Pete Buttigieg
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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I mean, it can happen.
And that should be a lesson for all of us who were trying to keep up the energy to mobilize against this stuff.
If he hadn't asked for it, I would feel sorry for him.
And to me, it became hard to look at him the same way ever.
I know this is not in the top 10 of what most people talk about, but when Marco Rubio lied to Congress,
about whether the aid cuts had killed children, when he stood there with a straight face and said no children died over this, when we already knew the names of some of the children who had been killed by this, right then you could just tell that this guy's just morally, and I hope politically, never going to recover from selling his soul.
Your lips to God's ears, Pete.
Yeah, exactly.
What I'm trying to make the case for is that the things that are happening in our economy, the price of gas and diesel, what's going on with mortgages and interest rates, cannot be separated from what's broken in our political system.
The problems with our economic reality are related to the problems with our political system.
And so it is a response to this conventional wisdom that you get from a lot of the political strategists who say,
Don't go there on the need for political reform because that comes, you don't never talk about that when you could be talking about the price of eggs.
Nobody cares about democracy when they're worried about putting food on the table.
Now, I get that putting food on the table is the most immediate concern.
But I don't think that means we leave behind the other stuff.
I think that from the moment of our founding, Americans have understood that so much depends on the system.
There was a time, you know, we're all so jaded about the system, right?
If I say the system is broken, that would be the most like cliche, unremarkable, forgettable thing I said all day, right?
But think about how crazy it is that we act like that's not a terrifying, alarming thing to say the system is broken.
And politicians have been saying that for years.
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