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kentuck

(115,393 posts)
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:09 AM 22 hrs ago

And so it begins...

ICE agents storm into our airports to assist the TSA with security. They walk around like the cocks on the block. They hover over the agents as they try to do their jobs. They intimidate the traveling public. They slam women to the floor and handcuff them, in front of their children, all the while yelling profanities.

This is a test. If they can enter our airports and intimidate people, what's to keep them from entering our polling places. This is the beginning and how we react will determine what they do in the future. Republicans pray to their God that the American people do not wake up from this nightmare. Otherwise, there would be hell to pay.

Democrats have offered to fund TSA separately in order to keep the air traffic moving, but Republicans have voted it down several times, at the orders of their leader, Donald J Trump.

There is presently a full-scale attack on our voting system and the Republicans are putting their faith in Donald Trump to save their jobs and careers, by whatever means necessary.

This is where we are on March 24th, 2026.

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And so it begins... (Original Post) kentuck 22 hrs ago OP
Trump is demonstrating that he has a personal Army he can send anywhere in the US. Irish_Dem 22 hrs ago #1
They are paid well with taxpayer dollars... kentuck 22 hrs ago #2
Yes Trump's personal mercenary army is paid for by the US taxpayer. Irish_Dem 22 hrs ago #4
Just like popsdenver 16 hrs ago #22
The new recruits... GiqueCee 21 hrs ago #9
THIS malaise 22 hrs ago #3
Daily Beans is breaking this morning that ICE in airports IS INDEED, Volaris 21 hrs ago #7
He's also showing us what he's going to do Farmer-Rick 20 hrs ago #14
Just as Trump has ICE, Hitler had his Brown Shirts. The Wizard 15 hrs ago #26
Indeed! Never forget and Never again! calimary 12 hrs ago #30
Mission as I see it.... FarPoint 21 hrs ago #5
it is madness, that i don't know how it ends. Republicans are sick cowards. Shitblimp won't sign any new bills LymphocyteLover 21 hrs ago #6
Because EuterpeThelo 20 hrs ago #11
Thanks--that sounds like a relatively decent outcome, considering all the bad ways it can go LymphocyteLover 15 hrs ago #24
Are you sure about that? Dave says 12 hrs ago #29
As long as EuterpeThelo 10 hrs ago #33
ShitBlimp made me laugh - TY. NoMoreRepugs 20 hrs ago #12
Fascism marches forward. Joinfortmill 21 hrs ago #8
Goosesteps would be more accurate. The Wizard 15 hrs ago #27
I believe it's now a federal police force. A Gestapo of sorts JohnnyRingo 21 hrs ago #10
Stop Flying America Tbear 20 hrs ago #13
That works (for some) but what happens when they come to the polling places? BWdem4life 17 hrs ago #18
My thoughts were that it would send an economic lesson (thedonald seems to notice those) Tbear 16 hrs ago #23
Each day we seem to lose more rights and gain more monitoring. democrank 20 hrs ago #15
Well, at least they know they're free. . . DinahMoeHum 19 hrs ago #16
Wait until he makes it our new national anthem. littlemissmartypants 17 hrs ago #17
Hmmm isn't there a big protest coming up on March 28th? 1WorldHope 16 hrs ago #19
The sliver lining to trump's SS Gestapo at airports, republianmushroom 16 hrs ago #20
And what they are seeing isn't very impressive, displacedvermoter 14 hrs ago #28
I find it interesting that ICE thugs are sans masks at airports. Prairie_Seagull 16 hrs ago #21
I'm hoping people are taking lots of pictures of the non-masked iceassholes oberle 7 hrs ago #34
May be smart to record them from a gate Prairie_Seagull 4 hrs ago #36
If more TSA agents stop showing up bacause they're fed up with having paid goons over their shoulders ChicagoTeamster 15 hrs ago #25
'so it begins' GenThePerservering 11 hrs ago #31
This is the plan. To cause chaos at the polling stations LiberalLovinLug 11 hrs ago #32
This is control..mental abuse having to wait hours with musical propaganda blaring like N Korea 🤬 Deuxcents 6 hrs ago #35

Irish_Dem

(81,119 posts)
1. Trump is demonstrating that he has a personal Army he can send anywhere in the US.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:16 AM
22 hrs ago

And they will do whatever he tells them to do.
No limitations or restraints.

kentuck

(115,393 posts)
2. They are paid well with taxpayer dollars...
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:19 AM
22 hrs ago

...and are receiving large bonuses to sign up. It is more money than most have them have ever seen. Most are having a difficult time not wearing their masks and trying to stay away from cameras.

Irish_Dem

(81,119 posts)
4. Yes Trump's personal mercenary army is paid for by the US taxpayer.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:33 AM
22 hrs ago

And he will pardon all of them for their crimes.
They have little or no training.
Their mission, is to kill, harm, intimidate, bully all of us into compliance.

popsdenver

(2,236 posts)
22. Just like
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 01:17 PM
16 hrs ago

Hitler's SS GESTAPO..........

Doesn't DeSantis have HIS own personal 100 person police force down in Florida......

GiqueCee

(4,177 posts)
9. The new recruits...
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:30 AM
21 hrs ago

... get all excited about big bonuses until they find out that they come with a long list of onerous "conditions".

Volaris

(11,677 posts)
7. Daily Beans is breaking this morning that ICE in airports IS INDEED,
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:20 AM
21 hrs ago

A test run for sending them to polling places, recommended to Trump BY STEVE BANNON.

Come hell or high water, I want that fat fascist asshole in a Congressional witness chair, govt employee or not.

I'll say this, dealing with ICE will result in the most respect the TSA has ever gotten from the American Public in their history, I guess there's that lol....

Farmer-Rick

(12,635 posts)
14. He's also showing us what he's going to do
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:29 AM
20 hrs ago

At the voting booths. Bye-bye democracy and all pretense of a real voting system.

The Wizard

(13,721 posts)
26. Just as Trump has ICE, Hitler had his Brown Shirts.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 02:31 PM
15 hrs ago

Last edited Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Never forget and never again.

FarPoint

(14,752 posts)
5. Mission as I see it....
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:53 AM
21 hrs ago

to evoke national outrage, chaos, terror and intimidation.... Distrations are his weapon.

LymphocyteLover

(9,812 posts)
6. it is madness, that i don't know how it ends. Republicans are sick cowards. Shitblimp won't sign any new bills
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:09 AM
21 hrs ago

until his insane SAVE America Act passes so not clear how the TSA funding gets resolved. Shiitblimp isn't listening to anyone sane. So the US airline business is fucked up the wazoo???

EuterpeThelo

(329 posts)
11. Because
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:47 AM
20 hrs ago

if he takes no action on a bill passed by Congress, it automatically becomes law after ten days. That's assuming they can actually FUNCTION and get a bill passed to fund TSA, FEMA, etc., of course.

LymphocyteLover

(9,812 posts)
24. Thanks--that sounds like a relatively decent outcome, considering all the bad ways it can go
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 01:53 PM
15 hrs ago

JohnnyRingo

(20,855 posts)
10. I believe it's now a federal police force. A Gestapo of sorts
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:32 AM
21 hrs ago

Not only for deployment at polling precincts, but future "illegal" protests and mass rallies..

Tbear

(698 posts)
23. My thoughts were that it would send an economic lesson (thedonald seems to notice those)
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 01:20 PM
16 hrs ago

That ICE presence equals pain.

democrank

(12,582 posts)
15. Each day we seem to lose more rights and gain more monitoring.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:36 AM
20 hrs ago

Trump’s private police force is a threat to all of us, a chilling danger to our democracy.

DinahMoeHum

(23,591 posts)
16. Well, at least they know they're free. . .
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:44 AM
19 hrs ago

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers.

(video shared directly with me)

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2026-03-23T17:01:29.684Z

1WorldHope

(2,042 posts)
19. Hmmm isn't there a big protest coming up on March 28th?
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:48 PM
16 hrs ago

I bet they would love to slam zone t protesters to the ground who were flying to DC. Of you are going to DC, drive.

republianmushroom

(22,297 posts)
20. The sliver lining to trump's SS Gestapo at airports,
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:54 PM
16 hrs ago

now the upper middle class and middle class is having to deal with them.

Prairie_Seagull

(4,676 posts)
21. I find it interesting that ICE thugs are sans masks at airports.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:59 PM
16 hrs ago

Will this be the policy on voting day? Hmmmm

oberle

(349 posts)
34. I'm hoping people are taking lots of pictures of the non-masked iceassholes
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 10:36 PM
7 hrs ago

Hoping something can be done with the pictures.

Prairie_Seagull

(4,676 posts)
36. May be smart to record them from a gate
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 01:06 AM
4 hrs ago

you are not about to use. Keep eyes open if attempting this. All the cameras at an airport anyway, should curtail some of the aggressiveness, Of course masks off will work against the idea of to much mischief or Death.

The idea we have to even discuss this makes me want to get comfortably numb.

ChicagoTeamster

(906 posts)
25. If more TSA agents stop showing up bacause they're fed up with having paid goons over their shoulders
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 02:26 PM
15 hrs ago

while they aren't getting paid, especially paid goons who can't and don't help with anything, maybe they'll pull them out of the airports.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,678 posts)
32. This is the plan. To cause chaos at the polling stations
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 06:24 PM
11 hrs ago

They will do a similar takedown like they did with the mother and child at the airport......only right in the middle of a lineup to vote. Probably to multiple stations. The news will dutifully report it, left leaning channels will amplify it the most. The word will get out. Stay away from voting if you are a new immigrant who doesnt pass the darkness shade test.

Deuxcents

(26,782 posts)
35. This is control..mental abuse having to wait hours with musical propaganda blaring like N Korea 🤬
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 10:49 PM
6 hrs ago
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