Pete Buttigieg is a fucking moron.
Harvard, Oxford, I don’t give a shit. I’m am absolutely convinced those places are remedial education facilities where the super-rich and well connected send their low IQ progeny to teach them Woke Speak and corporate babble for four years so they come out and get a make-work job somewhere.
This is his latest bullshit:
You should not have to own a car to prosper in this country, no matter what kind of community you're living in.
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) March 25, 2021
The fuck is that?
This son-of-a-bitch was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
I know Indiana.
Do you know what is in between South Bend and every other city in Indiana?
Miles and miles of fucking corn and soybeans.
Did he ever travel to Indianapolis to meet with the Governor?
Has he ever seen downtown Indianapolis?
“You should not have to own a car to prosper” applies to maybe a dozen cities in this country.
The fuck is he going to do? Create a bus and subway system that links people who live where the corn grows to the big city?
What public transportation system will pick people up from where they live and take them a factory or plant on the outskirts of town, like the steel mills and refineries I’ve been in?
The only way for this to be real is to pack us all into concrete block Megacities.
You’d think a guy who lived in somewhat rural Indiana would understand this but apparently when he went to Harvard, his IQ dropped and he just sort of thought everywhere in the country is like downtown Boston that can be connected with a subway.
Pictured: US Secretary of Transporation working on policy
Having a car has nothing to do with being prosperous. Niel Bortz years ago on his radio show read a study of “poor people” in America- over 50% had more than 1 car… Oh and it was democrats who engineered getting women out in the work force to – fill in the “empowerment “ here – (we all know it was to collect more taxes).
This administration is full of know nothing morons
Our betters are entirely big city brained. Can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to live in Megacity 1 and they’re not even trying to hide it now. I’m betting within 10 years we’ll see tax credits offered for moving to large cities or more overt coercion.
An aside you can not legally carry on most public transport and there are very few places I’ve felt the need to be armed as much as on US public transport.
The only reason this guy is a member of the current administration is because he has sex with men. He’s not qualified, has no experience, and has no clue.
Applies to the Veep as well.
“The fuck is he going to do? Create a bus and subway system that links people who live where the corn grows to the big city?”
–no, quite the opposite in fact. He wants to destroy the people outside the blue hives. He wants them cut off and isolated. Has he ever mentioned a system like that?
China has such a system. I’ve been to china, worked on a project outside of Shanghai. The people are indeed bused and trained out to the countryside, and into the city. At 330am the bus was packed. At 4am, the train was packed. We mostly moved around in taxis, and occasionally the university prof we were nominally working for would drive us in his personal car, a little shitbox that we more than once crammed 8 people into until we broke it one night. It was taxis after that (or cousins paid for a day of driving us where we needed to go.)
A side effect of having everyone reliant on “public” transportation is that you shut down peoples’ movement when you shut down the system. It also makes people much more dependent as it is hard to shop for a month’s groceries if you are limited to carrying two bags on the bus.
The chinese deal with some of the issues by having a massive delivery driver pool. You don’t go to McDonalds, you use an app to order the food and a guy on a moped brings it to you (and this was 10 years ago). You need a part for a project, the right people are told and it just shows up. You need something cut, and a guy on a scooter comes with an angle grinder and cuts it. Hundreds of micro transactions a day and a flurry of activity for even the simplest of tasks.
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China has a large and very poor rural population, along with a bunch of very large cities that are much wealthier. The notion that communist countries eliminate inequality is laughable; China is doing exactly the opposite, and that doesn’t even consider the ruling elites.
Re Buttigieg’s lack of qualifications: that’s true for pretty much everyone in Biden’s cabinet. It is very explicitly an Affirmative Action cabinet in the worst sense of that term: a motley collection of people chosen for their skin color, gender, origin, and sexual orientation only. Being qualified for the job is explicitly not relevant. For another example, consider Becerra, a far left lawyer with no knowledge of any aspect of the department he heads (or, I would argue, any knowledge of much of anything else in the world).
The original purpose of higher ed was to give the younger sons of aristocrats something to fall back on other than the army or clergy.
Then it became the place for the children of the aristocrats to sow their wild oats in places other than their own fiefs, and avoid scandals too close to home.
Then the cargo cult idea that since college is where rich people send their kids, and those kids are often rich, sending kids to college makes them rich. And impoverished generations via student loans.
Buttigeig, worked at McKinsey, his core competency is destroying prosperity.