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kentuck

(115,419 posts)
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:09 AM Mar 24

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

Irish_Dem

(81,437 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
Mar 24

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

kentuck

(115,419 posts)
2. They are paid well with taxpayer dollars...
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:19 AM
Mar 24

...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

(81,437 posts)
4. Yes Trump's personal mercenary army is paid for by the US taxpayer.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:33 AM
Mar 24

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

(2,325 posts)
22. Just like
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 01:17 PM
Mar 24

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

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

GiqueCee

(4,305 posts)
9. The new recruits...
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:30 AM
Mar 24

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

Volaris

(11,719 posts)
7. Daily Beans is breaking this morning that ICE in airports IS INDEED,
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:20 AM
Mar 24

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

(12,683 posts)
14. He's also showing us what he's going to do
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:29 AM
Mar 24

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

The Wizard

(13,747 posts)
26. Just as Trump has ICE, Hitler had his Brown Shirts.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 02:31 PM
Mar 24

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

Never forget and never again.

FarPoint

(14,787 posts)
5. Mission as I see it....
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:53 AM
Mar 24

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

LymphocyteLover

(9,863 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
Mar 24

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

(371 posts)
11. Because
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:47 AM
Mar 24

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.

JohnnyRingo

(20,885 posts)
10. I believe it's now a federal police force. A Gestapo of sorts
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:32 AM
Mar 24

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

Tbear

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

That ICE presence equals pain.

democrank

(12,614 posts)
15. Each day we seem to lose more rights and gain more monitoring.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:36 AM
Mar 24

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

DinahMoeHum

(23,617 posts)
16. Well, at least they know they're free. . .
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:44 AM
Mar 24

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

(2,063 posts)
19. Hmmm isn't there a big protest coming up on March 28th?
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:48 PM
Mar 24

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

(22,344 posts)
20. The sliver lining to trump's SS Gestapo at airports,
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:54 PM
Mar 24

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

Prairie_Seagull

(4,701 posts)
21. I find it interesting that ICE thugs are sans masks at airports.
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:59 PM
Mar 24

Will this be the policy on voting day? Hmmmm

oberle

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

Hoping something can be done with the pictures.

Prairie_Seagull

(4,701 posts)
36. May be smart to record them from a gate
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 01:06 AM
Mar 25

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

(984 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
Mar 24

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

(14,693 posts)
32. This is the plan. To cause chaos at the polling stations
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 06:24 PM
Mar 24

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

(26,998 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
Mar 24
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