Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - February 22, 2023


Pete Buttigieg Couldn't Care LESS About East Palestine - WATCH.


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

182.17195

Word Count

671

Sentence Count

63


Summary

Pete Buttigiegiegieg is at it again, our failed transportation secretary, who's worried about there being too many white people employed on a particular construction site, and how that's somehow racist, rather than fixing the disastrous infrastructure problems that are plaguing our country every day. As we had multiple toxic train derailments last week alone, Pete is out there lecturing us about racism. And this week, on GMA, he gets on there to talk about the criticism of the government's crappy handling of the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, as we're going through a toxic waste bill. Quote: "I was the mayor of my hometown for eight years. We dealt with a lot of disasters. That's like Pete's only qualification. Disasters are disasters. He didn't deal with anything. He was there apparently for 8 years and did it. But because he checked a diversity box, he got to run for president. Because he then ran for president, we got to make him a cabinet secretary. You checked a bunch of boxes. So they gave him positions of power. You failed miserably. 350 million Americans have suffered under it. You won't bother to go to the things that you're supposed to be overseeing. And now you're going to go after you've been bullied into it three weeks later, after being pressured by the internet and probably by the fact that Donald Trump has decided to lead since our own leaders refuse to do anything. That s not leadership, folks. It's failure. It s all about optics, folks! - the optics. - it's all about the optics and the ways they highlight one and ignore the other because that's all they care about it. - they figure out the ways it's different because that they can t be different because it's a good thing, folks, right? - they don't get any credit for it, folks? - that's what they do it right? - Pothole Pete's not the other way around? - it s all BS, folks - and that's not leadership. -- it's failure, folks - its all BS! - and you don t get to be a leader because you have to do something other than what you're actually needs to be done, not because you're good at it? - and it's not about leadership, it's about identity politics, it s not about what you can do, it is about how you like it? And you don't have a problem?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well, Pothole Pete Buttigieg is at it again.
00:00:04.000 Our failed transportation secretary, who's worried about things like there being too many white people employed on a particular construction site and how that's somehow racist, rather than fixing the disastrous infrastructure problems that are plaguing our country every day.
00:00:18.000 As we had multiple toxic train derailments last week alone, Pete Buttigieg is out there lecturing us about racism.
00:00:27.000 And this week on GMA, he gets on there to talk about the criticism of the government's crappy handling of the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, as we're going through a toxic waste bill.
00:00:41.000 Quote, look, I was the mayor of my hometown for eight years.
00:00:45.000 We dealt with a lot of disasters.
00:00:47.000 That's like Pete's only qualification, right?
00:00:49.000 Disasters. Disasters.
00:00:51.000 He didn't deal with anything. OK, South Bend, Indiana was certainly a disaster there.
00:00:57.000 He was there apparently for eight years and did it.
00:00:59.000 But because he checked a diversity box, he gets to run for president.
00:01:03.000 Because he then ran for president, we got to make him a cabinet secretary.
00:01:07.000 Then we got to run and tout that we have the first openly gay cabinet secretary.
00:01:11.000 None of it's based on competence.
00:01:13.000 He's failed in every way, shape or form.
00:01:16.000 And then he took paternity leave while The people of America, all 350 million of them, suffered.
00:01:23.000 Watch for yourself. The administration has come under some fire for its response.
00:01:26.000 The mayor of East Palestine has said it took nearly two weeks for the White House to contact him.
00:01:31.000 There were shouts of, where's Pete Buttigieg, at a town hall meeting last week.
00:01:36.000 What's your response to that?
00:01:37.000 When are you going to go to East Palestine?
00:01:41.000 Well, I am planning to go, and our folks were on the ground from the first hours.
00:01:46.000 I do want to stress that the NTSB needs to be able to do its work independently.
00:01:51.000 But when I go, the focus is going to be on action.
00:01:54.000 Look, I was mayor of my hometown for eight years.
00:01:56.000 We dealt with a lot of disasters, natural and human.
00:02:00.000 Well, he's going to finally make it there two weeks later, three weeks later.
00:02:04.000 Guess what? Just like FEMA, when they said, we can't help the people of East Palestine.
00:02:08.000 We can't do anything about it.
00:02:10.000 It doesn't really matter. Then Donald Trump, my dad, a real leader, steps up and says, he's going there this Wednesday, like tomorrow.
00:02:18.000 Okay? All of a sudden, FEMA... We have re-evaluated the situation and now we're going to do something.
00:02:24.000 Because it's all BS, folks.
00:02:27.000 It's all about the optics.
00:02:28.000 Just like Mayor Pete. He checks off a box.
00:02:31.000 He gets to be cabinet secretary.
00:02:33.000 They make a big deal. First openly gay cabinet.
00:02:35.000 You know, Rick Riddell doesn't get any credit for that when he was appointed into a similar position by Donald Trump.
00:02:40.000 No, no, he's a conservative, so we can't talk about it.
00:02:41.000 They figure out the ways it's different.
00:02:43.000 They highlight one and ignore the other because that's all it is, folks.
00:02:47.000 It's about identity politics.
00:02:49.000 So Mayor Pothole Pete, Okay, who's overseen the worst infrastructure disasters of our lifetime, who is just focused on anything but like transportation and our infrastructure.
00:03:02.000 Pothole Pete, you know, gets to talk about all the things he did.
00:03:05.000 Look, I understand. I'm different.
00:03:07.000 I did a great job. No, you didn't.
00:03:09.000 You checked a bunch of boxes.
00:03:10.000 So they gave you positions of power.
00:03:12.000 You failed miserably.
00:03:14.000 350 million Americans have suffered under it.
00:03:17.000 You won't bother to go to the things that you're supposed to be overseeing.
00:03:21.000 And now you're going to go after you've been pressured by the Internet and probably by the fact that Donald Trump has decided to lead since our own leaders refuse.
00:03:30.000 That's not leadership, Pete.
00:03:32.000 That's failure. It's failure.
00:03:34.000 It's a disaster.
00:03:36.000 You've done nothing. And you shouldn't get any credit for now showing up after being bullied into it three weeks later.