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The Hater’s Guide to Pete Buttigieg
Buttigieg would be our first openly gay president. Amazing progress! But does it have to be THIS guy?
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9 min readJan 28, 2020
Some people are supporters of Pete Buttigieg. But many, many more people are NOT supporters of Pete Buttigieg. This 2020 GEN magazine hater’s guide, the fourth in an already famed and illustrious series, is for those in the latter group.
Your candidate
Pete!™
His résumé
I actually wrote this hater’s guide months ago, but that guide proved woefully incomplete because Buttigieg, like the Republican sleeper agent he so clearly is, has managed to do a new shitty thing virtually every day since then. It’s been both incredible and horrifying to witness in real time. I’m gonna go ahead and bullet point this section like you’re reading Axios, because Mayor Pete was surely formed in a lab jointly funded by Axios and the Brookings Institution. Let’s run it down…
- He did the “please clap” thing.
- He somehow fucked up paying tribute to Kobe Bryant the day Kobe died.
