2020 Democratic presidential primary

lol expose imperialism

Gravel is 88. He may not physically make it to 2020, so don't worry about him too much.

great so everyone's gonna say he was killed by the clintons

I did not carry an assault weapon around a foreign country so I could come home and see them used to massacre my countrymen.

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) October 2, 2017

why *did* you carry an assault weapon around a foreign country my dude

probably helping a dude with a broken arm

also wtf does this mean

As for the ethics of soldiering: as the Afghans say, "a lamb will be hung up by its own legs, and a goat by its own."

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) October 2, 2017

he has kinky habits

also wtf does this mean

Everyone is responsible for his own actions.

just look at the state of this, smdh

A great day to be outside. Thank you, Las Vegas. pic.twitter.com/7YdvRnMFkL

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 24, 2019

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how dare u traduce miracle mile like that

we're gonna be diamonds

There's a "Beto Stands on Things" tumblr, right

if there's not, there's plenty of raw material to work with already

That WAPO opinion piece Beto O’Rourke is a walking, talking Generation X cliche got a lot of shit in the comments. I thought it was pretty spot on about why he's so distasteful if you are also gen x.

So far, everything I've seen of his national profile makes me think he was so successful in TX solely because of how much people despise Ted Cruz.

By which I mean, he's not terrible but he's also less inspiring than... Cory Booker.

he also activated the Butthole Surfers vote

I can't even imagine running for president and *still* talking about my record collection like it's a placeholder for a personality.

I can, which is one reason why I should never run for President

breaking my heart. You should totally run for president.

My President's Stupid Record Collection

this balloon is more irritating with every passing day. He was alright when he nearly beating Ted Cruz, now all I can see is a Woodworking Howard Schultz

xpost I am probably just annoyed because of gen x white boys always thinking that they were the gatekeepers of decent record collections/tastes.

Courtesy of "Shitty New Yorker Cartoon Captions":

https://66.media.tumblr.com/283f75b368e6cc375b340c6b3c329e43/tumblr_po9btotXyC1qfvz38o1_1280.pnj

she looks out all of us

Any good “Beto stands on capybara” photoshops out there?

beto juggling robbenballs

why *did* you carry an assault weapon around a foreign country my dude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

I still don't understand the lamb/goat thing?

"No matter what your path in life you will be held accountable in the end"

it's not like. not that weird of an idiom

gonna guess it translates a bit wonky

gonna tentatively translate it as "I'm going straight to hell but I'm not going to sink my political future by saying outright it may have been wrong of me to be a soldier"

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-one3.htm

As for the ethics of soldiering: as the Afghans say, "a lamb will be hung up by its own legs, and a goat by its own."

VS.

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

These do seem to convey pretty similar ideas, using very similar imagery, but the Afghan one seems more cynical and brutal. The English saying refers to differing degrees of guilt resulting in uniformity of punishment, so if you commit a crime, you may as well make it a big one. The Afghan saying refers to both the innocent and the guilty getting butchered, so in the end there's no difference between them.

well, that's one possible campaign message.

I did not carry an assault weapon around a foreign country so I could come home and see them used to massacre my countrymen.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) October 2, 2017

this is one of those "so close, but..." things. i don't understand how someone as sharp as buttigieg could have decided it was a good idea to be an ambassador for US imperialism. unless it's as cynical as "this will help my political ambitions." i mean, i would buy that he just "wanted to serve my country" as they all say if his dad wasn't a gramsci scholar and didn't, by pete's own admission, inculcate him in a kind of radical political skepticism. and it's not like, as with so many people who enlist, he desperately needed the money or college loans. maybe he just wanted the adventure; he wouldn't be the first.

maybe i'm just a cynical jerk.

well it's blithely accepting of US military adventurism but come on the tweet is about gun control and in dialogue with NRA fuckos who were like "we fought for our freedom to carry guns at home", I don't think he was trying to burnish a hawkish profile. If we're being hermeneutical about it.

According to his wiki he was a commissioned officer. He's still in the naval reserve too.

I have mixed feelings about the US military as a whole but silby is otm about the tweet.

He's not shy about calling attention to his military service. Apparently this is now a thing among up and coming Democratic politicians.

That's been a thing among up and coming Democrats forever, but especially since 2006.

No one ever lost a race because they did time in the military. It might not win in the end (hello John Kerry) but it doesn't hurt.

Like, he's a big believer in putting time in public service. I don't want it to be mandatory military service but at a certain point when so many grown ass adults are incapable of functioning in society or doing simple tasks to care for themselves, maybe that's what is needed. I could see that working in obtaining universal healthcare and ubi too.

Apparently this is now a thing

It has always been a thing among politicians. If you can claim military service, you do. It's as automatic as "I've met a payroll" from every politician who ever ran a business with an employee.

right. you just have to wonder about the motivations of guy raised in a left-wing household for enlisting. i don't mean that to cast asperions, i just genuinely wonder what his attitude about it was.

i can't help thinking of the Laurence Harvey character in Manchurian Candidate, who is being groomed to hold political office and whose military service in Korea is simply a stepping stone to that, as it probably was in the case of JFK. (which doesn't say anything about how such real and fictional folks actually got on once they were in the military.) not that Mayor Pete's parents put him up to it... just wondering if there's an element of him burnishing his credentials from the start. or if he was just genuinely curious to have a military-sponsored adventure and only later realized it would come in handy.

i know the Manchurian Candidate analogy is bizarre and off base, it's just something that popped into my mind as a pop-cultural instance of someone joining the military to help jumpstart a military career. although obviously in that particular scenario there's a little more to it. ;)

he was commissioned which is different, than just , like high schooler enlisting.

disregard that. I kind of don't even want to get into whatever is this tangent.

i'm just wondering why buttigieg (a guy steeped in left-wing critiques of american foreign policy) joined the military is all.