President Pete Buttigieg: Not What We Need.

Unf*cking The Republic

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Pete Buttigieg is a legitimate star in the Democratic Party. Having moved his family to Michigan there was speculation that he might run for the governor’s office or become a Senator. But he turned down both options and instead set his sights on the 2028 Presidential election. In addition to making the rounds on multiple cable shows and podcasts to help rehabilitate the image of the Democratic Party, he recently held a massive town hall in Iowa, where he was victorious in the 2020 Caucus. But who is Pete Buttigieg and why do so many people consider him a frontrunner for the Democratic ticket in ‘28? His experience as a small city mayor and single term as Transportation Secretary in the Biden Administration would still make him one of the least experienced candidates in U.S. history. So why all the attention?

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Washington Examiner: Buttigieg high school essay praised Sanders as courageous for calling himself ‘Socialist’

UNFTR Resources

Video: The Case AGAINST Buttigieg in 2028

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0:00.0	Topical cream, a pod listener's dream, unfucking the news and current events, topical cream.
0:13.7	Yeah, you know what I mean.
0:16.5	A quarter of an hour gets you our two cents topical cream.
0:27.6	I don't expect you to love this take. See, there are Democrats out there, smart, capable
0:35.3	Democrats who smell blood in the water right now. So you've got
0:38.8	Pritzker, Whitmer, Newsom, and Pete Buttigieg. And as they should, if history is our guide,
0:47.0	then there will be a backlash to the backlash to the backlash that will deliver Democrats
0:51.7	victory in the midterms, thereby setting the stage to retake the White House in 2028.
0:58.0	Now, I'm not here to handicap the race that early
1:00.3	because we can't even be sure that Trump will vacate the office.
1:04.2	Presidential politics is also so over-baked
1:06.8	as to be the most annoying topic in the world right now.
1:10.8	Because it seems like we're always in a race.
1:13.0	Everyone's running all the time.
1:15.4	So no, I'm not here to do that.
1:18.0	But I am here to kill something in the crib.
1:21.2	Because if I was a betting man, my money right now would be on Mayor Pete Buttigieg emerging as an early frontrunner.
1:29.3	And here's the thing.
1:31.6	No.
1:32.9	Just no.
1:35.8	UNFTR.
1:38.9	So the reason I think that a lot of normie Democrats, like establishment, Ezra Klein, Podsave type of Democrats
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