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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 01:37 PM Oct 2021

Transportation chief Buttigieg defends family leave after being mocked by Fux Noise wanker

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg defended paid family leave on Sunday, after Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked the secretary for taking paternity leave to care for his twin newborns.

"When somebody welcomes a new child into their family, and goes on leave to take care of that child that's not a vacation, it's work, it's joyful, wonderful, fulfilling work, but it is work," said Buttigieg on "Meet the Press."

Politico reported last week the secretary had been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their twin babies, Penelope and Joseph.

On Thursday, Carlson said: “Pete Buttigieg has been on leave from his job since August after adopting a child. Paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure out how to breastfeed. No word on how that went."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/transportation-chief-buttigieg-defends-family-leave-after-being-mocked-by-fox-news-anchor/ar-AAPDcfE

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Transportation chief Buttigieg defends family leave after being mocked by Fux Noise wanker (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
Carson is a miserable human being . . . Lovie777 Oct 2021 #1
They have two children, Tucker, do your homework. Walleye Oct 2021 #2
Carlson has to be the biggest, grossest and stupidest idiot around! n/t RKP5637 Oct 2021 #3
While I strongly abhor Fucker Carlsons' statement radicalleft Oct 2021 #4

Walleye

(30,729 posts)
2. They have two children, Tucker, do your homework.
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 01:39 PM
Oct 2021

Fucking junior high insult artist makes millions running his mouth on TV

radicalleft

(478 posts)
4. While I strongly abhor Fucker Carlsons' statement
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 01:57 PM
Oct 2021

The optics of taking that much paid time off as a public servant when literally millions of new parents are not afforded the same basic right is thought provoking. I may be wrong, but doesn't President Biden's infrastructure plan guarantee a benefit such as this?

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