We get it … Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants everyone either riding bicycles or trains. But while everyone’s concern is the supply chain, Buttigieg is back to talking about the way we design roads, and not just to deconstruct the racism built into them. It’s nice to have goals, but it’s even nicer to have someone competent running the show.
.@SecretaryPete: "Our goal is zero deaths, a country where one day nobody has to say goodbye to a loved one because of a traffic crash. I understand the scale of the challenge and the ambition represented by that goal." https://t.co/IXSZFBFYho pic.twitter.com/71mJvgUMSh
— The Hill (@thehill) January 27, 2022
— Don Helpingstine (@dhelpingstine) January 27, 2022
Just lower the speed limit to 10 mph.
— J Money (@truebluej) January 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/50V3R31GN_/status/1486810110240464896
https://twitter.com/PopulistVa/status/1486840540033335302
We don't live in this fantasy land, toy train Petey. Life comes with risk, including driving. Focus on the supply chain issues instead of this utopian nonsense.
— Joe (@JoeC1776) January 27, 2022
Can't wait for this day. I will hop on my unicorn, while clutching my Care Bear, and dreamily ride off into the sunset.
— lapetitecanary (@lapetitecanary) January 27, 2022
Reduce highway speed limits to 20 mph
— Steve da Vinci (@SteveJacob) January 27, 2022
This is not a serious person.
— Daisy the (Soshe Leah) Borzoi 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@DaisyBorzoi) January 27, 2022
Who wants to tell him he still has a supply chain to fix?
— Put Down the Monkey Paw (@KickButtowski33) January 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/IowaStateTrack/status/1486828557536043010
The law of diminishing returns is a thing too, and that might make one second guess a “0 deaths goal” like that.
— El Burro de Tejas (@elburrodetejas) January 27, 2022
So, no one can drive anymore?
— Lance Boecker (@lancemb1) January 27, 2022
A goal that could only be reached by totalitarian means.
Pick a better goal. Please.
— Rich Horton (@PurePopPub) January 27, 2022
The inability of adult human beings to understand the concept of tradeoffs is truly a wonder to beholdhttps://t.co/sJ9JeQwGP3
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 27, 2022
Yep, at some point the trade-offs to keep you “safe” make you miserably un-free.
— Nate the Great (@natobomber87) January 27, 2022
If you set goals that are unattainable – they will provide cover for the never ending expansion of the taking of power to enact those goals … smart, very smart….
— Priffski (@Priffski) January 27, 2022
That's the adult equivalent of a middle school class president promising a fruit punch water fountain.
— Gert B. Frobe (@ThumblessGrasp) January 27, 2022
This is an unserious and juvenile mindset. Life is a series of risk benefit evaluations. Politicians telling you otherwise is mendacious
— Wallace E. Rhymes, III (@wallacerhymes) January 27, 2022
This will be used to justify obscene monetary penalties for minor traffic infringements. Just another money making scheme for the state.
— John (@MrHandsome703) January 27, 2022
The goal is… zero deaths. If we're being unrealistic, why not negative deaths? Build roads that cure cancer!
— Blah de Vivre (@blahdevivre) January 27, 2022
Don’t forget the time candidate Joe Biden said he’d cure cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes if elected president. Just not COVID.
“All cars must be ensconced in bubble wrap and may not travel over 5 mph”
— Happy Warrior (@Consta2tion) January 27, 2022
Translation: we want you to stop buying cars and rely in public transportation so we can micromanage your lives because "global warming"
— Herrmann8er (@Herrmann8er) January 27, 2022
Yep.
So, this is what he’s doing so he doesn’t have to focus on the supply chain crisis?
— Snowy2014 (@Snowy20142) January 27, 2022
“We’ve failed at everything so far, so now we are changing this up by setting a goal that everybody absolutely knows is unattainable.”
— The Central Scruuutinizer 🏴☠️💀🔥 (@TryingToSmile3) January 27, 2022
Is he implying all the other secretaries wanted traffic deaths? Or does he have the gall to insist this is outside-the-box thinking?
— Allie Snackbar (@Angry_Thumbs) January 27, 2022
Do the words "risk assessment" mean anything?
Please just let us live like human beings.
Because no matter what you do…no matter how much you try to avoid … whatever you're trying to avoid … you are going to die.
Everyone is going to die. Everyone.
— AmishDude (@TheAmishDude) January 27, 2022
Ban all travel.
— David Issa (@servillius) January 27, 2022
Malevolent Utopians
— Col Douglas Mortimer (@smallbrownring) January 27, 2022
Oh he's back?
— Playapus23 (@playapus23) January 27, 2022
Yeah, he pops up every now and then.
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The struggle is real: Chasten Buttigieg complains about Joe Biden making him repay his student loans https://t.co/UtLbr1hYva
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 13, 2021