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KatrinaWTE

@katrinawte.bsky.social

You guys are all just fucking lazy. You clearly never watched his interview.

November 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM

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KatrinaWTE

@katrinawte.bsky.social

Check out @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's scathing takedown of JD Vance
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Check out Pete Buttigieg's scathing takedown of JD Vance

Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was interviewed on Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. When asked by�The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg whether he ...

www.dailykos.com

November 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM

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Kevin

@kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social

Here is the entire Buttigieg answer (my transcription). Disagree all you like but this is the context, not just a couple pull quotes. Starts at 40:02 - the link should go to that timestamp.

youtu.be/J-CpZ7ljUL8?...

[The first part of his answer is talking about the Democratic victories in last week's election - New York, Georgia, Virginia etc.]

PB:
The point is, for once every Dem you saw was talking about the right question, and the question was, what can we do using the pulleys and levers of government to make you better off on the biggest problems of your life, which right now have to do with the fact that it's unaffordable to be an American?

And getting the question right is table stakes, but that's actually been a struggle for us sometimes - us, meaning my party.

Host:
Stay on that. What is wrong with your party?
[audience laughs]

PB:
Well. [pause] Where do we begin.

You know, i do think there was a sense that we were not asking the right questions or not offering answers to the right questions. I think that was largely, or partly unfair -

Host: Were you actively asking the wrong questions? and obviously, I'm hinting at the basket of cultural issues which seemed only to turn off people.

PB: We got sucked into an account of America that defined everything by identity at the expense of everything else.
And what it meant was, you know, there were expressions in the Democratic party of all the matters si where you fit is based on your identity and therefore the only things we can do for you have to do with your identity.

And it turns out that if you do it that way you can't stitch together a story that makes sense across the board. And you actually lose many people in the very identity groups you think you're talking to. Not because they are Latino, but because they are people, a lot of Latino voters said "why aren't you saying more about my economic future?"
And you could say the same for Black voters, and you could say the same for young men, and a lot of other people who got away from us.

So we don't need to water down our commitment to racial and economic justice as a party. We need to remember that all this ladders up into a big picture about what it's like to be an American, and to have a story about what it's like to be an American including making sure you can afford to get through everyday life. And what it means to be an American.

Which directly challenges the JD Vance model that you're an American based on how many of your answers are in a Civil War cemetery. basically blood and soil nationalism.

And say no, being American has to do with your fidelity to a creed that binds us together that explains why being American is different than being Belgian or Japanese. We're not just another country out there. We're a country that developed based on a commitment to democratic equality, the idea that everyone is created equal.

November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM

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Peter Sagal

@petersagal.bsky.social

It is annoying to me how people leap on a sentence pulled out of (in this case) an hour-plus conversation and immediately slot the speaker into a pre-existing category of Enemy. Here is the entire talk.

www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/p...

November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM

PolReader

@polreader.bsky.social

Back in 2019, Pete Buttigieg talked often about structural reform to our system.

✅ expanding the Supreme Court
✅ ending Citizens United
✅ ending the electoral college so that
✅ presidents are elected by the one who gets the most votes
✅ making DC & Puerto Rico states

November 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM

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IndianaGirl22472

@indianagirl22472.bsky.social

Indiana State Senate President Rod Bray says there are not enough votes in the Senate and so they will not meet in December.
www.wthr.com/mobile/artic...

Good for them!!

'Not enough votes' | Indiana Senate will not meet to vote on redistricting

Indiana State Senate President Rod Bray says there are not enough votes in the Senate and so they will not meet in December.

www.wthr.com

November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Pete Buttigieg

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

This is big: elected Republicans in a deep-red state saying NO to Trump even after his personal plea.

The balance is shifting - and we have to keep up the pressure everywhere.

Indiana likely will not push forward with redistricting despite pressure from White House

It’s a massive blow to the White House’s efforts to shore up a Republican House majority next year.

www.politico.com

November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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KatrinaWTE

@katrinawte.bsky.social

Hell yes, and eliminate the filibuster, the Electoral College, expand the Supreme Court, and draw fair maps. All of which you have been fighting for since 2019!

—> www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

Inside Pete Buttigieg's plan to overhaul the Supreme Court

No other candidate has made it central to his or her rationale for running and proposed presidential agenda.

www.nbcnews.com

November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM

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Sharon🇺🇦Johnston

@sharonjohnston.bsky.social

Check out a young Pete Buttigieg when he was a college student…
So impressive ‼️‼️
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_A1f...

WOW: Pete Buttigieg REACTS to RARE FOOTAGE of himself from college

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

m.youtube.com

November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM

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KatrinaWTE

@katrinawte.bsky.social

Pete was the most pro consumer and toughest regulator heading DOT we’ve ever had.

He’s also the only Democrat who threatened to withhold aid from the Netanyahu government.

That was six years ago.

November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲

@indri4biking.bsky.social

Grossman was AIPAC president when Pete was in middle school. When Yitzhak Rabin was the Prime minister working on peace deals and autonomy for Palestinians. And got assassinated for it.
He later was DNC chair and his endorsement had nothing to do with Israel. The world was different in 1994 vs 2019.

November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM

PolReader

@polreader.bsky.social

You have replies turned off, but quote repost works.

How would donors have contributed “millions into some random Midwestern mayor’s campaign” without it showing up on FEC records?

He accepted *zero* PAC money & transferred *zero* from previous campaigns unlike Warren & Sanders.

I’m confused.

Talique R. Taylor @taliquertaylor.bsky.social · 5d

Wealthy donors don’t put millions of dollars into some random Midwestern mayor’s campaign for president. Like we don’t need to combat the weird obsessive hatred of Pete by pretending he’s something he’s not.

November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM

PolReader

@polreader.bsky.social

Vote! Every time!

For the rest of your life!

November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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David Pepper

@davidpepperoh.bsky.social

🚨 🚨

Huge movement in the formerly red suburbs of Greater Cincinnati tonight.

School board flips. Local city hall and township seats. Judicial flips.

All historic.

Flashing red light in what used to be biggest GOP strongholds in Ohio.

2026 is coming!!!!!

a large wave in the ocean is breaking

ALT: a large wave in the ocean is breaking

media.tenor.com

November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM

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J'Net

@jannetteb.bsky.social

Go over to Pete Buttigieg Substack site an input your new health insurance premiums.

Share Your Story

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October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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Nerdy Pursuit

@nerdypursuit.bsky.social

Cool! I found this Roosevelt Institute report that interviewed senior staffers who worked with Pete Buttigieg at USDOT:
rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

Here, they explain how Pete and his team got a huge expansion of airline consumer protections through:

October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Blue Wave

@votebiue.bsky.social

New Poll Reveals Frontrunner For 2028 Democratic Nomination

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is listed as the favorite for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, according to the latest Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire released on Monday October 27

October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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Kris S

@mplsme.bsky.social

As a lieutenant intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve from 2009-2017, Pete Buttigieg deployed to Afghanistan, serving alongside NATO command and contributing to counter-terror threat-finance operations.

When Pete Buttigieg says ‘service to country’ it's not Fox News theater...he means it.

October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM

PolReader

@polreader.bsky.social

Buttigieg is correct to articulate this vision of building a stronger more resilient governing system than we had before.

I like that he thinks into the future incorporating new ideas and solutions.

Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 22d

Pete Buttigieg: My criticism of the administration is that there's no such thing as "again" in the real world. They're trying to make it seem like America can turn back the clock. My concern for the Democratic Party is we're also looking backwards.

October 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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Leslie_Beemer

@doslosgatos.bsky.social

As we on Team Pete know, Pete can do a pull up and trained for and competed in a half ironman in September 2023. He did a six hour long Congressional hearing three days later. FOTUS and the bad Secretary Pete would never be able to do either!

October 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM

PolReader

@polreader.bsky.social

I’d like to see Buttigieg challenge Hegseth to a pull-up contest.

bsky.app/profile/gizm...

Sarcasmo @sarcasmodemiami.bsky.social · 22d

Things I’d like to see:

- Biden challenging Trump to a 5 mile bicycle race
- Harris challenging him at the gun range
- Buttigieg challenging him to take the SAT
- Pritzker challenging him to a weightlifting competition

I don’t care if Trump says no. I just want incessant challenges to his manhood

October 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM