Pete Buttigieg starts to rethink how he does his job in wake of Ohio train disaster | CNN Politics
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Pete Buttigieg admits he got it wrong on the Ohio train derailment response.

How can you say these things unironically and not resign lmaooooo

The one thing I’ll give 🐀 is that other cabinet members don’t get clowned on enough. Vilsack over egg prices and epa person for rolling over and letting Norfolk southern do the cheaper but more destructive mitigation… god damn America

  • christian [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Some of this article seems way too honest from Buttigieg's perspective and I'm curious how closely his interview for this article actually matches up.

    He said he failed to anticipate the political fallout from the toxic train derailment

    This is so obviously true that it's hard for me to believe he said it.

    Buttigieg says what he’d rather be doing is trips like Monday’s: Opening the first new airport terminal in Kansas City since Vice President Spiro Agnew was there for a ribbon cutting ... celebrating the groundbreaking on a record-busting $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in DeSoto, Kansas, and talking transportation programs with students at the University of Missouri.

    Those events are the things Buttigieg thought he was signing up for with the Cabinet job

    Did he actually admit that the job was supposed to be as easy as we all had pictured it being? And did he actually express frustration at having some semblance of responsibilities attached to his enormous paycheck? I'm sure this stuff is exactly what's been going through his mind, but it feels way too accurate to have originated from his mouth.

    It's weird because other parts of the article (like the entire last section) read like they were written by him directly.