The TSA showdown reveals a brutal truth about our politics

[Blaster]

ICE agent save's life of unresponsive child in TSA line at JFK airport | Fox News Video

An ICE agent saved the life of a 1-year-old boy who wasn’t breathing while waiting in a TSA line, DHS said.

www.foxnews.com

 

[toobfreak]

The vile dems know a shutdown of any kind lowers GDP....I think that they are purposely trying to tank the economy.

A shutdown of any kind, such as a government shutdown, typically lowers GDP. Specifically, a government shutdown can reduce GDP growth by approximately 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points per week. The longer the shutdown lasts, the more significant the impact on GDP, potentially leading to a reduction of 1.0 to 2.0 percentage points in the fourth quarter of the year. This reduction occurs because government spending is halted, which affects the provision of goods and services that contribute to GDP.
Oxford Economics+2

If I recall, the first shutdown cost the US economy 2 trillion dollars.

Peaceful transfer of power: remember the dems how they lectured us on its importance in J6?

Democrats try to cheat and steal, but if you manage to still get in, then they simply blow up the country through acts of treason and sedition like the Iranians bullying until they get their way anyway.

Iran: Give us our way, do not assist the US or we will invade and blow up all your power plants!

Democrats: Give us our way or we will shut down the government, tank the economy, cripple the airlines, and riot the police from doing their jobs because we know that republicans are a bunch of ball-less cowards.

 

[hadit]

trump has refused to negotiate reforms to the methods and tactics used by ICE.

AI Overview

As of March 2026, President Donald Trump has maintained an uncompromising stance on the enforcement tactics used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), rejecting demands from Democrats to reform agency practices.

The fault lies entirely on him.

I see a demotion in your future if you keep allowing yourself to be duped by right wing media, Admiral.

So force him to veto something.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Is that really an honest characterization? D's have offered to fund DHS agencies including TSA, but not ICE. ICE received billions from the BBB and has no lack of funding. Dotard is refusing to accept the compromise because he will not negotiate with respect to the tactics ICE uses. Ones that came in to full view in MN resulting in a public backlash and revealing an obvious need for reforms.

At least the Dems still care about illegal aliens.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

And we did it all to ourselves. A quarter century ago, all muzzies had to do was hijack a few planes and we did the rest ourselves. We made flying dysfunctional. Seats used to be spacious, service was a hallmark, other passengers congenial and polite, now we spend 8 hours in line waiting to get a cavity search even if we have a peg leg and are the farthest thing from a potential hijacker, airline attendants are now burly men with hairy arms who act like police who will throw you off for any reason, driving passengers crazy until they act out like raccoons trapped in a cage.

What could possibly make me want to ever fly?

Believe me, I would take the Amtrak before I ever flew cross-country now and I would take an ocean liner before I ever flew internationally again.

It is all self-inflicted through pedantic stupidity. All the government had to do was drop the screening until the shutdown is over or just alter screening processes more inline with how the Israelis screen by doing it intelligently, spotting and targeting likely hijackers instead of EVERYONE.

But nope, here we sit stupidly destroying our airline travel industry because of one incident that happened a quarter century ago.

We have laws against that in our country to prevent racism. The Israelis could not give a shit less!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

trump has refused to negotiate reforms to the methods and tactics used by ICE.

AI Overview

As of March 2026, President Donald Trump has maintained an uncompromising stance on the enforcement tactics used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), rejecting demands from Democrats to reform agency practices.

The fault lies entirely on him.

I see a demotion in your future if you keep allowing yourself to be duped by right wing media, Admiral.

Obviously, AI is beyond your ability to comprehend. The reforms that Dems want is to allow ICE agents to be doxxed and harassed by Democrat protestors by not allowing them to wear masks to conceal their identity. They bitched about body cams after the fact that body cams were required long before they made their stupid demands.

You are just too ignorant to understand.

 

[22lcidw]

Bush created the DHS to put the various agencies which act to keep the US secure under one roof, rather than forcing them to coordinate across various departments - as such, it did little but move a few rectangles around on the US Government organizational chart.
Why do you believe this is useless?

With the money spent on our alphabet federal security and policing agencies 9/11 should have never happened.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Is that really an honest characterization? D's have offered to fund DHS agencies including TSA, but not ICE. ICE received billions from the BBB and has no lack of funding. Dotard is refusing to accept the compromise because he will not negotiate with respect to the tactics ICE uses. Ones that came in to full view in MN resulting in a public backlash and revealing an obvious need for reforms.

The reason why the Democrats will not fund ICE is because they hate White Voters and they are using illegal aliens as their demographic weapon.

 

[dudmuck]

Aged like fine wine.