Tucker looks at Pete Buttigieg’s stellar performance as Secretary of Transportation at doing nothing in emergencies. Highlights include:
“It seems like ancient history now, but in the fall of 2021, not so long ago, America’s supply chains came close to snapping. Remember this? More than 100 cargo ships were floating idly off the coast of LA and Long Beach, those are the two biggest ports on the west coast. Those ships were filled with consumer goods bound for stores and consumers across the country, but they couldn’t offload them, there was no place to do it. The containers just sat there, and in any case, thanks to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates, there weren’t enough truckers to pick up the cargo and take it anywhere. So, all of that combined to create the worst shipping bottleneck in memory, and it lasted for months. The price of transporting goods to this country rose by 600%, so if you’re wondering why inflation started to go up, that’s a big part of the reason. Now, none of this happened by accident, the bottleneck was a man made disaster, and it could’ve been, should’ve been fixed by the people in charge of transportation.”
“That should, conclusively, have been the end of Pete Buttigieg’s career as transportation secretary… Whatever you think of his personal journey of self-discovery, there was an emergency in progress and Buttigieg ignored it. If anything is grounds for firing somebody, it’s that, but the Biden administration did not fire Pete Buttigieg, they did the opposite, they praised him for breaking some important but not very well defined glass ceiling of some sort that you’re supposed to be excited about. They rewarded his dereliction of duty. So, since people do respond to incentives, Pete Buttigieg kept doing it, he kept proudly ignoring his job. Weeks after a train derailed in East Palestine Ohio, causing an actual environmental disaster for the whole region, Pete Buttigieg, as of tonight, has still not visited East Palestine. Why? What has he been doing? Well, as he explained to a Daily Caller reporter last night, he’s taking more personal time.”
“This week, people in East Palestine are coughing up blood, we know that because we talked to a couple of them last night, but still Pete Buttigieg has not shown up. Donald Trump has, by the way, he went today. He’s not able to fix the problem, it’s not like he’s the secretary of transportation, but Trump did bring palettes of bottled water and then bought the entire fire department dinner at McDonald’s. Whatever you think of Trump, at least he cared enough to go there. That’s something. In fact, it’s enough to make you wonder how someone who clearly doesn’t care at all, not even a little bit, who doesn’t even care enough to pretend he cares, wound up with one of the most important jobs in the Biden cabinet, a job with actual responsibilities, how did he do that? Well, we know what the answer is.”
“So, you sort of long to see Pete Buttigieg fired from his job. It’s nothing personal… What Pete Buttigieg is actually like or how well his Norwegian actually is, is irrelevant. You long to see him fired because you long to see someone at some point held accountable for disasters.”’
“It would be encouraging to see someone punished for this debacle, for the ‘thousand’ train derailments we have every year, as Pete Buttigieg blithely informed us the other day. But Pete Buttigieg has not been fired and he likely won’t be – why is that? Well, we’re thinking it’s because he’s on board with the core idea of the Biden administration, and that is ‘equity’, and ‘equity’ means we’re going to make decisions based on how you look, and Pete Buttigieg is all in on that.”
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