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Home Front: Politix
Amateur hour: Pete Buttigieg's inexperience exposed as supply chain breaks down
2021-10-15
[THEHILL] A quick Google check of "Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. He lost that one too...
," when using the "News" search option, reveals the following headlines in this exact order as of Monday afternoon.

"Pete Buttigieg Calls Parenting Twins 'Most Demanding Thing': 'Yet I Catch Myself Grinning Half the Time’ " - People Magazine
Posted by:Fred

#6  Hilarious; he's been so absent his entire tenure that just now people are noticing he hasn't been involved with work for 2 months.

Even better. People with similar job structures/requirements have been working from home for 18 months.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-10-15 14:16  

#5  Is his entire, enormous bureaucratic staff off work, too? Can't do nothin' without the official okey-doaky from Big Pete?
Posted by: Bobby   2021-10-15 11:41  

#4  Pete Ballgag is at his best when he's not around.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-10-15 10:21  

#3  Republicans demand Pete Buttigieg testify in Congress over supply chain crisis and accuse the Biden administration of waiting months to try and fix the problem as it's revealed Transport Secretary has been on paternity leave since August
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-10-15 07:59  

#2  Exhaustion is only one symptom of postpartum depression. Nothing to make light of, Glogum!
Posted by: Omomomble the Odorous9513   2021-10-15 04:36  

#1  Pushing twins out of his fauxgina was exhausting.

As cargo ships congested at U.S. ports, creating an unprecedented supply-chain crisis, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on paid leave [since mid-August] to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies.
Posted by: Glogum the Low-priced4647   2021-10-15 03:41  

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