• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pete would probably be a top ten President of all time. Extremely smart, likeable, and handles himself well. He already is the best Transportation secretary in my lifetime, though the competition wasn’t very strong.

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      1 year ago

      The guy was a total cypher with no discernible policy positions that were actually ‘his own’. He did his job at preventing us from getting Bernie elected, and got compensated accordingly.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah unfortunately I totally agree. He was really careful not to take any actual positions. He’s articulate, and obviously very intelligent, with a somewhat unique identity. But that’s pretty much it. The first time I saw him speak, I remember being really impressed with his overall demeanor and the fact that he’s comfortable talking about complex topics, but I went back and rewatched it shortly after and realized he didn’t actually say anything at all, it just seemed like he did. He’s a master talker, but very little substance.

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      1 year ago

      Pete would be an ok President. He is definitely aware of the politics around him and can leverage that to his favor. I just haven’t seen the long term thinking you need in a President. Pete seems far more transactional for now.

      • Like that transaction when he traded Biden: drop out of the primary so voters would coalesce around Biden and away from Sanders in exchange for a cabinet seat. The 3rd 4th and 5th place candidates coming into Super Tuesday all announced within a few days they were dropping out and endorsing Biden.

        He strikes me as a shrude pragmatist and I’m not a fan of that, nor of ex CIA agents going into executive politics.

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      1 year ago

      This comment just made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

      But I guess you know your…… checks notes…… transportation secretaries? The actual fuck. Did you really just say that this mumbling neoliberal corporate whore is the best transportation secretary in your lifetime?

      How far up your ass did you have to reach to pull that bs statement out?

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        1 year ago

        Ok but low-key, I hope the op has like, a 60 minute video ranking the last 50 years of transportation secretaries.

        Obviously Alan S. Boyd would be the only S tier. Buittigeg would maybe get to B tier.

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            1 year ago

            Federico Peña

            Let me guess you only watched the netflix adaptation and probably not even the sub.

            :sheesh:

            Everyone knows the real GOAT Transportation Secretary is the only one we know has fucked Mitch McConnell:

            Elaine Chao

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              1 year ago

              Okay mofo you wanna go there? Cuz I’ll take you there! You don’t know jack about transportation secretaries! You probably think light rail is something they have in Europe!