in.
Uh, sir. . .
And what makes that little weasel think he has what it takes to be president? He’s the mayor of Bendover, Indiana, big whoop. I was on the council of a city six times bigger, I was in Congress, and I ran a statewide campaign. He’s done none of that. I’m supposed to be the fresh young face, he shows up and WHAM!, it’s Mayor Pete this and Buttigieg that. It’s just not fair!
Sir, I need to be straight with you. This is not personal. You need to be collegial with all of the other candidates. After all, the goal is to beat Trump. If you let your antipathy show, it will not only hurt your chances for the nomination but any chance to be. . .
Don’t say it. That’s loser talk.
Sir, you’re paying me to be honest with you. Being VP or in the cabinet adds to your résumé, and makes you a stronger candidate in 28.
Yea, HUD helped Julián jump to the lead, didn’t it?
Sir. . .
OK, OK, I’m just blowing off steam. I’ll get Buttweasel’s name right in the debates. Let’s move on.
Alright, when you’re talking, if you could visualize your left arm being handcuffed to your belt. . .
It’s like someone called Spielberg and asked him for the most awkward name to elevate for president.
Do we really need a BFG president?
I admit…I still (purposefully) mispronounce ol’ Booty-judge’s name.
If I were a better person, I’d feel guilty about this.
But I’m not…and I don’t.
Just try Mayor Pete.
He and Biden are most likely the strongest of the Democratic field, and I think would beat Trump.
He speaks 7 languages and gave an excellent interview answer in French to a French reporter about the terrible fire at Notre Dame.
He is the opposite of Trump (who was the opposite of Obama, who was the opposite of W., who was the opposite of Clinton, who was the opposite of Reagan/H.W., who were the opposite of Carter, who was the opposite of Nixon, who was the opposite of JFK/LBJ, who were the opposite of Ike, who was the opposite of Truman/FDR.)
That’s funny.
With the name… even though I’ve heard it pronounced correctly and try to keep it in my head, every time I see it in print I lose it.
As far as the guy goes, I can’t wrap my head around the idea of going from South Bend mayor to POTUS. I should probably wait for a pronouncement on the crease in his pant leg before I let it bother me too much.
And can lie in 14 tongues.
Mayor Pete addressing the citizens of France in french.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA9MHkrmem0
Mayor Pete’s interview about his new book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nldx3r7h3Cg
With all the supposedly massive leadership ability this person has, how come he’s only the mayor of a town with a population of a little more than 100,000? Why isn’t he running for governor, senator, or congress?
He knows seven languages; that’s impressive. It doesn’t qualify him to be president, it qualifies him to be a maître d’ at a restaurant in Paris. Or, like my great uncle, a professor of languages.
Of course, this post was not about ‘Mayor Pete,’ no matter how many languages he speaks or how you pronounce his name. It’s about another candidate and the fatuous and flighty media/democrat party.
And he doesn’t say anything I want to hear in any of them.
‘Mayor Pete’ is the annoying kid who started polishing his resume in the sixth grade; the kid who reminds the teacher she forgot to assign homework; the kind of person who will treat policy-making as a religion, method as substance, a McClellan not a Grant.
There is no way Buttigieg beats Trump. The notion that a white gay guy will get a large black & hispanic turnout is silly. His husband (who took Pete’s last name) has commented that he wants to be the first male to pick out china for the White House. I am pretty sure that much of America is not ready for that.
Biden would be a far stronger candidate but I don’t think he can run as well as he once could among Rust Belt normals. And I don’t think the commies who now run the Dem party would allow him the nomination.
@JosePluma- Assuming the candidate your post is about is Texas’ Beta O’Rourke, an Irish American culturally appropriating a Spanish diminutive, I’m surprised you didn’t return the favor by describing yourself as Jose O’Pluma, or McPluma.
Biden and Mayor Pete are the best bets that I see as of now to take out Bernie.
He should run against Macron. His accent isn’t bad either. Though he has to think too hard about what he’s saying and is translating.
Gary, buddy, I can hardly believe this “Mayor Pete” stuff coming from you. I am at a loss for any explanation other than Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I could understand wishing “Mayor Pete” well in the primaries, if one thought that he would be shellacked by the President and that a Trump landslide would be a good thing. I don’t think that you believe either of these things, so this is not a plausible explanation for your apparent affection for “Mayor Pete.”
Do you know his policy positions? Here is a LA Times article explaining that he “has everything except positions on major issues.” However, this Vox article is an effort to extract “Mayor Pete’s” positions — despite the fact that his “bare-bones webpage has no issues page” — but which apparently include:
Here’s Vox’s summary of his policies:
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By the way, your “Mayor Pete” is a radical Leftist on social issues and rejects any compromise or consensus. More from Vox:
Gary, I find it hard to believe that you would support any of this.
“Mayor Pete’s” statement to the Vice President about his (Buttigieg’s) supposed Christianity reflects either a woeful misunderstanding of the faith (which is hard to believe in a man of Buttigieg’s apparent intelligence and accomplishments) or a conscious misrepresentation of the central Christian message.
The central Christian message, by the way, is not that LGBTQIAA… is a bad thing (though it is). The central message is that we are all sinners in need of redemption and forgiveness. “Mayor Pete’s” insistence that his homosexuality cannot possibly be sinful because God made him that way reflects either a lack of understanding of the Faith that is difficult to credit, or possession by the Father of Lies.
At least, that’s the way I see it.
No way. There’s no stopping the Bern! Better learn the lyrics to Славься, Отечество наше свободное because they will be playing it at the convention and then everywhere.
Which version?
Just say “Boot, Edge, Edge” real quickly.
Only an imperialist stooge would suggest there was ever anything other than the correct version, which you will now perform for me and my 10 colleagues from NKVD, comrade. We are waiting.
Oh, I get it:
So the 1941-2 version if you’re still with the NKVD. It’s a tune that keeps getting new words every so often depending on which way the political winds are blowing. Once you have a good tune, you gotta keep it and just make up new words.
Is there some way to start a counter on the front page of the member feed reflecting how many times @garyrobbins calls this joker “Mayor Pete”? Sort of like a telethon?
Maybe I just like making work for Max.
The Irish guy from El Paso who built a national reputation based on media adoration is learning how fickle media adoration can be.
Mayor Pete’s IQ is beating Robert Francis O’Rourke’s personality.
Is that how you pronounce it?
I consume my information in written form so have never heard it.
I might go with boo-jee-ay. Your pronounciation is nothing like that, though.
Man, Joe Biden’s IQ is beating that guy’s personality.
I thought it was Obama’s gay campaign people and a lot of gays in the press corps.
No, Buttigieg’s media hype is beating O’Rourke’s media hype.
Like Obama, I’ll bet this guy will never tire of letting us know how much smarter he is than us.
And Melania Trump only speaks 5 languages, so the MSM considers her to be nothing but The Donald’s eye candy and a Palinesque dunce. I guess that makes her only fit to be Vice-President.
“Mayor Pete” as Rush calls him is nothing more than a better-spoken Robert Francis O’Rourke with a husband instead of a billionaire heiress wife. He sounds good while saying nothing, so folks are hopping on his bandwagon without contemplating what policies he supports.
Have you listened to Mayor Pete when he was been interviewed?