Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was thrashed by podcaster Adam Carolla over the leftist boondoggle that is high-speed rail.

Buttigieg has yet to earn the right to boast about meaningful accomplishments while in office, but that didn’t stop him from praising yet-to-exist high-speed rail as a success.

“My hope and expectation… I see our very youngest attendee back there… how old are they?” the transportation secretary asked a press conference attendee who was holding an infant.

“So, by the time that infant is able enough… old enough to ask us what we were doing in the early 2020s to set up this country for success, they won’t know a country, and my kids are three right now, won’t know a country that didn’t have high-speed rail and excellent passenger rail. And I think that’s the legacy we can all be very proud of. So, thank you for everything you’ve done to get us here. And save me a seat at that ribbon cutting in 2030 please,” he pandered.

Buttigieg continued to crow on X, “Children born today in America will not know an America without high-speed passenger rail—thanks to the investments we’re making here in the 2020s.”

Carolla slammed Buttigieg’s claim and responded on X in killer fashion: “My kids were two when California started the high speed rail project they are now 18 and we still got nothing. So I am not as optimistic as Pete.”

My kids were two when California started the high speed rail project they are now 18 and we still got nothing. So I am not as optimistic as Pete https://t.co/jQX4Jc4rXF

— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) October 22, 2024

There are a lot of great reasons to share Carolla’s skepticism concerning high-speed rail. The project was approved by Democrats in California in 2008 when at the time it was estimated to cost $33 billion. Since then, it’s jumped to $128 billion and there’s still nothing to show for it. Now, Democrats claim the project will be complete in 2033 but critics aren’t buying that pie-in-the-sky contention. Meanwhile, the funds magically continue to disappear.

Users on X hammered Buttigieg and Democrats over their money-sucking high-speed rail:

I recently did the math. Given how much the California high-speed rail project will end up costing, it would actually be cheaper and more effective to simply have the state pay for any person‘s round-trip plane flights on commercial passenger jets anywhere within the state for…

— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) October 22, 2024

The Government making breakfast… pic.twitter.com/BLlGy94Jds

— Jacob Vega (@JacobtheVega) October 22, 2024

I am not against improving the high speed rail improvements and government wasn’t involved, if there was actual improvements. Remember AMTRAK is heavily subsidized and it is still insanely expensive to use and isn’t ever a “good” experience.

— Sack Head Shaun (@2againsttyranny) October 22, 2024

They got this for $33 billion, so there is progress. pic.twitter.com/B6XGzS6TKY

— Richard (@Richard_WEF) October 22, 2024

They can’t even do SoCal to Vegas.

— Richard DeCamp (@richdecamp) October 22, 2024

High-speed rail is another legalized money laundering scheme. Everybody involved gets rich by dragging it out for 20 years and it magically goes overbudget every year. Lather rinse repeat all the way to the bank.

— Samuel Culper 722 (@politiwars) October 22, 2024

I agree. At 56 been here my whole life. We have nothing and if you follow the money on every other boondoggle no accountability or transparency. Billions wasted on housing, homelessness, rail, roads, schools, you name it….

— Stan (@StanClark68) October 22, 2024

Isn’t this the guy that utilized $7.5 billion to build 8 EV Charging stations?

— CJSpew (@cjspew1) October 22, 2024

It’s grift, not investment. I’m sure a ton of it got recycled back into donations to a certain party.

— Ken Nelson (@atKenNelson) October 22, 2024

Ask Gavin Newsom about wasting money on the idea of high-speed rail in the liberal wasteland.

— Hank (@HankfromOregon) October 21, 2024

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