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Ms. Toad

(38,607 posts)
25. Not funny.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:52 PM
Monday

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