S5 E06 - Defunding TSA - Go For It!

TSA Pay Freeze, Media Silence, and the Case to Defund TSA Instead

The script argues that President Trump has identified Democrats as terrorists for using intimidation tactics like shutting down Homeland Security funding, including TSA, but wrongly negotiates with them. It claims media coverage is missing typical manipulation, fearmongering, and questions about security impacts despite unpaid, overworked TSA staff and concerns about threats such as Iran. The speaker suggests the absence of panic indicates TSA may be unnecessary, citing private airport security in parts of the EU and U.S. airports like Sarasota and San Francisco, and argues TSA focuses on guns while 9/11 used box cutters and future threats are better stopped by ICE and the FBI. It proposes a constitutional amendment prioritizing tax spending for essential functions so military, Coast Guard, and TSA are paid before welfare and bureaucrats.

00:00 TSA Pay Chaos

00:53 Defining Terrorism

01:49 Three Tiers Explained

03:02 Democrats As Terrorists

04:06 Shutdown As Proxy War

04:44 Missing Media Narratives

06:46 Private Security Works

08:50 Where Is The Fear

10:56 Do We Need TSA

13:48 TSA Fights Last War

15:58 Flight 93 Changed Everything

16:54 Window Dressing Security

18:26 Guns Versus Batteries

19:32 Fixing Tax Priorities

22:00 Inversion And Closing

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Transcript

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President Trump has found a way to start paying the TSA agents, but he's paying the wrong people. How Everybody has the wrong priorities today. On the 10th, man, people think that President Trump is so extreme, but I like to say he's not extreme enough at times. For example, it took until today for him to finally say that the Democrats are terrorists and they are terrorists. Because what is a terrorist, the word gets thrown around a lot. People like to say that Trump, uh, just like Bush in the past, is a war criminal, or a racist or a terrorist. And these words lose their meaning from overuse because the real meaning of the word terrorist, it's, it's an individual or a group. That uses unlawful violence force and intimidation against civilians or civilian property to cause fear with the aim of coercing a government or a population or an organization to advance their political or their religious or their ideological goals. And these acts usually target non-combatants to maximize public panic. And in our world today, we have three levels of terrorism from the smallest to the largest, from the least powerful to the most powerful, and from the least dangerous to the most dangerous. The first level is the terrorist group. By that we mean groups like Hezbollah or Hamas in the Middle East. In the past we had the PLO in the Middle East and we had the Red Brigades and the RAF in Europe. And then we had groups like Shining Path and Shin Fein elsewhere, all terrorist groups of somewhat limited size because of the next level. We have state terrorism, and these are countries like. Cuba and China and Iran, who give money and support to groups like the ones we just named, and they also act on their own as Iran is doing today. Blowing up innocent people and neutral merchant shipping on the high seas, actual terrorism and war crimes against innocent people. And at the very top level we have. The American Democrat Party. Just like state level terrorists such as Iran support the groups below them. The American Democrat Party supports Iran as well as committing its own acts of terrorism, like shutting down the Homeland Security Administration, including TSA. President Trump has correctly identified the Democrats as a terrorist organization, but he has failed to observe the first rule of dealing with terrorists, and that is you don't negotiate with terrorists. You can only fight them and try to destroy them before they destroy you. Because just like the terrorists in the Middle East, the Democrats attack innocent people. They blame the freedom loving people in America for their attacks, and we can all watch and learn as they adapt their tactics as the rest of us learn to deal with them. Of course, because it's a terrorist attack, they're going after Homeland Security, which means TSA and the Coast Guard and other agencies as a revenge attack, a proxy for their attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They say they don't like ice tactics, and of course they lie. What they really don't like is immigration enforcement. As terrorists, they will then attack ice, and when that fails, they will attack any agency. But oddly, when we talk about this situation, when you see it on the news, there's a lot missing. All of the elements we usually see when the Democrats attack our, our government are missing this time from all the discussion and all the news reporting as a clue to what is missing. Let's look at what motivates the Democrats, and you'll be able to come up with the missing items on your own, because remember that the Democrats in general despise the voters, especially the tax paying voters. And Democrat voters also hate themselves. The people they love are the criminals, the terrorists, and of course the parasites that exist in our own society. The Somali fraudsters, the welfare queens, the students who borrow money to go to college so that they can protest and then not pay back the loans. So one of the first things that's missing is. All of the news manipulation. Remember the last government shutdown and the interviews of the poor snap single mothers with the starving babies? Don't you wonder why the news doesn't feature any starving children from the families of TSA employees today? Those people have kids too, you know? And what about the food banks? The SNAP customers were lining up at the food banks last time, and now the TSA agents are, why is that not in the news? We're gonna tell you why it's not in the news, and the answer is gonna surprise you because the Democrats love big government. So here's another one. Where are the news stories that say the government does things better? TSA is a government agency and it's not doing things well at all. Right now. The government doesn't always seem to work for us, does it? But you know where there are no TSA lines in the European Union. Hmm. The government dominates everything in the European Union, but not TSA in the European Union, they largely have private security. Oh, and not just the EU either. So we just flew back from Florida and it turns out there are no TSA lines at the Sarasota airport because they have private security as well. Okay, fine. That's Florida. But so does San Francisco. The most left-leaning city in America, has private security at their airport. Go capitalism. No lines. And here's my favorite one. Where are all the Democrat voters who are boycotting air travel? I don't know why we even have any lines at the airport. Nearly half of the country voted for Kamala. So all the people who hate Trump, who agree with the Democrats, they should be refusing to travel and there should be no lines. And speaking of reporting at the airport, how about those news reporters at the airport? They'll ask people, so, how's your day going? How are you passing the time? Waiting in line? Are you worried about missing your flight? What they should be asking them is whether they support immigrations and custom enforcement. They should be asking them whether they agree with shutting down airport security as a tactic to influence a political position. And while they're at it, why don't they go into the neighborhoods where the fights against ICE are still going on, and ask the people demonstrating, protesting rioting for immigrants, ask whether they think that TSA agents deserve the treatment they're getting, being expected to work without pay. All of that news reporting is missing. But most of all, in getting to our point. Why is the fearmongering gone? The mainstream media normally loves fearmongering. Why are they not asking these travelers whether or not they feel safe even getting on an airplane? When Elon Musk made his Doge cuts safety was all the press talked about. There were two plane crashes. And they immediately blamed Elon Musk. Well, moving forward to now, a plane crashed into a fuel truck. Last week, one plane crashed because another plane had a problem. And the first thing that should have been said based on how the media normally behaves, was that TS funding cuts may have been a factor or they were not a factor, whatever.'cause I'm not saying they were. Any more than the Doge cuts caused the earlier crashes, but it could be a factor. And normally that's the question the press asks. And speaking of Doge, this change now, it's not a staff reduction, it's a cut. All salaries to TSA have been eliminated. The people that are left, they're angry, they're frustrated, they're tired, and they're overworked. Not only not being, not only they're not being paid, but they're overworked because some of them aren't coming in. But not one peep from the press about whether our security has been affected. And all this while we're effectively at war with one of the countries, Iran, who supposedly would most like to slip a bomb through that security. But all the talk is, is about lines at the airport and being late for spring break. Not anything about security. And why is that? Well, maybe it's because we really don't need the TSA back to ice. One of the things the Democrats have said about ice is that. We didn't have ice before 2003 and we did just fine. Well, that is when Homeland Security started, but nine 11 is testimony to the falsehood of that statement. But the statement also applies to the TSA. We didn't have TSA before 2003, so maybe we don't need it. And the reason all of the items I just listed have been missing from the reporting about the government shutdown. And the long lines of the airport is because we probably don't really need TSA. The Democrats love defunding things and defund the police is one of their slogans. Maybe defund, DTSA should be one of them. Another thing Democrats say is we don't need voter identification. Because there is so very little voter fraud. So why waste time and money on voter identification to prevent fraud? Well, you could say the exact same thing about people crashing airplanes into skyscrapers. Nobody has done that since nine 11. Not one time. And they're not going to, for several reasons, we'll talk about those. So we should keep ice. We should continue to use ice and the FBI to keep radical Muslims from coming here, like the ones from nine 11. Now, I'm not saying if you wanna be around radical Muslims, fine. You can go there. I mean, nobody will. American Muslims don't want to go around radical Muslims, and I wanna emphasize American. We'll talk about that. And the many Muslims in Singapore or in Indonesia, they don't go on vacation to the Middle East. No one wants to be around radical Muslims, so there's no need for us to have them here. And bringing them here is dangerous. So keep ice, keep the radical Muslims out and get rid of TSA, which just hassles us. Now let's be clear, I like Muslims if they're American. This isn't a race or a religious issue, it's a national issue and a cultural issue. We could do a whole podcast on this and we probably will. There are plenty of Americans who happen to be US Muslims, and there are a few in Congress, but you never hear about them. You only hear about the radical ones like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Taleb, who kind of act like terrorists. But we like Americans and we don't like terrorists and we don't care what their religion is. But back to the TSA, what the TSA does and, uh, God bless the TSA agents for, for doing a hard job. But tactically, TSA just offers another example of fighting the last war. That's an old saying about our generals always preparing to fight the last war and not being ready for this one or the next one. So as far as the TSA, what are they hyper-focused on? Guns. Now we're in favor of gun rights, but this is not a gun rights episode, but we have to talk about this because they're hyper-focused on guns. They have all the signs in the airport talking about guns, guns, guns. And nine 11 was done with box cutters, but there's no box cutter signs, and this is all a throwback to the 1960s. Back when hijackers would say, I have a gun. Take me to Havana. Now, if that were going on today, it would, it would be a meme because it did become a, uh, comedy item. It was always a, a skit on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In the hijacker saying, take me to Havana. And while the Democrats are warning us about Christian nationalists, except, uh, the 1960s hijackers weren't Christian nationalists. They were communists. That's why going to Havana and the nine 11 hijackers as well, they weren't Christian nationalists. They were radical Muslim extremists. And on nine 11, it wasn't a passenger bringing a gun onto the plane. Those hijackers didn't use guns. They used box cutters. And how did the box cutters get on the plane? They weren't smuggled. They weren't snuck in. Taking away your cuticle, scissors does nothing to stop that kind of attack. And this was not a take me to Havana attack. They intended to crash the planes, but we didn't know that. And so the passengers and crews complied with the doctrine at that time. Just go along with them. But on flight 93, they didn't. On flight 93, the fourth airplane, they figured out what the goal was. And red-blooded unarmed American men stepped in. And stopped the attack, and that's why that attack failed. Well, think about it. It was a tragedy, but the mission failed and, and thanks to those men, that type of hijacking will never work again. The men won't stand for it. And this is true across all the hijacking modes. Have you ever seen another hijacking like the 1960s? One man with a gun? Take me to Havana. Have you seen another Entebbe? If you know about that one? Have you seen another Lockerbie? No. Because it's asymmetrical warfare and the whole point is to change tactics. So TSA is window dressing something visible to make people feel like something is being done. Somebody do something is what we always say. Well, TSA makes it look like somebody's doing something. And meanwhile, behind the scenes. Agencies like the FBI and ICE are stopping threats by radical Muslims before they happen. That is unless a Democrat judge intervenes and releases the terrorists. So that's why there's no fear mongering, why no one's saying it's unsafe to fly. Oh, they said it briefly. When Trump suggested ICE agents could assist TSA with non-technical roles and put ICE agents in the airport somehow, then it became framed as a security risk. Working shorthanded is fine, but getting some help with some of your non-technical tasks that suddenly makes it risky. Trump derangement syndrome at its finest.'cause not paying TSA workers. Oh yeah, that's fine. So this tells you everything and even the airlines. The airlines love TSA too.'cause it shifts the, it shifts the blame if something goes wrong and there wasn't TSA why you'd blame the airlines. But meanwhile, millions of dollars are spent on TSA. And countless hours wasted by all the people standing in line, even in the best at times. And every year, TSA brags about how many guns they catch, thousands guns that are just found AC by people who brought them accidentally guns that are unloaded. Now, tell me, if you were going to hijack a plane, would you use an unloaded gun? Of course not. As we said, you wouldn't get away with it. With a loaded gun, the people wouldn't stand for it. But meanwhile, lithium battery fires happen about once a week on an American aircraft somewhere, and we welcome lithium batteries on the plane. Now remember, a lithium battery will cause a fire all by itself. It's kind of, uh, intrinsically evil. A gun won't hurt anybody unless there's an evil operator and it has to be loaded. But we let the batteries onboard. So this whole situation, everything involved with the normal enforcement of immigration law, all of the Democrat protests is all political theater. So what do we do? I'll tell you what we really need, and that's a constitutional amendment that says the taxes are for essential government functions and everything else is secondary. Don't you see a huge problem with the fact that the paychecks to TSA and to the US Coast Guard have all come to a stop, yet our taxes continue. The taxes are collected and the parasites get paid, but Medicare and other welfare programs, food stamps, should not get paid before the Coast Guard does, and I shouldn't have to pay taxes in so that the Democrats can just play games with the money. And don't forget the other government employees. There are other government employees who are not getting paid, but they're also not working. The Democrats want to pay people in the opposite order of how important they are. The parasites on food stamps and Medicaid, they're number one on the list. They get free stuff and they don't do a thing. They pay no taxes and contribute nothing to society, and they only take. And the Democrats pay them first and always and brag about it. And then in second place is all the government bureaucrats. When the government shuts down, boohoo, how sad it is for them. I agree, but at least they don't have to go to work either. I'm not saying that having your paycheck cut off is a good thing, but if you are well paid or if you're a good budgeter, you can just live off your emergency fund and then you can go to your cabin or work on your house, participate in your hobbies, and then wait until you go back to work and then you get a big windfall that you didn't have to work for, but then last in line. The people the Democrats dump all over are the people we actually need as a country. TSA, the Coast Guard, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, there's no job more important than theirs so they have to go to work. But we don't pay them for it, and that needs to stop. So what we're left with is a simple contrast. Americans paying their taxes and terrorists in government, seizing them like pirate gold. What we're told is essential. That goes unfunded. And what we're told keeps us safe, disappears without a serious concern. And the one thing we pay taxes for. The preservation of our way of life is treated as optional, negotiable, turned on and off just for political leverage. That's the inversion. So what good people need to do is recognize it, call out the lie, and demand our taxes be spent on the good of the public. All the public. Thank you for listening.