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

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[–] [email protected] 197 points 1 week ago (5 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] 96 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week 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

[–] kambusha 19 points 1 week 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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week 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] 174 points 1 week ago (9 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] 69 points 1 week ago

Because they're not profitable.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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

Cold heartless bastards

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (56 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.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week 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.

[–] knobbysideup 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 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] 39 points 1 week 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 1 week 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.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It's going to be a long 4 years

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] WolfLink 67 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like terrorism to me

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (12 children)

We need to teach him to be scared of us.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (17 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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?

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

"let them eat cake" -Elon Musk

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week 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] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why would anyone remember? You clearly don't remember how often this happens.

This happens constantly and 80% of the time it's republicans playing games (not being unable to agree, but agreeing and then doing stupid shit because of the tea party or Trumpers or whatever)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week 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] 17 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Fuck musk and fuck everyone Like him

That said: fuck everyone who works for the TSA, bunch of useless dickheads who take out their anger on those trying to fly while objectively failing to catch basic security failures. Much like anyone who works for an insurance company: they can rot for all I care

[–] funkless_eck 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Until working is optional I never blame the lowest in the hierarchy. I've worked some shit jobs of questionable morality in my time because I had to eat and pay rent and couldn't gamble having a roof over my head on a better job coming along.

All airport jobs look shit, I mean that sympathetically.

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