Note: this article is by The Atlantic’s humor columnist, so some details may be satirical.
Trump’s next step appears to be illegally paying TSA officers without congressional approval
God I’m loving this. Long lines at some of the most climate-causing products (airplanes and cars) is finally progress.
I just wish they would tax them.
Waiting for someone to point out this as an example of how Trump views all of these people: as interchangeable parts. Maybe when he calls up National Guard units to go to airports and “help out.”
Don’t get me wrong, TSA is security theater, and I’m pretty sure most of them are aware. That said, they have to be there, and a number of them do a decent job of moving large numbers of people through their futile exercise rather efficiently. The average ICE agent’s “respect mah authoritah!” vibe is only going to mess up whatever efficiency that TSA agent had going.
I believe that to be the thrust of the move; to supplant the already dehumanizing TSA with the more rigid, militant and ultra-dehumanizing ICE goons.
Probably because they’re not trained.
Fixed the title. Less is more.
I just saw that they’ve been trained to be the front of the line, checking IDs, of course. That’s what they wanted all along. Now they get to demand the IDs of everybody in the airport.
When you see them, tell them their children hate them.
They’re quite trained. It’s just that they’re trained to levy war against America
They are there to harass and terrorize anyone who doesn’t seem white, and to normalize a military presence in American cities for the midterms and for the next presidential election, if we make it until then with an electoral process.
They’re getting some training on for pole booth security for the mid terms.
“If you say ‘EMERGENCY!’ before you do it, the Constitution doesn’t count!”
