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Airport wait times are longest in TSA history, agency says
- mrlonglong 7mo ago[flagged]
- b3ing 7mo agoThey’ll forget, and vote based on what their evangelical preacher says to do
- SlightlyLeftPad 7mo agoI too would want to bow and pray before a cardboard cutout of our lord and savior, DJT.
- _aavaa_ 7mo agoYou have the causality wrong, other than the hardcore group of preachers the rest are swinging that way because it’s what the congregation wants to hear. Preaching the opposite message will drop attendance even more the it has already dropped and will effectively mean having to close the church.
- red-iron-pine 7mo agoreligion is dying in america faster than the boomers but social media is calling the shots and there is a reason guys like musk wanted twitter. how many of you outside of greater texas heard about jade helm?
- rayiner 7mo ago[flagged]
- conception 7mo agoObama - famous for not enforcing immigration. They want to (barely) gut the ability of the administration to disappear citizens and to have any sort of training before shooting folks in the face. But fascism gonna fasc.
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- Larrikin 7mo agoThis is a talking point for the news, not an opinion voters actually have. Especially after all the murders. Edit: Ugh. Forgot to check the user name
- rayiner 7mo agoI didn’t say it’s an opinion people have. I said it is factually what’s happening.
- tastyface 7mo agoFor a lawyer, you sure play fast and loose with the word "factual." Here's a fact: Democrats agreed to fund the TSA. Republicans were amenable. Trump said no. “It would have worked ,” Mr. Kennedy said. “We could have had T.S.A. paid by the end of the week, but the president said ‘no deal.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/trump-shutdown-deal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/trump-shutdow... There is no ambiguity here: Republicans are blocking TSA funding unless a bunch of unrelated stuff is also funded.
- rayiner 7mo agoTrump doesn’t get a vote in the Senate. That’s his shtick. He’ll ask for something ridiculous because he thinks it’s gives him leverage. He can ask for wherever he wants but he’s not going to veto a bill that funds both ICE and TSA. What I’m reading is that Senate Democrats have indicated they won’t vote yes in a bill if it finds ICE. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5801109-fetterman-tsa-paycheck-pressure/ https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5801109-fetterman-tsa-pa... “Senate Democrats insisting on major reforms to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in exchange for ending the 40-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are worried they may be undercut by centrists looking for a way to end the stalemate.”
- tastyface 7mo agoHow does that contradict in any way what I said? Democrats have offered to fund the TSA. Republicans have refused. Ergo, Republicans are blocking TSA funding in order to get what they want. There is no ambiguity here: Republicans could get the TSA funded today, but they view their pet projects as more important than having functional airports. Why are you on this site if you're never willing to ever say "oh OK my bad"? I don't know what you posted about in the past to get to 125k points, but these days you mostly seem to use the site as a pseudo-intellectual soapbox for conservative politics and anti-immigration sentiment. Is this really healthy? You're accomplishing nothing except getting mass flagged and raising everyone's blood pressure (including, presumably, your own).
- whateveracct 7mo agohuh i wonder why they want to do that? surely not because ICE unlawfully executed two US citizens on tape in broad daylight that didn't happen under Obama or Biden. wonder why.
- rayiner 7mo ago[flagged]
- whateveracct 7mo agobut aren't those people legitimate voters? who cares if they're the "only reason" if it's legitimate - sorry, white-y! you lose
- rayiner 7mo ago“Legal” is different from “legitimate” which is different yet again from “good.” If a party can only win by people who are zero or only one generations away from countries that aren’t very well governed—who are steeped in the culture and values and civic sense of those not so nice countries—well that’s legal. But that’s all it is. Let me put it this way. If the GOP somehow figured out how to flood your city with people from rural Alabama, would you be happy? They would be legal voters, would they not? (The deeply ironic thing is that democrats understand perfectly well that rural Alabama is a product of the culture of the people who built it. But they think that phenomenon somehow ends right at the U.S. border.)
- mindslight 7mo agoHow do you choose between this argument that immigrants from other cultures are crucially supporting the Democratic party, and your other common argument that immigrants from other cultures are more inclined to vote reactionary? When you do pick one, do you at least stick with it for the whole day? Or do you switch between them from thread to thread?
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- mikestew 7mo agoAnd yet Sea-Tac on Tuesday morning didn’t look bad, and with TSA Precheck Touchless, it was a few minutes. Apparently Sea-Tac has a very low TSA absentee rate: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sea-tac-bucks-national-tsa-chaos/gm-GM79ADD33F https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sea-tac-bucks-national-...
- notyourwork 7mo agoSeaTac handles this with augmentation from the port. They do an excellent job and have not been impacted by any of the recent shut downs.
- ivraatiems 7mo agoWhy would you come to work if you weren't getting paid at all? I'm not following that. Because you assume you'll get backpay? That aside, I simultaneously hold several thoughts about this. The first is: The TSA probably doesn't need to exist at all in its current form; I'm not aware of any evidence they actually do anything to stop actual threats. The second is: I have sympathy for the folks who work there, who probably are in it mostly to have a stable and non-controversial government job. I'm sure they're going through it, for political reasons that are not their fault. The third is: There is zero political incentive for either side to cave on this, that I can see, and as somebody who is generally opposed to the behavior of ICE, I think we as the American public will just have to eat it until they are reined in. I'm including myself in that; this has messed with my travel plans and will continue to do so. But if I were on the other side of the issue, I think I'd hold the exact same opinion: There is no incentive not to continue the shutdown.
- general1465 7mo ago> The TSA probably doesn't need to exist at all in its current form; I'm not aware of any evidence they actually do anything to stop actual threats. Yeah in can be done like in Europe where security company like G4S is paid by the airport and is manning xrays and handling queues. There are few policemen around to show force and handle conflicts if necessary.
- lifestyleguru 7mo agoNot sure about it. Private security companies on German airports are absolute malicious assholes, public officers would be better there.
- red-iron-pine 7mo agoprivate airport security has the same terrible implications as private prisons cut corners, maximize profit
- lavp 7mo agoAirport security used to be handled by private companies. Then 9/11 happened and that's the whole reason TSA even exists.
- reboot81 7mo agoUS government is a farce. How can they have a system that completely halts every now and then just because the ones in charge can’t agree? If this is such a big issue, and it’s repeating: plan ahead.