While hundreds of thousands of shipping containers wait aboard bottlenecked ships at America’s ports, our Transportation Secretary spent the last two months on maternity leave.
Yup. Pete Buttigieg and his spouse Chastity … Charity? Chastened? Whatever the hell his name is … had twins in August. Okay, they didn’t have the babies. The woman they paid to get pregnant actually gave birth to them. Though, that didn’t stop Pete and Chastity … Charity? Chastened? … from posing on a hospital bed as if one of them actually went through the labor.
And since that time, Pete has been on paid maternity leave.
Well, for some “birthing people” postpartum depression can be a bear.
Besides, we have to give Pete time to lose the baby weight and get his figure back.
Apparently the news that the guy who is supposed to be in charge of America’s supply chain was off on maternity leave for two months didn’t get any play until last night when Politico confirmed it.
But the way I see it, having Pete off maternity leave and back to work probably won’t change a single thing. Far as I’m concerned, let him stay home.
Pete Buttigieg was selected to head up Transportation based on one qualification. He’s gay.
It certainly isn’t because Pete is some logistics expert. In fact, when he was nominated, Pete cited as his qualifications a “personal love of transportation” and fond memories of riding trains.
Oh, and according to NPR, “he proposed to his now-husband, Chasten, in an airport terminal.”
Chasten! That’s it. Chasten. Okay, I was close.
Pete’s resume is so thin, it’s probably printed on vellum.
Let him stay home on maternity leave. It isn’t as if his presence in the office is going to make a damn bit of difference.
For crying out loud, Mayor Pete couldn’t even fix the damn potholes in South Bend.
Now, I’m a little irritated with Donald Trump at the moment. Yesterday his stupid PAC sent me over a dozen emails in a 12-hour period begging for money. When you annoy me harder than the assholes who call about my car warranty, you go on my shit-list.
But I have zero doubt that a Trump administration would have taken care of this supply chain problem in a matter of days. Trump wouldn’t have made busy-work like forming Blue Ribbon Committees and Round Table Discussion Groups. Because Donald Trump is a logistics master. You have to be if you’re a developer who works in the building trade.
Trump knew how to cut through the federal red tape and streamline the process to get things done quickly.
He got three friggin’ vaccines developed in a matter of months!
But Pete “I have a personal love of transportation” Buttigieg? C’mon, man. He doesn’t have the first idea how to tackle this problem. So let him stay on maternity leave until his twins graduate from high school for all the good he’s worth.
Believe me. In the office, out of the office. It won’t change a thing.