Mayor Pete is the latest Democrat to declare that Joe Biden shouldn’t have run for a second term in 2024 — now that it counts for absolutely nothing.
Biden “should not have run,” the former Transportation secretary told “Meet the Press” viewers, griping that “if he had made that decision [to drop out] sooner, we might have been better off.”
What a brave stand to take, only a year and a half too late to matter, except for maybe salvaging Pete’s 2028 hopes.
Not that Buttigieg will own up to his own role in enabling Biden to cling to the reins of power; just like everyone else in that administration, he’s insisting everyone was powerless to keep him from running again: “It literally was his decision. Nobody else was able to make that decision.”
That’s provably wrong: Biden could only hold out so long because the entire Democratic establishment (and its lapdogs in the media) kept blaring the lie that he was “the sharpest he’d ever been” ad nauseum.
In the end, after Biden’s debate meltdown, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and other elders moved to make him drop — with credible threats to humiliate him by invoking the 25th Amendment to sideline him completely (which might’ve even left him unable to issue blanket pardons for Hunter and the rest of the clan).
“We were helpless” is the new “sharp as a tack”: A lie everyone’s telling to avoid facing the truth.
Kamala Harris offers the same bull in her election reflection, “107 Days”: Somehow, “we’d all been hypnotized” into the “mantra” of “it’s Joe and Jill’s decision.”
None of them had the guts to stand up and stage an intervention while there was still time to do the right thing for the party and the country.
Buttigieg’s been a full-on coward until now, insisting as recently as July that he saw no evidence of Biden’s cognitive decline because he “always got whatever [he] needed” from the Oval Office.
Not that Pete seemed to be doing much in his day job, going AWOL after transportation disasters and in two years failing to get more than eight EV-chargers built across the nation despite $7.5 billion in funding.
The “politburo” of insiders running the White House left him alone; he wasn’t going to call out their game.
Admitting in September 2025 that Biden shouldn’t have run for a second term is a bit like pointing out the sky is blue and expecting to be applauded for it.
If we had to guess, Democratic voters aren’t going to buy this act: Buttigieg, Harris and the rest have no real hope of a 2028 run unless they quit gaslighting America.
But plainly Joe Biden was careful to surround himself with a Cabinet where no one would dare comment on the emperor’s clothes.