For those in the Biden administration who are about to be out of work, it is time for them to go out and talk with the people to pretend they did a splendid job for the past four years. That goes for even the most loveable misfits of the most messed up and corrupt administration in the modern history of the United States.
Folks like (former Mayor) Pete Buttigieg, who Joe Biden made Transportation Chief and who did an awful job while he was in the top chair of that agency. If you don’t believe me, luckily I have a reminder of one of his massive screwups handy from a leftist source that reminds us about a city called East Palestine in the state of Ohio that Pete ignored for some odd reason after a disaster …
Pete Buttigieg admits he got it wrong on the Ohio train derailment response.
But while the criticism is fair, he says, the critics are mostly not.
“It’s really rich to see some of these folks – the former president, these Fox hosts – who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,” the Transportation Secretary said. “You think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a T.J. Maxx and a Kohl’s?”
So Pete thinks that anyone being critical of his lack of action during a train derailment should not be believed if they don’t know the difference between shopping at Kohl’s or a T.J. Maxx? How does Pete know if Tucker or anyone who thinks Pete did a horrible job knows the difference between those stores? That’s an original line of thought that makes zero sense in the real world, but in the cheap, shallow talking points of Biden, Inc., it is considered profound.
No wonder this country has gone backward the past four years under the Dad of Hunter.
However, Pete’s next gig might involve him looking for an elective office in his newly adopted home state of Michigan.
Those of you who don’t think that he would ever have a chance of being elected in the Great Lake State might have forgotten Governor Gretchen Whitmer and former Governor (now U.S. Energy Secretary) Jennifer Granholm both were elected and reelected in this state after doing horrible jobs in their first terms.
So Pete has a helluva chance here if he wants to run for governor, which I read about right HERE and was not shocked by at all. The story starts with a pep speech from Pete at the University of Michigan about staying involved and cheery during the next four years after Trump takes over.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a leader within the national Democratic Party, on Monday urged students at the University of Michigan to “not check out” from the news and politics a week before Republican Donald Trump takes office as the country’s next president.
During a 90-minute question-and-answer session inside a lecture hall at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Buttigieg discussed running the transportation department, his desire to bring high speed rail to Midwestern cities, life advice and what he referred to jokingly as the “world according to Pete.”
The world according to Pete also involves him chilling after his current gig ends on Jan 20th at noon, as noted here…
In an interview with The Detroit News after his Monday appearance, Buttigieg said he plans to spend more time at home in Traverse City and with his two children in the coming weeks, but he vowed to stay involved.
“I don’t yet know the shape of that,” Buttigieg said.
However, he said he wants to work on the future of infrastructure, the recovery of the industrial Midwest, the development of cities and the structural questions around democracy.
Except he is having talks with prominent Democrats in the state of Michigan, who have probably had a hand in driving the state into the ground.
Buttigieg has privately met, in recent months, with several prominent Michigan Democrats. Three Michigan Democrats who declined to be identified previously said they had each spoken directly with Buttigieg, who wanted to get their thoughts on the lay of the land in state politics.
Buttigieg acknowledged the meetings on Monday, saying he had visited a couple of Michigan Democrats in their homes, which looked a lot like where he grew up in South Bend.
Now I get that some people might think that a recent transplant who now lives in the Traverse City area of Michigan (which by the way is very elite-ish, Pete) might not have a snowball’s chance in hell of running on the Democrat nomination side for governor and or winning the general.
If you think that, you would be wrong.
Michigan is still a blue state, even though Donald Trump won it two out of three times.
The state elects Democrats who talk about feelings over facts, and the public seems to value that more than actual results. Gretchen Whitmer, who ran for reelection and won two years ago after her absolute debacle of handling COVID in the state, cruised to reelection victory by nine points.
We have not elected a Republican senator from the state to send to Washington, D.C. since 1994.
The last conservative governor we elected was John Engler in 1990.
A unique candidate in the mold of Donald Trump is the only one that could come along now and win statewide in an election for governor. In case you haven’t noticed, Donald Trump is an individual who has not been duplicated, and definitely no one in the state of Michigan comes close.
Also, a lot will depend on who the Michigan GOP selects next month at its statewide convention to replace Pete Hoekstra as the chairperson, and how united they are going into 2025 and 2026.
So could a Pete Buttigieg or any Democrat win the governor’s seat, making it three times in a row next year?
Damn right they could.
Hopefully, that perfect storm for Trump’s win here last year can continue until November 2026, and Michigan can elect Republicans statewide again.
