Pete Buttigieg describes coming out, laments ‘crisis of belonging’ in U.S.
Associated Press,
by
Michelle L. Price
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
5/12/2019 10:36:39 AM
Las Vegas— Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg described Saturday his public coming out as a gay man in 2015 and how the exclusion he experienced made him conscious of what it means to belong and the need to overcome divisions. The 37-year-old described “a crisis of belonging in this country” experienced by LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, people of color, people with disabilities, workers and more and the need for “hopeful and audacious voices” to unite people in a changing time. “What every gay person has in common with every excluded person of any kind is knowing what it’s
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 5/12/2019 10:50:06 AM (No. 62353)
It appears he is running on the ´victim´ party line. I really believe that many of us have had a belly-full of that stuff and have no interest in hearing about it. They have all pushed their ´victim status far too long. We are reaching the point where those in ´victim´ status will be the majority of the population.
P.B. should just drop out of the race now.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Grounded 5/12/2019 10:52:47 AM (No. 62330)
If he has a "husband" named Chasten, does that make him the wife in the relationship? In gay parlance, that would make Petey the "catcher" which would definitely be a first.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 5/12/2019 10:56:57 AM (No. 62359)
Was he being oppressed when his gay self was elected ? The guy is a political idiot. A.E. Newman would throw up to think he is being compared to this real live idiot.
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I can name a long list of countries whose gay citizens would give anything to come to this country that Pete thinks is so terrible.
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Move to Iran Pete... They have a nice way of dealing with perverts.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pearson365 5/12/2019 11:10:57 AM (No. 62340)
What? Me be included?
If Mrs Buttigieg wasn’t gay, he would never be included in the Democrats parade of presidential wanna be’s. What’s odd is that he is so desperate for a chance to get out of South Bend, where he is mayor, that he’ll reveal the intimate details of his private life that most of us don’t care about.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
farmwife 5/12/2019 11:13:18 AM (No. 62337)
More gobbledegook from the victim left.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/12/2019 11:14:12 AM (No. 62342)
I didn´t get elected this morning.
Harder times, I ain´t seen in years.
Someone throw a life preserver.
I´m about to drown in my own tears.
I´m standin´ on shaky ground …..
Pete probably hasn´t heard of either Alfred E. Nuemann OR Delbert McClinton.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MissMann 5/12/2019 11:15:32 AM (No. 62338)
Really? The only plank in his platform is "I´m gay. Vote for me."
What else does he have? Mayor of a miserable, failing town? No. He wants to do with his sexual orientation what 0bama did with his race: win at identity politics. With the left, it could work. So, how "excluded" can he be?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/12/2019 11:16:59 AM (No. 62361)
Thanks for sharing, Pete. I don´t recall anyone asking for the information.
This clown is pathetic. He loses votes every time he opens his mouth.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/12/2019 11:19:06 AM (No. 62362)
I´m calling complete and total Barbara Streisand on this. Yes, in many quarters he is or would be excluded, and if that bothers him, thats ENTIRELY on him.
I dont care who you are, what tribe you belong to or what you believe, you WILL be excluded somewhere. Everyone has their preferences, whatever those preferences are, and will seek to community or companionship with like minded people and people with similar back grounds and experience. It´s why we have ethnic communities. Its why there are gay communities. Its why we have liberal and conservative communities.
Rest assured, if you don´t like me for who I am, that´s on you, I could care less and will happily be on my way to hang with people that do.
I´m 21 years older that this clown, and I can attest that acceptance today and 20 years ago are light years apart. 50 years ago, being gay was a crime in many places. Today, you cant watch a TV show without seeing one or more openly gay characters. We have openly gay elected officials and now an openly gay man running for the presidency. So dont talk to me about exclusion.
I do have one piece of advice for Mayor Pete. Most people don´t care what you do in your bedroom. But if you do get in their face about it, they will push back. Most people don´t want to hear about your orientation 24/7 regardless your orientation. Oh yeah.......being gay is not a justification for running for President. Neither is being male, female, white, black etc. You don´t get to be president just because you like men. You don´t get to be president just because of your genitals.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
valinva 5/12/2019 11:21:48 AM (No. 62348)
Blacks are not going to be so quick to agree that being Gay is just like being Black in the US. Mayor Buggery is going to find out that there may be tolerance for his chosen lifestyle among the general populace but there is far from total acceptance that it is normal and just like being an immigrant or being black.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
tnorling 5/12/2019 11:29:34 AM (No. 62356)
This fool is running for president. Doesn´t that kind of obviate his premise?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jlw509 5/12/2019 11:33:43 AM (No. 62351)
Forty-plus years ago I was effusively open and hospitable to out-of-the-closet gays and lesbians.
Now we´re at a point where if I don´t overtly remodel my vocabulary, use their words, bake their cakes, teach their sexual quirks to my kids, or dance to their tune, they may well find a way to destroy my business, sabotage my private life, or put me in jail for what they ludicrously misdescribe as "hate."
Times have changed, Mr. Buttigieg. Maybe you hadn´t noticed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Krause 5/12/2019 11:37:34 AM (No. 62360)
Trying to make a perversion main stream.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/12/2019 11:44:11 AM (No. 62331)
Oh, stop it. Drop the gay whining, I am just another minority, attempt to gain votes in all those segments, and tell us what your policies would be for the ENTIRE country - for all of us - not just this group and that group and those over there and ….
You are on the wrong track, Mr. Buttigiig, headed for a wall….
You are in a tiny pond in South Bend. Maybe best to just stay there if you are doing any good there. We don’t care about your personal story. We care about our country!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ladycatnip 5/12/2019 11:44:47 AM (No. 62336)
Another crisis. Someone in the Obama administration said never let a crisis go to waste. Now they just manufacture them. A crisis of belonging - I can imagine how public schools will pick that line up and use it to further the victimhood of the students.
Pete should look up the definition of the word crisis. When everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis. The left are ruining our language
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/12/2019 11:47:26 AM (No. 62355)
Trying to be a homosexual victim is so last century. These days he and his ilk have all sorts of special privileges and us normals are sick to death of all of it. Go back in the closet, Buttplug.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/12/2019 11:50:25 AM (No. 62346)
So the people of South Bend didn’t know he was gay when he ran for and was elected mayor - probably because of his military service? If that is the case, then he’s also been a fraud...
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Get over yourself, Buttboy. Get over yourself.
Every single one of us has personal challenges, which are overcome privately, by individual effort, without benefit of media, without undressing oneself in public.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2019 12:14:55 PM (No. 62368)
Disgusting person. I have no interest in his pride in his perversion.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
StormCnter 5/12/2019 12:19:06 PM (No. 62333)
What kind of ego-boost does this guy get from sharing his personal moments with the world? I sincerely doubt many strangers would care to hear about my own stressful episodes during a very long life. Get over it, Mr. Mayor. We do not care!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 5/12/2019 12:32:50 PM (No. 62344)
That "crisis of belonging" you think is an exclusive club on an island of angry misfits, young man, is called the human condition.
The prodigal human soul scrambles for pods in the pig slop of consumerism and hedonism and eventually realizes he belongs somewhere else. Imagine if, in trying to get there, he plopped down in the rancid swill crying for pig food instead of rising up and going home to his father who loves him and gives him good things to eat.
If he remained too proud to go back to the home and the love he threw away, he would stay right where you and your fellow victims are wallowing.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ronniethek 5/12/2019 12:57:56 PM (No. 62335)
Want to belong Pete? Keep your preferences to yourself and don´t try to capitalize on your poufferitude.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DARling 5/12/2019 1:01:49 PM (No. 62334)
It is very simple. If you keep saying over and over again that you are different, therefore I must hate you, there will come a time when I will just give in and start hating you. Not because you are different, but because you are an insufferable whiny-butt without an original thought in your head.
Tell people what you share, as in a desire for a good education for children and clean water/air and maybe you will inspire instead of divide.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
droopydog 5/12/2019 1:18:48 PM (No. 62349)
Is it possible that this guy is more self-absorbed than Obama?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/12/2019 1:37:18 PM (No. 62364)
If every other dimocrat candidate discussed their sexual proclivities, it would be a hoot!
Kamala Toe could explain the scheduling problems in an adulterous relationship.
Gillibrand could talk about how difficult it is for a short woman to have sex, standing upright.
Grandma Warren could discuss how many beers she has to feed to her hubby, to entice him into sex.
Cory Booker could discuss how difficult it is to stay in the closet.
Yang could discuss the difficulties in heterosexual scoring, when his name connotes femininity.
Jo Biden could explain why he delights in fondling little girls.
Gavin Newsom could talk about the joy of knocking up his campaign manager´s wife.
Perhaps one of the debates among the dimocrat candidates should be limited to personal sexual matters, and Hillary and Huma could demonstrate the proper usage of a Hilldo.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Smart11344 5/12/2019 1:38:28 PM (No. 62345)
How can this "man" think he is so special? Have I got news for him.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Ben Around 5/12/2019 1:48:56 PM (No. 62343)
I am tired of hearing from all these whiny perverts.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/12/2019 2:03:25 PM (No. 62352)
Kinda a one-trick pony, ain´t he?
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Since Mr. Buttigieg makes such a big deal of being gay, then it becomes a legitimate subject of political conversation. What I want Mr. Buttigieg to tell me is this: Is he a TOP or a BOTTOM? It´s important because I just can´t see myself voting for anybody who isn´t a POWER BOTTOM for President.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 5/12/2019 3:26:04 PM (No. 62366)
Mr. Butt has actually enjoyed a life of priviledge.
Schiff asserts that POTUS is dividing the country. Nope, it´s Mr. Butt and his Dem/Leftist cohorts who are dividing and fracturing this country in every possible tiny fragment.
These people and tactics must be rejected.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MNluxiegal 5/12/2019 4:10:21 PM (No. 62329)
If he really wants to know judgmental responses to his revelation, he should have come out as a conservative. That would have gotten a severe reaction from the leftist loons out there.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
coldoc 5/12/2019 4:28:59 PM (No. 62358)
Maybe he can get bawny fwanks to campaign for him.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/12/2019 4:48:14 PM (No. 62350)
Boring...
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
pinger 5/12/2019 5:03:04 PM (No. 62365)
Hey Pete, thankfully I don´t know a dang thing about your weird relationship with your "husband"...but if it´s possible for you to go back in, by all means, do.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
red1066 5/12/2019 5:41:49 PM (No. 62347)
In the past, it always puzzled me why those who were something other than heterosexual were surprised by the reaction of people when they made their sexual preference public. It´s not considered normal behavior by most people. The hostility isn´t like it used to be, people still don´t accept it publicly, but in private, it´s still not considered normal. What people do in the privacy of their own home is their business and no one else´s, we just don´t want to hear about it, or see it in public.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/12/2019 8:11:16 PM (No. 62367)
Newsflash Buttboi, you will never belong in my sphere. It you were ashamed because you are gay there might be a reason for that.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/12/2019 8:34:25 PM (No. 62369)
Yeah, whatever, Alfred LBGTQ Newman ...
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
LaVallette 5/13/2019 4:39:05 AM (No. 62354)
The LGBTIQ problem with "belonging" is not a struggle against the thought, values and attitudes of any one community at any given time, but with the entirety of the human intellect and spirit, the accumulate wisdom of humanity based on millennia of human experience and humanities daily encounter with the laws and designs of natural scicne. The same thing applies to the question of "legalized abortion" and its impossible struggle to gain universal acceptance.
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