... though that's very nice. It's this family snapshot of Buttigieg (c. 2000) playing on a Nintendo machine with his father:
I cannot express how much I love this picture. The dog's tail, lit up in the foreground, is such a nice, homey touch, obviously accidental, since the dog isn't posing and the photographer's poor sense of framing is attested to by the sheep "standing" on young Buttigieg's head. I like how young he looks back then, the man Time calls the "gay Episcopalian veteran." And I love seeing his father — his "late father Joseph Buttigieg" — playing so earnestly, with no thought — I suspect — that this scene would ever be gazed upon by the readers of a Time Magazine cover story. And what was in the tin — the kind of tin that almost surely originally housed a fruitcake? Hard boiled eggs? Snowball cookies? What's in the chest atop the dresser? Jewels? Silverware? An embalmed pet? And what's in the trunk upon which the gay Episcopalian future veteran sits? Is that a guitar in the corner? A dobro? Mysteries of the Buttigieg childhood home. Beautiful!
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And what game are they playing?
It looks like any middle class rec room. Everything put where it would fit without a plan or attempt at aesthetic coherence. The kind of room teenagers can relax in. Makes me nostalgic for my own youth.
Not shown is the picture taken 30 seconds later of his dad throwing that controller down in disgust muttering "f___ing waste of time".
The chest on the dresser: Ark of the Covenant?
Will never understand the attraction.
And what game are they playing?
I'd imagine a 2 player NES sports game like R.B.I. Baseball.
It's a nice picture. They seem like nice guys. It's true that up until recently our society mostly either ignored gay men, or ostracized them or denigrated them or even mistreated them.
And, that has changed over the past 10 years. Most sane folks can live with the changes.
That may be enough to run and win a Mayor's race in Indiana, but, sorry, that's not enough to run for President.
If Pete is a pleasant man, great. But more importantly, Has he done a good job for the People of South Bend?
Even more importantly, what are his policy prescriptions as President in a country of 330 Million?
Not jumping on the bandwagon of hype. His just being gay, having a stellar resume, and making liberal whites feel guilty over excluding gays all these years won't cut it. If he is simply another liberal with liberal thoughts and proposals, well, that's not good for the country. If he's a Leftist, that would be harmful for the country.
He looks to be about 16. Ah, the 1990s, what a carefree happier time -things were simpler then. The pace of life slower. Time for family. Today he's an old man of 37.
BTW, Pete is actually "The Wife" in his marriage - so if Pete Is elected, his husband Chasten Gezman will the "first Gentleman".
For a brief second, I thought the cover was about Mormons.
Now that Margaret Carlson has disrespected Beto to the Nth degree, I guess we know who the young heartthrob is for Democrats. I wonder when he gets the halo posters like Obama?
"And what was in the tin — the kind of tin that almost surely originally housed a fruitcake? Hard boiled eggs? Snowball cookies? ..."
You had to go and bring 'snowballs' into the picture.
Maybe the dog is playing 'felch'.
I am Laslo.
BTW, no actually reads Time magazine anymore. They just look at the cover.
No matter what my intellect tells me, my lizard brain rebels.
The room is crying out for a potted avocado plant.
The cover looks like one of those memes where grown brothers pose in the same style as some picture taken when they were kids.
Playing some NES with the old man. That picture represents a sort of authentic domestic banality that is instantly relatable and even nostalgia inducing for younger Gen Xers and older Millenials.
Judging from the height of the window, I'd say the room is in the basement.
That's the most I've ever laughed at a Laslo comment.
LOL - this will win those blue collar, union type voters back to the fold!
Buttigieg's qualification: Being gay, to the left, and articulate. No record of accomplishment. The same as Obama's qualification: Being (half) black and articulate, with no record of accomplishment. Fool me once... (not that I was fooled the first time, but lots of Americans were).
Ann,
Naughty, naughty. How does a nice woman like you know what "felch" means?
The Lenin and Stalin posters are on the other side of the room.
Just think, a guy with such a normal background is totally cool with infanticide and weaponizing federal law enforcement and intelligence services against domestic political opponents in stalinist-like fashion.
I guess you can never tell how someone
will turn out.
DAMN IT, NOW I CANNOT UNSEE THE DEFINITION OF FELCH.
Does anyone read Time Magazine anymore?
Time Cover stories were a big deal -- 45 years ago.
Ellen DeGeneres had a Time cover 22 years ago -- Yep, I'm gay. She looked kinda hot too on the cover.
I guess troglodyte males are comfortable with hot looking Lesbians.
The deeper things of gay sex practices. That's taking the learning new words too far.
Beware any politician who doesn't have a pet, especially a dog, so they don't need a friend in Washington
This is going to be like Althouse's falling in love with Obama -- because of a picture with him, Michelle and their daughters -- all over again.
They are probably playing the communist father's favorite "Kill the Kulaks."
And where are the footie jammie's ?
Huh? People keep embalmed pets?
(eaglebeak)
Picture's okay, but he'd be a lousy President. All the stuff he's said about Pence opposing or attacking him is hogwash.
Also, the infanticide thing.
Althouse may not consider it infanticide, but killing a baby after it's born has ALWAYS been called infanticide up until it became inconvenient--look at all the histories reporting on the Ancient Greeks, Romans, etc., and their horrible practice of exposure.
Not a fan of Pete B. And wasn't a fan of cold, robotic Obama, either. Althouse wondered the other day if Obama and Michelle were robots. The answer is: Yes, and they always were.
BTW, Pete is actually "The Wife" in his marriage
is that enough to check off trans-to-female for president box?
Father and son are both doctrinaire communists. It's nice that they also loved each other, but his ascension to the presidency would be a dark day.
I have never voted for or excluded anybody based on their lifestyle, especially what kind of sex they prefer. I have never voted for anybody that is anything like me. Trump is probably the closest, but still not close at all. I'm nothing like him, and not a fan at all of his lifestyle, and that has zero to do with what kind of President he would make.
He's reassuringly normal and his morality is admirable. The fact that he's gay just serves to underscore his morality and sanity. Remember all the articles about JFK's health and vigor and what a devoted family man he was.
... mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm ...
Bill Clinton was celebrated as the first Black President. Will Booty be celebrated as the first Woman President?
Sincere thanks to Anthony for warning me off looking up "felch." Ignorance is bliss.
I want to see a photo of The Donald playing video games with teenage Jr, Eric or Ivanka. All I can remember are photos of her on his lap. I didn't play games with my pop pop, so I don't expect to see photos playing with his youngest.
His portraits of Karl Marx are in the bedroom.
Fruitcake? That's a dog whistle right there.
Buchanan will always have the distinction of being America's first gay President. I can see why Mayor Pete doesn't want you to hark back to that distinguished precedent. Perhaps Pitt the Younger is a better fit. There are many areas where Pitt and Buttigieg are congruent. Pitt was the youngest man to ever become the Prime Minister. He was PM at the age of twenty four and is likely to remain forever the youngest. He was a good scholar who entered Cambridge at the age of fourteen and distinguished himself academically. He was very good at languages and could sight read Latin and Greek verses and translate them into passable English poetry. That's a gift that was more celebrated back in the 18th century, but, still, it's a neat trick........Pitt has the distinction of being the first nerd to ever become a world historical figure. He's generally considered the founder of the Conservative Party. That's not applicable to Buttigieg but consider this. He was to finance and taxation what Napoleon was to artillery and forced marches. Pitt was the man who introduced the graduated income tax into our world. I think Buttigieg can claim the mantle of Pitt the Younger and lead us through these troubled times.
Dad’s a commie.
Most of the gay men of my generation shit themselves to death of AIDS.
The Time cover would be better if they were in shorts... or assless chaps.
But.....they aren't the first family.
Isn't this a bit premature? The dude is flavor of the month and one of a growing list of 20+. Slow down a bit.
It might happen but it hasn't happened.
There was no great persecution of the gay men.
Gay men killed themselves by the tens of thousands with their own behavior... AIDS.
Nor have we been “ignoring” gay men. Fag hags have been obsessing about gay men my entire life. Fag hagdom is a strange and fucked up perversion.
I’m really tired of the lies.
“Huh? People keep embalmed pets?”
As many here know, we became cat people, of sorts, last September. I periodically remind my partner when the cat has clawed her up a bit, that we have some really good taxidermists her in MT, and we could have them fully articulate the cat, and then pose him around the house, esp in his customary haunts. So far, she disclaims interest in my plan, going so far as to assure me that I would follow the cat shortly, if I ever try to carry it out. I then ask what are her favorite poses of me, and I would practice them for her. So far, we are at an impasse.
Danish butter cookies, gay porn, more and gayer porn, guitar.
the photographer's poor sense of framing is attested to by the sheep "standing" on young Buttigieg's head.
Didn't I read that Buttigeig's is an Arab word meaning "he who has the sheep"?
Didn't I read that Buttigieg's name.....
Althouse has two common sicknesses of wealthy white women.
The first and most offensive is her lame bitching about the persecution of women. She was born in one of the richest suburbs of NJ, Wayne. She’s been rich all her life and nothing has stood in the way of her ambitions. Her bitch here is 100% spoiled brat fakery.
The second sickness is the fag hag affliction. The fake suffering of her feminism and the fag haggery always seem to be combined in wealthy white women. Why, I don’t know.
When Althouse is not sunk in this shit, she is a great legal mind. She’s deliriously awful when she allows herself to indulge in her fakery. She becomes a grotesque liar.
That tin is packed with fudge.
Democrat puffery continues apace in the hallowed pages of Time magazine. Yawn.
Also, I dare anyone to find a pair of assed chaps.
The second photo interests me because Dad is relegated to the floor, while Mayor Pete gets the chair.
Well, it is nice that you (AA) got so much pleasure out of that photo but that litany of curiosity questions about the quotidian components of it was somewhere between inordinate and - sorry - bizarre.
I'm guessing that it reveals a yearning to find a new, "palatable" Lefty to vote for in 2020.
The cover photograph made me take note of just how low Buttigieg's ears are on his head.
Well below the eyes' axis.
Not quite freakish, but it gives him the look of a marsupial muppet that his gaze then reinforces.
Now I can't not see it.
I am Laslo.
To me, Buttigieg seems like such a pre-packaged Manchurian candidate that I doubt he is even gay. That's just a box he had to tick off to be the ideal candidate for Democratic women.
They can bugger each other (not that there's anything wrong with that) while Mayor Pete buggers the taxpayer and treats the Constitution the way the Turks treated Lawrence of Arabia at Deraa.
Today i thought i'd try to read the comments, before commenting; so i can agree with what
William said...
Buchanan will always have the distinction of being America's first gay President
Laslo Spatula said...
The cover photograph made me take note of just how low Buttigieg's ears are on his head.
Well below the eyes' axis.
Holy Fucking CRAP! look at those ears! Now I can't unsee!
I'm having trouble deciding which comment was funnier, Laslo's or tcrosse's. Both made me laugh out loud.
what is his plan for the Koreas?
So sorry I looked up felch. Sigh.
And Shouting Thomas, since when does Althouse bitch about the persecution of women? I think she's pretty quick to call bullshit on that stuff.
Felching. Completely normal behavior. Shouldn't raise any questions whatsoever about the practitioner and suitability for the highest office in the government.
And God made him that way.
The cover photograph made me take note of just how low Buttigieg's ears are on his head.
Well below the eyes' axis.
Just like this guy
rcocean said...
BTW, Pete is actually "The Wife" in his marriage - so if Pete Is elected, his husband Chasten Gezman will the "first Gentleman".>>
SAYYYYYy, looks like the Trans/women sports problem has now moved over to politics: If Pete ends up being our first "wife" president, america will break historic barriers but the gals are skunked.
Aren't all chaps assless? If they had an ass wouldn't they would be 'pants'?
I think that if the Russians had splattered a few commies brains against the wall early on, we could have had a lot less bloody 20th century. Instead, they ended up with their own brains splattered against the wall. Not sure why seeing Butt-whatever’s dad made me think of that point.
Is it me, or did he marry his dad- with straight hair?
Great.
But can he run the country?
Or is his homosexuality going to be thrust down everyone's throat?
It's like the first time Bob was on the cover of the rolling stone. And that's the ark of the covenant - you don't want to know what's inside.
Do the various identity groups ever tire of the condescension shown them by their political exploiters? Yes, the Donks need a Trump. No, this guy isn't the one.
Cute pictures but can the mayor of a small midwestern town govern the entire country. The pictures don't show that. He's out of his league.
Unfortunately for Buttegieg, no-one, except people stuck in urgent-care waiting rooms, reads Time
Even more importantly, what are his policy prescriptions as President in a country of 330 Million?
I'd like to hear more about South Bend's homicide rate (per capita higher than Chicago's) and the African-American poverty rate (twice the national average).
I like the photograph too. It's such a classic snapshot, as you say, with the dog tail and the sheep, and the many other unanswered (and perhaps also unasked) questions in it.
Painters never thought to make compositions like this-- partial objects cut off at the edges, random things in the foreground and background, etc. Photography made all that visible to us, though it was always there. (The camera sees differently than we do.)
You can learn to notice these things and then do them on purpose when you photograph. It's not a new idea anymore, so you have to be pretty creative with it these days to pull it off.
It's this family snapshot of Buttigieg (c. 2000) playing on a Nintendo machine with his father.
A Marxist Nintendo machine?
Gary Larson explains the game-playing intensity of Butt Boy’s father. He was looking for a career change. He was simply a Hopeful Parent 09/02/2005,
Looking for good Mario Brothers player $100,000 plus your own car
Can you save the princess? We need skilled men & women $75,000 plus retirement
Do you laugh in the face of Killer Goombas? Call us $80,000 plus a free house
Althouse- did you divorce before your sons were that age?
Before I cast my vote, it is important for me to know, "Who pitches and who catches?
Good heavens. Amerika on the hoof. Will Kerry Russell enter the next scene and warm things up for us straights?
Sorry. I see it should be "Keri" Russell.
Good Grief. I need to research before I post. That should be The Americans, not Amerika.
Sorry.
is mayor butafuc the wife? Or, does their 'marriage' have two 'husbands'?
Kinda seriously asking here?
America Might be ready for another gay President, but a pitcher; not a catcher?
Who's on top in their relationship?
The media is really going to have to make a terrible choice: do we go with the first female president or the first gay president (openly, because Obozo the Magnificent was in the closet)
The picture on the wall immediately drew my attention. Two sheep and a wolf in sheeps clothing going largely unnoticed. Every picture tells a story.
A hypothetical: If you had one wish that would always come true as to whether your one-year old son would grow up, marry a women and have children or would grow up and marry a man, which option would you wish for? If you would wish for the first option over the second, why?
"Before I cast my vote, it is important for me to know, "Who pitches and who catches?"
Mayor Pete from all reports in a bottom. That means he likes cock up his ass. That will go over great with the left and foreign powers. Yes, let's make him president. Nothing says "most powerful man in the world" than a dude ass up face down getting ass fucked by another dude.
So, Vogue and Time have weighed in simultaneously on Buttigieg, and the WaPo praised the Vogue cover. Any other entries in this obviously coordinated media campaign?
The dad knows the son is gay. The rolled up jeans. Better to stare at the screen.
MY bet is, they're playing Grand Theft Auto.
“Or is his homosexuality going to be thrust down everyone's throat?”
Scary thought for a straight cis male, such as yours truly.
Talking to straight cis females, they mostly don’t like fellatio one little bit (but most often love cunilingus). Of course if male/male fellatio is bad for straight guys, buggery is worse.
"Buttigieg may dismiss objectionable verses as no more than reflections of “the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded,” but that’s because it suits his value system to do so.
Here’s the thing: People bring their morality to their religious texts; they don’t get their morality from them. After all, how does Buttigieg decide what’s important in the Bible and what should be ignored, underplayed or dismissed as vestiges from another era? What does he measure each message against? His own innate sense of morality."
Of course, that's typical of most religious people.
I know Time is virtually irrelevant, but looking at that cover photo as objectively as possible I don't think it helps Pete one little bit. Other than the blandest sort of middle-class, White, gayness, these two dudes project nothing. Not decisiveness, not empathy, not charm or challenge, not originality, emphatically not leadership. They're a blank screen, on which nobody wants to project anything.
Likely they both pass and receive.
"Not quite freakish, but it gives him the look of a marsupial muppet that his gaze then reinforces."
Funny you should say muppet. I keep thinking... Jerry Mahoney.
Mayor Pete should resist the urge to give the Black Power upraised fist salute. Bad optics.
gilbar said...
Laslo Spatula said...
The cover photograph made me take note of just how low Buttigieg's ears are on his head.
Well below the eyes' axis.
Holy Fucking CRAP! look at those ears! Now I can't unsee!
5/2/19, 2:10 PM
What is it with politicians and freaky ears? Marco Rubio has gigantic ears. I initially thought he was a handsome guy (for DC, not Hollywood), but once I noticed the ears...
Mayor Pete and his partner are exactly the sort of pallid, unfab, Midwestern gays that Titus loves to mock.
What is it with politicians and freaky ears? Marco Rubio has gigantic ears.
So did LBJ.
I bet he gets grabbed by those ears alot.
Was that the console they usually played with or was it a "look what I found in the attic" moment? In the early 2000s, the NES had been discontinued for half a decade. More current consoles would have been the GameCube, Xbox, or PS2. 8-bit games became popular again in a retro way, but not that early.
Didn't I read that Buttigeig's name is an Arab word meaning "he who has the sheep"?
Chickens, not sheep. My bad.
Mayor Pete was a chunky monkey as a youth, wasn't he?
They were playing Baseball Stars. It looked and sounded like this.
Ever notice that Republicans never get this kind of treatment in the press?
Never.
Recall John James. Smart articulate black Republican running against old tired Debbie Stabenow. Media not only ignored him, they trashed him.
Democratics, on the other hand, get the emotional glossy covers and the fawning press. Free.
Curious George said: "Mayor Pete from all reports in a bottom."
I wouldn't know about that, but it has a certain plausibility about it. Certainly he will find many takers in the global scene, should our present good fortune desert us.
Especially among the Arabs, who may find his youthful appearance rather fetching.
UMayor Butt-man and his husband/wife/whatever kinda look like Siamese twins. Now if they were Siamese twins, then I would vote for him/them. That would be even more entertaining than Trump. Yeah, the country would go down the toilet, but it's gonna happen sooner or later. Might as well be at the hands of the nation's first freak-show president.
Previews my comment twice and still managed to F up the first word.
Previewed. Ha! I'm on a roll.
"the man Time calls the "gay Episcopalian veteran.""
Sort of like the MSM call the radical Muslim convert terrorist an "ex-military veteran."
"Beautiful."
That's how it starts. Progs can devastate the system, they can lie for almost three years, they can propose the most absurd absurdities, but MSM gay propaganda will work. That, and women's bodies.
The photographer should have posed them as American Gothic.
Waylon Smithers
The Jerry Mahoney connection is inspired.
I won't even use it as a lead-in to puppet-sex jokes, to keep it pure.
For now.
I am Laslo.
FAirness Doctrine = silence all who are not leftwing.
I know that he was in the military but his belt is threaded wrong into his pants and the buckle is not on the gig line. Somewhere he didn't get the message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF6UEfW-sGc
"the man Time calls the "gay Episcopalian veteran.""
That is literally exactly what he is. Calling Buttigieg a "gay Episcopalian veteran" is about as exciting as calling Giannis Antetokounmpo a right-handed Greek basketball player.
" In the early 2000s, the NES had been discontinued for half a decade. More current consoles would have been the GameCube, Xbox, or PS2."
I'm glad I'm not the only one here who immediately wondered about this.
2000, and they're not playing Quake, Mario Kart multiplayer, or Soulcaliber? Get outta here.
I think that picture is from a year closer to 1990 than 2000.
Touching. The piece of garbage is busy pandering to Al Sharpton, Ann.
I don't find racists' childhood photos compelling.
1) One can't be 'a normal part of society' AND have shrieking activists trying to game more rights. One doesn't have Polish or Irish activists to any large degree. One or the other.
which leads to 2) The Trans movement has been very bad for the normalization of Gay Rights. Gender and the Thirty Wonderful types of sexuality means that Gay men can just stop if they want to. So why wouldn't a straight couple try to 'spray the gay away' in a gay son, since being gay means almost never being able to find a mate (Five percent of the Population...at best). This is logical inferences IF we take Trans activists seriously (I do not)
and 3) This cover cost him the election. Like Americans and abortion, we don't like to SEE it. Don't come in with a baby bump one day, and a flat belly after a long weekend. It...disturbs us. And 'my gay partner' is far better as a something off stage than something thrown in our face.
Not that he had much of a chance anyway.
The Monmouth University poll shows Biden, who hasn’t officially entered the race, is the first choice of roughly a quarter of likely caucusgoers, 27 percent. He’s followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) with 16 percent and Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., with 9 percent.
That places Buttigieg marginally ahead of a handful of candidates who entered the race with more established profiles: Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are at 7 percent, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) is at 6 percent, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) is at 4 percent and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is at 3 percent.
He is marginally better than radically offensive race and sex hustlers with wildly insane economic theories. But even crazy Jewish Socialist Bernie is polling at twice Buttgieg.
So...this is some kind of activism (see point one). He wants to 'nerdify' being gay.
Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't. We've had gay leaders in the past and a few of them have been pretty bad ass. BAD ASS, not 'born to be mild'.
That’s a really lovely picture butt I hope he never is my First Lady President.
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