It’s never an insurrection when your side is the one doing it. Just ask good ol’ Mayor Pete.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday defended protesters against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh who gathered earlier this week outside Morton’s steakhouse, where he was eating dinner.
Buttigieg’s boyfriend, Chasten, tweeted in response to the news: “Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions,” a shot toward Kavanaugh’s vote to overturn Roe v. Wade last month, ending a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” moderator Mike Emanuel asked Buttigieg if his Chasten’s tweet about the incident was “appropriate.”
“Look, when public officials go into public life, we should expect two things. One, that you should always be free from violence, harassment, and intimidation,” Buttigieg replied. “And two, you’re never going to be free from criticism or peaceful protest, people exercising their First Amendment rights.”
Speaking out is a First Amendment right. Harassing people in their private life isn’t. There’s a huge difference between protesting outside the Supreme Court, and outside the homes and private gatherings of individuals.
Buttigieg isn’t very bright, despite trying to make that into his brand, but he knows the difference quite well and is being disingenuous when he pretends that he doesn’t.
“So, yes, people are upset,” Buttigieg concluded. “They’re going to exercise their First Amendment rights.”
If they were exercising “their First Amendment rights” outside Sotomayor’s cafe, the conversation would be quite different.
Kagman says
ButtPlug: ““And two, you’re never going to be free from criticism or peaceful protest, people exercising their First Amendment rights.””
This communist reprobate said the same thing about the BurnLootMurder riots (read: real insurrection) that destroyed BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars of innocent people’s homes and belongings.
It’s the Liberal FILTH in this nation that has created this Ft. Sumter moment… We need to respond with all possible haste and all possible violence
Wellington says
Buttplug is a wretched man who’s good at making up fancy word salads like Obama is but, in the final analysis, he is shallow and wrong on most every issue (like Obama). The First Amendment is about free speech, not about harassment or, even worse, outright threats—harassment and threats often times being difficult to distinguish from one another,
mortimer says
Agree. Surely, you would expect a gay man to know all about HARASSMENT and that he would be opposed to it. But no.
Butti-jig is NOT worried as long as NON-GAY PEOPLE are harassed.
As far as I am concerned, HARASSMENT is HARASSMENT. It’s always wrong.
mortimer says
Wellington chose the right word for this disgraceful person: ‘SHALLOW’.
If we use the ‘shoe-on-the-other-foot’ argument by substituting the name in the sentence (‘It’s ok to harass judges we don’t like) for ‘Jew’, ‘black’, ‘Muslim’, ‘Gays’, ‘women’, etc.
The US has a law to protect judges from harassment. And AG Garland should be impeached for not enforcing the law to protect judges. He wanted to become one of the Supremes himself, so Garland has no excuse for not enforcing this law.
gravenimage says
+1
wpm says
I am sure that if a group of people were following around “Padre” Peter and his partner with their baby in tow yelling at them in a public area them asking about Pete,s policy to fix the supply chain transportation problem they would be arrest .Just like if they were protesting outside the house he and his partner live in .I think Pete should have remain on leave after he and his partner got their baby ,what a useless tool he is.
Kepha says
Padre Pete, Chesten (is there some sado-masochism going on in the relationship?), and the kid they’re grooming…
wpm says
I am sure that if a group of people were following around “Padre” Peter and his partner with their baby in tow yelling at them in a public area them asking about Pete,s policy to fix the supply chain transportation problem they would be arrest .Just like if they were protesting outside the house he and his partner live in .I think Pete should have remain on leave after he and his partner got their baby ,what a useless tool he is..
gravenimage says
Exactly. Pete wouldn’t like it and would consider this harassment–because it would be. But he is not willing to acknowledge it when the victim is conservative.
Americans have the right to protest, but *not* to harass judges, elected officials, and others in their private lives and at home.
mortimer says
Pete is a hypocrite. He would be opposed only if it were a gay person or Dem being harassed.
gravenimage says
Too true, Mortimer.
gravenimage says
Buttigieg Defends Harassing Conservative Justices Over Abortion
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Just appalling. So much for cuddly “Mayor Pete”.
Wellington says
+1.
Oh man, gravenimage, this guy is so sanctimonious while at the same time being so wrong on the law and so disingenuous that a double standard exists between those on the Left and those on the Right. He is also a massive incompetent, but then so is everyone, no exceptions, in the bogus Biden Administration.
gravenimage says
Yep. He was presented as an all around nice guy when running for president, though. In reality, not so much.
somehistory says
There is a headline in the msn newsfeed about “queer legal experts”…yes, those words are together…”scrambling” to find what they need to in case that “obergeferfel,” comes back to the Court, and being overturned. And yes, I did misspell the name, but I don’t really care.
What will this useless creature…I feel so sorry for the babies he and his whatever adopted…do if that happens? whine, and *protest* outside Justice’s homes. he’s already made it ‘okay’ to do that, so he will be ‘free’ to do it too.
I’m using my Freedom to say he is a useless creature, and since I’m not even near his home, it’s protected speech.
Jay says
Buttigigieg aka Butthead, is a disgrace to the United States on too many levels to comprehend !
Of course ……. Biden is the ultimate demented disgrace! It’s hard to comprehend the damage they have done to this country! And it’s not over for two more years! Elections have consequences and illegal Biden is the worst president we have ever had! God bless and save America from the liberal, socialist insanity and their plans to destroy us! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Andrew Blackadder says
I thought Pete Buttplug was still on Maternity leave.
OLD GUY says
I wonder how Buttigieg feels about harassment of GAY politicians.?
Kepha says
Buttiegig and his whole cohort created a culture of political invicility, cancellation, hassarrment, and pettiness; and then they dare to whine.
I did not approve of the Capitol Breach when it happened, and fully note Trump’s plea for a “peaceable and patriotic protest”. But, I am also troubled at how the breach was done in the name of that swathe of the populace whose first instinct is to trust the system. Now, at this point, I hope that ultimately the defense lawyers for those accused in the Jan. 6 incident pick up the Committee by the feet and sweep the floor with its collective hair (figuratively, of course).