Pic Of The Moment: The Current Situation At America's Airports

[EarlG]

Hi-res version

TSA wait times up to 6 hours as ICE, other agents deployed to 14 airports

ICE deployments created chaos for cities and cost them millions, NPR analysis finds

Did Senate vote to fund TSA? Dems push bill to bolster airport security (March 22)

Republicans reject Democrats’ effort to pay TSA by suspending Senate rules (March 21)

GOP Rants About TSA Shutdown Right After Voting Against Funding TSA (March 16)

Republicans block Democratic bill to fund DHS agencies other than ICE, CBP (March 11)

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[orangecrush]

2. Bannon says it's a test run for the mid terms

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221120168

[FakeNoose]

3. "We can't wear masks so we've grown beards instead"

I think their TSA sign-up bonus must be based on how long and full their beards are.

[sop]

7. Neckbeards have become de rigueur for these ICE special ops cosplayers.

ICE goon cowards all want to look like genuine SEAL Team badasses. Special operations personnel are allowed to grow full, thick neckbeards when deployed in combat zones, so they can blend in with local populations and build rapport with tribal leaders. I'm seeing this neckbeard fashion statement everywhere these days, typically it's a MAGA manosphere imbecile wearing a ball cap, camouflge cargo pants and driving a lifted truck.

[Wednesdays]

17. They're all trying to emulate their heroes.

(Confederate generals)





...as well as their current media icons:

[Dave Bowman]

27. They remind me of the Taliban freaks.

[FakeNoose]

29. Also some do the Amish-Mennonite thing

You know, the full scruffy, untrimmed beard, but shave above the lips so there's no moustache.

[sop]

31. There's an Old Testament biblical thing going on for sure.

[Passages]

4. Republican Party will be listed as one of the most corrupt and lethal to its citizenry in world history.

[niyad]

9. Assuming we survive.

[Passages]

10. I worry all the time for our kids.

[niyad]

11. For our kids, the animals, everything on this fragile little blue marble.

Except for those busy destroying it, and us.

[Passages]

16. Exactly right.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Gee, no masks is nice.

Could make good a good comparison piece, showing how much their mugs have changed since getting photographed on January 6, 2021.

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. I bet TSA isn't resentful at all about this

[Initech]

8. Ha ha ha ha ha, oh my god this government sucks so bad.

How much more of this shit are we going to put up with before we throw these assholes out on their ass?

[kimbutgar]

12. WTF is it with these beards?

Do they think it makes them more manly looking?

As a woman I would be turned off, maybe they want to be more attractive to men?

[Wednesdays]

19. See my post #17, above. nt

[kimbutgar]

21. ugh

I dated a guy briefly in college with a beard it stunk and he had food crumbs on it. And when he kissed we it was not a pleasant experience!

Those beards in the 1800's were gross and ugly !

[Wednesdays]

25. I had a COVID beard

I kept it clean and neatly trimmed. Even so, I shaved it off after I saw so many bearded MAGA January 6-ers and I didn't want to even be remotely associated with them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. K&R

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Suddenly no masks?

Or assault rifles. They must feel naked.

[Dave Bowman]

28. The beards must be to compensate a little.

[Tree Lady]

15. I'm assuming when they finally

Get in then have to stand in another long line to change flight they missed.

[Aviation Pro]

18. Undisciplined fucks

I detest those fucking battle beards.

[2na fisherman]

20. Featherbedding

It must be nice for these ICE goons to collect a full federal paycheck for doing next to nothing. Trump's make-work project for ICE becomes little more than theatrics with a pretended concern about airport congestion. And the actors get paid to play (with) themselves in Trump's version of Airport Apprentice.

[jfz9580m]

22. I feel really bad for the TSA officers

What assholes these guys are:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tsa-officer-describes-low-morale-205713230.html

TSA officer describes low morale, struggles since DHS funding fight
Jordan Perkins
Sun, March 22, 2026 at 2:27 AM GMT+5:30


A TSA officer says she and other agency employees feel forgotten during the partial government shutdown, with morale at an all‑time low.

“We feel like we are being completely overlooked,” Jill DeJanovich told NewsNation’s Anna Kooiman. “Every other agency has been funded except for the Department of Homeland Security. We’re the only ones being singled out three times in a row. We feel like no one’s paying attention to what we’re going through.”

DeJanovich, who works at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, said she had to call out of work in the early weeks of the shutdown because she couldn’t afford gas to get there. (wtf?)

“We just cannot afford to keep coming to work with no money,” she said.

Since then, she said she and other TSA employees have received gas cards through community outreach efforts, which have helped them commute. She added that many are still financially recovering from the last shutdown in October. (shameful)

“Our creditors aren’t as willing to work with us as they were before,” DeJanovich said. “So this time we are literally out on our own, trying to just figure it out.”

I feel so bad for her. I read about govt employees (I think that was also the TSA) working two jobs last October.

[FakeNoose]

23. It is unfair, and yes it sucks, but they will be paid for all the hours they've worked

These gov't shutdowns have always operated on that basis. Essential employees will be paid as soon as the shutdown is over.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. "... more fun than storming the Capitol" is the cherry on top, the perfect closing phrase.

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'Cause you ***KNOW*** these guys were there.

Nice work, EarlG.

[Jim__]

26. Trump's "solutions", they make headlines, but they do nothing to resolve problems.

[lonely bird]

30. Well...

They will find one or two immigrants here legally along with a couple citizens they don’t like based on their paranoia. They will zip tie them and Trump will spew how porous the airports are because of Biden.