{"id":10005,"date":"2020-02-20T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:28:50","slug":"hall-monitor-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/20\/hall-monitor-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Monitor Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can you say about Pete Buttigieg that doesn\u2019t make him out as a jerk?\u00a0 During the debate in Las Vegas, some Telemundo reporter calls out Klobuchar for forgetting the name of the Mexican president and, right away, Hall Monitor Pete chastises her for being a bad senator.\u00a0 Now far be it from me to defend Klobuchar, she is just as toxic as all the other Dems on that stage.\u00a0 They pander to illegal aliens and espouse insane policies that throw around multi-trillion dollar price tags like they were trinkets.\u00a0 But I just want to reflect on the rodent-like quality of Petey Boy\u2019s character.\u00a0 Klobuchar at least correctly characterized the gotcha, trivia, Jeopardy aspect of this non-event correctly.\u00a0 Memorizing the names of Latin American puppet leaders doesn\u2019t really prove anything about leadership.\u00a0 Now granted when you\u2019re pandering to the large Hispanic population of Nevada and grant an interview with Telemundo you probably could expect that they will try to ambush you on some Latino advocacy question.\u00a0 And so she got what she deserved.<\/p>\n<p>But it takes a particularly petty individual to jump on that gotcha moment and try to make it into something meaningful.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to select the best varmint to compare to it.\u00a0 Weasel?\u00a0 Rat?\u00a0 Skunk?\u00a0 Let\u2019s go with weasel.\u00a0 It takes an especially weaselly critter to try and churn something as meaningless as forgetting the name of the President of Mexico into a disqualifying event.\u00a0 I can just bet that prior to this debate Petey Boy was in touch with Telemundo ensuring that the debate question about this was going to be used.\u00a0 And probably he stayed up all night memorizing the names of all the Latin American leaders from the border of Texas down to the tip of Argentina.\u00a0 And I\u2019m sure he would have relished trilling his r\u2019s and pronouncing the tilde on the letter n.\u00a0 This is the annoying kid that everyone had in his class that preened for the teacher and answered all the ridiculous trivia that gets away from the point of whatever lesson is being learned.\u00a0 He\u2019s someone who just grinds it out and accumulates those extra credit points without ever becoming proficient at something useful.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine if this guy actually ever became president?\u00a0 We would be the laughing stock of the world and it wouldn\u2019t be long until some fifth rate nation like Venezuela started kidnapping Americans and forcing Petey Boy to pay ransom and apologize for anything they cared to specify.\u00a0 It really reflects just how low we\u2019ve sunk when a specimen like Buttigieg is even considered a possible candidate for President of the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth.\u00a0 Klobuchar has more spunk than that little doofus even though half the time she looks like she\u2019s having a nervous breakdown.\u00a0 At this point it\u2019s pretty clear that Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Warren and Biden are not getting the nomination.\u00a0 But it is still possible that Petey Boy could end up as running mate for the Dem candidate.\u00a0 Even that possibility should bring shame to every American male.\u00a0 To think that someone as weird, petty and dysfunctional as Petey Boy is deemed the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of American manhood is just a crying shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you say about Pete Buttigieg that doesn\u2019t make him out as a jerk?\u00a0 During the debate in Las Vegas, some Telemundo reporter calls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1799,2352,1836],"class_list":["post-10005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-2020-election","tag-hall-monitor-pete","tag-pete-buttigieg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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