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Ms. Toad

(38,825 posts)
25. Not funny.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:52 PM
Mar 23

All three of us in my family opt out of millimeter wave screenings. (Once is strictly medically necessary - millimeter wave technology can destroy the functionality of CGMs; the other two are out of an abundance of caution because both of us undergo an extraordinary amount of medical imaging and are at high risk for a half dozen or so cancers. In theory there is no risk - but that's what they told my grandparents when my mother started getting annual chest X-ray rays as a child. We didn't know what we didn't know until it's to late to undo it.). That means each and every time we fly we get an invasive pat down.

My first thought when Trump said he was sending ICE to airports was that they might be used for pat downs. That might be enough to get me to skip the pat down.

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Useless loitering leeches [View all] dalton99a Mar 23 OP
words matter Whip-poor-will Mar 23 #1
Too cowardly to be soldiers and too dumb to be cops. dalton99a Mar 23 #3
Yet I saw three of them on MSNOW and their vests clearly read ICE POLICE spanone Mar 23 #6
Then why do they put the word "police" on their vests? Mysterian Mar 23 #32
To Gaslight & License to Kill. Cha Mar 23 #43
Homan just said on TV ICE is law enforcement officers, Mysterian Mar 24 #44
Unmasked...they all look alike leftstreet Mar 23 #2
All appear to have... 2naSalit Mar 23 #5
Which is why they're called Meal Team Six. llmart Mar 23 #12
That part... 2naSalit Mar 23 #16
Yes like my grandmother used to say A slapped ass on a rainy day Oppaloopa Mar 23 #23
They're indoors, and they have fucking sunglasses on their heads? GoCubsGo Mar 23 #4
So cringe JI7 Mar 23 #7
ICE TSA Goonch Mar 23 #8
Oddly this reminds me of going through the Charles DeGaulle airport in Paris in the 1980s erronis Mar 23 #11
Only missing the dogs, but yeah. GoodRaisin Mar 23 #38
I was at DeGaulle once talking to a United Airlines rep when an alarm sounded. rickford66 Mar 23 #41
Not funny. Ms. Toad Mar 23 #25
Wasn't meant to be funny Goonch Mar 23 #35
I don't think anyone looks at it and says usedtobedemgurl Mar 24 #45
Republicans...oh I see its ICE Historic NY Mar 23 #9
They need high capacity assault weapons? BeneteauBum Mar 23 #10
They feel naked without the weaponry dalton99a Mar 23 #13
At first I thought - whoa, they have faces after all. No masks. notinkansas Mar 23 #15
Is that his mask . . . AverageOldGuy Mar 23 #21
Uh, what's with the noticeable wet spot there sparky?? NoMoreRepugs Mar 23 #31
All airport food services notinkansas Mar 23 #14
I almost didn't recognize them without their masks on. nt Buns_of_Fire Mar 23 #17
Take their pictures, build a database questionseverything Mar 23 #18
Hmmm.... seem more docile without masks... (n/t) Moostache Mar 23 #19
If they were in my infantry platoon -- AverageOldGuy Mar 23 #20
Your last sentence seems to explain it all. calimary Mar 23 #24
Not just that they can't hack actual military or law enforcement, FoxNewsSucks Mar 23 #26
Waiting for the all you can eat at the Sizzler. kairos12 Mar 23 #22
Yeah, they're useless, FoxNewsSucks Mar 23 #27
Just you wait. Their trigger fingers are itching at all those potential 'terroists'. erronis Mar 23 #39
Instead they are doing it in a controlled environment. usedtobedemgurl Mar 24 #46
Tune: "Frere Jacques" DinahMoeHum Mar 23 #28
Mighty professional shitbags right there Aviation Pro Mar 23 #29
Is there an ICE agent alive who ever heard of an iron?? Pride in appearance probably disqualifies one from serving. NoMoreRepugs Mar 23 #30
Why do I have the bad feeling that wnylib Mar 23 #33
Beyond deplorable. Well-funded Nazis. Thanks GOP. We will never forget the abuse you unleashed. nt Evolve Dammit Mar 23 #34
So they are being paid to stand around while the TSA people are working with no pay? Srkdqltr Mar 23 #36
I'm guessing TSA agents can't afford many $5 brekky sandwiches or $13 whopper meals rictofen Mar 23 #37
Exactly. Divert the $$$ going to ICE to pay the TSA and get ICE the hell outta' there. Totally Tunsie Mar 23 #42
I bet they stink. IcyPeas Mar 23 #40
Friendly, too. Kid Berwyn Mar 24 #47
Good, let upper middle and middle class Americans republianmushroom Mar 24 #48
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