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Mayor Pete, now called the Secretary of Transportation for all of the U.S., a cabinet level position in the Biden regime, visited Kansas City, Mo., recently, enjoying one of the perks of his job. That is, getting to pose in grip & grin photos and take some of the credit for a big transportation project, the new Kansas City airport. Having flown into KCI numerous times over the years, a new airport is a huge, much-needed upgrade for the area. The old airport’s Soviet Bloc look was past due for a revamp. So, great news for Kansas City and for travelers, and kudos to those who made the project happen. As to Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg (BOOT-ə-jəj) …
It’s good to celebrate successes, but Buttigieg’s most recent history shows a failure to respond meaningfully to the continuing crisis in East Palestine, Ohio. So that’s where his energy should be focused. Playtime comes after dealing with the tough stuff.
In his two years as transportation secretary, Pothole Pete – his moniker for his lukewarm performance as mayor of South Bend, Ind., because he couldn’t get the streets’ potholes fixed – has delivered the mediocre level of performance that’s the standard for members of Team Biden. In the first year of his transportation gig, Buttigieg was absent for two months on paternity leave during a transportation crisis. He was then criticized for his response to multiple air travel problems. He called a nationwide flight shutdown a “data point” from which learning could come.
The East Palestine environmental disaster that began in February has been Buttigieg’s most defining event of who the transportation secretary is. While the crisis called for strong, coordinated actions from the government, Buttigieg was a no-show, revealing his lack of commonsense and empathy. He blew an opportunity to take the lead in addressing a horrible situation.
More than a day late and a dollar short, Buttigieg finally visited East Palestine on February 23, 20 days after the Norfolk Southern train derailment, and a day after former President Trump visited. The current president hasn’t traveled to East Palestine, but Biden did fly to one of the world’s most corrupt countries, Ukraine, to deliver more American dollars to the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, displaying where the U.S. president’s priorities are – not with Americans enduring an environmental disaster in Ohio. Since the people in the Biden administration appear to walk in lock-step on the worst path, Buttigieg, a good soldier, is perhaps just following orders.
It would be good to see even one Democrat step up and do the right thing. Pete could have done that in Ohio. It should have been crisis communications 101 – if only he could have executed a plan. Presumably, emergency response and crisis communications plans are in place at the Federal Railroad Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, FEMA, the EPA, NTSB, Norfolk Southern, National Guard, the Secretary’s office and with first responders and state & local officials. Whoever the players are, assemble all relevant parties in a virtual “war room” and go through everything that needs to get done, anticipate questions and needs that will arise, determine the lead organization and spokesperson, etc., etc. Get the people of the community taken care of and get the area cleaned. And overcommunicate to all stakeholders. Communications, communications, communications.
OHIO’S ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
More than 50 years after another major environmental disaster, Ohio takes a hit again when train cars derail spilling vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate chemicals. The 1969 event was one of multiple fires on the Cuyahoga River that had been contaminated for years with debris, chemicals and oil. A polluted Cuyahoga River, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., served as focal points for a developing environmental movement and the first Earth Day in 1970, as well as the creation of the National Environmental Policy Act and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Richard Nixon in 1970.
Residents of the community and the American public didn’t see that happen. But things that made no sense to the layperson happened, most strikingly setting fire to all the chemicals in the derailed cars, sending dangerous, toxic material into the air, ultimately to land on ground and water. With animals dying, there was no confidence in the community if residents were safe now or in the future. And as to Pete, he tried to blame former President Trump – the default response among Dems remains: it’s Trump’s fault. (Given Trump has been out of office for more than two years, how long will Democrats try to use him as the catchall answer to anything gone wrong?)
Buttigieg may be “book smart,” but he has a poor sense of the right thing to say and when to show up. In the face of people in Ohio suffering and uncertain as to the health, safety and economic impacts on their lives and those of their families as a result of the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Buttigieg said, “There are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing,” seemingly minimizing the impact of the February 3 derailment.
One thousand derailments sounds like a lot. Two years into his transportation gig, wouldn’t Buttigieg be “all over this?” Rail transportation is not exactly a new invention. It’s reasonable to think railroads and trains should be operating efficiently and safely. On a priority scale, safe railways and rail transportation that don’t kill or harm people, wildlife and the environment should rank much higher than one of Pete’s favorite topics: ending “racist” roads.
To give Pete some credit, on the mediocrity scale, for example, he is much less mediocre than Vice President Kamala Harris. Perhaps in an effort to bolster her dismal image, Politico recently wrote a puff piece on first gentleman Doug Emhoff. Maybe Pete can follow the example – an image-bolstering interview with Pete’s husband, Chasten James Glezman Buttigieg, telling us what a great husband and dad Pete is.
These types of pieces may reinforce support from the Kool-Aid drinkers, but the rest of us just want to see elected officials do their jobs well. Failing that, resignation would be in order.
On March 1, a train crash in Greece resulted in the deaths of 36 people. The Greek Transportation Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned, saying he felt it was his duty to step down “as a basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly.” Karamanlis said he had made “every effort” to improve a railway system that had been “in a state that doesn’t befit the 21st century.”
That’s a notable difference between officials in the Biden Administration who never resign and seldom are fired. The rare exception has been the luggage thief, party it-girl and now former DOE official, Sam Brinton, and two U.S. Air Force commanders and four of their subordinates who were fired from a nuclear base in North Dakota.
But after the debacle of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, did the “woke” General Mark A. Milley, or any of his Joint Chiefs of Staff brethren, resign out of protest or acceptance of personal responsibility? That would be a “no.” What of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has overseen the opening of U.S. borders and the mass importation of more than 5 million illegal aliens? No. And certainly not the Secretary of Transportation, Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg.
Officials who don’t fulfill the duties of their jobs will not resign under a Biden regime. They have no sense of honor and duty to the citizens of the country. Their only duty is to protect the power of the collective – the Borg. Protect it, and it protects them.
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The only improvement KC airport needs is photos warning of luggage thief Sam Britton. Did gay Pete bring any?
It’s friggin awesome for passengers. Easy in, easy out, no waiting, no walking miles. Best airport I’ve ever used.
That might be one airport I’ve never been inside of. I have been through a bunch of em.
Without equal, the worst airport I’ve ever been in, not once but twice is Frankfurt Germany. It has no competition. It’s okay looking, but finding your way around is insane. I don’t know if it’s still on the web or not, but there has been numerous mockery of it, songs, tellings, etc.
“The only improvement KC airport needs is photos warning of luggage thief Sam Britton. Did gay Pete bring any?”
No Need. he Got his shit packed the night before.
Definitely. A ‘punch’ line in a manner of speaking.
Why are gay men are the first people to leave the hotel in the morning?
They get their shit packed the night before.
Those days are over. The old airport only needed a facelift but no, they had to have a brand spanking new airport. Now it’s like every other big city airport. Only worse. I haven’t been there yet but I will be picking up and dropping off in a couple of weeks.
Lots of complaints about traffic blocking the drop off/pick up areas.
Burns and McDonnell, local engineers drew plans and offered to do the engineering at no charge. KC Admins took the plans to a Baltimore company because Burns and Mac was not diversified enough. They won a lawsuit against the city and the city lost out because they didn’t stay true and altered the design.
Burns and Mac engineers flew out of the old airport constantly. A lot of people believe we would not be having the traffic problems we have now because they knew the traffic flow well.
Also, don’t check your baggage if you want to get out of there fast. 45 minute avg wait for luggage.
If you go there at the right time of day, the traffic isn’t bad some say. But late night pick ups are a nightmare.
As for Buttgig, he just wanted a photo op.
No other conclusion is possible.
This is all planned.
Anyone who questions our worldly masters,
will be killed!
One way or another…………….
In the meantime, this sure does feel alot like Hell.
Well, as long as you can see the bright side…..
‘Grip and Grin’; I think that describes Pete pretty well. They forgot take one on the chin, but that’s probably just a given.
The trip to Missouri isn’t the highlight for light in the loafers Petey.
No, the state he really loves is Iowa.
You know why….wink!
It’s beyond comical that Pete is vying perhaps for the POTUS. He wouldn’t be the first gay president, but he would be the first openly gay ‘bottom’ president, something that absolutely matters to a perverted DNC. They are all about ‘firsts’. He, as is well documented been virtually absent throughout the full Obiden term. When he does show up a day late and dollar short, he’s totally aloof to the situation.
The DNC debate stage should be quite entertaining with a who’s who of circus freaks and whatnot. I probably will watch that. At least one of em in the early stages, because I want to see the full lineup.
I thought the perverted DNC was all about fists.
perverted DNC was all about
E.F. Hutton “Depends are a solid buy.”
Gay means happy, these are sodomites. Don’t let them shape the narrative.
it’s a code word.
Pete vying for President? Has he crossed swords yet with Biden?
“It would be good to see even one Democrat step up and do the right thing.”
It would be good to see ANY POLITITIAN step up and do the right thing.
He did, but they blew his head off for it and killed his younger brother.
but they blew his head off for it and killed his younger brother.
Aaah…the 1960s.
Back when you could fool the world with 10-30 secconds of deliberately shoddy film.
They could have accomplished a great and wonderful CGI Oz.
For many a politician:
Do the right thing=anathema
The author obviously forgets that Pete Butteplugge’s only ‘qualification’ for this government position was being a homosexual … period … full stop …
It should have been apparent to anyone with a pulse that his years as ‘mayor’ of South Bendover was an accurate representation of just what a worthless POS he truly is.
He and his husband need to go out and buy some more babies … and spend a few more months on maternity leave …
… https://howjsay.com/
stevie: “buttigieg? his name be pronounced Butt · gig ·EEE”. It’s French for ‘chest Feeder’. The i is silent. However, “EEE” Is NOT. Heard frequently, Outside of what ever room peter eater is staying in. NOT much to bite on those cheap pillows.
Maybe mike lindell is missing is missing the ‘Testimonial’ opportunity of his huckster career?
There is no democrat mayor that runs his city as the taxpayer needs it to be.
If I could turn Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner into a tire on a car, I’d drive it up and down Richmond Avenue between Hwy 6 and Beltway 8 – 24/7, just to punish him for being a crap nig mayor.
NO, petey buttplug could NOT have done the right thing in Ohio because his (((handlers))) told him not to.
So…did Mr. ButtPlug show his ass while in the Show Me State? He does everywhere else.
The entire federal government has no claim to accountability. The workforce is unionized and cannot be fired short of 50 pounds of paper and two years of chasing one’s tail.
It is actually easier to let staffers sleep at their desks or run their weekend real estate job on their government computers and get someone else to get the job done. That person usually ends up working for a contractor making much more money and having much more responsibility.
incompetent and in over his head in anything he does and where he is at because of what he is.
(life)style over substance. the amerikan way it shows everywhere.
I’m so over Buttgang I don’t even say fuck him anymore…you do it.
What? No mention of the Great Cuyahoga River Fire of 1968 that Randy Newman immortalized???
After that original fire on the Cuyahoga folks would try to set it on fire ‘just for fun’ … and some succeeded.
I worked the steel mills down in ‘The Flats’ that runs along the Cuyahoga River … whole rail cars of contaminants would be dumped into the river … some were surprised it took so long for the fire to happen.
But, then, in those days, Cuyahoga County (Cleveland and suburbs) had the highest dollar value output of manufactured goods — primary metals, automobiles, chemicals, paint, everything — of any county in the United States …
Now? You couldn’t start the Cuyahoga River on fire by emptying a couple gasoline tanker trucks into it … and all of the manufacturing is gone — long, long, long gone …
They got some funky smellin’ wimmen…