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Buttigieg blew more than half the DOT budget on DEI, failed to make critical air traffic upgrades
American Thinker ^ | 22 Jul, 2025 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 07/23/2025 4:55:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Eighty billion dollars flushed down the toilet, as air traffic controllers were stuck using equipment dating from the Carter era.

Democrat frontrunner for 2028 Pete Buttigieg, is the kind of guy who could give California's Gov. Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles's mayor, Karen Bass, a run for the money.

Amid news of an aircraft near collision over North Dakota, following a disastrous similar military-civilian crash in Washington, D.C. in January, we learn this about how he ran the cabinet office he headed, the U.S. Department of Transportation.

So while he was 'breast-feeding' his twins and telling us about his 'husband,' what with the move to Traverse City, he was not only not showing up for work during critical supply chain crises (remember that?) when ships backed up to enter ports, or berating airlines for 'price gouging' and inefficiencies, he had billions of dollars to play around with and decided to spend it on DEI, not air traffic safety upgrades.

When the plane-helicopter crash happened over the Potomac in January after a DEI female pilot ignored the instructions of her instructor, and President Trump was blamed for the whole scenario, despite being in office for days, the real culprit was Buttigieg, who had his air traffic controllers using Pacman-like air traffic technology dating from literally the Carter era, as the Post report notes.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bootygigger; budget; buttplug; criminalnegligence; dei; derelictionofduty; dot; fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; leftism; misappropriation; misconduct; moneylaundering; negligence; theftofpublicfunds
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1 posted on 07/23/2025 4:55:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I wish I could say that I am shocked.


2 posted on 07/23/2025 4:55:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Of course we aren’t.

It would have been SOP for ANY democrat in any office.


3 posted on 07/23/2025 4:57:37 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: MtnClimber

You can’t take the pervert out of the pervert. Depraved minds want only one thing: more depravity.


4 posted on 07/23/2025 4:59:32 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber

I’m not surprised, at all.

Democrats view all government as simply a means to enrich themselves and achieve power. DEI programs do both.

A Democrat dog catcher in a town overrun with rabid dogs will ignore the wild rabid dogs (the problem that is the source of his employment, which must never go away) and go into Republican yards to catch pets to collect fees and punish enemies.

They can’t be trusted under any circumstances.


5 posted on 07/23/2025 5:05:39 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: MtnClimber

Buttplug and blew. Yuk.


6 posted on 07/23/2025 5:05:57 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: MtnClimber

What will be done about him and get air traffic controllers what they need?


7 posted on 07/23/2025 5:06:01 AM PDT by bgill
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To: MtnClimber

Buttigieg blew more.................stopped reading right there................


8 posted on 07/23/2025 5:21:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Buttigieg blew


He needed the money!


9 posted on 07/23/2025 5:21:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

🙄😏😁😎...........................


10 posted on 07/23/2025 5:22:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

No one should be surprised. He could manage South Bend and had no transportation admin experience. He got the position in a deal where, while he was running for President and it looked like he was going to fail, Biden approached him and said: “If you drop out of the race and throw your support behind me, I’ll give you a cabinet position in my administration.” Clearly, he took the deal to his benefit and to the loss of the American people.


11 posted on 07/23/2025 5:26:43 AM PDT by econjack
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To: MtnClimber

It turns my stomach to see any mention of Buttplug.


12 posted on 07/23/2025 5:29:17 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: MtnClimber

That’s a homo for you - priorities in the wrong place.


13 posted on 07/23/2025 5:29:32 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: econjack

Give the “guy” a break. At least he showed us how to breast feed an infant using fake boobs.


14 posted on 07/23/2025 5:30:59 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: MtnClimber

Buttboy is a total fool; perfect example of what the dems produce.


15 posted on 07/23/2025 5:34:06 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: MtnClimber

Buttigieg and blew should not be in the same sentence.


16 posted on 07/23/2025 5:37:35 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: MtnClimber
Exactly what you would expect from a poofter like Buttigieg... Poofter's are going to do what poofters do.


17 posted on 07/23/2025 5:39:18 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod

What are the odds that those children are eventually molested by their adoptive homo fathers. I once read that a study showed about a 50% molestation rate for children of homo men. That means the rate is likely much greater than 50%.


18 posted on 07/23/2025 5:44:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: jerod
This guy is running to be the President of the United States.

To think idiot voters would want a guy this mentally ill to run the country should be a wake up call. Worse than Tampon Tim or Kamala

19 posted on 07/23/2025 5:49:13 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: bgill

Sean Duffy is the current Secretary.


20 posted on 07/23/2025 5:58:24 AM PDT by xp38
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