At Least 7 Airports Refuse To Broadcast DHS Video Blaming Democrats For Shutdown
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/10/13/airports-refuse-dhs-video-blaming-democrats-shutdown-not-hatch-act-violation/
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thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 166 pts · 323d
Lovely
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 48 pts · 322d
Same as the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust acts, which is a big reason why we're here now. So, so much of corporate America is patently illegal, and the feds have done fuck-all about it for decades.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 149 pts · 323d
As well they should.
The Confederates are breaking the law, again.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 118 pts · 322d
Since when do airports show government propaganda?
someguy3@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 322d
When the people that operate them are all in. This is what Fascism is, when people want to give them their power.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 322d
Since Fox "News" has been running nonstop on monitors throughout airports for decades.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 8 pts · 322d
oof
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 322d
Wasn't it a special version of CNN that avoided talking about plane crashes? Pretty sure that was in nearly every airport for a for decades.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
Yes, if not FOX then CNN. Did not know about the special version.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 5 pts · 322d
SInce someone realized that it could be done
RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 97 pts · 323d
... And all the other airports in the country broadcast it?
WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world · 124 pts · 323d
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 323d
Spokane international is on the list as well which is a little surprising as that is an area that favors Republicans in elections.
Source
WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 322d
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 322d
Glad to hear Denver isn't doing it. It's bad enough that these evil pieces of shit are pushing government propaganda, but there is no reason that major airports in blue states should go along with it.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 322d
Hell yeah Denver! Fucking love this state.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
Same thing. I hope it stays blue. I know a few Taco-lovers that moved out of state because of all the "wokeness". Pretty fucking weird reason to be moving, if you ask me.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
When I saw the headline I felt sure my airport was on the list. Sure enough I am right. Love you PDX
someguy3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
They didn't capitulate. The decision maker wanted to do it.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 70 pts · 322d
Not tied to an election? What? What rock are you living under?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 322d
There really isn't any opposition to the GOP anymore. Just variations of complicity.
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 63 pts · 322d
Good god, the morons in office right now are so fucking stupid. They have to make videos to put out and blame the left for all the dumb shit they do. They did it! They did it! Despite having the minority in all branches of the gov, it's totally them.
Fuck off fascists
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 322d
The video isn't for us.
It's for their followers.
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 45 pts · 322d
Well as long as its at least 7.
My only solace is that the boomers waited till they were so fucking old to try to stop the world from changing through fascism.
Hitler shot himself at 56 and had spent a lot of his 30-40s trying to gain power. A lot of the current generation of fascists are a light jog away or botched botox from their death. But fuck this.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 322d
This is the part that burns me the most. All this, for a handful of years to sit atop the ashes.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
Honestly a trash generation.
I don't say that lightly, because they exist in my personal life. But as a whole, it's a fucking garbage generation of humans. Utterly shameful.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 322d
What the actual fuck man. We are turning into north Korea. Love the state obey the state praise supreme leader
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
Conservatives have been pushing to turn America into NK/Russia for a long time now. Looks like they're finally getting their wish, courtesy of stupid American voters/non-voters.
avattar@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 322d
Or courtesy of election rigging, depending on who you believe.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 321d
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 322d
this should really fall on the courts to enforce the hatch act & give laws governing officials more teeth.. this is insane 1984 level shit
derpgon@programming.dev · 6 pts · 322d
You mean the courts controlled by Reps?
absentbird@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 322d
Courts shouldn't be political. The status is not quo.
derpgon@programming.dev · 2 pts · 321d
It shouldn't, but these fuckers have shown they got people everywhere. Wouldn't be surprised that when the time comes they'll show their true colors.
notannpc@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 322d
It should be all of them. Get that fascist propaganda out of here.
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 36 pts · 323d
What is the Republicans end game here? Democrats aren't going to vote for his bill without getting anything in return. Why would anyone think otherwise.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 44 pts · 322d
I mean, Democrats have a history of terrible negotiations. I think republicans are correct that if they win the PR war democrats will fold, even if I wish it weren't so.
Historically, republicans take every opportunity to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, and democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
hypna@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
They do, but I'm a little surprised by how well they've positioned themselves on this one. It seems to me that the most likely scenario is that the Republicans will give nothing on principal, the shutdown will go until November when the premiums increase, and the country will see that the Republicans would rather close the government for two months than spare them a doubling or tripling of their healthcare costs.
And all the while Trump trashes the government in an attempt to retaliate, without really understanding that the government provides services that people, his voters included, depend on. I'm not sure, "the Democrats made me do it," will save him with anyone other than his cult members.
I am cautiously optimistic.
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 322d
Exactly, the last democrat to capitulate to republicans without getting anything in return was John Fetterman, and it's not like he didn't get his reputation damaged for doing so.
athairmor@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 322d
Have you ever known a child who could manipulate his parents by being stubborn and annoying. The parents are incapable of setting boundaries and caving to the child’s demands is easier than having difficult discussions.
Republicans are the children and Democrats are the patents. The parents are now trying to set a boundary. Expect an epic tantrum from the children.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 322d
The goal is complete vilification. Then it's "won't someone please rid me of these troublesome Democrats".
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 10 pts · 322d
They are already vilified by Republicans, so it isn't like they have anything to lose. If the Democrats cave, they will just be vilified by Democratic voters, too.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 322d
They want/need more vilification. The further they vilify, the further they can go on things like project 2025.
Eg you can say they vilified the left 10 years ago, but 10 years ago they wouldn't have gotten away with deploying the national guard. They get away with it now because of the last 10 years of vilifying even more. Now imagine what they'll be able to do in the next 5 to 10 years.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 322d
Yeah, you're right, the average republican voter thinks that democrats are vile, hateful, literally evil people that want to end their way of life... but they also can't point to something major is going to ruin their life in the next two months. Fuck with all those fools' health insurances, and every other service that's going to be sputtering in the gutter, and now you have the whole, "society is only [X] meals away from anarchy/revolution/chaos," AND you have the army of fools 'rising up' pointed at your political enemies for the thing they're now mad specifically about, rather than just generally.
It's also just part of their general faux news schtick: repeat the same thing, over and over. In this case, it's that democrats are the bad guys and at fault for everything. Can't let up the propaganda stream, or the people might start having independent thoughts in those heads. Maybe those thoughts would be that the republicans aren't on their side, or maybe that capitalism isn't benefiting any of them... so better keep it up.
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 322d
I mean, it feels like Repubilicans have gone too far on this one. It's just becoming noise. No one believes the Republicans anymore. Someone neutral could ask, "If you want the Democrats to vote for it, what did you do to get their vote?" And the response would be, "Nothing."
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 322d
You and I wish. I am in a red area, and the only thing that has changed in the last 10 months is that some people who were sucking orange man's virtually present dick are now also returning to saying that 'politicans are bad,' which is how they compartmentalize the pedophilia. Three guesses who they think are the pedophilic politicians.
TassieTosser@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 322d
Also correct me if I'm wrong but don't the Reps have a majority? Like they don't even need the Dems?
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 322d
The fucking Maggats are like a clown version of the NAZIs, trying to ape their practices whilst being total incompetent klutzes at doing it.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 322d
It would be hilarious if america wasn't fucking stupid enough to fall for it. Every. Damn. Time.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 322d
Well, on the upside America might actually survive the Trump regime purelly because of how, even with a fucking master plan seemingly made by smarter people, they're horribly inept at making it work, mainly because everybody in that Administration has been chosen based on loyalty or looks and not at all on demonstrated execution abilities.
Imagine if instead of a gaggle of morons, that Administration was instead made up of competent people with domain-applicable experience.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 322d
I'd love to see a real instance of "The Storm" if Democrats were to get back in the WH....issue warrants for every single one of those responsible for shit like this.
Arrest every single one of those in his cabinet. Arrest everyone in his family.
I know the pearl-clutching "centrists" will cry about "tone" and "civility" and how this is only going to make Republicans worse. Fuck that. Make Republicans motherfucking SCARED to try this kind of shit again. As they should be.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 7 pts · 322d
Huge if the democrats go back to the white house: it's time to reconciliation, time to leave the past past and to heal wounds * do nothing *
callouscomic@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 322d
Whatever happened to the fucking Hatch Act?
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social · 15 pts · 322d
Probably floating in some plastic container in the ocean with the rest of the rule of laws they threw out.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 322d
How many laws do they need to break in order for something to actually be done? They are clearly mentally ill and none of them are based in reality, so we need to get them out of office.
None of this is ok and none of this is normal.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 6 pts · 322d
They are not mentally ill, they would gladly twist a toddler's neck for a couple bucks. And that's been rewarded in America for centuries.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 322d
That is a mental illness. These people have a serious hoarding disorder, and they can't stop accumulating money. They have enough money that neither they, nor their descendants for the next century could possibly spend it all, and yet they will still walk through fire, or hire someone else to, to get even more.
If those people hoarded cats, or rusty cars, or newspapers, or general junk, we would get mental health care for them, and dismantle their collection. Psychopathic Oligarchs are no different. We should involuntarily commit them to mental hospitals to treat their hoarding issues, confiscate the bulk of their treasure, and keep them from rebuilding their fortunes.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
Turns out all the people in positions of power who swore an oath to protect our nation are feckless cowards.
The people are going to have to do this or it isn't happening.
pachrist@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 322d
For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 321d
Nearly three dozen …. Including the 10 busiest …. Affecting 1/3 of us air travelers ……
Did this story change after being posted or is the headline way downplaying this?
mlg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 321d
tbh I could also easily see a ton more not playing it but opting not to publicize the fact that they aren't playing it (ignored media request for comment).
That and not all airports even have TVs setup by the TSA checkpoint, or they're hardly used.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 321d
This was posted 2 days ago. Of course things have changed.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 322d
Honestly the TSA shouldn’t exist, it’s a graft and corruption scheme created by the Bush Jr administration so guys like Michael Chertoff could steal taxpayer money.
They can’t even perform their stated functions, there have been numerous instances of them failing to detect firearms and bomb parts during tests, they fail the majority by a wide margin.
It’s a “make-work” program. Those people should be building hospitals in rural communities, fixing roads and bridges. At least that would have a return on investment.
Same with ICE, and the entire DHS, frankly.
dellish@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 322d
The day I saw you could pay to get expressed through the TSA lines was the day it became 100% apparent it was nothing more than a grifting scheme.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 323d
Is this the one where she’s cranking Lewandowski’s ridiculous stub with her grizzled paws?
No? Different video then. I mean she blames Democrats for both.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 322d
“Don’t broadcast bad breath…”
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 321d
markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
I recently went to two different airports and didn't see this at either. I think local airports are just ignoring this shit.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 322d
dellish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 322d
I know koalas are sleepy bastards, but at least try reading the article. They aren't showing the video due to policies that forbid advertising that names any particular political party. They aren't taking a moral stand, they're just following normal boring guidelines.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 321d
You do know this is an insult to koalas, and may get you in trouble with koala and environmental activists.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 321d
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 321d