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[h1]Buttigieg Agrees to Fox News Town Hall[/h1]
Fox News will host a town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, [link=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/fox-town-hall-pete-buttigieg-1287868]Politico[/link] reports, making him the third Democrat to sit down with the network at length.Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace will moderate the town hall, which is set for May 19 and will be held in Claremont, N.
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And he got one of their respectable news casters.
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And he got one of their respectable news casters.
Yep. He’ll get a fair shake.
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[h1]Franklin Graham Calls for Pete Buttigieg to Repent[/h1]
Evangelist Franklin Graham [link=https://twitter.com/Franklin_Graham/status/1121069670612840449]called on[/link] Pete Buttigieg to repent for being gay.Graham called homosexuality something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized.
He added: God doesnt have a political party. But God does have commandments, laws & standards Mayor Buttigieg says hes a gay Christian The Bible says marriage is between a man & a womannot two men, not two women.
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Which Commandment was that? “Thou shalt not be GAY!”
Was that on the 3rd tablet that Moses dropped and broke as revealed by Mel Brooks in History of the World Part I?
Hate disguised as religion.-
Nobody cares.
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All those who are laughing at the self-appointed term, “Value Voters” for Evangelists, considering there ARE actual Commandments against what their Dear Leader has a YUGE reputation for doing, care.
The hypocrisy is appalling. But then Franklin Graham knows it’s about the money changing, not actual Scripture.-
They are in their own world
Big in rural and and the old south
Nothing will change them so time to move on to people who matter
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Nobody cares.
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And… blocked.
KCR gone full-on Cigar nothingburger spam troll
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I like that the forum Leftists block everyone who calls out their paranoia, lies, and stupidity. First, because it reveals the insecurity and inherent intellectual weakness of the Left. Second, because it means that I can post the occasional rebuttal without being subjected to an incoherent, passive-aggressive, or inane response.
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Yes comrade you are correct
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Well Comrade, this Liberal hasn’t blocked you yet.
But I am still waiting for one of you people to come up with some sort of coherent argument.-
Reply “nobody cares”. Yes what a superior intellect you must be.
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[link=https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/4/29/far-right-activist-created-fake-sexual-assault-story-involving-pete]https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/4/29/far-right-activist-created-fake-sexual-assault-story-involving-pete[/link]
Pete Buttigieg Falsely Accused of Sexual Assault by Far-Right Catfish[/h1]
Far-right activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman helped coordinate a fake campaign against Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg through a [i][link=https://medium.com/@realHunterKelly/pete-buttigieg-sexually-assaulted-me-1a5c0aebae6d]Medium[/link][/i] post on Monday that accused the mayor of sexual assault.
The two men used fake social media accounts for a 19-year-old Ferris State University student named Hunter Kelly on Monday without his knowledge or consent to publish a vague post accusing the presidential hopeful of assault this past February.
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[link=https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/4/29/far-right-activist-created-fake-sexual-assault-story-involving-pete]https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/4/29/far-right-activist-created-fake-sexual-assault-story-involving-pete[/link]
Pete Buttigieg Falsely Accused of Sexual Assault by Far-Right Catfish
Far-right activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman helped coordinate a fake campaign against Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg through a [i][link=https://medium.com/@realHunterKelly/pete-buttigieg-sexually-assaulted-me-1a5c0aebae6d]Medium[/link][/i] post on Monday that accused the mayor of sexual assault.The two men used fake social media accounts for a 19-year-old Ferris State University student named Hunter Kelly on Monday without his knowledge or consent to publish a vague post accusing the presidential hopeful of assault this past February.
Even if it is clear that this is completely made up and there is literally nothing to support it, a full investigation by the FBI/DHS/HHS/DEA will have to be completed before he can even be considered for the presidency. That’s how this works, sorry, not making the rules here.-
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Even if it is clear that this is completely made up and there is literally nothing to support it, a full investigation by the FBI/DHS/HHS/DEA will have to be completed before he can even be considered for the presidency. That’s how this works, sorry, not making the rules here.
Doubtful. There has to be some there, there and there seems to be no there at all.
I’m sure though it will be on all the right wing-nut media as another suppressed story by the Liberal media.
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Wont be surprised if some crazy doesnt go after Jacob Wohl
He is playing a dangerous game
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Pete Buttigieg Falsely Accused of Sexual Assault by Far-Right Catfish
Far-right activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman helped coordinate a fake campaign against Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg through a [i][link=https://medium.com/@realHunterKelly/pete-buttigieg-sexually-assaulted-me-1a5c0aebae6d]Medium[/link][/i] post on Monday that accused the mayor of sexual assault.The two men used fake social media accounts for a 19-year-old Ferris State University student named Hunter Kelly on Monday without his knowledge or consent to publish a vague post accusing the presidential hopeful of assault this past February.
Even if it is clear that this is completely made up and there is literally nothing to support it,[b][i] a full investigation by the FBI/DHS/HHS/DEA will have to be completed before he can even be considered for the presidency. [/i][/b]That’s how this works, sorry, not making the rules here.
What a load of bullshit that is.
And did all of those alphabet soup agencies do a “full investigation” of the 18- eighteen- separate times when women independently accused Donald Farking Trump of sexual assault? CREDIBLY accused Donald Farking Trump of assault, I might add, one of whom is his farking ex-wife for chrissakes.
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In related news, last weeks ‘flavor of the week’ is now back to polling in the single digits.
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the coveted Oprah vote.
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Buttigiegs Big Gamble[/h1] May 2, 2019 at 10:15 am EDT By [link=https://politicalwire.com/author/tdg/]Taegan Goddard[/link] [link=https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/02/buttigiegs-big-gamble/#disqus_thread]64 Comments[/link]
[link=http://time.com/pete-buttigieg]Jonathan Alter[/link]: There are two main types of presidential candidates: those who run on policy and those who run on personality. Buttigieg says hes a policy guy, but hes definitely a personality guy. His campaign is more about who he is (young, gay, Midwestern, technocratic) and what he represents (social progress, generational change, an olive branch to flyover country) than what hell do if hes President. In a primary divided between candidates who want to fight Trump and candidates who talk about uniting the country, Buttigieg is in the latter camp. That puts him out of step with the partys activist base, who clearly want a fighter.
In the end, Buttigiegs biggest gamble is his bet that voters are sick of a divided America and hungry for reconciliation. He believes independents and moderate conservatives could get behind a happily married Christian veteran. And he may be right. -
“We need to make sure we’re changing the channel from this show he’s created. Because what matters – and look, I get it, it’s mesmerizing. It’s hard for anybody to look away. Me too. It is the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away. [Cheers and applause] But every time we’re looking at the show and the latest tweet and the latest silly insult, what we’re not looking at is that the fact that we’re the ones trying to get you a raise, and they’re the ones blocking it. We’re the ones trying to preserve your health care and they’re the ones trying to take it away. We’re the ones who are actually prepared to deliver on something like paid family leave, and they’re against it. Their positions as a general rule are unpopular……If we make it less about him and more about you, paradoxically, I think that’s the best way to defeat him.”
~ Pete Buttigieg
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But every time we’re looking at the show and the latest tweet and the latest silly insult, what we’re not looking at is that the fact that we’re the ones trying to get you a raise, and they’re the ones blocking it.
Say what ?
[i]Unemployment has reached [link=https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/719507647/solid-job-gains-expected-latest-sign-the-u-s-economy-remains-strong]a nearly 50-year low[/link]. The jobless rate for Hispanics has never been lower; the past two years have been the best job market ever for African Americans. Wages are starting to rise and, more significantly, for the lowest-paid workers.[/i]
[link=https://www.npr.org/2019/05/20/722650602/america-is-in-full-employment-so-why-arent-we-celebrating]https://www.npr.org/2019/…y-arent-we-celebrating[/link]
This is national propaganda radio saying this, not me. Trump hasn’t taken any raise away from anyone. On the contrary, we have full employment and after many years of stagnation, wages are finally going up. In addition, the tax-cut put money into the pocket of the majority of workers (some fringe cases with unique personal circumstances in high tax states nonwithstanding).
We’re the ones trying to preserve your health care and they’re the ones trying to take it away.
Trump hasn’t taken healthcare away from anyone. The only minor change that has been made is that the government doesn’t steal some more of your money if you couldn’t afford to buy one of those expensive and high deductible obamacare policies.
We’re the ones who are actually prepared to deliver on something like paid family leave, and they’re against it.
Gotta have a job to worry about paid family leave.
Their positions as a general rule are unpopular……If we make it less about him and more about you, paradoxically, I think that’s the best way to defeat him.”
~ Pete Buttigieg
No ‘mayor Pete’. The way to defeat him is by showing that you are a viable alternative that won’t run the place in the ground by giving in to the demands of the fringe left in your party.-
Buttigieg is the piece of trash recommending that we rename things that bear the name of [i][u][b]American icon and Founding Father[/b][/u][/i] Thomas Jefferson.
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But every time we’re looking at the show and the latest tweet and the latest silly insult, what we’re not looking at is that the fact that we’re the ones trying to get you a raise, and they’re the ones blocking it.
Say what ?
[i]Unemployment has reached [link=https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/719507647/solid-job-gains-expected-latest-sign-the-u-s-economy-remains-strong]a nearly 50-year low[/link]. The jobless rate for Hispanics has never been lower; the past two years have been the best job market ever for African Americans. Wages are starting to rise and, more significantly, for the lowest-paid workers.[/i]
[link=https://www.npr.org/2019/05/20/722650602/america-is-in-full-employment-so-why-arent-we-celebrating]https://www.npr.org/2019/…y-arent-we-celebrating[/link]
This is national propaganda radio saying this, not me. Trump hasn’t taken any raise away from anyone. On the contrary, we have full employment and after many years of stagnation, wages are finally going up. In addition, the tax-cut put money into the pocket of the majority of workers (some fringe cases with unique personal circumstances in high tax states nonwithstanding).
Wow! talk about cherry picking and taking a sentence out of context form an article so as to imply it states something that is 180 degrees from what the article is really talking about! The point of the article is that many people are left out of this prosperity.
Funny you should leave that out.
To continue where you left off:
Yet, the country is not quite exuding the self-possession or excitement that should accompany these exceptional times. The last time the American economy grew like this was in the 1990s, during the Internet revolution, when there was the sense of something new happening and the exuberance was palpable.
So, why doesn’t today’s full employment come with effervescence?
Part of the reason could lie in the fact that once you look closely, you start to notice cracks in the glossy veneer, and the flaws become visible. [b]Income inequality is still significant. Economic divisions remain in place along racial and gender lines. Many continue to struggle with student debt and health care costs. [/b]And anger over politics may be skewing views of the economy.
During the Great Recession and the years that followed, wages fell and workers lost negotiating power. [b]Since then, even as the economy has grown, year after year, companies have shown a remarkably high [link=https://www.npr.org/2017/08/03/541220868/why-america-s-wages-are-barely-rising]reluctance to raise wages[/link] even when they can’t find people. [/b]
One piece of the puzzle behind suppressed wages can be found in the [link=https://www.npr.org/2019/05/21/723756097/2-tiered-wages-under-fire-workers-challenge-unequal-pay-for-equal-work]dual wage scale[/link] adopted by many factories during the Great Recession, where new hires for the same jobs would get substantially lower pay and benefits. That wage structure proved to be a disaster for morale.
The Hispanic jobless rate is higher than it is for whites. And they make more than a quarter less than their white coworkers. [b]In fact, Latinos still earn the lowest among any demographic.[/b]
Despite that, the unemployment rate [i](for African Americans)[/i] is more than double that of whites. Another problem: Wages for African Americans have grown more slowly than for any other group in the past 10 years.
There’s no doubt that the Ubers, Lyfts, Amazons and Instacarts of the world have made the side hustle easy.
But surveys show that for many, this is not a side gig: It’s their main job. The problem is, these jobs rarely come with benefits. The workers are not even considered employees. There’s no job security you can get fired over text. And the income can vary vastly from month to monthQuote from fw
We’re the ones trying to preserve your health care and they’re the ones trying to take it away.
Trump hasn’t taken healthcare away from anyone. The only minor change that has been made is that the government doesn’t steal some more of your money if you couldn’t afford to buy one of those expensive and high deductible obamacare policies.
Another ignorant lie. The ACA provided healthcare insurance for millions of people who could not get healthcare insurance before. AND very many of these people who can get insurance now could NOT afford insurance at all before.
The reality is that most people including physicians are completely ignorant as to the cost of healthcare insurance for eveyone and do not want to admit the reason is unregulated profit taking by players in healthcare whether Big Pharma, industry, hospitals and physicians, etc.
Healthcare was never cheap and affordable unless your employer picked up the tab or you were independently affluent already. As a physician, you are and insider and affluent.Quote from fw
We’re the ones who are actually prepared to deliver on something like paid family leave, and they’re against it.
Gotta have a job to worry about paid family leave.
Are you actually claiming that unemployment is high & that “paid family leave” is proposed for the unemployed?
That’s a bit of a lie, isn’t it?
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Their positions as a general rule are unpopular……If we make it less about him and more about you, paradoxically, I think that’s the best way to defeat him.”
~ Pete ButtigiegNo ‘mayor Pete’. The way to defeat him is by showing that you are a viable alternative that won’t run the place in the ground by giving in to the demands of the fringe left in your party.
As if the Trump supporters like yourself gave a damn about the present occupant running the country into the ground based on the reactionary and authoritarian fringe of the Right. Not to mention Trump’s perfidies and instability and corruption.
FAKE NEWS arguments.
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Looks like Buttiegieg’s appearance on Fox was pretty successful, duplicating Bernie’s success with the audience cheering comments by the candidates, including direct criticisms of the network’s headline propaganders spreading agitprop and disinformation and “newspeak.” In other words, hogwash and horse manure. Klobuchar appeared & Gillibrand is scheduled.
Seems Trump was particularly miffed by Fox’s hosting. A feeling that the reliable State News Corp might be changing its viewpoint to broaden its appeal?
These propaganders hit back by criticizing their own Chris Wallace as they complained of Buttiegieg’s criticism of the host network’s headliners.
Bill Maher was right, Democrats need to go to the enemy’s network to spread their message. Apparently they could very well receive a good response from the audience as the audience gets more information than their bubble allows. Actual real information, not spoonfed propaganda.
No wonder that Trump and the headliners might be worried. Their bubble is being stabbed.
[b]If you want to counterprogram Fox, you have to do it to their face[/b], said Lis Smith, who runs Mr. Buttigiegs communications strategy. We cant just retreat to our self-reinforcing echo chambers.
[b]If you want to talk to every voter, you have to meet them where they are[/b], Ms. Smith added.
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/business/media/fox-news-pete-buttigieg-chris-wallace.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…ieg-chris-wallace.html[/link]
The night began with a campaign-style biographical video and ended with a standing ovation. The candidate called President Trumps behavior grotesque and lamented the media noise machine on the right wing. He attacked Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham by name.
Mr. Buttigiegs hourlong appearance spawned headlines, solid ratings, and kudos from liberals pleased to see the South Bend, Ind., mayor calling out Fox News pundits on their own network.
The reaction was chillier among some of the networks core conservative viewers including one miffed resident of the White House. Hard to believe that @FoxNews is wasting airtime on Mayor Pete, President Trump [link=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1130220543427457024]wrote on Twitter[/link] before the town hall event began. Fox is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems.
At a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday night, the president kept up his criticism. Whats going on with Fox, by the way? Whats going on there? Mr. Trump asked the crowd, which responded with boos. Theyre putting more Democrats on than Republicans. Something strange is going on at Fox, folks.
But the Buttigieg appearance did not sit well with some Trump cheerleaders at the network. On Mondays Fox & Friends, the host Brian Kilmeade [link=https://video.foxnews.com/v/6038947767001/#sp=show-clips]scolded Mr. Buttigieg[/link] for criticizing his fellow commentators Mr. Carlson and Ms. Ingraham.
Dont hop on our channel and continue to put down the other hosts on the channel, Mr. Kilmeade said. If you feel that negative about it, dont come.
Earlier this month, Ms. Ingraham [link=https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingraham-calls-into-fox-hard-news-show-bashes-her-colleague-chris-wallace]criticized[/link] Chris Wallace, the veteran news anchor and host of Fox News Sunday, for saying that the Department of Justice may have misled the public about the contents of the Mueller report. Later that day, [b]Mr. Wallace called out some opinion people who appear on this network who may be pushing a political agenda.[/b]I’m shocked that some might believe Fox has been pushing a political agenda! Whodda thunked?
Mr. Trump, in his pre-emptive tweet, compared the anchor unfavorably with his father, the former 60 Minutes host Mike Wallace, and knocked him for praising Mr. Buttigiegs substance and fascinating biography.
Gee, Mr. Trump wrote, he never speaks well of me.
That prompted [link=https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1130267243915485184]a rare rebuke[/link] from Brit Hume, the Fox News senior political analyst. Say this for Buttigieg, Mr. Hume tweeted at the president. Hes willing to be questioned by Chris Wallace, something youve barely done since youve been president.[b]On Sunday night, Mr. Wallace did not contradict Mr. Buttigiegs criticisms of Mr. Carlson and Ms. Ingraham. But even he seemed surprised at the warm reception for the mayor, exclaiming Wow! when the audience stood up to applaud at the end.[/b]
The times are a-changin?
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I liked the comment from Maggie Haberman about Mayor Pete’s advisor, Lis Smith.
Maggie Haberman[/h3] White House Correspondent[/h4]
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[blockquote] Side note – Buttigiegs adviser, Lis Smith, has done work in New York politics and understands the smashmouth that Fox News engages in. She also understands the need to engage potentially hostile audiences. So this choice isnt a total surprise.
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Wow! talk about cherry picking and taking a sentence out of context form an article so as to imply it states something that is 180 degrees from what the article is really talking about! The point of the article is that many people are left out of this prosperity.
That article is great. It asks ‘people are doing great, why are we not celebrating’ and then does exactly what is at the root of the ‘why are we not celebrating’ issue. It ignores the hard facts and continues the propaganda that somehow economic divisions are the problem. African americans are doing better than under obama, latinos are doing better than under obama, wages are going up, workers have the chance to move to better jobs with better benefits because of the labor shortage yet somehow ‘inequality’ is the problem.
The problem is a ideological leftist press that tells people they are doing terrible when objectively they are doing better.
Another ignorant lie. The ACA provided healthcare insurance for millions of people who could not get healthcare insurance before. AND very many of these people who can get insurance now could NOT afford insurance at all before.
It still does and Trump has not succeeded towards his stated intent on abolishing it.
Healthcare was never cheap and affordable unless your employer picked up the tab or you were independently affluent already. As a physician, you are and insider and affluent.
I pay out of pocket for a crappy obamacare high deductible plan that I am forced to buy because obamacare eliminated the ‘cadillac’ plan I used to get as a benefit through one of my employers. The only thing that makes me an ‘insider’ is that my philipino friend who is my dentist habitually calls me ‘doctor’. I still get a bill.
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Gotta have a job to worry about paid family leave.
Are you actually claiming that unemployment is high & that “paid family leave” is proposed for the unemployed?
I am saying that those the obama economy left jobless didn’t have to worry about paid family leave.
As if the Trump supporters like yourself gave a damn about the present occupant running the country into the ground based on the reactionary and authoritarian fringe of the Right. Not to mention Trump’s perfidies and instability and corruption.
If the facts are against you, you just blow up and start spewing anger. You should try to use twitter, I hear it works for the president to blow off steam.-
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Wow! talk about cherry picking and taking a sentence out of context form an article so as to imply it states something that is 180 degrees from what the article is really talking about! The point of the article is that many people are left out of this prosperity.
That article is great. It asks ‘people are doing great, why are we not celebrating’ and then does exactly what is at the root of the ‘why are we not celebrating’ issue. It ignores the hard facts and continues the propaganda that somehow economic divisions are the problem. African americans are doing better than under obama, latinos are doing better than under obama, wages are going up, workers have the chance to move to better jobs with better benefits because of the labor shortage yet somehow ‘inequality’ is the problem.
The problem is a ideological leftist press that tells people they are doing terrible when objectively they are doing better.
Yes, unemployment is down but wages are still down. If you are not making a living wage the “great” economy is more a rumor than fact.
Ah, the Right-wing argument that poverty no longer exists and/or isn’t important in America any longer because, unlike the time of Dickens or even the 1960’s, the poor now have TV and cell phones. So your argument is there is no inequality because the poor can get TVs and cell phones. They have “improved” their station in life & only liberals believe the propaganda that things are not better.
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Another ignorant lie. The ACA provided healthcare insurance for millions of people who could not get healthcare insurance before. AND very many of these people who can get insurance now could NOT afford insurance at all before.
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It still does and Trump has not succeeded towards his stated intent on abolishing it.
Exactly. Millions are better off today than before the ACA.
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Healthcare was never cheap and affordable unless your employer picked up the tab or you were independently affluent already. As a physician, you are and insider and affluent.
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I pay out of pocket for a crappy obamacare high deductible plan that I am forced to buy because obamacare eliminated the ‘cadillac’ plan I used to get as a benefit through one of my employers. The only thing that makes me an ‘insider’ is that my philipino friend who is my dentist habitually calls me ‘doctor’. I still get a bill.So you had a cadillac plan that your employer paid for. The employer chose not to have a cadillic plan any longer or chose to limit who was eligible to receive that benefit to the additional cost of a tax applied to cadillac plans. So now you have to purchase your own plan and elected to purchase a high deductible plan, still not acknowledging that heathcare insurance is expensive, “regular” plans costing $5,000-$8,000 per year per person and cadillac plans that had cost over $12,000 per year because healthcare itself is expensive when costs and profits are not regulated or open.
None of this is the cause of the ACA. Your employer might have changed plans annually forcing you to change physicians annually because they suddenly were not a provider in the plan; before the ACA it was regular that employers were dropping healthcare benefits to their employees because the expense was too high to provide those benefits; it was routine that people were denied coverage because of “pre-existing conditions” that could include acne.
No, you believe in an unrealistic “alternate reality” of “Obamacare” and are typical of many Right-wingers who believe the past was better than the present.Quote from fw
Gotta have a job to worry about paid family leave.Quote from Frumious
Are you actually claiming that unemployment is high & that “paid family leave” is proposed for the unemployed?
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I am saying that those the obama economy left jobless didn’t have to worry about paid family leave.
Uh, no. Obama inherited an economy that bit the dust and unemployment increased due to the inherited crash. The economy improved quickly under Obama right through Trump’s Administration due to policies Obama’s Administration and Congress pushed through against 100% Republican opposition.
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As if the Trump supporters like yourself gave a damn about the present occupant running the country into the ground based on the reactionary and authoritarian fringe of the Right. Not to mention Trump’s perfidies and instability and corruption.
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If the facts are against you, you just blow up and start spewing anger. You should try to use twitter, I hear it works for the president to blow off steam.
Except the facts are on my side. As the quote goes, “Reality has a well-known Liberal bias.”
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That article is great. It asks ‘people are doing great, why are we not celebrating’ and then does exactly what is at the root of the ‘why are we not celebrating’ issue. It ignores the hard facts and continues the propaganda that somehow economic divisions are the problem. African americans are doing better than under obama, latinos are doing better than under obama, wages are going up, workers have the chance to move to better jobs with better benefits because of the labor shortage yet somehow ‘inequality’ is the problem.
The problem is a ideological leftist press that tells people they are doing terrible when objectively they are doing better.
Remember, one of the main reasons Trump got elected was the claim by many of his supporters of being left behind and the resentment of that feeling. Has it changed? I don’t think so in spite of all the rosy reports about the economy. The primary difference is that Trump supporters are primarily white. Is their feeling of being left behind FOS? [size=”0″]Trump supporters believe they are and continue to fall behind these minority voters in progress. Objectively true or not? [/size]
[size=”0″]As Kellyanne has pointed out on many occasions with her “alternate facts” speeches, it’s not what’s objectively true that matters, it’s what people believe and feel.[/size]
In spite of the excellent economic reports many people feel insecure. Start with many Trump supporters. And now his trade war is bringing new concerns, possibly even to the economy as a whole.
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Interview with Buttigieg:
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[b]BUttigieg increasess support in new Iowa poll[/b]
Biden still leading but …
The race for second place is a statistical tie between Sen. [link=https://thehill.com/people/bernie-sanders]Bernie Sanders[/link](I-Vt.), at 16 percent; Sen. [link=https://thehill.com/people/elizabeth-warren]Elizabeth Warren[/link] (D-Mass.), at 15 percent; and South Bend Mayor [link=https://thehill.com/people/peter-pete-buttigieg]Pete Buttigieg[/link] at 14 percent.
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Butt still has the globalist support, but his new car smell has disappeared. I still say it’s Kamala Harris at the end. If Bernie wins the Iowa/NH start, oh boy, get ready for meltdown city
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[link=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/17/pete-buttigieg-raised-7-million-1365911]Pete Buttigieg raised staggering $7 million in April alone[/link]
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Will the recent shooting in South Bend derail Mayor Pete’s campaign? I think it may. He already had a problem getting support from the African American community. In S Carolina he wasn’t even getting a couple of percentage points. Several pundits thought he looked weak and did not convey a genuine message of concern. This may end it for him. Too bad. I thought he could be a good contender.
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Will the recent shooting in South Bend derail Mayor Pete’s campaign? I think it may. He already had a problem getting support from the African American community. In S Carolina he wasn’t even getting a couple of percentage points. Several pundits thought he looked weak and did not convey a genuine message of concern. This may end it for him. Too bad. I thought he could be a good contender.
It could get worse for sure.
Pete has a black problem. I dont know of one black person out of Indiana that supports him.
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH)
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The townhall is on C-span right now.
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He’s putting his foot in his mouth?
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[link=http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/FU3Mb_UcIQw/index.html]Pete Buttigieg calls ‘Medicare for All’ and free college plans ‘questionable on their merits'[/link]
Mayor Pete making an obvious play for the middle. My guess is that he is looking to be the “moderate consensus white guy if Biden flames out”
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[link=http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/FU3Mb_UcIQw/index.html]Pete Buttigieg calls ‘Medicare for All’ and free college plans ‘questionable on their merits'[/link]
Mayor Pete making an obvious play for the middle. My guess is that he is looking to be the “moderate consensus white guy if Biden flames out”
Oh the irony. An interview conducted by the propagandist that managed to bamboozle the electorate into believing that Obama was somehow an electable centrist.
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[h2][link=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/466670-buttigieg-closes-on-biden-warren-in-iowa-poll]Buttigieg closes on Biden, Warren in Iowa: poll[/link][/h2]
Democratic presidential candidate [link=https://thehill.com/people/peter-pete-buttigieg]Pete Buttigieg[/link] now stands at third place in Iowa, according to a new poll, closely trailing former Vice President [link=https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden]Joe Biden[/link] and Sen. [link=https://thehill.com/people/elizabeth-warren]Elizabeth Warren[/link] (D-Mass.) in the early caucus state.
Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., has the support of 13 percent of 500 likely Democratic caucus goers, based on a [link=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/10/21/iowa-caucuses-pete-buttigieg-elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-top-poll/4025797002/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top]Suffolk University/USA Today[/link] poll released Monday.
That places him just behind Biden and Warren, who are in dead-heat for first place at 18 and 17 percent, respectively.
The poll also found that Buttigieg holds a narrow lead over Warren and Biden among debate-watchers, with 19 percent support compared to 17 percent for each of them, according to the poll.
The new poll shows a big jump for Buttigieg, who was polling at just 6 percent among likely caucus goers in a [link=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/02/iowa-kamala-harris-surges-and-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-suffer/1626346001/]June poll[/link]. Warren also shot up 4 points from 13 percent since June.
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There’s some of what I would perceive as negative Mayor Pete news starting to make rounds. He’s suckling at the Mark Zuckerberg teet it would appear. It appears Marky Mark has been advising Pete on campaign hires, and Mark is not making favorable news lately because he seems to not care about spreading disinformation.
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There’s some of what I would perceive as negative Mayor Pete news starting to make rounds. He’s suckling at the Mark Zuckerberg teet it would appear. It appears Marky Mark has been advising Pete on campaign hires, and Mark is not making favorable news lately because he seems to not care about spreading disinformation.
Zuckerberg makes money off the russian trolls. The folks working for him are not dumb, it would be a trivial tweak to Facebook to add a little flag to each posting that indicates either:
-geographic location of the computer the post was made from.
Or
– the fact that the post originates from a VPN system (and which one it comes from).With that in place, it would also be trivial for users to filter out the elbonian troll posts.
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[h2]538: [link=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/inside-the-buttigieg-moment/]Inside The Buttigieg Moment[/link][/h2]
As voters have developed Goldilocks syndrome about the leading Democratic candidates too old, too liberal, too female? Buttigieg has benefitted from the strong vanilla flavor of his political porridge. His stump speech is about American values, correctly understood, addresses the crisis of belonging, scolds the cheap nationalism of hugging the flag and encourages Republicans of conscience to come on into the Democratic Party.
Like Biden, Buttigieg is selling voters on a nostalgic return to some age of innocence and patriotism that existed before Trump.
The Buttigieg bus is a part of the same clever nostalgia play as his stump speech. The tour is a nod to John McCains Straight Talk Express, which barrelled through New Hampshire during the 2000 primary loaded with journalists and an off-the-cuff candidate. (Call Buttigiegs version a schtick and you get a healthy eyeroll from his staff.) But Buttigieg isnt exactly an off-the-cuff guy, and his maneuvering to the top of the heap has been deliberate, seizing on the weaknesses of the two frontrunners, Biden and Warren. His Medicare for All Who Want It plan basically a public option with a heavy dose of we wont take away your private insurance and God-given freedom rhetoric is a savvy play to the center. Its meant to grant safe harbor to Democrats who think Warrens Medicare for All plan is too radical a move. (Warren and Buttigieg voters are white and college educated, though her supporters tend to be much more ideologically liberal than his.) Warren-interested voters might be attracted to his sheen of intellectualism (the foreign languages, Oxford, yada, yada, yada) and some of the policy reforms hes suggested but rarely mentions on the stump these days, like getting rid of the Electoral College and changing the makeup of the Supreme Court.
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This country will need to be brought together, hed said that morning in Manchester. Its going to require a president, as Im running to be, who can stand on the rubble of what has been busted in our society and in our politics. The image made me pause it was a bit apocalyptic. And what was Buttigieg supposed to be in it? A conquering hero? A savior?Whatever he was, he was standing atop the rubble.
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He has gained in the polls. Even in S Carolina he has gone up 6 points but he still needs to capture more support from the African American community.
What will be interesting to see is if there is an impeachment trial does it help him? A trial will take 6 2020 candidates, two that are front runners, off the campaign trail for what could be 5 – 7 weeks while he is out campaigning.-
He has a good shot. He speaks well and playing the moderate Dem card well….
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Alfred E. Neumann with a worse looking boyfriend? Not a chance.
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[b]Buttigieg Surges Into New Hampshire Lead [/b]
A new Saint Anselm College poll in New Hampshire finds Pete Buttigieg leading the Democratic field with 25%, followed by Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren at 15% each, Bernie Sanders at 9%, Amy Klobuchar at 6%, and Tom Steyer, Tulsi Gabbard and Cory Booker at 3% each.
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13% of 500. Wait, common core math at work, that’s 65 Iowans. Impressive !
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[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-iowa-2020.html]New York Times[/link]: [b]Pete Buttigieg attracts Boomers with ‘Gray New Deal’ [/b]
As Mr. Buttigieg, 37, looks to solidify his support in the remaining weeks before the Democratic primary season begins, he has found a wellspring of enthusiasm among a critical bloc of voters more frequently associated with Joseph Biden: older white Americans.
During a burst of campaign stops in Iowa this week, his first trip to the state since a [i]Des Moines Register[/i]/CNN poll showed him with a commanding, nine-point lead here, Mr. Buttigieg repeatedly made appeals to older Iowans that were hardly subtle. Weve got to act not just to shore up Social Security but to make sure everybody can retire and live in dignity, he said at a rally on Monday evening in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Call it my Gray New Deal.
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[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-iowa-2020.html]New York Times[/link]: [b]Pete Buttigieg attracts Boomers with ‘Gray New Deal’ [/b]
Ooh, the time honored tradition of buying retiree voters by promising pension increases. Thats so new ! And fresh !
I guess adding ‘new deal’ to anything sounds better than ‘free stuff for everyone’.
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Actually pretty simple, holding up a carrot to get the retirees’ attention from the scary squirrels they watch on Faux News that makes them Trump supporters. Like many of the posters of General Radiology page regarding Medicare, it’s all about the money and fear of losing some.
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There are many more old people struggling, even with Social Security than there are physicians struggling with reimbursement.
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It is reality. Reality bites, doesn’t it.
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It is reality. Reality bites, doesn’t it.
I thought he was banking on the millenials to carry him to certain victory. And according to them, the ‘boomers’ are the source of all their troubles. They can’t wait for all the boomers to croak so they can get their rightful share of the wealth. Odd that the millenial candidate now suggests to throw more money at the boomers.
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[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/472968-buttigieg-wins-endorsement-from-votevets-group]Buttigieg wins endorsement from VoteVets group[/link]
The endorsement, the first in the progressive groups history, could serve as another boost for Buttigieg, a former Navy officer who served in Afghanistan. The announcement comes as polling shows a fluid race in early voting states with the Indiana Democrat at or near the top in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The number one priority has to be beating [link=https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump]Donald Trump[/link]. In the 13 years VoteVets has been in existence, we have come to see one thing repeated time after time: Veterans can win voters in the purple and red areas of the country that other Democrats cannot.”
We need a candidate who will win. Bar none, Pete gives us the best shot at doing just that. It is time to rally around him, and stop the walking, talking national security threat that is Donald Trump.
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Used to be that Democrats ran candidates who promised to do well by the country. Now they run to benefit illegals and/or beat Trump.
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Used to be that Democrats ran candidates who promised to do well by the country. Now they run to benefit illegals and/or beat Trump.
I’d take Mayor Pete over Trump any day of the week. Hell move onto Pence already. Time to get past the crooked and deranged narcissist.
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Used to be that Democrats ran candidates who promised to do well by the country. Now they run to benefit illegals and/or beat Trump.
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Obama’s former special assistant and personal aide Reggie Love endorses Buttigieg.
Buttigieg is also being formally endorsed by Austan Goolsbee, who served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama, and Linda Douglass, the former director of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform.
[link=https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/politics/pete-buttigieg-obama-endorsements/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2019/…ndorsements/index.html[/link]
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Droolsbee would, the sycophant
These boys love their own
I’ve got a few billion in China and a few more millions in Ukraine for y’all, no problem
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All you appear to be able to think about is personality. It’s very immature.
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All you appear to be able to think about is personality. It’s very immature.
Says a member of the Trump Cult of Personality…
Knob is a comedian & doesn’t know it.
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Progressive activists around the country are mobilizing to halt the momentum of Pete Buttigieg, who they increasingly view as a formidable threat to win the Democratic presidential nomination, McClatchy reports.
Top liberal leaders from multiple organizations are independently crafting strategies that center around three prongs: a heightened focus on Buttigiegs checkered record on race in South Bend, Ind., his little-known work at the McKinsey consulting firm and an argument that his tempered policy proposals align with the wishes of large corporations.
The escalation of attacks against Buttigieg comes not only as he emerges as a next-generation alternative to moderate Joe Biden, but as he shows signs of undercutting a progressives path to victory in the 2020 primary.
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Progressive activists around the country are mobilizing to halt the momentum of Pete Buttigieg, who they increasingly view as a formidable threat to win the Democratic presidential nomination, McClatchy reports.
Top liberal leaders from multiple organizations are independently crafting strategies that center around three prongs: a heightened focus on Buttigiegs checkered record on race in South Bend, Ind., his little-known work at the McKinsey consulting firm and an argument that his tempered policy proposals align with the wishes of large corporations.
The escalation of attacks against Buttigieg comes not only as he emerges as a next-generation alternative to moderate Joe Biden, but as he shows signs of undercutting a progressives path to victory in the 2020 primary.
It is fun to watch them eat each other.
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[link=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/20/buttigieg-2020-linchpin-088801]https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/20/buttigieg-2020-linchpin-088801[/link]
[h2]Hes the linchpin: Buttigieg blocking all roads to the nomination[/h2] [b]Buttigieg’s ideology, profile and poll position in Iowa has spurred the rest of the Democratic field to take him on.[/b]For months, conflict within the Democratic primary had lurched forward haphazardly, with hits on Joe Biden falling flat and lines of attack among other candidates seeming to come and go quickly. But in Buttigieg, 2020 finally found its common denominator and a common target for most everyone else on the debate stage Thursday night.
Buttigiegs transformation into a piñata did not come simply because he has risen in polls of Iowa and New Hampshire. His position is unique because the imperative to stamp him out is so wide-ranging. Joe Biden occupies the partys moderate lane, and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren appeal to progressives, but Buttigieg is threatening to all of them with his ideologically moderate platform but, demographically, progressive profile: young, gay and as he will remind you repeatedly not of Washington.
The South Bend, Ind., mayor doesnt command much attention in national polls. But hes running first in recent surveys of the first caucus state of Iowa and the first primary state of New Hampshire, according to the most recent Real Clear Politics average.
The hits are likely to get only harder going forward…
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Buttigieg… He’s the guy who declared in the last debate that we Americans owe reparation to illegal aliens, right?
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[h1]Live: Iowa Caucus Results 2020[/h1] The Iowa Democratic party released its first set of results. 2m ago
Candidate Total S.D.E.s* Pct. Pledged delegates
[b]Pete Buttigieg 363 26.9% [/b]
Bernie Sanders 338 25.1
Elizabeth Warren 246 18.3
Joseph R. Biden Jr. 210 15.6
Amy Klobuchar 170 12.6
Others 20 1.5[link=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/04/us/elections/results-iowa-caucus.html]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/…wa-caucus.html[/link]
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Took 20hrs of torturing the data until they could come up with the desired result.
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Bernie has the lead in the popular vote, mayorcheat leads the delegate count. There is a lot of irony in that.
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Bernie and Pete tied in latest NH poll (24%/23%)
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more curious as to what happens to Biden if/when he is still floating around the bottom after NH, and NV.
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Biden needs to drop out and retire on the Epstein island.
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[link=https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1226540472539238408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1226540472539238408&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Ff1bbs7%3Fresponsive%3Dtrue%26is_nightmode%3Dfalse]https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1226540472539238408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1226540472539238408&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Ff1bbs7%3Fresponsive%3Dtrue%26is_nightmode%3Dfalse[/link]
Ace detective Devin Nunes spotted in South Bend. Must be getting nervous about Pete.👀 Devin Nunes spotted at the airport in South Bend, Ind. yesterday, per @playbookplus tipster. pic.twitter.com/VuNXH85Uil
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 9, 2020
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Biden needs to drop out and retire on the Epstein island.
Going on a radiology forum to post all this nonsense when you’re not a radiologist, tech, etc, just to post negativity and instigate stuff is extremely unhealthy.
It’s people like you who have an axe to grind for some random reason – maybe you are related to a successful radiologist and are jealous, maybe it’s your neighbor. Maybe your radiologist screwed up a report. Who knows. Obviously you have an issue with our profession.
What worries me is in our current society – it’s people like you who end up taking it too far. Get help-
Appears weve hit a whole new dimension of trolling. The repeater.
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Pete Buttigieg to drop out of the race.
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Pete Buttigieg to drop out of the race.
I wager we’ll be seeing him again on the national stage in not too long
As ‘secretary of misc government affairs’ during Corey Booker’s first term in 2025.
I found him inspiring. About as inspiring as our county administrator. He is nice.
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