SHUT DOWN: Hear what Sec. Pete Buttigieg just said about homophobic “Aunt Vicky”

SHUT DOWN: Hear what Sec. Pete Buttigieg just said about homophobic "Aunt Vicky"

Last Thursday, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO by way of the Wicked Witch of the West’s training camp) went viral for blubbering on the House floor while begging her colleagues not to vote for the Respect For Marriage Act.

It was just too much for Hysterically Hateful Hartzler and her fellow Fake Christian Trumpocrites to comprehend that other marriages have nothing to do with hers, but hers was a typical uber-conservative response to having to think about what a “gay” marriage might be like.

Yay carefully taught hate and suppression!

While “Aunt Vicky” got rightfully dragged to filth by everyone including her nephew, Andrew Hartzler, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg addressed her histrionics in his usual Secretary Pete way.

Chasten & Pete Buttigieg

Appearing on “CNN This Morning,” whose panel includes openly gay anchor Don Lemon, Buttigieg referred to his husband, Chasten, and their two young children.

“If you believe in family, if you believe in kindness, if you believe in love, then you want to see what goes on in millions of families, including mine,” he told Lemon.

“I just wonder if she could see the family life that Chasten wrote about so movingly in that piece on Medium. And that, again, is the most important experience in my day,” Buttigieg said.

In his essay, Chasten Buttigieg writes about their family’s chaotic mornings and other moments that every family can relate to.

“Marriage is about the mornings spent negotiating the daily schedule while stuffing diaper bags. It’s the sweat-inducing challenge of getting a sweater on a wiggling toddler and the smile that comes from how cute they are once you succeed,” Chasten writes.

Secretary Pete told Lemon that while every family is different, theirs shares the same sort of loving bonds that other families do.

“The institutional support of marriage that binds me and Chasten together, including through hard times,” Secretary Pete explained.

“You know, a tug of war over who’s going to do the dishes when we’re both exhausted,” he continued. “And you know what to do when we run out of, you know, run out of eggs or those puffs that you can put into a little cup that have a remarkable kind of bribery effect on getting the kids to settle down and quiet down when they’re in the stroller, the minivan.”

Here, Lemon chided the Secretary of Transportation for driving a minivan.

Which is honestly a bigger reason to drag someone, as we all know.

“Wait, wait. You have a minivan?” Lemon asked, not even trying to hide his laughter.

“Oh, yeah! Yeah. And that’s another example of how marriage changes you and how kids change you,” Secretary Pete said affably. “I never thought I would be a minivan person. The things we do for the love of our children, right?”

That’s right, Aunt Vicky.

Tara Dublin

Tara Dublin is a woefully unrepresented writer who thinks more people would read her cool rock & roll love story inspired by Dave Grohl than any ghostwritten GOP crapbook, agents & publishers. Follow Tara on Twitter @taradublinrocks