Tag: Pete Buttigieg

From Fixing Potholes to Managing Billions: Is Buttigieg Ready to Be Transportation Chief?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

From Fixing Potholes to Managing Billions: Is Buttigieg Ready to Be Transportation Chief?

South Bend, like many cities in the upper Midwest where there is precipitation and temperature changes, has a vicious pothole problem: About 22,000 of them gape across the city’s streets each year. In January of 2019, residents of the city asked Domino’s Pizza for help to augment the city’s $90,000 pothole budget and won a $5,000 grant for its public works department, the only town in the state of Indiana to do so. “If Part-Time Pete Buttigieg spent as much time fixing issues in South Bend as he does running for president, Domino’s Pizza wouldn’t have to take matters into their own hands and fix the city’s pothole mess,” RNC Spokesperson Michael Joyce said at the time.

Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment

The prospect of four more years of Trump was what decided this election. It was the overriding imperative of those who cast their votes for Biden. Corporate and establishment Democrats expect their left-wing critics to vote for them every four years without question or negotiation. This expectation is almost always delivered as more of a threat than an ask. And when Democrats lose, they blame the left. Yet election after election shows that when they do win, elite Democrats do not believe that they have to offer any meaningful national security appointments or policy changes to these voters. History shows us that they are much more interested in finding common ground with the violent imperial visions of right-wingers and neoconservatives. And Joe Biden is indeed the perfect figure to drive that reality home.