OK, everyone – we’ve had enough at this point. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg finally traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, after nearly three weeks of inaction amid a rail derailment and subsequent disastrous chemical spill.
While on the ground and in clever shoes, Mayor Pete delivered platitudes about why he hadn’t been there sooner and made no comment on why his boss, President Biden, took the time to fly to Ukraine instead of visiting affected residents. derailment.
Buttigieg walked away from a reporter asking about the delay in traveling to the area, leaving his press secretary to bail him out, who in turn refused to answer the reporter’s questions, calling them “aggressive.”
It was at least an improvement over the transportation secretary’s dodge outside his Washington home the night before, when he invoked “private time” to avoid answering similar questions over his weeks-long refusal to visit the site of the spill.
Mayor Pete taking time for himself and ignoring basic media questions about transportation issues of national importance is nothing up-to-date. A year and a half ago he was she took two months of paternity leave during a major supply chain and shipping crisis. Asked about whether he was interior secretary at a critical time for his department, Buttigieg sidestepped the question and he appeared on liberal television programs defend their long absence as simply another form of “work”.
Then there was the infamous nationwide plane grounding ordered by Mayor Pete’s Federal Aviation Administration in November following a computer glitch, shortly after vacationing in Portugal, focusing instead on overseeing non-woke terminology in our aviation system instead of solving the problem.
Whichever way you look at it, it’s clear that Mayor Pete is simply not qualified for the job, he clearly has no experience in transportation, and his work ethic is questionable at best. It’s not strenuous to guess that his main qualification for running the Transportation Department of the world’s largest economy is that he played with model trains as a child.
Everyone knows that Biden hired Mayor Pete just to check a box, namely to make him the first openly gay Cabinet member, regardless of his background or ability to do the job. And Biden gained recognition in many liberal circles for doing just that.
The same goes for other key appointees on Biden’s team, including Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkasthe first Spanish immigrant to head a cabinet department, and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierrethe first black lesbian to hold this position.
However, Mayor Pete’s disastrous record in office – along with Mayorkas’ and KJP’s – shows the madness of diversity in hiring under the Biden administration. He and other Democrats essentially view the country as divided into separate groups, and hiring has become one massive game of virtue signaling rather than hiring the best person for the job.
Not only is this practice divisive on its face, it makes it almost impossible to fire these officials due to incompetence and fear of politically offending the demographic to which their appointments are directed.
This is diversity hiring madness is a relatively up-to-date phenomenonbut most Americans – especially those directly affected by chemical spills, supply chain crises, or grounded planes – have had enough and it simply needs to end.
To his credit, President Trump has largely avoided any identity politics during his four years in office, especially when it comes to hiring.
For example, during his term, he appointed me to two senior cabinet positions – spokesman of the National Security Council and deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs, and in doing so, quite simply, made me one of the highest-ranking gay officials in the history of both parties.
To his credit, however, Trump has never once mentioned the fact that I am gay, even as he and his administration have, predictably, come under regular fire from the liberal media – with no factual basis – on the issue of diversity. Trump simply said I was the most qualified candidate for both positions, as a Marine Corps veteran with a long track record in national security communications.
This is because Trump and Republicans rightly believe that we are all Americans, regardless of our background, race, gender or sexual orientation. We are not special identity groups that can be divided and subjugated for political purposes.
That’s why our founders emphasized this phrase One of many – of many, one – since the first days of our founding, placing this phrase on our coins, on the Great Seal of the United States, and above the rostrum of the U.S. Senate.
As Americans, we need to move beyond this woke diversity hiring business – it diminishes us as a country. No one cares what our past is – taxpayers only expect from their public officials that they are qualified to do the job and that they work strenuous, show up and actually do it. Down Work.
Which brings us back to Mayor Pete – after his recurrent absences and dismal performance over the past two years, he has done gays a huge favor, most notably by being a highly touted diversity officer.
If Biden had any idea about responsibility, which he doesn’t in the face of Afghanistan and the border as we know it, he would nominate Mayor Pete as Secretary of Transportation and encourage diversity in hiring once and for all. By doing so, Biden could start to fix the situation, and we could end this nonsense in future administrations.
John Ullyot is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and served as spokesman for the National Security Council and deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Trump.
