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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts) Sat Jan 26, 2019, 10:36 PM Jan 2019

Apparently The Key To Preventing Future Shutdowns Rests With TSA Screeners At Reagan Airport?

Well that's SIMPLE then, isn't it? According to this Washington Post article, the only time Republican Senators felt inconvenienced by the shutdown was when they tried to travel back and forth through the f--king AIRPORT.

EASY SOLUTION! Next time there's a stupid government shutdown (aka Republican temper tantrum), all the TSA screeners at Reagan and Dulles Airports have to do is call in sick. Ditto for the air traffic controllers. Get enough screeners, customs officers, and air traffic controllers calling in sick to force a shut down of Dulles and Reagan Airports....AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL RE-OPEN!

I hope you TSA people are paying attention. The future of these stupid shutdowns is in your hands from now on.

"some Republican senators said they “never really felt the urgency” of the funding lapse, except perhaps when they were going through airport security. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-hope-we-get-some-common-sense-republicans-reeling-from-political-damage-cause-by-shutdown/2019/01/26/d50b87d4-2189-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html

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Apparently The Key To Preventing Future Shutdowns Rests With TSA Screeners At Reagan Airport? (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Jan 2019 OP

TSA, FBI, secret service agents, and more were not paid. earthshine Jan 2019 #1

Apparently GOPers only concern about the shutdown Iliyah Jan 2019 #2

Dan Savage mentioned this on Bill Maher last night too. BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #3

He did. 2naSalit Jan 2019 #4

This is what you get when you google it.... BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #5

ITTMFA Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #9

Works for me! BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #10

what's the saying bdamomma Jan 2019 #6

I think it was actually the Air Traffic Controllers localroger Jan 2019 #7

La Guadia would have affected Hannity DFW Jan 2019 #12

"They get to skip the TSA theatre"? HipChick Jan 2019 #14

For one thing, not flying commercial localroger Jan 2019 #15

I never have to take off my shoes, belt, coat or take out a my laptops either.. HipChick Jan 2019 #16

If the shutdown continued, the airport workers in ATLANTA. . . DinahMoeHum Jan 2019 #8

Please think about this a minute nitpicker Jan 2019 #11

I flew through Dulles Jan. 17 and 21 DFW Jan 2019 #13

earthshine

(1,642 posts)

1. TSA, FBI, secret service agents, and more were not paid.

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 10:42 PM

Jan 2019

But Congressional and White house members and staff were paid.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

2. Apparently GOPers only concern about the shutdown

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 10:51 PM

Jan 2019

was airport security, and nothing else.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)

3. Dan Savage mentioned this on Bill Maher last night too.

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 10:54 PM

Jan 2019

2naSalit

(86,582 posts)

4. He did.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 11:39 PM

Jan 2019

And He had a shirt that said ITMFA and seems to support an org called ITMFA.org.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)

5. This is what you get when you google it....

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 11:43 PM

Jan 2019

ITMFA. Acronym. Definition. ITMFA. Impeach the Mother Figure Already (polite form)

*I like the impolite form better.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,342 posts)

9. ITTMFA

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #5)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 12:26 AM

Jan 2019

malaise added the second 'T' for Treasonous. I like it.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)

10. Works for me!

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #9)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 12:43 AM

Jan 2019

bdamomma

(63,845 posts)

6. what's the saying

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 11:48 PM

Jan 2019

give them the taste of their own medicine!!!

localroger

(3,626 posts)

7. I think it was actually the Air Traffic Controllers

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 12:06 AM

Jan 2019

Their sick-out actually delayed flights at LaGuardia, which was probably the first actual inconvenience any senatorial types had experienced. They get to skip the TSA theatre, after all.

DFW

(54,370 posts)

12. La Guadia would have affected Hannity

Reply to localroger (Reply #7)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 05:02 AM

Jan 2019

Trump listens to him more than he listens to any Senators.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

14. "They get to skip the TSA theatre"?

Reply to localroger (Reply #7)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 10:01 AM

Jan 2019

How so?

localroger

(3,626 posts)

15. For one thing, not flying commercial

Reply to HipChick (Reply #14)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 10:06 AM

Jan 2019

There is no TSA theatre in general aviation; in fact, there is really no security AT ALL. And when they do fly commercial I would be seriously surprised to hear that they have to take off their shoes like the rest of us.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

16. I never have to take off my shoes, belt, coat or take out a my laptops either..

Reply to localroger (Reply #15)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 10:46 AM

Jan 2019

Neither does anyone going through pre-check TSA...not really any special treatment there

DinahMoeHum

(21,784 posts)

8. If the shutdown continued, the airport workers in ATLANTA. . .

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 12:21 AM

Jan 2019

. . .would no doubt have taken their cue from LaGuardia. . .and adversely affect the Super Bowl.
Coming and going.

Heh heh. . .chew on THAT.

nitpicker

(7,153 posts)

11. Please think about this a minute

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 03:45 AM

Jan 2019

I once was delayed for TWO DAYS at LAX due to plane unavailability.

Fortunately, I was planning on vacation time before a conference.

But what of those who needed to appear Right Now at a conference, a deathbed, or whatever??

I may be speculating that some of you in the words of CSNY:

And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by...

I could not attend a deathbed because of 9/11.

Please think about everyone else, not just the Congresscritters and their bankrollers.

DFW

(54,370 posts)

13. I flew through Dulles Jan. 17 and 21

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Sun Jan 27, 2019, 05:07 AM

Jan 2019

I didn't notice any problems, but that may have just been the odd times I was flying. Monday afternoon at 3:30 PM is slow at just about ANY airport.

Though I usually fly into National (those of us who grew up there NEVER call it "Reagan&quot when I fly up from Dallas, when Virgin America got eaten up by Alaska Airlines, they dropped their Love Field-National Airport route, and I was forced to fly American out of DFW.

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