Posted on 02/08/2020 11:18:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg was severely mocked for tweeting a quote pic with a saying that critics claim “literally doesn’t mean anything.”
During a CNN town hall on Thursday night, Buttigieg was asked if he could enact one specific policy as president, what it would be.
“Just one? Wow,” Buttigieg reacted. “Let me say this, it’s not a sizzling, glamorous issue, but the shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue. So in order for us to get better outcomes on funding public education, on dealing with gun violence… there are so many issues and areas from climate to gun violence where Americans want something and Washington cannot deliver. That if you’ve got to pick one thing to fix, it’s politics. It’s Washington. And there are concrete things we can do about it.”
Buttigieg then shared an image of himself on Twitter with a graphic that read, “The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue.”
However, without the context of his fuller answer from the town hall, many on social media were left puzzled by the quote. “This literally doesn’t mean anything,” The Hill’s “Rising” co-host Saagar Enjeti reacted. “Almost as meaningless as the percentage of Iowa’s state delegate count,” Jacobin writer Meagan Day quipped. […]
“This is like an inspirational quote run through Google translate into mandarin and back again,” Washington Examiner columnist T. Becket Adams said. […]
Even ex-2020 candidate Marianne Williamson piled on against her former competitor. “If I had said it, there’d be jokes about my being on acid. And I would never have said it.” Williamson reacted. …
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
That ‘boy’ should lay off the Harvey’s Bristol Bream before tweeting.
In theory, communism is like democracy. But unlike democracy there is no representational form of communism; the power needed by government is all-consuming. We call democracy a republic if it’s a form that actually works, without becoming either an anarchy or a tyranny.
This guy reminds me exactly of Obama 2.0 He is a creepy, polished cut-out. He’s being carefully managed and marketed by some powerful people, probably Soros. Do not trust him. He expresses no actual policy views we can evaluate, just a series of soothing platitudes, designed to have soccer-mom voters to say, “Oh gee, Pete seems nice - let’s vote for this unknown-quantity, failed-mayor, wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing, Mr. Rogers imitator and see what happens...”
Easy come, easy go.
Animated solely by the MSM, the Rump Rider’s campaign can be as easily killed.
It reminds me of a quote I wrote here as a joke - an imaginary response by Hillary Clinton to a question about her accomplishments.
I intended it as a example of her saying nothing while tricking idiots into thinking she was a deep thinker. Lots of people repeated it, like it was a real quote. It even brought about a Snopes response to declare that it was likely untrue.
“My accomplishments as Secretary of State? Well, I'm glad you asked! My proudest accomplishment in which I take the most pride, mostly because of the opposition it faced early on, you know… the remnants of prior situations and mind sets that were too narrowly focused in a manner whereby they may have overlooked the bigger picture and we didn’t do that and I’m proud of that. Very proud. I would say that’s a major accomplishment.”
- Hillary Clinton 11 March 2014
Dem voters thought it brilliant.
Wait. During the non-impeachment we were a republic. How did we get back to being a democracy?
If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullsh*t.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
If Mayor Buttigieg was a federal senator then I’d mention the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (ahem).
I question if Buttigieg has ever been taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers. Militia issues aside, he evidently doesn't understand that the main power that the states have expressly constitutionally given the feds to dictate domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service, no express power to address politically correct climate concerns or confiscate firearms.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
From related threads…
Consider that most federal domestic policy is now based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated state revenues imo, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, Justice Brandeis had put it this way about the "laboratories of democracy," the unique powers of the sovereign states to serve the people, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
The reason that citizens are now being oppressed under the boots of an unconstitutionally big federal government is the following imo.
Regarding unconstitutional federal taxing and spending, using inappropriate words like “concept” and “implicit,” the excerpt below from Wickard v. Filburn (Wickard) shows what was left of the defense of 10th Amendment (10A)-protected state sovereignty by the last of state sovereignty-respecting majority justices in United States v. Butler, FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices later blatantly ignoring the reasonable Butler interpretation of 10A when they scandalously decided Wickard in Congress’s favor imo.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
Getting back to Buttigieg, again, Washington cannot deliver because the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the express power to deliver on many issues.
Regarding gun violence, ironically, Congress has the express 14th Amendment (14A) power only to strengthen 2nd Amendment-protected firearms rights, not to limit such rights.
From the 14th Amendment:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
In fact, consider that the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1, had included 2A when he read the Bill of Rights as examples of constitutionally enumerated protections that 14A applies to the states.
John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about in middle of 2nd column.)
So if Buttigieg wants to experiment with gun and climate issues then he needs to stay in state government and conduct his experiments using 10A-protected state powers as the early states had intended for those powers to be used.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Remember in November!
MAGA! Now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)
Problem is, many people who worship mayor pete butt will think he said something profound.
“If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullsh*t.”
Like Norm Crosby used to?
https://youtu.be/fnX-EPaAIdU
Standard Democrat politician speak ..
The deep stuff..and by stuff one should know ..shi. ...
Obama 2.0
All those glorious speeches and he never said anything.
He’s the Seinfeld candidate. A show about nothing. Not that there’s anything wrong with that......
Absotively perfectitude. I’d forgotten about ol’ Norm Crosby. Thanks for that blast from the past.
Someone once told him that Mike and Ike looks like colorful suppositories. So, he took Mike and Ike up the butt. Separately, of course.
He’s as empty as obama....just another poll-tested bot, never an original thought. Ayers, jarrett and soros pull obama’s strings, wonder who is pulling buttplug’s strings.
Actually, he was just paraphrasing Chauncey Gardiner, who once very wisely noted (IIRC), that "the shape of our garden is the issue that affects every other issue..."
Truer wisdom was never left unfettered!
;^)
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