Strong disagree. The TSA is entirely useless, pure security theater.
You don't trust big airlines? Work on fixing that instead of burdening all travelers with dehumanizing treatment. We are treated like cattle and that's unconscionable.
Also, the terrorism argument? Really? Have you ever actually looked at mortality stats or are you just reacting based on your feelings? Terrorism is technically more dangerous than peanuts, but only barely. It is not a relevant factor in your safety.
Also, the terrorist actions themselves just don't affect society in any meaningful way, the only downsides of terrorism are the dehumanizing & racist security theatre and the enraged lashing out at brown people wearing traditional clothing.
The war on terror does more harm than any terrorism. It puts your society in a permanent state of martial law where human rights are "temporarily" curtailed, but you've gotten so used to it you can't even remember what it was like back when you could find luggage and return it to the owner without having to pretend it could be a bomb. No it won't be a bomb, that just doesn't happen often enough to be a reasonable precaution.
Fun fact: then VP Al Gore campaigned on increasing airline security when he was running for President in 2000. Naturally, the airlines didn’t like the extra money that would cost, so they went with everybody’s favorite “nepo baby + fun drunk” George W. Bush, and the Supreme Court sided with W. No sooner was W installed in the White House than 9/11 hit, which sent W.’s approval ratings sky high and helped him drag the US into two wars…none of which would have happened if Al Gore had been President and increased airline security in the first place.
I got as far as his handle, BasedMikeLee. I had to go to Urban Dictionary to see what based meant in this context. A word used to celebrate someone for being themselves. The opposite of Cringe. It kind of sounds like something someone else would use to refer to the individual, an unbiased assessment.
To claim the title for yourself seems kind of cringe.
The airlines correctly think that if a terrorist slips through, crashes a plane and sends the industry into a panicked freefall, we taxpayers will bail them out. They’ve got no incentive to spend money on security.
Oval Office Occupant neatly abbreviates into OOO. I don't want to use TFG any more, because Joe kinda moved into that position. OOO shows just enough disrespect to be functional.
Here's what I find absolutely infuriating about Republican politicians (well, not the only thing) - they always sing the praises of private industry, of the job creators, and disparage Government. Bidness good, Government bad. But you never see them go into the private sector. And no, a chair at the Heritage Foundation or Federalist Society is not private industry.
Lee has spent his entire life in Government. From Wikipedia:
"The son of U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee and brother of Utah Supreme Court justice Thomas Rex Lee, Lee began his career as a clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah before clerking for Samuel Alito, who was then a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. From 2002 to 2005, Lee was an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Utah. He joined the administration of Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr., serving as the general counsel in the governor's office from 2005 to 2006. Lee again clerked for Alito after he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Utah, Lee defeated incumbent senator Bob Bennett in the Republican primary, and won the general election."
My state's own Ken Cucinelli is another prime example. As many times as Virginia voters reject him for statewide office, he just never goes away. Always orbiting around Homeland Security or starting a PAC.
Newt Gingrich, however, is the model, the ne plus ultra. He has spent his entire life in and around Government. Having been kicked out of the speakership over a generation ago, he and his third wife are always at the Washington trough. They just never go away.
Boeing. In case y'all forgot, one reason their planes keep crashing is because the FAA partially outsourced assembly plant QA to employees hired by and paid by Boeing. So weird that they allowed themselves to be pressured by management to cut corners! Who could have possibly guessed that would happen?
For the record, Boeing wants the FAA inspectors back, now. It turns out that they know their own safety culture was so irreparably broken by Jack Welch-inspired profiteering that it is now an existential threat to the corporation.
I'm pretty fucking sure that every stakeholder in the aviation industry is gonna scream blue murder if it even remotely looks like Mike Lee will get his way on TSA. It's kinda hard to ignore an object lesson like Boeing.
Maybe he never heard of the "Passenger Security Fee".
https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/fund_the_tsa_act_factsheet.pdf
Just remind him that trans people are the most likely to get harassed by TSA agents and he'll be back to supporting it in a heartbeat.
So, who does Mikey think is going to pay for all that?
Fuck Ted Cruz.
Strong disagree. The TSA is entirely useless, pure security theater.
You don't trust big airlines? Work on fixing that instead of burdening all travelers with dehumanizing treatment. We are treated like cattle and that's unconscionable.
Also, the terrorism argument? Really? Have you ever actually looked at mortality stats or are you just reacting based on your feelings? Terrorism is technically more dangerous than peanuts, but only barely. It is not a relevant factor in your safety.
Also, the terrorist actions themselves just don't affect society in any meaningful way, the only downsides of terrorism are the dehumanizing & racist security theatre and the enraged lashing out at brown people wearing traditional clothing.
The war on terror does more harm than any terrorism. It puts your society in a permanent state of martial law where human rights are "temporarily" curtailed, but you've gotten so used to it you can't even remember what it was like back when you could find luggage and return it to the owner without having to pretend it could be a bomb. No it won't be a bomb, that just doesn't happen often enough to be a reasonable precaution.
So, "defund the police" was bad? But "abolish the TSA" is good? When you can't even count on consistency from the right ... what a world. ;-)
Ta, MM. What A Idiot.
Fun fact: then VP Al Gore campaigned on increasing airline security when he was running for President in 2000. Naturally, the airlines didn’t like the extra money that would cost, so they went with everybody’s favorite “nepo baby + fun drunk” George W. Bush, and the Supreme Court sided with W. No sooner was W installed in the White House than 9/11 hit, which sent W.’s approval ratings sky high and helped him drag the US into two wars…none of which would have happened if Al Gore had been President and increased airline security in the first place.
Thanks, Supreme Court! :/
I got as far as his handle, BasedMikeLee. I had to go to Urban Dictionary to see what based meant in this context. A word used to celebrate someone for being themselves. The opposite of Cringe. It kind of sounds like something someone else would use to refer to the individual, an unbiased assessment.
To claim the title for yourself seems kind of cringe.
The airlines correctly think that if a terrorist slips through, crashes a plane and sends the industry into a panicked freefall, we taxpayers will bail them out. They’ve got no incentive to spend money on security.
The shoe thing is definitely stupid.
Libertarians ain't shit! Ayn Rand burns in Hell!
Always bring your own food.
You know the airlines will try to replace comprehensive screening with "spot checking." When that happens I might never ride on a plane again.
Oval Office Occupant neatly abbreviates into OOO. I don't want to use TFG any more, because Joe kinda moved into that position. OOO shows just enough disrespect to be functional.
Nice, EJ
I had been saying the Occupant but it didn't have enough reference without more elaboration ... which defeated the point
"OOO" is pretty perfect -- thank you 💚💚
OOOO.
Orange Oval Office Occupant. So when he has a heart attack and dies, we can switch to CFOOO for Vance.
Here's what I find absolutely infuriating about Republican politicians (well, not the only thing) - they always sing the praises of private industry, of the job creators, and disparage Government. Bidness good, Government bad. But you never see them go into the private sector. And no, a chair at the Heritage Foundation or Federalist Society is not private industry.
Lee has spent his entire life in Government. From Wikipedia:
"The son of U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee and brother of Utah Supreme Court justice Thomas Rex Lee, Lee began his career as a clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah before clerking for Samuel Alito, who was then a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. From 2002 to 2005, Lee was an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Utah. He joined the administration of Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr., serving as the general counsel in the governor's office from 2005 to 2006. Lee again clerked for Alito after he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Utah, Lee defeated incumbent senator Bob Bennett in the Republican primary, and won the general election."
My state's own Ken Cucinelli is another prime example. As many times as Virginia voters reject him for statewide office, he just never goes away. Always orbiting around Homeland Security or starting a PAC.
Newt Gingrich, however, is the model, the ne plus ultra. He has spent his entire life in and around Government. Having been kicked out of the speakership over a generation ago, he and his third wife are always at the Washington trough. They just never go away.
Nepo baby
https://youtu.be/CXS3iX4cKKg?si=9Redwi1EXE40oy1P
Boeing. In case y'all forgot, one reason their planes keep crashing is because the FAA partially outsourced assembly plant QA to employees hired by and paid by Boeing. So weird that they allowed themselves to be pressured by management to cut corners! Who could have possibly guessed that would happen?
For the record, Boeing wants the FAA inspectors back, now. It turns out that they know their own safety culture was so irreparably broken by Jack Welch-inspired profiteering that it is now an existential threat to the corporation.
I'm pretty fucking sure that every stakeholder in the aviation industry is gonna scream blue murder if it even remotely looks like Mike Lee will get his way on TSA. It's kinda hard to ignore an object lesson like Boeing.