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Botany

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2. Remember this Sec. of Transportation? Mayor Pete who really worked @ his job.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2026, 07:03 AM

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Mayor Pete along with a lot of others including Joe Biden, Governor Shapiro, and really good workers got this Freeway in Philadelphia back open in under 2 weeks.

But our current Sec. of Transportation is taking months of vacations which is paid for by corporations who do business with the USDOT. So in the end we are paying for his and his family’s vacations by paying those
corporations for their goods and services.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy returns to reality TV roots, sparking criticism and questions [View all] BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP

PERFECT. It is what Americans want in their leaders. Reality TV. Irish_Dem Yesterday #1

Reality TV BigMin28 Yesterday #3

Reality TV only reflects the mindset of the American people. Irish_Dem Yesterday #4

Reality TV, which is completed staged, seems to bring out the worst in the people on it AZLD4Candidate Yesterday #11

I also think there is a propaganda effort to make the US more like psychopaths. Irish_Dem Yesterday #20

I wouldn't deny it. Reality shows do enthrall the lowest common denominator AZLD4Candidate Yesterday #22

We have become a strange society. Irish_Dem Yesterday #23

At least the Romans got BREAD and circuses. Ray Bruns Yesterday #6

Roman government paid for the circuses too. AZLD4Candidate Yesterday #9

We just get the circus. Elect a clown you get a circus. Irish_Dem Yesterday #19

And I never really liked the circus anyway. Ray Bruns 13 hrs ago #26

I never got why people liked it. Irish_Dem 13 hrs ago #27

Remember this Sec. of Transportation? Mayor Pete who really worked @ his job. Botany Yesterday #2

How much vacation time does he take to do this? 33taw Yesterday #5

At least the Romans got BREAD and circuses. Ray Bruns Yesterday #7

Can our mass media outlets fondle the admin's balls any harder? AZLD4Candidate Yesterday #8

Mayor Pete was criticized for taking paternity leave when he had his twins. SamuelAdams Yesterday #10

HE is trying to get his relative, son, or son-in-law elected to his old seat in Congress. usaf-vet Yesterday #12

This whole administration is a shitty reality TV show. marmar Yesterday #13

Who paid those direct deposit paychecks into his account while he was on a paid "vacation of the year"? n/t Cheezoholic Yesterday #14

Duffy was clearly a downgrade from Mayor Pete, but he seemed to be the least bad of all the other wackadoodle Trump Fil1957 Yesterday #15

Nice joke? But I don't get the punch line. usaf-vet Yesterday #21

the guy who thinks sweaty, well-dressed people at the airport is a great idea? Skittles Yesterday #24

Least bad is still bad Retrograde Yesterday #25

Doesn't this putz have a job to do? Dulcinea Yesterday #16

The episodes with the Congressional Hearings will be a hit! purr-rat beauty Yesterday #17

MTV taught him everything he knows Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday #18

MaddowBlog-The problem(s) with the transportation secretary's tone-deaf reality series LetMyPeopleVote 6 hrs ago #28