Liberals are immune to irony. There’s no other explanation. Take former Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. On January 29, an American Airlines regional flight collided with a military blackhawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.. Tragically, both craft plunged into the Potomac river, and there were no survivors. According to the most recent reports, 67 total people are dead.
Freshly out of a job, Buttigieg seems to still be working for the ousted Biden administration. He’s on social media blasting President Donald Trump for his response to the aviation accident.
The irony is palatable; Buttigieg is incompetent, always was incompetent, and has no business at all criticizing the Trump administration’s response to the recent plane crash. Parachuted by Biden into the role of Transportation Secretary with no experience behind him but being the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg could not be relied on to even show up to major disasters involving the nation’s transport infrastructure.
Remember the massive train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in February of 2023? A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed. Thirty-eight cars went off the tracks, and some of them contained toxic chemicals. Making matters worse, authorities burned some of them off, leading to a huge plume of toxic smoke that forced local residents to evacuate. Despite the media’s lack of coverage on the details at the time, locals started posting videos showing thousands of dead fish floating in contaminated rivers after the accident. Years later, the state’s natural resources department admitted that at least 38,000 wild animals were killed by the toxic cloud.
Where was Transportation Secretary Pete? Nowhere to be found for weeks after the disaster. People on the ground were furious and didn’t buy his excuse that he waited to visit until after the most important responders had done their work. Overall, his tenure as Transportation Secretary got mixed reviews, with some praising what he did with the budget he had, while other commentators pointed to numerous transportation disasters—train derailments, near-misses at airports with planes nearly colliding—on his watch.
Ex-Vice President Mike Pence took aim at Buttigieg taking two months’ of “paternity leave” from his job in the middle of crises after Buttigieg and his male partner adopted newborn twins. “When Pete’s two children were born, he took two months’ maternity leave whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways,” ABC News reported Pence saying.
However history may eventually view his tenure, the American people don’t seem to think very highly of Buttigieg or his Monday morning quarterbacking over Trump’s response to the Jan. 29 plane crash. Here’s a sampling of reaction on X/Twitter. Be warned: they’re not being kind or politically correct about it.
Tee-hee:
