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2019-12-03 Home Front: Politix
Buttigieg Agrees That Illegal Aliens Are ‘Reclaiming Stolen Land’
[HOTAIR] Are we really still referring to South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
 as one of the "moderate" candidates in the Democratic primary? Because if so, he’s really doing his level best to shed that title and move into the socialist lane. Yesterday he was having a discussion with the Reverend William Barber when the subject of illegal immigration came up. Barber tossed out some seriously open borders style propositions and found a willing ear with Buttigieg.

First Barber asked if we shouldn’t stop "demonizing" illegal aliens. Mayor Pete didn’t just agree with him. He went one step further, saying "Yeah, I mean the uncomfortable reality is that undocumented folks are in many ways, like Social Security, subsidizing everybody else."
Posted by Fred 2019-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 SS, Part 207.

This absurd comment -- "the uncomfortable reality is that undocumented folks are...subsidizing everybody else" -- shows how completely out of touch with reality our ridiculous political class is.

Got it? Illegals are subsidizing us.
Right.

Night = day.
Up = down.
Slavery = freedom.
Illegal alien carpetbaggers = Heroic Citizens.

We are ruled by morons.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-03 00:54||   2019-12-03 00:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Allowing Illegals IS subsidising THEM.
Lower wages and higher rents make THEM richer and the vast majority of Americans poorer (and living in more danger of crime).
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-03 04:37||   2019-12-03 04:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I cannot blame Bloomberg for jumping into the race. At least he's somewhat sane.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-12-03 05:44||   2019-12-03 05:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Mr. Bloomberg is in the race to beat Sanders and Warren, not Trump. It's self preservation for him and his caste. They're taking the neo-Bolsheviks as a serious threat.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-03 07:27||   2019-12-03 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 "How about a nice hot cup of shut the....."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-03 07:42||   2019-12-03 07:42|| Front Page Top

#6 SS, continued. Supposedly smarty-pants Pete can't even do basic arithmetic. The illegals send billions of $ earned in the US out of this country every year - back to Mexico.

They are literally "subsidizing" the Mexican countryside and artificially propping up the Mexican economy - at the expense of the American communities that educate their children in the public schools, provide them healthcare through local ERs funded by Obamacare, and absorb the cost of other public services for them.

Including the cost of their Obamacare, we are now spending on the order of $100 billion so that these invaders can trash our low-end labor market and send almost the same amount of hard currency out of this country. That a US politician cannot see this basic equation or do this math should be enough reason to throw him out of office.

"Mayor Pete" = Maroon Pete.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-03 08:19||   2019-12-03 08:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Leftists see economics as a zero sum game. Except when they don't.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-03 08:44||   2019-12-03 08:44|| Front Page Top

#8 OK, Petie, go to the UN and advocate for restoring Hungary’s pre-WWI borders, then get back to me.
Posted by Jack Salami  2019-12-03 09:33||   2019-12-03 09:33|| Front Page Top

#9 At least he's somewhat sane.

My money is on George Papoon.
Papoon for President - Not Insane
Posted by SteveS 2019-12-03 10:50||   2019-12-03 10:50|| Front Page Top

#10 And Porgy Tirebiter for VP. It's an all male ticket but what the heck?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-03 11:16||   2019-12-03 11:16|| Front Page Top

#11 No opinions on Mexico Mr Buttigieg? A state that is so bad their citizens have to sneak across the border at great risk to earn enough money to survive? A state whose pro-oligarchy policies limit foreign investment that might help the situation while also ensuring that those forced to seek jobs in America come primarily from Mexico's Indigenous groups and not from those descended from Europeans?
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-12-03 11:23||   2019-12-03 11:23|| Front Page Top

#12 What's the Spanish word? Maricon...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-03 12:29||   2019-12-03 12:29|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm coming to the thinking that the democrats actually all have a death wish, they are too cowardly to off themselves so they're trying to get us to wipe them out.

Well, if they wanna start the music, I'm game.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-12-03 18:37||   2019-12-03 18:37|| Front Page Top

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