Pete says that he was inspired by the Iraq war to enlist in the US military.

Deranged behavior.

I’m writing some notes for people who don’t want to watch the video. Please reply to the base post instead of this comment.

Pete starts the video by saying he is really interested in automated vehicles and by this he means self driving cars. He doesn’t once mention trains or buses or public transportation.

He mentions that Tucker Carlson made up a conspiracy theory that Peter is faking being gay.

Pete feigns care for T being removed from LGBT in government documents, doesn’t really mention any tangible way to stop this from happening.

Pete says his parents are “left of center”, says “our household was liberal”. He doesn’t mention that his father was an English professor who translated Marxist books.

Pete says that Zohran is popular because he focuses on “affordability”. This is Pete using means testing language. Pete says you should always be able to “afford” your healthcare no matter what your job is.

Pete says that republicans are doing means testing to prevent people from getting food stamps and Medicaid. He didn’t use the word mean testing but he said like “red tape”. No self awareness. He wants to be the means tester.

Pete says that all jewish people are scared by the phrase “globalize the intifada”.

Pete says that “unspeakable horrors happening in Gaza started with unspeakable horrors being committed by Hamas on October 7”. Andrew puts a disclaimer on screen that some of Pete’s claims about October 7 were proven false.

Pete says that there’s an explosion of anti-semitism on college campuses. Andrew correct him by playing clips of the pro-Israel doxxing trucks which targeted anti-Israel students.

Pete defends sending weapons to Israel. He uses the Democrat’s offensive weapons vs defensive weapons narrative.

Pete blames Israel’s war crimes on Netanyahu and says “we have to realize that jewish people will not be safe anywhere unless they have self determination in their homeland”. Then blames Netanyahu for settlements in the Westbank.

Pete says that he was inspired by the Iraq war to enlist in the US military.

Andrew asks Pete about 9/11 being caused by blowback. Pete says that there’s a “difference between understanding something and justifying it”. Pete brushes off the concept of blowback and redirects the conversation to “promoting american values” and says he says that Xi and Putin have wrong values. He basically excuses the Iraq war by saying that it was necessary to push them to American values and then says that Xi and Putin are wrong for having values.

I’ve watched about 60% of the video at this point. The gist is that Pete wants to do the same thing as Republicans but while wearing blue.

@spectre@hexbear.net

At 54 minutes, Andrew asks Pete who he would put on metamorphic Mount Rushmore, ie liberal mount rushmore. Pete says Senator Andy Kim, Senator Elissa Slotkin (actual CIA member), Senator John Ossof, Jake Auchincloss, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Sarah McBride, Mayor Mike Johnston, Mayor Brandon Scott.

This is some notes on the second half of the video.

Pete says that the thing that bothered him most about his deployment in Afghanistan was that American soldiers were in danger. Yankees go home. It is disgusting that he clearly values the lives of Americans over the lives of non-Americans.

Pete does both sides on ICE deportations. He says that while Trump’s policies are brutal, he also believes that “America needs strong borders”.

Pete says that his 3 greatest accomplishments as Transportation Secretary during Biden’s presidency were (1) safety, (2) infrastructure bill, (3) airline regulations.

Pete says that his biggest mistake as Transportation Secretary was the East Palestine Ohio train derailment. He says that the mistake was misinformation being spread after derailment, about health implications or who was eligible for relief. He does not talk at all about how the derailment could have been prevented.

Right after talking about the the train derailment, Pete says that the second biggest mistake of his term was that there was too many safety regulations. He says that this is what prevented him from doing more projects.

Also, Pete never talks about the 2022 rail strike that he was involved in suppressing.

The last part of the interview, they talk about their family heritage. Pete’s family came from the island of Malta. Andrew’s family is like Irish or Gaelic.

There is an additional interview of Pete at the end of the video where Pete condemns the shooting of Charlie Kirk over a video call. He says that both sides need to come together and then he praises Utah Governor for reaching across the aisle. The Utah Governor solely blamed the left for Charlie Kirk’s shooting and used it as an opportunity to tell people to stop criticizing ICE deportations,

Pete defends sending weapons to Israel. He uses the Democrat’s offensive weapons vs defensive weapons narrative.

"Your honor i didn’t give the mass shooter ammo, I simply gave him body armor"

Andrew really leaning into the aesthetic of his allegations

Pete says that “unspeakable horrors happening in Gaza started with unspeakable horrors being committed by Hamas on October 7”. Andrew puts a disclaimer on screen that some of Pete’s claims about October 7 were proven false.

Pete says that there’s an explosion of anti-semitism on college campuses. Andrew correct him by playing clips of the pro-Israel doxxing trucks which targeted anti-Israel students.

Huh, nice

This feels like a little preview of the strategy the Democrats are going to take. And hoo boy they are going to fucking tank. Even when a majority of your annoying lib base doesn’t agree or resonate with anything you’re saying.

I didn’t watch it and fuck Andrew, but at least he pushed back on Palestine issues I guess.

he needs to be doing anything but what he’s currently doing with his beard

Why the hate for Andrew Callaghan?

Apparently they aren’t airing the interview? Is it by request of Pete realizing they looked like a zionist tool or the channel 5 guy not wanting to put put a video that makes dems look like the irredeemable ghouls they are?

Can’t poll lower than 0%

Anyone watch it? I was curious how it went

The fact I can’t avoid to joke like an 11 yo whenever I heard the name Buttigieg do not qualifies me as a reliable source of opinion.