Seems like a strange idea for a campaign slogan.
Delivering a speech in South Carolina Monday, Democrat presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg declared that America was “never as great as advertised.”
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana insinuated that President Trump’s slogan – Make America Great Again – was designed to divide people and harken back to a time that wasn’t all that great in the first place.
“Our current president targeted with a message saying that we could find greatness by just stopping the clock and turning it back, and making America great again,” he said. “When that past that he is promising to return us to was never as great as advertised.”
Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg today in South Carolina: America “was never as great as advertised” pic.twitter.com/VdOxexSIHJ
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 6, 2019
Buttigieg emphasized that America wasn’t spectacular, “especially for marginalized Americans.”
Perhaps he is referring to those he believes should receive reparations, something Buttigieg has said he supports.
“The country as a whole is effectively segregated by race and the resources are different,” he explained back in April. “There is a direct connection between exclusion in the past and exclusion in the present.”
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On Monday, he said of a once great America – “There’s no going back anyway.”
If there’s no going back, why should today’s Americans pay for the sins of their forefathers?
Joins Other Radical Dems in Hating America
Buttigieg gets a pass with the media because he’s managed to package his crazy in a manner that is palatable to the average viewer. But the ‘America isn’t all it’s cracked up to be’ crowd is prevalent in the Democrat party, and Buttigieg is just another member.
Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, recently asserted that American greatness “never in fact really existed.”
Cory Booker has said, “There’s things that are savagely wrong in this country.”
Socialist curmudgeon Bernie Sanders announced that “there is something fundamentally immoral and wrong about (America).”
Then there was the original anti-patriot in New York governor Andrew Cuomo …
“We are not going to ‘Make America Great Again.’ It was never that great”: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo says in New York City Wednesday, riffing off of President Trump’s famous campaign slogan. What do you think of the comment? https://t.co/sH0TtLgiSb pic.twitter.com/zbTZDJMQwv
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 16, 2018
Not the First Time Buttigieg Has Said This
Buttigieg’s comments are a rehashing of something he said just last month but slipped mostly under the radar.
He was once again attacking the ‘MAGA’ slogan saying “it comes from people who think the only way to speak to communities like ours is through resentment and nostalgia.”
“They’re selling an impossible promise of returning to a bygone era that was never as great as advertised to begin with,” Buttigieg added.
Why would he say these things?
One, he genuinely believes it as most Democrats do. Or two, he’s appealing to the radical base, a base which includes 20 percent of his party members who believe America hasn’t always been the greatest country on Earth.
Either way, this makes Buttigieg, a man the media is trying to portray as moderate and reasonable, just as radical as the others in his party.
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If these people don’t like the U.S.A. why don’t they just go to Mexico, or Central America, or some other third world country where the socialism view is all they have.
If America was never great, then how did we become the world’s main superpower?
Well, the presidential wannabe with the strange (and somehow unflattering) name has completely misunderstood the MAGA message Trump campaigned on. He wasn’t calling for a return to the past, he was calling for Americans to reawaken to what has made this country unique in world history – a message that was meant to counter the apologize-for-America theme relentlessly pushed by his predecessor, Barack Obama. There’s a reason for the “caravans” of people trying to cross our borders, legally or illegally, and it’s not that America is a horrible place. No one is claiming that our history is flawless. There are dark chapters (slavery, treatment of native Americans, Jim Crow laws, the KKK), but the point about those chapters is that America has continuously moved forward, abandoning those periods of darkness in favor of trying to make itself a better, more enlightened place. No, our record of success is not unblemished, but we keep trying – guided by the unique constitution our Founders created – and that is what the MAGA campaign is really about. Obama seemed to want Americans to hang their heads in shame for all their perceived villainies and shortcomings; Trump wants Americans to lift their heads and, like the Army recruiting slogan, be all they can be. For all his faults, Trump obviously truly loves his country and wants to reverse the negative impact of eight years of Obama by making Americans love their country as much as he does.
It’s not as gay as advertised either.
This creepy, sleazy queer is promoting his sick life and expects the world to follow.
He is NOT a leader, but a sick puke that gets national press coverage because he is weird and likes it in his behind, which has always been an exit.
Take your sick, perverted life style to Saudi Arabia and see how you are treated ?
I do NOT care what he thinks he is, it is what is in his pants, that determines his sex ! If he cannot figure that out, he is nothing more than another disgusting, bisexual fairy !
The LAST person this country needs is another odumass! And this pathetic excuse for a human being is just like the one that apologized for the U.S. being a great country and sold us out to islam which is the barbaric, violent, medieval cult because odumass wanted to become the first and one and only DICTATOR! And Buttigieg (alias as*hole) is following in the same ignorant destructive ideology!
He bashes America and expects to get votes? I challenge him to find a better place than America.
I wonder what he thinks would have happened if our great land and brave warriors hadn’t stepped into WWII. I lost two uncles in that war, one at Normandy, I’ve traveled extensively, lived in a Third World country for YEARS and from my experience, there has never been a country as great as ours.
The Dems are trying this tactic in hopes of getting the vote of all the losers who have been sneaking in.
You are wrong you do not bash America . . We American will not stand for people who do not set our country up in high esteem . Just look at what Obama is doing going around the globe bad mouthing America on foreign soil. For that alone he should be tried for treason. You need to grow up. You could do with 4yrs. in the military & I do not mean a weekend warrior. They would teach you a thing or two
You can move away any time you want, you little dick licker.
The dems only have the same old rhetoric, America and Americans LAST in their view. Oh yeah, BTW that means that the dem Marxists will get to direct the masses from their nice soft jobs in the government while stealing us blind! What a piece of trash!
Its like he’s saying if you don;t vote for him , and the DNC America is not great. Other than that he has no fundamental concept of how the American saga is great it allows low lifes like Pete Buttigieg to run for office.
Yes, this is the guy I want to vote for, a guy that says America was never that great.
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Perhaps we need to examine what a countries greatness really is.
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Is creating two Founding Documents that has guided this country for 243 years a sign of greatness? yes
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Is having a continuous systematic transition of power for 243 years a sign of greatness?
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Is knowing and understanding our history, acknowledging our shortcomings then having the ability to correct the injustices of our actions through those Founding documents a sign of greatness? yes
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Is surviving an attempted separation of the country and the ending of slavery a sign of greatness? yes
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Is defending the worlds freedom in two world wars a sign of greatness? yes
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Is creating the most dynamic industrial economy in the world a sign of greatness? yes
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Is destroying that most dynamic industrial economy through so called free trade agreements allowing American jobs to be traded for cheap junk to other countries a sign of greatness? NO
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Is President Trump’s desire to bring back our industrial base to make America Great Again a sign of greatness? yes.
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What are the progressive socialist leftwing democrat party and their minions in the new American Pravda media plans to bring America back to greatness?
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SOCIALISM & DICTATORSHIP, HIGH TAXES and CONTROL OF OUR LIVES.is what they offer. The kind of SOCIALISM they propose will always eventually lead to a dictatorship that is the only way it can be forced on us.
Brennan needs his mouth shut.
To Make America Great Again, Pres Trump is getting rid of left wing Democrat rules that have impeded progress.
And what is he going to bring to the table to make it great? More far left failed policies? men kissing men in front of our children?
And what is he going to bring to the table to make it great? More far left failed policies? men kissing men in front of our children?
Stop ranting here and go suck up your “ideal” living in Venezuela ! All you leftists have it so bad here, my bleep !
Stop ranting here and go suck up your “ideal” living in Venezuela ! All you leftists have it so bad here, my bleep !
Take these people that don’t think America is so great to the desert to live in a mud hut!
another loser……
democrats SUCK
democrats SUCK
Buttigieg’s been lapping up some pretty nice white privileges all of his life. Father a judge, mother an entrepreneur. Private boarding school, Rhodes Scholar. Even got to marry the man of his dreams. He didn’t do much as mayor. Some pretty good gigs for a short guy who doesn’t think much of the Republic. His one claim to fame is his relentless dogging of religion and Mike Pence. He’s supposed to be running for President against Donald Trump not Cardinal of the catholic Church..
Well Mr Bootigig, You were born in the US. So no matter what you think what is advertised, you didn’t sacrifice anything to get here. Your claim that the US didn’t live up to you expected is nonsense.
Well Mr Bootigig, You were born in the US. So no matter what you think what is advertised, you didn’t sacrifice anything to get here. Your claim that the US didn’t live up to you expected is nonsense.
Candidate Obama toted the enigmatic slogan “Hope and Change” and also “Together we can” and the moonbats followed these empty slogans. Trump backed up MAGA by publishing a tax reform he championed and specific reforms that he has worked hard to accomplish and the economy has been great. They know damned well it doesn’t mean to bring back racism and segregation. Why would he want to bring back the policies of the early 20th century Democrat Party?
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Candidate Obama toted the enigmatic slogan “Hope and Change” and also “Together we can” and the moonbats followed these empty slogans. Trump backed up MAGA by publishing a tax reform he championed and specific reforms that he has worked hard to accomplish and the economy has been great. They know damned well it doesn’t mean to bring back racism and segregation. Why would he want to bring back the policies of the early 20th century Democrat Party?
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If you don’t love your country, Mr. Butti, then get out!
Why is the concept of Making America Great again so hard for people to understand? We want to take what worked in the past, mix with good ideas of the present and pull in the future shake well and MAKE America Great for anyone who wants it. If not please go to the place you believe is better.. One of the many things that made America Great we won’t hold you here against your will . That being said Mr Buttmunch should go somewhere and do what you want and quit raining on the American Parade
Why is the concept of Making America Great again so hard for people to understand? We want to take what worked in the past, mix with good ideas of the present and pull in the future shake well and MAKE America Great for anyone who wants it. If not please go to the place you believe is better.. One of the many things that made America Great we won’t hold you here against your will . That being said Mr Buttmunch should go somewhere and do what you want and quit raining on the American Parade
Petey boy, you haven’t lived long enough to know anything about America’s GREATNESS, or how anything was prior to the invasion of communists, liberals and mentally deranged, greedy, grubbing political nut jobs, like yourself – -at 81 yrs-of-age, I can attest to that.
Petey boy, you haven’t lived long enough to know anything about America’s GREATNESS, or how anything was prior to the invasion of communists, liberals and mentally deranged, greedy, grubbing political nut jobs, like yourself – -at 81 yrs-of-age, I can attest to that.
Please use your freedom to move to any other country of your choice.
people will die trying to get to this country you goof.
Instead of attacking the country that is the best in the world, why don’t the democrats go someplace else and a start a new country based on their principles[?]. And when they fail, do not let them back in the U.S.
Instead of attacking the country that is the best in the world, why don’t the democrats go someplace else and a start a new country based on their principles[?]. And when they fail, do not let them back in the U.S.
You know, I spent 6 years of my life in the Marine Corps, defending this country against what ever, endangered it.
Suddenly I have queers and fat heads telling me it isn’t much.
I see no reason to continue dealing with these fat heads.
The talking no longer works, civil war is the answer
If America is as bad as these Dumbocrats say it is, why are so many people willing to risk their lives to come and live here?
If America is as bad as these Dumbocrats say it is, why are so many people willing to risk their lives to come and live here?
Why is anyone even considering a perv*rt for president? If these people he is appealing to don’t think America is great, why don’t they just leave?
The President was pretty clear about putting government back in the hands of the people. That’s what makes us great. I guess the Democrats don’t get that part because they don’t seem to want the people in charge. Buttigeig has that same smarmy way of expressing himself that Obama did. Been there, done that. No thanks.
The President was pretty clear about putting government back in the hands of the people. That’s what makes us great. I guess the Democrats don’t get that part because they don’t seem to want the people in charge. Buttigeig has that same smarmy way of expressing himself that Obama did. Been there, done that. No thanks.
Where did he come from, MARS????? THIS WAS A GREAT COUNTRY, until ODUMBA took over!! NOW, the PRESIDENT is making it great again!!
Buttplug is on his way out………….
Buttplug is on his way out………….
Well Butt Plug you just lost my vote forever.
Although there are a lot of Democrat candidates, I think they’re saying the same thing, that America was never great.
Apparently that’s going to be the Democrat candidate’s slogan, “America was never great”.
They seem to take the opposite approach to whatever Trump says.
Although there are a lot of Democrat candidates, I think they’re saying the same thing, that America was never great.
Apparently that’s going to be the Democrat candidate’s slogan, “America was never great”.
They seem to take the opposite approach to whatever Trump says.
First Cuomo, now “Butt Gig”. Democrats wouldn’t know what a great country is because they worship the old Soviet Union, Cuba and Iran over their own country.
Butt Gig. Is that a Real Name? He needs to shut up and go back to playing with his buddy’s Butt!