President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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Climate, race, and student loan forgiveness only matter to the Dems as talking points in election years.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Buttigieg, husband Chasten mocked for complaining about $4,500 rent in DC

'We couldn’t afford the one-bedroom-plus-den,' Chasten said

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is getting roasted on social media after his husband complained about rent prices in Washington, D.C., claiming they couldn’t afford anything bigger than a one-bedroom apartment.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Buttigieg's husband, Chasten Buttigieg, said their new Eastern Market digs are a far cry from the price of living in their old city of South Bend, Indiana, where Pete served as mayor from 2012 to 2020.

"We couldn’t afford the one-bedroom-plus-den," Chasten said.

Instead, they’re renting an 800-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment, sans den, in a high-security building, where the rent for one-bedrooms now starts at $4,500 per month, The Post reported, adding that the rent is higher since the Buttigieges signed a lease last winter.

"We’re doing fine for ourselves, and [yet] the city is almost unaffordable," Chasten told the paper. "Which tells you how extremely unaffordable it is for many people."

The transportation secretary’s salary is $221,400, while Chasten, a former middle school drama teacher, is currently unemployed. In addition to their D.C. apartment, the couple owns a home on Lake Michigan in Traverse City, which they purchased this year after selling their home in South Bend, The Post reported.

Commentators on both sides of the political aisle mocked the Buttigieges for the comments, adding that most Americans don’t have the luxury of having two residences.

Buttigieg, husband Chasten mocked for complaining about $4,500 rent in DC
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First, as per the Post article, Pete did not comment. This was all Chasten.

Second, Chasten is correct about the price of living being substantially higher in DC compared to South Bend. Nothing ground breaking there, a blind squirrel could make that observation.

Third, the pushback was warranted against Chasten. They sold their house in South Bend, bought a vacation home in Michigan, then got a high-end lease in DC. But I will say, the reason for the ridiculous high rent apartment is because of the death threats Pete receives constantly from the Right; their current DC digs is one of the most secure places in DC. But I will agree, it is hard to have sympathy for someone that has a vacation home complaining about rent. Bad move on Chasten's part.
 
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hog88 said:
They must be doing quite well, lake homes aren't cheap. They must have been extremely smart with their money since between the 2 of them they probably made $150-170k per year.
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In Pete's first book, he talks about basically taking over Chasten's finances because they were a disaster. Pete got him solvent in a few years. Absolutely no doubt in my mind that Pete's been smart with their cash.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Me thinks the cavalry will come tonite.
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zeppelin128 said:
In Pete's first book, he talks about basically taking over Chasten's finances because they were a disaster. Pete got him solvent in a few years. Absolutely no doubt in my mind that Pete's been smart with their cash.
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Like all other worthless politicians, he can just write a book ... or maybe take up art with some crayons. I'd go with NIL like amateur athletes, but politicians already know that trick.
 
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AM64 said:
Like all other worthless politicians, he can just write a book ... or maybe take up art with some crayons. I'd go with NIL like amateur athletes, but politicians already know that trick.
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Well Pete, being the overachiever he is, wrote two books! Granted the first one was pre 2020 primary.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
No beef to get into. She cherry picked an obvious flyer shill poll. Bham showed it’s an obvious flyer shill poll 🤷‍♂️
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Guess we care about polls now, even though I've read that polls don't matter for years now, but okay. Biden's about where you would expect with a super divided electorate, per Bham.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
Guess we care about polls now, even though I've read that polls don't matter for years now, but okay. Biden's about where you would expect with a super divided electorate, per Bham.
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Or… they matter no more or less to somebody than they did before and when you have a clearly stupid ass poll showing 57/34 as a huge ass outlier people probably shouldn’t be beating the drum on that one as it doesn’t really do polling in general any real service.
 
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