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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Paul Harmon
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.