The noted homophobe Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is critical of Pete Buttigieg's use of government aircraft, saying he's flying to receive awards "for the way people have sex."
  • donuts@kbin.social
    59·
    2 年前

    The House Republicans truly have zero intention of doing their job or serving the needs of the country.

    • s_i_m_s@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 年前

      Still can’t figure out why their voters either don’t see it or don’t care.

      Like at least prior to trump you could kinda see it but now you just have to be in outright denial of reality.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
    41·
    2 年前

    I wonder if MTG has actually ever done anything for her district. She’s spending all her time with all these petty, childish antics. What a loser.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    34·
    2 年前

    I mean, fuck Buttigieg, but this is a pretty dangerous precedent.

    Edit: c’mon people. He didn’t do anything after the East Palestine disaster, he makes excuses for why we can’t have high speed rail or even just a better Amtrak, and he hasn’t done anything to reduce car centric design. He’s the god damn secretary of transportation.

    • donuts@kbin.social
      17·
      2 年前

      he hasn’t done anything to reduce car centric design

      In all fairness, this doesn’t really fall under the purview of the Secretary of Transportation.

      I think most urban design and planning happens at the local level, and the federal DoT is mostly responsible for allocating funds to state and local city governments.

      • admiralteal@kbin.social
        5·
        2 年前

        And I think it’s not hard to argue that he did quite a bit towards reducing car-centric design as a mayor. Mayors have WAY more control over that stuff, in general. The DOTs are the DOTs. They’re going to be conservative and they’re going to waste money. They also don’t really follow federal marching orders.

        Biden/Buttigieg have pushed for more Amtrak investment than has happened in a long time, though, along with proposals for further expansion for local rail and BRT service. Just a typical case study in a progressive failing the leftist purity test.

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 年前

        That’s fair. I’m willing to concede that he doesn’t have a major part to play in reducing car-centric design, though I think he could create general guidance for cities to follow

    • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
      7·
      2 年前

      It sucks that legitimate critism of democrats makes you sound like unhinged MAGA lunatic. Not that it’s ever really gonna be a choice between fascism or their bebal incompetent feet dragging corruption, just a sad reality of our crappy two party system.

      • havocpants@lemm.ee
        7·
        2 年前

        just a sad reality of our crappy two party system.

        As an outsider, it looks like the US only has a one party system now. One party and a group of spiteful, contrarian fascists trying to overthrow its democracy.

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 年前

        I don’t understand what you mean. He’s in THE position to make changes to how this country handles transportation, and he hasn’t done much of anything. He even made excuses for why trains can’t have safer brakes or more stringent chemical safety requirements. I don’t place the brunt of these issues on him, but he’s doing fuck-all about them.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 年前

    How is that not a bill of attainder, accompanied by in-depth media confessions that it is in fact a bill of attainder?

    FYI, a bill of attainder is legislation that imposes punishment on a specific person or group of people without a judicial trial

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    2 年前

    I cannot wait until she falls into obscurity. Old and wrinkled sitting at a lonely table at a flea market gun show to sign photographs and nobody is paying her any attention.

  • Cyyris@infosec.pub
    25·
    2 年前

    How about maybe pass a fucking budget instead of wasting time and money on this bullshit.

    • CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social
      3·
      2 年前

      What do you mean? They are. If we stopped paying Pete we’d have the current US debt payed off in about 149,052,132 years. Maybe add a few hundred thousand years for interest but I don’t believe that’s significant.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 年前

      But all the Republicans have is performative garbage.

      And this is definitely performative. The salary change would need to go through the Senate and there’s no way this passes. The House Republicans know this. They just want to “own the libz” by saying they’ll reduce some salaries to $1.

      It’s easier than actually doing work.

  • leadore@kbin.social
    17·
    2 年前

    I think she’s upset because “Secretary of Transportation” has the word “Trans” in it and she got confused.

  • badaboomxx@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 年前

    They should do that with the gop ans republicans, after all they get their money thanks to bribes and companies paying them to legislate in their favor