Tucker looks at some recent problems with our TRANSportation system under the handling of Pete Buttigieg. Highlights include:
“It was two years ago that Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana was in a very hard place, really. He was unemployed, he was pushing 40, he was staring down the barrel of a grim and nonproductive middle age. For Mayor Pete, the back nine was not looking promising. But then, help arrived in the unlikely and doddering form of Joe Biden. Either because of his innate decency or because he has a nasty sense of humor, Joe Biden made Pete Buttigieg the Federal Secretary of Transportation, despite the fact that Pete Buttigieg had no relevant experience with transportation of any kind.”
“Mayor Pete turned his attention to aviation. Now, Mayor Pete himself flies private, so he didn’t have a tactile firsthand experience with our crumbling airports or crowded, stinking planes last refurbished during the Clinton administration. But he knew something more important. He knew that the FAA was beset by structural misogyny and transphobia, and to fix that, Mayor Pete had the FAA announce that the aviation system called Notice To Airmen, that’s the system that keeps pilots up to date on their flights, that system would change immediately.”
“Actually, the system itself wouldn’t change, it would remain the same, but more important, the name would change. Going forward, it would be called Notice To Air Missions.”
“See the massive improvement there? Now we’re getting somewhere. So, the beginning of last year, Mayor Pete declared victory.”
“So, he was on it, and the equity crisis was solved. Unfortunately, our transportation problems were not solved. They had, in the meantime, become much worse. In fact, it reached a point, it is at a point that you might experience in, say, a trip across Bangladesh. Just today, in fact, the FAA was forced to order a ground stop for all air traffic in the United States, no planes flying in a continental country, first time that has happened since 9/11. Now, the problem affected the newly renamed Notice To Air Missions system. More than 10,000 flights were canceled or delayed. How did this happen? Total stop on all air travel?”
“The important thing to know here is that the system that didn’t work, the Notice To Airmen, is no longer called Notice To Airmen. So, it may not actually function, you can’t actually fly anywhere, you’re earthbound, but you’re not transphobic. So, air travel is a disaster under the man who’s supposed to fix air travel. But it’s not just air travel. Have you ridden on a train recently?”
“Well, on Monday of this week at 5pm, passengers in Virginia got on an Amtrak bound for Orlando, the car train. They were supposed to arrive by 10am on Tuesday, but they didn’t. Instead, they were stuck on that train for 37 hours, because Amtrak, part of our transportation system, could not figure out how to navigate around a derailment. Some passengers called the police, thinking they’d been taken hostage.”
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