If the truth be told, I meant to share this video sometime last week, but I kinda hit a wall of exhaustion and had to book a few days off before I got around to it. As you may have heard, "Mayo" Pete Buttigieg, a likely candidate for the 2028 US Democratic Party presidential nomination and perhaps the most high-profile, openly gay politician in America, became the latest shit tier neoliberal minion to toss trans people to the wolves, amid an ongoing fascist anti-trans pogrom in America.

On the surface, it may seem odd for a gay man to find points of agreement with bigoted and invariably anti-gay fascists, on the subject of human rights for other members of the LGBTQ community, but anyone who has studied "Mayo" Pete's long career arc from intelligence minion to former US Transportation Secretary knows that tossing marginalized people under the bus for rich and often quite reactionary neoliberals is literally how Buttigieg clawed his way to a position of modest prominence in the first place. This time however, Buttigieg is looking for the biggest promotion of his entire life, and to get it, he's willing to push fascist anti-trans propaganda as an electoral strategy, and thereby aid what many educated observers say looks like the early stages of an anti-trans genocide.

Look, I think it goes without saying that Mayo Pete, and the rest of the neoliberal wingers in positions of prominence in the Democratic Party can sincerely go fuck themselves if they think helping the nazis persecute trans people is how they're going to stop Trump and his nazi regime. That's not only batshit crazy, but profoundly fascist in its own right. I don't vote for fascists willing to let other fascists kill me, and I don't imagine very many other queer people in America feel differently. What folks like Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, and the desiccating political corpse of Rahm Emanuel are doing right now, goes far beyond the already cowardly and unacceptable shitlib strategy of refusing to talk about trans rights while a fascist regime is busy stripping them, and enters directly into a type of open collaboration with a fascist anti-trans pogrom in progress; a pogrom which may well end in the mass institutionalization, or murder, of trans Americans. Quite frankly, I don't think the LGBTQ TikTokers in the video go far enough in torching Buttigieg for his betrayal of not just trans people, but antifascists in general, given the potential cost (in lives) of his cynical political maneuvers here.

Crucially however, I would like to highlight host Mike Figueredo's discussion about the increasingly open, and virulent straight of anti-trans ideas and talking points, growing out of the "centrist" (right wing) leadership of the Democratic Party. The reality is that folks like Buttigieg, Newsom, and US Senator Elissa Slotkin aren't just spouting their own bigotry here. Due to various leaks and public statements, we already know that this "shift" in strategy on trans rights is an intentional policy platform plank for a neoliberal wing that still controls the Democratic Party, and are actively purging left wing and labor class influences from the internal party committees to give their objectively right-wing candidates, home field advantage in the upcoming primary cycles for 2028; including of course, the Democratic Party's next presidential nominee.

If you want my opinion, I don't really think it's an accident that all the centrist "Blue Dog" Democrats are talking about a need to throw trans people, particularly young trans girl athletes, to the fascist wolves. This faction inside the party has already unrolled their economic agenda, pitched under the idea of creating "Abundance" and their promise of *checks notes* Reaganite deregulation and trickle-down economics landed like a lead brick going through a glass window with voters who know those very same policies have created the nightmare hellworld we're living in now. They can't win on policy, so they intend to try and bribe voters with literal fucking transphobia. If that doesn't say "we have nothing to offer the labor class, not even an alternative to fascism" then I don't know what will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKGp_jfEzOk

LGBTQ+ TikTokers DRAG Pete Buttigieg for Throwing Trans People Under a Bus

"Pete Buttigieg is the latest Democratic politician to throw trans people under a bus to further his political ambitions. It’s particularly egregious for the fact that Buttigieg is the most prominent openly gay politician in America, which makes his normalization of anti-trans talking points uniquely dangerous. Fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community, however, responded to Pete’s cynical pivot… and they were not happy. In this video we’ll talk about Buttigieg’s dangerous rhetoric, the blowback he got from queer TikTokers, and address the growing anti-trans trend emerging in the Democratic Party among 2028 presidential hopefuls."

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