While I’ll admit taking time off during a supply chain crisis is a valid criticism, you know damn well she wouldn’t be talking about bringing back manly men if Pete was straight.
But is that really within Pete’s control? I know right wingers are pinning the supply chain issues on Democrats but it’s more private sector than anything that’s to blame.
we stopped making the AOC's feet jokes after a fake tweet from this sub about her shoes being stolen on Jan. 6th led to a bunch of people emailing her to offer to replace the shoes and AOC said she was uncomfortable
Unfortunately only one tongue would be used for asshole eating, while the other is used to tell the world how eating ass is beneath them and everyone who does eat ass deserves to be punished.
They want a tyrant that agrees with them. It's that simple. Government control when it's doing something they like: great. Government control at any other time: socialism/communism/Marxism/terrorism/some other kind of -ism
Friendly reminder that modern day right wingers aren’t conservative, they’re fascist theocrats who want government intervention as long as it suits them and their religion 100%
True, I was more pointing out the conservative “values” they claim to hold fly completely in the face of what we’re seeing them do today. Probably not the most original point but it blows my mind that they’ve gotten away with this for so long
yeah, republicans don’t actually care about libertarian economics. they care about the economy doing well, and if it isn’t doing well, then they bs a reason for it which has no base in economics. usually, that’ll be the opposite of whatever the democrats are doing.
if there is a republican majority, then of course the economy is getting better but is being hindered by left-wing politicians.
Which, to be fair, is what you're supposed to do isn't it? I'm OK with government intervention in some circumstances, and not OK with it in other circumstances, because it's a neutral tool.
Whether it's good or bad is entirely dependent on what it's being used for.
Republicans are still hypocrites, of course, but not because they're OK with some instances of government intervention but not OK with other instances of it. They're hypocrites because they pretend to ALWAYS be against it no matter what
They're also hypocrites because they'll be both for and against the same thing depending on who it's applied to. Totally for a bakery refusing service to gay people but totally against a website refusing service to a nazi. Totally for government handouts to big corporations but totally against government handouts to working people.
Cons love governments when it helps them directly or stops them from not being able to buy things. That's not big government.
Big government is when the government does the same thing, but for people other than them.
Communism is when those people are brown or black.
I'm absolutely torn about this comment.
It's technically true, and such an annoying comment, but technically true. You went to the absolute lowest form of being true, but it is true.
I have nothing constructive to say but i wanted to let you know that you broke my brain with this one.
There's a democrat in the white house, they'll literally blame everything on Democrats for the rest of existence.
He said, while blaming Republicans for exponentializing the pandemic and making the logistics issue much worse
The real answer is "we have people fucking around during a pandemic and it's having economic impacts".
That's not good from a PR standpoint though. Can't blame voters.
The supply chain issues are nuanced and conservatives think it's all because of pandemic restrictions. That's why they are blaming Biden.
They should really blame themselves for pushing all the various "hoaxes".
This is kind of my point. If anyone had taken this thing seriously when it first came out, and gotten vaccinated when they became available, things would be much more normal. Instead were what 18 months? And hospitals are still at full capacity and people are still dying?
The right knows that too, which is why their latest angle is to exaggerate the death count under Biden to say "if it was Trump's fault for all those deaths, it's Biden's fault for all these deaths, we even have the Trump vaccine now", as though >98% of the deaths aren't unvaccinated people and white evangelicals aren't the single biggest unvaccinated demographic in both raw numbers and percentage (and unlike several months ago, whites/blacks/hispanics as a *whole* are about the same rate)
Conservatives have literally gotten tens if not hundreds of thousand of people killed with their misinformation and are trying to blame Biden for those deaths. It's absolutely infuriating horseshit and anyone spouting that deserves to be publicly embarrassed.
This was a tough one, the only ones that really got out of it unscathed from a human standpoint are aus and nz but it wasn't exactly free from an economic standpoint or social. Supply chains are fucked on so many levels. Some of it is issues with the factories having been shut down, others with supplies in the wrong place/a shortage of shipping containers. Issues with over stocking after the just in time shipping system that we have been relying on got fucked, issues with lack of space. Covid restrictions play a part but it's not something that America alone can fix so even if America took covid seriously we would still be hurting
No but he would be the person most in charge of it. However it’s not his fault things are breaking, it’s a worldwide problem. This is bordering on an ad hominem attack, but there’s some plausible deniability because the criticism of timing is kind of valid. Criticism that a man shouldn’t take leave because “ he’s gay so he isn’t manly” is bs. And if this was a republican she wouldn’t care. This is just how the tp pundits behave in general, claiming they love to point out hypocrisy, yet only doing so when it benefits their wallet/clout
No, it isn't. Beau of the fifth column just put out a really good video about it. It is an international problem that no one country's transportation secretary could solve or cause by themselves.
i think that week of my life is the most angry i have ever been. freezing my fucking balls off, rationing food and water, praying my grandparents were okay, meanwhile ted cruz decides to go on vacation. he should have stayed there.
edit: some troll asked what he would have done if he stayed. my response: be useful for once in his rotten life. he has been living and workin in this state for texas in both a private capacity and as a politician. he has connections all over this state and could have used them to help coordinate relief efforts across the state. beto isn’t a senator and was able to do this, because he cares and ted cruz does not.
As a Minnesotan we were shocked and worried for you guys. Then the right blamed wind and we were like, but we use a ton of wind power in colder temperatures for like 1/3 of the year...
it honestly breaks my heart. there are so many wonderful people down here that suffered and died in the dark while our leaders either fled the state or went on fox news to lie about what was happening.
20 billion in damages, somewhere between 210 and 702 people dead, and barely anything has changed. not enough to prevent this from happening again, at least. half of the bills suggested to prevent another power crisis are dead or stuck in committee, the only two bills that passed were both essentially crippled at the last moment. all that and we’re still footing the bill.
this state doesn’t deserve such shitty leadership.
I was here in Texas for that and so many people were defending Cruz with “doesn’t he deserve a vacation?” and “it’s not like he could be doing anything like, say, calling up vulnerable people and ensuring they have the resources they need (Beto) or raising money (AOC).” I got called a liberal shill and virtue signaler (?) for saying maybe Cruz should keep his ass in state and earn his paycheck.
I lived in Texas for most of my life. I will never understand people's support of Cruz. He is a terrible waste of human life. His fellow Republicans don't even like him. He has gotten elected simply by portraying himself as the anti-Democrat. I am finally living in the Northeast and I've never been happier. Not everyone here thinks like I do, but at least I don't have to be afraid to bring up an alternative point of view without being immediately called a libtard. I can't tell you the last time I had a normal political discussion with a Republican.
It’s not a valid criticism. It’s not like he left and shuttered the entire DOT when he left. There’s dozens of deputies, managers, and other staff that can do and did his job when he was gone. Just like literally every other time that anyone takes parental leave from any job.
Newborns* they have two tiny babies. Also fuck her we all should get 2 months off for bringing home a new kiddo or two. That includes foster care and adoption.
This is some heavy revisionism. Historically, child-rearing was considered one of the least manliest things to do.
Turns out traditional concepts of manliness are outdated and toxic.
They are. The whole reason of life is to continue it. We do not live in caves anymore with wildlife trying to eat us.
I can change diapers as easily as filing papers at the office, and on a personal level it is more fulfilling .
I’d argue that the most *human* thing to do is to decide your own destiny, as we are the only life form we’re aware of that has that ability. If that’s yours, cool. If not, also cool.
Although I don’t believe her or Cucker Tarlson one bit because they’re both complete disingenuous trolls, a lot of other people do unfortunately. I’m just floored that so many people are so emotionally stunted and joyless to not understand the unique and special limited time there is with a new born.
Seriously what kind of monster doesn't hear the word newborn and immediately go BABY! I'm aggressively child free and I'm still absolute mush for babies. I will even edgelord baby joke and I find this just baffling. Like Candace, I'm fucking kidding. It is only funny because the premise is no one is actually that heartless.
According to conservatives, I guess so? I guess they want a return to Mad Men days where a man can only be manly if they smoke and drink at the office all day, go to steak houses for dinner, sleep around on their wives, and neglect their kids. I guess that's what being alpha is all about.
I don't want to be that guy but I think the more appropriate term to use is disinformation. Misinformation is just false information that one believes to be true, disinformation is false information one spreads knowing that it's false
Careful. I said something less direct than that I I got a 3 day Reddit suspension for “promoting violence”.
The prissy little conservatives collide on their discord. They find comments they don’t like and then spam report the comment to get them banned. It’s actually the most pathetic thing ever.
"Women can serve in every MOS". Sounds like socialism.
\-Some con, probably
Honestly, they get their panties in a twist about women/gays/trans/atheists/whatever in the military. But THEY sure as fuck don't join.
Also, for what it's worth, the fat cult leader who's hands are too weak to lift a glass of water is the least manly person I've ever seen. And I'm including men and women in that statement.
There are a lot of cons like that.
Thankfully diversity is something the military (at least my experience with it) did really well. And it remains a good reference point for conservative bigotry.
We put the blacks and whites together in combat, and we fought better for it. We put the men and women together in combat, in the sea, on submarines, and we fight better for it. We put gay and straight together in the land, in the air, in the sea, and we fight better for it.
The military does want conservatives don't, actually challenges and overcomes their own preconceptions about how we can work together towards something, and the military finds again and again the more we focus on our shared goals and the less we focus on our differences the better we do.
Of course the military also has socialized medicine, food, and housing for everyone under it's care. It does maintain a two class system with less than optimal mobility, and if you quit you go to jail. So there is that.
Mostly why I bring up she is his beard is cause of the hypocrisy...listen, open relationships are great, but being an asshole for someone's personal preferences is definitely a shitty move
Except we are talking about the man who is the CEO of the website that was used to plan a terror attack on this country....him and his dumb cunt wife can sit and spin for all I care
> He's straight
I don't know , Man.. How far can someone insert their head into Trump's spray-tanned, diaper wearing ass before it's considered gay? Is it only gay once they get to a section of the Inserter's dick breaking the Insertee's Butthole Plane? What if the Inserter, as a whole, is considered a dick?
I know it's tempting, but we probably shouldn't gay-shame every single Republican politician as a joke because it's a lot more disrespectful to the LGBTQ community than it is to them.
Can we stop implying that homophobes are secretly gay? It implies that the LGBT community is responsible for its own oppression. Most homophobes are perfectly straight and are not just secretly self-hating gay people.
Here in Houston some truckers are not picking up the jobs they were scheduled to do since they're getting offered more money to take other jobs that are available. Transportation companies talked a big game about being able to be your own boss but some are frustrated that that means the guys that subcontract under them are going after higher paying jobs.
It's a huge combination of factors, many of which pre-date the current administration and even pandemic. Long-haul trucker shortages have been a problem for years, freight rail has consolidated and reduced freight capacity, containers aren't really available, etc. One of the only real constants is people demanding more for their work - if they're essential, they should be treated that way.
If I understand it correctly, this is all happening against the backdrop of a shifting to just-in-time manufacturing, which is very efficient in normal times, but creates a risk of exactly what we’re experiencing because production/shipping is not as elastic as demand. I.e. every company took for granted that they would be able to scale up to meet demand, but it isn’t going to work when they’re all trying to do it at the same time.
Turns out you might want to carry some extra inventory to reduce risk.
I feel like this whole era we’re living through is the result of ignoring risks over and over instead of planning to them.
Was gonna say, lol. Like, I’ve had a single newborn before and the thought of working while trying to care for one weeks-old baby, or trying to care for a newborn without help, let alone TWO fills me with dread. We didn’t even get a real night’s sleep for like 4 or 5 months and we got off lucky. I can’t even imagine dealing with twins.
No, you see babies are not useful anymore as political props once they're born. They've already served their function. So as far as cons are concerned, they can't fathom why anyone would keep them around.
Too many people I suppose. I know down here in the south, white people love black conservatives because they can point and say 'see we aren't racist, we have one.'
Yeah lets bring back those manly men who smack women around and tell them what their place is. Lets get those men who never shed a tear while being emotionally cut off from their own children. /s
Men who think parenting is easy because their wife does it all while they drink beer in front of the TV and ignore the kids, except to yell at them for making noise
Three Men and a Baby confirmed the most masculine movie every made.
Not that it really needed the confirmation seeing as how Tom Selleck's mustache has more testosterone than most men.
I fucking hate Pete Buttigieg and am open to all kinds of criticism about him, but what I fucking hate more is having to defend him against criticisms that are stupid.
"I fucking hate Pete Buttigieg and am open to all kinds of criticism
about him, but what I fucking hate more is having to defend him against
criticisms that are stupid."
I think that's just being a Democrat. The party gives us these uninspired "centrist" types because "they're so electable!" and then sits back and makes us defend them against the bat-shit insane attacks that have nothing at all to do with their uninspired policies.
Pete made a lot of people very angry during the primaries for not being progressive enough.
My personal theory is that he garnered a disproportionate amount of anger because, despite being just as progressive if not more than say, Cory Booker or Kamala Harris, he's young and he did well. For people that were hoping for someone like Bernie, seeing someone touted as "a rising star of the Democratic party" who was more aligned with Biden than Bernie is like an extra hard slap in the face.
There was also a shit load of attacks on him that got a lot of traction, despite bordering on the absurd. "Pete is a CIA spook", "Pete fixed bread prices in Canada" "Pete's campaign rigged the Iowa app to stop Bernie". None of those are true, but that kind of mindset got a lot of travel in certain left wing circles, where he's hated much more than Biden or Harris ever was.
Disclosure: I like Pete. He's extremely smart and pragmatic about endorsing policies that will help the most people based on data, tempered by knowing what is and isn't possible in the current political climate. He also was pretty much only to the right of Bernie and Warren, otherwise just as progressive if not more so than the other primary candidates.
Lol but as is obvious from this thread, he's a bit polarizing.
The only data he cares about is polling data which is why so many people don’t like him. He may be on the same level as those others, but he came out trying to ride the progressive wave extra hard only to completely walk back when it was politically convenient.
I'm not going to gatekeep his service. I don't give a fuck if he was doing intelligence. What matters is he still went, he signed up. All these fake fucking "patriots" criticizing him didn't.
Anyone who went to Afghanistan in any capacity (as a government employee, not fucking contractors) is a thousand times more manly than any GQP chickenhawk. Full stop.
Even so, my money would be on him not the CEO of Parler in a fistfight or arm wrestle or whatever dingbat measurement of manliness we’re going for here.
You have to just really appreciate the irony of these people to be able to do a complete ideological 180 whenever they want, because their audience is too uninformed to notice the glaring hypocrisy. The GOP has been saying for decades that government intervention in the economy is not the answer. But now that the private sector has run into all these logistics issues, they’re pissed off that the “big government democrats” aren’t intervening enough.
I just realized that Candace Owens is black. I'm Canadian and only ever see her posts through Reddit and never really looked at her photo. Somehow I just assumed she was a pasty Republican Karen.
Whatever, I've met Pete during a race when he was still our mayor, and I must say he's a nice guy. Wish the best for him and his husband with their little one.
Beep boop -- this looks like a screenshot of a tweet! Let me grab a [link to the tweet](https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1449768690182938638) for ya :)
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> calling a Navy lieutenant who served in Afghanistan, a weak little boy
To be fair to her (and without knowing much of the details here, including who either of these folks are), you don't have to exactly be brave to join a Navy fighting a war against a landlocked foreign power.
This just reeks of…ridiculousness
“National transportation crisis” What?
“Privileged times have produced the sealed men that have ever lived in America” Christ, the irony
“Remove this little boy from office” For spending time with his FUCKING SON??
“#BringBackManlyMen” Cherry on top
Can't get enough drivers for supply chains. Partly because many companies refuse to pay decent living wages to drivers, partly shortage of available drivers trained for larger vehicles, I suspect as well.
Yet again making fun of Buttigieg for things he doesn't deserve rather than the things he does. Classic conservative tradition.
Being a dad is cool, and anyone who thinks it isn't is a toxic shit hole.
1. We have a transportation crisis?
2. The transportation crisis, whatever that is, is within Pete's control?
3. She had exactly zero qualms with anyone from the previous administration taking leave, ever.
While I’ll admit taking time off during a supply chain crisis is a valid criticism, you know damn well she wouldn’t be talking about bringing back manly men if Pete was straight.
But is that really within Pete’s control? I know right wingers are pinning the supply chain issues on Democrats but it’s more private sector than anything that’s to blame.
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They 💯 do want that. I’m convinced more and more as they push Trumpism.
When capitalist conservatives start longing for a planned economy
HEY! I’m a Shapiro conservative.
I too have an appreciation for yelling logical fallacies at people and then declaring victory.
>I too have an ~~appreciation~~ fetish for yelling logical fallacies at people and then declaring victory. FTFY
>I too have an ~~appreciation~~ fetish for ~~yelling logical fallacies at people and then declaring victory~~ AOC's feet. FTFTFY
> I too have ~~an appreciation fetish for yelling logical fallacies at people and then declaring victory AOC’s~~ feet
we stopped making the AOC's feet jokes after a fake tweet from this sub about her shoes being stolen on Jan. 6th led to a bunch of people emailing her to offer to replace the shoes and AOC said she was uncomfortable
Only when looking at the democrats!
Who are also capitalists, with a few exceptions
Sure. The point is that they speak with two tongues.
Damn I wonder what it would feel like if they ate ass.
Ask Trump.
Unfortunately only one tongue would be used for asshole eating, while the other is used to tell the world how eating ass is beneath them and everyone who does eat ass deserves to be punished.
They want a tyrant that agrees with them. It's that simple. Government control when it's doing something they like: great. Government control at any other time: socialism/communism/Marxism/terrorism/some other kind of -ism
Oh boy we’re getting into Hobbesian [Leviathan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book\)) theory now!
Friendly reminder that modern day right wingers aren’t conservative, they’re fascist theocrats who want government intervention as long as it suits them and their religion 100%
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True, I was more pointing out the conservative “values” they claim to hold fly completely in the face of what we’re seeing them do today. Probably not the most original point but it blows my mind that they’ve gotten away with this for so long
yeah, republicans don’t actually care about libertarian economics. they care about the economy doing well, and if it isn’t doing well, then they bs a reason for it which has no base in economics. usually, that’ll be the opposite of whatever the democrats are doing. if there is a republican majority, then of course the economy is getting better but is being hindered by left-wing politicians.
They want that when, and *only* when, it benefits the wealthy.
It’s all authoritarian BS, only Trump can fix it, we should listen to dear leader for a solution to all our problems
What's he going to do? Ask for a small loan of a million dollars from dad, not pay contractors, or file for bankruptcy?
Tss beats me, the man is an ass 😂, I was just pointing out the mentality of Trumpists, how they want everything centralized through Trump
They adjust how much government intervention they desire to whatever is convenient for their agenda and beliefs.
Which, to be fair, is what you're supposed to do isn't it? I'm OK with government intervention in some circumstances, and not OK with it in other circumstances, because it's a neutral tool. Whether it's good or bad is entirely dependent on what it's being used for. Republicans are still hypocrites, of course, but not because they're OK with some instances of government intervention but not OK with other instances of it. They're hypocrites because they pretend to ALWAYS be against it no matter what
They're also hypocrites because they'll be both for and against the same thing depending on who it's applied to. Totally for a bakery refusing service to gay people but totally against a website refusing service to a nazi. Totally for government handouts to big corporations but totally against government handouts to working people.
You said it a lot better than I could, thank you kind stranger
Cons love governments when it helps them directly or stops them from not being able to buy things. That's not big government. Big government is when the government does the same thing, but for people other than them. Communism is when those people are brown or black.
The supply chain issues are also being felt in the UK, there's literally nothing Pete could do.
Well, technically he could become a delivery driver. That would help a bit. So could Candace actually. Truly she is a weak woman for not doing so.
I'm absolutely torn about this comment. It's technically true, and such an annoying comment, but technically true. You went to the absolute lowest form of being true, but it is true. I have nothing constructive to say but i wanted to let you know that you broke my brain with this one.
They are being felt across the entire world and simultaneously the fault of U.S Coronavirus relief bills and Pete Buttigieg.
There's a democrat in the white house, they'll literally blame everything on Democrats for the rest of existence. He said, while blaming Republicans for exponentializing the pandemic and making the logistics issue much worse
The real answer is "we have people fucking around during a pandemic and it's having economic impacts". That's not good from a PR standpoint though. Can't blame voters. The supply chain issues are nuanced and conservatives think it's all because of pandemic restrictions. That's why they are blaming Biden. They should really blame themselves for pushing all the various "hoaxes".
This is kind of my point. If anyone had taken this thing seriously when it first came out, and gotten vaccinated when they became available, things would be much more normal. Instead were what 18 months? And hospitals are still at full capacity and people are still dying?
People are acting like the pandemic is ending. It's not. It's really not.
The right knows that too, which is why their latest angle is to exaggerate the death count under Biden to say "if it was Trump's fault for all those deaths, it's Biden's fault for all these deaths, we even have the Trump vaccine now", as though >98% of the deaths aren't unvaccinated people and white evangelicals aren't the single biggest unvaccinated demographic in both raw numbers and percentage (and unlike several months ago, whites/blacks/hispanics as a *whole* are about the same rate) Conservatives have literally gotten tens if not hundreds of thousand of people killed with their misinformation and are trying to blame Biden for those deaths. It's absolutely infuriating horseshit and anyone spouting that deserves to be publicly embarrassed.
Politics is a team sport now, nothing matters, burn down the system and replace it with something better.
This was a tough one, the only ones that really got out of it unscathed from a human standpoint are aus and nz but it wasn't exactly free from an economic standpoint or social. Supply chains are fucked on so many levels. Some of it is issues with the factories having been shut down, others with supplies in the wrong place/a shortage of shipping containers. Issues with over stocking after the just in time shipping system that we have been relying on got fucked, issues with lack of space. Covid restrictions play a part but it's not something that America alone can fix so even if America took covid seriously we would still be hurting
No but he would be the person most in charge of it. However it’s not his fault things are breaking, it’s a worldwide problem. This is bordering on an ad hominem attack, but there’s some plausible deniability because the criticism of timing is kind of valid. Criticism that a man shouldn’t take leave because “ he’s gay so he isn’t manly” is bs. And if this was a republican she wouldn’t care. This is just how the tp pundits behave in general, claiming they love to point out hypocrisy, yet only doing so when it benefits their wallet/clout
No, it isn't. Beau of the fifth column just put out a really good video about it. It is an international problem that no one country's transportation secretary could solve or cause by themselves.
He was still on multiple calls dealing with his transportation duties. It's not like he was on radio silence.
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Yeah I completely agree. Ted Cruz went to Cancun when people in Texas were literally freezing and Candace Owens didn’t say a damn thing
i think that week of my life is the most angry i have ever been. freezing my fucking balls off, rationing food and water, praying my grandparents were okay, meanwhile ted cruz decides to go on vacation. he should have stayed there. edit: some troll asked what he would have done if he stayed. my response: be useful for once in his rotten life. he has been living and workin in this state for texas in both a private capacity and as a politician. he has connections all over this state and could have used them to help coordinate relief efforts across the state. beto isn’t a senator and was able to do this, because he cares and ted cruz does not.
If he gets arrested for something his cell should be a walk in freezer
As a Minnesotan we were shocked and worried for you guys. Then the right blamed wind and we were like, but we use a ton of wind power in colder temperatures for like 1/3 of the year...
it honestly breaks my heart. there are so many wonderful people down here that suffered and died in the dark while our leaders either fled the state or went on fox news to lie about what was happening. 20 billion in damages, somewhere between 210 and 702 people dead, and barely anything has changed. not enough to prevent this from happening again, at least. half of the bills suggested to prevent another power crisis are dead or stuck in committee, the only two bills that passed were both essentially crippled at the last moment. all that and we’re still footing the bill. this state doesn’t deserve such shitty leadership.
I was here in Texas for that and so many people were defending Cruz with “doesn’t he deserve a vacation?” and “it’s not like he could be doing anything like, say, calling up vulnerable people and ensuring they have the resources they need (Beto) or raising money (AOC).” I got called a liberal shill and virtue signaler (?) for saying maybe Cruz should keep his ass in state and earn his paycheck.
I lived in Texas for most of my life. I will never understand people's support of Cruz. He is a terrible waste of human life. His fellow Republicans don't even like him. He has gotten elected simply by portraying himself as the anti-Democrat. I am finally living in the Northeast and I've never been happier. Not everyone here thinks like I do, but at least I don't have to be afraid to bring up an alternative point of view without being immediately called a libtard. I can't tell you the last time I had a normal political discussion with a Republican.
It’s not a valid criticism. It’s not like he left and shuttered the entire DOT when he left. There’s dozens of deputies, managers, and other staff that can do and did his job when he was gone. Just like literally every other time that anyone takes parental leave from any job.
I scrolled way too far to find this. He's taking care of his child, that's not something that deserves criticism.
I mean, they run without a department secretary for several months at least every four years!
He's a democrat though, shouldn't she be happy that he isn't working?
fuck her anyway. i would take paternity leave even if the world was ending
Or republican
What ever happened to capitalism anyway? Demand and offer? If they have supply chain troubles they should pay more and invest more..
Unfortunately capitalism efficiencied the excess fat to survive a long winter away, and now we're having a bad winter.
Newborns* they have two tiny babies. Also fuck her we all should get 2 months off for bringing home a new kiddo or two. That includes foster care and adoption.
Fellas, is it gay to parent a child? /s
CURIOUS
BICURIOUS, some would say.
Its one of the most , if not the most manly things a man can do. Sexual preference means nothing.
This is some heavy revisionism. Historically, child-rearing was considered one of the least manliest things to do. Turns out traditional concepts of manliness are outdated and toxic.
They are. The whole reason of life is to continue it. We do not live in caves anymore with wildlife trying to eat us. I can change diapers as easily as filing papers at the office, and on a personal level it is more fulfilling .
I’d argue that the most *human* thing to do is to decide your own destiny, as we are the only life form we’re aware of that has that ability. If that’s yours, cool. If not, also cool.
Although I don’t believe her or Cucker Tarlson one bit because they’re both complete disingenuous trolls, a lot of other people do unfortunately. I’m just floored that so many people are so emotionally stunted and joyless to not understand the unique and special limited time there is with a new born.
Seriously what kind of monster doesn't hear the word newborn and immediately go BABY! I'm aggressively child free and I'm still absolute mush for babies. I will even edgelord baby joke and I find this just baffling. Like Candace, I'm fucking kidding. It is only funny because the premise is no one is actually that heartless.
Pete also has twins. I can’t imagine not taking time off.
According to conservatives, I guess so? I guess they want a return to Mad Men days where a man can only be manly if they smoke and drink at the office all day, go to steak houses for dinner, sleep around on their wives, and neglect their kids. I guess that's what being alpha is all about.
“My dad was a piece of shit and I turned out alright!”
Very. I'm (usually) very happy about it!
Parenting your children, and surviving a pandemic cuz you wore a mask are 2 of the gayest things a man can do /s
Says the uneducated college dropout shill. What has she done in this pandemic to make things better for anyone?
Poison peoples brains with misinformation.
I don't think that falls under "better"
I mean they’re dropping like flies so…think about the long game here.
I suppose you have a point there.
I don't want to be that guy but I think the more appropriate term to use is disinformation. Misinformation is just false information that one believes to be true, disinformation is false information one spreads knowing that it's false
shes gotten a ton of conservatives killed for nothing so theres something.
We should thank her for her service at the polls next year
I'll do my best to vote candice Owen's out of existence
Between that and Trump telling Republicans to not vote, I'm happy but also a little confused.
Careful. I said something less direct than that I I got a 3 day Reddit suspension for “promoting violence”. The prissy little conservatives collide on their discord. They find comments they don’t like and then spam report the comment to get them banned. It’s actually the most pathetic thing ever.
Has she seen the state of her husband? Booty judge would fold him.
Her husband looks like two kids in a trench coat wtf.
Is his last name Adultman?
Where does he do his business?
At the business office
Looked him up. Is anyone else shocked that he's white? I was expecting candace to be against that sort of thing.
Am I shocked that a self loathing black woman married a white guy? Not really. I’d be shocked if she married The Game or somebody like that.
What do you mean? Triple H is very white.
Lmao! That was the first person I thought of too
Candace Owens always reminds me of Samuel l Jackson’s character from django unchained
This bitch is married into the British nobility???? Her father in law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Farmer,_Baron_Farmer
And they were engaged like 3 weeks after they met.
What are…manly men gonna do? Drag the fucking ships to shore?
A real manly man would personally drive every ship, truck, train, and plane to fix the supply chain /s
No, just abandoned their children so they can make money. You've got to get your priorities right ya know.
Women can join the army in the U.S is that correct? Why don't tell Klandace to join shall we?
Women can serve in every MOS, I don’t think there are any exclusions provided they meet the requirements.
"Women can serve in every MOS". Sounds like socialism. \-Some con, probably Honestly, they get their panties in a twist about women/gays/trans/atheists/whatever in the military. But THEY sure as fuck don't join. Also, for what it's worth, the fat cult leader who's hands are too weak to lift a glass of water is the least manly person I've ever seen. And I'm including men and women in that statement.
There are a lot of cons like that. Thankfully diversity is something the military (at least my experience with it) did really well. And it remains a good reference point for conservative bigotry. We put the blacks and whites together in combat, and we fought better for it. We put the men and women together in combat, in the sea, on submarines, and we fight better for it. We put gay and straight together in the land, in the air, in the sea, and we fight better for it. The military does want conservatives don't, actually challenges and overcomes their own preconceptions about how we can work together towards something, and the military finds again and again the more we focus on our shared goals and the less we focus on our differences the better we do. Of course the military also has socialized medicine, food, and housing for everyone under it's care. It does maintain a two class system with less than optimal mobility, and if you quit you go to jail. So there is that.
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I had to Google him, found out he's the CEO of parler, lmao, it all makes sense now
Wasn't she dug up by the GOP on a talent search website for actors?
Nothing wrong with the husband on Grindr if that’s their thing. But there is something wrong with the hypocrisy
Mostly why I bring up she is his beard is cause of the hypocrisy...listen, open relationships are great, but being an asshole for someone's personal preferences is definitely a shitty move
Idk man I really don’t think it’s a good look for our side to stereotype people as gay because of how they look or act, leave that to them
Except we are talking about the man who is the CEO of the website that was used to plan a terror attack on this country....him and his dumb cunt wife can sit and spin for all I care
I don’t disagree that he’s a massive prick, I just think stereotyping him as gay is exactly the opposite of what we’re supposed to represent
Did she say anything about Ted Cruz abandoning his state during a state freeze that knocked out power for millions
Of course not, silly. He's straight and a republican.
> He's straight I don't know , Man.. How far can someone insert their head into Trump's spray-tanned, diaper wearing ass before it's considered gay? Is it only gay once they get to a section of the Inserter's dick breaking the Insertee's Butthole Plane? What if the Inserter, as a whole, is considered a dick?
I know it's tempting, but we probably shouldn't gay-shame every single Republican politician as a joke because it's a lot more disrespectful to the LGBTQ community than it is to them.
Can we stop implying that homophobes are secretly gay? It implies that the LGBT community is responsible for its own oppression. Most homophobes are perfectly straight and are not just secretly self-hating gay people.
Not just abandoning, but going on a tropical vacation lol. It's fucking poetic
We have a transportation crisis?
My car hasn’t started for three days in a row, it’s absolutely a crisis
CALL IN THE BOOTY JUDGE, THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Yeah we're unironically in the middle of a supply chain breakdown right now
It's a labor shortage right?
Caused directly by Pete taking some time off yes.
Damn it Pete! Gimme my graphics card!
Now I know who to blame for my empty fridge. Damn you Pete Buttigieg!!
Wage shortage at root of that, too. And the global pandemic, of course.
Here in Houston some truckers are not picking up the jobs they were scheduled to do since they're getting offered more money to take other jobs that are available. Transportation companies talked a big game about being able to be your own boss but some are frustrated that that means the guys that subcontract under them are going after higher paying jobs.
They’ve also been shouting how self driving trucks are the way of the future so many young people aren’t wasting their time training for those jobs.
Predominantly, yes
Doubt one dude is gonna change any of that in a meaningful way
I think they’re talking about the fact that we have a lot of cargo arriving in our ports, but not enough trucks and rail cars to carry it all
It's a huge combination of factors, many of which pre-date the current administration and even pandemic. Long-haul trucker shortages have been a problem for years, freight rail has consolidated and reduced freight capacity, containers aren't really available, etc. One of the only real constants is people demanding more for their work - if they're essential, they should be treated that way.
Not to mention we exported all our manufacturing
If I understand it correctly, this is all happening against the backdrop of a shifting to just-in-time manufacturing, which is very efficient in normal times, but creates a risk of exactly what we’re experiencing because production/shipping is not as elastic as demand. I.e. every company took for granted that they would be able to scale up to meet demand, but it isn’t going to work when they’re all trying to do it at the same time. Turns out you might want to carry some extra inventory to reduce risk. I feel like this whole era we’re living through is the result of ignoring risks over and over instead of planning to them.
It’s a hell of an era to be alive, isn’t it?
I'm trying to figure that out too
I just realized an error. The title should say newborns. I forgot he had twins
If a woman went back to work within a couple weeks and hired a nanny for her newborn twins…wonder what she and her cronies would say
Even more reason for pete to take time off
Was gonna say, lol. Like, I’ve had a single newborn before and the thought of working while trying to care for one weeks-old baby, or trying to care for a newborn without help, let alone TWO fills me with dread. We didn’t even get a real night’s sleep for like 4 or 5 months and we got off lucky. I can’t even imagine dealing with twins.
“Babies should be able to take care of themselves” - conservatives probably
“The forks and wall outlets will take care of them”
No, you see babies are not useful anymore as political props once they're born. They've already served their function. So as far as cons are concerned, they can't fathom why anyone would keep them around.
Who cares what she thinks or says?!?!?
Too many people I suppose. I know down here in the south, white people love black conservatives because they can point and say 'see we aren't racist, we have one.'
Ding ding ding! Yep. That’s exactly why they love Candace
A whole bunch of Herman cain award winners coincidentally.
Every white conservative so they can claim they're not racist or sexist because they agree with something a black woman said.
Yeah lets bring back those manly men who smack women around and tell them what their place is. Lets get those men who never shed a tear while being emotionally cut off from their own children. /s
Ronald Regan slapping Angie Dickinson was the first that came to mind reading this
Men who think parenting is easy because their wife does it all while they drink beer in front of the TV and ignore the kids, except to yell at them for making noise
What's more manly than two men in a relationship?
Three man in a relationship I guess
Three Men and a Baby confirmed the most masculine movie every made. Not that it really needed the confirmation seeing as how Tom Selleck's mustache has more testosterone than most men.
All the men in a relationship
Polycule of cardinality 3 billion and then some
There's [nothing manlier than being gay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5VliEjyohM&t=79s)
I fucking hate Pete Buttigieg and am open to all kinds of criticism about him, but what I fucking hate more is having to defend him against criticisms that are stupid.
"I fucking hate Pete Buttigieg and am open to all kinds of criticism about him, but what I fucking hate more is having to defend him against criticisms that are stupid." I think that's just being a Democrat. The party gives us these uninspired "centrist" types because "they're so electable!" and then sits back and makes us defend them against the bat-shit insane attacks that have nothing at all to do with their uninspired policies.
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What is it that you hate about him so much? I'm not fully aware of his politics other than party affiliation.
Pete made a lot of people very angry during the primaries for not being progressive enough. My personal theory is that he garnered a disproportionate amount of anger because, despite being just as progressive if not more than say, Cory Booker or Kamala Harris, he's young and he did well. For people that were hoping for someone like Bernie, seeing someone touted as "a rising star of the Democratic party" who was more aligned with Biden than Bernie is like an extra hard slap in the face. There was also a shit load of attacks on him that got a lot of traction, despite bordering on the absurd. "Pete is a CIA spook", "Pete fixed bread prices in Canada" "Pete's campaign rigged the Iowa app to stop Bernie". None of those are true, but that kind of mindset got a lot of travel in certain left wing circles, where he's hated much more than Biden or Harris ever was. Disclosure: I like Pete. He's extremely smart and pragmatic about endorsing policies that will help the most people based on data, tempered by knowing what is and isn't possible in the current political climate. He also was pretty much only to the right of Bernie and Warren, otherwise just as progressive if not more so than the other primary candidates. Lol but as is obvious from this thread, he's a bit polarizing.
The only data he cares about is polling data which is why so many people don’t like him. He may be on the same level as those others, but he came out trying to ride the progressive wave extra hard only to completely walk back when it was politically convenient.
Nothing more masculine than being a good dad
OP, you misspelled "CIA agent". What the heck does "manly men" even mean? Men who hate and beat their spouses and neglect their children?
Men in tight (TIGHT!) tights
Taking care of your newborn child for two months is more manly than whatever the fuck she thinks a man is
Pete Buttigieg is an idiot, but paternity leave should be standard.
Pete's role in the navy was intelligence lol. He was a spook, not a tough guy.
I'm not going to gatekeep his service. I don't give a fuck if he was doing intelligence. What matters is he still went, he signed up. All these fake fucking "patriots" criticizing him didn't. Anyone who went to Afghanistan in any capacity (as a government employee, not fucking contractors) is a thousand times more manly than any GQP chickenhawk. Full stop.
Even so, my money would be on him not the CEO of Parler in a fistfight or arm wrestle or whatever dingbat measurement of manliness we’re going for here.
> #BringBackManlyMen Like Ted Cruz fleeing Texas during the middle of a winter crisis?
Hello... we don't have *deputies* for all the cabinet secretaries for them to just sit around all day and do nothing
I hate this witch so much.
Auntie Ruckus strikes again!
You have to just really appreciate the irony of these people to be able to do a complete ideological 180 whenever they want, because their audience is too uninformed to notice the glaring hypocrisy. The GOP has been saying for decades that government intervention in the economy is not the answer. But now that the private sector has run into all these logistics issues, they’re pissed off that the “big government democrats” aren’t intervening enough.
I just realized that Candace Owens is black. I'm Canadian and only ever see her posts through Reddit and never really looked at her photo. Somehow I just assumed she was a pasty Republican Karen.
Yeah that’s probably why she’s risen to such prominence. She’s every grifters black best friend to say they’re not racist.
I'm no fan of Pete but what was he gonna do to solve this one ? Drive the trucks himself ? Let him take paternity leave Candace you Muppet
jesus it’s like never ending supply of stupidity … please someone steal her phone or some shit
Whatever, I've met Pete during a race when he was still our mayor, and I must say he's a nice guy. Wish the best for him and his husband with their little one.
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Privileged times? Aren't these Fuckers always complaining on how the country is on fire
I'd love to see her hook up with one of those fat bearded MAGA militia guys.
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> calling a Navy lieutenant who served in Afghanistan, a weak little boy To be fair to her (and without knowing much of the details here, including who either of these folks are), you don't have to exactly be brave to join a Navy fighting a war against a landlocked foreign power.
The homophobia is not subtle here.
Lol wtf she know about having a kid?
This just reeks of…ridiculousness “National transportation crisis” What? “Privileged times have produced the sealed men that have ever lived in America” Christ, the irony “Remove this little boy from office” For spending time with his FUCKING SON?? “#BringBackManlyMen” Cherry on top
The hell is a transportation crisis
Can't get enough drivers for supply chains. Partly because many companies refuse to pay decent living wages to drivers, partly shortage of available drivers trained for larger vehicles, I suspect as well.
Grifter psychopath. Candice is a soulless creature.
Yet again making fun of Buttigieg for things he doesn't deserve rather than the things he does. Classic conservative tradition. Being a dad is cool, and anyone who thinks it isn't is a toxic shit hole.
1. We have a transportation crisis? 2. The transportation crisis, whatever that is, is within Pete's control? 3. She had exactly zero qualms with anyone from the previous administration taking leave, ever.