In defense of military service by Tim Walz

When Trump’s running mate spoke to reporters in Michigan on August 7, he opened his stupid mouth and railed against Tim Walz’s military career. “What bothers me about Tim Walz is this nonsense about stolen valor,” Vance said, claiming that Walz “hasn’t spent a single day in a combat zone.”

According to Newsweek In a fact-checking article, Walz was in the military for 24 years but never saw combat, but neither was Vance. The Republican vice presidential nominee was in the Marine Corps for four years and served as a combat correspondent in Iraq between August 2005 and February 2006, but never saw combat. This is where the pot meets the kettle.

But Buttigieg, who served as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, took issue with Vance’s insults, accusing him of insulting Walz’s military service and his terrible opinion of childless women.

“When you think about it, denigrating a soldier’s service based on whether he was deployed to a war zone … is a lot like denigrating a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children,” he wrote on X yesterday.

Pete subjects JD Vance to reality

In July, Buttigieg came by Real Time with Bill Maher to talk about the current political landscape, but also landed some brutal blows, insulting both gay PayPal CEO Peter Thiel and everyone’s favorite couch enthusiast JD Vance.

When Maher asked him how a gay man like Thiel could support Vance if he doesn’t believe in gay marriage, Buttigieg’s answer was simple and to the point. “It’s very simple. These are very rich men who have chosen to support the Republican Party, which tends to do good things for very rich men,” he said.

Buttigieg then accused Vance of saying “everything they needed to get ahead” before warning him about the way Donald Trump treated his last vice president. Hint: It wasn’t good!

“I guess he had four glorious years as vice president of the United States. And it ended on the West Front of the Capitol with Trump’s supporters suggesting he should be hanged for using the last bit of integrity he had left to stand up to an attempt to overthrow the government,” Buttigieg said. “So, maybe not as a politician, but as a human being, I hope things go a little bit better for JD Vance than they did for Mike Pence.”

Pete defends the Pride flag

Martha-Ann Alito – the wife of Chief Justice Samuel Alito with possible ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection – was secretly filmed at a dinner by documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor, who posed as a sympathetic anti-abortion activist. “You know what I want? I want a Sacred Heart flag because I’m going to have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month,” Martha-Ann Alito said at the dinner.

This comment may seem harmless, but right-wing Christians are using the Sacred Heart flag to protest Pride flags. Get a life, people.

When asked on CNN about Martha-Ann Alito’s homophobic tirade, Buttigieg spoke about his husband, Chasten Buttigiege, and their two children. “This marriage only exists because of a single vote of the Supreme Court of the United States that expanded our rights and freedoms in 2015 and made it possible for someone like me to get married,” he said.

Buttigieg then read Martha-Ann Alito without using a single insult. “I also hope that most Americans can understand the difference between a flag that symbolizes love and acceptance and signals to people who sometimes fear for their safety that they’re going to be OK, and inflammatory symbolism,” he said. “I’ll just leave it at that.”

Pete always has a joke ready!

In 2022, Republican Rep. Troy Nehls questioned President Joe Biden’s mental health during a House Transportation Committee hearing, claiming he was “falling off his bike.”

But Buttigieg didn’t take this insulting leading question. Instead, he quipped, “First of all, I’m glad to have a president who can ride a bike.” His quick wit throws the conservative congressman off track, who then bombards Buttigieg with more ridiculous questions and doesn’t give him a chance to speak. We love watching them fail so spectacularly!

Rant against homophobia

In 2023, Fox News host Bret Baier asked Buttigieg if he reimbursed the government for the cost of flying to Europe as head of the American delegation to the Invictus Games – a competition for wounded soldiers and war veterans. Buttigieg replied, “Of course not,” before detailing why the question was homophobic.

“Before me, it was the Secretary of the Army under President Trump who made that trip with his wife. Before that, it was Mrs. Trump as first lady who went there. Before that, Mrs. Obama did the same thing,” Buttigieg said. “And I think the question that’s on my mind is: If nobody is raising questions about why Secretary (Mark) Esper and his wife led that delegation when they should have, why is it any different when it’s me and my husband?”

If Buttigieg ever decides to give up his political career, he could make a fortune teaching a master class on how to refute homophobic arguments!

Trump’s tweets are “grotesque”

In 2019, when Buttigieg was mayor of South Bend and running as a Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election, he held a live town hall meeting in New Hampshire moderated by Chris Wallace for Fox News. Wallace asked Buttigieg how he would handle Trump’s “insults and attacks and tweets,” and his response was epic!

“The tweets are – I don’t care,” Buttigieg said to cheers from the audience. Politico reported. Wallace then said Trump’s tweets were a “very effective way for him to reach tens of millions of Americans.”

“It’s a very effective way to get media attention,” Buttigieg countered. “I think we need to make sure we change the channel on this show that he created. … And I get it, look – it’s fascinating and it’s hard for anyone to look away. I feel the same way. It’s the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away.”

Calling Trump’s angry, often xenophobic and anti-LGBTQ+ tweets “grotesque” is *Chef’s Kiss*.