Pete Buttigieg Pulled a “Please Clap”
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On Tuesday in Iowa, in the very room Jeb Bush famously urged his audience to “please clap,” the ghost of the 2016 election bared its fangs again; this time, its victim was former Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. “They’re gonna look to you to spread that sense of hope to those that you know,” Buttigieg begins, followed by a deafening silence. “Come on!” His pleas were spurned by the tentative raising of several “Pete 2020” signs and a tepid round of applause.
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Needless to say, there’s plenty of memes about it. Buttigieg recently was the subject of several memes implying he was a CIA plant.