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

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago
[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago

Why do they have to work? Doesn’t it make more sense to shutdown US airports?

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago

Or just run them without TSA, like we used to before 9/11

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

"let them eat cake" -Elon Musk

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 24 points 2 days ago

I get it, but having people feel bad for the TSA of all organizations is a tall order. Why not pick a less controversial gov agency effected like say the National Parks and Museums?

[-] somethingp@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Probably because parks and museums usually just close whenever this happens, so they're not working without pay. They're just on an indefinite suspension

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago

Just a reminder that Elon Musk is not from the United States.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

...which is why he had to buy a president instead of buy the presidency.

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[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

How bout they just dont show up? The TSA is a fraudulent agency anyway. Pre-9/11 security worked just fine.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 13 points 2 days ago

And if someone is going to hijack a plane to pilot it into a building, i doubt their mission would depend on a large tube of toothpaste and a nail clipper

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago

"Heh heh heh, finally, I can sneak enough explosive toothpaste into the plane!"

That's the terrorists right now, how do you feel now, huh? It's not a joke. TSA is extremely serious. 😤

[-] resin85@lemmy.ca 173 points 2 days ago

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?

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago

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

Cold heartless bastards

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago

Because they're not profitable.

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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).

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 95 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

So is a South African buying his way into the U.S. presidency, but here we are.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 24 points 2 days ago

"Oh you're not gonna pay me today? Guess I'm not working today."

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can't imagine coming in to work if I'm not being paid on time. Indeed, if there's even a whiff of maybe I won't get paid, I'm not coming in unless I'm paid in advance.

Every government worker that is told they're not getting paid should do that. Money in my account now, before I come in to work.

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[-] ThePrimitive@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

We need to teach him to be scared of us.

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[-] uis@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Theater of security isn't helpful anyway. I say it's even harmful, as it makes cars more attractive over public transport and get more shit in our lungs as result.

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It's going to be a long 4 years

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[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Remember when the goverment was first shut down in a long time, if ever before, when Republicans thought it would be a good ratfucker move to harm Obama's presidency, and it blew up in their faces, and our Country went from a AAAA rated borrower to a AAA borrower due to government disfunction? We seriously need a law that prevents this stupid shit from happening again. Maybe if they don't pass funding, we just renew the last passed funding. It pisses me off so much. Imagine getting paid a significant amount of tax payer money, a life long sipend, and better health care than most the county, and not even doing your job and letting the goverment shut down. At some point here the lawlessness is going to convince enough people that it seriously doesn't matter anymore.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

We seriously need a law that prevents this stupid shit from happening again. Maybe if they don't pass funding, we just renew the last passed funding

What we do in Australia is of the government can't pass a budget we dissolve the government and go for elections.
Clearly the MP are not doing their jobs so make them run for their jobs again.

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[-] dx1@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Did we not abolish the TSA yet? Funny how we're always losing ground on everything.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago

You don't like poorly trained, poorly paid rent-a-cops screaming at you to take of your shoes and empty your pockets and x-ray you while they steal your Nintendo Switch?

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago

Ruining the holidays for a bunch of government employees, not just TSA. I am more worried about air traffic controllers, NASA, NOAA, FDA, the VA (yeah they suck, but a lot of people depend on them and making them work unpaid is definitely not going to improve anything), and thousands of other government employees that will go without pay. The longer it lasts, the worse it will be for the economy.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Damn. Imagine just showing up to work knowing you won't be paid, with a bunch of other coworkers who are in the exact same socio-economic hostage crisis.

Gotta wonder if there's some kind of organizational remedy. Like... a collection of workers who could all respond together as a single labor unit to demand a different set of policies on pain of withholding their labor until their demands are met.

[-] raptore39@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago

I've heard of these! They're called onions!

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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

President Musk flexing his muscles even before puppet inauguration.

One thing I wondered is what would happen if Putin and Musk disagree at some point about what Trump is supposed to do? But the answer is actually easy: whoever strokes Trump's ego better at the time gets their policy through. Trump lives in the moment.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

I don't know, I still think Putin has info on Trump that Trump really doesn't want to be public for whatever reason. So I'm thinking he would defer to Putin.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

I used to think that, but there's nothing Trump could have done that the loony right wing public wouldn't gleefully dismiss as not important. (Well, apart from a lewd orgy with trans Muslim Mexican immigrants, but I don't think any of those exist, and Trump would just call it faked anyway.)

Now I think that Putin just rings him up to tell him what a great president he is and all the world admires how strong a leader he is, not like those weak Democrats who (insert policy Putin wants dropped), no, Trump is a strong and courageous leader and everyone can tell how strong and virile he is because he supports policies like (insert policy that Putin wants implemented).

I mean maybe there's a video of Trump shouting "Yes, shove that big beautiful black dildo in me harder!", but I don't think it's necessary at all. See how easy it was for the North Korean president to get Trump to completely change direction. He just sweet talked him for a bit. Trump is an absolute sucker for someone he perceives as strong telling him he's great. American foreign policy is at the whim of any world leader who can make Trump feel proud of himself for a week.

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[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 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.

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago

Musk and Trump showed me, that I don't have to think about being a good enough person... Obviously I easily am (it's enough not to kill/rape/extort,.... who would have thought it's so easy?)

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 69 points 3 days ago

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

[-] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 54 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

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

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 58 points 2 days ago

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

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

[-] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago

Sounds like terrorism to me

[-] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

No, no, terrorism is when you kill people who have money.

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