Air travel in America, already a nightmare thanks to subs and of course TSA agents groping old ladies, is far worse today courtesy of the government funding impasse leading to TSA workers not getting paid, and many of them quitting or calling in sick.
As an aside, that is one of my pet peeves: “6 AM in the morning”. 6 AM is by definition “in the morning” so it is redundant to say “6 AM in the morning”. It is like people saying “assless chaps” when all chaps are assless. If they weren’t they would be pants. Anyway…
Meanwhile the super smart master of deal making and negotiation is getting played for a chump yet again….
Trump says ICE will deploy to airports Monday to assist TSA amid funding standoff
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will begin assisting TSA agents at airports across the country on Monday, President Donald Trump says.
The move comes as Trump and Republicans battle with Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. TSA agents across the country have gone more than a month without a paycheck as Democrats hold up funding in hopes of securing immigration reforms.
Take that libtards!
See, them dadgum lib’rals want “immigration reforms”, which in D.C. speak means:
“Democrats get lots of concessions on mass immigration while Republicans get vague assurances of some future enforcement that will never happen”
Thus it has ever been and so it is now.
Allegedly the battle lines in D.C. over immigration are Democrats wanting basically unlimited migration from the worst countries on earth full of the dumbest people on earth. Republicans want existing immigration laws enforced. The “two sides” are at an impasse over Democrat demands that will handicap ICE and other Federal enforcement agencies in their work to keep illegals out of America.
Ever the genius, Trump is going to own the liberals by…..taking ICE agents off their job of capturing and deporting illegals and make them look at scanners in airports to make sure 87 year old White ladies aren’t smuggling RPGs onto a plane. The math is pretty awesome:
More ICE agents groping American travelers means fewer ICE agents arresting illegals.
Damn, I am sure not tired of winning yet, are you?
Trump has already given up on mass deportations, apparently because he thinks it is unpopular electorally, but is all in on a hugely unpopular war that has splintered the MAGA/America First coalition. The guy really is playing 16D chess.
While focusing on deportations was never going to make a serious dent in the number of illegals in America, and of course would do nothing for the equally awful issue of “legal paperwork Americans”, at least it looked like he was trying. Now he is handing the Democrats a victory without them even trying and at the same time Trump is strutting around like he pulled one over on them. I swear Schumer and Pelosi and the rest have to be laughing their asses off. They ran circles around Trump in his first term and are doing the same thing now.
At the same time Republicans “leaders” look even more out of touch than before but they think that Republican voters are going to show up in November (spoiler, most really don’t care). My congressman Marlin Stutzman is spending his days shilling for Israel, straight up reposting Israeli propaganda from AIPAC, a foreign lobbyist that buys U.S. politicians.
Marlin Stutzman doesn’t care what I think as one of his constituents, his district is one of the safest in America and he will win election after election without fear of a primary challenge for as long as he wants to be in office. I suspect he will be up for a U.S. Senate slot when one of my idiot Senators, Jim Banks (who replaced Stutzman in my district and then was in turn replaced by Stutzman when Banks ran for the Senate) or Todd Young, moves on.
The retard response is that AIPAC works for both countries: “Can’t you see that the word American is right in their name? Take that libtard!” while AIPAC has never advocated for a single issue that benefits America and advocates for plenty that hurt this country.
Tomorrow ICE agents who signed up to deport illegals will instead be in airports waving wands at the genitals of Americans who just want to get on a plane. Please stop Orange Man, I can only take so much winning.
I’m left to conclude that those who espoused accelerationism prior to the last election (by taking the position that voting in the erstwhile cocksucker in chief would hasten the collapse) have gotten their desired outcome anyway. Even my own poor expectations of Trump’s second term have been well exceeded to the downside now, and we have nearly 3 years of this obtuse shitfuckery left to endure.
I was remiss in failing to add that the “art” in the art of the deal has come to resemble that of a preschooler finger painting with his own poop. We can all be proud to hang that one on the refrigerator when junior brings it home, eh?
We could avoid having a TSA in the first place if air travel were simply restricted to white people. You know, like back in the 50s & 60s when few persons of colour were up there in the sky. As it is the TSA is just an employment agency for unemployable coonz.
“Let it fall down, let it fall down, let it all fall down.” – H/T to James Taylor.
exactly Dweeze. Basic engineering. Can’t build on top of a mistake. Time to measure twice and cut once
Just after 9/11 (the ashes were still molten hot) the TSA was formed; it was estimated that they needed 6,500 staff to monitor/screen all of our airports. They are now ~60,000 strong. Only ten X larger than needed.
I guess that I should be grateful that a fedgov program only bloated out times ten.
I would can four out of five of them, give number five a cattle prod and Order Shall Be Maintained.
Today’s meme for our prez:
“When You Kick A Hornet’s Nest, It’s the Hornets that Decide When It’s Over.”
Yeah, I’m with you, unless ICE is arresting every H-1B that tries to get on a plane.
Don’t you mean they should be arresting every H1B that tries to get OFF a plane?
i like your style.
Fuck the TSA, Have you seen the majority of those slack-jawed fucking imbeciles?! It’s attendance based welfare and the fuckyards are paid (with our gawddamn money) to fondle us as some sort of safety theater. I’d rather see them all dead than finance them and take my chances flyin’ un-groped.
Part of me strongly believes that the TSA was created to acclimate the U.S. population to being treated like criminals, to not be allowed “passage” without submitting to an utter lack of privacy & dignity.
“Show us your papers.”
I can see that. But more than anything, it was a convenient way for the airlines to dodge responsibility (and liability) for their own security failings. Now it’s the government’s job, and good luck suing the government when your plane gets blown the fuck up because the 2G in a fancy uniform and blue nitrile gloves screwed up and missed the arab dude who was actually carrying a bomb. Since commercial airlines couldn’t be bothered to take their security protocol seriously (and profile the sonsabitches doing all the bombings) I cannot take their product seriously, and will not use it. I’d not fly commerical now (and never have, post 9/11) even if I was given free first class tickets. They can all fuck off, I will never submit to the insults required to board a plane.
LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is closed to all flights until at least 1400 hours (“2PM in the afternoon”–LOL) while the NTSB and about 500 other “agencies of redundancy” crawl all over the tarmac looking for reasons why a plane just exiting an active runway managed to roll atop an emergency truck.
There are “taxiway ATC personnel” who are responsible for–wait for it–directing & monitoring taxiway movement of planes and all other vehicles on said taxiways.
Was someone in the tower trapping a fresh cuppa joe during the handoff?
So, just when the TSA slowdown of security screenings is at maximum, the LGA closure adds a UUUGE layer of tomfoolery & assfuckery to a nation’s domestic aviation transportation industry.
On a good day LGA is directly & indirectly responsible for about 30% of all delays/cancellations–that is the reality of this bottlenecked airport as part of the Port Authority [MTA] of the City of New York.
One needs not look far to see (and smell) the DEI that permeates the MTA, right ups to the female director of the agency.
Hochul probably arranged it in order to prevent more high income earners from fleeing the state. I just gotta laugh at the way we are now piling blatant fuckups on top of incompetence on top of mission creep on top of bureaucratic malaise. What a winning combo we’ve hit on here.
The lines could get even longer, especially if the nice agents of border enforcement start checking things like the I.D. that one needs to rent a car, and summarily DEPORTING everyone that ought not be traveling in our friendly (geo-engineered) skies or on our world-class interstate highway system.
Just for yucks, it was a bunch of orthodox juice that got creamed in the plane crash!
My father died of various illnesses a few weeks after 9/11. I flew to his funeral, and the airports were like ghost towns, but all the Africans and subcons who became the nucleus of the TSA were still ‘working,’ checking papers of American travelers in the usual travesty of life in AINO. I’ve only flown ONCE since that day, whereas beforehand I took my first flight at age 4 and flew domestically and internationally frequently thereafter. I do not plan to ever fly again. Not only will I not subject myself to being asked for papers and manhandled by aliens, but I no longer trust the airplane mechanics, the pilots, or the air traffic controllers. Too many womyn, too many nonwhites, equals DIE(ing) to fly – and I won’t do it. Yes, I realize that driving is now equally dangerous with Han female drivers and jeet CDL truckers, but at least I maintain some control and can be armed.
While I loved traveling while younger, air travel is what has brought us the travesty of mass international immigration. Before WWII, people traveled on ships and it took time, planning, money, and some paperwork. And 80 year old merkans shouldn’t be traveling anyhow – I had to deal with my share when I worked overseas, forgetting their meds and meeting their ‘true loves’ on the foreign beaches and streets. I would prefer that air travel once again be for the few with means. Meanwhile, I will continue to boycott Trailways of the Skies. I don’t want to merely shut down international immigration; I want to shut down almost all ‘international tourism’ to AINO. No more crowds of Han at national parks? No more foolish Europeans getting murdered by noggers in NY? All the better. And no, the average merkan tourist isn’t much better. Easily identifiable by girth and decibel level – people need to stay home until they learn to grow up instead of just growing old.
You’ve nailed it as far as the lack of trustworthiness of the entire air travel ecosystem. It’s been rotted out from the inside by the onslaught of diversity. The planes themselves aren’t even necessarily decent anymore, what with Boeing’s recent track record.
I also agree with heavily curtailing travel. The way so many people line up like sheep to be sheared, just to get on Greyhound of the skies, is yet another indication of how decadent our culture has become, all to its own detriment. There is too much leisure for too many people, and it has made us fat and lazy as a country.
Look at all the bitching and gnashing of teeth over the delays TSA is causing right now. Talk about your first world problems. And yes travel inbound to the US from other countries should also be heavily curtailed. One of the main reasons tourism has become such a huge business is because we rely on it as an income stream and significant component of GDP. That’s a load of bullshit, we need to get back to a healthy economy based on actually making and doing useful things, not selling whiny, entitled fat asses their next dopamine, hit so they can take hundreds of throw away photos on their iPhone.
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Testicle Safety Assessors? Only in the land of the fee and home of the knave.
Admiral Epstein is having a hard time with Persia?
Well bless his Yankee heart.