Joe.My.God. LGBT News
NPR reports:
Before a cheering crowd, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg homed in on the theme of “joy” that the Harris campaign has been leaning into. He called for “better politics” and an end to Trump’s “politics of darkness.”
“The makeup of my kitchen table, the existence of my family is just one example of something that was literally impossible as recently as 25 years ago when an anxious teenager growing up in Indiana wondered if he would ever find belonging in this world,” he said.
CBS News reports:
He launched into criticisms of former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, who he characterized as “one of those guys who thinks if you don’t live the life he has in mind for you, then you don’t count.”
“Choosing a guy like JD Vance to be America’s next vice president sends a message, all right: doubling down on negativity and grievance. A concept of campaigning best summed up in one word: darkness. That’s what they are selling. But I just don’t think America today is in the market for darkness,” he said.
Time Magazine reports:
Buttigieg criticized Vance for his previous suggestion that political leaders who don’t have biological children—such as Buttigieg and Harris—“don’t really have a direct stake” in the country. (Harris became a stepmother when she married Doug Emhoff, who has two kids; and Buttigieg and his husband Chasten have adopted infant twins).
“You know, Senator, when I was deployed to Afghanistan, I didn’t have kids,” Buttigieg said. “Some of the men and women who went outside the wire with me did not have kids. But let me tell you, our commitment to the future of this country was nothing if not physical.”
I knew he’d knock it out of the park.