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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,017 posts)
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 01:08 PM Aug 2025

Pete Buttigieg Sums Up How Trump Makes Our Lives Worse In Refreshingly Simple Way

Pete Buttigieg wants more Democrats to adopt the Michael Scott concept of “explain this to me like I’m 5.”

The former transportation secretary is receiving praise online for urging liberals to use everyday language to communicate — especially when it comes to articulating the ways President Donald Trump sucks.

“We do have to look at what we’re doing that makes it hard to hear what we have to say,” Buttigieg told NPR last week. “Too often, we talk in terms that are academic, and when we’re talking about deeply important things like freedom and democracy, we still have to have a way of talking about it that relates to how everyday life is different.”



Buttigieg then demonstrated how effectively simple language can point out how Americans’ lives are “different and worse” now that we have “an autocrat in power” who’s “appointing incompetent people over very important things in our lives.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pete-buttigieg-sums-trump-makes-195807903.html
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Pete Buttigieg Sums Up How Trump Makes Our Lives Worse In Refreshingly Simple Way (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 OP
Yup, he's the man. a kennedy Aug 2025 #1
Pete Buttigieg is the best down-to-earth explainer democrank Aug 2025 #2
and the fact that he was in Joe Biden's cabinet. speak easy Aug 2025 #3

a kennedy

(35,107 posts)
1. Yup, he's the man.
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 01:26 PM
Aug 2025

Damn, would love for him to run for POTUS, but I know more than half of this gawd damn country would NEVER let that happen. He would be just a perfect candidate, ya know, except for that one thing.

democrank

(12,049 posts)
2. Pete Buttigieg is the best down-to-earth explainer
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 02:50 PM
Aug 2025

He makes so much sense in such an easy-to-understand way. I could listen all day to his principled approaches to our country’s problems.

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