Security lines at JFK airport, NYC

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Tired of waiting winning yet?
Pleease Mr. President, no more winning!
Mr. President, it’s too much winning!
A man came up to me once, big man, strong man, with tears in his eyes and said. Mister President we are waiting winning too much, please Mister President we are tired or waiting winning.
guys you need to start bonking
But I can’t find a partner who also wants to bonk and bonking alone just isn’t as good.
Boy am I glad they’re making sure a terrorist with a bomb can’t get onto a plane to kill a lot of people packed together in a crowded place.

Can’t blow up a plane if nobody can get onto the plane!

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Blows up airport instead ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well, that’s not TSAs direct job, so they don’t care.
They’re called TSA, not G(round)SA or A(irport)SA or… for a reason!
TBH I wonder why it hasn’t happened yet. Imagine the loss of freedom 🇺🇸 🦅 once that happens
How about onion layers of security checks that start about a mile from your gate? That way the bad guys are only in the outer lines where passenger density is still low…
Start with Vehicle check points a mile from the airport
It has, in Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings Maybe it wasn’t close enough to scare the ‘muricans?
2016 Brussels bombings - Wikipedia

I’m honestly not too sure USAmericans believe in Belgium.

It’s like global warming or some such.

I was sort of surprised that bombing didn’t have more effects than it did. It really did seem to highlight some issues.

Yes, that was the joke. lol
Terror is so easy to accomplish via random crowds and isolated unprotected infrastructure that it makes one wonder if any of it was really terror.

Let’s concentrate all the people in one place so that they can’t bring weapons onto a plane. Nothing could go wrong…

Just a half dozen bags dropped off in the course of 10 minutes.

These are poor people, so the powers that be don’t care
Yeah guys send the Gestappo. They fix everything
Good thing the US has a high speed railway network like China, Japan, Europe or Morocco, so you don’t need to get on a plane. Oh… wait…
I hear Elon Musk is getting right on that. These conservatives are so efficient and successful! Good thing we keep finding new tax breaks for them.
JFC
No, it’s JFK
Woosh 😁
But sir, it appears that it is actually you that has been wooshed.
😭 plz help me
Upon careful consideration I may also have been wooshed. I don’t know what’s going on.
This is probably not far off from what it’s like to be at that airport right now.

I was making a joke :D

I guess this is why /s is so prevalent these days, it’s very easy to be wooshed.

Well I tried to do a joke too, JFK => JFC jesus fucking christ 😅
Looks like we share the same brain cell, just opposite polarity xD
🫪🫪 <= our two brain cells
Jesus Fucking Khrist
I deliberately searched for this comment.
JFC it’s JFK! F dat, gonna go to KFC.
Looks like a freedom country chicken farm
Why don’t they just let people take their assault rifles onto the plane such that they can defend themselves? Are they stupid?

You dont give up your right to free speech when you get on a plane, why around you give up the right to bear arms?

  • line from an old prairie home companion when I was a kid.
Yeah but.. Is America great again yet?
What? Why? What changed?
I think TSA isn’t getting paid so presumably they’re understaffed
In addition he send the ICE goons to airports. I’ve seen pictures where they operate the computer-terminals. Some looked like teens. Can’t say if they’re at JFK too, though.
Landed at JFK terminal 1 today and there was plenty of ICE goons about, all just standing around and chatting amongst themselves.
Is there any other country on earth that stops working altogether once a year?

Lol I was looking into this the other day. From what I understand it’s to prevent too much power being with any one group in US govt …

Short answer is no, most countries have rules that see public servants (govt. employees) paid even when a departments budget has not been agreed - for example Belgium en.wikipedia.org/…/2010–2011_Belgian_government_f…

2010–2011 Belgian government formation - Wikipedia

Thank you. To give another example, in Italy it is necessary to approve the budget by 31st of December. If this doesn’t happen the budget is controlled by the government but with limitations and only one month at a time. I think it’s a good compromise not to let the country collapse.

I think it’s a good compromise not to let the country collapse.

I agree for most countries.

The other option is if they fail to pass a budget, it triggers an automatic no confidence vote.
Only once a year? Are you talking about the US, because it seems to have stopped working quite some time ago.
I’d honestly just cancel my holiday instead going through that trauma.
wife and i have to fly out of LGA in may to go to daughter’s wedding. not looking forward to the travel. sigh.
people who think they can go though a US airport nowadays is a form of white entitlement
Just wait in the line like a grown up. You can do it!
The greatest country on earth

Sadly this is the reality you guys live in.

I’d much rather have Camacho as the president. At least he knew that he should trust people smarter than him.