It’s pretty obvious that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has a thing against cars. Check these out:
The purpose of cars is to serve the needs of people, not the other way around. Our policies should reflect that #SXSW pic.twitter.com/JLd4S54ZSm
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) March 21, 2021
“The mentality around roads” was that people needed to get where they were going.
You should not have to own a car to prosper in this country, no matter what kind of community you're living in.
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) March 25, 2021
Buttigieg was pretty jazzed by Vox’s piece on “Gen Z’s high-speed rail meme dream,” and we all know how well that high-speed rail project in Democrat-run California went. Come to think of it, Barack Obama had promised a nationwide network of high-speed trains, but even the New York Times assessed that “the projects have gone mostly nowhere” despite billions having been spent.
As we mention a lot here, always proceed with skepticism whenever a reporter says that “some people say” or “many believe.” The Washington Post is saying that some people close to the White House feel the Biden-Harris administration’s focus on major physical infrastructure investments “reflects a dated nostalgia for a kind of White working-class male worker.” In other words, roads and bridges are racist and sexist.
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— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) March 31, 2021
To be fair, the left has always been at its strongest when it focused on the message that building key public goods like roads is racist… right?
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) March 31, 2021
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Yes. Roads, bridges, airports, public transport, power grids — only white working class men use those.
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— adam (@roofusfirefly) March 31, 2021
In the future, BIPOC women will float through the air, over crumbling roads and bridges, to their green energy jobs.
— Percy Gryce (@percy_gryce) March 31, 2021
This shows the influence of the young female Ivy Leaguers in Biden's orbit who have zero understanding of anything outside their narrow personal experience.
— Locksley Fletcher (@LocksleyFletchr) March 31, 2021
Either a dated nostalgia or the realization that the bridge will collapse if you never repair it.
— Bentalope (@behaviorben) March 31, 2021
This is class warfare by progressive "elites" against the more conservative working class.
— Tenino (@tenin0) March 31, 2021
Fellas, is repairing that rusted-out old bridge white supremacy?
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) March 31, 2021
As an attorney, I represent a lot of commercial truck drivers. Over the last few years I’ve noticed that increasing numbers of them are immigrants. I hate this idea that infrastructure is somehow only for white guys.
— Jim (@bobcat160) March 31, 2021
It is remarkable how dumb this is, from the crazy racialism (black blue collar workers don't do physical infrastructure?) to ignoring the glaring need for infrastructure improvements. Identity politics will destroy the Dems if they keep up like this.
— No Name is Safe (@truthtobugmen) March 31, 2021
And this is why satire is dying.
— Amber (@Amber59479201) March 31, 2021
Yes, who needs roads. Only white dudes, apparently.
— Paulstreet (@PaulstreetBets) March 31, 2021
White working class male workers are well aware that Democrats think of them as a piece of nostalgia.
— Left Based (@LeftBased) March 31, 2021
The most appropriate emoji is ?
— Mad Replicant ?? (@MadReplicant) March 31, 2021
The roads and bridges are never getting fixed, are they?
— The map is not the territory. (@ThomasHoufek) March 31, 2021
Morons
— The Crunchbite (@TheCrunchbite) March 31, 2021
Come to think of it, Democrat FDR was big on infrastructure and also put Japanese-Americans in internment camps. Maybe infrastructure and racism do go together.
Related:
Pete Buttigieg wants to make it really clear that a mileage tax that shows a lot of promise is ‘not part of the conversation’ https://t.co/b2oihm2jF9
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 29, 2021