Pete Buttigieg is a failure at the U.S. Department of Transportation - UPDATE: He's improved!!

[the cac mamba]

Put some work back into railroads..do it state by state I guess. Get the demoxrat states to play ball..atleast in Cali as to getting a high speed link done.

not if the union criminals and their democrat pimps have anything to say about it





absolutely disgusting

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

not if the union criminals and their democrat pimps have anything to say about it





absolutely disgusting

Smh.

How else can they get life to how they want.

Poor people living 2/3hours away from the expensive cities ..and the poor transportation in to work the low laying jobs then use the public transportation back home...only way that works is if high speed rail is up.

But yea your right too many hands see this as an opportunity to get their hands in the pot.

 

[Arizax2]

Building anything in America requires alot of red tape.

 

[Voice of Reason]

not if the union criminals and their democrat pimps have anything to say about it





absolutely disgusting

You finally went mask off huh cac?

 

[the cac mamba]

You finally went mask off huh cac?

what part of this are you defending?

California’s bullet train was first approved by voters in 2008. It was supposed to be done by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion. 14 years later, work is underway on 170 miles of “starter” line in central CA, hoping to be done by 2030. Total project cost now projected $113 billion.

 

[ORDER_66]

Building anything in America requires alot of red tape.

No... just alot of money in the right hands and places and everything runs smooth as peanut butter..

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

what part of this are you defending?

California’s bullet train was first approved by voters in 2008. It was supposed to be done by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion. 14 years later, work is underway on 170 miles of “starter” line in central CA, hoping to be done by 2030. Total project cost now projected $113 billion.

Yeah that thing is a complete and total boondoggle and in friendly territory no less. That's why this red state/blue state shyt is so hilarious to me as when it comes down to it they're all Capitalist states meaning they all suffer from the same disease and we are just seeing the symptoms manifest in the CHSR project.

 

[get these nets]

Stopped taking him seriously when he went on m/p aternity leave at the height of the supply chain/ distribution crisis.

 

[FAH1223]

Stopped taking him seriously when he went on m/p aternity leave at the height of the supply chain/ distribution crisis.

Normie Dems and moderates on this letter

 

[Pressure]

Normie Dems and moderates on this letter

They should get off their fukking asses and legislate.

These folks always act like they can’t do their jobs

If they care, I’m sure they could have held public hearing and sold the need, but nope they’re just sending letters and tweets

 

[FAH1223]

They should get off their fukking asses and legislate.

These folks always act like they can’t do their jobs

If they care, I’m sure they could have held public hearing and sold the need, but nope they’re just sending letters and tweets

DOT has vested authority by existing legislation. They’re urging the Secretary to use what’s already on the books.

Just like the FTC is doing.

 

[Pressure]

DOT has vested authority by existing legislation. They’re urging the Secretary to use what’s already on the books.

Just like the FTC is doing.

No, we’re not playing this game. Y’all did this with student debt relief and that shyt pending.

Same here the doj has proposed new rules for what it means to be a significant delay. Then we’ll wait 90 days and then hope it’s implemented properly before spring break travel kicks off.

Or legislators could actually create laws and not depend on administrative rules that change with the wind.

They have more Power than Pete. They should use it.

 

[FAH1223]

No, we’re not playing this game. Y’all did this with student debt relief and that shyt pending.

Same here the doj has proposed new rules for what it means to be a significant delay. Then we’ll wait 90 days and then hope it’s implemented properly before spring break travel kicks off.

Or legislators could actually create laws and not depend on administrative rules that change with the wind.

They have more Power than Pete. They should use it.

The Dems don’t control the House. Saying they need to pass new legislation is a cop out.


The authorities Pete has were used in previous administrations. Just cause there’s 90 day period doesn’t mean he shouldn’t do it!! You are writing as if the Secretary has no power to fine airlines and promulgate rules against unfair practices.

 

[mastermind]

Liberal Corporate Media Ignores Government Wrongdoing When Liberals Are to Blame

After Southwest’s mass flight cancellations, liberal media refused to report on transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg’s failure to regulate the airlines — because media outlets now avoid journalism that could offend their audiences’ partisan loyalties.

jacobin.com

But as the Great Airline Meltdown of 2022 illustrated last week, today’s media now routinely does that altering — by promoting or suppressing facts based on which party and which infantilized audience they serve. That is a problem not just for air travelers but also for our entire democracy.

To review: as up to one million travelerswere stranded by Southwest Airlines over the holiday season, we uncovered documents (here, here, here and here) showing that Democratic state officials and congressional lawmakers had repeatedly begged transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg to toughen rules to deter airlines from mistreating their customers.

As those documents and our new video detail, Buttigieg — the sole airline regulator under federal law — has plenty of power at his disposal. But he’s refused to use that authority, even after Southwest had experienced a similar meltdown a year ago. As William McGee of the American Economic Liberties Project put it: “Southwest was inevitable after [Buttigieg] failed to punish awful behavior all year.”

Buttigieg’s inaction was part of a larger pattern of lax regulation and weak enforcement that by some measures have been even weaker than those under the Trump administration. This is hardly surprising, considering Buttigieg is a political appointee who had never managed a major transportation system before being given his Cabinet job. His formative experience was working at a corporate consulting giant that would later suggest ways airlines could extract more fees from passengers.

The point of our publishing this story was to do what nonpartisan journalism is supposed to do in a democracy: hold public officials accountable for their action and inaction.

When Trump was appointing his clown show of people who didn’t understand the agencies they ran, there was a lot of smoke for that. Buttigieg is the same as that and he been shot bail for being terrible.

And this part is good because it shows a lot about modern media and tribalism. We see it on this forum:

For news consumers, the problem becomes self-reinforcing. When journalism that embarrasses Democratic politicians is promoted by Fox News — and ghosted by MSNBC — liberals either never see the reporting, or they get to eyeroll and smugly laugh at it, insisting the verifiable facts must be false just because they happen to be amplified by Rupert Murdoch rather than by Rachel Maddow. The converse is also true: when facts embarrassing Republicans are reported by MSNBC — and ignored by Fox News — most conservatives never even see them, and those who do get to brush it off as “fake news” from “liberal media.”

This dynamic is a big part of the democracy crisis in America. It has created two throngs of zombie partisans fighting a never-ending war of attrition from behind screens that tell them only what they want to hear, and censor facts that might alter their thinking.

In sowing such mass ignorance, this system ultimately shields public officials from accountability. Those in government now know that their negligence, corruption, and malfeasance — if reported at all — probably will not be reported to their own party’s voters, or at least it will not be reported in a hard-hitting way that might make those voters perk up and demand justice.

 

[CopiousX]

Nationalize these pricks, we don't need 3 airlines we need 1 excellent airline

So you want another Amtrak? Or maybe you envisioned something like our nation's other public corporate success story, the USPS?