6 times Pete Buttigieg DESTROYED Republicans with an epic clapback

In defense of Tim Walz's military service

While speaking to reporters in Michigan on August 7, Trump's running mate, JD Vance, opened his fool mouth and went on a rant about Tim Walz's military record. "What bothers me about Tim Walz is the stolen valor garbage," Vance said, claiming that Walz "has not spent a day in a combat zone."

According to a Newsweek fact-checking article, Walz spent 24 years in the military but never saw combat, but neither did Vance. The Republican Veep pick spent four years in the Marine Corps, serving as a combat correspondent in Iraq between August 2005 and February 2006, but he never saw combat. Pot meet kettle.

But Buttigieg, who served as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, wasn't going to let Vance's insults stand, managing to combine calling out Vance for insulting Walz's military service and Vance's terrible opinions about women who haven't had children!

"Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier's service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is… kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman's citizenship based on whether she happens to have children," he wrote on X yesterday.

Pete defends the Pride flag

Martha-Ann Alito — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's wife with potential ties to the January 6 insurrection — was secretly recorded at a dinner by documentarian Lauren Windsor, who posed as a sympathetic anti-abortion activist. "You know what I want? I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month," Martha-Ann Alito said at the dinner.

This comment might seem innocuous, but right-wing Christians use the Sacred Heart of Jesus flag to protest Pride flags. Get a life, people.

When asked about Martha-Ann Alito's homophobic rant when he was on CNN, Buttigieg talked about his husband, Chasten Buttigiege, and their two children. "That marriage only exists by the grace of a single vote on the United States Supreme Court that expanded our rights and freedoms back in 2015 and made it possible for somebody like me to get married," he said.

Then, Buttigieg read Martha-Ann Alito without using a single insult." I also hope that most Americans can understand the difference between a flag that symbolizes love and acceptance and signals to people who have sometimes feared for their safety that they're going to be okay and insurrectionist symbology," he said. "I'll just leave it at that."

Claps back at homophobia

In 2023, Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked Buttigieg if he reimbursed the government for using a military aircraft to fly to Europe as the head of the American delegation to the Invictus Games—a competition for wounded soldiers and military veterans. Buttigieg answered, "Of course not," before laying out exactly why the question was homophobic.

"Before me, it was the secretary of the army under President Trump who took that trip with his wife. Before that, it was Mrs. Trump as first lady who went. Before that, Mrs. Obama did the same thing," Buttigieg said. "And I guess the question on my mind is, if no one's raising questions about why secretary [Mark] Esper and his wife led that delegation, as well they should have, then why is it any different when it's me and my husband?"

If he ever decides to give up his career in politics, Buttigieg could make a fortune teaching a master class on how to eviscerate homophobic arguments!