The controversy surrounding Pete Buttigieg’s recent appearance on the Flagrant Bro podcast has sparked significant discussion.

Known for his effective communication skills, Buttigieg addressed MAGA conspiracy theories without conceding any ground.

His approach demonstrated a strategic method for debunking misinformation, focusing on providing clear and factual explanations.

This incident highlights the importance of engaging with opposing viewpoints while maintaining one’s stance, a skill Buttigieg seems to have mastered.

Buttigieg’s interaction with the podcast hosts showcased his ability to communicate complex issues in a relatable manner.

He clarified misconceptions about Social Security, emphasizing the need for accurate data interpretation.

His approach was praised for its clarity and effectiveness, converting skepticism into understanding.

This reflects his broader strategy of engaging with audiences across political divides, aiming to foster informed dialogue and reduce polarization.

The backlash from Fox News following Buttigieg’s comments illustrates the challenges faced by public figures who confront entrenched biases.

Fox News aired segments that were perceived as homophobic, attacking Buttigieg’s masculinity and sexuality.

This reaction underscores the persistent issue of discrimination in media, where successful individuals from marginalized groups often face unwarranted criticism.

The incident serves as a reminder of the need for continued advocacy against homophobia and for inclusivity in public discourse.

Buttigieg’s resilience in the face of such attacks highlights his commitment to representing the Democratic message in diverse spaces.

Despite the negative portrayal by Fox News, Buttigieg’s efforts to engage with Republican audiences demonstrate his dedication to bridging gaps and promoting understanding.

His ability to maintain composure and articulate his points effectively, even in hostile environments, is a testament to his leadership qualities.

The broader implications of this controversy extend to the political landscape, where media influence plays a significant role in shaping public perception.

The homophobic undertones in Fox News’s coverage reflect a deeper issue within certain media outlets that perpetuate discriminatory narratives.

Addressing these biases requires a concerted effort from both media consumers and producers to demand fair and unbiased reporting.

In conclusion, Pete Buttigieg’s handling of the podcast appearance and subsequent media backlash serves as a case study in effective communication and resilience.

His ability to address misinformation and confront prejudice without compromising his values is commendable.

As political discourse continues to evolve, leaders like Buttigieg exemplify the importance of engaging with diverse audiences and advocating for inclusivity.

This incident highlights the ongoing struggle against discrimination in media and the need for continued efforts towards equitable representation.

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(00:00) pete Buddha Judge went on the flagrant bro podcast and spoke to them and Pete is one of the most effective communicators of the Democratic party in my opinion but it’s important to point out that he seated no ground like some other Democrats have arrived at meeting and chitchatting with MAGA uh influencers they immediately seed ground and uh cave to MAGA upon arrival pete didn’t do this furthermore he put on a master class about how to debunk MAGA conspiracy theories and lies play the first clip like the the data are like
(00:35) based on some real set that somebody can be manipulated yeah how it looks or how you make it sound i mean they’re doing this right now again the do make it sound like there’s like millions of dead people getting social security we’re just not that’s just not true um so how many are getting are there dead people that’s because this seemed to me fact well first of all like Biden can get it look I mean one thing to think about is like obviously the vast majority of people who die of old age um are getting social security the day they die right
(01:06) so like for at least a minute or a week or a month or however long it takes right there’s there’s that process of updating but part of it had to do with how the database was built and you just didn’t didn’t necessarily like remove everybody from the database it didn’t mean they were getting money but it meant they were in the database and so you could twist that into looking like this is what the president did in his speech like it’s true there’s this database that had all these people from like you know 100 years ago it was not
(01:28) true that they were getting checks okay but he said the one part and you your brain fills in fills in the blanks and now you think oh there’s like millions of of people who are 150 years old so this is a master class because Trump and Musk want to dismantle social security so they start with propaganda and these bro podcasters immediately said “Well that’s just a fact dead people are getting money.
(01:54) ” Pete Buddha Judge says “No it’s not.” And you hear him explain why and less than a twominute clip and you hear them all go “Oh I get it.” And that’s why it’s so important that uh people like Pete if you want to go talk to MAGA you can do it but don’t seed any moral ground don’t do not seed anything and Pete doesn’t do that pete is absolutely he is so smart he is such a good communicator and I give him a lot of credit for going he’s always going on Fox he he does the Democratic message in Republican spaces but it just you look how fast these
(02:33) people change their minds when they understand and they’re given true data they just haven’t heard it okay next up um Pete talks about going on Fox News with the flagrant podcast it’s all well and good for me to keep going on Fox News and I will although they don’t seem to be inviting me as much lately but um you know a lot of He just called y’all i like that talking talk your Pete okay so uh Andrew Schultz says to Fox News “He just called you a pussy.
(03:11) ” And when I saw all this I knew that there would be a homophobic backlash from Fox i knew that that was imminent because that’s what MAGA does if there’s a successful black speaker there is going to be a back a backlash from that a white lash when there’s a successful um uh gay speaker there’s going to be a homophobic backlash this is what they do but let’s look at the comments really quick before I get to Fox’s response as to what they were on the flagrant podcast the first one is “I’m a Republican but Pete seems like a chill
(03:43) dude seems like the type of dude I would sit down and have a beer with.” The next one “As a conservative I see Pete in a complete different light now very wholesome and even though our views don’t always align he is a great husband dad and representative.” And the last one I voted Trump but not going to lie Pete makes a lot of good points well Fox sees all of that and um they have subbing for Jesse Waters the wife of the current uh Secretary of Transportation that replaced Pete Buddha Judge is subbing for um Jesse Waters and this
(04:25) y’all are just not going to believe this this is on Fox News play the first one and then poor Pete i mean Mayor Pete is not exactly the one you send out to get the the young bro crowd i mean you may as well send Dylan Mulaney doing a makeup class and hope you can get more guys funny how we thought like growing the beard would somehow change everything um it didn’t okay we got to talk about All right do you hear that coded homophobia growing the beard will somehow change everything maga audience knew exactly what she was
(04:58) talking about because these people have attended churches and schools and Bible studies where the singular uh sin that they’re taught their entire lives is being gay and they perpetuate this lie that marriage should only be between a man and a woman and Fox is so full of this kind of homophobia and here is Mrs duffy again being homophobic put this up mayor Pete has an idea he’s clearly gotten the masculinity problem memo he’s pretending not to be a beta he grew a beard and he hit the manosphere the male podcast world
(05:39) i just think that is despicable and I think if people sit around and watch that and they feast off that and they like her making fun of somebody because they’re gay and you think that’s cute and you think that’s fun and you think that’s neat and you think that’s what you and Jesus do together i think this is just such a disgusting cancer it makes me absolutely sick i will die on this hill i think Fox News and this homophobia and racism and transphobia is the biggest cancer and it’s produced the ugliest cult imaginable well it has
(06:18) reduced these people to the hypocrites craven appetite for cruelty crowd and here they are pete Buddha Judge he’s a veteran he has a road scholar he has every qualification you could want and they have to pick on him and talk about him being gay because they are dishonest and they are craving craving people and let’s talk about the contrast between Pete Buddhajed and all of his accolades which Pumps mentions a road scholar who was mayor um secretary of transportation did a lot of phenomenal innovative things at
(06:56) the department and then her husband takes charge and we played a video if you go back a month or so of him running around in his panties boozing it up saying a bunch of sexist her husband um then she has the audacity to get on here and that uses all beta all this crazy talk and it’s just it is just such emotional stupidity on Fox you know you can talk about people having emotional intelligence fox News is like the lowest emotional IQ people all bottom feeding together that like you know when you tell your kids if they
(07:33) say “Oh that’s gay.” You’re like “Don’t say that there are actually real you know gay people and we love them.” These people never grew out of that they never grew out of it and I think they’re just insidious cancers on this country and but here as she goes on into her reporting um here she is i thought this was just a weird thing to say listen to this so I can tell you that this is happening anecdotally in my own house i have Gen Z teenagers um Gen Z early 20 kids and they’re all on these health podcasts that’s who they go to for
(08:08) health advice um they don’t go to the doctors because I just went to see a doctor not too long ago and he told me to eat less meat like what like what okay notice the chiron at the bottom that Americans are turning away from experts this is a part of an authoritarian play this is intentional and Fox News is complicit in this and it is the um uh dismantling of expertise that’s why you have her husband who’s not qualified to be the Secretary of Transportation that’s why you have Pete Hegsth who’s not qualified to be the
(08:40) Secretary of Defense that’s why you have Donald Trump who’s really not qualified to be president of the United States and they’re going after Harvard they’re going after all of the departments that had experts that were trying to um find cures for cancer and cures for diseases they are dismantling expertise because authoritarians want an ignorant electorate because they know that the biggest kryptonite to fascism is education critical thought critical thinking and that’s why evangelical Christians fall prey to this
(09:15) authoritarian cult so easily because they have been primed to judge and they feel like from a very young age if they critically think then that is sin and they’re going to go to hell so that’s why they filter into this thing so easily next up I want to leave you all with Ben Myis interviewing Gavin Newsome and I have some thoughts on this and this is why I included this i’m mad at Gavin Newsome not personally but when it comes to his political career that when he sat down with these uh right-wing bro podcasters that he seated some moral
(09:54) causes i think that is weakness and you see that Pete Buddha Judge didn’t seed anything if anything he showed a lot of people that listen to these bro podcasts look I have a husband and um we have kids and we are you know good people and then they’re kind of like yeah why why am I so wound up about gay stuff it kind of got them out of their uh hate cycle in their brain well Gavin Newsome he seated some ground but he has an important message that he made to bend my salus and this is something that I’ve been talking about a
(10:30) lot on the podcast that I think Democrats need to talk about the success and blue states and how they are the economic centers of the United States economy no state is better at this than California so as we move move forward as a party and everybody that opposes fascism we can walk and chew gum we can be mad at Gavin for um sitting down with Steve Bannon but when he has a good point we need to platform them because it’s going to take all of us coming together like I personally didn’t like it when Kla Harris ran around with Liz
(11:10) Cheney it was insulting to my intelligence and I thought Liz Cheney to be a um propagandist regarding abortion issues and so but this clip right here I thought this was really good and this is where Gavin Newsome is at his best and I hope that other Democrats pick up this message play the clip governor California just passed Japan as the fourth largest economy in the world which of course sounds like a big deal you posted about it you know why is this just an important thing for us to all um you know recognize you know more broadly
(11:46) geopolitically well it’s a point of pride i mean it’s a big blue state with $4.1 trillion a year economic output we’re 14% of the GDP in the United States of America 50% more than the next big state but I also want people to understand uh that this is a donor state in 2023 Californians contributed $83.
(12:08) 1 billion more than we received from the federal government and by the way for your viewers they may be interested in this that state Texas took71.1 billion dollars more than they provided the federal government okay california 83 this is a super important message whether you’re pissed at Gavin Newsome or not it’s going to take all of us on the left or that are in the center collaborating together to defeat this massive right-wing media echo chamber and that is so important california contributes more federally way more than it takes texas takes way more than it
(12:50) gives so all of these red states are welfare queens all of these big blue cities are the economic centers and the heartbeat of the American economy this is why Target when they rolled back their DEI you don’t see Target in smalltown rural America you don’t see a bunch of targets you know um way way out in the country and in the sticks they are in areas where the economies are strong and when they rolled back their DEI and when they uh decided not to sponsor gay pride anymore what happened to them they’re losing billions of
(13:27) dollars and so I hope that as we roll along we can have conversations with power players in the Democratic party and have a reckoning regarding um that we shouldn’t see it on anything and I hope that Gavin Newsome learned a lesson from what Pete Buddha Judge did because I’ll just tell you personally I remember the first time I ever saw Gavin Newsome i was 20some i was watching Bill Maher i was this liberal atheist that lived in the buckle of the Bible belt and I could watch Bill Maher and hear people that were so different from people in
(14:02) Oklahoma City that had really deep intellectual conversations and he was so young and good-looking and he was the mayor of San Francisco and he spoke so beautifully about gay rights and he spoke so beautifully about the pride parade and so I just implore Gavin Newsome to find that back in him again because what people don’t like is when you’re inauthentic and it felt very inauthentic when you sat down with Charlie Kirk and when you sat down with Steve Bannon can you sit down with them yeah you 100% can sit down with them but
(14:34) you don’t seed anything morally you don’t take the most vulnerable in our society and throw them under the bus also a group of people that you have fought for from the very inception of your career people who poured into you for believing in them and so I hope that you can rectify it because this message that you just made is powerful and it is something that the Democratic party has not messaged and it needs so desperately to be messaged that these red states and these red state policies in these red cities are bottom feeder welfare queen
(15:12) suckers off of the rich ones and and that is not message and it is a counter message to the Fox News propaganda machine that tries to deride blue cities and tries to deride blue states and I think you’re a great messenger of this i hope you can atone for throwing uh the trans community under the bus because you don’t have to do that Gavin nobody’s mad that you sat down with those people we’re mad that when you arrived at the table that you seated something that I used to really look up to you for i thought “Wow a good-looking white
(15:43) straight man can be so comfortable supporting gay rights.” I just I thought it was amazing and so I hope that you can find your way back to that because I think your message is important i think your leadership in California is important um you’ve been on our podcast before i think you’re charming as hell i think you could win a national race but don’t seed the most marginalized people in our communities that’s not who you are that’s not who America is okay please subscribe to our channel and we’ll see you all later
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