Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg echoed all of us when he came for the racist, sexist, homophobic, lying, and cheating Governor of Florida last week at the 2022 Texas Tribune Festival. Discussing the recent, and probably illegal, stunt Governor Ron DeSantis pulled lying to refugees and putting them on a plane to Martha’s Vineyard our favorite gay politician did not mince his words saying,
“These are the kind of stunts you see from people who don’t have a solution. Governor DeSantis is in Congress. Where was he when they were debating immigration reform? What have any of these people done to be part of the solution?
I am probably overestimating the wisdom of the American people, but I would love to see Pete Buttigieg square off against Ron DeSantis in 2024. pic.twitter.com/39wvhW3iru
— Hampton K. Stephens (@HKingsmoreS) September 26, 2022
As the crowd applauded Buttigieg continued, “so you know, I get that if you are after attention it’s one thing to call attention to have a course of action…it’s another thing to call attention to a problem because the problem is actually more useful to you than the solution, and that helps you call attention to yourself.”
Exactly! Thank you Secretary Pete for saying what needs to be said. And it is not being said by enough Democrats. Where is the outrage?
The GOP are bottom-feeding scumbags intent on destroying our way of life here in America. I despise Republicans but to give the devil its due, their messaging and branding far outpace the Democrats. Republicans stay together and repeat the same lies and half-truths over and over and over. Democrats need to get out in front and start fighting fire with fire. Get on the Sunday morning talk shows. Get on The View or the late-night talk shows. Stop letting the GOP control the narrative.
Republicans blame Biden for rising gas prices and zero baby formula on the shelves? (remember those days…) Democrats should be shouting from the rooftops that every Republican voted against legislation created to solve those problems. Repeat it over and over and over. Take the kid gloves off and start playing hardball. There is too much at stake.
Pete Buttigieg is unapologetically calling out Ron DeSantis.
That’s a Democratic Win!
— Democratic Wins (@DemocraticWins) September 26, 2022
Back to Buttigieg who wasn’t finished yet, “it’s one thing if it was just being people obnoxious, but human beings are being impacted by that.”
As always, Twitter had a field day posting about Bittigieg’s comments. Here’s a sampling.
I loved when Pete Buttigieg calmly and intelligently called DeSantis out for what he was.
— Sheila☮️ (@saenewengland) September 27, 2022
We need more people like Pete Buttigieg and far less idiots like Ron DeSantis
— Dark X 💀 (@realXanderXjork) September 26, 2022
Pete Buttigieg put do-nothing, know-nothing Ron DeSantis in a metaphorical headlock and it was G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S! pic.twitter.com/pxyiKTxnND
— 🇺🇸🅸🅽🅳🆈 🅶🅾🆃 🅶🅾🆃 (@Indy_Is_Here) September 26, 2022
Pete Buttigieg put do-nothing, know-nothing Ron DeSantis in a metaphorical headlock and it was G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S! pic.twitter.com/pxyiKTxnND
— 🇺🇸🅸🅽🅳🆈 🅶🅾🆃 🅶🅾🆃 (@Indy_Is_Here) September 26, 2022
Pete Buttigieg cooly launches two torpedoes here:
1) Pointing out that DeSantis used Florida taxpayer money for a stunt that had no connection to Florida.
2) Noting that these asylum-seekers were fleeing a Communist regime. Many Florida voters can relate to that experience. https://t.co/iYmvYClaVJ
— Nerdy Pursuit (@nerdypursuit) September 26, 2022
Pete Buttigieg put do-nothing, know-nothing Ron DeSantis in a metaphorical headlock and it was G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S! pic.twitter.com/pxyiKTxnND
— 🇺🇸🅸🅽🅳🆈🇨🇮🇸🇬🇪🇳𝕏 (@Indy_Is_Here) September 26, 2022
Thank you Secretary Pete for continuing to fight the good fight!
(**this post is solely the opinion of this contributing writer and may not reflect the opinion of other writers, staff of owners of Instinct magazine.)
I’m not really into politics because I believe both sides are out for themselves and want more power and neither really care about the average person. But Pete seems pretty smart. It’s nice to have gay representation in him.