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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd so it begins...
ICE agents storm into our airports to assist the TSA with security. They walk around like the cocks on the block. They hover over the agents as they try to do their jobs. They intimidate the traveling public. They slam women to the floor and handcuff them, in front of their children, all the while yelling profanities.
This is a test. If they can enter our airports and intimidate people, what's to keep them from entering our polling places. This is the beginning and how we react will determine what they do in the future. Republicans pray to their God that the American people do not wake up from this nightmare. Otherwise, there would be hell to pay.
Democrats have offered to fund TSA separately in order to keep the air traffic moving, but Republicans have voted it down several times, at the orders of their leader, Donald J Trump.
There is presently a full-scale attack on our voting system and the Republicans are putting their faith in Donald Trump to save their jobs and careers, by whatever means necessary.
This is where we are on March 24th, 2026.
Irish_Dem
(81,153 posts)And they will do whatever he tells them to do.
No limitations or restraints.
kentuck
(115,400 posts)...and are receiving large bonuses to sign up. It is more money than most have them have ever seen. Most are having a difficult time not wearing their masks and trying to stay away from cameras.
Irish_Dem
(81,153 posts)And he will pardon all of them for their crimes.
They have little or no training.
Their mission, is to kill, harm, intimidate, bully all of us into compliance.
popsdenver
(2,253 posts)Hitler's SS GESTAPO..........
Doesn't DeSantis have HIS own personal 100 person police force down in Florida......
GiqueCee
(4,197 posts)... get all excited about big bonuses until they find out that they come with a long list of onerous "conditions".
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Volaris
(11,690 posts)A test run for sending them to polling places, recommended to Trump BY STEVE BANNON.
Come hell or high water, I want that fat fascist asshole in a Congressional witness chair, govt employee or not.
I'll say this, dealing with ICE will result in the most respect the TSA has ever gotten from the American Public in their history, I guess there's that lol....
Farmer-Rick
(12,638 posts)At the voting booths. Bye-bye democracy and all pretense of a real voting system.
The Wizard
(13,721 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:34 PM - Edit history (1)
Never forget and never again.
calimary
(89,950 posts)Thank you, The Wizard! What a great slogan!
FarPoint
(14,754 posts)to evoke national outrage, chaos, terror and intimidation.... Distrations are his weapon.
LymphocyteLover
(9,814 posts)until his insane SAVE America Act passes so not clear how the TSA funding gets resolved. Shiitblimp isn't listening to anyone sane. So the US airline business is fucked up the wazoo???
EuterpeThelo
(331 posts)if he takes no action on a bill passed by Congress, it automatically becomes law after ten days. That's assuming they can actually FUNCTION and get a bill passed to fund TSA, FEMA, etc., of course.
LymphocyteLover
(9,814 posts)Dave says
(5,416 posts)I thought that was a pocket veto.
EuterpeThelo
(331 posts)Congress is in session at the time.
NoMoreRepugs
(12,058 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,107 posts)The Wizard
(13,721 posts)JohnnyRingo
(20,862 posts)Not only for deployment at polling precincts, but future "illegal" protests and mass rallies..
Tbear
(701 posts)If you dont have to fly, dont.
Shut the airlines down.
BWdem4life
(3,000 posts)Tbear
(701 posts)That ICE presence equals pain.
democrank
(12,589 posts)Trumps private police force is a threat to all of us, a chilling danger to our democracy.
DinahMoeHum
(23,596 posts)Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwoodâs âGod Bless the USAâ blasts through the speakers.
— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2026-03-23T17:01:29.684Z
(video shared directly with me)
littlemissmartypants
(33,400 posts)1WorldHope
(2,047 posts)I bet they would love to slam zone t protesters to the ground who were flying to DC. Of you are going to DC, drive.
republianmushroom
(22,304 posts)now the upper middle class and middle class is having to deal with them.
displacedvermoter
(4,415 posts)quite honestly.
Prairie_Seagull
(4,677 posts)Will this be the policy on voting day? Hmmmm
oberle
(351 posts)Hoping something can be done with the pictures.
Prairie_Seagull
(4,677 posts)you are not about to use. Keep eyes open if attempting this. All the cameras at an airport anyway, should curtail some of the aggressiveness, Of course masks off will work against the idea of to much mischief or Death.
The idea we have to even discuss this makes me want to get comfortably numb.
ChicagoTeamster
(920 posts)while they aren't getting paid, especially paid goons who can't and don't help with anything, maybe they'll pull them out of the airports.
GenThePerservering
(3,336 posts)Is getting pretty tired.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,680 posts)They will do a similar takedown like they did with the mother and child at the airport......only right in the middle of a lineup to vote. Probably to multiple stations. The news will dutifully report it, left leaning channels will amplify it the most. The word will get out. Stay away from voting if you are a new immigrant who doesnt pass the darkness shade test.