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[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck man. We are turning into north Korea. Love the state obey the state praise supreme leader

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We are turning into north Korea.

Conservatives have been pushing to turn America into NK/Russia for a long time now. Looks like they're finally getting their wish, courtesy of stupid American voters/non-voters.

[–] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Or courtesy of election rigging, depending on who you believe.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 42 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Well as long as its at least 7.

My only solace is that the boomers waited till they were so fucking old to try to stop the world from changing through fascism.

Hitler shot himself at 56 and had spent a lot of his 30-40s trying to gain power. A lot of the current generation of fascists are a light jog away or botched botox from their death. But fuck this.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Honestly a trash generation.

I don't say that lightly, because they exist in my personal life. But as a whole, it's a fucking garbage generation of humans. Utterly shameful.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

This is the part that burns me the most. All this, for a handful of years to sit atop the ashes.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

telling travelers “Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government” and claiming that is why “most of our TSA employees are working without pay.”

Honestly the TSA shouldn’t exist, it’s a graft and corruption scheme created by the Bush Jr administration so guys like Michael Chertoff could steal taxpayer money.

They can’t even perform their stated functions, there have been numerous instances of them failing to detect firearms and bomb parts during tests, they fail the majority by a wide margin.

It’s a “make-work” program. Those people should be building hospitals in rural communities, fixing roads and bridges. At least that would have a return on investment.

Same with ICE, and the entire DHS, frankly.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

The day I saw you could pay to get expressed through the TSA lines was the day it became 100% apparent it was nothing more than a grifting scheme.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 38 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

this should really fall on the courts to enforce the hatch act & give laws governing officials more teeth.. this is insane 1984 level shit

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You mean the courts controlled by Reps?

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Courts shouldn't be political. The status is not quo.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 23 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

How many laws do they need to break in order for something to actually be done? They are clearly mentally ill and none of them are based in reality, so we need to get them out of office.

None of this is ok and none of this is normal.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Turns out all the people in positions of power who swore an oath to protect our nation are feckless cowards.

The people are going to have to do this or it isn't happening.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They are not mentally ill, they would gladly twist a toddler's neck for a couple bucks. And that's been rewarded in America for centuries.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago

That is a mental illness. These people have a serious hoarding disorder, and they can't stop accumulating money. They have enough money that neither they, nor their descendants for the next century could possibly spend it all, and yet they will still walk through fire, or hire someone else to, to get even more.

If those people hoarded cats, or rusty cars, or newspapers, or general junk, we would get mental health care for them, and dismantle their collection. Psychopathic Oligarchs are no different. We should involuntarily commit them to mental hospitals to treat their hoarding issues, confiscate the bulk of their treasure, and keep them from rebuilding their fortunes.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The fucking Maggats are like a clown version of the NAZIs, trying to ape their practices whilst being total incompetent klutzes at doing it.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It would be hilarious if america wasn't fucking stupid enough to fall for it. Every. Damn. Time.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Well, on the upside America might actually survive the Trump regime purelly because of how, even with a fucking master plan seemingly made by smarter people, they're horribly inept at making it work, mainly because everybody in that Administration has been chosen based on loyalty or looks and not at all on demonstrated execution abilities.

Imagine if instead of a gaggle of morons, that Administration was instead made up of competent people with domain-applicable experience.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“This is probably not a Hatch Act violation, because it's not tied to an election,” Cynthia Brown, senior ethics counsel at the non-partisan ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told Forbes.

Not tied to an election? What? What rock are you living under?

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

There really isn't any opposition to the GOP anymore. Just variations of complicity.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 117 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Since when do airports show government propaganda?

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 5 points 14 hours ago

SInce someone realized that it could be done

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When the people that operate them are all in. This is what Fascism is, when people want to give them their power.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Since Fox "News" has been running nonstop on monitors throughout airports for decades.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't it a special version of CNN that avoided talking about plane crashes? Pretty sure that was in nearly every airport for a for decades.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Yes, if not FOX then CNN. Did not know about the special version.

[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good god, the morons in office right now are so fucking stupid. They have to make videos to put out and blame the left for all the dumb shit they do. They did it! They did it! Despite having the minority in all branches of the gov, it's totally them.

Fuck off fascists

The video isn't for us.

It's for their followers.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 144 points 1 day ago

As well they should.

The Confederates are breaking the law, again.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 159 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the Hatch Act is only as effective as the White House decides it will be

Lovely

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 43 points 1 day ago

Same as the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust acts, which is a big reason why we're here now. So, so much of corporate America is patently illegal, and the feds have done fuck-all about it for decades.

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

It should be all of them. Get that fascist propaganda out of here.

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 96 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... And all the other airports in the country broadcast it?

[–] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 122 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It looks like they have capitulated, for now. It wouldn’t hurt to contact your local airport to object, and to organize peaceful demonstrations.

The airports that refuse to bend the knee have also released public statements condemning the video. Let’s show them our support! They are:

Portland International

Seattle-Tacoma International

Buffalo Niagara International

Niagara Falls International

Westchester County

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

When I saw the headline I felt sure my airport was on the list. Sure enough I am right. Love you PDX

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spokane international is on the list as well which is a little surprising as that is an area that favors Republicans in elections.

Source

[–] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thank you for the Spokane update, SacralPlexus! Also adding:

Charlotte

Cleveland

Los Angeles

Phoenix

Denver

Aspen

Source

Source

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd love to see a real instance of "The Storm" if Democrats were to get back in the WH....issue warrants for every single one of those responsible for shit like this.

Arrest every single one of those in his cabinet. Arrest everyone in his family.

I know the pearl-clutching "centrists" will cry about "tone" and "civility" and how this is only going to make Republicans worse. Fuck that. Make Republicans motherfucking SCARED to try this kind of shit again. As they should be.

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[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 36 points 1 day ago (8 children)

What is the Republicans end game here? Democrats aren't going to vote for his bill without getting anything in return. Why would anyone think otherwise.

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

Also correct me if I'm wrong but don't the Reps have a majority? Like they don't even need the Dems?

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Have you ever known a child who could manipulate his parents by being stubborn and annoying. The parents are incapable of setting boundaries and caving to the child’s demands is easier than having difficult discussions.

Republicans are the children and Democrats are the patents. The parents are now trying to set a boundary. Expect an epic tantrum from the children.

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whatever happened to the fucking Hatch Act?

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