Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/27/buttigieg-on-donald-trumps-cowardice-an-extraordinary-show-of-weakness.html
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The weak man runs from danger by running for office. Not strong enough to believe in law or to live by it, the weak man breaks laws and then tries to break law itself. […] Trump wants to pardon himself or otherwise avoid prosecution for all the crimes he seems to know he has committed. For the weak man, fear is everything, and fear must also become everything for us.
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This video is a wonderful example of how the Harris campaign needs to keep handling Trump and his surrogates. They are weird. Their behavior comes from a place of weakness and hate.
Spot on. I learned since kindergarten that bullies will keep attacking you unless you stand up to them. Only then they’ll stop. They only respond to pushback, not friendship, sympathy, nor charm. For some reason they perversely enjoy making others suffer.
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Much fun is going to be had with Trump’s (many) weaknesses, and I’m here for all of it. Right now, it’s the only thing giving me life.
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I think Pete Buttigieg has really been doing a good job going after the Trump team.
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You can’t find a better, smarter, more adept advocate for the Dems than Pete. He can appear on Fox and get his point across, and do it with a smile on his face. He’s going to be a force in Democratic politics for years to come. I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.
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I’m glad I watched that clip.
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It would be nice if the corporate media learned the lessons we did. Instead they’re struggling to come up explanations for why Biff is going back on yet another loud-mouthed promise.
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I think he’s great at messaging. I just have mixed feelings regarding him after his tenure in transportation. He’s done a lot of shoulder-shrugging and saying someone should do something when he’s the person with the power to do so.
He’s a great communicator, but I’m not impressed with his administrative capacity, so far. Transport was floated as a great career development and competency test and it’s been… meh.
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Can you name an accomplishment of another such secretary? I’m sure they’ve had them, but I just don’t think theirs or his would basically ever make the news. Which is to say, I have no opinion on how his tenure has been and am curious why you have one.
Here he drops mention off-handedly of a number of public interest lawsuits that Transportation has pursued, in the context of current Twitter complaints:
My opinion’s been shaped pretty heavily by Doctorow’s work over the last couple of years. The biggest issue for me is a rail system that self-inspects and has been having multiple hazardous material failures in the last decade. The next big one’s just a matter of time at this rate.
Most of the work I’ve seen done well under Transportation’s been at NTSB under Missy Cummings, and that’s clearly been based on her particular credentials.
I couldn’t tell you too much about CHUD, Labor, etc., but I can say that things like FTC and CFBP have been swinging for the fences. Granted: most of what I know about CHUD is that their regional director here is formerly-homeless, but that’s a single data point.
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