FLASHBACK: Biden Warned Us That Mayor Pete Wasn't Ready for a Big Boy Job. Then He Gave Him One.
During his tenure as transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg has overseen crisis after crisis: the grounding of all U.S. commercial flights for the first time since the September 11 terror attacks; a supply chain meltdown that kept cargo ships from entering American ports; failed union negotiations that nearly shut down rails nationwide; and most recently, a train derailment and ensuing chemical explosion that forced thousands of Ohioans to flee their homes.
Through it all, the Democratic wunderkind has focused on bigger priorities, like vacationing in Portugal and criticizing construction workers for being too white.
If you thought Buttigieg was ill-prepared when President Joe Biden tapped the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., to oversee the country's transportation system, you're not alone. Biden himself warned about Buttigieg's experience in an attack ad during the 2020 presidential primaries.
"Joe Biden helped save the auto industry, which helped revitalize the economy of the Midwest," states a February 2020 Biden campaign ad. "Pete Buttigieg revitalized the sidewalks of downtown South Bend by laying out decorative brick."
TRAIN WRECK: All the Transportation Scandals on Pete Buttigieg's Watch
Pete Buttigieg: The archetype of the Biden regime
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If there is one thing all Americans now know about transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, it is that he is massively, moronically incompetent but thinks he is the smartest, most impressive person on the planet. As Victor Davis Hanson has noted, he is "the epitome of the empty résumé class." He had no qualifications for the job beyond the fact that he ticks a couple of identity politics boxes, he's gay and proud of it, and he's a mind-numbed leftist. He is therefore, the perfect book cover for the Biden Cabinet catalogue.
Like Biden and the rest of his Cabinet, Buttigieg was hired for all the wrong reasons and is thoroughly incompetent for the job he holds. Chosen for reasons other than expertise or competence, it explains the utter failure of the Biden regime on every issue that matters: national and border security, health and safety, military readiness, food and energy security, inflation, economic management, and dangerous involvement in a foreign war that may well lead to WWIII. Perhaps that is the goal, given this regime's failure on every front. Distraction from our $31T in debt? Distraction from the fact that the mandated vaccines are killing young people at a 40% excess mortality rate? Distraction from the open border that has ushered into the country five million unvetted migrants and tons of fentanyl that is killing 100K people a year? All of the above?
Nothing has pointed up Biden's and Buttigieg's ineptitude more than their lack of a response to the cataclysmic disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. The citizens of that town have been rendered "useless eaters," as Klaus Schwab's partner in crimes Yuval Harari has described the people he views as disposable. The folks in East Palestine probably voted for Trump, so they are not worth saving or helping. They have been left to breathe cancer-causing contaminated air and drink and shower with seriously tainted water, and they were told by their governor that all is safe. It's not. It is very likely that the soil and water will not be safe for decades to come.
But Biden is still in Europe, doling out American taxpayer cash to Ukrainians, a nation in which the U.S. has no national interest whatsoever. Biden's allegiance to Ukraine is all about payback for the millions of dollars that nation has funneled to the Biden family. Humbling himself before China is also payback for the millions the Biden family received from that country. The Trump-haters who stole the election put a Ukraine/China tool in the Oval Office, and all of America is suffering for their crime, as are the Ukrainian and Russian people. Biden and his fellow war-mongers do not care any more for those war-torn civilians than they do the American people, least of all those in East Palestine, Ohio.
Buttigieg as like an annoying, narcissistic character in literature. Uriah Heep, from Dickens's Great Expectations, comes to mind: self-aggrandizing, narcissistic, arrogant, and skilled at nothing, least of all the job he holds. He enjoys the perks of his job — months off work for "maternity" leave and free flights to sports games in Europe, for example. He's a classic hypocrite who believes that his position accords him special privileges. He drives his SUV to work, hides it, and rides his bike for a hundred yards. Perhaps the reason he has not shown up in East Palestine is because he is an abject coward; he knows that the air is toxic and is scared of it. When asked about the derailment, he quickly and stupidly blames the Trump administration. Blaming Trump is the Biden administration's fallback position on anything that goes wrong. No one is buying it. They are all like a child who, with cookie crumbs on his face, blames his sibling for eating the cookie.
Everything the Biden administration has done has been a disaster of epic proportions, beginning with his cancelation of the Keystone Pipeline and moving on to his ill fated withdrawal from Afghanistan, his fomenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and now the failure to address the worst environmental accident in U.S. history. The man is obviously suffering from cognitive decline, so his appearances in Europe and elsewhere are almost always an embarrassment to the U.S. His speech is generally slurred, his reading of his speeches halting, angry, and somewhat demented. The man is not mentally sound. Buttigieg is just a garden-variety narcissist who believes he is important, a man of substance, when he is neither. This president and his Cabinet of inept wokesters have been a tragedy for America.
Image: Pete Buttigieg. Credit: Flickr, public domain.
Report: Buttigieg Finally Plans To Visit East Palestine—Three Weeks After Chemical Disaster
Transportation secretary has faced criticism over Biden admin's slow response to disaster
Nearly three weeks after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that led to the release of toxic chemicals, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is finally planning to visit the devastated town, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Buttigieg is expected to meet on Thursday with residents and members of the National Transportation Safety Board for a briefing, according to the report.
The transportation secretary's slow response to the emergency in East Palestine has sparked bipartisan criticism of the Biden administration's handling of the disaster. It took Buttigieg nearly two weeks to issue his first statement on the derailment, in which he attacked Republicans for criticizing his inaction on the issue.
The train derailed on Feb. 3, and authorities began releasing the substances from the train on Feb. 6 to avoid an explosion and get the tracks operable again. "We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open," Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist, told a local news outlet.
Buttigieg previously said he would visit "when the time was right," according to Politico.
Animals as far as 20 miles away from the scene turned up dead in the days after the chemical release, and several videos have emerged of rivers and creeks in the area turning different colors.
Former president Donald Trump is visiting the town on Wednesday. East Palestine mayor Trent Conaway slammed President Joe Biden for failing to visit, saying the president "doesn't care about" the residents.
Watch: Joe Biden Falls, Catches Himself Again Boarding Air Force One in Poland
President Joe Biden on Wednesday fell and caught himself before possibly tumbling down the stairs as he tried to board Air Force One in Poland.
The video shows Biden slowly ascending the stars to the taxpayer-funded jet to return home. While climbing the stairs, he fell and tried to quickly regain his footing. At the top of the stairs, he hurriedly turned around and saluted before entering the aircraft:
In March 2021, Biden fell three times as he boarded the stairs of Air Force One, for which the wind was also blamed.
“It’s pretty windy outside, it’s very windy. I almost fell coming up the steps myself. He is doing 100% fine,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
Biden was given a physical examination last week that found the president suffers from a stiff gait and neuropathy in the feet. According to the Cleveland Clinic, “neuropathy refers to any condition that affects the nerves outside your brain or spinal cord.”
“This can happen for several reasons, from trauma to infections to inherited conditions. There are also many possible symptoms. Many causes, forms or symptoms of this condition are treatable, but this can vary widely from person to person,” the clinic explained.
Biden’s physical incidents are not limited to walking up stairs. In June, Biden fell off his bike in Rehoboth, Delaware, after getting his foot stuck in the peddle:
Some observers fear that Biden’s physical state may be representative of his mental state. Thirty-eight Republican lawmakers, along with Donald Trump’s former White House physician and now-Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), issued a letter in 2022, demanding Biden take a cognitive test for fear that he may have Alzheimer’s disease.
Noting Biden’s “changes in mood and personality” and “forgetfulness,” the lawmakers said Biden’s cognitive ability has been declining and “is not just a recent trend” but has become more apparent “over the past two years.”
Biden was reportedly not issued a cognitive test during last week’s physical examination.
Despite Biden’s health concerns, Jean-Pierre told reporters that the White House desires to be transparent about his health. “We want to be transparent, want to make sure you have the information,” she claimed.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter and Gettr @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
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