It’s becoming increasingly clear that horse and buggy is a more efficient mode of transportation than riding an airplane with Pete Buttigigieg as Transportation Secretary.
On the heels of the Southwest Airlines meltdown after Christmas, flights were grounded nationwide yesterday, which was eventually blamed on a corrupted file. In the early hours of the crisis however there was a rare moment of honesty from Joe Biden, who told reporters that he and Buttigieg have no idea what’s going on.
Amid all this, Buttigieg’s priorities have little to do with improving transportation. Last night on his show Tucker Carlson documented what Buttigieg has been up to, and it has more to do with so-called “social justice” than making air travel not a hellish experience.
Tucker Carlson: Mayor Pete was full of vim and high-minded ambition as he started his new job. But soon, very soon, came crushing disappointment. Like a homebuyer who discovers that his new house is riddled with termites, Mayor Pete soon learned that the Department of Transportation was on the verge of collapse.
As it turned out, the department had a very serious diversity shortage. Deadly serious. Imagine being adrift in an open boat in the Sargasso Sea and realizing you're down to your final tin of equity. You're about to run out of equity. That's where Pete Buttigieg found himself in January of 2021. That's not the kind of emergency a responsible federal appointee could ignore. And fortunately for our nation, Mayor Pete did not ignore. He took swift action.
Just months after taking office, Buttigieg located the core of the problem, which, as we now know, was racist roads. "There is racism physically built into some of our highways," Mayor Pete announced. And in his voice you heard the iron resolve of a man who has no tolerance for bigotry and asphalt. And yet, at the same time, you also heard a deeply sensitive man, a man who can feel the hate beneath the wheels of his electric vehicle where others might just hear road noise. Mayor Pete decided to stamp out this hate.
By November of that year, Buttigieg had ordered every freeway overpass in the Bronx expected for racism, and soon, he had preliminary findings. "If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach in New York was designed too low for it to pass by," he explained, "that obviously reflects racism that would into those design choices." Yeah, obviously. It makes sense. Problem identified.
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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