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For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.
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What the actual fuck man. We are turning into north Korea. Love the state obey the state praise supreme leader
telling travelers “Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government” and claiming that is why “most of our TSA employees are working without pay.”
Honestly the TSA shouldn’t exist, it’s a graft and corruption scheme created by the Bush Jr administration so guys like Michael Chertoff could steal taxpayer money.
They can’t even perform their stated functions, there have been numerous instances of them failing to detect firearms and bomb parts during tests, they fail the majority by a wide margin.
It’s a “make-work” program. Those people should be building hospitals in rural communities, fixing roads and bridges. At least that would have a return on investment.
Same with ICE, and the entire DHS, frankly.
The day I saw you could pay to get expressed through the TSA lines was the day it became 100% apparent it was nothing more than a grifting scheme.
Well as long as its at least 7.
My only solace is that the boomers waited till they were so fucking old to try to stop the world from changing through fascism.
Hitler shot himself at 56 and had spent a lot of his 30-40s trying to gain power. A lot of the current generation of fascists are a light jog away or botched botox from their death. But fuck this.
This is the part that burns me the most. All this, for a handful of years to sit atop the ashes.
this should really fall on the courts to enforce the hatch act & give laws governing officials more teeth.. this is insane 1984 level shit
You mean the courts controlled by Reps?
Courts shouldn't be political. The status is not quo.
How many laws do they need to break in order for something to actually be done? They are clearly mentally ill and none of them are based in reality, so we need to get them out of office.
None of this is ok and none of this is normal.
They are not mentally ill, they would gladly twist a toddler's neck for a couple bucks. And that's been rewarded in America for centuries.
That is a mental illness. These people have a serious hoarding disorder, and they can't stop accumulating money. They have enough money that neither they, nor their descendants for the next century could possibly spend it all, and yet they will still walk through fire, or hire someone else to, to get even more.
If those people hoarded cats, or rusty cars, or newspapers, or general junk, we would get mental health care for them, and dismantle their collection. Psychopathic Oligarchs are no different. We should involuntarily commit them to mental hospitals to treat their hoarding issues, confiscate the bulk of their treasure, and keep them from rebuilding their fortunes.
The fucking Maggats are like a clown version of the NAZIs, trying to ape their practices whilst being total incompetent klutzes at doing it.
It would be hilarious if america wasn't fucking stupid enough to fall for it. Every. Damn. Time.
Well, on the upside America might actually survive the Trump regime purelly because of how, even with a fucking master plan seemingly made by smarter people, they're horribly inept at making it work, mainly because everybody in that Administration has been chosen based on loyalty or looks and not at all on demonstrated execution abilities.
Imagine if instead of a gaggle of morons, that Administration was instead made up of competent people with domain-applicable experience.
“This is probably not a Hatch Act violation, because it's not tied to an election,” Cynthia Brown, senior ethics counsel at the non-partisan ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told Forbes.
Not tied to an election? What? What rock are you living under?
There really isn't any opposition to the GOP anymore. Just variations of complicity.
Good god, the morons in office right now are so fucking stupid. They have to make videos to put out and blame the left for all the dumb shit they do. They did it! They did it! Despite having the minority in all branches of the gov, it's totally them.
Fuck off fascists
The video isn't for us.
It's for their followers.
It should be all of them. Get that fascist propaganda out of here.
Since when do airports show government propaganda?
SInce someone realized that it could be done
When the people that operate them are all in. This is what Fascism is, when people want to give them their power.
Since Fox "News" has been running nonstop on monitors throughout airports for decades.
Wasn't it a special version of CNN that avoided talking about plane crashes? Pretty sure that was in nearly every airport for a for decades.
Yes, if not FOX then CNN. Did not know about the special version.
oof
As well they should.
The Confederates are breaking the law, again.
the Hatch Act is only as effective as the White House decides it will be
Lovely
Same as the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust acts, which is a big reason why we're here now. So, so much of corporate America is patently illegal, and the feds have done fuck-all about it for decades.
... And all the other airports in the country broadcast it?
It looks like they have capitulated, for now. It wouldn’t hurt to contact your local airport to object, and to organize peaceful demonstrations.
The airports that refuse to bend the knee have also released public statements condemning the video. Let’s show them our support! They are:
Portland International
Seattle-Tacoma International
Buffalo Niagara International
Niagara Falls International
Westchester County
When I saw the headline I felt sure my airport was on the list. Sure enough I am right. Love you PDX
Spokane international is on the list as well which is a little surprising as that is an area that favors Republicans in elections.
Glad to hear Denver isn't doing it. It's bad enough that these evil pieces of shit are pushing government propaganda, but there is no reason that major airports in blue states should go along with it.
Hell yeah Denver! Fucking love this state.
Same thing. I hope it stays blue. I know a few Taco-lovers that moved out of state because of all the "wokeness". Pretty fucking weird reason to be moving, if you ask me.
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I'd love to see a real instance of "The Storm" if Democrats were to get back in the WH....issue warrants for every single one of those responsible for shit like this.
Arrest every single one of those in his cabinet. Arrest everyone in his family.
I know the pearl-clutching "centrists" will cry about "tone" and "civility" and how this is only going to make Republicans worse. Fuck that. Make Republicans motherfucking SCARED to try this kind of shit again. As they should be.
Huge if the democrats go back to the white house: it's time to reconciliation, time to leave the past past and to heal wounds * do nothing *
What is the Republicans end game here? Democrats aren't going to vote for his bill without getting anything in return. Why would anyone think otherwise.
Also correct me if I'm wrong but don't the Reps have a majority? Like they don't even need the Dems?
Have you ever known a child who could manipulate his parents by being stubborn and annoying. The parents are incapable of setting boundaries and caving to the child’s demands is easier than having difficult discussions.
Republicans are the children and Democrats are the patents. The parents are now trying to set a boundary. Expect an epic tantrum from the children.
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Whatever happened to the fucking Hatch Act?
Probably floating in some plastic container in the ocean with the rest of the rule of laws they threw out.
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