As the nation eagerly awaits last night’s results out of Iowa, one woman has become a viral laughing stock after voting for Pete Buttigieg and then trying to retract her vote after learning he’s gay.
The clip made its way around Twitter and Reddit early this morning. It opens with the unidentified woman–who, it should be noted, is wearing Amy Klobuchar buttons–shrieking “Are you saying that he has the same-sex partner? Pete?!”
Nikki van den Heever, a caucus precinct captain, does her best to stifle her own laughter as she answers yes.
“Are you kidding?” the woman asks in shock. “Then I don’t want anybody like that in the White House. So can I have my card back?”
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van den Heever giggles as she says she would have to ask about giving the card back. She also tries to point out that Mayor Pete is just a human being, and that his sexuality shouldn’t be an issue.
“He better read the Bible,” the woman grumbles. “Why does it say in the Bible that a man should marry a woman then?” van den Heever and the woman exchange a few more remarks before the voter yells, “How come this is never been brought out before?!”
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is the first openly-gay candidate to seek the Democratic nomination for president. Throughout his campaign, he has acknowledged his sexuality, as well as his husband, Chasten.
Maybe this woman is just trying to gaslight us all?
#PeteButtigieg precinct captain in rural Iowa responds to a caucus-goer flipping out upon learning that he has a same-sex partner. It’s a masterclass in patience, persistence, and love. Bravo @nikkiheever #IowaCaucuses #cresco #howardcountyiowa pic.twitter.com/PhX7vRFh8X
— Annabel Park (@annabelpark) February 4, 2020
Related: Pete Buttigieg declares victory in Iowa… but the jury’s still out
Chrisk
You just want to slap the stupid out of the snaggle toothed bitch.
docofed
That would require a lot of slapping. Anyone for #teamslap
Nuttypea
the caucus process is so foreign to me, where I live we have ballot voting and the precinct officials are pretty militant about presenting an unbiased face to the public, is it common for precinct captains in Iowa to defend candidates like that instead of simply taking the mater directly to a supervising official? I understand it’s probably a novel case
Creamsicle
This primary has revealed how nonsensical the democratic caucus process is in Iowa. A lot of Iowans have walked away wishing they had a primary. After the lack of clear results and the discussion of how it is not good for getting a representative vote result, Iowa may be in danger of losing their First in the Nation status when it comes to presidential primaries.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I dont know if this is funny or sad, she obviously likes him, likes what hes proposing policy wise, so why throw that out the window because hes married to another man?
Besides I hardly think quoting the Torah, a text most Christians know zilch about, is smart, specially the Leviticus chapters.
Chrisk
It’s hilarious that she goes to the Leviticus quotes which mandate death from anything to cursing kids to brides not being a virgin on their wedding night. It’s insane to focus on just one that you like.
rustyiam
But but only rethuglucans can be homophobes and racists!
Diplomat-G
Ignorant and bigoted are two different things, Shes just religiously stupid.
Den
ANYBODY can be ignorant (just look in the mirror). But overwhelmingly, only the right is motivated by identity based hate and thinks it’s perfectly valid (look in the mirror).
truthseeker
@rustyiam
Exactly. I wonder how liberals will react when black voters don’t vote for Pete because he’s gay
Plus it’s hilarious to see Bernie get cheated again. Mayor Pete’s campaign helped fund the Shadow app that counts caucus results. Did you notice that when Bernie started winning there was a “computer glitch”, then 24 hours later Pete wins
They did coin tosses even though Bernie won resulting in them giving Pete some of Bernie’s delegates lol
IAMSONICE
Republicans are inherently bigoted and racist because unlike democrats, they look away when one of their own is a pedophile, rapist, homophobe, or discriminatory. Pete is known for rallying former republicans and this woman is one of them.
robertkalin
Seriously, how did she not know Pete was gay? If she is THAT misinformed, she needs to do more research before voting.
Nuttypea
since she’s not a gay cis male she likely didn’t get bathed in targeted ads regarding his sexuality
Smith David
She’s a lunatic. SMH…
ShiningSex
@Nuttypea, you don’t have had seen “targeted” ads to know he’s gay. DUH!!! It was all over the news when he first started running for the nomination. She’s just ugly and stupid.
j41005
Sadly, many people fall into this category.
Creamsicle
And yet she can make the time to caucus, while other Iowan shift workers who are more informed about basic information about their preferred candidate are disenfranchised by the caucus process. Just shows you how dumb it is for Iowa to be first in the nation when they use such an archaic system.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Interesting interaction between the awesome Mom of the year, and the nasty miserable crunt of the year who is most likely turned on Pete because it learned he has a Husband.
And no living human has nor would want to go near that nasty cottage cheese filled vagina she has between her massive cellulite filled thighs…
Chrisk
I’ll bet she could give some amazing blow jobs with half her teeth missing though. Ok maybe after bagging the face and some good porn and alcohol.
fur_hunter
WOW!!!!…..Love your comment. It’s totally and disgustingly TRUE!!!….I’m still laughing my ass off.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
fur_hunter: tyvm 🙂
jayceecook
“Why does it say in the Bible that a man should marry a woman then?”
Hrm. Well the Bible has very little to say on why a man *should* marry a woman. There’s more on the subject of divorce than the virtues of matrimony. Then there’s the whole thing about if a man has sex with his wife on their wedding night and claims she wasn’t a virgin she is marched out into town to somehow prove it. If the husband is right she is stoned to death. If he’s wrong then he will be punished. Oh, and a rapist has to marry the woman he raped. There’s more but you get the point.
In fact both Jesus and (I think) Paul actually advocating NOT getting married. Paul even point blank said don’t do it. I believe it’s in Corinthians where he says “don’t seek a wife” or something similar. And Jesus told his disciples to abandon their households and domestic concerns in order to follow him.
So in reality somebody should give HER a Bible!
KerryB
Seriously, why are people who are so IRRETRIEVABLY STUPID allowed to vote?
GayEGO
Stupidity describes this woman to a tee! Where has she been? Not that it matters that Pete is gay, he is very intelligent and would make a good president. I guess she has spent too much time reading the dark ages Bible and has misses the news!
GayEGO
Stupidity describes this woman to a tee! Where has she been? Not that it matters that Pete is gay, he is very intelligent and would make a good president. I guess she has spent too much time reading the dark ages Bible and has missed the news!
AxelDC
You’d think dragging his husband around with him on the campaign trail would have been a clue.
toddlicious
AMERICA!
fur_hunter
I love the responses here. ALL are so true. What rock has the STUPID DUMB BITCH been living under for the past year? What a C UNT! Typical of many citizens who have NO CLUE about anything, yet they argue issues on which they have NO factual information. MORONS!!!!! This totally occurs in Southern Baptist country. IMBECILES!!!!
Kieran
This will come as a terrible shock to the Trump haters who think homophobia is a strictly republican thing. Welcome to reality.
jayceecook
This will come as a terrible shock to you. Not all “Trump haters” are democrats, socialists, independents, etc. Welcome to reality.
ShiningSex
She’s a moron and needs to update her look. NOW!
xanadude
“Someone like that” — you mean someone you thought well enough to vote for in the first place? SMH
stephen driscoll
She’s in the wrong party. Too bad no one mentioned to this troglodyte that she’s breaking a biblical rule by wearing fabrics of different origins. Once again, that primitive tome, the bible, is employed to excuse bigotry and discrimination. Religion is not the answer. Religion is the problem.
Den
There are many people whose beliefs do not have logical consistency, and who are not terribly aware of current events.
Some of them will certainly be registered democrats, for whatever reason.
She may support labor unions, or need the help of social safety nets the republicans tend to dismantle as best they are able.
Her ignorance is sad, but that does not mean she belongs in the party that encourages and rewards ignorance.
Rock-N-RollHS
I was more impressed by the great Buttigieg supporter. Yes, definitely a lesson in patience and kindness.
NateOcean
Thomas Jefferson wrote that “a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy”.
Her prejudice aside, she has shown a level of being ill-infomed that she should not be allowed to vote.
Den
That is one of the reasons a well funded and well maintained public education system is so important to our country. AND one of the reasons Trump appointed someone hell bent on undermining it as secretary of education.
The goal of the modern Republican party is to decentralize pubic education and allow faith based “education” to funnel off funding from it.
The more easily the electorate can be manipulated without critical thinking skills, the more likely they are to maintain power.
David Feinberg
Good thing Iowa is a caucus state. if it was a primary State, she would have walked in, cast her ballot, and walked out just as dumb as when she came in.
salumbre
Is this comedy? That would be, like, the only possible explanation.
krschneider
Interestingly, these are also the positions of
many if not most contemporary American “christians”.
There are 131 ( or 133 or 136) “abominations” in the ‘bible’, (depending on which version of “God’s unchanging perfect word” one is investigating) – virtually all of which demand the death penalty. It is immensely sad, supremely hypocritical and horrifyingly ironic how “believers” are perfectly willing to completely ignore all but one or two of them when they suddenly find it necessary to remind others over and over ad nauseum how much they have the divine right to hate people who are different. One thing is for sure, these bigots REALLY need to hope Jesus stays dead.
Your imaginary god is not relevant to the real world and your filthy old book of campfire tales handed down from illiterate bronze age goatherders who routinely massacred each other over which of
-their- imaginary gods had the biggest penis, is not useful.
Unless, that is, one happens to run out of toilet paper.
Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right.
Someday we will manage to determine if religion is the cause…or the result…of insanity.
Then we’ll have a good chance to cure both.
CurtisIsTheOne
YOU wins “The Internet” today. And the plural “wins” is/was on purpose. No need for subject verb normalcy.
ingyaom
Has this ignorant woman even read the Constitution, which says it doesn’t matter what her bible says?
MajorTom
“Why does the bible say a man should marry a woman?” Excellent question! After all, Jesus never married a woman. Spent his entire adult life hanging out with men.
Sam6969
If it is not staged, then she probably voted for him because she secretly fantasized about him. Then, she got very disappointed learning he was gay.
Celtic
Obviously, this woman came to the party far too late. Pete’s sexual orientation has been “out” there for months upon months. If she is a delegate, she should be removed. Being this far out of touch with reality shames her.
Joshooeerr
Looking on the bright side for a moment – Buttigieg rocked the vote DESPITE spectacularly stupid voters like this woman. Very promising.
justyouandi
I’m sure she wouldn’t be able to tell you a thing about the policies of any of the candidates. Like so many people she would crawl over broken glass to exercise her right to vote but she hasn’t paid any attention to the issues or candidates beyond the headlines, …. if even that much. These voters are uninformed, and misinformed and they cast their vote based wholey on emotion.
bear.tony
For the love of god, I can’t believe this woman, I’m from Australia and I’ve known for years he was gay, does she not read the daily news or watch the news on TV, you go Pete
tjr101
The sad thing is that it’s people like this woman who tend to show up more often than not to vote. America is in a mess.
armandov
I’m always amazed that some people assume that everyone else reads or gives a sh*t about the bible. This woman assumes that everyone in this country needs to live their lives according to the bible. I’m not religious and to be honest, I have never read the bible and have no interest in reading it. Don’t put your religious BS on everyone else
radiooutmike
It takes someone with a certain level of intelligence and self-awareness to realize that other people’s experiences are different from hers.
IanHunter
‘Murica!
@dusyk
Bless her heart ?
Donston
I do think it’s funny how her main issue seems to be that he’s “out” and married to a guy rather than the homo relations thing.
It reflects how many people are not inherently offended by homosexuality or homo behaviors. They have more contempt towards people not being closeted, or people unabashedly indulging same-sex relationships and commitment, or feeling as if they are forced to respect same-sex unions because of marriage. And yeah, it does appear some of her angst is towards likely finding him to be handsome then feeing personally offended by him being in a same-sex marriage. There are women who take offense towards decent looking, presentable, non overtly “queer” guys who indulge same-sex love and have gay preferences and ambitions. This only barely has to do with the Bible or policies. She is clearly ignorant of the latter considering she had no clue who this man was married to.
daniel10x
OMGawd! Another X’n wanting a free pass for being ignorant. She’s voting in the Democrat primary. One might presume she’d read the Bible beyond that one verse she knows.
djmcgamester
She doesn’t know that verse anyway. Old Testament was referring to temple rather than every day behavior. Same sex relationships were not really a thing back then so no one was trying to ban it.
If we’re talking Paul, well, that’s Paul. He’s not Jesus.
djmcgamester
Wait, so she liked everything about his policies but then his sexuality made her reverse course? How does his sexuality play into it? If he can do for you what you want done, why not vote for him?
flippermagee
I foresee a time when straight men and women will get together and talk w gays and lesbians about things other than sex.
I foresee a time in the future when gay weddings are celebrated for the same reasons straight wedding are. The only thing for sure in life is change. Amen
pdpant
I guess she is another dumb and ignorant DEM
TxCudlr
Just another stupid idiot, that obviously is clueless. If she hasn’t heard, read, or had a conversation w/ anyone about Pete or his sexuality, HOW MUCH WOULD YOU LIKE TO BET, she has NO idea or clue as to Pete’s, or the other Democratic contender’s platforms, OR, the issues that they are fighting for!!!!!!! Sounds like to me that she is a “plant” by the Repugnantcan’s party.
Invader7
She’s ticked off cause she isn’t getting any peen .And Pete and Chasten are ” getting it in ” – a lot.. She’s such a petty, small person. Go vote for Herr Twitterler, you crunt !!
nmharleyrider
Guess she should take her head out of her ass and see what is going on