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mallorys_cameraI see that Pete Buttigieg is now at the onset of the negative press cycle.
Spiteful at his meteoritic rise in the polls, partisans of other Democratic candidates are spewing vitriol his way.
They lambast him for the lack of policy objectives on his website! (Frankly, I think all that you have to do is look at what’s gone on in South Bend over the last eight years to understand his policy objectives. He’s a technocrat. Given the economic shifts since the turn of the century, that’s not a bad thing.)
They say, “McKinsey!” and roll their eyes. (True, McKinsey’s fingerprints are all over the credit boom that toppled the world’s biggest financial institutions in 2008. And then there’s Enron. Remember Enron? But actually, McKinsey is agnostic when it comes to politics: They’re hired guns, and they draw for whoever can afford to pay them. And anyway, Buttigieg didn’t stay with McKinsey; he walked away from what by all accounts was a very promising career. Furthermore, how is Buttigieg working for McKinsey any different from Kamela Harris promulgating an unjust criminal justice system by working as a district attorney?)
It’s the Bernie Sanders fans who are lashing out in the creepiest ways.
Fearless Leader, the energy center of a Bernie Sanders group in Virginia, posted a poll that showed Buttigieg neck and neck with Joe Biden.
And his flist erupted.
“Buttigieg is Hillary Clinton in drag!” screeched one BernieBro.
“Gay dude from Indiana should run as a Republican,” sez another.
Kinda interesting that while Buttigieg’s sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with his policy objectives, it’s the first thing opponents seize upon. Even more interesting is the fact that those opponents are self-styled progressives—although, of course, Bernie Sanders supporters are really Trumpers in progressive clothing.
Still.
Though I like Buttigieg a lot myself, this makes me more hesitant to support his candidacy: People may watch Ellen and Will and Grace, but are they gonna vote for the gay guy?
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Else?
I’ve been doing absolutely nothing but writing incredibly boring shit for $$$, playing Tropico, reading Peter Straub’s If You Could See Me Now, and exercising.
We are now in Spring 1.2 where the forsythia are starting to green, the daffodils starting to wilt, and the short-seasoned flowering trees are erupting in bloom:
Huge swaths of the Straub novel read as though they were written on autopilot, but he’s enough of a craftsmen so it is still packed with memorable metaphors and imagery.
Thankfully, I begin a social cycle on Thursday. I am feeling a bit isolated, and when I start drifting in that direction, pretty much everything begins to seem meaningless. Except Tropico, of course!
Spiteful at his meteoritic rise in the polls, partisans of other Democratic candidates are spewing vitriol his way.
They lambast him for the lack of policy objectives on his website! (Frankly, I think all that you have to do is look at what’s gone on in South Bend over the last eight years to understand his policy objectives. He’s a technocrat. Given the economic shifts since the turn of the century, that’s not a bad thing.)
They say, “McKinsey!” and roll their eyes. (True, McKinsey’s fingerprints are all over the credit boom that toppled the world’s biggest financial institutions in 2008. And then there’s Enron. Remember Enron? But actually, McKinsey is agnostic when it comes to politics: They’re hired guns, and they draw for whoever can afford to pay them. And anyway, Buttigieg didn’t stay with McKinsey; he walked away from what by all accounts was a very promising career. Furthermore, how is Buttigieg working for McKinsey any different from Kamela Harris promulgating an unjust criminal justice system by working as a district attorney?)
It’s the Bernie Sanders fans who are lashing out in the creepiest ways.
Fearless Leader, the energy center of a Bernie Sanders group in Virginia, posted a poll that showed Buttigieg neck and neck with Joe Biden.
And his flist erupted.
“Buttigieg is Hillary Clinton in drag!” screeched one BernieBro.
“Gay dude from Indiana should run as a Republican,” sez another.
Kinda interesting that while Buttigieg’s sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with his policy objectives, it’s the first thing opponents seize upon. Even more interesting is the fact that those opponents are self-styled progressives—although, of course, Bernie Sanders supporters are really Trumpers in progressive clothing.
Still.
Though I like Buttigieg a lot myself, this makes me more hesitant to support his candidacy: People may watch Ellen and Will and Grace, but are they gonna vote for the gay guy?
###
Else?
I’ve been doing absolutely nothing but writing incredibly boring shit for $$$, playing Tropico, reading Peter Straub’s If You Could See Me Now, and exercising.
We are now in Spring 1.2 where the forsythia are starting to green, the daffodils starting to wilt, and the short-seasoned flowering trees are erupting in bloom:
Huge swaths of the Straub novel read as though they were written on autopilot, but he’s enough of a craftsmen so it is still packed with memorable metaphors and imagery.
Thankfully, I begin a social cycle on Thursday. I am feeling a bit isolated, and when I start drifting in that direction, pretty much everything begins to seem meaningless. Except Tropico, of course!
