Posted on 09/21/2019 12:17:49 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
South Bend, Ind., mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg compared the fight against climate change to such pivotal moments in American history as the American Revolution and the civil rights movement.
"I actually think this is one of those moments that, like many moments in American history, really pivotal ones like maybe the American Revolution itself, the struggle for civil rights, it may be that of all the things we are doing right now, the thing we are going to be remembered for will boil down to where we were on this issue," Buttigieg said during MSNBC's climate forum on Friday.
The climate debate has become a favorite topic among the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. MSNBC's two-day forum was the second televised climate forum to take place in September. CNN aired a seven-hour forum with 10 candidates on September 4.
Candidates have proposed sweeping environmental plans, most notably Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I., Vt.) $16 trillion Green New Deal. Buttigieg's own climate plan is estimated to cost $1.5 trillion.
At the MSNBC forum, host Ali Velshi asked Buttigieg to explain why his climate agenda would cost less than his competitors' plans.
"Your plan is actually smaller than a lot of your competitors in terms of the math in terms of the money you're allocating for it," Velshi said. "Talk to me about that, it's many times smaller than some of your competitors."
Buttigieg said his approach is ambitious and should not be measured by how much it costs but by the results it will produce.
"It depends whether you measure the ambition of a plan by how much money it is taxing and pumping through the U.S. Treasury in order to solve the problem versus measuring it based on the outcomes," Buttigieg said. "And maybe it is just my experience as a mayor because a lot of times we've been in situations where people measure what we were doing by how much we were putting in, in terms of money. And I was much more focused on how much we were getting out in terms of results."
Buttigieg has averaged less than 6 percent in recent polls, according to RealClearPolitics.
I guess being a Rhodes scholar isn’t what it used to be.
I was making the same comparison over breakfast this morning.
I should include that i’m temporarily in a psych ward. The good part is that everyone at the table agreed with me.
Butt gig is stupit.
What does he call raiding his ‘husband’s young butt ?
It never was all that, honestly. All it means, is “An American who is willing to go to Oxford and get indoctrinated against his own country.”
Yeah and next we’ll hear him doing a Kamala
on some guy is like the Gettysburg Address
The only thing revolting here is Hizzoner’s sexual proclivities.
... the fight against climate change to such pivotal moments in American history as the ...
CARDIFF GIANT hoax!
Climate Hysteria is a hoax on the grandest scale. The Cardiff Giant is a perfect example of how a hoax works. The “believers” defended the hoaxster. The hoaxster made lots of money. P T Barnum made money by making a fake model of the fake giant! Money is to be made!! Though in the Climate Emergency Hoax they get to enslave people to their hoax and demand payment to be made to fund their fraud.
These idiots just might see another “pivotal moment” make history if they keep going in this direction.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Misguided, desperate, Democratic presidential nominee candidates like Buttigieg seem to be clueless that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate domestic policy concerning politically correct climate change.
”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.
Buttigieg needs to try to keep his job as mayor so that he can use 10th Amendment state power to help pioneer climate change as a politically correct excuse for higher taxes under lawless Democratic lawmakers.
"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.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
Laura Ingraham: “Make America Greater!”
The pivotal event is a queer not being worthy of a Presidential nomination for the simple reason he is queer
The dem race to Most Leftist reminds me of 1972. Is it possible? Another 1972?
Apparently they never took attendance at his schools.He certainly was absent or else very very stupid.
Rhodes Scholar. Cecil Rhodes was a British White Supremacist. That was his religion and life's meaning.
Are the noises inside my head too loud for you?
lol
Took me a minute to get that :)
Global Warming is coming to take my Ruger.
Damn.
If this idgit wasn’t gay he’d be at 0.00%.
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