Transportation Secretary ‘Mayor Pete’ Buttigieg unveils his new plan to spend $14 billion so something our culture now views as “routine” (according to Pete), never happens to anybody ever again. Can you embrace this moonshot-scale mission?
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54 replies on “Mayor Pete’s Fantasy: Buttigieg to Spend $14 Billion So This Never Happens to Anybody Ever”
The two zingers from Scott Ott at the end made this one fantastic video. Laughing so hard!
1 point. 100,000,000 miles is further than I can possibly drive in my life time… so the push to reduce the possibility of my being injured-statistically- from 1 to 0 does not affect my entire lifetime of driving! Sounds like just another excuse to steal 10 billion of our dollars.!
Just transferring my comment over from Rumble: Hey Scott, just imagine all the drugged up people who’ll be out there after Brandon’s “Build Crack Better Plan”!!
Hi.
Just stopping by to tell you that I still love you guys even though I never come here and you told me to come and give you stars.
I watch on YouTube.
Rumble is a little too wonky in that it (as far as my limited grasp of use goes) doesn’t save when I’m doing something else and I cannot just go back to where I was in watching.
I had the same problem with Daily Wire but, for them I no longer subscribe because they are not as “real” as y’all are. Well, I should explain…. Familiarity breeds contempt? Ben hammers his points to death. Andrew is my favorite but his whole Christian thing overwhelms sometimes – which is why I seldom watch Bill and Zo. Matt Walsh is a little harsh for me and Knowles is fun but not as useful as you all are in that you all talk about All and Everything, not just today’s News.
In other words – Whittle.com is a mom and pop shop. Daily Wire is a corporation.
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Thank you, George. Y’all come back now, hyear?
This is a disturbingly clear example of someone who is cognitively stuck in a Condition White level of situational awareness, and believes on some level that Condition Yellow should not be expected of a normal healthy person. I can guess the state of Buttigieg’s amygdalae if he were to get a brain scan.
Is Scrappleface resurging? Good one Scott.
Thanks, Dave.
Just like systemic racism / equity, zero COVID cases, climate change, gun violence and the eradication of “hate speech,” this is just another assault on our liberties and our wallets by the left. They want the West dependent on the government and broke. They could care less about traffic deaths. They want to get rid of the freedom provided by gas-powered vehicles and go to all self-driving cars/trucks. Why? It’s all electric and hooked into the grid, just like they want us to be with a chip in our necks. They’ve been pushing this zero fatality garbage in cities for a while now.
Greetings Steve, when I had a problem with my dryer, I went to YouTube video’s and fixed it myself.
In my case it was the “thermal fuse” just a $5.00 part that you can get at amazon, free shipping with prime.
I also had the confidence to go even farther if needed to fix/replace the motor, belt, door/inner wall switch, or heating element.
Apropos of nothing and not really related directly to this topic other than how freaking stupid both speakers are, but Mayor Pete reminds me of Obama’s Tommy Vietor, famed for telling Brett Baier regarding Benghazi, “Dude, that was like, 2 years ago”. The pool is starting for just who in this administration is going to blurt out re: Afghanistan, “Dude, that was like 6 months ago!)
I find it interesting that many of the mainstream media outlets have issued stories recently about pedestrian deaths spiking as reckless driving surges. Almost like it was planned in concert with the announcement of this plan. But then again, I am an evil, right-wing conspiracy theorist. What do I know?
Bongino just did a video on how well-coordinated the activist leftists are in their messaging from academia to media/Hollywood to Big Corp to government. “The reason they all appear coordinated is because they are.”
Bongino: This is how the left executes censorship
https://youtu.be/ReDzz9BbUoE
I subscribe to a NYT morning news letter, because it gives me a look at what lefties are thinking. This morning it was about an upsurge in traffic fatalities. Not surprising, they also decided traffic deaths are racist, because there are more crashes and pedestrian deaths in poor (imply black) neighborhoods. I guess if I don’t want a self driving car, then I’m a racist? Boggles the mind.
Thanks Scott! Would that your question be asked on so many different topics coming from this clown show. I would be funny if it were not so destructive.
Another stupid idea being pushed by “the academic” because they are so smart and all, remember?
Did none of these idiots watch “I ROBOT” ? The only way to stay safe on the roads is not to leave your home. sheesh, and they think we are the dumb ones.
Thank you Merry-Sue. I can think of not one human activity in interaction with people or objects that is entirely safe. Everything we do, including getting out of bed in the morning, involves a risk to life or limb. This so-called plan is a utopian dream that is impossible to realize. So are most of the JoeBitem plans.
Exactly, They want people to stay in their homes. You know , to help “flatten the curve” and such. It makes controlling a populace so much easier if they aren’t mobile.
Like all good Marxists they employ the “little by little” long game – they are conditioning the peons to give up those nasty climate endangering things with gas-guzzling engines and wheels to save the planet that is surely going to spontaneously combust in 10 years if they don’t. We will be living in pods, eating bugs, and inhabiting the metaverse while we peddle our totally clean energy producing stationary bikes 18 hours a day to generate enough power for the Cloud People to live as they always have, degenerately, wastefully and gleefully in their untopian Towers of Power over the people.
I don’t think this will work out.
Police are bad and racist.
Jails are bad and racist.
Prosecuting criminals is bad and racist.
Preventing MS-13 from crossing the border is bad and racist.
Hey Pete, did you put an exemption in “your plan” for drive by shootings in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark……add your choice of cities here….
Drive by’s happen on a roadway, with many of them from a moving vehicle.
Oh, and Pete, will you be eliminating snow, or black ice, or high winds too?
Yeah, let’s spend $14 billion on an impossible goal while we spend nothing to make sure people don’t get pushed onto subway tracks. Great plan.
When March 27th arrives this year it will mark the 11th year since our only child, a son aged 27, perished in a car vs semi accident on the highway. Never in those nearly 11 years did we ever think that people should stop driving or turn our freedom to drive when, where and what we please over to the government. It was a terrible accident and no one’s fault. He was our life and we would give all that we have, or ever will have, to have our son back again. But we would never take anything away from anyone else to have him back.
Kara, thinking of you and your beloved son. Bless you.
History will note regarding the Biden Administration an unprecedented lack of competence.
Lil’ Pete Bootygrudge being Secretary of Transportation has no experience commensurate with leading such an organization. So he has to fake it.
As if that were not bad enough, rather than seek out competent people to help him do the job he’s not suited for — Like everyone in the Biden Administration he takes his marching orders from his Leftist puppet masters.
Who do you think told Lil’ Pete that taking “paternity leave” in the midst of a transportation crisis in order to show everyone that “men can have babies” is important? In fact more important than actually doing the real job of the Secretary of Transportation?
Yeah, it’s the same people that are telling Lil’ Pete that setting an impossible goal makes a great cover and a prime excuse to bring draconian oppression to every American who needs to travel further than the mailbox at the end of their driveway.
How is this best accomplished by the enemies of the American People? By putting incompetent, inexperienced people in office and then telling them what to do.
I can’t wait for the November elections. All of this can be nullified in fact if not in name by strangling the cash flow to these ridiculous policies.
Michael Knowles has a campaign in operation for Congress to zero out Tony Fauci’s salary. That action needs to be extended to a lot more people than Tony Fauci. Congress can zero out the salary of the Secretary of Treasury too. We need to start a list.
This is what happens in an oligarchy, it rots into incompetence.
This is what happens when you have a soft coup by an unelected committee* of ideologues that takes over the mechanisms of government behind the scenes. Using semi-legitimate figureheads like Biden, Bootygrudge, Mayorcas, Blinken, Yellen, Austin, Garland, Haaland, Vilsack, Raimondo, Walsh, Becerra, Fudge, Granholm, Cardona and McDonough to implement neo-Marxist Socialism policies.
The entire Cabinet is corrupt or under the influence of that unelected committee to some degree. Some more, some less, all are affected.
Barack Hussein Obama ran as a Democrat and was supported by the Democrat Party. Obama was not and is not an actual Democrat, he’s a Social Marxist by his own statements. Clearly the first (half) Black President could not risk a wholesale conversion of the United States from a Constitutional Republic to a Socialist hegemony. If he tried to do that he would fail simply because the novelty of his Presidency would be used against him.
I.E. “The first Black President threw the Constitution out the window and tried to make America a socialist nation. NO WAY!”
Obama did in fact do much work in that direction but slyly and quietly. Still, it wasn’t the actual implementation of a socialist ideology full-on controlling this country. A lot of his supporters faulted him heavily for not doing that.
He did lay the groundwork though.
To make a long story short, the Leftist ideologues who seem to be pulling all the strings of the President and Cabinet are the same trite old elitist types history abounds with.
Their position is — “They know what’s best. They know their ideas will work. They know they can usher in a utopia (at least for them) if they’re only given a good solid shot at it. They know that no one has succeeded in their ideological system because those others didn’t get it right and they will be the first to do so.” Etc.
They are true believers in their Social Marxism because they were taught in schools, colleges and universities by radical teachers and professors that it will work.
This is why they are committing political suicide with nearly every move they make. When one blows up in their faces, they double down. Bootygrudge goes on “paternity leave” to show that gay men have babies just like women do. During a transportation crisis. While he’s SecTrans. In doing so he abandons his post for months. That doesn’t work, he doesn’t get the hit for gay acceptance that was desired. Not even close. OK, so next thing is to promise zero traffic fatalities, just give me the power and I’ll save you from automobile crashes. That won’t work either and is in fact absurd. And so it goes.
They are exactly like an addicted gambler that just knows the next hand dealt or the next yank of a lever will solve all their problems and fully justify them in their gambles. They believe that they finally have a shot and they’re taking it full of the false confidence that it will work.
We really need to let them fail, big time. No matter what they say, there’s a point where no one will listen anymore because what they say has nothing to do with real world consequences. So we need to get to that point without allowing them to totally destroy the nation.
If we don’t do that, the threat will just morph into another form and come right back again.
The problem isn’t so much that of an oligarchy though there are certainly oligarchs involved. The problem is the rot of common sense; the spurning of wisdom, history and traditions that have unequivocally proven manifestly successful. This has been instilled and accelerated by the academic class and poor rearing of several generations. It’s not going to disappear until it hurts enough that it is soundly rejected.
*I’m not talking about some shadowy conspiracy theory here. The “unelected committee” is just a placeholder for the people who are clearly “advising” the Biden administration and whose “advice” carries substantially more impetus than is generally seen in the Executive Branch. Normally a POTUS takes advice from many quarters and makes his own decisions. He would never use phrases like “They won’t let me …” or “They don’t want me to …”. He’s the most powerful man in the world, he doesn’t take orders from “them” or “they” or anyone else. You never heard this sort of thing drip like drool from the lips of a POTUS before. Whoever “they” are, that’s who I’m referring to with “unelected committee”.
When the House is returned to the Adults control I hope Republicans have the backbone to “starve the beast” and shut off the cash for biden’s puppeteer’s utopian plans.
I hope so too but …
Republicans have made a bad habit of failure to exert political power when it’s available to them.
“Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” is a good way to put it.
If a clear majority controls both House and Senate there’s going to be a strong urge to impeach Biden too. Not only because he’s an incompetent doddering fool with less intellect than a pile of mashed potatoes but for plain old fashioned payback too.
It was grossly stupid of the Democrats to bring impeachment on Trump with only one house of Congress in their control. I’d like to see them taught a lesson in how the pendulum of power swings.
Don’t mince words, Steve. How do you really feel about those sanctimonious pricks? I think I saw them open for ThunderScreech in 75
I think that band was called Sanctimonius Prix. Everything’s more “rad” when you spell it with an X.
$14 BILLION dollars? Really?!?! And most of the moneys, money we don’t have, will go to stuff not covered by the law’s title.
I just finished watching season 1 of “Reacher” on Amazon which was mostly about a counterfeiting plot. We should redirect our energies and go after the biggest counterfeiter of all; our US government.
I have written not a bipartisan or even tripartisan bill, but an infinitipartisan bill to change Joke Buttigieg’s name to “Clueless Pete”.
Wow, this administration is going to shut down Covid, cure cancer, and prevent ANYONE from being killed in car accidents! I expected no less from the man who vanquished Corn Pop!
I agree with Benjamin, it’s all about surveillance, not safety. Petey’s just too dumb (being a cum laude grad of Stupid U.) to come up with a better rationale.
I have a way to have zero traffic deaths. And since zero Covid deaths would be a good thing, it will work for that too! And cancer! And heart disease! And accidents and diabetes! And even old age! And.. And..
Well here it is!
Kill everyone. No more people dying if no-one is alive! Perfect!
Perfect idiocy that, is.😏 Life is not safe. No one gets out of it alive.😳
And you have now figured out the end game.
Yes I have. A long time ago. I also tell people “You go first” when they go down that path. Odd, so far no takers. What gives with that?😏
C’mon, man. You can’t blame Mayor Pete. He’s in the government.
Ah, the Land of Government, where anything is possible regardless of the close to zero success rate of government projects and plans. Where unicorns roam freely and a houseplant can become president of the United States.
I cannot stand these people. They are trying to remove American’s ability to travel across the country by making it impossible to drive anywhere.
Regardless of Petey’s wishes, I look forward to the day when anyone in the USA can begin his day with CERTAINTY that he will not have to listen to insane drivel like that which spews from the mouths of lunatic leftists.
… oh … wait … such a utopia is impossible.
Pete, meet your new nemesis. White tailed deer. Unregulatible!
Nope. They’ll all be moved to a deer reservation.
Reminds me of brother’s neighbor. They had moved in not that long ago and he first spring he got tired of the deer eating all his plants. He put a fence around his yard. My brother went to talk to him, and leaned against the top of the fence (don’t get ahead of me, my brother is not 7′ tall) and asked his neighbor what the purpose of the chain link fence.
Why to keep the deer out of my yard.
I kid you not, moments after saying it, a deer cam running through my brother’s yard, jumped over the 5′ tall chain link fence, through the neighbor’s yard, and over the fence on the other boundary.
Chuckling, my brother told him, at least go to 7′ and make it a challenge for them. Oh, and the rabbits can get through the chain link so it won’t keep them out either.
You had me at “sanctimonious pricks”
Scott, you’re making the assumption that Mayor Pete wears pants
It would be a cause for celebration Scott, if it were not for the fact that a left wing commie like Booty Judge is in charge.
All he is concerned about is how to get his 14 billion dollar bill past congress and the senate. He cares not one whit about how many people die on the highway.
I look forward to watching you three as often as possible. Scott, thanks for the belly laugh this morning! I love how you all strip away the nonsense that passes for news these days. Please keep it up. Never feel “less than” for speaking the truth! And you all do that so well.
“Zero fatalities” is right in line with “End racism”. You get there one of two ways – mass incarcination or genocide. Both of which The Radical Left has started to quietly say out loud
Steve, What do you mean “I don’t want to give them any ideas”. You don’t think that they don’t already have these insane ideas?
The logical part of me wants to give Petey a lesson in how to set goals; you know the whole measurable, time bound etc. But then I recall this bit of sagacity from Sam Clemens.
And realize that Scott’s response is the correct one.
Future Scenarios under Pete’s Phantasy:
(1) “We’re sorry but you cannot operate this vehicle due to your low social credit score.”
(2) “Your vehicle will be redirected from the dangerous (patriot) events destination, but sit back as we take you to the nearest *re-education* camp.”
(3) “Your primary vehicle occupant has been identified as a racist (white) and your vehicle had been operating in the *person of color* lane ….please be patient as we send you to the *safe* re-education camp.”
(4) “Your vehicular destination to the voting booth has been disabled due to your political status .. “
That sounds about right – make sure you keep your current car running as long as possible.
“Progressives”. Always mandating Sunshine from Cucumbers.