Buttigieg on Sean Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable and then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually what people are so frustrated about."
Pete Buttigieg: "My second greatest fear for my party is if we win in November that we forget that a return to the prior status quo is not the right answer either. What we need is a series of clean bills, legislative projects that will deliver higher wages, that will deliver universal health insurance coverage, that will deliver things like paid family leave."
This administration has managed to do many big things at once. The problem is they're all harmful.
The next time our party earns the chance to lead, we have to be prepared to aim big and do many things at once - things that will actually help improve life in America.
Yes, it’s astonishing that Kristi Noem still has her job after the deaths, lies, and failures on her watch.
But the American people have the final say when it comes to holding this entire administration - from the president on down - accountable for its cruelty and corruption.
More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.
Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift.
It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
A day will come when Donald Trump no longer dominates our politics.
Even though this is obvious, it’s hard to keep in mind.
The future will belong to those who can think clearly about what happens next.
BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg HAMMERS Donald Trump over his "take away the car keys level of crazy" admission that he's threatening Greenland because he was denied the Nobel Peace Prize.
It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment...
"So I think a lot of folks are asking whether the president's behavior today toward Norway, Denmark, and Greenland is something to take seriously or whether it's a deflection from the president's failures to help with America's domestic economic problems here at home," the former Transportation Secretary said in a Youtube video entitled: "We Do Not Have To Accept This."
"The true answer is that it's both," said Buttigieg. "So this is going to be just another one of those weeks when we've got to deal with more than one thing at a time. Everyone on the news right now is talking about Greenland and I will come to that in in a minute."
"But first we've got to be clear about something playing out right here at home which is that millions of Americans health premiums have shot up this month," he said.
The always-articulate Buttigieg then explained that the House recently voted to extend tax credits to keep premiums lower, but Senate Republicans are refusing to vote on it. He wisely laid that betrayal of the American people at Trump's feet by pointing out that the president could easily bully Republicans to get on board with the tax credits with a single tweet. He has not done that because he doesn't care about suffering families. He cares only about himself.
"So that's one thing on the home front, but meanwhile, the president sent an unhinged message to Norway, like a take away the car keys level of crazy message," Buttigieg said. "Basically saying, because the Norwegian government didn't give him the Nobel Peace Prize, the Danish government needs to give him Greenland or else he will punish all of Europe. This isn't just crazy and embarrassing, it is dangerous."
"These are our allies," he continued. "I remember serving side by side with troops from Denmark in Afghanistan. These alliances have kept us safe for generations. Tearing them up makes all of us less safe here at home. And when the U.S. is even vaguely threatening its own allies, that's a destabilizing event for the entire Western world."
"Crazy" is the only way to describe Trump's behavior towards Greenland. He's in full-blown cognitive decline, with a nuclear arsenal at his fingertips, and he's abusing the vast powers of the U.S. military to settle petty personal grievances. This man should not be in the Oval Office, he should be strapped into a straight jacket inside a mental asylum.
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Threatening allies while refusing to lower health care premiums and turning Midwestern cities into battle zones... Americans don't want this and don't have to accept it.
We must use the tool that has been working in more and more situations over the past year: intense political pressure, especially on elected Republicans, to change their behavior.
At its best, politics is about encountering people from all walks of life and talking about how to make life in our country better - even when we don’t agree on everything.
Thanks to everyone who came to our town hall in La Crosse, Wisconsin on Friday. Your engagement is filling my sails for the work ahead.
Julian Edelman on how Bill Bellichick would Game Plan for Big Ben:
“It'd be like NFL Films, he'd play it through and it'd be Ben shrugging off a huge defensive lineman. He'd pause it and go, just when you think you got him, you don't.' Guy was pretty good, love love Big Ben."
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