Does anyone else think Pete Buttigieg has had a ton of airtime for a transportation secretary?

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Thank you to the PP for a reality check. Look, Pete is way over publicized. It has zero to do with his job performance.

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.

And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period.

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.

...that's the point.

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.

NP. The military delivers lots of things all over the world; the guys firing the guns have to eat and live overseas. Given their role in disaster relief, I'm sure they provide formula pretty often. They also have existing contracts with commercial companies to provide transport for supplies when necessary. The DOT meanwhile owns a few planes that the FAA uses for training type purposes.

Why on Earth would the job go to DOT rather than the massive worldwide logistics operation that DOD is running?

Because it is not DOD's job? Lloyd stepped up because commercially contracted aircraft from another agency wasn't ready in time. Period.

“Due to the urgency of the situation, these flights will comprise U.S. military aircraft,” the official said.

Using military aircraft for this endeavor is unusual and underscores the urgent nature of the situation.

The administration’s plan going forward is to use commercially contracted aircraft, but none were available this weekend, according to an official. The official promised further updates on the remaining 114 pallets of Gerber Good Start Extensive HA, “which are expected to arrive in the coming days.”

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Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

Uh. He testified before Congress after his confirmation FIVE TIMES last year about his department budget or infrastructure needs. At least try to not make sh!t up.

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Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

Uh. He testified before Congress after his confirmation FIVE TIMES last year about his department budget or infrastructure needs. At least try to not make sh!t up.

He was confirmed in February 2021 and testified in March, April, June, July 2021 and then nothing through March 2022. Meanwhile the Infrastructure Act mysteriously went on the back burner with no advocacy until Pelosi blew up in November and pushed it through.

https://www.transportation.gov/testimony

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So basically for six months during the port and worst supply chain crisis in recent history the DOT was headless and Congress didn’t demand accountability or an Acting show up with an explanation? Amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Thank you to the PP for a reality check. Look, Pete is way over publicized. It has zero to do with his job performance.

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.

And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period.

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.

...that's the point.

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.

I don't understand. Do you think the DOT has a fleet of aircraft for transporting things?

Considering its the Department of Transportation and it is over the sub-agency of the FAA which maintains a fleet of Critical Event Response/Transportation just for that purpose. YES. My god.

Can you post a link to the DOT actually having it's own fleet? Should be easy to find, since you seem to think not knowing this makes one an idiot...nonetheless, I've never heard of it nor can I find information about it. My understanding is that the DOT has emergency procedures and can work with commercial carriers, but that it doesn't operate a fleet for this kind of logistical operation.

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Thank you to the PP for a reality check. Look, Pete is way over publicized. It has zero to do with his job performance.

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.

And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period.

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.

...that's the point.

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.

I don't understand. Do you think the DOT has a fleet of aircraft for transporting things?

Considering its the Department of Transportation and it is over the sub-agency of the FAA which maintains a fleet of Critical Event Response/Transportation just for that purpose. YES. My god.

Can you post a link to the DOT actually having it's own fleet? Should be easy to find, since you seem to think not knowing this makes one an idiot...nonetheless, I've never heard of it nor can I find information about it. My understanding is that the DOT has emergency procedures and can work with commercial carriers, but that it doesn't operate a fleet for this kind of logistical operation.

Why - does your Google not work? I’m sorry your so up Pete’s butt but get a life

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/flight_ops/

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Thank you to the PP for a reality check. Look, Pete is way over publicized. It has zero to do with his job performance.

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.

And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period.

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.

...that's the point.

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.

I don't understand. Do you think the DOT has a fleet of aircraft for transporting things?

Considering its the Department of Transportation and it is over the sub-agency of the FAA which maintains a fleet of Critical Event Response/Transportation just for that purpose. YES. My god.

Can you post a link to the DOT actually having it's own fleet? Should be easy to find, since you seem to think not knowing this makes one an idiot...nonetheless, I've never heard of it nor can I find information about it. My understanding is that the DOT has emergency procedures and can work with commercial carriers, but that it doesn't operate a fleet for this kind of logistical operation.

Why - does your Google not work? I’m sorry your so up Pete’s butt but get a life

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/flight_ops/

I don't understand why you are so nasty. The link suggests that those 39 planes are used for executive transport, not cargo.

Aren't these the executive jets that got Sec. Chao into trouble? I'm willing to believe I'm wrong, but not a single article has suggested that the FAA planes would be the logical choice. Military aircraft is cited as unusual because they would normally contract with commercial fleets, presumably through the Civil Reserve Fleet, but they don't seem to be available for whatever reason. Anyway, I may well be wrong...but you haven't posted particularly convincing information that this is something the FAA would normally be doing.

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Thank you to the PP for a reality check. Look, Pete is way over publicized. It has zero to do with his job performance.

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.

And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period.

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.

...that's the point.

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.

I don't understand. Do you think the DOT has a fleet of aircraft for transporting things?

Considering its the Department of Transportation and it is over the sub-agency of the FAA which maintains a fleet of Critical Event Response/Transportation just for that purpose. YES. My god.

Can you post a link to the DOT actually having it's own fleet? Should be easy to find, since you seem to think not knowing this makes one an idiot...nonetheless, I've never heard of it nor can I find information about it. My understanding is that the DOT has emergency procedures and can work with commercial carriers, but that it doesn't operate a fleet for this kind of logistical operation.

Why - does your Google not work? I’m sorry your so up Pete’s butt but get a life

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/flight_ops/

I don't understand why you are so nasty. The link suggests that those 39 planes are used for executive transport, not cargo.

Aren't these the executive jets that got Sec. Chao into trouble? I'm willing to believe I'm wrong, but not a single article has suggested that the FAA planes would be the logical choice. Military aircraft is cited as unusual because they would normally contract with commercial fleets, presumably through the Civil Reserve Fleet, but they don't seem to be available for whatever reason. Anyway, I may well be wrong...but you haven't posted particularly convincing information that this is something the FAA would normally be doing.

What you see as nasty, I see as the practical.

We have been begging this administration to focus on the immediate needs for a year now - the supply chain crisis, gas prices, affordable food, now infant formula…if they were focused on doing their jobs instead of advocating for programs that didn’t exist maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess with basic goods gone from shelves.

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Thank you to the PP for a reality check. Look, Pete is way over publicized. It has zero to do with his job performance.

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.

And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period.

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.

...that's the point.

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.

I don't understand. Do you think the DOT has a fleet of aircraft for transporting things?

Considering its the Department of Transportation and it is over the sub-agency of the FAA which maintains a fleet of Critical Event Response/Transportation just for that purpose. YES. My god.

Can you post a link to the DOT actually having it's own fleet? Should be easy to find, since you seem to think not knowing this makes one an idiot...nonetheless, I've never heard of it nor can I find information about it. My understanding is that the DOT has emergency procedures and can work with commercial carriers, but that it doesn't operate a fleet for this kind of logistical operation.

Why - does your Google not work? I’m sorry your so up Pete’s butt but get a life

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/flight_ops/

I don't understand why you are so nasty. The link suggests that those 39 planes are used for executive transport, not cargo.

Aren't these the executive jets that got Sec. Chao into trouble? I'm willing to believe I'm wrong, but not a single article has suggested that the FAA planes would be the logical choice. Military aircraft is cited as unusual because they would normally contract with commercial fleets, presumably through the Civil Reserve Fleet, but they don't seem to be available for whatever reason. Anyway, I may well be wrong...but you haven't posted particularly convincing information that this is something the FAA would normally be doing.

What you see as nasty, I see as the practical.

We have been begging this administration to focus on the immediate needs for a year now - the supply chain crisis, gas prices, affordable food, now infant formula…if they were focused on doing their jobs instead of advocating for programs that didn’t exist maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess with basic goods gone from shelves.

Hello non sequitor...

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Thank you to the PP for a reality check. Look, Pete is way over publicized. It has zero to do with his job performance.

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.

And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period.

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.

...that's the point.

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.

I don't understand. Do you think the DOT has a fleet of aircraft for transporting things?

Considering its the Department of Transportation and it is over the sub-agency of the FAA which maintains a fleet of Critical Event Response/Transportation just for that purpose. YES. My god.

Can you post a link to the DOT actually having it's own fleet? Should be easy to find, since you seem to think not knowing this makes one an idiot...nonetheless, I've never heard of it nor can I find information about it. My understanding is that the DOT has emergency procedures and can work with commercial carriers, but that it doesn't operate a fleet for this kind of logistical operation.

Why - does your Google not work? I’m sorry your so up Pete’s butt but get a life

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/flight_ops/

I don't understand why you are so nasty. The link suggests that those 39 planes are used for executive transport, not cargo.

Aren't these the executive jets that got Sec. Chao into trouble? I'm willing to believe I'm wrong, but not a single article has suggested that the FAA planes would be the logical choice. Military aircraft is cited as unusual because they would normally contract with commercial fleets, presumably through the Civil Reserve Fleet, but they don't seem to be available for whatever reason. Anyway, I may well be wrong...but you haven't posted particularly convincing information that this is something the FAA would normally be doing.

What you see as nasty, I see as the practical.

We have been begging this administration to focus on the immediate needs for a year now - the supply chain crisis, gas prices, affordable food, now infant formula…if they were focused on doing their jobs instead of advocating for programs that didn’t exist maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess with basic goods gone from shelves.

Hello non sequitor...

And yet 43% of the nation’s infant formula is out of stock this week. Hello omnipresent supply chain crisis…

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Thank you to the PP for a reality check. Look, Pete is way over publicized. It has zero to do with his job performance.

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.

And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period.

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.

...that's the point.

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.

I don't understand. Do you think the DOT has a fleet of aircraft for transporting things?

Considering its the Department of Transportation and it is over the sub-agency of the FAA which maintains a fleet of Critical Event Response/Transportation just for that purpose. YES. My god.

Can you post a link to the DOT actually having it's own fleet? Should be easy to find, since you seem to think not knowing this makes one an idiot...nonetheless, I've never heard of it nor can I find information about it. My understanding is that the DOT has emergency procedures and can work with commercial carriers, but that it doesn't operate a fleet for this kind of logistical operation.

Why - does your Google not work? I’m sorry your so up Pete’s butt but get a life

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/flight_ops/

I don't understand why you are so nasty. The link suggests that those 39 planes are used for executive transport, not cargo.

Aren't these the executive jets that got Sec. Chao into trouble? I'm willing to believe I'm wrong, but not a single article has suggested that the FAA planes would be the logical choice. Military aircraft is cited as unusual because they would normally contract with commercial fleets, presumably through the Civil Reserve Fleet, but they don't seem to be available for whatever reason. Anyway, I may well be wrong...but you haven't posted particularly convincing information that this is something the FAA would normally be doing.

What you see as nasty, I see as the practical.

We have been begging this administration to focus on the immediate needs for a year now - the supply chain crisis, gas prices, affordable food, now infant formula…if they were focused on doing their jobs instead of advocating for programs that didn’t exist maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess with basic goods gone from shelves.

Hello non sequitor...

And yet 43% of the nation’s infant formula is out of stock this week. Hello omnipresent supply chain crisis…

DP. He port delays have nothing to do with the current formula shortage.

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Anonymous wrote:It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary. I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway.

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of vacation let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, after taking four weeks off to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/


This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.

Jesus Christ please read the quote that I posted before replying. I literally linked the direct source (Fortune, NOT the White House) and yet here you are spinning partisan lies.

Just link to your source that shows he was gone for three months if you are so sure.

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Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.

Uh. He testified before Congress after his confirmation FIVE TIMES last year about his department budget or infrastructure needs. At least try to not make sh!t up.

He was confirmed in February 2021 and testified in March, April, June, July 2021 and then nothing through March 2022. Meanwhile the Infrastructure Act mysteriously went on the back burner with no advocacy until Pelosi blew up in November and pushed it through.

https://www.transportation.gov/testimony

That's not what you said, though. You said he didn't testify in 2021 after being confirmed. But he did, five times. And the committees of jurisdiction didn't mark up the transportation bill, it was a deal among senators. Cabinet members testify before committees. And the only reason the infra bill didn't pass the House sooner is because the progressives refused to vote yes. So how would going before a committee no longer dealing with the bill have helped pass it sooner rather than, oh, I dunno, touting the bill to voters in districts potentially affected? Like when he went to a NJ district in August, etc?

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Anonymous wrote:So basically for six months during the port and worst supply chain crisis in recent history the DOT was headless and Congress didn’t demand accountability or an Acting show up with an explanation? Amazing.

A bit confused. Do you think Cabinet members just go visit Congress and do nothing else? Seems a pretty narrow area to critique. Some Trump Cabinet members simply refused to testify before Congress, after all.

Looks like he at the very least visited ports in Baltimore, Savannah, Los Angeles and Long Beach during the crisis, a quick Google search shows. And was on the Supply Chain Disruption Task Force.

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Anonymous wrote:So basically for six months during the port and worst supply chain crisis in recent history the DOT was headless and Congress didn’t demand accountability or an Acting show up with an explanation? Amazing.

A bit confused. Do you think Cabinet members just go visit Congress and do nothing else? Seems a pretty narrow area to critique. Some Trump Cabinet members simply refused to testify before Congress, after all.

Looks like he at the very least visited ports in Baltimore, Savannah, Los Angeles and Long Beach during the crisis, a quick Google search shows. And was on the Supply Chain Disruption Task Force.

The Buttigieg haters have no basis in fact. Notice how the PP who was going on about FAA planes dropped it when asked for actual proof that the FAA has cargo planes capable of transporting palettes of formula around the country (something exactly zero new articles have suggested is a thing)? Everyone just seems to be jealous that someone as young as him has such a prominent role...and excited to shame a parent for taking parental leave.