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What qualifications does a mayor of bumfuck college town Indiana have to jump directly to secretary of transportation? Shouldn't you need years of education and industry experience for a job like this? Even some airline or amtrak executive, conflict of interest aside, would make 100x more sense bureaucratically
Pretty certain they just stuck him there as a waiting room for when they inevitably try to run him again in '24/'28
These morons won't even do the basic job that would make capitalism run smoother (resulting in more profits in the long term), even tho capitalism is their ideology.
To be fair, anyone who Biden appointed would probably behave the same way, "experience" or not.
I legitimately think anyone that has posted in /c/urbanism would be a better choice. Atleast we would just spend all day responding to everyone with, "Just build a fucking train."
He increased the towns racism budget and fraudulently manipulated the primary. This makes him more than qualified.
Hey, now -- he also killed thousands more shelter dogs than any other comparably sized town in the US
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You literally just hire someone who knows what they're doing and listen to them, exactly like every cabinet position
This is still technically better than the last administration's cabinet, who were all chosen based on their suitability for looting and dismantling their area of authority.
his captured agency delivered the fewest number of fines to Big Air, typical for a McKinsey consultant drone https://badfaith.libsyn.com/episode-242-ground-control-to-mayor-pete-w-bill-mcgee
This week Briahna speaks to William McGee -- a Senior Fellow for Aviation at the American Economic Liberties Project -- about the root causes of the Southwest Airlines meltdown that left two million Americans stranded over the holidays. How much is Mayor Pete to blame? Should the US nationalize the airlines already rather than bail the out again and again? And how did things get this bad to begin with? A deeply knowledgable guest and a terrific conversation.
What if you wanted to marginally improve airlines
Going to need to see some demonstration of the premise. The current economy seems to revolve around making things materially worse so you can charge "luxury" rates for standard services.
Honestly I thought we'd heard the end of him when he took a marginal cabinet position in Biden's presidency. Turns out there's more infamy to be gained.
A "marginal" position in the Cabinet is still a pretty big come up for some one who was a small town mayor 1,112 days ago. He turns 41 years old tomorrow. In fact, if wanted to run for president again and would do so until he was Biden's age when he won, he'd have 36 years or 9 general election cycles to try his hand.
You have to reload the link or click the bird icon. Nitter barely works anymore since Elmo took over.
Does anyone remember the name of the Chapo episode where they talked about him and his spook behavior?
I think they talked about it in a live show in Derry NH in Feb 2020.
I don't know if it was officially released on their feed.#392.They also talked about it in passing in #376 "Imagine a World Without"? Here's a segment from that ep. though it mostly focuses on his "bread fixing prices," interview, his work with McKinsey, and how most corporate politicos see nothing amiss with the practice of consultancies promoting social degradation and murder.
There were a lot of Pete segments peppered throughout late 2019 to Super Tuesday 2020, and of course the Mayor Pete Documentary review in 2021. It's kind of hard to keep track of all the Buttigieg mentions.
he was too busy throwing puppies into aircraft engines. didnt want them to take off and ruin his fun
It's mostly been taking hits and enduring bad PR.
Taking paternity leave during supply chain discourse and events, staging that lame photo op where he pretended to bike to work. Going to bat for those baby food companies during that awful shortage, and now insisting that everything is fine and will only get better with the FAA despite all those cancelled flights and people hating the airlines.
This guy is perfect for taking L's. He'll do anything to advance his career, and shame is for mere mortals.
As long as you go to bat for the status quo [and are white and bourgeois], the status quo will go to bat for you. Pete knows that the corporate press will be with him the next time he runs for president, and he’s like crystal meth for white grannies. The only issue is that he’s probably going to have to wait six more years, at which point large numbers of his biggest fans will have thrown themselves to the wolves in order to keep the line up. Nearly everyone under the age of forty deeply loathes him. Although I suppose some of those people will be inheriting money from those white grannies, at which point they themselves will BECOME white grannies and start injecting that sweet Pete nectar straight into their femoral arteries.
I assume he devours small animals and feeds on their blood. So plenty of that. I think Outdoor cats are bad...but Pete ? He is worse. Lots of dead birds and squirrels around here.
I assume he devours small animals and feeds on their blood.
At least be factual. He also breaks open the bones to suck out the marrow.
