I had to go through the Atlanta airport shortly after the “4 hour wait” stories started hitting. I showed up 3 hours earlier than normal to be safe, and when I got there they had every station manned and ICE was basically just waiving everyone through. Took me about 2 minutes to get through security.
Kind of illustrates how pointless TSA is in the first place, but I’d rather have had that four hour wait than have to be within 50 ft of ICE.
Boy am I glad they're making sure a terrorist with a bomb can't get onto a plane to kill a lot of people packed together in a crowded place.
Can't blow up a plane if nobody can get onto the plane!
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Blows up airport instead ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well, that's not TSAs direct job, so they don't care.
They're called TSA, not G(round)SA or A(irport)SA or... for a reason!
Tired of ~~waiting~~ winning yet?
Pleease Mr. President, no more winning!
Mr. President, it's too much winning!
A man came up to me once, big man, strong man, with tears in his eyes and said. Mister President we are ~~waiting~~ winning too much, please Mister President we are tired of ~~waiting~~ winning.
Good thing the US has a high speed railway network like China, Japan, Europe or Morocco, so you don't need to get on a plane. Oh.. wait...
I hear Elon Musk is getting right on that. These conservatives are so efficient and successful! Good thing we keep finding new tax breaks for them.
Why don't they just let people take their assault rifles onto the plane such that they can defend themselves? Are they stupid?
It's an airplane, not a grade school classroom.
Is there any other country on earth that stops working altogether once a year?
Only once a year? Are you talking about the US, because it seems to have stopped working quite some time ago.
The sad thing about this is that most Trump supporters probably don’t fly because either they’re always in their own bubble and/or can’t afford to. So they can’t relate to this, so it’s a non-issue sadly.
So they get to punish others for doing the things they choose not to do.
Again.
Your get what you voted! Enjoy your fucking war.
Looks like a freedom country chicken farm
I’d honestly just cancel my holiday instead going through that trauma.
wife and i have to fly out of LGA in may to go to daughter’s wedding. not looking forward to the travel. sigh.
people who think they can go though a US airport nowadays is a form of white entitlement
The American electorate, truly the greatest in the world
I’d much rather have Camacho as the president. At least he knew that he should trust people smarter than him.
Camacho was a great president. I submit the following:
When faced with a problem he didn't know how to solve, he appointed the best person he could find and listened to their advice.
Upon realizing that he made a mistake, he reversed course and corrected.
I don't think he ever raped a minor.
did you mean Trump JFK Airport?
Yeah but.. Is America great again yet?
There are several terminals with security checkpoints, this does not represent “JFK Airport” as a whole. This shown terminal is T5, JetBlue’s terminal.
Edit: who downvoted, lol. I’ve been to JFK 4 times this week. Nothing I said is untrue. It literally says Jetblue check in on the sign. Go pound sand.
Yeah guys send the Gestappo. They fix everything
I’ve only been to JFK once, but I get the sense that the lines there always look like this. Not saying all the other stuff isn’t an issue, but don’t give JFK any credit. Hands down the worst airport I’ve been to. Avoid at all cost.
My coworker noped out of a trip across country because they’d have a grandchild with them, and didn’t want any issues with missing flights, long waits, or ICE shenanigans. If they didn’t have their grandchild, they probably would have taken the train instead.
Edit: more info
Are the flights backed up to, or are they just leaving half empty all the time?
Zero sympathy for USian planet incinerating jet-set crowd. They got what they voted for.
Jesus Fucking Krist airport right now.
And not a mask to be found as a new variant of Covid surges…
Flying is such a giant humiliation ritual, I have no idea why people even bother.
Because places are far away
I feel like I'm missing something, what's the context?
TSA (the security theater people) had been unfunded for the last 50 or so days
Additional context:
TSA is part of DHS (Department of Homeland Security). ICE and border patrol are also a part of DHS.
After ICE started shooting citizens, the democrats said “no additional funding without some reforms.” In trumps Big Beautiful Bill ICE was already given a huge chunk of funding for the next few years, but they would like more.
Democrats have been trying to fund TSA but want a separate vote for ICE. This arrangement recently passed the senate but republicans in the house voted it down because they think they can pin the blame on the democrats and force them to give ICE more funding along with the TSA.
I had to sleep in JFK Airport once. I don't recommend it. The rats that come out at night are the size of a ~25 pound dog.
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