Just weeks after making history as the first openly gay Transportation Secretary in United States history, Pete Buttigieg has hit another milestone: he will be the subject of a documentary film produced by Amazon Studios.
Variety reports that Mayor Pete will chronicle Buttigiegâs landmark run for the White House, as well as offer a glimpse into his home life in Indiana with his husband Chasten, and their two dogs. Cameras followed the Buttigieg couple beginning in Summer 2019 all the way through March 2020, when the former South Bend, Indiana mayor withdrew from the Democratic contest. Buttigieg then became one of future President Joe Bidenâs most high-profile and trusted surrogates.
Related: Mayor Pete epically owns Trumpâs âcrazy uncleâ debate performance
Director Jesse Moss will helm the film, which is also significant: Mossâ film Boys State is already snagging considerable Oscar buzz this year and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Mayor Pete will mark his immediate follow-up.
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Amazon will release Mayor Pete later in 2021; a final date has not yet been announced.
Monkey1
Pass sounds very boring. I can’t imagine watching this milquetoast man for more than a second.
Cam
Nothing enrages the right wing troll more than somebody who is out of the closet and successful. It’s job is to always come in, defend Republicans bigots, and crap on any out and proud LGBTQ people doing fine in the world.
Your troll game is still old and tired.
dhmonarch89
Cam- I’m as liberal as they come- I also think Pete’s the most boring gay man alive. I’m happy for his success and I’m glad we have someone in the Cabinet, but- come on- he is boring.
Cam
@dhmonarch89
The issue is that the right wing troll will ALWAYS come in to attack any out of the closet LGBTQ person. There goal wasn’t to say that maybe Pete was boring, it was to try to troll him. It would have said the same thing no matter what person was mentioned, as long as they were out of the closet. Meanwhile, it’s on other threads defending Donald Trump, Ivanka, Jim Jordan etc.
If it was any legit screename I wouldn’t have commented.
Gourmet Guy
Monkey1, I have no idea what your problem is, but Pete Buttigieg is the most charismatic and intelligent politician in our midst. After you’ve read BOTH of his books, I’d like to read your opinion, as it will undoubtedly change.
Monkey1
Do you work for Pete? Please don’t try and sell me his books. If he had charisma I would be able to see it on the screen when he’s making speeches or just talking, but I don’t. I can judge his intelligence by his past actions, but the reading I’ve done shows him as a barely competent mayor of a small town, and somehow that makes him qualified to be Secretary of Transportation? He got the post by standing down from the presidential race, backing Joe, and making backdoor deals with the career politians, and all along pretending to be a breath of fresh air. Also using “the first gay man” trope is already getting tired.
Jack
Monkey1 (which says a lot about your intelligence), this man is a Rhodes Scholar and WON the Iowa Caucus. He had a few detractors in South Bend, but hardly was considered a bad Mayor. I’m sure you didn’t serve in Afghanistan, milquetoast. Amazon is not going to shut their doors because Monkey1 didn’t tune in. Not your cup of tea….NO sweat.
Monkey1
Yikes, why the venom, Jack? I’ve worked with a lot of people who graduate with honours but didn’t have the work experience and didn’t end up doing a stellar job. Some applied themselves and got used to real-world work, and some didn’t. Studying something is different than doing it, and I know he was young and inexperienced but he didn’t seem to excel at being a mayor of a town that Newsweek called “a dying city” in 2019. Pete has been mayor from Jan 2012 to Jan 2020 I believe, so I’m going to assume he’s at least part of the reason the city is “dying” … again, that phrase coming from Newsweek not me!
You’re right though, I’ve never been to Afghanistan for 7 months to serve in the “Afghan Threat Finance Cell, a counterterrorism unit that targeted Taliban insurgency financing,” and I know he’s careful to mention, when bringing up his military service, that he’s not a combat veteran.
queerty02
Mayo Pete did not win the Iowa caucus, though he did directly fund the app that tainted the counting process. Itâs funny to do shadowy deals with the poll counters, and then act like you are the legitimate victor. Bernie Sanders was proven to have won the support of most caucus goers in Iowa.
Cam
Monkey1 is a right wing troll who uses multiple names on here. (Roy Ajaz, TheREALtruth, Caddy, openminded, etc.) to always defend Republicans, anti-LGBTQ bigots, and to paint bigots as victims and LGBTQ people as the bullies.
It will also ALWAYS try to minimize LGBTQ people who are out of the closet and successful like Buttigieg.
Once one of it’s screenames like Money1 gets called out enough it will find another one and come back to spout the same boring old trollisms.
Durwood
Speaking as an European, I thought it was interesting Mayor Pete becoming transport minister – after all he threw Bernie under the bus. The only thing marginally interesting about this guy is that he’s part of the LGBTQI+ community.
Monkey1
Well, look at Kamala & Joe. On the debate stage she basically called him a racist but now she’s happy to be walking side by side with him, saying she believes in him and his policies. This is another example of the “swamp” in US politics.
Kangol2
@Monkey1, most politicians from the same party running in competitive primaries attack each other, and then go on to work together. (Cf. all of Don the Con’s attackers who later sucked up to him, did his bidding, and still are, like Lady G, Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, etc.) The Clintons (Bill and HIllary) insulted Barack Obama repeatedly, yet he won the primary, the presidency (twice), and Hillary served as his Secretary of State. Not only that, but he then backed her over his incumbent Vice President in 2016. Biden eventually got the last laugh with the most votes ever by any presidential candidate and the presidency, over the worst president ever in US history. It’s called…POLITICS!
George H. W. Bush had a low opinion of Ronald Reagan in 1976 when Reagan sought to challenge Ford for the nomination, yet ended up running as Reagan’s VP, served eight years, and then received Reagan’s support for his own run in 1988, etc. Look at the Tory troika of David Cameron, Teresa May, and Boris Johnson; there was no love lost between any of them, but each worked with the other in order to get the tarnished cup of PM. May got the worst deal, because she was blamed for Cameron’s screw-ups, and after she left, Johnson essentially adapted her template for Brexit and got credit for it. Again, that is how politics operate.
You clearly have no idea what the DC “swamp” really is, but I give you a hint: it involves the army of lobbyists–and revolving door of politicians who become lobbyists or work for corporate funded think tanks–for corporations, industries, etc., who grease the palms of politicians of both parties to water down legislation so that rather than addressing the real, pressing needs of most Americans, most US legislation always ensures that billionaires and corporate interests, especially Wall Street, are taken care of first.
Monkey1
I agree with you about the lobbyists, Kangol2, that’s a big problem too. I have to disagree with you when you say “most politicians from the same party running in competitive primaries attack each other” and chalk it up as “politics”. It is almost uniquely US politics and most other first world countries don’t argue with such viciousness. If a member of a party calls another member of their own party a racist, that is a big deal. Then for people to just ignore that and say “oh they made up” well… does that insinuation go away? Did she mean it on the stage? If yes, then why run with him? If no, then why say it at all? It’s very disingenuous.
Cam
Monkey1 created the new screename Durwood.
It’s tried that same line under other troll screenames where it says things like “As a european, I don’t really get American politics but……and then it will launch into some really specific bit of minutia”.
Hey Monkey1, I LOVE it when you expose your new screenames the first time you use them. Oh, and responding to your new screename with a known troll screename like Monkey1…….Brilliant. LOL!!!!!
Kangol2
@Monkey1, I’m assuming that you aren’t Black or BIPOC, because you note that Kamala Harris called out Joe Biden as a racist but then has gone on to work with him, which suggests you might not have any sense of how Black and other BIPOC have to operate in the US (and elsewhere). Joe Biden has a racist past; he supported segregationists, he supported policies that have been detrimental to Black people, and he even made questionable comments about Barack Obama. Nevertheless, most Black and other BIPOC will still work with racist White people first because 1) we have to and 2) we know that in many ways, the marginal and substantial differences between someone like Joe Biden and someone like the overtly racist, anti-Semitic and White supremacist Don the Con and many other overtly racist politicians, are significant when it comes to social, economic, political and cultural policies that ultimately benefit Black people opposed to making things far worse. FDR, JFK, LBJ, Clinton, even Nixon, etc. were racist and made racist comments, but they still passed legislation that improved the lives of Black people. It’s another thing altogether when you set yourself up as the fascist king conman traitor and leave a country so shattered and sick, as Don the Con did, and yet proclaim to have been great for “the Blacks” yet have left Black people and other BIPOC (rising anti-Asian violence, racist rhetoric against immigrants, etc.) in a worse state than when you took office.
Openminded
Durwood, I love how you spun “bus” in with the “transportation dept. Funny
bookseller406
Monkey 1, I like the guy. Smart, cute, funny and from Iâve observed, rather fearless. Is he the perfect politician? No. But I donât believe in perfect politicians or perfect people. So I like the guy. Iâm not alone. No one said you had to like him.
queerty02
A lot of racist white cis gay men love Mayo Pete. They really get off on bulldozing homeless shelters, and donât care that mayoâs âsmart streetsâ policy killed an 11 year old boy named Tristian Moore. Collaborating with cops to undermine BLM? They love that too. It really is disgusting.
Cam
Tristian Moore was hit be a truck that ran an intersection while he was crossing the street. So are you saying that Pete was there and pushed him out in front of the car? By all means, elaborate.
Monkey1
Pete implemented a “Smart Streets” initiative where many streets were converted from one way, to two way. The street where the accident happend is one of those streets. The traffic light on that street, where the boy was crossing, was also disabled as part of that initiative. “The intersection was part of a traffic study in 2015 which recommended the removal of a then-existing traffic signal based on vehicle and pedestrian counts.” That quote is from an article about the accident in the South Bend Tribune.
So no, Pete did not throw the boy into the street, but he did implement changes that may have led a formerly safe intersection, to become dangerous.
Openminded
Queerty 2, It appears Mayor Pete was trying to improve the existing system and save tax dollars with his “smart street” trial. Unfortunately, a kid died after the changes to the street. You can’t blame anybody except the kid for going into the street and the driver of the truck for not paying good attention for this accident. Maybe we need to blame the people who originally built the street for the death, or the idiots who put sidewalks along the street that enticed the kid to be there in the first place. Maybe if the street and sidewalks weren’t there to begin with the kid would be alive today. You are stretching it to blame this on the mayor. Many small towns have cut out wasteful spending by converted back to 4 way stops, especially in “small dying towns” as someone else had already labeled this city.
trsxyz
It feels like this documentary film might end up being a Hallmark movie.
Prax07
Monkey1 is a douche, his parents were obviously douches because only douches can raise such a douche.
I think his mother should definitely have douched immediately after his oaf of a father grunted and pulled out. The world would be minus one douche if she’d had any self respect and douched that douches sperm right out of her cooch.
Openminded
Prax07, Feel much better now? I not making a statement about Monkey1, but I will state how small a person you must be to find joy in making such a statement based on their posts. Maybe you should learn to do what most people do here when they don’t agree with what someone posts, ignore it and move on or make a worthwhile argument to support their thoughts on the issue. Calling Monkey1 names didn’t teach us anything about Mayor Pete, but it did shine a bright light on your character.
Cam
@Openminded
Why aren’t you making a statement for @monkey1? As has been pointed out multiple times, it’s another one of your screenames.
JessPH
I will certainly see this. I have never seen a politician more eloquent and articulate than Mayor Pete. We need more brainy individuals and technocrats in government.
Liquid Silver
Eh. I don’t idolize politicians, who are weasels first and foremost. I’ll take a pass.
GayEGO
Monkey1 should change his name and stop insulting the Simians, Mayor Pete is a great example of who we need in our government!
Monkey1
Why is he a good example of what is needed? And don’t use what others are saying such as “smart, funny, good looking, fearless, eloquent, articulate” because that sounds like a boyfriend wish-list for a 15 year old girl.
Cam
@Monkey1
The fact that the right wing troll wouldn’t think that “Smart” is something good for people in government to be says it all.
Monkey1
What’s smart to you, might not be smart to me.
Durwood
Cam, I’m Durwood and have absoulutly no idea who Monkey1 is or why you should think I’m a shadow account of him/her/them. Retract your insinuation you rascal!
Monkey1
He’s not right in the head. He’s been accusing me of being a bunch of other people as well. If he doesn’t like what you say, then you’re this mysterious troll out to get everyone here.
Liquid Silver
He’s accused me of the same, as if I’d have the time. It should be obvious from the vocabulary and rhetorical differences that we’re not all identical people. Not to mention that I’m further left than Monkey1 and, I think, a bit further left than you, Durwood.
But then again, that takes analysis and intellect, and that’s not something we should expect from Cam, should we? đ What I have noticed, is that people tend to accuse you of what they do themselves. So I suspect Cam is faking it with any number of screen names and is actually a semi-employed M* head.
Cam
Hi Durwood.
Just a suggestion, if your other screenames are going to come on and pretend you aren’t all the same troll you may want to wait more than a minute before they post.
Blue.Jacket
Monkey1 is nothing but a distraction. We need to stop feeding the trolls. The real substantial news here is that director Jesse Moss and crew have put their energy into the film, squashing the distracting bile put out by the trolls. Hey Monkey1, I will gladly give you one more acknowledgement… that will be moving my mouse above the little house icon and clicking it. Buh bye. Blue
Durwood
Cam, seemingly you’re so convinced I’m a sock-puppet of Monkey1 there’d be little point in me trying to convince you otherwise – heck, if it were possible I’d DM you my phone number – that’s how bored I am after almost a year living on my own during a severe London lockdown.Â
As an aside, if you have doubts of my idendenty then engage with me gently –  the way you laid into me was a tad unkind.
linedrive
Cool. I’ll definitely catch this. Love me some Mayor Pete.