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Pete Buttigieg starts to rethink how he does his job in wake of Ohio train disaster
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Posted on 03/05/2023 4:31:34 PM PST by TigerClaws

Pete Buttigieg admits he got it wrong on the Ohio train derailment response.

But while the criticism is fair, he says, the critics are mostly not.

“It’s really rich to see some of these folks – the former president, these Fox hosts – who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,” the Transportation Secretary said. “You think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a T.J. Maxx and a Kohl’s?”

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Buttigieg acknowledged mistakes. He said he should have gone to East Palestine, Ohio, earlier. He said he failed to anticipate the political fallout from the toxic train derailment, despite months of transportation problems like mass flight cancellations and an air traffic control system shutdown that left many Americans frustrated.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bootygigger; buttigieg; disaster; loser; ohio; pathetic; worthless
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1 posted on 03/05/2023 4:31:34 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Sounds like someone’s panties are in a bunch....


2 posted on 03/05/2023 4:32:39 PM PST by fhayek
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To: TigerClaws

He has to resign.


3 posted on 03/05/2023 4:33:04 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: TigerClaws

I haven’t actually seen him do anything on this “job” he seems to be referring to in this conversation.


4 posted on 03/05/2023 4:33:24 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: TigerClaws

Stop it, Pete. As if you know anything about normal people.


5 posted on 03/05/2023 4:33:40 PM PST by madison10
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To: CFW

I think he did a lot of breast-feeding on the job.


6 posted on 03/05/2023 4:34:05 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,942,927 Truth | 87,539,833 Twitter)
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To: TigerClaws

He is not qualified.

WEF homosexual qualifies him as front man.


7 posted on 03/05/2023 4:34:10 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TigerClaws

No, what’s rich is seeing this guy so shocked and dumbfounded that he might have had to perform some sort of functional work while in office. Oh my, the folks criticizing him are “east coast elites”. My, how that explains everything.


9 posted on 03/05/2023 4:40:53 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: TigerClaws

He got confused after he heard someone say “here comes the train”


10 posted on 03/05/2023 4:41:37 PM PST by Zathras
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To: TigerClaws

I’ve known a fair number of high ranking bureaucrats who don’t “do” anything. They just hope that everything turns out for the best. It’s a poor strategy.


11 posted on 03/05/2023 4:41:48 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Tucker Carlson was born and raised in California.

He couldn’t even get THAT right.


12 posted on 03/05/2023 4:43:16 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: TigerClaws

his kamala harris level of incompetence is out there for all to see

he cannot be resurrected

another peter principle member of the biden administration


14 posted on 03/05/2023 4:45:53 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: joshua c

affirmative action


15 posted on 03/05/2023 4:46:57 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: TigerClaws

If he was a hetero republican he’d have already been shown the door.


16 posted on 03/05/2023 4:47:59 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: TigerClaws

Two years in and the guy is just starting to think how to do his job???

Ladies and germs, I give you the Biden Administration in a nut shell.


17 posted on 03/05/2023 4:49:33 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: TigerClaws

Well, when you’re not doing anything and stuff goes to scheitt around you, you start thinking you may have to appear to look like you’re doing something...


18 posted on 03/05/2023 4:49:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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"He said he failed to anticipate the political fallout from the toxic train derailment"

THS GUY IS A MORON ON STEROIDS!!!!

This was no big deal.


19 posted on 03/05/2023 4:50:18 PM PST by lizma2
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To: TigerClaws

Pete needs to have and use ‘big ears’ so transportation problems remain small.


20 posted on 03/05/2023 4:51:12 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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