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Pete Buttigieg's tour de force of fatuousness, dishonesty, and backdoor socialism
American Thinker ^
| 6 June 2022
| Andrea Widburg
Posted on 06/07/2022 4:02:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Pete Buttigieg took questions on Sunday from George Stephanopoulos. This little man with the carefully tweezed eyebrows, sleazy 5:00 shadow, Alfred E. Neuman mien, and orator's voice hid behind fatuous, hackneyed political babble even as he discreetly revealed the hardcore totalitarianism that drives him and, indeed, drives the entire Biden administration. In many ways, Buttigieg is like a Stepford politician. There's something eerily unreal about the man as, no matter the question, he responds with administration talking points rather than substantive information.
Stephanopoulos opened by speaking about Jamie Dimon's warning that America is facing an economic "hurricane" (a word Stephanopoulos carefully avoided using), as well as Larry Summers's concerns about a recession, and then asked if Americans need to brace for an economic storm. Buttigieg answered with blather.
He boasted about the swift, red-hot, wildly fast economic growth in the first year of the Biden administration — which was in fact a weak return to work by Americans who had been locked out of their jobs for over a year — but then conceded that we won't be seeing that "growth" this year. He wants us to know, though, "that this administration takes seriously" people's fears. The Fed will do its job, and Congress will do its job, and the supply chain will be stronger. And more blah-blah and some yadda-yadda.
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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: backdoorpete; buttgiggity
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posted on
06/07/2022 4:02:00 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Backdoor eh.... should be all in for that.
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posted on
06/07/2022 4:04:38 AM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: Rummyfan
His lactating has affected his mind.
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posted on
06/07/2022 4:09:47 AM PDT
by
maddog55
(The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
To: Rummyfan
With heavy emphasis on back door.
To: Rummyfan
Andrea opens with a beautifully constructed sentence:
“Pete Buttigieg took questions on Sunday from George Stephanopoulos. This little man with the carefully tweezed eyebrows, sleazy 5:00 shadow, Alfred E. Neuman mien, and orator’s voice hid behind fatuous, hackneyed political babble even as he discreetly revealed the hardcore totalitarianism that drives him and, indeed, drives the entire Biden administration.”
I’ve said before that she has quite a way with words.
However, one criticism: the “This little man” is an ambiguous reference.
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posted on
06/07/2022 4:25:27 AM PDT
by
cymbeline
To: Rummyfan
Has Pete returned to work or is he still nursing his baby since he cannot get any baby formula due to the supply chain problem he has not addressed because he is too busy nursing his baby?
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posted on
06/07/2022 4:26:12 AM PDT
by
chuckee
To: Rummyfan
Here is one succinct interview containing the smorgasbord of far-left policies the people behind Joe Biden are proposing as the solution to the inflation crisis they have created. It is remarkable to see it all packed into one 8-minute segment. There is so much crazy in here it would take a week of articles to unpack it.
The ultra-leftist Biden Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, appears on ABC with George Stephanopoulos to discuss the solutions to the massive economic collapse that looms all around us. Within the interview Buttigieg states the Biden administration goal is to use the high cost of living (policy driven inflation) as an opportunity for the government to take over household expenses and create equity via government distribution.
If reasonable people do not intervene quickly, the executive branch and legislative branch will move to begin subsidizing and controlling medicine, childcare, housing and food costs by diverting tax dollars into the social equity system. Depending on income, the Biden administration plans to offset higher prices for Americans by providing the essential services and products they need. In essence, Democrat-Socialism with a filter of equity in distribution, ie “enhanced dependency.”
WATCH:
Remarkably, Stephanopoulos references one of the most insane New York Times op-ed’s ever written around economics {ARTICLE HERE}. Within the reference, the Democrat legislative proposal is for the government to take over the purchasing of essential products like food, fuel, gasoline and medicine. The government would then distribute those products. The entire premise is based on some academic leftist theory of economics that is just nuts. It looks nothing like capitalism.
The baseline for the approach contains the premise that inflation is driven by too many people chasing scarce goods. Thus prices are rising. This is how the Democrats look at inflation and explain the problem. Their solution is for government to buy the food at the prices they claim people cannot afford, and then sell the food at prices they claim the people can afford. [Replace ‘food’ with any item they determine]
Notice in the interview when Buttigieg is challenged about the high cost of gasoline, he complains that oil companies are not drilling enough to generate the oil and refinery capacity that we need. Essentially, the oil companies are to blame for not creating more supply.
Now, pause, and think about that.
The same Pete Buttigieg voices strong opposition to any further exploitation of oil and natural gas. Buttigieg and the Biden administration vociferously advocate for green energy transition with extreme urgency and apply punitive punishment toward any opposition. Moments later, they are blaming the oil and gas industry for not providing enough supply….
…. Do you know what that advocacy conflict sounds like? That conflicted and twisted mental outlook is the psychology happening in abusive relationships. If you had made me a better sandwich, I wouldn’t have needed to punch you in the mouth. If the oil companies we restrict were doing the things we restrict them not to do, then things would be better.
Because the oil, gas, farms or (fill_in_the_blank) etc are not doing their jobs correctly – as to predict the damage caused by govt policy and offset the consequences – then government must take over the controls of the industry and manage the process.
History rhymes…

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posted on
06/07/2022 4:41:31 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: cymbeline
Wholeheartedly concur. She channels Schlichter with those words, but leaves open to question which “little man” is the referent. Maybe that’s intentional.
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posted on
06/07/2022 4:43:34 AM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
To: Rummyfan
Back door. Right in his squeal house.
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posted on
06/07/2022 4:46:46 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: Rummyfan
He’s nothing but the former lightweight mayor of a wee city (not even as big as Athens, GA). And even there he did a miserable job (Pothole Pete from South Bend-over, Indiana).
To: maddog55
I did hear he is breastfeeding, or at least pumping and bottling.
To: LastDayz
You just can’t make this stuff up anymore. Yezh, this regime is great at backdooring normal Americans.
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posted on
06/07/2022 5:26:57 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Black American flag time. KTF)
To: Vaquero
Brilliant! That wins the internet for the day. Stealing it.
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posted on
06/07/2022 5:29:39 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Black American flag time. KTF)
To: Rummyfan
If we can grow bananas we can be a banana republic.
To: Bratch
Buttlicker has dead eyes. He looks like he is sleepwalking. We, as a nation, are in very deep doo-doo folks! If this is really their plan...we are nearing a revolution. I don’t know anyone around me that will stand for the government taking over gas, food and homes sitting down. We are a free people and we need to keep it that way.
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posted on
06/07/2022 5:40:57 AM PDT
by
JoJo354
(Freedom first.)
To: Rummyfan
Checkbox qualification hire.
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posted on
06/07/2022 5:42:55 AM PDT
by
CodeJockey
(Politicians are to America as oligarchs are to Russia. )
To: JoJo354
“In essence, Democrat-Socialism with a filter of equity in distribution, ie “enhanced dependency.””
AKA: Rationing.
To: Rummyfan
I would expect no more from a malignant narcissistic faggot.
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posted on
06/07/2022 5:50:53 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: Rummyfan
This describes the whole Biden administration from top to bottom.
To: Rummyfan
Hey! Everyone making the off color ‘back door’ jokes...
That’s what I was thinking too.
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posted on
06/07/2022 6:03:47 AM PDT
by
farmguy
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