Pete Buttigieg
speaker
1,193 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 May
Pete Buttigieg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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sending troops into streets and has really let it crack down on freedom.
That's kind of something out of the fever dreams of my conservative and libertarian friends back when we were arguing about politics over beers that I never thought I would see happen.
These folks, some of these folks are gay.
And how can they be backing an administration that's really assaulted LGBT rights?
And, you know, if you just go down the list,
There's a lot of things that are counterintuitive about some of these Silicon Valley leaders who flipped, in many cases, flipped from being very, very active Democrats to backing Trump.
And maybe there's an intuitive answer to that counterintuitive thing, which is that many of them feel their short-term business interests or personal financial interests are better served by Republicans.
I get that.
I would counter, as I think a lot of people in Silicon Valley who are still Democrats would, that
Look, a healthy business environment, you know, you don't want to be overregulated, but you also want to make sure you're in an environment with rule of law.
You want to be in a place where it's safe to say scientific truths out loud.
You want to be in a place where somebody can't impose their interpretation of their religion on other people.
I have a whole counter to that.
But, you know, I think that's the kind of swirl that we got into definitely just in those short years between 2020 and 24.
This is an amazing example of some of the false equivalencies that I've seen thrown around out there.
I would acknowledge, I think a lot of folks would say that it came really close to the stove some of the times when the administration was trying to make sure that bad information or misinformation wasn't being pushed into the public health conversation and was engaging social media companies that were trying to be responsible and do the right thing and
There might be moments that they got that wrong or went too far.
But right now we're in a moment where the president of the United States doesn't like being criticized by a comedian and has the head of the FCC, which regulates corporations that are trying to buy TV networks, go out and threaten them and say, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
I mean, that is a whole different level of censorship, not to mention just
the way they've gone through like every government website, right?
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