Silly? Yes. If you want to engage millennials, ensure people start to

[IndyOp]

feel like you are family, and enjoy free advertising then Chasten is getting the job done. Maybe this is a leap forward in use of social media that we need - they have incessantly negative memes and we’ve got Chasten.

Which first dog of South Bend are you?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/pete-buttigieg-chasten-dog-quiz

Chasten’s Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/Chas10Buttigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Eappleios%7Ctwcamp%5Esafari%7Ctwgr%5Eprofile

[Celerity]

1. If I was born born one month later, I would be a Gen Zer (if you use a 1995 cutoff date for

millennials and a 1996 starting date for Gen Z.) I am just so so gobsmacked at the millennial hate here by so many posters, especially supporters of a certain candidate. Then again, they are only reflecting their candidate.

I would never invite my social set to this board, unfortunately. The negativity is off the charts. Thank dog for this group.

I AM helping turn on so many to Buttigieg myself, I have had tremendous success with many many Bernie supporters in my social set. Twitter has helped, plus YouTube.

The instant (well after an hour or two of reading and watching Pete) connection has been electric!

WE WILL TURN OUT!!!!!

PS
Looooove Chasten!!! what a first hubby he would make!!!
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[IndyOp]

2. I enjoy your posts Celerity - so I hope you stick around.

Put consistently negative posters on "ignore" - some are bots, some are paid disruptors, some are scared or angry or feel helpless, some just see the glass as 1/8th full.

I am really happy to hear that you've been talking about Pete to Bernie fans and that they are excited about Pete!


If Bernie - who is a man of integrity, truly interested in making peoples' lives better as opposed to making himself "important" - points his supporters towards Pete at some point in the process then I think they would make the jump to Pete which did not happen when Hillary got the nomination.

[Celerity]

3. Bernie really fucked up (per my social set) with this

Bernie Sanders Won’t Support House Democrats’ Plan to Strengthen Obamacare

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/bernie-sanders-wont-back-house-democrats-obamacare-bill.html

all or nothing is suicidal, literally (it's bloody healthcare ffs)

I am really starting to think he is a wrecker.

[IndyOp]

4. I did not know that

I sort of understand why he might think that is the right thing to do - no more tiny steps to nowhere - but Congress won't pass it. The British were able to establish the National Health Service in one step because the health care centers established to treat people during World War II were in place and people felt great unity with all other citizens. That's not where we are.

The insurance industry - obscene profits for a few and 10,000's of jobs for real people - collapsing all at once is no good.

I think Pete's "Medicare for all who want it" is the right way to go. If the government can subsidize the costs of a "gap" program - that covers the medical expenses that Medicare won't cover - then it could be immediately as good as or better than Obamacare. As Medicare is made more efficient, costs for the program will come down and Medicare can cover virtually all medical expenses.

Pete's approach is an important extension of Obama's transition to single-payer health care. Obama worked a miracle getting the law passed and supporting states as they built the necessary infrastructure and some states still won't fully fund it, even if the funds come from the federal government.