# Buttigieg caught staging a blatant photo Op. (Debunked) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340 "2021-04-03T19:22:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340/61 "2021-04-05T01:40:18Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > I’m talking about them actually saying “I’m sorry, sir, we can’t _allow_ you to {ride a bicycle}/{visit [FOREIGN COUNTRY] for a summit conference}/{make a campaign stop in [U.S. STATE]}, on the grounds that it would be a violation of your security”. They didn’t let Khrushchev visit Disneyland. > **[Khrushchev barred from visiting Disneyland | September 19, 1959 | HISTORY](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/khrushchev-barred-from-visiting-disneyland)** > > In one of the more surreal moments in the history of the Cold War, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev explodes with anger when he learns that he cannot visit Disneyland. The incident marked the climax of Khrushchev’s day in Los Angeles, one that was... ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340/62 "2021-04-05T01:51:48Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > They didn’t let Khrushchev visit Disneyland. _U.S._ security authorities didn’t let Kruschev, a _foreign_ government official, visit Disneyland. It wasn’t his own security detail. And even if the Soviet Premier was subject to orders from his security detail, I don’t think the U.S. President is subject to orders from the U.S. Secret Service. The U.S. Constitution is fairly clear on the chain of command. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340/63 "2021-04-07T00:09:06Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > There is a price to pay for largely empty and wide-open spaces, and one of those is the cost to go across them. Well sure, it makes no sense to run HSR across the Dakotas and Wyoming and Montana. But most of the eastern half of the U.S. would be well served by HSR, as would the West Coast from Seattle down to San Diego, or connecting Texas’ cities with one another. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340/64 "2021-04-07T00:16:54Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Just flag your own OP as Something Else and ask for it to be closed. The OP is definitely something else. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340/65 "2021-04-07T03:27:22Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > as would the West Coast from Seattle down to San Diego, I don’t know that much about other places mentioned in your post, but I know the west coast, and there would never be enough train traffic, and I mean never, to justify the cost. There are mountains, and earthquakes, and right-of-ways that don’t exist, and all kinds of problems. And hundreds of miles between population centers. Seattle to San Diego is 1250 miles or so, with only 3 viable stops along the way. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340/66 "2021-04-10T15:25:10Z")
There is another thread that has been debating [HSR’s viability](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-high-speed-rail-is-a-terrible-idea/939404) in the US for a week now. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340/67 "2021-04-10T15:50:47Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Just flag your own OP as Something Else and ask for it to be closed. Oh yeah? I tried closing my own thread not too long ago, and the mods-that-be gave me an argument about whether it could be done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttigieg-caught-staging-a-blatant-photo-op-debunked/939340.md?page=3)