Current Events > Pete Buttegieg picked as...transportation secretary

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Butterfiles
12/15/20 4:03:11 PM
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Poop2
12/15/20 4:03:59 PM
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he'll get your BUTT movin'
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CADE FOSTER
12/15/20 4:04:40 PM
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Atleast he is kind of qualified Trumps picks for everything were super shit and under qualified
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SquirtleSkwad
12/15/20 4:06:45 PM
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Whatever your doubts, it's already 100% better than any of Trump's appointees.

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CruelBuffalo
12/15/20 4:08:16 PM
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Butterfiles posted...
For some reason
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/politics/pete-buttigieg-transportation-secretary/index.html

https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1338301354842808320?s=19

Its funny, my town of 25K has better public transit than this


Many of these posts are about being an effective paper pusher, you dont need to be the head of Amtrak to run them.

Hes not for privatizing public transit and seems like hes all about paper pushing and hes clearly hungry to show hes got what it takes so Im just \_()_/
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Butterfiles
12/15/20 4:08:28 PM
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CADE FOSTER posted...
Atleast he is kind of qualified Trumps picks for everything were super shit and under qualified
His closest thing to the role was being mayor of a city with a laughably small transit system and still letting it decline
http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/fewer-riders-but-not-fewer-tax-dollars-can-transpo-find/article_9e62e012-a1d1-52ca-be5d-ccd2d207941c.html

This is while transit faces massive cuts across the country and the ongoing climate emergency

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Smashingpmkns
12/15/20 4:10:17 PM
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Ambassador to China rumors were way funnier
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CruelBuffalo
12/15/20 4:10:37 PM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Foxx

How many articles were about a him lol. The one before Elaine.

Just say you dont like Pete. Its much easier than having a proxy battle about a cabinet you dont care about.
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Butterfiles
12/15/20 4:11:35 PM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
Just say you dont like Pete. Its much easier than having a proxy battle about a cabinet you dont care about.
I don't own a car. I definitely care about this choice. It would be nice to have someone who has ridden a bus once it their life.

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Jabodie
12/15/20 4:11:36 PM
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Seems strange. Might be grooming a young, familiar face for influence in the future, I guess.

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Alpha218
12/15/20 4:12:13 PM
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Still better than Rahm Emanuel

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CruelBuffalo
12/15/20 4:12:31 PM
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Butterfiles posted...

I dont own a car. I definitely care about this choice


Then by Biden putting him there its obvious his admin is going to place an emphasis on it....
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SquirtleSkwad
12/15/20 4:12:50 PM
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Jabodie posted...
Seems strange. Might be grooming a young, familiar face for influence in the future, I guess.
Wtf

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ElatedVenusaur
12/15/20 4:31:26 PM
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Hes getting the post because he played an important role in stopping the mean socialist. No more, no less.
This appears to be Bidens MO: appointing people he knows or who have demonstrated loyalty to him or otherwise did a favor for him.

As for Buttigieg specifically: hes no more or less qualified than past appointees, because neither party has taken public transportation seriously in decades.
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SquirtleSkwad
12/15/20 4:32:33 PM
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ElatedVenusaur posted...
hes no more or less qualified than past appointees, because neither party has taken public transportation seriously in decades.
That has nothing to do with his qualifications, though.

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Garioshi
12/15/20 4:33:57 PM
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This is repayment for him dropping out and endorsing Biden, it's by no means because he's qualified in any way.

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fuming
12/15/20 4:40:49 PM
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Garioshi posted...
This is repayment for him dropping out and endorsing Biden, it's by no means because he's qualified in any way.

This. And the very idea of "qualified" is a fucking joke. It's people projecting their idea that there is any merit to success when there just objectively is none in our world. Know the right people and ingratiate yourself, prove you are willing to tow the line, that's qualification in politics.
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CADE FOSTER
12/15/20 4:41:52 PM
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Mitch McConnels wife is the current secretary fuck her and mitch
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Mizznox
12/15/20 4:44:10 PM
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CADE FOSTER posted...
Mitch McConnels wife is the current secretary fuck her and mitch

Fuck Mitch, but I mean... she also served as Deputy Secretary of Transportation under Bush Sr, 4 years before she married Mitch.
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BLAKUboy
12/15/20 4:57:03 PM
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Literally no one would care if it was someone dumb like Yang or Tulsi, but because it's Pete this is the biggest scandal imaginable.

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CADE FOSTER
12/15/20 4:57:52 PM
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Tulsi is a gop stooge i would be pissed if it was her
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fuming
12/15/20 4:58:49 PM
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BLAKUboy posted...
Literally no one would care if it was someone dumb like Yang or Tulsi, but because it's Pete this is the biggest scandal imaginable.

If you genuinely think nobody would care if it was Tulsi you've got brainworms.
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Were_Wyrm
12/15/20 5:01:37 PM
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Butterfiles posted...
For some reason
Dropping out and endorsing Biden before Super Tuesday, that's the reason.

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Smashingpmkns
12/15/20 5:01:58 PM
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https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1338934982341963776

Lmao Ticket to Ride is the favorite game of people who are shitty at Catan smh
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monkmith
12/15/20 5:16:17 PM
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anything is better then the fuck load of nothing they've done over the last 4 years. wasn't one of trumps big promises a 'biggly beautiful infrastructure bill'?

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CADE FOSTER
12/15/20 5:17:25 PM
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monkmith posted...
anything is better then the fuck load of nothing they've done over the last 4 years. wasn't one of trumps big promises a 'biggly beautiful infrastructure bill'?
yeah infrastructure and free daycare for working moms never happened
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fuming
12/15/20 5:18:20 PM
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monkmith posted...
anything is better then the fuck load of nothing they've done over the last 4 years. wasn't one of trumps big promises a 'biggly beautiful infrastructure bill'?

Appointing someone to a position is exactly the same amount of nothing you just got lol why are you assuming something is gonna happen just because someone got appointed
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Antifar
12/15/20 5:21:52 PM
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"Back home in Indiana, people don't care what car you drive, they care about driving this country forward."

"The folks I know in South Bend are more worried about riding the bus to work, than about pointing fingers and throwing people under them."

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CADE FOSTER
12/15/20 5:22:38 PM
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Anything that happens has to go through mitch unless we win the ga runoff so yeah whole lotta nothing
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monkmith
12/15/20 5:22:47 PM
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fuming posted...
Appointing someone to a position is exactly the same amount of nothing you just got lol why are you assuming something is gonna happen just because someone got appointed
well for one, he's not the spouse of moscow mitch...

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CruelBuffalo
12/15/20 5:24:20 PM
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CADE FOSTER posted...
Anything that happens has to go through mitch unless we win the ga runoff so yeah whole lotta nothing


Very true.

And just my 100% unasked for two cents. Honestly the way the left treats any inkling of Pete news is the same way conservatives treat AOC news. It gets to be a bit much reading hyperbolic hot takes off of things like...board games
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fuming
12/15/20 5:24:21 PM
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monkmith posted...
well for one, he's not the spouse of moscow mitch...

This has literally nothing to do with whether or not anything gets done because of his appointment though?
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ElatedVenusaur
12/15/20 5:24:59 PM
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monkmith posted...
well for one, he's not the spouse of moscow mitch...
Or a token Republican appointment! Thanks Obama. The second guy was the mayor of Charlotte, which you may realize is a much bigger city than South Bend,
I wonder who Joe Biden's token Republican will be? I've been assured by Joe Biden that Republicans will be falling over themselves to work with him now that Trump is defeated.
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CADE FOSTER
12/15/20 5:25:54 PM
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I thought John Kasich was that
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Intro2Logic
12/15/20 5:26:24 PM
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https://bit.ly/3gOWe9C
But at least he's better than Rahm

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Garioshi
12/15/20 5:40:10 PM
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Antifar posted...
"Back home in Indiana, people don't care what car you drive, they care about driving this country forward."

"The folks I know in South Bend are more worried about riding the bus to work, than about pointing fingers and throwing people under them."
I hate this so much

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Gamerguymass
12/15/20 5:46:09 PM
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I honestly thought way back when he did drop out agreed to endorse Biden that he would be picked as Secretary of State. I mean the guys speaks like eight fucking languages. He literally learned Norwegian just so he could read a book.

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SmidgeIsntBack
12/16/20 7:05:34 AM
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Remember that time he started removing traffic lights to replace them with some smart tech garbage, then after a kid was killed he just blamed the kid.

https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/south-bend-mayor-stands-behind-smart-streets-after-traffic-death/ article_52259178-e259-11e6-aae3-b76ceaa745fe.html

Following a consultant's 2015 study finding that vehicular and pedestrian traffic at the corner of South and Michigan streets didn't warrant a traffic light, the city placed a bag over the light Feb. 1, 2016, as it did at a handful of downtown intersections.

"We simply don't know whether it would have made any difference yesterday morning as two children darted across the street, at an angle, and one of them, outside the crosswalk, was struck and killed," the mayor said.

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au_gold
12/16/20 7:09:27 AM
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IShall_Run_Amok
12/17/20 8:51:19 AM
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Southernfatman
12/17/20 9:04:11 AM
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^lol Also:

"YOU GUYS MUST LOVE TRUMP OR SOMETHING!!!111"

Remember, cronyism is ok when Democrats do it.

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FursonaNonGrata
12/17/20 9:07:47 AM
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Its really too bad that a large number of people are reacting to this with Well at least hes not a Trump pick as if thats an acceptable bar for public office. Dude is just as unqualified as any Trump appointee, but because its a Democrat administration its somehow okay?

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The Trent
12/17/20 9:09:35 AM
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they had to put him in the cabinet somewhere, where should he have gone guys?

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Balrog0
12/17/20 9:10:07 AM
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SmidgeIsntBack posted...
Remember that time he started removing traffic lights to replace them with some smart tech garbage, then after a kid was killed he just blamed the kid.

https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/south-bend-mayor-stands-behind-smart-streets-after-traffic-death/ article_52259178-e259-11e6-aae3-b76ceaa745fe.html

This makes me think more of him and his credentials as secretary of transportation

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hockeybub89
12/17/20 9:11:45 AM
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FursonaNonGrata posted...
Its really too bad that a large number of people are reacting to this with Well at least hes not a Trump pick as if thats an acceptable bar for public office. Dude is just as unqualified as any Trump appointee, but because its a Democrat administration its somehow okay?
But we just need to get Trump out though! We can try hard in 2024 after he's nothing but a memory.

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FursonaNonGrata
12/17/20 9:15:33 AM
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hockeybub89 posted...
But we just need to get Trump out though! We can try hard in 2024 after he's nothing but a memory.

Just a few more weeks until racism is over and we can get back to brunch

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Balrog0
12/17/20 9:17:03 AM
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Man this place is bizarre. I need to get off ce

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The Trent
12/17/20 9:17:22 AM
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Balrog0 posted...
Man this place is bizarre. I need to get off ce

just lean in man
get em

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FrankJaegr
12/17/20 9:18:49 AM
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Balrog0 posted...
This makes me think more of him and his credentials as secretary of transportation

To be honest any good secretary of transportation would've done the exact same thing >_>
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