Re: FCC chair brings receipts on Biden admin's 'expertise in incompetence' in blistering message to pole smoocher Buttigieg

On 2/22/2025 9:11 AM, JTEM wrote:
>> pothead <[email protected]> wrote in news:vpcp8s$3varu$5@dont-
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>>> On 2025-02-22, Mitchell Holman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> pothead <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>> On 2025-02-19, Blue Lives Matter
>> <Iron_White@Systemic_Patrriotism.KMA>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:15:47 -0500, Blue Lives Matter
>>>>>> <Iron_White@Systemic_Patrriotism.KMA> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:11:33 -0000 (UTC), pothead
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2025-02-18, Leroy N. Soetoro
>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fcc-chair-brings-receipts-
> biden-
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>>>>>>>>> mins- expertise-incompetence-blistering-message-buttigieg
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr slammed
>>>>>>>>> former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for claiming
> Trump
>>>>>>>>> administration "incompetence" is putting Americans "at risk,"
>>>>>>>>> pointing to a multi-billion dollar project under the Biden
>>>>>>>>> administration that he said yielded no results.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "You worked for an Administration that got $42 billion to
> connect
>>>>>>>>> millions of Americans to the Internet," Carr said in an X post
> on
>>>>>>>>> Saturday responding to Buttigieg. "1,163 days later, that Admin
>>>>>>>>> exited without connecting even 1 person & without turning even 1
>>>>>>>>> shovel worth of dirt."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "If we need expertise in incompetence, will reach out," he
> added,
>>>>>>>>> accompanied by the peace sign emoji.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Carr was responding to a message Buttigieg posted on Friday that
>>>>>>>>> took issue with the Department of Government Efficiency, which
>> has
>>>>>>>>> become a common target of Democrats as Elon Musk and the DOGE
>> team
>>>>>>>>> work through federal government agencies in its quest of
>>>>>>>>> extinguishing government fraud and overspending.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no
>> matter
>>>>>>>>> how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the
>>>>>>>>> same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security
>>>>>>>>> information online today - wants access to your bank account &
>>>>>>>>> Social Security numbers," Buttigieg posted to X on Friday,
>>>>>>>>> referring to accusations DOGE posted classified information to
>> its
>>>>>>>>> website, which the White House has refuted.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The Biden administration in 2021 approved a $42.5 billion
>>>>>>>>> provision in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was
>>>>>>>>> directed to a program intended to deliver internet to
> underserved
>>>>>>>>> and rural areas of the nation. Four years later, however, the
>>>>>>>>> program has not connected users to the internet, the Washington
>>>>>>>>> Policy Center found in a report last year.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> States were required to submit plans to the federal government
> by
>>>>>>>>> 2023 related to the investment and deployment of the internet
>>>>>>>>> services. Former President Joe Biden, upon the states submitting
>>>>>>>>> their plans, celebrated the internet initiative as similar to
>>>>>>>>> former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1936 Rural
>>>>>>>>> Electrification Act, which brought electricity to homes
>>>>>>>>> nationwide.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "What we?re doing is, as I said, not unlike what Franklin Delano
>>>>>>>>> Roosevelt did when he brought electricity to nearly every
>> American
>>>>>>>>> home and farm in our nation. Today, Kamala and I are making an
>>>>>>>>> equally historic investment to connect everyone in America ?
>>>>>>>>> everyone in America to high-speed Internet by ? and affordable
>>>>>>>>> high-speed Internet ? by 2030," Biden said at the White House in
>>>>>>>>> June of 2023.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Carr has frequently taken issue with the $42.5 billion program,
>>>>>>>>> including citing it in X posts before President Donald Trump's
>>>>>>>>> election win in November, and the president subsequently
>>>>>>>>> appointing the Republican FCC commissioner as chair of the
>>>>>>>>> government agency.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from
>>>>>>>>> Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of
> Americans,"
>>>>>>>>> wrote on X back in June "Years later, it has not connected even
> 1
>>>>>>>>> person with those funds. In fact, it now says that no
>> construction
>>>>>>>>> projects will even start until 2025 at earliest."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Carr explained to Fox Business back in June that while the funds
>>>>>>>>> were allocated to states to deliver internet services through
> the
>>>>>>>>> program, the Biden administration was at fault for the lack of
>>>>>>>>> progress.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "There's no question that the 2021 law put some process in
> place,
>>>>>>>>> but the Biden administration decided to layer on top of that a
>>>>>>>>> Byzantine additional set of hoops that states have to go through
>>>>>>>>> before the administration will approve them to actually get
> these
>>>>>>>>> funds and start completing the builds," Carr told FOX Business
> in
>>>>>>>>> an interview in June.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> He added that while some high-speed internet projects had
>>>>>>>>> connected people during the Biden administration, none were
>> funded
>>>>>>>>> through the $42.5 billion allocation from the Broadband Equity,
>>>>>>>>> Access, and Deployment program.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Fox News Digital's Breck Dumas contributed to this report.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And the democrats have this managerial disaster Pet Buttigieg on
>> the
>>>>>>>> short list for a future POTUS run?
>>>>>>>> There were plenty of incompetents in the last administration but
>>>>>>>> Pete certainly raises the bar.
>>>>>>>> A perfect example of a person who is book smart and street stupid.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How many times can you say "President Buttigieg" without laughing?
>>>>>>> Go ahead, try it. I got to three.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then try saying "President Peter Buttigieg."
>>>>>
>>>>> LOL !
>>>>> Pete has probably been the butt of all jokes since birth.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     It will never be said that Pete used
>>>> a phony "bone spurs" to avoid the military.
>>>
>>> Of course not.
>>> Pete being a gay male would be like a kid in a candy store surrounded
>>> by all the men in the military.
>>>
>>
>>
>>      Pete served.

Pete specialized in serving seaman collection.  He was very talented.