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Such a stimulated economy
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.
Have you visited the other terminals as well? Are they significantly better and this is an outlier, or is this typical peak hours for jfk right now?
Yes. Though I obviously didn’t tour the airport looking for problems. Delta’s was long but not awful. AA’s was relatively short. Didn’t see the international terminal. No idea what constitutes “peak”, but NY is heading into NY school’s spring break season, so things will get busy for the airports.
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.
These are poor people, so the powers that be don't care
Can't blow up a plane if nobody can get onto the plane!
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Your get what you voted! Enjoy your fucking war.
Why don't they just let people take their assault rifles onto the plane such that they can defend themselves? Are they stupid?
You dont give up your right to free speech when you get on a plane, why around you give up the right to bear arms?
- line from an old prairie home companion when I was a kid.
It's an airplane, not a grade school classroom.
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.
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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...
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Tired of ~~waiting~~ winning yet?
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.
Zero sympathy for USian planet incinerating jet-set crowd. They got what they voted for.
The racist, hillbilly morons who voted for this are not "jet-setters." They've probably never even been on a jet.
You underestimate the number of half-wit yuppies who are MAGA. The number of them in my home city is absurd and theyre the exact fucking reason the area is even urbanizing while they bitch about urbanizing factors is absurd, sorry Janice but the light industry is an expected economic factor for a city population. Sincerely a SoCal Hick.
Right? People seem to forget that ~50% of voters went for dump. That's not 100% rural and 0% urban, 100% rich and 0% poor... There are a lot of assholes who have money (lawyers, doctors, small business owners, engineers, teachers, nurses, police, firemen, emts, pilots, office workers in healthcare, government bureaucrats, etc., etc.) that think they 'earned' all that money and 'the left' (super big air quotes with a funny voice on that one) just wants to take it from them and give it to the stoner living in the basement of his grandmother's friend who looks at him funny on sunday nights when she asks him if he wants to share some of her beef stew. There's also a lot of folks who are in a trailer on the property that their great-grandparents once owned, along with their 3 siblings, 7 cousins, and 11 second cousins in their own trailers, while their father and aunt and uncle fight over who gets to keep living in the actual house after someone clogged the septic system over the weekend, and sure, they vote republican and will never get on a jet, but they're likely the minority, humorously enough.
Are the flights backed up to, or are they just leaving half empty all the time?
The flights are probably a mixed bag. There are also cases where they just open up the lines and let everyone through without passing through security screening. It's happened a few times, though I've never gotten so lucky.
Could you imagine if you were on hour 10 of waiting through the line, just managed to get to the front and then they told everyone to just go through? I'd cuss someone out hard.
did you mean Trump JFK Airport?
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:
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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.
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Upon realizing that he made a mistake, he reversed course and corrected.
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I don't think he ever raped a minor.
Ideal politician tbh. Charismatic and engages the people he represents. Defers to, and it's his support behind this that are more competent in their subject matter.
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Where are people even going? I know we're all kind of on that bandwagon where we just disassociate with the bad events happening everywhere right now as a defense mechanism but how does traveling make any sense right now? I just can't
Work. Studies. Family. Funerals. Escaping reality. Evading justice. Lots of reasons.
I’d honestly just cancel my holiday instead going through that trauma.
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And not a mask to be found as a new variant of Covid surges…
Looks like a freedom country chicken farm
Yeah but.. Is America great again yet?
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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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.
They didnt vote on it as far as I know. MJ just won't allow it to be brought for a vote because it would probably pass.
Flying is such a giant humiliation ritual, I have no idea why people even bother.
Because places are far away
This is what happens when you're state/city doesn't upgrade your airport either. I just flew through SFO and DIA this past week and security was under 5 minutes because they dont rely on TSA staff for the majority of their functions.
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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.
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