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Trump's next step appears to be illegally paying TSA officers without congressional approval

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[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Probably because they're not trained.

Fixed the title. Less is more.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Airport security already requires ID.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but TSA didn't care, they just wanted to check you in. Now we have ICE Apes eyeing them, profiling each individual person, looking for trouble.

There were a million jobs they could have done in the airport, but somehow they ended up with the job where they get to inspect the IDs of every single person in the airport. That's not a coincidence, and if they WANTED that job, then what do they intend to do with it?

Stop thinking ANYTHING the traitors do is benign. There's ALWAYS an ulterior motive.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

They're quite trained. It's just that they're trained to levy war against America

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Surprise! Not being trained or qualified for the job they already have translated well to not being trained or qualified for the new job, too!

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

“If you say ‘EMERGENCY!’ before you do it, the Constitution doesn’t count!”

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

They're getting some training on for pole booth security for the mid terms.