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There’s a message behind Buttigieg’s lack of qualifications
American Thinker ^ | 18 Dec, 2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 12/18/2020 4:12:07 AM PST by MtnClimber

Pete Buttigieg is completely unqualified for Transportation secretary – but many of Biden’s appointments are unqualified, and there’s a message there.

Pete Buttigieg is only the latest in a list of unqualified cabinet appointments Biden has been making. It’s one thing to reward loyalty; it’s another thing to hand cabinet positions to useless people. But that’s really the point – that they’re useless. Biden’s is a Potemkin presidency. Neither he nor his cabinet members will wield power. Obama and the Deep State are the ones in charge.

Drew Holden put together a series of tweets matching the drive-by media’s love affair with Pete Buttigieg as Transportation secretary versus it’s snarling hostility to Betsy DeVos’s appointment as Education secretary. While DeVos had long been interested in education reform, Buttigieg’s relationship to transportation is that he thinks airports are romantic and likes to play a board game about trains.

I understand that these two individuals are different, with different qualifications for different jobs.

But @washingtonpost, you’ve gotta recognize that when one nom gets a glowing write up of airport romance, and the other gets pilloried, that you’re sending a message, right? pic.twitter.com/8XRGMCoMS3

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2020

There’s also an interesting difference in the way that a lack of qualifications play into the matter for the coverage of these two.

For DeVos, it was a big deal to @NPR.

For Buttigieg? Well, haven’t you heard he loves trains and proposed in an airport terminal! pic.twitter.com/iYeLnSaSRn

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 18, 2020

You can see the rest of the thread here. I just want to stop with that issue of qualifications.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; identitypolitics
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1 posted on 12/18/2020 4:12:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
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Wow, Biden is putting together a Potemkin village government. That was a perfect term. Not much need for the rest of the article.


2 posted on 12/18/2020 4:12:20 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I guess Pete may have some experience telling the big rig to park it in the rear.


3 posted on 12/18/2020 4:13:37 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Is this an advertisement to invest in petroleum jelly ?


4 posted on 12/18/2020 4:19:11 AM PST by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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Buttegeig got the Cabinet job b/c he says "he loves trains"....

So when "Half-Man--Half Grin Biden" got crackhead Hunter the Amtrak spot,
Hunter was asked what his qualifications were: The Mouth Without a Brain said: "I ride Amtrak trains a lot."

5 posted on 12/18/2020 4:21:29 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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>Buttigieg’s relationship to transportation is that he thinks airports are romantic and likes to play a board game about trains.

He did manage to get Domino’s to sponsor filling some potholes. This is not a compliment.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/12/16/cbs-touts-buttigieg-potholes-hid-how-dominos-stepped-fill

Other than that, he hits an identity group check box for the cabinet. That is his “qualification”.


6 posted on 12/18/2020 4:24:15 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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7 posted on 12/18/2020 4:24:53 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Hunter Biden's dreaming of a white Christmas)
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Biden’s is a Potemkin presidency

Ya think, Andrea?

What else could an empty shell of a man who illegally pretends to have won office provide but a fake storefront.

Biden even has a fake cigar store Indian to put outside the front door as Veep.

"How," she will say to visitors at the Oval Office.

8 posted on 12/18/2020 4:26:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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BiteMe isn’t putting together that Potemkin cabinet.

Deep State is.

BiteMe and Heels Up are just two members.


9 posted on 12/18/2020 4:27:16 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: MtnClimber

Been my tagline for at least the last month...


10 posted on 12/18/2020 4:28:17 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
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To: MtnClimber

But Petey LOVES Potholes!


11 posted on 12/18/2020 4:30:05 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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The author makes a fundamental error in my opinion by writing that OBAMA and the Deep State will be in charge.

Nonsense.

Obama was a total tool and puppet who read his teleprompter well. He didn’t have the individual authority to do Jack.


12 posted on 12/18/2020 4:34:30 AM PST by Blueflag
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I wonder if they will “Kavanaugh” Pete during his confirmation hearing?


13 posted on 12/18/2020 4:38:16 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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Lack of qualifications? His “husband” will tell you that he’s *fully* qualified!


14 posted on 12/18/2020 5:01:56 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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But ... but ... I thought he was a Rhodes scholar!

(sarcasm off)


15 posted on 12/18/2020 5:13:16 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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There are two messages:

1) Servitude rather than individual merit

Its not who you know its who you blow.

2) Identity polits matters more than Qualification and experience.

( remember Albright in Saudi Arabia and North Korea, both masculo centric states...did they hear women roar? She was a disaster whose worl led to war and the death of millions)

Welcome to the United States of Suck Holes with the capitol located in the City of Touch Hole. a place now ruled by a government that has no restrictions to total powwer. Witness the assassinations in Georgia or a campaign worker ina fiery car crash, and the assassination of the investigator looking into it.


16 posted on 12/18/2020 5:14:49 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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It’s a Woke cabinet that is united in empty platitudes as they loot the remaining wealth of the country. By their own metrics, Buttplug is more than qualified.


17 posted on 12/18/2020 5:20:47 AM PST by Shadow44
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To: Ann Archy

Rest Areas


18 posted on 12/18/2020 5:30:12 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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Even With Vaccine Rollout Democrats Still Demand COVID-19 Lockdowns Into Unknown Future…

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Sundance

An example today surfaces in the Joe Biden announcement of Pete Buttigieg to be Secretary of Transportation.

[…] “At its best, transportation makes the American dream possible,” Buttigieg said. “At its worst, misguided policies and missed opportunities can reinforce racial, economic, and environmental injustice, dividing or isolating neighborhoods, undermining government’s basic role to empower everyone to thrive.” (read more)

That entire statement by Buttigieg is an expression of social ideology.  These are the stakes in the next few weeks.  If the Biden team can take office they will weaponize COVID-19 to fundamentally transform the U.S.



19 posted on 12/18/2020 5:30:34 AM PST by Bratch
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Good article. Another writer said that never have two less worthy people - a corrupt, senile old man and a corrupt, unqualified woman - held the highest positions in the land.

Neither of them even campaigned but were ultimately placed in their positions. By whom? Obama certainly had a hand in it - remember, he lives in DC and still sees himself as President, as do his followers in the Dem party and the Deep State bureaucracy that remained after him - but I doubt that he was the only one.

And the appalling thing is that even if Biden got the margin to “win” through fraud, a lot of Americans (I would say all Democrats) voted for him.

So it’s no surprise that his alleged “appointments” are as unworthy and unqualified as he.


20 posted on 12/18/2020 5:38:49 AM PST by livius
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