Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Mar 3 Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to. Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.
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Is there someone you forgot to mention
“Aside from a few of the brass, there are no innocent bystanders in war.” ~M*A*S*H (paraphrased)
Trump is envious of Zelensky Hes that shallow Hes always been envious of other men Trump didnt have the authorization of this war Hold him accountable Do not fund this forever war
When will there be a Democrat who can really fire back? Is that Newsom?
In the last 40 years, every time a #Republican is elected #POTUS, they find a way to send #USA into a #war in the #MiddleEast, somehow they convince too many #Americans that @democrats.org are the WARMONGERS! It's just UNBELIEVABLE - says something about #Democrats very POOR & WEAK MESSAGING! 1/
Maybe you could mention the innocent Iranian civilians who are being killed as well, including the estimated 175 killed when the US bombed an elementary school the other day - an out and out war crime.
I can’t imagine being the parent or spouse of the soldiers that died because they did as they were told by a bunch of incompetent hacks. This war will prove to be another trump con job in which only he and his buddies enrich themselves and the hell with anyone who dies along the way.
You take AIPAC money which mean you would’ve done exactly the same thing. I’ll vote for you when you aren’t beholden to the Israeli lobby.
Last year the US oil industry made about $740 billion in revenue. This mostly went to a small group of already US based billionaires. This group backed trump because they wanted more $ billions and they will do *anything* to get it. This is why trump attacked Iran.
Sums it up pretty well.
When are you going to start raising hell about military commanders calling this a religious war with god on our side to bring about End Times? America in a religious war. Are you fucking kidding me!
Is Iran having a nuclear weapon ok Pete? Is Iran using proxy terrorists ok? The terrorist regime is over and the world is a lot safer now.
Not to mention the innocent civilians being killed across the globe. Ordinary people living their lives are being extinguished seemingly without a care or thought.
All this is true. Now what are we going to do about it? VOTE, VOTE, VOTE tHE POWER IS IN THE BALLOT
Still leaving out the 167 school girls murdered in the first attack..there are many other people in this world who aren't Americans...🙄
I wish Malcolm Nance was tapped more often by Dems.
Good lord. Announce you’re running and take the oxygen away from the drowning rat.
What about the Iranian schoolgirls? Do their lives not count?
Yes. We couldn't take them down while being looted more than 1.5 years. Looking back, think about #SouthKorea🇰🇷 . They impeached the wrongly elected president, carried out a new election, elected a right President and got back up in 6 months. We've let our country looting on going - here we are😓
The rash war of Trump leaves us fewer choices.
"OPERATION EPSTEIN"
That word “war” must be a word that is deeply felt for all who served at some time in their lives. Never easy
The people with the least always pay the bill for those with the most. It’s called “capitalism”…
Bernie wpuld have won
JUST SAY NO AMERICA!!!
So sorry that they didn't plan for the consequences of @Trump War, because #BiBi #Trump were only planning to "REMAIN IN POWER" to the detriment of the #People #Democracy they SWORE to protect but sadly the Bully underrated & selected the wrong Target! EPSTEIN FILES IS NOT GOING AWAY MR PRESIDENT
Thanks, what do we do?
chose to go to war, for Epstein
Trump did this
Un American. Shameful.
Please run for President🥰
Hey, Pete, I'd happily vote for you--smart, humane, sensible, capable--but you've got to get it OUT there! We need to hear from you weekly at least, on all Dem fronts. It's roughly 2.5 years to 2028. Time to throw your hat in the ring, if you want the job!
Absolutely
No one is going to say Iran is a peaceful country. But it seems that Trump is abusing his position by not consulting congress or allies. He has ranted at the UK because we won’t follow his lead and support his actions. But the same old story, the poor pay the price fighting rich men’s wars.
Excuse me - also other countries and their citizens. It’s not always just about America and Americans!!!!
What’s your take on Netanyahu threatening 2hit Tehran with nuclear weapons if USA did not join in attacks? Or possible more Mossad/epstein intel blackmail.Is the Democratic Party able to navigate &investigate (with international sources) this-or is there too much collateral damage in the files?
President Trump's recklessness is pulling in the entire Middle East, and thus the rest of the world... So much for WWIII.
But you had to cheat Bernie and even vote for shitllary as a super delegate when YOUR SYATE went for Bernie. Yea....I remember. And it is a huge mark saying fuck no to everything you do. FUCK OFF!
Have you pledged not to take AIPAC funds?
This entire administration needs to be impeached & removed NOW !
Everyone suffers .. think globally America ... we are all affected .
Who is this message for? Seriously? When are politicians going to do something impactful and not just post crap we all know on social media?
Luv ya Buddy.
So…you think FIFA is regretting its award?
The attack on Iran was well justified: ✅ Iran is a brutal, evil regime ✅ Killed 30,000 protesters recently ✅ Trying to enrich Uranium ✅ Supporters of terrorist groups ✅ Stockpiling drones and missiles ✅ Strategic advantage to attack now given they are weak ✅ Look at what they're doing now
Commander bone spur has started a war that we didn't need to start. He will do anything to stop people from talking about the Epstine files. I will bet his kids won't go fight. They all probably inherited bone spurs.
And 1000s of civilians in the Middle East.
never mind the hundreds of Iranians killed so far
The State of our Union… Is Horrifying! #DonaldTrump does not obey any of our laws & has NO regard for our Constitution! The GOP has become the Party of Trump, so Congress has become inept! And For the 1st time Ever, The American President is now a Global Villain! The World hates Trump!
Because you're all imperialists. We've been at war im the Middle East for decades.
Hey Pete, what can be done to stop him, and who's going to DO IT!?!
So, STOP the bastard and fucking stop playing politics as usual!
Oh come on, the real price are paying the people who are dying in the middle east - their lives
Thank you captain obvious, the reckless regime surely must be shaken by this “forceful” condemnation, maybe Chuck Schumer can ad a strong letter to go with it
About two hundred little girls have paid for this war with their lives this week. All lives matter.
Its a Fact!
You really, really need to work on how you word these things. The last message I saw from you, on the day Trump bombed Iran, talked about "our great military." In this one, you're suggesting that service members and ordinary Americans are two different things. They are not.
Hellurrr, whats about when the *current* justification for bombing TF outta Iran gets pointed at America!? Canada & Mexico may rightfully believe the tramp crime syndicate is plotting to attack them, so....preemptive strikes apply, yes?
7 military members are not more worthy then the hundreds of children and civiliens they bombed.... THEY MURDERED THEM. Make that headline news rather then 7 service members WHO WERE SENT TO THEIR DEATH BY THE ORANGE C*NT #TrumpIsAPedophile #TrumpIsAMurderer #ArrestTrump #ReleaseTheEpstienFiles
I would also add that hundreds of Iranian children have already paid the price, and it's weird that wasn't mentioned but has prices were
This is illegal and insane. Impeach Trump!
As so many have pointed out yes a few US solidiers have sadly died unneccessarily, but how about the chaos, death & destruction launched across the whole region? Did the hundreds of girls deserve to die because they went to school? How about empathy for all, not just a few in the aggressor army
Well and now there is a large group of countries where Americans are not welcome!😢 i did not vote for any of this chaos and lose of American lives or anyone else's lives!
We shouldn't be at war! Because of pressure from Netanyahu, Trump really screwed us. Who is running this country? Netanyahu? Rubio? The sleepwalking dead Republicans? I don't want my children or anyone elses children fighting in a 'choice' war created by IDIOTS!
Military Religious Freedom Foundation has reported receiving over 110 complaints from U.S. service members regarding commanders at more than 30 military installations who allegedly framed the ongoing war with Iran as a "Christian war" intended to bring about Armageddon & the return of Jesus Christ.
"but because the President recklessly chose to".... I think you meant to say "because Congress recklessly let him". Congress has the legal authority, Trump can only do this because Congress has no spine. The prick can and should be impeached.
The Vietnam War began with 64% public approval, then dropped significantly as the conflict continued, ending in only 29% approving of the intervention. The beginning of the Iran War is at 27% public approval.
The fact both red and blue have almost all been so easily bought by Israel, even to the point you pay and participate in genocide for Israel, then act surprised when the monster you created goes too far, and now the Middle East, and the world is about to light up
I'm aghast right now, Americans have been slayed there, and metaphorically here, slayed asleep by this administration. Thousands of US 'zens left stranded, no exit, no evac route, which has been standard military protocol to ensure, for decades. And, business as usual here stateside.
Wagging The Dog that isn’t potty trained? Gnome, your up
Are you open to conditioning aid to Israel and taking a more distant relationship with them? Israel dragged us into this war and will continue to drag us into wars until they get their 'Greater Israel'.
EP(stein)IC F(iles)URY
And his cronies will make $$$
If I ever hear about Afghanistan and the Biden evacuation, one that Trump decreed, I swear I will cut my ears off and pluck out my eyeballs. Heinousness is Trump’s and his cohorts calling card.
In other words, the people Trump and the Republicans call “suckers and losers” are the ones that suffer while the filthy rich pedophile class are coddled.
How about a mention of the victims who were and are being injured and killed… Don’t their lives matter?
Wealthy Allies? You mean like those Wall Street and Health Insurance companies and executives that funded your run in 2020?
And citizens of other countries. Thanks Donald, you complete W ⚓
This support our troops shit doesn't play anymore. It is a volunteer army and the Pentagon budget is obscene by any standard.
As he likes to say: "The system is rigged!"
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Please address the Biden administration’s folly with the Epstein files. How could it allow a pedophile convicted felon to not face his role in the Epstein class? Why didn’t it share critical intel with “allies” and let monsters keep their positions? Shameful.
Maybe lean into the fact that we're an evil country murdering children on a dipshit holy war?
Let's just give trump to Iran. His administration can go as well. They can do with him as they please.
Poor ordinary Americans, they might see Epstein's royal guard bombing Iranian baby girls to shreds, that is bad for their morale! it might decrease their efficiency by 0.4%! think about humanity! (anyone with American citizenship that is!)
Grow up, you know this is the best step towards peace. The bully of the gulf has been put in its place.
And the rest of the world! Look at what is happening in the Middle East with airlines and shipping
yes we had too
Good luck with Congress — most members stand to benefit financially from this war.
Yeah, but the price of eggs!
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But according to the guys in charge, this is going to trigger Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ, who will carry Trump to Heaven in a golden chariot pulled by 12 year virgins. (Ok, I made that part about the chariot up. I wish I had made it ALL up *sob*)
Trump's failure to achieve an agreement with Iran shows why his book should have been titled "Art Of A Schlemiel."
Sadly, you are preaching to the choir.. Think you need to use some campaign funds to run national commercials to put this administration on blast!
You need the guts to jail some billionaires in the Epstein class.
Democrats who do not want to tax billionaires are Republicans.
its an illegal war with lies to support starting it - that Americans go off to war because Israel wants them to. Israel runs the U.S. and America suffers deaths, and costs and war is not cheap. Throw out the Israelis and the billionaires who profit. But your kids who die for it. Throw them out.
You are bought and payed for by Israel Pete
Lose the facial hair. That goes for Chris Murphy and Eric Swalwell too. This seven day shadow look has run its course. You’re all better looking without that scraggly hair.
Many more innocent Iranians will also suffer.
You know what does not makes sense? Above law Trump crime fam & republicons in all branches never getting jail time. Another irresponsible thing states still allowing criminals to run for any office makes NO DAMN sense. Billioniars pay politicians. Trumps are a problem bc politicians allow it.
Shut up OATHBREAKER. You and all those other reps, marshalls, and justices swore an oath to the constitution and you all did NOTHING to stop this before & you do NOTHING to stop it now because your bank accounts grow from Pedo-Shitler's crime and corruption too. Do something or STFU.
Over 70 percent of Americans OPPOSE this War. Period.
No; it’s time to eat the Filthy Rich. Even the ordinary wealthy agree.
Working class are once again carrying the burdens associated with $billionaires who own/control a corrupt GOP.
No offense, Pete, but I don't trust anyone who takes AIPAC Anymore!
Iranian school girls die, they paid the price of US actions. But to the yankbrained only “ordinary americans” matter.
Sacrificing suckers and losers to fool other suckers and losers
They ABDICATED, Pete! Now what? Stand around over here with our faces hanging out, waiting for the next 9/11 attack in retribution? #ThanksTrumplethinskin 🙄🤦🏼♀️
It's not a war. Congress has not approved it (yet). It's an illegal attack.
He needs to be somewhere in the next Dem administration!
Unfortunately not the first time either. Those that do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
To point out the obvious, every one of those servicepeople has an obligation to defend the Constitution. I don't see any reference in the Constitution nor its amendments to bombing a school that they know is filled with non-combatant tender-aged humans.
President Trump was so desperate to change the narrative away from Epstein that he started a war.
Exactly! And now Marco Rubio is panicking on air!
I think you’ll find it’s the Iranians, Lebanese and other civilians suffering alongside the servicemen and women who are party to this nightmare. Commanding officers should be refusing these illegal orders.
That's how it always is. A rich man's war, a poor man's fight.
The leaders he killed would literally stone gay people to death if given the chance, you absolute fucking dumb fuck
You data worshipping, aipac shilling, corporate dems have the absolute worst opinion of your voters. You think we have zero morals. We’re not like maga. We actually believe in right and wrong. You don’t need to convince us that this war is bad because gas prices will go up by $1.
pretty sure those eighty dead schoolgirls are the ones paying the price, not the people who blew up their school
Brian Kilmeade pulled the trigger on a demented old man Friday night in Fox. It's sick. 25th NOW!
Right on Pete we’re with you.❤️🫵🏽
And murdered innocent children... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Loss of service members lives and farther in debt.
We have no troops on the ground and it's not likely that we will have them so how exactly are service members and ordinary Americans paying the price?
This you 😂😂😂😂😂
Pretty sure it's Iranians, first and foremost, who will be paying the highest price, you little political bedbug!
Sometimes we're so blinded by right that we can't see what is true. Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds. #FreeIran
Soldiers, remember who you're fighting for. 🫡🇺🇸🦅💪
It's not just Americans that suffer. The party that screams about being pro life and protecting children don't mind bombing them, especially if they are brown and from Iran. And they will spend your lives like pocket change without hesitation too. People are literally fighting a child rapist's war.
These are crimes. An unsanctioned war. Targeted terrorist assassinations. You know, like he does in "His Amerikan" cities now.
BE A FOOKIN SHAM EIF CANADA CUT OFF ALL THEM THAR RESOURCES AFTER ALL HE SAYS HE DNT NEED CANADA
Congress never gave a declaration so this is even more illogical and illegal
THIS is why...
Don't forget the many working class Iranian deaths this war will cause....
New reporting that military personnel are being told the attack on Iran is part of Gods divine plan and commanders are telling soldiers its part of the plan to facilitate Jesus' return? If this is true, its sick. Modern day Human sacrifices for extremists religious views..how do we stop this!?
Also the innocent civilians!!! The little girls that were slaughtered. Come on Buttigieg. Give a shit about human life.
Not as much as the people on the receiving end though. Do better. Be better.
But how does congress do that? They’ve done nothing about everything!
Pete, within both our lifetimes there hasn’t been a war we needed to be in, only ones we choose to be in. Will democrats commit to reducing the department of war’s budget? If not, why should we believe you won’t choose war as well?
It’s terrible how Trump is wasting America’s treasure
Q: WHAT R U GUYS GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? NOTHING? TALK AND TALK WHICH AMOUNTS TO NOTHING? More PODCASTS WHICH, SAYING "BAD TRUMP, TRUMP BAD!", LIKE HE GIVES A CRAP, AND ESSENTIALLY MEANS NOTHING?! 👍 OKAY THEN.... Let me see what my favorite show is doing... then I got to get a new comforter. GL.
Quick civics reminder: the UN Charter prohibits member states from using military force against other nations — with only two narrow exceptions. The US has now violated this in Iran AND Venezuela. Persistent violations can lead to expulsion from the UN.
And ordinary people in Iran and other, innocent people, in the Middle East. Easy to forget those not visible
What if an illegal tax is implemented, the court rules it's illegal yet the implementing agency does not plan to refund your money! What would you do?
The Government stranded thousands of Americans.. in a war zone… no forewarning.. terrible planning or just incompetence
Amen
It was a different calculation when we had a draft and children of the administration and of lawmakers were at risk of getting drafted and sent off to fight
Not just Americans: gas prices are up everywhere and there are people stuck in Middle East cause there are no flights. Ordinary people everywhere suffers from this.
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...and innocent civilians.
And millions of innocent non-Americans, as usual.
Pete, get ready for to run. America needs smart, calm, rational leadership. America needs free healthcare, free daycare, funded schools, infrastructure investment, industrial strength tax reform, statehood for DC & PR, shedding the electoral college... Pete you've supported all of these. Pete run.
You hiked up the price of bread. You LITERALLY have starved children. No body should listen to this fucking monster
Innocent people in Iran are paying a much larger price.
I don’t appreciate you framing this as war. There was no decision by Congress. If you want to call it an ILLEGAL WAR, sure, but stop giving his unauthorized trigger acts validity!
It is high time that the US rediscovers its morals and its principles of international law and humanitarian rights, which have completely disappeared with the Israeli lobby in politics!
We are at war so Netanyahu will give Trump gaza for his resrt wet dream.
We aren’t at war- The Regime started a war- send them in to fight it
The rich and powerful have always made the wars, and we get to die in them. It's time this ended. Humanity can accomplish such great things, but we, the people, have to be in charge of our fate. I hope this chaos is the beginning of that change.
Great speech last night at Bob Brooks campaign rally
Iranian schoolgirls paid the price you fuckers
And it worked. Not a peep about the Epstein Files nor ICE terror since we started this bullshit war.
Strange lens choice makes you look weird, Pete.
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Please start mentioning that one of the reasons they are so reluctant to declare war is the military will actually receive combat pay and extra benefits. Republicans are so resentful to have to take care of veterans because they will then receive better health benefits for the rest of their lives.
Any politician who is not willing to separate from the blood money of Isreal needs to go. All of them.