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. …
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Mumbles.
Vacuous, insipid sap.
When Marianne Williamson says you’re bat$hit crazy....
It’s not the “shape” of our democracy that “Democrats” like Rump Ranger don’t like, it’s democracy itself.
The dark secret of the Dems - and it sometimes isn’t very well concealed — is that they want to limit the political free speech rights of conservatives. Their “fix” is to shut us up, and not let our voices be heard.
“The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue.”
Right up there with Madison and Jefferson.
Chasten shoulda slapped him.
Some 2020 Democrats (including Mayor Pete) think it should be legal to knowingly give someone HIV.
And people think that level of judgement should be brought into the White House ? ( Duh?)
Because undetectable level of HIV in a medicated patient can change to detectable. The queer wants the protective disclosure laws changed. IMAGINE THAT!
Pete Speaks Out (and ruins his chances of ever being president):
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1182461690413223936
Also:
I've said so for years. Trapezoidal simply isn't the way to go.
The guy does good in one straw poll and he thinks he’s the leader of the world.
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Empty barrels make the most noise.
If it makes him feel any better, nothing the other candidates say makes any sense either.
Psst Marianne: got any of that acid? Asking for a friend.
he has definitely studied the Kenyan Obammy and his vernacular...
surprised that he hasn’t rolled out a similar ‘hope and change’ bullshit message, but that may be coming.
>>>the shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue<<
The shape of what you take up the Butt is the issue that affects your Anal Tissue.
Too soon, or should I wait until he is the Rat Nominee?
At least it sort of rhymes.
(T)he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.They do indeed favor democracy, since it means tyranny of the majority. What they do not like is the representative republic.
— Communist Manifesto
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. …
— The Principles of Communism
(I)t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …
— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”
Trump, you might remember, actually had a policy based campaign. This gay guy hasn’t been challenged on anything. They want him to win to stop Bernie but I’m not sure they won’t take him out in the end
“The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue.”
Right up there with Madison and Jefferson.
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Right up there with Beavis and Butthead.
Yeah, just like his presidential bid.
Or, his fraudulent “marriage” to a man.
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