Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang
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Sure, the US secretary of transportation has thoughts on building bridges. But infrastructure occupies just a sliver of his voluminous mind.
  • Chump [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    “THE CURIOUS MIND of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve. Even as he discusses railroads and airlines, down to the pointillist data that is his current stock-in-trade, the US secretary of transportation comes off like a Mensa black card holder who might have a secret Go habit or a three-second Rubik’s Cube solution or a knack for supplying, off the top of his head, the day of the week for a random date in 1404, along with a non-condescending history of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.“

    I fucking can’t. This author is blackout drunk walking back and forth over the line between fawning and satire

  • Oso_Rojo [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    This writer really climbed inside a fanfic version of Mayo Pete’s mind palace and started jerking off

    • neera_tanden [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      She has some Pulitzer worthy prose. She did one of the best Hillary profiles out there.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    This is nearly identical to what cult members say about :my-hero: