US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

yeah TSA serves no legitimate purpose other than giving the occasional asshole in cop cosplay the chance to harass a Muslim or a trans person

once I questioned the sign on a fence that said it had been painted with anti-climbing paint, and my walking companion explained that it was some kind of fancy anti-friction thingy. "Hm!" I said, and attempted to climb it to find how that worked.

Turns out it's basically tar, and I spent the first twenty minutes of dinner alternately washing my hands and scrubbing them with paper in the restaurant bathroom.

that'll learn ya

As currently arranged, they're an empty theatrical performance that achieves nothing but to slow the passage of humans at transit hubs.

Sure. But short of ending the TSA, it's an empty theatrical performance that achieves nothing but to slow the passage of humans at transit hubs that you have to live with. And if they stop working then it will just be slower.

DJT Jr accused Acosta of self-owning himself by visiting a portion of the southern border, which has fencing/etc, and noting that he didn't see any evidence of mass crossing of murderous immigrants. DJT's logic was "SEE, walls work", Acosta's retort was "so you're saying the existing security already works? guess you'll have to reopen the government".

I want to punch my laptop

why? is Trump going to mandate that ppl walk instead of flying, if the TSA aren't there?

xpost

anyone who goes to work without getting paid is a chump tbh, they should stay home

totally in favor of the whole TSA workforce coming down with something for the duration of the shutdown

Denis Franz will man the gates

headline on the washington post

"‘Inmates ... know we aren’t getting paid’: Tensions rise in federal prisons"

hahah oh jeez

I appreciated TSA today when I was in security and the guy in front of me tried to get through without a boarding pass by claiming that he worked for Trump

#FunFactFriday - Richard M. Nixon is the only U.S. president to have served in the Navy but not have a ship named in his honor. Does he deserve to have a namesake ship? If so, what type of ship should it be? pic.twitter.com/90DKV3CzQo

— U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) January 11, 2019

wasn't Carter in the navy?

That's certainly the funnest fact I've encountered on this Friday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

If so, what type of ship should it be?

A decommissioned one.

A decommissioned sinking one.

why? is Trump going to mandate that ppl walk instead of flying, if the TSA aren't there?

I'm not even sure what your point is. If the TSA isn't there it's not like they're going to just let people past without going through security. It'll just slow things down to a crawl. Right now most people are not directly affected by the shutdown. But hampering air travel would do the trick. If the TSA walked off the job and that happened, people would be pissed, and very visibly so.

if it's difficult to fly in an airport, you just call your dad and have him take care of it. it's not that hard

If so, what type of ship should it be?

https://imgur.com/a/t1tywYd

lmao

Three easy ways for the GOP to stop feeling sorry for themselves:
✅ Give honest, working people their pay back
✅ Pass legislation that actually helps people
✅ Stop asking the Koch Brothers’ permission to go to the bathroom
https://t.co/3uA8pPZ0R4

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2019

(article linked is a piece about Lindsey Graham being depressed)

(xp dammit)

https://i.imgur.com/F4Alb7F.jpg

"Very high, strong and beautiful" for next thread title

can we use GOP voters and sitting Congressman to form a human wall at the southern border.

USS Nixon = leaks all over the place

Ah yes

Trump says human trafficking is a “world crime” that was “given to us very much by the internet and bad people.”

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 11, 2019

"Very high, strong and beautiful"

https://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/c_limit,w_680/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/ngydr5fvai5waqrmaxif.jpg

I was shockingly old when I realized that human trafficking has only been around since roughly the time AOL started passing out free trial CDs.

I wish someone would human traffic our president.

that would be more like slime mold traffic

Ha, just came to correct myself on that very point. We do need a positive species identification prior to his being trafficked.

would really appreciate a moritorium on tweets from elected officials in this thread tbh
― Οὖτις, Friday, January 11, 2019 12:26 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Shakey are you a Twitter user?

This thread is my preferred (only) way of reading tweets and I am gratefully entertained by generally tight ilxor curation.

Oh well!

🚨🚨 The $20million Build the Wall campaign is getting refunded. @gofundme is refunding everyone (~330,000 people) who donated because, according to a spokesperson, Brian Kolfage broke the original promise of the campaign to give the money back if they didn’t reach their goal pic.twitter.com/3HDAzTqrgf

— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) January 11, 2019

I quite Twitter over a year ago. garbage platform. The president's tweets should be banned from this thread. I can't think of any elected officials that actually convey useful information via twitter.

xp

shakey otm

. If the TSA isn't there it's not like they're going to just let people past without going through security.

who’s they

xpost well I don't really come here to be informed per se so much as to get a concentrated waft of the shit heap

Just maybe like scroll past a Tweet if you see it, snowflakes!

Surely the airports will at least erect some cardboard standees of TSA agents to dissuade potential malcontents.

bitchass motherfucker:

President Trump on Friday threw cold water on the idea of immediately declaring a national emergency to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, reversing days of signals that he might soon declare the emergency amid a protracted standoff with Democrats over a partial shutdown of the federal government.

"What we're not looking to do right now is national emergency," he said Friday afternoon, surrounded by law enforcement officials at a White House roundtable. “I’m not going to do it so fast.”

The president has defiantly said for days he might declare a national emergency to expedite construction of the wall — and his administration has asked agencies to begin preparations.

But he has gotten sharp pushback, even from Republicans, at the notion of declaring such an emergency. His lawyers have privately warned that he could be on shaky footing with such a move, according to people familiar with the discussions.

The House broke for the weekend Friday, all but ensuring that the partial government shutdown would become the longest in U.S. history.

plays with the MSM like a kitty with yarn

Lol some national emergency.

You see the trick is to keep harping about a non-existent national emergency until you've managed to create a legitimate, unrelated national emergency in the interim and then you can just pretend like that was the emergency you were alluding to the whole time.

NB airports are not required to use TSA to run their security checkpoints iirc

Remember that time a horde of illegal immigrants snuck over the border with those planes and threw them at the WTC? That is the crisis we're trying to forestall here, and if it means letting TSA agents go home and play Xbox all day so be it.

The worst was when that guy ran all the way from Oaxaca to Atlanta to ruin the Olympics

plays with the MSM like a kitty with yarn

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, January 11, 2019 3:26 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IDK I feel like the MSM makes out pretty good during all of this. So many clickable stories- and they don't really look bad reporting what someone says and then what they say later instead.

trump fu says he locks out TSA, threatens to shittweet airlines unless they operate and somehow pick up slack, we have a series of terrible crashes, then demands we try the TSA "strikers" for murder.

the question is if everything the OG says is subject to change, is anything he utters really news

Here's some unalloyed good news.

Sandy Hook families just won a court victory against Alex Jones that gives them access to InfoWars internal financial documents. https://t.co/BLJYOsuyqf

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 11, 2019