r/Left_News • u/thenewrepublic • Mar 06 '25
American Politics Pete Buttigieg Perfectly Skewers Trump’s So-Called “Mandate” | The former transportation secretary really cut Donald Trump down to size.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192381/pete-buttigieg-donald-trump-mandate14
Mar 06 '25
Man, I hate articles like this. It's just hot air. They make it sound like pete got into a fistfight with trump. Who cares?
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u/Comrade-Hayley Mar 06 '25
Uh Pete he absolutely definitely didn't win he was caught red handed attempting to illegally overturn the 2020 election and you're willing to say he won this time?
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u/yourlilneedle 28d ago
He did what now? Source?
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u/Comrade-Hayley 28d ago
It's common knowledge he encouraged Jan 6th
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u/yourlilneedle 28d ago
I did not know that. Thank you!
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u/Comrade-Hayley 28d ago
That's really what the whole presidential immunity thing was about whether Trump could be tried for inciting an insurrection or not sadly Trump stacked SCOTUS with MAGA nutjobs so now he can't be tried for it I'd like to see a Democrat put it to the test just to see the mental gymnastics MAGA does to justify why they deserve to be imprisoned
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u/thenewrepublic Mar 06 '25
“Despite what you heard tonight, he came in with just under 50 percent of the vote,” Buttigieg said. “He won, I’m not disputing that. But it was the smallest popular vote margin since Nixon.
“I wonder how he feels about something that important being that small in his case,” Buttigieg mused with a smirk. “And he has lost support from there.”
“To be smaller than Tricky Dick is, uh—gives one pause, I would say,” Colbert quipped back.
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u/BurtonGusterToo Mar 07 '25
So TNR is now posting in "LeftNews" about Mayonnaise Pete from McKinsey.
Irony is buried right here.
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u/MR_TELEVOID Mar 07 '25
Man, I hate this headline. I realize websites need to treat their headlines like a WWE wrestling promo in order to compete with the algorithm, but it's so dumb. If pointing out reality had ever "cut Trump down to size," we wouldn't be having this conversation.
It's also insufferable how centrists like Buttiegieg and Clinton get praised as wise gurus for saying basically the same thing as everybody else.
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u/Pompitis Mar 06 '25
Pete should be where the orange clown is.
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u/jaxom07 Mar 06 '25
Yuck no. Pete is as centristy as it gets. We need real change, not another Bill or Hillary. I'd have rather had Harris/Walz than Pete for sure, at least Tim is a man of the people with a list as long as my arm of accomplishments as governor.
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u/Pompitis Mar 07 '25
Actually, you should take a good look into Pete's accomplishments. It's clear you haven't.
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u/jaxom07 Mar 07 '25
Honestly, I don’t really care. After 2020 when he lined up behind Biden to make sure Bernie would lose that was all I needed to know about him. He got Secretary of Transportation for his loyalty to the party.
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u/MR_TELEVOID Mar 07 '25
Being a McKinsey institute toadie and a passable Obama impersonation doesn't count as an accomplishment.
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u/Pompitis Mar 07 '25
Such a deep dive you've done. Dig deeper.
What qualifies the guy in the oval office? Bone spurs? 34 felony convictions? Liability for sexual assault? Lying? Cheating? Stealing? Rape?
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