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BumRushDaShow

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7. That's how it used to be

Reply to Dumpy (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 13, 2026, 10:56 AM

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before Shrub created the monstrosity known as "DHS" and then grabbed some Dept. of Transportation people out and combined with them contracted screeners who had been working at the airports, and made them unionless feds. They finally got a union only recently.

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