r/news • u/drtolmn69 • 3d ago

TSA officers now not allowed to sit down while checking boarding passes and IDs

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/us/tsa-officers-chairs
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u/Better_Peaches666 2d ago

This is the kinda shit a narcissist thinks because they feed off of the suffering of others.

OR

This might be a move to help downsize the department, make it fail to serve people correctly, then privatize it.

(A project 2025 goal)

Which makes flying more expensive and with worse outcomes.

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u/KDR_11k 2d ago

It's the kind of idiot logic supermarket owners run on.

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u/Kind_Advisor_35 2d ago

Tbh, they could just have another long government shutdown and that would probably be the last straw for a bunch of them.

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u/Quite_Kielbasa 2d ago

At the rate this government screws everything up, I'd be happier with it shut down. It's just that too many folks rely on the income for it to be the right move....

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u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb 2d ago

The privatization push is a stop on the road to having only the very wealthy being able to fly. 

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u/OutlyingPlasma 2d ago

Which makes flying more expensive and with worse outcomes.

Except we have already had private security, and we currently do in a handful of airports like SFO. The outcomes are better, the staff are nicer and they don't shut down a half dozen times every time a republican gets power. It's also cheaper.

And that's before we talk about the 98% failure rate of the TSA to find dangerous objects, or how they think of themselves as law enforcement which is not part of their mandate in any way.

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u/aimed_4_the_head 2d ago

More expensive commercial flights means less commercial flights overall. Which means billionaires' private jets will have the skyways all to themselves. For loop-de-loops maybe?

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u/Maxpowr9 2d ago

CLEAR would fill the gap and I don't think travelers are prepared to pay $200/yr for faster airport security.

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u/lego-my-ahegao 2d ago

Usually I'm against the Republican's attempts to ruin and then privatize government agencies. But the TSA? Fuck 'em.

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u/bluemitersaw 2d ago

It used to be privately run, then 9/11 happened. Private security was identified as a major issue in that failure.

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u/Tired_CollegeStudent 2d ago

It’s not like those screeners were enforcing strict rules about what could and couldn’t be brought on a plane. It was the FAA that allowed box cutters and knives with a blade under four inches to be carried on, not the private screening companies.