Senate Passes Short-Term Deal To Reopen Government, With Trump's Endorsement
President Trump has endorsed a bipartisan deal that would end the 35-day partial government shutdown. The three-week stopgap funding measure would reopen shuttered agencies while negotiations continue.
Trump announces deal to lift shutdown
President Donald Trump has endorsed a deal to reopen the US government for three weeks, after a record-breaking shutdown of federal agencies.
But the pact does not include any money that Mr Trump has demanded for a US-Mexico border wall.
See also: Dem senator unveils 'Stop STUPIDITY Act' to prevent all shutdowns
White House: 'Large down payment' on wall could end government shutdown
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Friday January 25 2019, @11:56PM (8 children)
What I find interesting is how the media is pumping the lack of TSA agents as the reason for airport slowdowns. They really, really don't want us to remember that we could do without TSA.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @12:04AM (4 children)
That isn't some narrative, lack of TSA agents is the actual reason for slowdowns. Everyone already knows the TSA is garbage, but getting the politicians to repeal the Patriot act and whatever other nonsense they shoehorned in is the actual problem.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:24AM (3 children)
You just don't get it. The TSA is the slowdown. We boarded planes for decades without any TSA. The TSA came along, and the boarding became slower, and more miserable for everyone. Not to mention more hazardous. Anyone with an attitude* can now be arbitrarily sidelined into an interrogation room, and possibly never heard from again.
*For those who didn't know it, the TSA quickly measures passenger's attitudes on a Mark VI Attitudometer, accurate to fifteen decimal points. The process is all sciency, with no pseudoscience involved.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday January 26 2019, @04:42PM (2 children)
I got felt up by the TSA - not Kevin Spacey style but unwarranted action anyway. I was in a rush and didn't take all the paper crap out of my pockets that wont set off a metal detector. They caught that. Then I didn't get it all because I was also frustrated. They caught that too. That got me selected for some kind of more enhanced treatment.
They pulled me aside, made me wait for a few minutes, then an agent came over and rubbed my back a bunch. I didn't really enjoy it but I think he did.
I feel so much safer.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @06:59PM (1 child)
I've never not had a TSA agent check my back. I always bring a backpack when I fly and sweat accumulated under it. I'm wondering when they'll start checking that it's less than 3 ml.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday January 26 2019, @08:13PM
I wonder if it is the least effective thing to do by design. On the assumption the TSA is all theater then this lets them pretend to do something, actually touch you while doing it, and in one of the least offensive places possible.
I can't imagine what could be hidden on your back but I'm not much of a criminal or terrorist. But I understand theater a bit
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @01:09AM (2 children)
The TSA are the only thing keeping us from getting embroiled in unwinnable foreign wars against countries that never attacked us in the first place.
Back in the early 00's before we didn't have the TSA, and that is exactly what happened. Thousands of people died.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday January 26 2019, @01:18AM
It was the reinforced cockpit doors wot done it.
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(Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:09AM
They are also responsible for smartphones, American Idol, and the Trump Presidency. After all, back before 2000 when there was no TSA, no-one had those either.
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