It is not your place to ask. It is your place to admire.

Gimme dat belly

THE YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN

Oh yeah. This is my jam.

Whether or not you are illegal is a second order problem for these dudes.

Generation Lead Paint

To what?

Any airport in the US is effectively federal property because the TSA does security in all airports, the FAA controls most surface movement and all takeoffs and landings, and in International airports, the CBP controls the port of entry.

And I hate to break it to you but removing the TSA doesn’t mean we revert back to pre 9/11 days. Security at airports is still governed by the Aircraft Operator Standard Security Program which defines the screening requirements, but not necessarily who must complete them.

Trump will be under a lot of pressure from capital not to do this, I suspect, because it would absolutely crater tourism.

Assuming he TACOs, and dems hold strong (sob), I would be looking for one of two scenarios.

Most likely, airports revert to post 9/11-pre TSA setup. Same basic experience, and probably even the same people, but a different uniform. Remember Huntleigh? Argenbright? You may still see these logos on the arms of wheelchair pushers or janitorial staff, but for a long, long time, they operated the checkpoints too. Between maybe the late 80s and up until 9/11, there was still screening but it was much more lax. Basic screening was likely introduced after Pan Am flight 103, and while there were metal detectors and x-rays, anyone could go through, which is what made all the sappy last minute airport reunion scenes possible.

After 9/11, the AOSSP was updated again with much more stringent security requirements, but at first the screening was still done by those vendors - provided at least one specially trained airline representative Ground Security Coordinator was present at the checkpoint. I was a GSC once upon a time, and I don’t think the TSA took over all of the checkpoints until maybe 2005. Though I’m not still current on the AOSSP, I’m fairly certain all of the policy that would enable a complete reversion back to this model is still in place. Airlines at each airport would share the cost of the contract.

Back then, a bunch of Huntleigh Employees suddenly became TSA employees. We might see a bunch of TSA employees become Huntleigh employees.

Or potentially, Trump will split the difference and just make the TSA screeners ICE employees. That’s probably a LITTLE less likely to spook travelers, so it could be a face saving compromise, but more likely he will do something like the first option and spin it as cutting government bloat and a partnership with job creating business leaders.

I mean, look. Who among us, am I right?

Man I sure wish so many of these didn’t resonate with me so well.

That does seem to be increasingly the fashion among a certain kind of person.

*yet

I’ll be honest, especially outside of their typical context, like the White House or haunted houses, ghouls would make me feel threatened too.

Thank you. I struggle to balance hope and appropriate skepticism.

Are you implying that the laundry room fire was set on purpose by some of the sailors?

Genuine question. It seems plausible and I’m not sure why I took the official story at face value but I haven’t seen anything to contradict it myself.

He is making the classic mistake of thinking that he would be Trump in this scenario, and not the casino employee who lost their job

Oh definitely.

This is art by almost any definition, and it is based and badass.

massively blow up

His command of the English language is as singular as his intellect.

He will go down as a justice with the same strength of character as wet tissue.

He’s a coward who is directly culpable for everything we are going through right now.