Pete Buttigieg Fails At His Job AGAIN

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is in over his head, and a recent string of train derailments has shown that he can’t handle the job. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is over his head. And we've been saying this so long, haven't we? He, the string of, of, of derailments now after the airline disaster. I don't know what it takes. And I think of the word derailment, it's almost a metaphor for Buttigieg right now. I don't, here's what bothers me about it. Obama tried to solve this problem. He knew that we were a century behind in technology dealing with breaking systems on trains. So he said, let's put this in place. And he had it working, and then Trump comes in, does away with it. But five years later, almost five years later, Buttigieg has done nothing. He's done nothing, even though the previous administration laid out what the problem was and said, this is a big problem.

And, you know, three or four days after that big derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, he goes on cable news, they talk to him, they do a whole interview with him. Not once do they mention that train derailment. Not once did they mention the big toxic cloud over that city. And this was days after it happened. He had not yet made a public statement about it. And, and that was actually, The Nation did a phenomenal article talking about how this guy doesn't get it. He had to be forced publicly and shamed into finally even addressing that this thing happened.

Why, why is the media and why is this Democratic party protecting him? I mean, is it, you know, if the first result, the first thought you have, well, he's gay. Nobody wants to attack him because he's gay. The truth is, there are hundreds of gay politicians and, and people in bureaucracy that could do this job very competently. So it's not that. I mean, you have to call it out what it is. You can't just get hung up on the fact that he's gay. Well, he is gay. Okay. Big deal. There are plenty of gay people that would do a fantastic job with what he's doing, but it's like, it's like, it's like non speak that you hear the politicians, it's non speak that the, that the media is just so afraid to talk about this. He's an incompetent boob. He needs to be gone, man.

Well, it reminds me a lot, you know, when, when we would criticize Hillary Clinton, whenever she did something wrong, people would say, well, you're being sexist.

Yeah.

This is, no. Well, you're ignoring the actual argument here.

Yeah.

But what we have seen in just, I mean, just the last 12 months, forget the last 24 months that he's been in office, the last 12 months, we have seen them break up the rail worker strike, that part of it was about this issue.

Good point.

We have seen the massive meltdown in the entire airline industry over Christmas and, and Thanksgiving.

The administration, with this administration, right?

Yeah. Yeah. With him as transportation, we, we saw the supply chain fiasco, you know, that's all under his leadership. He may not have caused the problems and I've, I've, I've said that he didn't cause the problems. But he is not equipped, he does not have the, the wherewithal to address these crises, these multiple crises that his office has faced. If this were somebody from the Trump administration.

Oh my God, it'd be.

We would've been doing segments on it every day.

Absolutely.

Everybody in the left would have.

Absolutely.

Calling for his resignation. And I think we should be at that point. He can't do the job.

The, okay, so the, so what we hear is, oh, well, it's the CEOs of the company. The CEOs of the airline company, the CEOs of the rail company. No. It's his job to make sure they do their job. He's been here for more than four years now and he, I mean, it, it just is not happening.