{"id":10052,"date":"2023-02-19T19:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2023-02-19T19:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:47:04","slug":"buttplug-in-absentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/buttplug-in-absentia\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttplug in absentia<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gee, who woulda ever thunk that two disastrous terms<\/a> as the fumbling, bumbling mayor of a small-ish Indiana town might not turn out to be preparation aplenty for the job of US Secretary of Transportation?<\/p>\n

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Pete Buttigieg fails the Woody Allen test<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

He\u2019s been called the future of the Democratic Party, and the smartest man in the swamp. Pete Buttigieg serves as transportation secretary in the Biden Administration. And one could argue that, outside of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, there isn\u2019t anyone in the administration who has performed as poorly as the former mayor of South Bend, Ind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This perspective comes after Buttigieg was once again several days late and many dollars short in his response to a 50-car train derailment on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, that resulted in four kinds of cancer-causing chemicals being released into the area\u2019s air and water. Fish and poultry have died as a result, while frightened residents are complaining of nausea, headaches and respiratory issues.<\/p>\n

During any catastrophe, leaders must get out of their offices and travel to the disaster site to assess the damage, weigh what resources can be utilized and show solidarity with the affected people.<\/p>\n

Buttigieg has done no such thing, perhaps taking his cues from President Biden, who also has avoided any public acknowledgment of the situation. It\u2019s a head-in-the-sand approach that has many Ohio residents angry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere\u2019s Pete Buttigieg? Where\u2019s he at?\u201d one resident asked East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway.<\/p>\n

Now on the defensive, Buttigieg has resorted to blaming (you guessed it) former President Trump for what is happening in Ohio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015), but we are using the powers we do have to keep people safe,\u201d Buttigieg tweeted. \u201cAnd of course, I\u2019m always ready to work with Congress on furthering (or in some cases, restoring) our capacity to address rail safety issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, despite Democrats having controlled the House, Senate and White House for two years, Buttigieg claims his hands are tied because of the administration that has been gone for 25 months.<\/p>\n

A supply chain crisis; baby formula shortages; a U.S. commercial airline industry in chaos. And now evacuations, a federal investigation and a cancer-causing chemical scare that continues to stress residents in Ohio and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Woody Allen said that 90 percent of success in life is just showing up. On that front, Pete Buttigieg continues to fail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If he wants to be president one day, Buttigieg must show more effort, urgency and competency than what the country has witnessed so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He won\u2019t, and nobody with a lick of sense ought to be expecting he ever will. Truth is, being an incompetent boob cut from the same raggedy, moldy cloth as his (titular) boss, he CAN\u2019T<\/em>. He was manifestly a Bribem junta<\/em> diversity-hire, brought in exclusively due to being a loud-and-proud homosexual and no other reason whatsoever. As they say in Texas, Pete Buttplug is all hat, no cattle. If Affirmative Action were ever to be put on trial, he\u2019d be Exhibit A for the prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gee, who woulda ever thunk that two disastrous terms as the fumbling, bumbling mayor of a small-ish Indiana town might not turn out to be preparation aplenty for the job of US Secretary of Transportation? Pete Buttigieg fails the Woody Allen test He\u2019s been called…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Buttplug in absentia<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,198,42,54,71,77,101,120,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bah","category-big-tsimmis","category-dazed-confused","category-disasters-near-and-far","category-fucking-morons","category-life-in-a-once-great-nation","category-meltdown-what-meltdown","category-tards","category-we-are-soooooo-screwed","category-willful-stupidity","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-198-id","wpcat-42-id","wpcat-54-id","wpcat-71-id","wpcat-77-id","wpcat-101-id","wpcat-120-id","wpcat-123-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}