In Brief: Mayor Pete’s Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Biden’s transportation secretary is terrible at his job. Would a straight man get away with it?
Pete Buttigieg was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, before he decided to run for president. Of the United States. Failing to win the Democrat nomination on the “merit” of his homosexuality, Buttigieg nevertheless failed upward to secure the post of Joe Biden’s transportation secretary. Not surprisingly, this “diversity” hire is bad at his job. Political analyst Chadwick Moore, who also happens to be homosexual, argues that a straight man wouldn’t get away with Buttigieg’s record.
Almost a year ago, the Federal Aviation Authority, under the helm of transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, announced that the aviation briefing known as NOTAM, or Notice to Airmen, would undergo a name change. NOTAMs are unclassified notices distributed from an aviation authority to all pilots that contain essential information regarding conditions, hazards, system concerns, or other flight operations. NOTAM, Mayor Pete’s Department of Transportation declared, wasn’t gender inclusive and, as of December 2, 2021, it should henceforth be referred to Notice to Air Missions, not Airmen.
While Mayor Pete preoccupied his department with scrubbing the bigotry out of an acronym, it never occurred to the Biden administration’s Chief Diversity Hire that the system itself might need some tending-to. That was until this morning when an outage caused the NOTAM system to fail and all flights in the US were grounded for several hours, something that hasn’t happened since 9/11.
Today’s FAA system failure came just weeks after Southwest Airlines ruined Christmas when its outdated computer system led to thousands of canceled flights — something that the transportation secretary brazenly mocked, seemingly unaware that the Biden administration had given billions of dollars in handouts to Southwest, with no oversight. As he wagged his finger at the airline, Mayor Pete was oblivious that his own computers might need a tune-up.
But bothersome tasks like keeping the planes flying, or the cargo ships moving, or the railroads secure, aren’t very sexy for Mayor Pete — who famously harvested a couple of babies from surrogates then went on “paternity leave” in the middle of a supply chain crisis. Being blindsided by catastrophe … seems less like a bad day at the office for Pink Privilege Pete and more like a lifestyle choice.
Moore argues that “Mayor Pete is supremely decadent,” and his legacy in his only elected office “amounted to the fact that he couldn’t fix the potholes.” Even so, Moore notes:
Now he’s in charge of transport for the world’s largest economy, where he’s done little else than fuss over problematic acronyms and grandstand about racist roads and prejudiced bridges, while flying on private government jets to soccer matches in Europe and still finding time to post cringe on Instagram with his Navy Yard hausfrau Chasten.
Because of his sexual choices, Moore concludes, “no one seems to care” that “the man hasn’t got a clue.”
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