{"id":1569820,"date":"2022-07-25T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1569820"},"modified":"2022-07-25T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:36:26","slug":"marxist-misfits-marco-rubio-goes-after-pete-buttigieg-for-prioritizing-fake-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marxist-misfits-marco-rubio-goes-after-pete-buttigieg-for-prioritizing-fake-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Marxist Misfits\u2019: Marco Rubio Goes After Pete Buttigieg For Prioritizing \u2018Fake Problems\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarxist-misfits-marco-rubio-goes-after-pete-buttigieg-for-prioritizing-fake-problems%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1569820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG-8128-e1658764264140.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio accused Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg early Monday of prioritizing \u201cfake problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1551206490056409090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> the senator on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d Sunday for having time to feud with Disney, then <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1549788907826446338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a> codifying same-sex marriage is a \u201cstupid waste of time.\u201d Rubio hit back at the remarks, arguing President Joe Biden\u2019s administration prioritizes issues that do not matter to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a Harvard-educated transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, who apparently never learned that there\u2019s a difference between the state level and the federal level,\u201d he said in a video posted to Twitter. \u201cThe Disney fight was a state fight because our legislature rightfully passed a law that said that we don\u2019t want our public schools indoctrinating six and seven-year-olds in the transgender agenda. And I supported that law. But what I focus on at the federal level in the Senate are federal problems that matter to real people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Working Americans,of every background,struggle with real problems like gas prices &#038; flight cancellations<\/p>\n<p>But we have a Transportation Secretary who wants us to focus on a fake problem &#038; who went to Harvard but apparently doesn\u2019t know the difference between state &#038; federal issues <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hI5rMKvwvX\">pic.twitter.com\/hI5rMKvwvX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1551348128191758336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rubio mocked Buttigieg\u2019s $1 billion dollar anti-racist <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/30\/buttigieg-starts-1-billion-first-of-its-kind-anti-racist-roads-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infrastructure project<\/a>, aimed at improving the roads and infrastructure of communities that were \u201cracially segregated\u201d and negatively impacted by the 1950s expansion of the interstate highway system. He also blasted Buttigieg for allegedly celebrating high gas prices in order to persuade people to buy electric vehicles. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/24\/pete-buttigieg-gay-marriage-jake-tapper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018They Can Vote Yes And Move On\u2019: Pete Buttigieg Attacks Republicans Voting Against Gay Marriage)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a transportation secretary, Pete Buttgieg, who believes that highways can be racist,\u201d the senator continued. \u201cHe also believes that $5 gas, which is killing working Americans, is a great thing, because that means people are going to drive less or because everyone is going to go out and buy a $65,000 electric car with a Chinese battery in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to focus on the real problems,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m not going to focus on the agenda that\u2019s dictated by a bunch of affluent, elite liberals and a bunch of Marxist misfits who, sadly, today control the agenda of the modern Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg pointed to Rubio\u2019s previous <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/29\/marco-rubio-disney-florida-parental-rights-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticism<\/a> of Disney over their opposition to the \u201cParental Rights in Education\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/08\/bullies-statehouse-pete-buttigieg-florida-bill-kill-lgbtq-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill<\/a>, which became law March 28, prohibiting classroom discussion of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/28\/ron-desantis-signs-parental-rights-in-education-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual orientation<\/a> and gender identity in grades K-3 in Florida. The bill also grants parents the right to opt their children out of health services, and requires faculty to notify parents and guardians of any changes to the child\u2019s physical, mental or emotional health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe @WaltDisneyCo filmed Mulan near #Uighur genocide camps &#038; then thanked the people who run those camps in the credits,\u201d Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1508787550617546754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1508787550617546754%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2022%2F03%2F29%2Fmarco-rubio-disney-florida-parental-rights-bill%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> via Twitter. \u201cBut they are outraged that Florida schools will not be indoctrinating 5-year-olds on \u2018gender identity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/19\/house-passes-bill-states-recognize-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed legislation<\/a> Thursday to codify the Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which deemed unconstitutional the outlawing of same-sex marriage on the state level. Forty-seven Republicans, along with all 220 Democrats, voted in favor of the bill, titled the Respect for Marriage Act. As the bill currently awaits a vote in the Senate, Rubio vowed to vote against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Affluent, elite liberals&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}