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Multiple airports refuse to play Kristi Noem video that blames Democrats for government shutdown
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/us/kristi-noem-tsa-video
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/us/kristi-noem-tsa-video
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106 Comments
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 210 pts · 320d
I'm more concerned with the majority of airports that went "Yes mein Fuhrer, instead of news channels we will play this glorious propaganda video!"
I mean, good on those that resisted of course.
blattrules@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 320d
Agreed, the real story here is how many airports are showing this if only a handful have resisted.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 320d
Do they say the breakdown? I’m curious how close it is to 50%
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 6 pts · 320d
Not in this article. And I'm sure they'd've chosen a different headline if the percentage was significant. OTOH this story is still developing.
Chozo@fedia.io · 142 pts · 320d
The democrats have literally no power with which to induce a shutdown. This is the work of republicans.
themaninblack@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 320d
Need 60 votes in the senate and it’s 53 republicans in there atm
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 69 pts · 320d
so Republicans need votes and to get votes you need policy so its still the Republicans fault for not courting policy to court votes
themaninblack@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
Agreed.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 320d
They can lower it back to 51 like before the no-show filibuster rules and keep it at 51, but that takes away a major tool used for corruption and obstruction. Or they can just not cause people's insurance premiums to skyrocket next year.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 320d
No, they literally don’t.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 320d
They don't and they do. They could blow up the filibuster for good, but they don't want Democrats to be able to use the Senate fully with just 51 votes.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 320d
So, in your own words, they just don’t want to end the shutdown then. They absolutely could if they wanted to.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 320d
Yeah, I wasn't exactly disagreeing.
Grimtuck@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
I'm in the UK so appreciate the extra detail about how broken your political system is.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 320d
It's a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that, not only can no one agree what the picture is supposed to be of, but also a lot of folks want to burn some of the pieces - different pieces, for different reasons.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 319d
If they or the democrats vote to blow up the filibuster, couldn’t they just filibuster the vote?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
They'd complain even if they had all of the votes.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
No no no, they are still secretly in charge!!!
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 140 pts · 320d
So I did some ducking around for a list of Trump's hatch act violations, and it seems there where so many during the 2020 campaign that nobody has gotten around to compiling a list of ones so far this year.
Apart from this, I know he's used the whitehouse page as his personal blog, and the housing administrations was being used for a political billboard...
What's the latest rule on how many times one has to blatently break a law before it goes into effect?
snooggums@piefed.world · 98 pts · 320d
If Democrat then one.
If Republican then infinity.
CompostMaterial@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 320d
Remember that time Obama wore tan suit? Such of outrage!
meco03211@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 320d
Treasonous it was! Almost as bad as Dijon Mustardgate. I swear that man has no bottom to the depths of his depravity.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 320d
bidens tan suit, walking barefoot on a beach, getting a hotodog, sipping from a STRAW, how outrageous. and it was jesse watters doing all these segments.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
That and his infernal time machine. He keeps traveling around in it and doing shit to make Republicans look bad.
I remember when the conservatives were positively beside themselves, not knowing how to deal with him being biracial. On the one hand, they really, really wanted to use the n-word on some days. On other days, they'd want to, for some odd reason, point out to everyone that he's half-white, you guyz! He was committing the "crime" of being something they could not put in one box, and you just know how the conservative brain cannot deal with ambiguities...
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 8 pts · 320d
In RepubliSpeak that's being a strong leader and getting things done.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 12 pts · 320d
off topic: I'm glad the term is catching on
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 9 pts · 320d
"duck around, find out"
verdantbanana@lemmy.world · -71 pts · 320d
If democrat your democrat blue team is infallible but if your republican then your republican red team is infallible
With football politics the only right people are the ones making you believe you are part of their football team mean political party same thing here in the United States
As long as the one breaking the rules are from the persons political football team then they are doing no wrong democrat or republican
Actual merits and job performance and anything else that could make or not make someone hirable does not apply here just blind tribal sports politics ruling the day
Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 41 pts · 320d
You made TWO braindead Both Sides arguments under the same post, great job. Forget to sign into your alt account again?
verdantbanana@lemmy.world · -40 pts · 320d
Unlike republicans and democrats do not feel the need for alt accounts or shadow play
Rather do it in the light out in public
village604@adultswim.fan · 24 pts · 320d
Are the Democrats and Republicans in the room with you now?
BadmanDan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 320d
Yes, I am former President Bill Clinton on my burner account and I approve of this courageous voyagers message!
bizzle@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 320d
Can you give some examples of a time when a Democrat president just flagrantly disregarded the law with absolutely no repercussions
BadmanDan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 320d
Andrew Johnson with torpedoing reconstruction?
Just off the top. As for modern era politics, not really.
twack@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
Yea, see that's why a question like that has to come with qualifiers. Andrew Johnson was a democrat, but he was a conservative democrat from before the party flip.
He'd be a republican under the modern party ideals.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 320d
Obama drone striking American nationals on foreign soil with no due process.
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
::: spoiler Leaked Drone Papers
:::
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 320d
Leahy Law
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 16 pts · 320d
You're not wrong, but. As I replied to your other comment:
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 12 pts · 320d
This comes from a third party football team viewpoint that labels both the dominant teams misguided and seemingly infallible following, while also thinking their alternate team would be infallible if it could play.
There can be blind loyalty to anything. That's human nature. But you ignore the many times Democrats have burned their own because they do tend to take the higher path, whereas Republicans are more known to march in step and protect their own, usually while projecting onto the left the same behavior they did.
Your caricature is a strawman of politics. I wish it was as simplistic as you make it out to be.
BadmanDan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 320d
Yeah, that’s called electoral politics. Do you know how earlier we would’ve gotten civil rights if the right were too busy arguing over who was more racist, whilst letting pro civil rights politicians gain power. Would’ve been awesome.
Unfortunately, right wingers know when to lock in and stop ANY semblance of progress from the left. I wish the left would figure this out by now.
verdantbanana@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 320d
the last president supported segregation of schools
sorry but dont just grow up from that take it from my great grandparents
and the last election we had harris and walz who both worked with republicans
walz worked with trump to take care of protesters that were fighting for all of us to live in a clean environment but hey democrats should get a free pass because they say and do a few good things compared to the republicans who democrats are supposedly fighting against on our behalf
at the dnc protesters who were fighting for all us there as well to have healthcare, a world without war, living wages, etcetera were locked out but the republicans and celebrities got in and had grand ol' time at the gala
where does the differences come in and how is does it help when democrats are bathing and sleeping with republicans
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 9 pts · 320d
It's not that you're wrong, it's that you're trying to use a broad brush that groups everyone in the same light. No one is getting a free pass either, all of those have been mentioned in the scope that Democrats need to do better, and stop only going halfway when they manage to get traction. The American people need to do better too, the acceptance that this is how it is contributes to the problem. As does the apathy of "both sides" which you're using here.
As a side note: I'm usually not a stickler for grammar and spelling, I figure if there is understanding any mistakes are fine in a casual discussion. But I have to say your sentence structure is hard to follow sometimes. A bit better wording would allow your points to flow a bit better.
andxz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
You should probably take your meds regularly. Who knows, maybe you'll feel better after a while.
anal_groove_parabola@lemmy.myserv.one · 82 pts · 320d
My 86y old Dad was trying to tell me "but it's Chuck Schumer holding back the vote". When I explained that the three branches of govt are controlled by the Republicans he didn't want to hear it.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 320d
Years ago my dad said Obama left the economy in tatters after his 2nd term. I started opening my laptop and said we'd go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' website so we could look at the hard data over time. He changed the subject and walked away.
I don't really talk to him anymore unless necessary.
They're brainwashed to a degree that can't be fixed. They're gone.
Cargon@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 320d
It is not feasible to deprogram over 100 million people. Not sure what comes next.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 320d
especially with russian propaganda reiniforcing the right wing MSMs, which almost all the msm in the US.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
Nope. And typically when people are deprogrammed it's because they make the commitment to themselves to do it. That's not going to happen here.
Honestly, what I'm assuming comes next is that over the course of our lives this country will turn into something between North Korea and Russia. There's just too many low IQ brainwashed fools and not enough people left over willing to do what needs to be done to fix this. And this isn't WW2. The rest of the world isn't going to step in to sort it out for us.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 320d
thats exactly how these low information people react when confronted, they stop talking about it, they pick up the habit from FOX, to avoid hearing about the truth, so they can keep thier lie going.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 320d
It is amazing how the democrats are simultaneously incompetent and weak yet at the same time they still control everything even when the right is in charge of everything.
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 320d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 320d
...just like Russia!
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 320d
Those people are taking all of our welfare, and all the jobs!
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 319d
Oh, and you just had that neurosurgeon job all-lined up, eh?
Taldan@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 320d
Republicans have given zero concessions in the spending bill, yet half the country voted for Democrats. Democrats are asking for basically nothing, yet Republicans won't compromise even slightly
It's not a coincidence that we have yet another shutdown under Trump. It's a strong arm tactic Republicans use to give zero concessions when passing spending bills
DrMorose@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
Hell the last CR we had the GOP pulled back and reallocate funds that the Dems specifically wanted. So even if they do get concessions what can stop the same thing from happening twice?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
Punishing Americans as a strategy. Seems like something an enemy of our nation would do.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 320d
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 320d
They dont like it when facts and logic get in the way of their hatred.
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 53 pts · 320d
I feel like this is backfiring for Republicans. No one sees them as honest anymore.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 320d
I'll call it backfiring when anyone does anything effective to stop them.
BadmanDan@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 320d
Why does this country get amnesia about republicans everytime a democrat is president? Trump and Elon laughed about Union Busting on a public Twitter space call….. LITERALLY LAST YEAR DURING THE CAMPAIGN
meco03211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
That was like a decade ago in political time.
Linktank@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 320d
Their base is a bunch of morons, they either STILL don't get it, or will NEVER care. Because aside from pure morons is the pure evil group that gets off on this shit.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 320d
There is no changing the minds of their base, what matters is getting uninterested voters to realize they need to actually participate in democracy while we still have it.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
Yes but the other party isn't going to fix everything instantly, so we might as well let the outright fascists win again.
xabit24368@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 184d
Hrm, I don't think that's the best course of action. Do you have experience in governing large bodies of people?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 320d
No sane person.
Problem is, mentally ill cultism is all too popular right now.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
people have never actually cared about that sort of thing
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
Unless you live in the giant GOP media bubble where you don’t hear the truth about these folks. Which is 59% of the US.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 320d
Seriously. Just go into /r/conservative and look what "news" they are reading. It is all rage-bait stories about violence in the world caused by people of color or immigrants or leftists. There are no stories at all about the shutdown. I was flying home from vacation two days ago and could see the Fox News stories on a guy's TV in front of me. It was all rage-bait with no actual news stories, not even fake news stories blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 320d
Punchable face.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 320d
You know how much she paid for that face?!
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 320d
Was it a punchable amount?
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 3 pts · 320d
Not enough apparently.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
One of the funnier signs about the dog-killer.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/maga-manbabies-getting-real-scared
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 320d
They should play that clip of Donald trump that says:
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 320d
Why would an airport be "playing" a politically biased message in the first place? They're for international travel, not deciding who to vote for..
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 318d
I mean, this is the 2.0 version of an administration that held up relief checks so the vainglorious Taco could get his name on them...
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 320d
It should be zero airports playing that Nazi propaganda.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 320d
"We have always been at war with Eastasia."
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 320d
1/2 of china, and 1/2 of russia.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 320d
I really hope to see her tried in front of an international tribunal and punished accordingly someday
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 320d
her plastic surgery face mask might escape before that happens.
Zink@programming.dev · 10 pts · 320d
Why does the real world have to be a YA novel adaptation with paper-thin and one-dimensional villains who are not believable?
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 320d
Young Adult Dystopian literature, imo, is really under-respected. It captures realities of politics and power in a way that is understandable and relatable to even people with only partially developed minds, and simultaneously it depicts those realities in a way that is often more accurate to reality than the more subtle "adult" approaches. Reality ain't always subtle or complicated. In fact, it's often such a repetitive tune that anyone who really cares to listen to the music is driven nuts by it and wishes it would play a different melody for once. Novelty is a lot more necessary to make entertaining media, but reality has no obligation to be entertaining. Ultimately, I think YA fiction is often great "by accident". In being a product for developing minds who are only hearing the endless hymn of humanity now for the first time in their life, it is able to be entertaining without requiring creativity on behalf of the producers - in the same way that gimmicky toys that sold well 50 (or even 500) years ago can still sell well today: there's a child born every minute who hasn't seen the gimmick yet and isn't old enough to be tired of it. But in the case of YA fiction, the exploitation of this dynamic actually frees authors from the constraint of catering to so-called refined tastes that demand things like subtlety, nuance, creativity, unwillingness to rehash the same old ideas, and so so on. These tastes are really just demands for more stimulating entertainment. As a result, YA lit may not be very entertaining to the perceptive adult reader, but by shedding this need for "lowly" entertainment it can ironically begin to function more like "true art", or at least one flavor of true art: holding up an undistorted mirror to the world regardless of whether you find the reflection entertaining to look at.
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 320d
Her message in all sports makes this world feel even more dystopian. Throw a sledgehammer at her
anal_groove_parabola@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 320d
Like the apple Superbowl add?
1984 Superbowl add
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 320d
Would be funny if they played that South Park clip instead.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 320d
The day I start seeing state propaganda in airports is the day I stop flying.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 319d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 320d
Smartly given they don't want air rage to become a thing.
verdantbanana@lemmy.world · -63 pts · 320d
Should be obvious at this point that democrats and republicans both have repeatedly failed to run the government for the people
Both parties are just tools for the owner class and past time everyone sees it
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 52 pts · 320d
There are differences though, and ignoring them is just as bad as not seeing the problem.
verdantbanana@lemmy.world · -52 pts · 320d
Of course blue and red are different colors with obvious differences
Does not mean not both colors
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 34 pts · 320d
That's not the start of a meaningful discussion, sorry.
village604@adultswim.fan · 15 pts · 320d
They're just a troll
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
Do you train to be this ignorant? Is there some daily exercise you do to specifically kill brain cells?
iceonfire1@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 320d
Well, democrats are asking to extend current discounted health insurance costs for everyone and republicans implemented massive tax cuts that gave the top 5% of earners 3-4x the tax benefit compared to the lower 40% Link.
So no, the parties actually take substantially different views on the so-called owner class.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 320d
Are you fucking seriously trying to “both sides” this shit? Yes Democrats have leadership problems, but I haven’t seen the blatantly violate the Hatch act and other laws to use the government like this.
BadmanDan@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 320d
As someone who’s followed politics pre-trump. Trust me, the Dems have undoubtedly moved further left, even just 10 years ago.
Usually there’s like 7-10 Manchins and Sinemas. Now there’s just like 3.
verdantbanana@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 320d
no that is called aging and dying off
because elections are rigged when the information for the elections are bought/controlled by the same owner class that are trying to sell you products that are also buying politicians and the same owner class that also owns the voting machines that are used to vote for our politicians and the same owner class that owns the local news and national news plus all media
BadmanDan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 320d
Brother, 48/50 Dem senators voted for Biden’s BBB.
That would be unheard of in a year like 2010.
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one · 19 pts · 320d
How many Venezuelans have the Democrats blown up this year?
BadmanDan@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 320d
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
Cope
BadmanDan@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 320d
Triumph@fedia.io · 9 pts · 320d
bOtH sIdEs
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 320d
I remember when I was "bOfE sYdEz" until I got off my lazy fucking ass and started looking up both party's voting history and criminal conviction history and actually started watching representatives from both sides and how they presented themselves and realized that one side was WAY, WAY, WAY better than the other and that you'd have to be an idiot to play the both sides game, especially when the stakes are so high.