Pete Buttigieg
23 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 13 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 4, 2020 by Brad Gerstner · said 47 times in 14 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (17), Brad Gerstner (8), Chamath Palihapitiya (6), Adam Goldstein (5), David Sacks (4), David Friedberg (4), Ryan Petersen (3)
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2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 23 mentions in 3 episodes 8 per episode
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Everything said about Pete Buttigieg, oldest first
Nov 4, 2020
Gerstner: Pragmatic, moderate Democrat like Buttigieg will emerge as party nominee
“I think that there is a, there's been a doctrine in the Democratic Party that to win the primary, you got to veer to the left. Right. You got to contend with Bernie. You got to contend with Elizabeth Warren, but ultimately that's a losing strategy in the elect…”
Dec 18, 2020 positive
Calacanis predicts Kamala Harris will become the first female US President
“She winds up actually becoming president, and will be the first female president of the year of the history of the United States, and that could happen in the first term, or if Joe Biden doesn't run for a second term, and they do a halfway decent job, Kamala p…”
Feb 24, 2023
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Buttigieg: No historical republic survived current US inequality levels
“One of the biggest problems we have as a society is this level of inequality we've hit. That like, historically, there's no evidence that any republic can reach this level of equality to hold onto it and continue to be a republic.”
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Buttigieg: Fewer than 40 U.S. House seats are seriously competitive
“So we've got 435 seats in the house. Last time I checked, less than one out of 10 of them is considered to be seriously competitive. At best, like less than 40 are actually competitive, which means in nine out of 10 races, the primary is pretty much it.”
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Buttigieg: U.S. commercial aviation had zero crash fatalities across 4 billion enplanements
“Just in the four years I was secretary, We had about four billion passenger employments, so four billion times somebody got on an airplane, right? And zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of that four billion.”
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Buttigieg: 2017 tax cuts caused massive wealth transfer to the rich
“It's not terribly contested that the majority of the benefit of TCGA and OBBA went to wealthy people, and it's definitely not contested, or I'd say generally not contested, that OBBA represents one of the largest transfers of wealth from lower income people to…”
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Buttigieg claims citizens with accents or brown skin are detained without legal access
“We got citizens who just have an accent or look brown, getting picked up, sometimes getting detained without access to a lawyer for a frighteningly long amount of time, and that's citizens, let alone other people who, you know, maybe they shouldn't be here, bu…”
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 bearish
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Buttigieg: Identity loss from job displacement directly drives political populism
“Even after they got their income, if they went through a training program and got another job in a field that was growing, but it wasn't who they thought they were, it wasn't connected to their sense of identity or belonging, then you continue to have a displa…”
Oct 30, 2025
Buttigieg: U.S. productivity and GDP growth were higher under higher tax rates
“Well, look at the seventies and eighties, right? Sixties, seventies, eighties, look at GDP growth, productivity growth, and tax rates. I mean, I'm sure you're aware that those growth rates were higher, and the tax rates were higher too.”
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Buttigieg states the wealthiest Americans are currently paying too little tax
“Are the wealthiest people in America right now paying too much tax or too little tax? I would say the wealthiest are paying too little tax, and whether you adjust that through income tax, whether you adjust that through, you know, something like wealth tax, an…”