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Does Pete Buttigieg even know what his job is? He's out advocating for family leave instead of showing the public he's doing his job as transportation secretary
American Thinker ^ | 10/25/2021 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 10/25/2021 6:55:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Joe Biden's transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, can't let it go.

Two weeks after drawing public criticism from the likes of Fox News's Tucker Carlson and others for taking family leave at a time of multiple transportation crises, including a big supply chain breakdown at West Coast ports, he's decided to campaign for ... family leave. Never mind the ports.

 According to The Hill:

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is aiming to use the fierce criticism he faced from conservatives over taking paternity leave as a way to have a conversation about the issue, amid efforts from the White House to get paid family leave into a social spending bill pending in Congress.

“The negativity was unfortunate but, in a way, maybe some good comes out of it too because it’s helped us have a conversation about parental leave,” Buttigieg said this week.

That's what he was talking about on the Sunday talks. That's his priority. It would be like Gen. Mark Milley discussing the importance of weight loss while Afghanistan was collapsing, which even Milley didn't do.

The brouhaha began about two weeks ago when the ports went into crisis, more than a hundred cargo ships found themselves stranded off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, while independent truckers, forced to buy new trucks and banned as independent contractors in the state of California, suddenly became scarce.

As an unprecedented supply chain crisis rippled through the American economy, unbeknownst to the American public, Buttigieg was on family leave. He said nothing. He attended a single zoom meeting. Joe Biden had to appoint someone else to try to sort through the port crisis since Pete wasn't up to the job.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: petebuttigieg; supplychain; transportation
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1 posted on 10/25/2021 6:55:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Guessing he thinks he’s Secretary of TRANSgenders?


2 posted on 10/25/2021 6:57:24 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SeekAndFind

Does Pete Buttigieg even know what his job is?

Look at his decisions in life and that’ll tell you everything you need to learn.


3 posted on 10/25/2021 6:58:08 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe Peter peter should be directing Ca to change their rules for truckers to what is reasonable. Ca put a lot of truckers out of business.


4 posted on 10/25/2021 6:58:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

Butt boy is doing exactly what The Big Guy wants, just like Kamala.

Being the designated DoNothingSonofaBitch so that nothing gets done.


5 posted on 10/25/2021 6:58:20 AM PDT by OKSooner (6uild 6ack 6etter)
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To: SeekAndFind

At this point “what does it matter”? All of these hacks are just a front for the string pullers.


6 posted on 10/25/2021 6:58:45 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought we were reducing “Paternal” parental leave to 2 weeks, is he taking 2 months because he is the mother of the child?


7 posted on 10/25/2021 6:59:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Never mind that the DOT is mostly unconstitutional with powers way beyond anything stated or contemplated in the Constitution, the ONLY source of valid and legal federal government power.

Does anyone care?


8 posted on 10/25/2021 6:59:40 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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He's a sick individual and to the author who is taking him seriously, anyone expecting supply-chain help from him is equally as sick
9 posted on 10/25/2021 7:00:42 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: OKSooner

Transportation Secretary is one of the 4 big departments, the others being State, Defense, and Atty. General. Doesn’t show up for work is a disqualifier but most Americans don’t even know it’s a department much less how important it is.


10 posted on 10/25/2021 7:01:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SeekAndFind

Until people are literally starving, or they have their cell phone service discontinued, social justice will always be more important than anything else.

The wake call is coming.


11 posted on 10/25/2021 7:02:40 AM PDT by brownsfan (For conservatives, we have taxation without representation.)
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To: rktman

Yes, he is doing his job, helping destroy America. As planned.


12 posted on 10/25/2021 7:03:14 AM PDT by Skul
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To: SeekAndFind

DO NOT post pics of Pete with the fake breastfeeding boobs. I will come through this phone like Electroman and kill whoever FReeper post that garbage.


13 posted on 10/25/2021 7:04:02 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (<IM)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is an obvious lie. Why would he not draw attention to it at the beginning?

Doesn’t matter. This goof only entered the presidential race to get name recognition so he and his boyfriend could get the f#ck out of South Bend. He knew he’d get some government job where he goes on tv and to meetings. Worked well too, didn’t it?


14 posted on 10/25/2021 7:04:26 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Taking 2 months off during an emergency tells you tons about this useless fool


15 posted on 10/25/2021 7:05:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: OKSooner

You are correct, it’s exactly what the “President” wants him to do. The message to the dirty peons is that we elites will do as we please, and it’s not your place to question us. If we say youn need lessons in transgender parenting instead of transportation, you will shut up and pay attention.

This is what Shakespeare called,”the inso,insight, of office.”


16 posted on 10/25/2021 7:05:43 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: SeekAndFind
He knows what his job is ! His job is to be publicly gay !
17 posted on 10/25/2021 7:06:11 AM PDT by Reily
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To: SeekAndFind

Leave the poor guy alone
He and his wife are trying to chest chest-feed their purchased twins
It’s grueling.


18 posted on 10/25/2021 7:06:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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He knows what his job is ! His job is to be publicly gay !


19 posted on 10/25/2021 7:06:49 AM PDT by Reily
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To: SeekAndFind

Buttigieg shows disturbing signs of being “heterophobic.”

As the supply chain port crisis festers, Buttigieg has been on 12 week paid maternity leave, and had plenty of time to do interviews for People magazine about his homo life.......

Buttigieg’s self-serving decision to take paternity leave undermines hetero taxpayers interests.......the ones paying his salary.

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20 posted on 10/25/2021 7:07:33 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't knogw which bathroom to use all: (optio. )
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