Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has been attempting to troll Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg all week with pithy tweets about his performance. Her latest attempt provoked an epic clap-back from Buttigieg.
Boebert posted a photoshopped photo of herself at the scene of a train disaster. She’s shown hosing out flames and smiling. The caption reads “Preparing for @SecretaryPete’s next derailment!”
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) April 20, 2023
He went on to say, “We estimate its impact on FRA [Federal Railroad Administration] would mean about 1,000 fewer rail safety inspection days next year and 30,000 fewer miles of track inspected annually.
“If you care about preventing derailments, please change course and help us increase accountability for freight railroads.”
Earlier this week, Boebert accused Buttigieg of trying to run the railways like “a toddler playing with his first toy train set.”
Again, this prompted a cool-headed response from Buttigieg on the importance of not cutting railway safety inspections.
If you care about derailments, we need to talk about your House GOP Freedom Caucus budget proposal that would cut railroad safety inspections. https://t.co/f6t0viy9uc
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) April 17, 2023
“Devastating cuts”
Buttigieg also linked to a White House statement slamming the “devastating” cuts proposed by the GOP’s Freedom Caucus. Boebert is a leading light within the informal group.
The statement notes that, “Since the Norfolk Southern train derailment, bipartisan Senators have called for more rail inspections, not fewer.”
It states, “At a time when train derailments are wreaking havoc on community safety, the extreme MAGA Republican House Freedom Caucus proposal would lead to 11,000 fewer rail safety inspection days next year alone—enough track to cross the United States nearly 10 times.”
Boebert says she will become a 36-year-old grandma this month after her eldest son got his teen girlfriend pregnant.
The Transportation Secretary’s latest clap back has had almost 70,000 likes in under 12 hours. That’s significantly more than the 2,500 likes Boebert scored for her original tweet.
Boebert was roasted for her ill-informed comments.
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the money he spends goes to what he says – he isn’t stealing it like every single one of trumps cabinet. He can spend 80 million if he feels it is needed. Again, he is honest unlike ev very single GOP mega pig out there and this woman should know that he is so much smarter then. she will ever be. And for being proud her kid knocked up a teen girl is typical white trash hypocrisy because you know if it was smoother persons kid shed be screaming how disgusting they are
@barryaksarben This isn’t a “them vs they” argument. Keep on topic. PLEASE tell me how you can justify $20 million dollars for FEMALE crash test dummies when our roads are riddled with potholes out the A$$? You can’t. I don’t think he’s qualified for the job and this just proves it. I can’t throw my support behind someone just because he’s gay.
@brian6767 – Let’s look at the price tag for those crash test dummies. When I judge a budget, it helps me to know what the going cost of an item is in the marketplace. They run $1 Million each, new. So that’s the cost for 20 of them.
Now let’s look at what seems to be your other concern: that they are FEMALE. (And since that was in CAPS, it seems to also be an issue.) The differences between men and women are clear in terms of reproductive systems’ layout. I believe the genders are also well known to be different in terms of muscles and skeleton. Don’t you agree that it makes sense to consider the impact of a crash on one half of our population?
The budget item no longer looks off the wall. Could they get 10 this year and five in the next two budget years? Worth looking at.
If your streets are riddled with potholes, you need to talk to your town, city, or state. The federal government doesn’t fix streets or highways.
Please learn how the government works before you vote or make comments about the “usefulness” of a politician. This is like complaining to electric company that your kids keep leaving the lights on.
@brian6767 What is wrong with female crash test dummies? Or do you not think the female body is different enough from males that maybe it’s not being considered properly when people perform safety tests?
Stop looking for woke pandering arguments when there’s legitimate need for this kind of thing.
Pete is useless. He couldn’t fix potholes in his town when he was mayor and someone saw him fit to be a transportation secretary? He was terrible with this tragedy. Treating the people of East Palestine like garbage. Guess they weren’t a priority because they’re mostly conservatives.
dbmcvey, I’m not a Democrat I’m not a Republican. I vote on which administration will be the lesser of two evils. I don’t understand party hard-liners, on both sides, because then you have to turn a blind to the stuff you don’t want to admit to.
v6origal97, That myth has been debunked even by the Washington Post. Pete hid from the issue and didn’t want to be bothered with hit. When finally asked about it by CNN all he could say was that, yes he should’ve gone there sooner, but then blamed being busy with air travel issues. He needed to be there and talk to the people of that town but he didn’t and it looks like he couldn’t be bothered because the voter base there was mostly Republican.
Have you ever been to South Bend? I have been there multiple times a year for my entire life (my parents are from there. I still have relatives there.) He took over a city that has been in decline my entire life. He started to turn around many of the multiple problems South Bend had faced since the 1960s. He did start having roads repaved, among other things. Finally, South Bend is located in a VERY RED state. The legislature boldly boasts that they have surplus money at the end of each year, but at the expense of letting roads decay and people die without healthcare. He was fighting an uphill battle in my backwards home state.
These people believe what they hear on Fox News etc… I live in LA and I’ve heard so many people say “There’s so much crime there” when, really there’s not. There’s not even as much as cities in many, many red states.
Typical Republicans. They take everything away and roll back on budgets and give money to ppl who don’t need it and blame Democrats for Republican’s choices.
Buttigieg just asked Congress for $20 million dollars for FEMALE crash test dummies. Talk about “give money to ppl who don’t need it”….can’t blame the Republicans for that one.
I can’t find any write ups about this that aren’t in far right conservative publications but I can think of reason we might want female crash dummies. Do you remember back when women were being beheaded by air bags?
@dbmcvey I doubt you’re going to find any write up in left-leaning magazines because they realize how wasteful and absurd this spending is. I do remember when women, (and men), were being beheaded by air bags, and this still doesn’t justify asking Congress for $20 million when you can add, (or delete), weight from a pre-existing mannequin. I’m not sure where you reside but here in Pa, our roads are horrible and dangerous. There’s more damage to cars’ undercarriage from hitting potholes and driving on uneven roadways than there are beheadings from airbags. lol
dbmcvey only believes something if it’s written about in one of his approved publications. LOL That being said I’m shocked Mayor Pete isn’t investing in some non-binary dummies.
I’m not talking about left leaning publications, they are no more reliable than right leaning publications, but when the only place these stories come up is in right wing propaganda sites it’s perfectly reasonable to doubt them. The fact is that the testing of these safety functions often ignore women so you get things like air bags decapitating short women. Funny how these people who are so concerned about women’s safety when it comes to trans people don’t care about actual safety in motor vehicles.
Lauren Boebert said no drag queen ‘storytime’ in her district. They didn’t listen, and it was a huge success
Story by David McAfee • Wednesday MSN
The outlet said each “Diva picked the stories they told, and they were all centered on self-love, inclusivity and even some of the origins of Pride and backstories of queer heroes, like the story of late California politician Harvey Milk,” who is purportedly “the most significant openly LGBT official ever elected in the U.S.”
“I think it’s so amazing the work that they’re doing to provide visibility and love in our area,” Steve Arauza, a local parent who attended the event with his family, said in the report.
“The goals of drag storytimes are to inspire a love of reading while teaching deeper lessons on diversity, inclusion, self-love and an appreciation of others,” Cook is quoted as saying.
Bobot is a moron. Her beloved Don the Con’s government slashed railroad regulations and made it easier for companies like Norfolk Southern to run super-long trains with dangerous cargo, among other deleterious right-wing changes he pushed through.
Having said that, one thing to note is that Bobot’s post pushes emotional buttons, which gets people worked up on either side, but it spurs a response. Buttigieg’s response, though calm, rational and factual, provokes no such response. I think he responded to this idiot correctly, but Democrats could learn to use a bit more emotional (or emotion-activating frames, discourse and rhetoric), because what they say, however grounded in fact, doesn’t stick with many people, while the GOP, which traffics in lies and distortions (and outright disinformation), does know how to stick its crap in people’s craws, for its own benefit and often to its own detriment, thankfully.
brian6767: After 3 (THREE!!) similar snarky posts about Mr. Buttigieg asking for development of *female* crash test dummies, I can’t help but notice you don’t bother to ask, “Why?” So… if YOU won’t do your homework, I’ll do it FOR you.
Studies show that women are 73% more likely to be injured in motor vehicle crashes. 73%!! That’s not just ‘a little’ ya know? So… there needs to be some research on *smaller adult-sized* test dummies to try and find a solution. That, after all, is just part of doing his JOB. You know… like adult sort of responsibility? Or like doing just a TINY bit of homework before proving you can use your keyboard to be snarky?
Absolutely. I remember several years ago when women were being injured by air bags. We need to understand if the safety measures work for everyone, not just men.
”I concieved and gave birth to my angel babies in the back of my old man’s pick up truck———real american women don’t need no seatbelts and if anybody is a crash test dummy that be me fukkers”
Whoever voted for the current cadre of incompetent and inept idiots and clowns in DC should be ashamed of themselves. I hope you’re happy with the way things are. but unfortunately the rest of have to deal with the repercussions of willy nilly voting and this BS at least until next year. Over the last almost 3 years, hopefully you’re happy paying higher and higher costs for food and dealing with food shortages, higher gasoline prices etc. all while the liberal buffoons in government live the high life while the average American gets the shaft. Many of us have had enough of this and could have made their feelings known at the last mid term election and gotten rid of these liberlals who’ve proven time and time again they’re only out for themselves and not the American people who they took oaths of office to serve and are unfit to lead but sat out election day. As they say elections like everything else in life has consequences and this is the consequence of electing clowns to run the country.. Sadly some people haven’t had enough pain and are slow learners. Just look at things over the past two + years. I won’t go into details enumerating all the BS. and failures and if you haven’t seen what they are, sadly you’re clueless. Time to let the Trump bashing go, once and for all. He’s been gone for over two years and it’s time to move forward. Look what we’re stuck with for the next year and one half until the American people hopefully have had their fill of the BULLSHIT and get smart and get rid of the current clowns who’re doing ZIPPO to improve things here, vet all of the candidates and elect people who will move us forward instead of treat this great country like a giant 3 ring circus sans laughs. I shudder to think we’ll have another 4 years of this incompetent BS under joey bidee and ‘heels up’ harris who’ve proved in their first two years they’re not up to job to put things politely. This isn’t a republican thing or a liberal thing, it’s a common sense thing. God , please enlighten the American people about this incompetent BS before it’s too late.
How annoying you are with your “god here, god there”. Take care of the present instead of believing in a 4th century book written by morons or in a hypothetical god who changes his face according to your own beliefs.
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dbmcvey
Lobobes really overestimates her intelligence.
mildredspierce
I think he makes her wet.
SUPREME
hate never wins. it may hurt for a while. it may make you angry, but in the end love always wins.
Openminded
This country soooooo needs more leaders like Pete, straight or gay. Well informed, level headed, and an apparent all around good person.
brian6767
He just asked Congress for $20 million for FEMALE crash test dummies….TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS!
barryaksarben
the money he spends goes to what he says – he isn’t stealing it like every single one of trumps cabinet. He can spend 80 million if he feels it is needed. Again, he is honest unlike ev very single GOP mega pig out there and this woman should know that he is so much smarter then. she will ever be. And for being proud her kid knocked up a teen girl is typical white trash hypocrisy because you know if it was smoother persons kid shed be screaming how disgusting they are
brian6767
@barryaksarben This isn’t a “them vs they” argument. Keep on topic. PLEASE tell me how you can justify $20 million dollars for FEMALE crash test dummies when our roads are riddled with potholes out the A$$? You can’t. I don’t think he’s qualified for the job and this just proves it. I can’t throw my support behind someone just because he’s gay.
blf49
@brian6767 – Let’s look at the price tag for those crash test dummies. When I judge a budget, it helps me to know what the going cost of an item is in the marketplace. They run $1 Million each, new. So that’s the cost for 20 of them.
Now let’s look at what seems to be your other concern: that they are FEMALE. (And since that was in CAPS, it seems to also be an issue.) The differences between men and women are clear in terms of reproductive systems’ layout. I believe the genders are also well known to be different in terms of muscles and skeleton. Don’t you agree that it makes sense to consider the impact of a crash on one half of our population?
The budget item no longer looks off the wall. Could they get 10 this year and five in the next two budget years? Worth looking at.
cheks
If your streets are riddled with potholes, you need to talk to your town, city, or state. The federal government doesn’t fix streets or highways.
Please learn how the government works before you vote or make comments about the “usefulness” of a politician. This is like complaining to electric company that your kids keep leaving the lights on.
smittoons
@brian6767 What is wrong with female crash test dummies? Or do you not think the female body is different enough from males that maybe it’s not being considered properly when people perform safety tests?
Stop looking for woke pandering arguments when there’s legitimate need for this kind of thing.
ShaverC
Pete is useless. He couldn’t fix potholes in his town when he was mayor and someone saw him fit to be a transportation secretary? He was terrible with this tragedy. Treating the people of East Palestine like garbage. Guess they weren’t a priority because they’re mostly conservatives.
dbmcvey
Being a gay conservative Republican must really mess with your perception.
ShaverC
dbmcvey, I’m not a Democrat I’m not a Republican. I vote on which administration will be the lesser of two evils. I don’t understand party hard-liners, on both sides, because then you have to turn a blind to the stuff you don’t want to admit to.
abfab
Blind. Choose your word and own it.
ShaverC
Blind eye.
dbmcvey
You’re a sad, self loathing conservative gay man.
ShaverC
dbmcvey Why do I have to be self loathing? I could be so full of myself that I just don’t want to believe otherwise?
dbmcvey
You don’t have to be self loathing. Help is available.
abfab
Yeah Dee, but you can’t fix stupid.
brian6767
@ShaverC I agree. He checked a box.
v6origal97
ShaverC, you do understand republicans gutted the safety budget, right? What did Pete do that you’d have liked him to have done, differently?
ShaverC
v6origal97, That myth has been debunked even by the Washington Post. Pete hid from the issue and didn’t want to be bothered with hit. When finally asked about it by CNN all he could say was that, yes he should’ve gone there sooner, but then blamed being busy with air travel issues. He needed to be there and talk to the people of that town but he didn’t and it looks like he couldn’t be bothered because the voter base there was mostly Republican.
hoosier1969
Have you ever been to South Bend? I have been there multiple times a year for my entire life (my parents are from there. I still have relatives there.) He took over a city that has been in decline my entire life. He started to turn around many of the multiple problems South Bend had faced since the 1960s. He did start having roads repaved, among other things. Finally, South Bend is located in a VERY RED state. The legislature boldly boasts that they have surplus money at the end of each year, but at the expense of letting roads decay and people die without healthcare. He was fighting an uphill battle in my backwards home state.
dbmcvey
@hoosier
These people believe what they hear on Fox News etc… I live in LA and I’ve heard so many people say “There’s so much crime there” when, really there’s not. There’s not even as much as cities in many, many red states.
dmarcus
Typical Republicans. They take everything away and roll back on budgets and give money to ppl who don’t need it and blame Democrats for Republican’s choices.
brian6767
Buttigieg just asked Congress for $20 million dollars for FEMALE crash test dummies. Talk about “give money to ppl who don’t need it”….can’t blame the Republicans for that one.
dbmcvey
@brian,
I can’t find any write ups about this that aren’t in far right conservative publications but I can think of reason we might want female crash dummies. Do you remember back when women were being beheaded by air bags?
brian6767
@dbmcvey I doubt you’re going to find any write up in left-leaning magazines because they realize how wasteful and absurd this spending is. I do remember when women, (and men), were being beheaded by air bags, and this still doesn’t justify asking Congress for $20 million when you can add, (or delete), weight from a pre-existing mannequin. I’m not sure where you reside but here in Pa, our roads are horrible and dangerous. There’s more damage to cars’ undercarriage from hitting potholes and driving on uneven roadways than there are beheadings from airbags. lol
ShaverC
dbmcvey only believes something if it’s written about in one of his approved publications. LOL That being said I’m shocked Mayor Pete isn’t investing in some non-binary dummies.
dbmcvey
ShaverC & Brian,
I’m not talking about left leaning publications, they are no more reliable than right leaning publications, but when the only place these stories come up is in right wing propaganda sites it’s perfectly reasonable to doubt them. The fact is that the testing of these safety functions often ignore women so you get things like air bags decapitating short women. Funny how these people who are so concerned about women’s safety when it comes to trans people don’t care about actual safety in motor vehicles.
abfab
Lauren Boebert said no drag queen ‘storytime’ in her district. They didn’t listen, and it was a huge success
Story by David McAfee • Wednesday MSN
The outlet said each “Diva picked the stories they told, and they were all centered on self-love, inclusivity and even some of the origins of Pride and backstories of queer heroes, like the story of late California politician Harvey Milk,” who is purportedly “the most significant openly LGBT official ever elected in the U.S.”
“I think it’s so amazing the work that they’re doing to provide visibility and love in our area,” Steve Arauza, a local parent who attended the event with his family, said in the report.
“The goals of drag storytimes are to inspire a love of reading while teaching deeper lessons on diversity, inclusion, self-love and an appreciation of others,” Cook is quoted as saying.
dbmcvey
Love it!
abfab
I wish there was a general list of story hours dates and locations for all 50 states and our ”territories”. And DC, which should become a state.
GayEGO
Lauren Boebert blames Pete for previous companies failure to inspect their trains and tracks, but he is doing a good job. She is as repulsive as MTG.
Rikki Roze
Pete B. is just the best. I’d vote for him for anything he decided to run for. So smart and cool. Dem Dems have a winner in him.
Kangol2
Bobot is a moron. Her beloved Don the Con’s government slashed railroad regulations and made it easier for companies like Norfolk Southern to run super-long trains with dangerous cargo, among other deleterious right-wing changes he pushed through.
Having said that, one thing to note is that Bobot’s post pushes emotional buttons, which gets people worked up on either side, but it spurs a response. Buttigieg’s response, though calm, rational and factual, provokes no such response. I think he responded to this idiot correctly, but Democrats could learn to use a bit more emotional (or emotion-activating frames, discourse and rhetoric), because what they say, however grounded in fact, doesn’t stick with many people, while the GOP, which traffics in lies and distortions (and outright disinformation), does know how to stick its crap in people’s craws, for its own benefit and often to its own detriment, thankfully.
overlarry
brian6767: After 3 (THREE!!) similar snarky posts about Mr. Buttigieg asking for development of *female* crash test dummies, I can’t help but notice you don’t bother to ask, “Why?” So… if YOU won’t do your homework, I’ll do it FOR you.
Studies show that women are 73% more likely to be injured in motor vehicle crashes. 73%!! That’s not just ‘a little’ ya know? So… there needs to be some research on *smaller adult-sized* test dummies to try and find a solution. That, after all, is just part of doing his JOB. You know… like adult sort of responsibility? Or like doing just a TINY bit of homework before proving you can use your keyboard to be snarky?
blf49
@overlarry Bless you! The outcome data – That’s the part I neglected to research!
dbmcvey
Absolutely. I remember several years ago when women were being injured by air bags. We need to understand if the safety measures work for everyone, not just men.
abfab
Lauren Boebert;
”I concieved and gave birth to my angel babies in the back of my old man’s pick up truck———real american women don’t need no seatbelts and if anybody is a crash test dummy that be me fukkers”
Jimmynj
Boebert prove on a daily basis her ignorance. Maybe she should spend more time making sure her sons don’t have more bastard babies.
winemaker
Whoever voted for the current cadre of incompetent and inept idiots and clowns in DC should be ashamed of themselves. I hope you’re happy with the way things are. but unfortunately the rest of have to deal with the repercussions of willy nilly voting and this BS at least until next year. Over the last almost 3 years, hopefully you’re happy paying higher and higher costs for food and dealing with food shortages, higher gasoline prices etc. all while the liberal buffoons in government live the high life while the average American gets the shaft. Many of us have had enough of this and could have made their feelings known at the last mid term election and gotten rid of these liberlals who’ve proven time and time again they’re only out for themselves and not the American people who they took oaths of office to serve and are unfit to lead but sat out election day. As they say elections like everything else in life has consequences and this is the consequence of electing clowns to run the country.. Sadly some people haven’t had enough pain and are slow learners. Just look at things over the past two + years. I won’t go into details enumerating all the BS. and failures and if you haven’t seen what they are, sadly you’re clueless. Time to let the Trump bashing go, once and for all. He’s been gone for over two years and it’s time to move forward. Look what we’re stuck with for the next year and one half until the American people hopefully have had their fill of the BULLSHIT and get smart and get rid of the current clowns who’re doing ZIPPO to improve things here, vet all of the candidates and elect people who will move us forward instead of treat this great country like a giant 3 ring circus sans laughs. I shudder to think we’ll have another 4 years of this incompetent BS under joey bidee and ‘heels up’ harris who’ve proved in their first two years they’re not up to job to put things politely. This isn’t a republican thing or a liberal thing, it’s a common sense thing. God , please enlighten the American people about this incompetent BS before it’s too late.
Stefano
How annoying you are with your “god here, god there”. Take care of the present instead of believing in a 4th century book written by morons or in a hypothetical god who changes his face according to your own beliefs.