Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/04/caucus-goer-learns-her-candida.html
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My understanding of the Iowa caucus process is that they have two candidate choices and cannot change once committed to a viable one. In this case (given the Amy pins) she most likely chose Pete B after thinking Amy K was going to be non viable via the percentages.
Funny how some like this claims they won’t support a gay candidate because “they will force their sexuality down my throat” and yet they couldn’t pay attention enough to even know who is or isn’t gay. Pete B has not kept it a secret whatsoever, as the caucus person points out “it’s common knowledge”.
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“Why hasn’t this come up before?” she asks. It’s quite a mystery how this woman had no idea Wall Street Pete is gay. It’s generally the first thing every write up on him begins with.
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Why do we even care what Iowa thinks?
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“do what the Bible says” give me a break! The Bible is full of contradictory information. Polygamy is the norm in the Old Testament. The Bible provides instructions on how to acquire several types of sex slaves, etc etc. How’s that women feel about that?
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Roger That!
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Because for some arcane, inertia-like reason, they always go first.
Look at this bigoted Xtian and the other midwestern-nice person trying to find a way to point out that she’s a fucking narrow-minded, meanhearted idiot.
Iowa, man. Fuck fucking Iowa.
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This is me to Iowa this AM:
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Does she seem like the kind of person who reads?
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The Bible says that Bernie doesn’t go far enough with his form of socialism.
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I read “learns her candidate is gay” and thought, “Wait, who did they vote for?”
Apparently I didn’t know that Buttigieg was gay (to be clear, I knew this, but apparently forgot Mayor Pete existed).
Forget not knowing Pete is gay, this woman apparently doesn’t even know what it means to be gay.
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Isn’t that person wearing clothing made of blended fabrics, violating biblical law?
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she’s way too deferential. just once i’d like to see a candidate give some back sass when it’s justified.
(this would be a great moment for some biden level snark instead of “i respect your view that some people should not have basic human rights”)
also jesus established a NEW COVENANT hence the old testament not being binding.
as one poster pointed out for example she’s wearing blended fabric. and the old testament also bans dressing as a man (anti gay woman is wearing pants)
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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I’m sure she reads a lot. You know, the Precious Holy Book, and Readers Digest, and sometimes, even a headline or two from USA Today. That sort of thing.
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“Oh gosh, do you think his husband knows??”
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I’d bet she’s as much a low-information Christian as she obviously is a low-information voter. It’s frustrating because there’s a damn fine argument to be made that even if you consider the Bible an authority on the legitimacy of gay people as human beings, it doesn’t say what she thinks it says. I won’t ex-Christian-atheist-splain that to BoingBoing now, but people like this are frustrating and depressing to me because there wouldn’t be any point in trying to do so to her either.
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With polls showing a very tight race, the final weeks of the campaign are a textbook example of what this great experiment called “American democracy” is all about: two opposing political parties, each with valid positions, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on comically simplistic radio and TV ads designed by consultants to terrify ill-informed half-wits.
Dave Barry (year in review 2012)
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It’s interesting that this video is cut in such a way that you don’t know what was said just before the light dawned on this woman. She was blissfully ignorant before whoever said what to her, that we will never know.
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Every four years our country engages in a strange ritual to remind the voting citizenry that our choices of Presidential candidates are largely determined by a handful of people in two small states whose demographics, priorities and values are wildly different than those of the nation as a whole.
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