On Monday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight", Tucker and I discussed Pete Buttigieg's surge in Iowa and belly flop in South Carolina. In the latter state, by the way, his announcement of a "Douglass Plan" is surely what we call cultural appropriation: It's Mayor Pete's plan, so why name it after Frederick Douglass? Who was, among other things, a Republican. The use of a stock photo from Kenya was a nice touch, and even funnier if it turns out to be a cousin of Obama. Click below to watch:
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Pete has taken lots of money from the Human Rights Campaign, founded by Terry Bean. He and his former husband were recently arrested in Portland Oregon (which... takes some doing if your a leftie) for abusing a young man, pedophile porn, and other things of that sort. No one is hanging this guy and his organization around Buttigieg's neck, like they would around any Republican. Buttigieg is not held to the same moral standard as Donald Trump, and standards just keep plummeting for Democrats. Pete sits at the bottom of a pile that includes a guy who acts as an apologist for the Soviet Union, a woman who rose to power by being Willie Browns mistress, a guy who used his son to milk the Ukraine for campaign funding, and a woman who left her husband (after he'd paid for her law degree) and her two small children to run off with her law professor to be a "native American" professor at Harvard Law. Wonderful people, and half the country wants them in power.
I had not known that about Fauxcahontas.
Any idea why blacks hate Mayor Pete? I mean, they were coming at him with the fire of 1000 suns. Does he not kiss up to the local black leaders? Is it because he's gay? Smug? Smarmy? I'm not sure, but they seem to have a visceral hatred for the guy.
I may be wrong, but I suspect that some of those angry folks may have been constituents of the young mayor. So some of the anger might be because they are South Benders (never go on a south bender, trust me), which is a not terribly functional small city. It might be just me, but if Rudy and Doomberg struggle with using successful terms as mayor of NYC into a bid for the White House, I just can't see why a so-so administration of South Bend would be the charm.
I can't remember the details - and it doesn't make any difference anyway - but there was some incident between South Bend police and an Afro-American man which didn't go well. Instead of reacting as a Democrat politician is supposed to - outrage, suspending the offending officers without pay, forming a blue-ribbon (is there any other kind?) commission to make the usual recommendations about diversity training and recruiting more minority police - Peety Bird just sort of brushed it off. Word gets around and black Democrats will never forget or forgive. He could hold daily shame sessions where amply built folks of color stand up and berate him, they won't vote for him in primaries and if by some fluke he gets the nomination, they will stay home - or even vote for Trump. Admittedly, holding rallies where young men in too-short, too-tight pants coming prancing on stage like Kilgore Rangerettes doesn't help.
I can only take members of the Democratic "coalition" at word. Black leaders and a lot of black voters are now comfortable hating white people (at least for effect.) Mayor Pete is one of the whitest dudes since Ozzie Nelson. More to the point I suspect a lot of blacks strongly resent the mayor's attempt to make a moral equivalence between the struggle of American blacks and his own "struggle" as a gay.
Frederick Douglass' definition of slavery was when one person does the work, but another person receives the pay. Judging from the clips of enraged people shouting at him, it seems that more people in South Carolina are familiar with Douglass' writings than Mr Buttigieg presumes.
Buttigieg should ignore the polls in South Carolina and just concentrate on getting Stacey Abrams on side. About three weeks after the primary, with nearly all the votes counted, she can declare him the winner, the legitimate President of the United States, the true Dalai Lama and probably the long lost Louis XVII, while she's at it.
The Dem slogan:
Ask not what you can do for your country
Ask what the motha is gonna do fo' yo' pocketbook!
Show Me The Money!
OMG MARK aiyeeeeeeeeeeeee my brain!!!!
"The first gay President does get white, liberal juices going."
PASS THE BRAIN BLEACH, STAT!!!
I'll take "Mark Steyn quotes I never, ever want to hear again for ten billion gazillion dollars, Alex."
I know, Laura. I was in fear there might have been a "tingle up the leg" or something similar coming. Please pass the Clorox.
That woman yelling at Pete might make a good defense secretary or trade negotiator.
With Pete bogged down in South Carolina, whether forty acres and a mewl gets him to 0.1 percent is an open question.
In the meantime, "I'm not asking for your vote" is one way to kick off a contest of condescending campaign slogans.
What's your beef, Iowa?
Arrogant condescension on your side
He's one of you: not in the 1 percent in South Carolina.
Black, like me
For Pete's sake, don't be like the Japanese
Best slogan? You Buttigieg
Wouldn't we be late to the game with Pete as well. I understand (from you) that Ireland already has a gay Hindu Prime Minister. What we really NEED is something totally new, maybe a transexual MMA women's champion for President.
How about a black disabled lesbian, as former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson once envisioned:
https://youtu.be/Qa_vjVrgLCQ
African Americans have clearly seen that there's no future for them on the island of Buttigieg just like the African immigrants stuck on the island of Malta found that there clearly was no future for them there.
Thanks a lot Tucker and Mark for showing us footage of the campaign rally and in particular the shorts on that leading pajama boy. How are we supposed to "Unsee" that particular image?
I know a Maltese content farmer. He lets me go Maltese Falcon hunting on his land once they are in season.
A Fox chasing a Maltese Falcon? It's the stuff that dreams are made of. :-)
It is until you spot Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre lurking in the bushes following you around.
Maltese content farmer, my new nickname.