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Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

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He gives me too much hope. I have to close one eye to read about him. Only allow one eye to cry when I think, they won't allow him to be president because he is married to a man. See, here comes those tears.

Feel the same. He had the line going out the door and around the corner in deep red OK a few weeks ago, just to see him! Faux News watchers have responded positively to him in the past. There is hope!

Maybe don’t glorify your participation in American invasions and war crimes? Also Americans are upset because Duffy does not do his job. They’re upset because this administration is ruining their lives.

I agree with/ Pete 💯. Transportation Sec'y Duffy, takes a roadtrip w/his family (a work vacation) paid for by the companies he's supposed to be regulating, at a time when Americans can't afford to take a road trip to the market because gas is so high. The insensitivity is second to the corruption.

Totally missing the point- it’s not that Duffy is tone deaf (those he is) in taking a road trip when average Americans can’t afford the time off and cost - it’s that as transportation secretary he should be working every week for all Americans. He’s not employed to do marketing.

If a transportation secretary is extremely good at his job and makes our lives better, who cares if he does it while on the road? That's the point Pete is making - they are shit at their jobs, making our lives worse, partially because they don't do their jobs

Well that’s a wrong position to take - the Secretary of Transportation not only needs to DO his job, he also needs to be SEEN doing his job and that means being at the Department working from his office. He’s not in private industry. This is what I mean about focus. No allowance is given.

Working under trump, Duffy kinda is employed to do marketing. Being tone deaf to the needs of Americans isn’t good marketing, for sure.

When I last looked the Secretary of Transportation worked for the American people 🤷🏻‍♂️ (I appreciate so does the President but of course that’s woke politics).

Working for Americans certainly is part of the job description for DOT secretary & president, but those in office often seem to have other priorities.

I think that was the third point. Highlighting cuts to air traffic control when there is a shortage (and mishaps on tarmacs abound). He answered her question directly (the trip) getting to actions as sec.

There are a bunch of posts today complaining about a lack of Democratic leadership. Asking why there isn’t a candidate we can get behind until right before the election. Well here’s Buttigieg. Doing the work every day. Support him!

The five-part series ... was filmed over eight separate mini trips over a seven-month period stretching from September through April. ....the segments of the trip suggest the Duffy family flew into convenient airports and did minimal driving between destinations. -- Forbes

If Pete drove a rainbow rv around the country promoting DEI while planes were cancelling flights and airline's were going out of business, I think the gop would have daily hearings with live recordings of Pete eating and laughing next to fox videos of the long lines at terminals all day and night🤔

Pete is being generous. I'm not frustrated. I'm pissed. Combine this with Patel snorkeling in the graves of Navy men, and the continued raping and pillaging of the nation's treasury, I can't BELIEVE more people aren't in the streets. I want real accountability when this shit show is over.

Buttigieg is sitting up an Obama run for the Executive and like Obama, I will donate endless hours to his campaign. If he wins the problem remains, two opposition parties in congress. Change cannot happen with one right wing party and one party determined to burn the country to the ground.

Observing Adolf Eichmann’s trial, Hannah Arendt describes him as little more than a minion. Today’s Hitler (Donald T.R.U.M.P.) is similarly surrounded by mundane bureaucrats. This song, “The Banality of Evil,” examines the cult worshipping this demi-God. youtu.be/njQcZglwRmc

He’d make an incredible President. I know he’s gay and it’s not going to fly but what a shame. At least I know he’ll be in some position of power once we get back to a Democratic President. What a communicator👏

This is a mirror to this entire administration. From Trump down to the rest of his administration from Hell, none of them hav a clue how the real people in America live on a daily basis! All of them live in their own world!

☝️🎯Pete is the best, smart, cool-headed, so unlike any members of the Trump team and family, excepting Mary for sure.

? He worked with Sen. Cassidy before Trump returned, long before RFK came up and Cassidy caved. His point is that Trump is humiliating and steamrolling out anyone who doesn't worship Trump (Cassidy voted to impeach) -- and that's why the GOP will have even more extreme candidates in the midterms.

Dems need to win the 2026 midterms, which is what he's working on this year, especially in red and purple districts. The Louisiana Senate seat will be Republican anyway, but looking at the midterms overall, the worse the GOP candidates are and the more MAGA, the easier it will be to defeat them.

More will be made of the fact that he was over there larping as an intel officer before his Special Background Investigation was done thus rendering him unable to do anything in his actual job classification. Also, his inability to respond to questions about Israel in 2026 should be disqualifying.

Not to mention Duffy was NOT doing his job he was being paid to do during that time and that Republicans said NOTHING about that. Republicans were OUTRAGED when Buttigieg took a little paternity time when he and his husband adopted. There is nothing quite like Republican hypocrisy, is there?

Fighting America's wars does not mean you love America. It May mean that fighters enjoy the highs of killing legally. Also, all America's wars since World War II were nothing more than imperialist adventures.

It be fun seeing the Duffy family members, including the children, being accosted by Federal Agents and thrown into Detention Centers, as what happened in Minnesota.

Watching the Sunday AM political commentaries, it is increasingly obvious that the GOP committed suicide & doesn’t understand that yet. The American people have had it with the lies, corruption, bullying, and the rest of Trump’s insane narcissistic schtick. Fuck him & his spineless flying monkeys. 🇺🇸

good answer....After 20 years of work, my local teacher's union new contract required desks for all professional support staff. I finally got a desk & a designated office space. Trump's celebrity & corporate Cabinet are pampered debutants. Their idea of public service is to enrich themselves.

He just reduced an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation that resulted in the murder of nearly 250,000 civilians to the word "roadtrip", purely to take a swipe at a fucking reality television star. His sexual orientation has nothing to do with it.

Oh yeah, being concerned about how people say things is bad. If only we had just not cared that the pres nom wouldn't change anything from a near-historically unpopular administration.. The American people are over phony talking heads. They want real people who understand real consequences.

Our country full of racists elected a Black man twice. I'm confident we can elect an incredible White dude who happens to be gay (and a married father, no less). Let's not underestimate how many Americans really don't give a damn about who someone loves and/or is sleeping with.

Sixty-two year old, retired, gay U.S. diplomat here. I can speak from firsthand knowledge to say that what makes Pete uniquely qualified for future, high-level leadership is EXACTLY his orientation. If he were any different than what he is, he’d lack insight, strength and vital experience.

Military personel dont have a choice in where they are deployed. Are you criticizing the people who are currently bombing Iran in a war that nobody in your country wanted except your half-baked president who is in bed with the crazy Netanyahu?

What does being gay have to do with the job? Do gay men take food away from starving children? Do they take away women's reproductive rights? Do they prevent black people and Dems from voting? Do they give huge tax breaks to the wealthy but overtax the lower income people? No. No they won't.

Buttigieg is the complete package - he's super smart, super educated, super handsome, super explainer, zero grifts, loves good wine, has a super cool spouse. Bring happiness to America, vote Buttigieg to president 2028.

They are giving democrats so much fodder to use against them in the coming elections! How stupid can they be? They just take advantage of their positions on the taxpayers dime. He’s wasting time on stunts when he shud b working! Reducing the #of air traffic controllers? WTF?

Here is the guy who would make great president!!! NEVER GOING HAPPEN !! Not ready for Gay man or woman as president! I’m sorry ! But truth hurts!!! This is not time to see if we are ready!!!

Fantastic clip and a great text excerpt. The last fact, that Duffy is now aiming to cut the number of air traffic controllers, is absolutely jaw dropping. Does he not care about aviation safety at all? Duffy is a former airline lobbyist, but usually safety is the great unifier for those involved.

Correction: On re-listening, it sounds like they are reducing their hiring -- they'll still be hiring, but they don't want to hire as many. Which makes no sense. Same issue.

Canadian Captain Obvious Rant: DAMN Pete Buttigieg is good Smart Unafraid Unapologetic CAN YOU HIRE THIS GUY TO CLEAN UP ALL THE CRACK HOUSE pleeeeeeease ?!?! We are begging you neighbour Thank you for your attention to this matter of your house on fire 🇨🇦