Pete Buttigieg on paternity leave during supply chain crisis...

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zeppelin128 said:
That there shows you don't know what you are talking about.
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Based upon? Shilts book is nearly 40 years old and his three books are well-known in that community.

If you're referring to the current gay generation, maybe. That's what a political herd does, uncritically accept and boldly carry the banners. Leadership's job is to form that narrative and hide the shite harmful to the cause and its gauzy heros.
 
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DynaLo said:
Learning how to properly chest feed is probably very difficult for both of those first time fathers. 🤦‍♀️ That whole latching on thing can get a bit tricky.
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Not to mention the razor burns from shaving his nipples
 
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zeppelin128 said:
No one in this thread is discussing anything that Pete has or has not done while he has been Sec. of DOT, aside from a few posts about him being absent, even though he delegated his duties to his number 2 at DOT. They are attacking him for taking paternity leave and claiming he has a mental illness.

It has nothing to do with his performance in his role at DOT on this board. The entire thread has been pretty much entirely attacks on Pete for being a gay dude with kids. It is obvious.
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It has everything to do with his performance. I fully appreciate a man prioritizing his family above his job, but at some point Pete has to realize the harm being don’t to the country by the supply chain crisis is impacting his family.
If his #2 can do as goo a job as him, he needs to resign and let them do the job
 
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zeppelin128 said:
So government employees should not be allowed any kind of paternity/maternity leave? Or is it just Pete taking leave you have a problem with?
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Of course he should be able to. But what is the standard for someone who doesn’t even give birth? I’d say for a woman a good bit of the time is for healing, both physically and mentally. What is Pete’s 2+ months for?
 
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C-south said:
Of course he should be able to. But what is the standard for someone who doesn’t even give birth? I’d say for a woman a good bit of the time is for healing, both physically and mentally. What is Pete’s 2+ months for?
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Seems like 8 weeks is the standard.
 
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C-south said:
Of course he should be able to. But what is the standard for someone who doesn’t even give birth? I’d say for a woman a good bit of the time is for healing, both physically and mentally. What is Pete’s 2+ months for?
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Pete took six, btw.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
You really need to go over to the Biden thread and say that to PJ on the specific topic of maternity leave 😂
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Which brings up another question ... which may have been asked and answered because I'm catching up. Since Petie is the "wife", shouldn't he be on maternity leave? And since he's not physically equipped to handle that chore, wouldn't that be fraud? Just the fact that neither is, in fact, recovering from the strains of pregnancy and childbirth would seem to make the need for leave ludicrous and fraudulent.
 
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USAFgolferVol said:
No chance at it being genetically driven?
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Perhaps in the past, but these days a most sexual orientation (or identity) nonsense is driven by liberal lunacy. Libs have to be different; for them, it's against the code to be normal.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
But there was foresight. I knew about him taking leave in August. It was reported in early September he was taking leave. He emailed DOT employees to tell them he was taking leave. His Deputy Secretary Polly Trotenberg fulfilled his duties outside of major decisions (she is number 2 at DOT). He was still working from Traverse City remotely when needed. Last week he began returning to work in a more full-time capacity. He was in DC all week in meetings with industry leaders, POTUS, VPOTUS, Cabinet.

He didn't abandon his job like y'all are making it out to be. He did everything you are supposed to do if you take leave for your kids.
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So why didn't they become parents before he took an important job - or after? Could it be that there was more publicity - more notoriety - this way? It certainly doesn't fall in the unplanned pregnancy category, and it does obviously fall into the elective category - and there are definitely no ticking biological clocks involved.

This is where liberal/progressive thinking gets wrapped around the axle as usual. The women's lib movement was praised by the left because it freed women of the tyranny associated with running a household - parents become unimportant - kids can be reared by schools and childcare according to that thought process. Or maybe kids are just kicked out of the nest to figure it out on their own. But then you come back with the opposing argument that maternity/paternity leave are important beyond a short period of time necessary for a mother who has gone through childbirth to get back to normal function. The arguments counter each other.
 
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I wonder if Pete and his husband had the children tested for things like Downs syndrome before they "adopted" them?
 
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C-south said:
The prestigiousness of attending those universities disappeared some time ago. It’s pretty much any university nowadays.
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That's true, but I think the good ole boy ivy league network keeps the pump working. After all, how would all the insignificant shrubs and juniors make their way into important places if they had to work at it? Most don't know how to do much of anything other than talk. Other than perhaps medical degrees, it's hard to see where the ivy leagues add real value if you take away the prestige and networking factors.
 
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AM64 said:
That's true, but I think the good ole boy ivy league network keeps the pump working. After all, how would all the insignificant shrubs and juniors make their way into important places if they had to work at it? Most don't know how to do much of anything other than talk. Other than perhaps medical degrees, it's hard to see where the ivy leagues add real value if you take away the prestige and networking factors.
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My company made a big deal of hiring several Harvard MBAs 20 years or so ago so they could "modernize" our company. They gave these 25 year olds a tremendous job grade and sent them out to some of the largest plants the company had and gave them the power to "fix" them. A couple of years later, every one of them had been fired after the F'd up every thing they tried to implement.
 
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AM64 said:
That's true, but I think the good ole boy ivy league network keeps the pump working. After all, how would all the insignificant shrubs and juniors make their way into important places if they had to work at it? Most don't know how to do much of anything other than talk. Other than perhaps medical degrees, it's hard to see where the ivy leagues add real value if you take away the prestige and networking factors.
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How many Ivy League grads do you actually know personally?

Another WOW
 
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VolStrom said:
My company made a big deal of hiring several Harvard MBAs 20 years or so ago so they could "modernize" our company. They gave these 25 year olds a tremendous job grade and sent them out to some of the largest plants the company had and gave them the power to "fix" them. A couple of years later, every one of them had been fired after the F'd up every thing they tried to implement.
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Got have some actual experience before you can "fix" anything. Sounds like the fault of an idiotic upper management group.
 
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