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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like terrorism to me

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (8 children)

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

Cold heartless bastards

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago

Because they're not profitable.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days 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] 69 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (2 children)

Does this goes for the police as well?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days 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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[–] [email protected] 195 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Or just don't show up to work, and start looking for another job.

What they gonna do? Shoot you for "being sick and unable to report to work"?

Message for Government Employees: If you work a government job, DON'T GO TO WORK WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IS SHUT DOWN. Fuck that BS, don't let the government treat you like a slave. Calling out from work is not a crime (even if it is, fuck them anyways).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So far they've gotten paid every time, just late.

So far...

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Have you met them? They're basically otherwise unemployable.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Meh, I'm sure their local police force, who are toally well trained and organized and not filled with overweight people, would gladly accept them, just look at what the average cop looks like. These TSA agents will fit right in.

(Not that I want there to be more cops, but sadly thats where these people will end up. 🤷‍♂️)

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

All TSA agents should strike at the same time those days, wearing green hats and fake mustaches

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nothing would change, the TSA does nothing but harass lawful citizens.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah lol, people would probably have a great travel experience and want to make it permanent. Strikes only work if your job is important to someone, otherwise they work against you

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm gonna guess that the airports will shut down in the US if TSA is not available. They're not just gonna let people through without any security in place.

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