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What in the actual heck? Is there anything more tone deaf to read in the news while Americans are struggling to afford basic necessities and gas prices are so high due to Trump's completely avoidable war with Iran? - Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, hauled his family into a van for a wholesome, seven-month trek across the nation, which was filmed for an upcoming reality TV program, he told Fox News on Friday. While he's been vacationing, various crises that have recently hammered the country’s transportation sector. Between February - April there was a partial government shutdown that led TSA agents to quit in droves over the lack of pay. Some airport travelers faced long wait times due to the ensuing staffing shortages. In April, at New York City’s LaGuardia airport, an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck, resulting in the death of two pilots. The circumstances around the incident remain under federal investigation. Meanwhile, dominating headlines as of late has been the spike in gas and jet fuel prices, while the US-Israel war with Iran continues to disrupt the oil industry. That rise in cost contributed, among other factors, to the collapse of low-budget carrier Spirit Airlines. “I wanted to lean into America’s 250th birthday,” Duffy said. “Over the course of seven months, we just kind of found these moments where I might do some work. I could take the kids with me … Our motto was ‘to love America is to see America.’” He exhorted the public to embark on similar trips. I have friends who are literally struggling to afford enough gas to get their kids to school and themselves to work. All of this is compounded by his stunning hypocrisy. Chasten Buttigieg wrote a perfect example of the hypocrisy exibited by Sean Duffy in an X post. “The same Duffys who threw endless fits on national television when Pete was working from our son’s ICU bedside are now bragging about their multi-month, taxpayer-funded family road trip while gas and grocery prices soar for American families because of Trump’s war of choice,” Trump's team and the entire GOP are a complete joke at this point. Literally, the world is laughing at us. Meanwhile, everyday Americans pay the price...