Republicans Are Afraid Of Mayor Pete (And They Should Be)

[Celerity]

Mysteriously, the right has been very concerned with Pete Buttigieg’s job performance. Why?

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/republicans-are-afraid-of-mayor-pete



If one were to go by social media, one would think that Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is personally responsible for the train derailment in Ohio. Both of them. And the FAA computer glitch in January. And every pothole between Anchorage and Miami. Why is Mayor Pete the worst Transportation Secretary in all of American history?! But let’s not kid ourselves; the furore over Buttigieg’s job performance is not about train derailments or computer glitches. This is all about the 2028 presidential election. Republicans and their alt-left allies are filling their diapers at the prospect of a Pete Buttigieg candidacy, and their tactics are designed for one thing, and one thing only.

Who’s afraid of Mayor Pete?

Trump got himself impeached because he tried to force Ukraine to fabricate an investigation into Joe Biden. This was months before Biden was even close to clinching the nomination and occurred while the press was insisting Biden’s campaign was floundering. Still, Trump and his people were more afraid of a Biden candidacy than anything else and went scorched earth to bring him down. It’s a pretty standard rule in presidential politics that whoever the other side is attacking the most is the person they’re most afraid of. This brings us to today while we watch an assortment of rat bastards wage war against…the Secretary of Transportation? This is usually a Cabinet position no one pays much attention to. The only reason anyone knows who Trump’s Sec. of Transportation was is that she was Mitch McConnell’s wife and Trump has been recently attacking her for being Chinese. Elaine Chao did so much crooked stuff under Trump, it’s absolutely amazing, but no one really cared because, well, she was the Secretary of Transportation.

Mysteriously, the right and the alt-left have been very concerned with Pete Buttigieg’s job performance.

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That’s a lot of shade for a Cabinet position most people are vaguely aware of and have even less idea what it’s for. To be clear, these are not reasonable complaints. Two programmers fouled up the FAA systems and it was fixed in a few hours. If Republicans and Nina Turner can explain how to keep a nationwide computer system from ever once experiencing human error, I’d love to hear it. Maybe they can tweet it to Elon Musk, assuming Twitter is working properly at that particular moment.

As for trains? There are over 1,000 train derailments a year (yes, you read that correctly). Accordingly, there were over 5000 during Trump’s time in office. Neither Trump nor Elaine Chao (that was his Secretary of Transportation in case you already forgot) showed up to a single one of them. No one clutched their pearls over this. No Republicans wept bloody tears and the alt-left was too busy trying to re-elect Donald Trump to pay attention. But goodness gracious, they sure have an awful lot to say about how Mayor Pete should have handled things. Now why might that be? What’s got Republicans so scared of Pete Buttigieg?

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[Meadowoak]

1. +1

[Raven123]

2. Buttigieg is smart, informed, quick, and frames the GOP nonsense perfectly.

Gavin Newsome is the only other Dem I can think of who does almost as well. It’s necessary, but not sufficient to counter their absurd claims. Pivoting to identify their weaknesses is key. When Buttigieg nailed Trump by calling out his lying arse over supporting the residents in Ohio affected by the tragic train derailment, he perfectly asked if Trump would support necessary legislation to undo the damage of the Trump administration’s revoking safety rules. That’s how it’s done.

[ConstanceCee]

3. So Obvious

I just hope he doesn't give up. I'm going to write to him.

[snowybirdie]

4. Anyone remember

Elaine Chao being vilified by the left or even showing up at any transportation related disaster, like the one in Alabama that killed several after a train derailed.

[Lonestarblue]

7. The only thing I remember Elaine Chao doing in four years was standing beside Trump as he praised

the white supremacists in Charlottesville to let them know he was on their side. Chao was mostly rarely heard from during her years in office, and evidently she spent most of time helping her family run its shipping business (according to an Inspector General report, which the Trump declined declines to follow up).

[Rebl2]

9. Didn't even

remember what she did in that horror show of administration. She apparently did nothing and got a paycheck she didn’t need or deserve.

[doc03]

5. They see him as a possible presidential candidate, so they are

doing a preemptive strike. The same tactic they used with Hillary Clinton and Bengazi "We drove her numbers down".

[aeromanKC]

6. Oh, but his boots.

[James48]

8. Nope- not the 2028 election.

I think he might even be the 2024 nominee, if Joe chooses not to run.

[rubbersole]

10. His intelligence is equal to his humility.

And he could talk to Melania in 7 languages. She'd maybe understand one.