All In Interview - Pete Buttigieg - October 30 2025
- Characterizing Silicon Valley people as rich men who are pragmatically supporting the Republicans because their policies support the rich
- Claims false equivalencies between Covid era censorship and FCC head threatening action against comedians criticizing President’s policies
- Claims richest people pay too little in taxes
- Refutes criticism of his record (not) building chargers with tax payer money
- Claims it needs till 2030
- Claims US workers need to build chargers, else could have bought from China if things were needed to be done faster
- Claims < 1% of money given to US govt is wasted/fraud
- Claims 2023 issues with FAA, etc are due to needing more funding
- Claims credit for 0 air crash fatalities out of 4B passengers in the air during his tenure
- Claims private sector couldn’t have done the internet
- Admits he didn’t reduce his budget as City Mayor - claims it was put to better use
- Debt is unsustainable
- Claims we need to reduce cost of providing healthcare
- Claims rich people need to pay more taxes
- Claims OBBA and TCG (?) - transferred most wealth from poor people to rich people
- Dem Party
- Admits identity has become too prominent in Dem party
- 435 seats in the house - barely 1 in 10 is contested, others are all mostly spoken for due to too much gerrymandering
- 3rd party just plays spoiler - doesn’t practically end up happening in the US
- Admits border policy under Biden was a mistake
- Claims Trump immigration policy is a mistake
- Biden administration
- Washes his hands off Biden cognitive decline being called out earlier
- Admits speed run primary might have helped Kamala’s candidacy - win or lose
- Space travel might come under Department of Transportation vs NASA
- Supports self driving cars
- Polymarket odds for 2028: Gavin Newsom, AOC, Buttigieg, Harris, Shapiro, Wes Moore
- Mamdani - wait and see
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