Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg vowed to investigate the Southwest Airlines meltdown that stranded thousands over the holidays. But @mehdirhasan has a question for Buttigieg: Wouldn’t it have been better to try and keep this crisis from happening in the first place?

Jan 6, 2023 · 1:17 AM UTC

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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
Maybe you should learn something, Mehdi.
Adam Vann @vannadam
6 Jan 2023
Replying to @vannadam @davidsirota @Mobute @SecretaryPete
I've seen the Lever letter and the congressional letter, but those are all about future rulemakings, a lengthy process that would have done nothing to help the million stranded travelers driving your complaint
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
Isn’t this a free market?
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Nerdy Pursuit @nerdypursuit
1 Jan 2023
Something most people don't realize: Secretary Pete Buttigieg took a specific action in September that made Southwest Airlines liable for enormous sums of money this week. Here's what Pete did: post.news/article/2JeX8Gr0bi…
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
Mehdi hates Democrats so I’m not surprised. Why do you keep him @MSNBC?
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
There isn’t much more the USDOT can do to stop this from happening. Southwest is still a private company. Congress should have made sure the billions we gave Southwest during pandemic went to upgrades and not to shareholders and executives.
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
Murc's Law has penetrated this dude's brain.
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
Hmmm. Seems like it would be a good idea to investigate this to be certain to identify the causes so they can do just that. Seeing as how it already happened and time travel, you know.
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@SecretaryPete #SouthwestDebacle
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
It appears a lot of Pete fans in the comments have no idea what the department of transportation does.
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
Wouldn’t it have been better to prevent a historic storm than react to it? Ur tweet is utterly absurd. This was a failure to upgrade tech appropriately and as Pete doesn’t have ESP your ask is ridiculous
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