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Pete Buttigieg makes cringey spy balloon joke, stays silent on Ohio train derailment
NY Post ^ | February 13, 2023 | Victor Nava

Posted on 02/14/2023 9:51:27 AM PST by McGruff

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg copped bipartisan heat Monday when he failed to address the catastrophic Ohio train derailment which released toxic chemicals into the air this month — but joked about Chinese spy balloons and moaned about a lack of diversity in the construction industry.

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“It’s had its challenges. I mean, if you look at what the American transportation systems have faced in the last two or three years partly because of the pandemic, we’ve faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations … Now we got balloons,” the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, awkwardly joked.

But the one-time presidential candidate’s cringey attempt at humor went down like a lead balloon.

“Nobody thinks this is funny,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) raged in a tweet Monday, sharing a video of the Cabinet member’s quip.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: spyballoon

1 posted on 02/14/2023 9:51:27 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Dues this little Twit do anything other than go om maternity leave?


2 posted on 02/14/2023 9:54:14 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: duckman

Dues=Does


3 posted on 02/14/2023 9:54:50 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: McGruff

Mayor Butt is working to shore up his support in the African American community. Not enough minorities affected by the derailment.

Still, I wonder why this story is going away. What aren’t we being told?


4 posted on 02/14/2023 10:00:16 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: McGruff

This may be the biggest environmental disaster since Chernobyl.


5 posted on 02/14/2023 10:05:36 AM PST by bray (Order at TheRepublicofTexas.store)
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To: McGruff
The Railroads have always been a constituent and racketeering cash cow of politicians. ( for example Biden/AMTRAK, special tax breaks for Railroad retirement etc.)

The Railroads are 100% responsible for the near extinction of the Bison and the Post-Civil War genocide of the native Americans, but the history books wont bring that up either.

The enemedia will cover this up all they can.

The railroads can get away with murder because they are firmly deep state

6 posted on 02/14/2023 10:06:58 AM PST by KTM rider (what if a real J6 happens someday, instead of just a silly false flag show )
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To: bray

If it was Ukraine maybe it would get some attention.

7 posted on 02/14/2023 10:13:45 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: duckman
Dues this little Twit do anything other than go om maternity leave?

Ask his butt-buddy.

If you dare ...

8 posted on 02/14/2023 10:15:02 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: McGruff

To call pete creepy doesn’t fully explain how grotesque he is.


9 posted on 02/14/2023 10:15:32 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: McGruff

The derailment was caused by a broken axle, and the locals seem to be in control. They probably don’t want mayor pete anywhere near.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2023/02/13/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-timeline-what-happened-when-norfolk-southern/69899621007/


10 posted on 02/14/2023 10:16:17 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: McGruff

11 posted on 02/14/2023 10:18:17 AM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: McGruff

A silly, disgusting little man child.


12 posted on 02/14/2023 10:21:17 AM 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: nobody in particular

buttigig or whatever, another loser. this is the guy that would get driven to within a 1/4 mile of the media cameras in DC, would get out of his chaffeur driven suv and get on a bike for the final leg of his commute, leaving the impression he rides his bike from his home.


13 posted on 02/14/2023 10:24:35 AM PST by SGCOS (not vaccinated for covid and never will be)
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To: nesnah

Isn’t that just wonderful.

These perverts are governing our nation.

May a merciful God help us.

Please.


14 posted on 02/14/2023 11:05:41 AM PST by odawg
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To: KTM rider

The railroads can get away with murder because they are firmly deep state

Read some US railroad history. Inflexible over-regulation by the ICC and FRA in the first 3/4ths of the 20th century almost put all the private railroads out of business. The claim about 100% responsibility for genocide and bison extinction is ludicrous.


15 posted on 02/14/2023 11:10:02 AM PST by rxh4n1
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At least the Italian Fascists made the trains run on time. Ours can’t.


16 posted on 02/14/2023 11:39:19 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: duckman

Dues this little Twit do anything other than go om maternity leave?

Butt plugging is a major qualification for his job.


17 posted on 02/14/2023 11:39:32 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: McGruff

Unqualified leaders hire unqualified staff.

No one in the biden team is competent.


18 posted on 02/14/2023 11:43:53 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: Texas resident

Bingo


19 posted on 02/14/2023 2:45:03 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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