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  Republicans always act like no experience is a positive when they do it and a negative when the democrats do it. 
  Well, actually they do that with everything.
context: If he makes flying better people will love him - except jealous gqp cult members who will want to ban air travel to piss off the libs. >
  
  All Pete has to say is, "Here is my $20B infrascture plan to upgrade the technology at all US airports. All it needs is the Repugs approval."
  Repugs response: " Derrrr... Stoves...  Ban all books... Forced births are what our Founding Fathers wanted... Derrrr..." >
  
  He’s been doing a fantastic job with messaging lately, so I’m hoping he does or says something similar to this. That’s really all the Democratic Party has to do at this point for the next two years to win the media messaging game. Simply say, “This is what we have tried to do and the GOP said no,” and then they can just go highlight all the bullshit they’re doing instead of what they claimed they were going to do during the mid-terms. >
  
  That's assuming the democrats will ever be willing to play hardball with the repugs. Spoiler alert, they won't be. Democrats are forever chasing those mythical independent and undecide voters. So their messaging is always soft. Meanwhile the rest of our democracy suffers because the dems won't rock the boat. >
  
  He'll talk his way out of it. That's a compliment too because as Fox News has routinely found out, the man can explain circles around them, and I think they secretly like it considering they keep having him on just so he can own them every time. >
  
  I legitimately enjoy watching him on Fox. It's like rope a dope with their dumb asses. >
  
  It’s weird too because he has plenty of qualities they would like, but they can never admit it because he’s A DEMOCRAT. >
  
  ... and gay. Gotta attack him because of that too. How dare he have a husband and children! >
  
  I was almost going to mention that too. Seems Fox would be ok with that too…if he wasn’t a Democrat, lol. They’re always looking for new props >
  
  Yeah they were trying to get him on spending money to fly Chastain with him. He responded with the list of all prior people who Tom their spouses, as expected and customary, with them. He then asks why he's any different. They sat looking stupidly at him because they didn't expect him to have a response. >
  
  Shows how much Rs see Buttigieg as a threat more than anything. >
  
  A gay democrat succeeding in a powerful position? I think they’d rather get kicked in the nuts >
  
  Succeeding? When?
  More like cashing in on political favor while he bides time to run in '24. Pete has been a disaster at transportation secretary
  Obligatory I'm not a republican and I'm allowed to criticize democrats and not be called names for it >
  
  For real Pete has been groomed for years to run but he is bad at everything he does. He was a disaster as a mayor and even more useless as transportation secretary, people told him for months that the current issues would happen and he just did nothing.
  Everyone pounding off to how great he is are classic neo lib center right "democrats". He is exactly the opposite of what we need he is status quo. >
  
  How exactly has he been a useless transportation secretary?  He at the very least says all the right things when I've heard him being interviewed which seems like its often because the media loves talking to him. >
  
  He's been hit with crisis after crisis and had an opportunity to really impact change on a lot of core infrastructure, but instead has merely lofted .00XX% fines as "penalty" and then just allows business as usual. It's really messed up how many democrats I see who really want change and then cheer on corporate democrats and neo liberals like Pete and Biden. 
  It's so obvious that he got that position because he stepped down and endorsed Biden in the primary, and he's been a politics-first, prepare for '24 transportation secretary from the second he was nominated >
  
  Do you really think punishing airlines is the main duty of a Transportation Secretary? Those investigations take years and they're still working through the complaints from 2020 because that part of the FAA is understaffed for the demands. The still issued the largest fines ever both in 2021 and 2022 and I'm sure there's more to come.
  Crisis management is part of the job and he has done fine with it. Just look how quickly SWA agreed that it was their fault and that they'll not only pay refunds but compensations for hotels and more and voluntarily additional vouchers.
  But the real big deal is the negotiation and implementation of the infrastructure law with a big shift to active transportation, public transit and trains in addition to repairing bridges and modernizing ports and airports. Add to that new rules for customer protection for airline passengers including a bill of rights for passengers with disabilities, a road safety strategy, the reconnecting communities program, climate resilience programs, a nationa EV charger network, new rights and more autonomy for tribes and working with HUD on public transit centered urban development. >
  
  The people who belittle him for having only experience as a small city mayor are the same people who proudly voted for Sarah Palin. >
  
  Or Donald Trump. It’s not like he was a governor or member of Congress before being elected.