Ted Cruz's Attempt To Trick Pete Buttigieg Was Just Embarrassing

 

     Ted Cruz is nobody to ask about the Keystone XL pipeline, as the recipient of nearly a million dollars of fossil fuel subsidy money annually.

     Oddly enough, he decided to ask the nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, some questions. Aside from the fact that the department choice might not be appropriate to ask about a pipeline, Cruz failed to realize that HE was speaking to an Oxford graduate and combat veteran who speaks seven languages and works as a concert pianist on the side.

     He was upset that 1,200 people would be laid off from the project. At least a million people filed for unemployment every week during COVID, but Cruz didn't seem to care about that.

     Buttigieg mentioned that the transportation and clean energy plan of the Biden administration could create tens of millions of jobs. Unable to formulate an adequate response, Cruz essentially played puppy eyes and mentioned that those jobs would just have to go to someone else.

     With rudimentary training, manufacturers and installation workers can be trained to get better-paying and less dangerous jobs. Nonetheless, it is odd to hear a man who doesn't mind 400,000 dead people beg for 1,200 oil jobs.

     He said he stood for Pittsburgh, not Paris. The Paris Agreement actually applies to the whole world, Teddy, and Pittsburgh overwhelmingly supported the agreement. You claimed the move was unpopular. Aside from scientists and local natives, 72% of the American public believes climate change is a real threat and 77% believes that phasing out fossil fuels is the right thing to do. Biden was also elected on a platform specifically calling for Keystone XL to be stopped, winning 81 million votes.

     The reason our economy is stagnating is because we cannot keep up with countries like China and Japan that are investing in modern advances, including high-speed rails and renewable energy. We can't stop making cell phones because of the pager companies.

     Then again, money speaks more articulately than you ever will, Teddy Bear.