Joe Biden is expected to announce “gay Alfred E. Newman,” Pete Buttigieg as his Secretary of Transportation today, which is almost certainly a debt repayment. Buttigieg was doing much better in the democratic primaries and then suddenly dropped out, paving the way fro a Biden nomination. Besides being owed one, Buttigieg’s qualifications to run the Department of Transportation appear to be that he likes playing with trains.
When the democratic primaries kicked off earlier this year, Pete Buttigieg was outpacing Joe Biden’s floundering campaign. Then, right before Super Tuesday, Buttigieg met with Biden and decided to drop out of the race. At the time, Def-Con News reported Biden made Buttigieg an offer he couldn’t refuse:
Joe Biden never got in trouble for threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine if the country didn’t fire a prosecutor that was investigating his crackhead son’s company, so obviously he hasn’t learned the lesson that bribery and extortion are bad. He just straight up admitted to bribing Pete Buttigieg to drop out of the democratic primaries, offering a cabinet position in exchange for an endorsement. That thing that democrats impeached Trump for, that he didn’t do, Joe Biden has now admitted to twice.
Pete Buttigieg won the Iowa caucus, came in strong in New Hampshire, and was running a viable campaign. That’s what made it seem weird that he suddenly dropped out of the race on Monday, right before Super Tuesday, to endorse Joe Biden, whose own campaign wasn’t looking good. Now we know why sacrificed himself:
“I did speak to Pete Buttigieg a couple of days ago to encourage him to stay engaged because he has enormous talent. And I indicated to him that if I became the nominee, I’d become and ask him to be part of an administration,” said Biden.
True to his word, for once, Biden has given Buttigieg a spot in his administration as NBC reports:
President-elect Joe Biden will introduce Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday as his nominee for transportation secretary.
Biden will hold the event with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in Wilmington, Delaware, around 11:45 a.m. ET. An advisory from the Biden transition team described Buttigieg, the openly gay former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, as “a barrier-breaking and transformational public servant from the industrial Midwest who embodies a new generation of American leadership.”
The thing is, Buttigieg is in no way qualified to be the secretary of anything, something that even CNN admits in this otherwise fawning write-up:
The highest office that Buttigieg has ever held is as the mayor of his hometown of South Bend, Indiana — population 101,000. He’s never worked in Washington. He’s never managed and navigated not only a massive agency, but also the even more massive federal bureaucracy. Assuming he is confirmed, Buttigieg will be in charge of a department with 55,000 employees.
So, what exactly are Buttigieg’s qualifications to run the Department of Transportation? Luckily, writer Adam Wren, who did an extensive profile of Buttigieg in 2018, has the answer:
Fun fact: One of @PeteButtigieg‘s favorite board games is Ticket to Ride, a game that involves collecting trains and claiming rail routes through states across the U.S.
— Adam Wren (@adamwren) December 15, 2020
There you have it: Pete Buttigieg likes to play with trains.
I did some research and it turns out many of Biden’s cabinet picks get their qualifications from their love of games:
Secretary of the Treasury nominee Janet Yellen has won several games of Monopoly against her grand nieces and nephews.
Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken used to play Risk while doing bong hits in his dorm room.
Director of National Intelligence nominee Avril Haines kills it at Clue as long as it’s Colonel Mustard with a candlestick in the drawing room.
Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Xavier Becerra is good, but not great, at Operation.
Secretary of Agriculture nominee Tom Vilsack likes to play FarmVille on his phone.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development nominee Marcia Fudge is master dice hustler.
The Big Top Circus Biden administration is building a cabinet of unqualified clowns. Keep in mind that after hooking up Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, Joe still owes commie Bernie Sanders and Indian princess Elizabeth Warren for getting out of his way.
