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Things didn't end well for the last guy...

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i feel sorry for SNL. how will they survive this?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Out of the loop, what do you mean SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT???

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s a thing that’s been happening a lot over the past few years where US politicians refuse to sign bills that approve government spending (such as continuing to pay government employees) until their demands about some unrelated thing are met.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I believe the term for this is “political blackmail”.

Why it is accepted and legal, I don’t understand.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like terrorism to me

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago

TSA agents are ineffectual on the best of days, but without pay? Between that and the amazing production quality at Boeing I'm quite content to not fly anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I hope that US citizens will remember who caused the chaos out of pure spite when the next election comes around.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Remember? Mmmmwwwwhahahahaha!

Not a chance, not with the publics goldfish like memory span and media companies pushing their narrative.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not even a government shutdown can stop the TSA from harassing people

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 5 months ago (5 children)

And they ripped out funding for pediatric cancer research. $250 million.... or around 0.05% of president Musk's net worth. Why do repubs hate kids with cancer?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Also 900 million will not be going to North Carolina hurricane relief.

Cold heartless bastards

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Assuming I did my math correctly these two things would have been a combined total of .002% of the federal budget.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They want to strip away everything that reduces infant mortality, so that people start having more kids again since so many of them will die young.

Then later they give it back, and since they already took away the right to abortion... Boom, population explosion and a bunch of poor kids are born to later be exploited in factories and wars.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago

Because they're not profitable.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder how this will affect unexpected delays during holiday travel.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

Sorry, but unemployed TSA should get no sympathy. In fact, if you want to kill government programs, it should be at the front of the line. Pork barrel security theater bullshit.

Fuck the TSA and the idiots on power trips working for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

For real. Like Fox News pundits, they're being paid to not understand the consequences of their own work. They're a drain on tax funds performing ineffective security theater at the cost of convenience, privacy, and sometimes the flights of ordinary people. If you're TSA, you should consider something else that would be of greater social benefit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not the employees' fault, saying they should get no sympathy is a dick move.

That aside, I agree the TSA is a great example of the kind of spending that needs cut and the department dissolved.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Have you seen the kind of people these kinds of jobs attracts? We aren't talking about Starbucks workers, we are mostly talking about people that get off on power trips.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

You don't exactly work together to keep those psychos out dontcha

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Yeah I was going to say this. Just because their pay is shit, does not make TSA employees nice people.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I'm sorry but, FUCK THE TSA. Go join a real theater group, assholes.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Fuck the TSA, but the people who work there because it is a paying job deserve stable employment like the rest of us. They don't make the decisions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does this goes for the police as well?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

When they have enough oversight that the "thin blue line" is no longer a thing.

Everyone should know the Chris Dorner story.

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