{"id":587498,"date":"2026-04-21T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=587498"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:38:13","slug":"buttigieg-legitimizes-fear-that-gop-will-pack-gays-off-to-concentration-camps-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=587498","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg legitimizes fear that GOP will pack gays off to concentration camps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg held a town hall in Oklahoma, where he entertained a zany question from an audience member who is very worried that Republicans will start sending gays to the gulag.<\/p>\n

During the event, which took place in Tulsa over the weekend, the former South Bend, IN, mayor sought to bolster his profile with the ordinary folks as his party looks to shore up support for the midterms and he casts a longing eye on the 2028 Democrat nomination.<\/p>\n

At one point during the Win the Era Town Hall, the woman who was in attendance at the Will Rogers Middle and High School Athletic Center uncorked her paranoid fantasy, which, despite having zero footing in the reality-based world, was given credence by Buttigieg rather than dismissed as the ravings of a leftist kook.<\/p>\n

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Voter to Pete Buttigieg: \u201cEvery day I wake up scared because\u2026 I\u2019m waiting for the day that they start banging on doors and taking our trans and our gay friends\u2026 to concentration camps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that there\u2019s nothing you can do about that, but if you could, what would it be?\u201d pic.twitter.com\/SQMNFOw015<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \"\ud83e\udd8a\" (@VigilantFox) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cEvery day I wake up scared because a person I love is trans,\u201d she began. \u201cAnd I\u2019m waiting for the day that they start banging on doors and taking our trans and our gay friends and family to concentration camps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd our trans friends and family can\u2019t get a passport to safely flee this country,\u201d the woman continued. \u201cAnd I know that there\u2019s nothing you can do about that, but if you could, what would it be?\u201d<\/p>\n

An openly gay Buttigieg then responded, and in doing so, without rejecting the absurd idea outright, legitimized it after enthusiastic applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell\u2026first of all, it\u2019s horrible that you even have to think about that kind of fear for somebody you care about,\u201d he began. \u201cAnd it\u2019s horrible that so many Americans live in that kind of fear for themselves, and for those they love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buttigieg then proceeded to reel off a rambling non-answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it should be that way, and it doesn\u2019t have to be that way because as divisive a wedge issue as that has been made to be, for political purposes, by politicians who figure that stepping on people\u2019s faces is the best way to get ahead,\u201d he continued, \u201cbecause they definitely don\u2019t want to be taking about why they want to cut Medicaid or why they think taxes want to be cut for billionaires so they want to talk about this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it remains the case that that American, most Americans do not believe that somebody should be discriminated against, let alone harmed, because they are transgender or gay or anything else,\u201d he said as the audience again erupted in applause.<\/p>\n

X users commented on the lunacy of the town hall audience member as well as a former top government official\u2019s seeming endorsement of such a crackpot conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s insane that democrats give into this lunacy. He should have responded with Lady you\u2019re crazy sit down. Instead he uses the fear as leverage knowing it\u2019s the most insane thinking .<\/p>\n

\u2014 D8 (@dmd1998slb) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It is difficult for me to decide which is worse<\/p>\n

The sheer ignorance of the woman that asked the question
\nOr
\nThe ignorant lemmings applauding her ignorance
\nOr
\nThe utter evil of Buttplug to use her ignorance for his own political gain<\/p>\n

\u2014 THEY ALL KNEW!! (@ccochrane64) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Well, fear is the best way to control those who have no thoughts or brain cells of their own. He\u2019s an another gay alphabet moron.<\/p>\n

\u2014 I\u2019m not yelling-I\u2019m Italian\"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\"\"\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9\"\"\ud83e\udd0c\" (@eyetailyen1) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He\u2019s lying. He has no such fear. He knows there is no such plan being contemplated by ANYONE, ANYWHERE.<\/p>\n

\u2014 James Hutton (@JEHutton) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The fact that he\u2019s happy to let people live with this delusional fear proves that he is a \u201cpower by any means\u201d career politician who doesn\u2019t GAF about constituents.<\/p>\n

\u2014 One Eyed Queen (@Burrito_Queen7) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hasn\u2019t she ever wondered why HE is not afraid?<\/p>\n

He\u2019s gay, he\u2019s married to a man, He adopted two boys.
\nYou\u2019d think he\u2019d be a target, but he doesn\u2019t look like he feels like he\u2019s a target.<\/p>\n

Does she never think of that?<\/p>\n

There should be a test to give people the right to vote\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 sandy Cobb (@sandicandie) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is the insanity being pushed by liberals. The only ones really who talked about concentration camps was liberals during COVID for the unvaxed and a few liberal nuts calling for MAGA concentration camps.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sherry (@Sherry40614670) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Make Asylums Great Again.
\nthat\u2019s all we can do bro.<\/p>\n

\u2014 stephanie cameron (@khemo5) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Buttigieg is among the Democrats vying for the nomination in a wide-open field and recently made the pilgrimage to New York City to kiss the Reverend Al Sharpton\u2019s ring, a mandatory humiliation ritual for any party member who needs the black vote to survive the primaries.<\/p>\n

Look for Democrats to increasingly play to the fears of their voters as they cynically see the derangement as their ticket back to political power.<\/p>\n

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