The Department of Homeland Security, which houses agencies focused on immigration, disaster response and cybersecurity, is on track to shut down Saturday as lawmakers leave town without a funding agreement or a deal that Democrats hope will rein in the conduct of federal immigration officers.
The Democrats didn’t cave for once. Good job.
Hey there’s still Friday. Don’t ever let defeat escape from the jaws of victory
Yet. Give Schmuck & Jeffries more credit. They’ll figure out how to fuck this up, they always do. It’s their specialty.
True. They are experts at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Don’t worry, they will. As is tradition.
“You see that huge wall over there, Schumer? That’s the wall of victory. You only need to touch it and everything is over. We win.”
Schumer: “where are its jaws? I hear that’s where it keeps the goods.”
They’ll still cave. Also, ICE already has $75B in hand to work with. They won’t be impacted by the shutdown at all. Unlike the TSA, ICE will still get paid for working.
TSA sucks too, though. Security theater that strips travelers of 4th amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure. Tons of shit that isn’t supposed to get past the TSA does and people are chosen at random for enhanced screening where they have to open their bags for no good reason. Also those X-ray machines were never proven to br necessary or safe.
Nah for real fuck the TSA too, they were an overreach during the Bush era that never got put to bed. It was a stealth jobs program to help cover Bush’s shitty economy.
Haven’t they failed 70-95% of their handgun check tests historically? Yup, security theater.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/oct/23/bruce-schneier-airport-security
Having visited the US from outside, it’s not even good security theatre. They seemed the least competent airport security I’ve dealt with. That list includes Kazakhstan and several middle eastern countries.
I mean… That’s why it’s called theater, because its theatrics to make you feel secure but doesn’t actually secure anything at all.
Most of what they do is security theatre as well. They are just a lot more competent and efficient about it.
Had a friend who worked customs. 95% of their actual work was behind the scenes. Most of the public facing stuff was book keeping and window dressing.
“Submit or don’t fly” is now “Submit or die”.
The constitution is long gone.
I really hope something good actually happens, but we have had good reason in recent history to not give them credit until they actually accomplish something. The last… performance they gave ended in caving without any concessions.
Part of what made me so angry the last time is that now, even if they are serious this time, there’s no reason for the red hats to take them seriously.
Give it a minute.
up until the distraction is enabled in media then they go ahead with it.