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cbabe

(6,221 posts)
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 12:40 PM Dec 18

Sean Duffy's daughter melts down at 'unconstitutional' TSA after 'invasive pat-down'

https://www.rawstory.com/duffy-tsa-daughter-rant/

Sean Duffy's daughter melts down at 'unconstitutional' TSA after 'invasive pat-down'

David Edwards
December 18, 2025 11:44AM ET

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter, declared that the Transportation and Security Administration was "unconstitutional" after she was forced to wait 15 minutes for a pat-down.

I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I'm pregnant and didn't feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner," Duffy-Alfonso wrote in a Thursday post on X. "The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it's 'safe.'"

After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight. All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn't even good at its job," she ranted. "Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly if I'd handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR). Then I could enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country. Is this freedom?"

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Sean Duffy's daughter melts down at 'unconstitutional' TSA after 'invasive pat-down' (Original Post) cbabe Dec 18 OP
Well, you voted for this. Repeatedly. Initech Dec 18 #1
She should complain to Sean Duffy. Kid Berwyn Dec 18 #2
Boo. Fucking. Hoo. GoCubsGo Dec 18 #3
I have a little sympathy for what she's saying. spooky3 Dec 18 #4
It's been like this since 9/11. Thanks to the Republicans. yardwork Dec 18 #18
Always a good idea to allow time. Nt spooky3 Dec 18 #20
Was she suspected of smuggling in an "illegal" immigrant? An "anchor baby"? Ping Tung Dec 18 #5
She's trying the family business maxrandb Dec 18 #6
Didn't daddy tell her to get to the airport 2 hrs early, Historic NY Dec 18 #7
I am there at least 2 hours and 15 minutes early for flights. ProudMNDemocrat Dec 18 #9
OMG, 15 whole minutes??? OUTRAGEOUS!!! tanyev Dec 18 #8
She would have felt fine if she had dressed better and done some pull-ups while she waited Whyisthisstillclose Dec 18 #10
The scanners used in US airports today don't expose you/your baby to danger in the first place AZJonnie Dec 18 #11
Another one of those, it's ok iof they do it to you, BUT bluestarone Dec 18 #12
Did she say "Do you know who my Daddy is?" maveric Dec 18 #13
I'm sure our founding fathers wrote oodles of info about airplanes, darling. GreenWave Dec 18 #14
Well ... President Trump Said Revolutionary War Troops 'Took Over the Airports' in His Fourth of July Speech cbabe Dec 18 #15
In Vancouver, coming back to USA, the leader ordered Zackzzzz Dec 18 #16
Horrible nt spooky3 Dec 18 #17
She seems nice Renew Deal Dec 18 #19
"How Dare They Feel Me Up?!? MineralMan Dec 18 #21

GoCubsGo

(34,675 posts)
3. Boo. Fucking. Hoo.
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 12:48 PM
Dec 18

If you don't like it, complain to your asshole father. This is largely his doing. Or, do you think him being Transportation Secretary puts you above the rest of us? (I'm going to guess the answer to that is "yes." )

spooky3

(38,282 posts)
4. I have a little sympathy for what she's saying.
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 12:48 PM
Dec 18

Security is important and these folks are just doing their jobs. But some of it does seem performative and intrusive.

I have Global Entry and a Known Traveler number (this shows on the boarding pass, so it ought to help). I always inform the agents I have an artificial left knee, so they wave me over to a special scanner where you raise your arms, etc. Of course, the scanner shows metal in my knee (duh). Each time afterward, they call over a female agent (sometimes quick, often not) who then does an ALL OVER pat down, in front of everyone. Really? Why are ALL of these steps necessary?

Maybe her complaint is what it will take to get Daddy to revise the procedures.

yardwork

(68,983 posts)
18. It's been like this since 9/11. Thanks to the Republicans.
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:10 PM
Dec 18

It is what it is. In this case, if she "almost missed her flight" because it took 15 extra minutes to get through TSA, then that's her fault. She should have gotten to the airport sooner. I give myself two hours to get through TSA for domestic flights, more for international, because it can be a chaotic mess. And I have pre-check.

She sounds like a spoiled brat.

maxrandb

(17,173 posts)
6. She's trying the family business
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 12:51 PM
Dec 18

"Famous for being famous"

Fuck the social media, reality TV, Tic-Toc, Entertainment Tonight, TMZ, Kardashian fucksticks that foisted these completely unserious people on our country.

Oh, and fuck the casting director for Home Alone 2, too!

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,630 posts)
9. I am there at least 2 hours and 15 minutes early for flights.
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 12:57 PM
Dec 18

What's her beef?

I have often had to step aside because like many female Senior citizens, we need to wear protection from bladder leaks. It's not like we are carrying a weapon on board.

tanyev

(48,675 posts)
8. OMG, 15 whole minutes??? OUTRAGEOUS!!!
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 12:56 PM
Dec 18

Sounds like Evita wants everybody to cry for her.

AZJonnie

(2,839 posts)
11. The scanners used in US airports today don't expose you/your baby to danger in the first place
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 01:12 PM
Dec 18
Most U.S. airport body scanners do not expose you to dangerous levels of radiation, and the type now in standard use does not use x‑rays at all.​

Millimeter‑wave scanners do not add to your ionizing radiation dose at all; agencies describe their output as thousands of times weaker than a typical cellphone exposure and not a health risk at screening levels.​

Even the old backscatter x‑ray units delivered on the order of 0.03–0.1 microsievert per scan—roughly a few minutes of normal background radiation, and far less than the extra cosmic radiation you get from the flight itself or from a single chest x‑ray.​

So in today’s U.S. airports, the scanners in normal use rely on non‑ionizing radiation and are considered safe at the doses involved; any ionizing‑radiation systems that existed in the past used extremely low doses, small compared with everyday background and medical exposures.


Also I've had a pat down a number of times, and they were never "absurdly invasive". BTW, Princess Duffy? If you had to wait 15 mins, it could be because Trump/DOGE has cut staff in so many federal agencies, you ever think of that?

cbabe

(6,221 posts)
15. Well ... President Trump Said Revolutionary War Troops 'Took Over the Airports' in His Fourth of July Speech
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:07 PM
Dec 18

TIME
https://time.com › 5620936 › donald-trump-revolutionary-war-airports

Trump Says Revolutionary War Troops 'Took Over the Airports' | TIME

President Trump said that the Continental Army "took over the airports" from the British during the American Revolutionary War during his Fourth of July "Salute to America" speech.

Zackzzzz

(265 posts)
16. In Vancouver, coming back to USA, the leader ordered
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:07 PM
Dec 18

pat downs, wands and I went through the machine twice, setting off alarms.
On the third go through, I told the staff, please, let me show you my hip replacement scar.
In Texas, the woman wanted to take me to a private room.
I said no, so in public, she put her hands inside my pants, but over my underwear.
She questioned me as why I was wearing loose pants.

We were gifted a Xmas basket of cheeses and pates and we put them in our checked bag.
When we got home we saw the bag had been opened.
The inspectors had separated the cheese and pates into different plastic bags.
The dogs must have gone crazy over the deer liver pate.

The funniest was when we carried 2 lbs of pastrami from Katz deli in our carryon.
It was called a biomass. They let us take it home.


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