the Hatch Act is only as effective as the White House decides it will be
Lovely
Same as the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust acts, which is a big reason why we’re here now. So, so much of corporate America is patently illegal, and the feds have done fuck-all about it for decades.
As well they should.
The Confederates are breaking the law, again.
What the actual fuck man. We are turning into north Korea. Love the state obey the state praise supreme leader
We are turning into north Korea.
Conservatives have been pushing to turn America into NK/Russia for a long time now. Looks like they’re finally getting their wish, courtesy of stupid American voters/non-voters.
Or courtesy of election rigging, depending on who you believe.
Since when do airports show government propaganda?
When the people that operate them are all in. This is what Fascism is, when people want to give them their power.
Since Fox “News” has been running nonstop on monitors throughout airports for decades.
oof
Wasn’t it a special version of CNN that avoided talking about plane crashes? Pretty sure that was in nearly every airport for a for decades.
Yes, if not FOX then CNN. Did not know about the special version.
SInce someone realized that it could be done
Well as long as its at least 7.
My only solace is that the boomers waited till they were so fucking old to try to stop the world from changing through fascism.
Hitler shot himself at 56 and had spent a lot of his 30-40s trying to gain power. A lot of the current generation of fascists are a light jog away or botched botox from their death. But fuck this.
This is the part that burns me the most. All this, for a handful of years to sit atop the ashes.
Honestly a trash generation.
I don’t say that lightly, because they exist in my personal life. But as a whole, it’s a fucking garbage generation of humans. Utterly shameful.
… And all the other airports in the country broadcast it?
It looks like they have capitulated, for now. It wouldn’t hurt to contact your local airport to object, and to organize peaceful demonstrations.
The airports that refuse to bend the knee have also released public statements condemning the video. Let’s show them our support! They are:
Portland International
Seattle-Tacoma International
Buffalo Niagara International
Niagara Falls International
Westchester County
Spokane international is on the list as well which is a little surprising as that is an area that favors Republicans in elections.
Glad to hear Denver isn’t doing it. It’s bad enough that these evil pieces of shit are pushing government propaganda, but there is no reason that major airports in blue states should go along with it.
Hell yeah Denver! Fucking love this state.
Same thing. I hope it stays blue. I know a few Taco-lovers that moved out of state because of all the “wokeness”. Pretty fucking weird reason to be moving, if you ask me.
When I saw the headline I felt sure my airport was on the list. Sure enough I am right. Love you PDX
They didn’t capitulate. The decision maker wanted to do it.
this should really fall on the courts to enforce the hatch act & give laws governing officials more teeth… this is insane 1984 level shit
You mean the courts controlled by Reps?
Courts shouldn’t be political. The status is not quo.
It shouldn’t, but these fuckers have shown they got people everywhere. Wouldn’t be surprised that when the time comes they’ll show their true colors.
“This is probably not a Hatch Act violation, because it’s not tied to an election,” Cynthia Brown, senior ethics counsel at the non-partisan ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told Forbes.
Not tied to an election? What? What rock are you living under?
There really isn’t any opposition to the GOP anymore. Just variations of complicity.
Good god, the morons in office right now are so fucking stupid. They have to make videos to put out and blame the left for all the dumb shit they do. They did it! They did it! Despite having the minority in all branches of the gov, it’s totally them.
Fuck off fascists
The video isn’t for us.
It’s for their followers.
For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.
Nearly three dozen …. Including the 10 busiest …. Affecting 1/3 of us air travelers ……
Did this story change after being posted or is the headline way downplaying this?
tbh I could also easily see a ton more not playing it but opting not to publicize the fact that they aren’t playing it (ignored media request for comment).
That and not all airports even have TVs setup by the TSA checkpoint, or they’re hardly used.
This was posted 2 days ago. Of course things have changed.
The fucking Maggats are like a clown version of the NAZIs, trying to ape their practices whilst being total incompetent klutzes at doing it.
It would be hilarious if america wasn’t fucking stupid enough to fall for it. Every. Damn. Time.
Well, on the upside America might actually survive the Trump regime purelly because of how, even with a fucking master plan seemingly made by smarter people, they’re horribly inept at making it work, mainly because everybody in that Administration has been chosen based on loyalty or looks and not at all on demonstrated execution abilities.
Imagine if instead of a gaggle of morons, that Administration was instead made up of competent people with domain-applicable experience.
How many laws do they need to break in order for something to actually be done? They are clearly mentally ill and none of them are based in reality, so we need to get them out of office.
None of this is ok and none of this is normal.
They are not mentally ill, they would gladly twist a toddler’s neck for a couple bucks. And that’s been rewarded in America for centuries.
That is a mental illness. These people have a serious hoarding disorder, and they can’t stop accumulating money. They have enough money that neither they, nor their descendants for the next century could possibly spend it all, and yet they will still walk through fire, or hire someone else to, to get even more.
If those people hoarded cats, or rusty cars, or newspapers, or general junk, we would get mental health care for them, and dismantle their collection. Psychopathic Oligarchs are no different. We should involuntarily commit them to mental hospitals to treat their hoarding issues, confiscate the bulk of their treasure, and keep them from rebuilding their fortunes.
Turns out all the people in positions of power who swore an oath to protect our nation are feckless cowards.
The people are going to have to do this or it isn’t happening.
It should be all of them. Get that fascist propaganda out of here.
telling travelers “Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government” and claiming that is why “most of our TSA employees are working without pay.”
Honestly the TSA shouldn’t exist, it’s a graft and corruption scheme created by the Bush Jr administration so guys like Michael Chertoff could steal taxpayer money.
They can’t even perform their stated functions, there have been numerous instances of them failing to detect firearms and bomb parts during tests, they fail the majority by a wide margin.
It’s a “make-work” program. Those people should be building hospitals in rural communities, fixing roads and bridges. At least that would have a return on investment.
Same with ICE, and the entire DHS, frankly.
The day I saw you could pay to get expressed through the TSA lines was the day it became 100% apparent it was nothing more than a grifting scheme.
What is the Republicans end game here? Democrats aren’t going to vote for his bill without getting anything in return. Why would anyone think otherwise.
I mean, Democrats have a history of terrible negotiations. I think republicans are correct that if they win the PR war democrats will fold, even if I wish it weren’t so.
Historically, republicans take every opportunity to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, and democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
They do, but I’m a little surprised by how well they’ve positioned themselves on this one. It seems to me that the most likely scenario is that the Republicans will give nothing on principal, the shutdown will go until November when the premiums increase, and the country will see that the Republicans would rather close the government for two months than spare them a doubling or tripling of their healthcare costs.
And all the while Trump trashes the government in an attempt to retaliate, without really understanding that the government provides services that people, his voters included, depend on. I’m not sure, “the Democrats made me do it,” will save him with anyone other than his cult members.
I am cautiously optimistic.
Exactly, the last democrat to capitulate to republicans without getting anything in return was John Fetterman, and it’s not like he didn’t get his reputation damaged for doing so.
Have you ever known a child who could manipulate his parents by being stubborn and annoying. The parents are incapable of setting boundaries and caving to the child’s demands is easier than having difficult discussions.
Republicans are the children and Democrats are the patents. The parents are now trying to set a boundary. Expect an epic tantrum from the children.
The goal is complete vilification. Then it’s “won’t someone please rid me of these troublesome Democrats”.
They are already vilified by Republicans, so it isn’t like they have anything to lose. If the Democrats cave, they will just be vilified by Democratic voters, too.
They want/need more vilification. The further they vilify, the further they can go on things like project 2025.
Eg you can say they vilified the left 10 years ago, but 10 years ago they wouldn’t have gotten away with deploying the national guard. They get away with it now because of the last 10 years of vilifying even more. Now imagine what they’ll be able to do in the next 5 to 10 years.
Yeah, you’re right, the average republican voter thinks that democrats are vile, hateful, literally evil people that want to end their way of life… but they also can’t point to something major is going to ruin their life in the next two months. Fuck with all those fools’ health insurances, and every other service that’s going to be sputtering in the gutter, and now you have the whole, “society is only [X] meals away from anarchy/revolution/chaos,” AND you have the army of fools ‘rising up’ pointed at your political enemies for the thing they’re now mad specifically about, rather than just generally.
It’s also just part of their general faux news schtick: repeat the same thing, over and over. In this case, it’s that democrats are the bad guys and at fault for everything. Can’t let up the propaganda stream, or the people might start having independent thoughts in those heads. Maybe those thoughts would be that the republicans aren’t on their side, or maybe that capitalism isn’t benefiting any of them… so better keep it up.
I mean, it feels like Repubilicans have gone too far on this one. It’s just becoming noise. No one believes the Republicans anymore. Someone neutral could ask, “If you want the Democrats to vote for it, what did you do to get their vote?” And the response would be, “Nothing.”
No one believes the Republicans anymore.
You and I wish. I am in a red area, and the only thing that has changed in the last 10 months is that some people who were sucking orange man’s virtually present dick are now also returning to saying that ‘politicans are bad,’ which is how they compartmentalize the pedophilia. Three guesses who they think are the pedophilic politicians.
Also correct me if I’m wrong but don’t the Reps have a majority? Like they don’t even need the Dems?
