Pete Buttigieg is ineffective and should
be fired
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/12/2022 12:07:56 PM
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went on national television news and told the watching audience he’s wrapped 10 investigations into late and canceled flights and has “launched another ten or so that we’re going to pursue.” That’s great. Ten plus ten equals 20—now only another, umm, 10,000 or so and surfaces will really start to be scratched. And 10,000 is perhaps low.(Snip)Airlines, by one count, were handed $54 billion or so in tax-paid bailouts so as to keep them operational and staffed in COVID-19 times and by logical extension, thereafter—and Buttigieg’s big idea to address the obvious misuse of these funds is to call for more
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To the contrary, Buttigieg is brilliantly effective. He spins his wheels, takes maternity leave, and looks cute on camera while grooming the nation for his eventual installation as president. Like everyone else in the administration, without exception, he stands by doing "stupid" things while the nation crashes and burns, which is the intent. He's also a brilliant choice because as an openly Gay man who is married to another Gay man, he is immune from criticism.