This seems like a pretty good metaphor for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. Like Beto O’Rourke before him, Mayor Pete was a rising democratic party superstar only to see his support drop like a ton of bricks. In the second democratic debates on Tuesday night the only thing people were talking about with Buttigieg’s performance was that he had a smudge on his forehead. It turned out to be a smashed bug and that’s about where his campaign is at this point.
And here it is:
I think it looks like a liver spot, but ancient Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have a monopoly on those.
The smudge on Buttigieg’s forehead was so distracting that The Detroit Free Press dedicated an entire article on it.
As 10 Democrats fight for talking time during tonight’s Detroit debate, there’s a burning question distracting some viewers: What’s going on with Pete Buttigieg’s forehead?
The South Bend, Indiana mayor showed up at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate with a smudge on his forehead that didn’t go unnoticed online.
Wit hair dye? Lint? A bug?
Buttigieg went on CNN and even the fake newsers couldn’t talk about anything else.
“I have a totally cosmetic story for you? Did you have a smudge on your forehead and what was that?” Alisyn Camerota asked.
“So our best guess is that — there were these little gnats around. Maybe I smushed one and it got on my forehead. I don’t know. That’s the thing about having something on your forehead. Hopefully it didn’t distract from the message,” replied Buttigieg.
Wait. Did he just say Detroit, a majority black city, was “gnat infested?” That’s gotta be racist, right? If President Trump said it CNN would go ballistic and Nancy Pelosi would pass a resolution condemning his hateful rhetoric. I guess being a gay democrat has its advantages.
Speaking of racism, Buttigieg also compared President Trump to former KKK leader David Duke:
“Look, 20 years ago, when David Duke, the Klan leader, ran for governor as a Republican — tried to in Louisiana — the Republican Party was horrified. They ran away from him as fast as you can go. Now, you see racism emanating from the White House and Republicans are either supporting it or they are silent. And the thing that’s really important to understand right now is they know better,” Buttigieg said.
And yet, when David Duke ran for president as a democrat in 1979 and 1988, democrats had no problem with him.
Buttigieg then explained that Trump’s “racism” revolves around things he didn’t do to stop Russia from interfering with the 2016 election;
“[Republicans] are enabling all of the wrongdoing that this President has brought with him — from inaction on Russia interference to naked racism,” Buttigieg said.
Obama was the president who did nothing about Russia in 2016, so once again Buttigieg has said something racist. First he called Detroit “gnat infested” and now he’s accuse the first US African American president of racism.
Getting back to the bug thing, CNN host John Berman commented that Buttigieg’s ability to smash an insect on his forehead, “shows lightning-quick reflexes.”
“You want to show you can do many things at once,” said Buttigieg.
So he thinks killing a bug on his forehead and then doing a debate with it still there proves he can multi-task? What are the many things involved in this? Bug killing and obliviousness? He should definitely run on those being his qualifications to be President of the United States.
Also, that was no gnat. It was at least a fly and maybe even a June bug.
