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2021-10-15 Home Front: Politix

Amateur hour: Pete Buttigieg's inexperience exposed as supply chain breaks down

[THEHILL] A quick Google check of "Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. He lost that one too...
," when using the "News" search option, reveals the following headlines in this exact order as of Monday afternoon.

"Pete Buttigieg Calls Parenting Twins 'Most Demanding Thing': 'Yet I Catch Myself Grinning Half the Time’ " - People Magazine

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"Pete Buttigieg calls parenting twins 'the most demanding thing I think I've ever done’ " - USA Today, under the "Celebrities" section

"Buttigieg quiet on growing port congestion as shipping concerns build ahead of holidays" - Fox News

"Buttigieg on parenthood: 'Most demanding thing' I’ve ever done" - NBC News

"Pete Buttigieg Dishes on His Future As a Presidential Candidate" - Business Insider

As you can see, almost all outlets are focusing on Buttigieg's foray into fatherhood and not on the one major issue he's in charge of fixing, or at least getting under some semblance of control, as cargo ships continue to pile up off the coast of America’s port cities.

Buttigieg was finally asked about this issue in an interview with Bloomberg News last week, during which he warned that the "challenges" will continue, possibly for years, before pitching President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.......
's stalled $3.5 infrastructure plan, which surely will make everything all better.

"These challenges are definitely going to continue in the months and years ahead," Buttigieg said. "This is one more reason why we do need to deliver this infrastructure package, so that we can have a more resilient, flexible physical infrastructure to support our supply chain in this country."

But let's say the Biden infrastructure plan — which contains a majority of items that the administration calls "human infrastructure," to the tune of trillions of dollars of additional spending while core inflation is already at a 30-year high — doesn't pass. What is Buttigieg doing *right now* to address the crisis?

"The White House set up a task force," he explained to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Oct. 7. "Look, this is obviously an incredibly complicated situation that we're talking about. We're talking about global supply chains. And it's mostly private-sector systems. But we have a big role to play, and that's why we've been convening all of the different players ... held roundtables, bringing together everyone connected to the ports."

The Washington-speak is impossible to ignore: We've "set up a task force," we've "held roundtables." It's reminiscent of Vice President Kámala Harris

Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
attempting to tackle the border catastrophe using a similar approach that sounded nice but did little to nothing to address the problem. As a senator, Harris once cited critics who compared the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to the KKK, while arguing that entering the country illegally should be legalized. So of course she was just the person to choose to fix a catastrophe on the border that will see more than 2.3 million ~~migrants~~ colonists entering the country illegally, a number equal to the population of America's fourth-largest city.

Posted by Fred 2021-10-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Pushing twins out of his fauxgina was exhausting.

As cargo ships congested at U.S. ports, creating an unprecedented supply-chain crisis, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on paid leave [since mid-August] to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies.

Posted by Glogum the Low-priced4647 2021-10-15 03:41|| 2021-10-15 03:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Exhaustion is only one symptom of postpartum depression. Nothing to make light of, Glogum!

Posted by Omomomble the Odorous9513 2021-10-15 04:36|| 2021-10-15 04:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Republicans demand Pete Buttigieg testify in Congress over supply chain crisis and accuse the Biden administration of waiting months to try and fix the problem as it's revealed Transport Secretary has been on paternity leave since August

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-15 07:59|| 2021-10-15 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Pete Ballgag is at his best when he's not around.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-15 10:21|| 2021-10-15 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Is his entire, enormous bureaucratic staff off work, too? Can't do nothin' without the official okey-doaky from Big Pete?

Posted by Bobby 2021-10-15 11:41|| 2021-10-15 11:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Hilarious; he's been so absent his entire tenure that just now people are noticing he hasn't been involved with work for 2 months.

Even better. People with similar job structures/requirements have been working from home for 18 months.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-15 14:16|| 2021-10-15 14:16|| Front Page Top