It's good to be da king

Musk says Americans will have to face 'hardship' if Trump wins

Why do they have to work? Doesn’t it make more sense to shutdown US airports?

"let them eat cake" -Elon Musk

I get it, but having people feel bad for the TSA of all organizations is a tall order. Why not pick a less controversial gov agency effected like say the National Parks and Museums?

How bout they just dont show up? The TSA is a fraudulent agency anyway. Pre-9/11 security worked just fine.

Theater of security isn't helpful anyway. I say it's even harmful, as it makes cars more attractive over public transport and get more shit in our lungs as result.

two memes in one post?

"Oh you're not gonna pay me today? Guess I'm not working today."

Just a reminder that Elon Musk is not from the United States.

Did we not abolish the TSA yet? Funny how we're always losing ground on everything.

We need to teach him to be scared of us.

Musk and Trump showed me, that I don't have to think about being a good enough person... Obviously I easily am (it's enough not to kill/rape/extort,.... who would have thought it's so easy?)

And they ripped out funding for pediatric cancer research. $250 million.... or around 0.05% of president Musk's net worth. Why do repubs hate kids with cancer?

It's going to be a long 4 years

Remember when the goverment was first shut down in a long time, if ever before, when Republicans thought it would be a good ratfucker move to harm Obama's presidency, and it blew up in their faces, and our Country went from a AAAA rated borrower to a AAA borrower due to government disfunction? We seriously need a law that prevents this stupid shit from happening again. Maybe if they don't pass funding, we just renew the last passed funding. It pisses me off so much. Imagine getting paid a significant amount of tax payer money, a life long sipend, and better health care than most the county, and not even doing your job and letting the goverment shut down. At some point here the lawlessness is going to convince enough people that it seriously doesn't matter anymore.

Or just don't show up to work, and start looking for another job.

What they gonna do? Shoot you for "being sick and unable to report to work"?

Message for Government Employees: If you work a government job, DON'T GO TO WORK WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IS SHUT DOWN. Fuck that BS, don't let the government treat you like a slave. Calling out from work is not a crime (even if it is, fuck them anyways).

Ruining the holidays for a bunch of government employees, not just TSA. I am more worried about air traffic controllers, NASA, NOAA, FDA, the VA (yeah they suck, but a lot of people depend on them and making them work unpaid is definitely not going to improve anything), and thousands of other government employees that will go without pay. The longer it lasts, the worse it will be for the economy.

President Musk flexing his muscles even before puppet inauguration.

One thing I wondered is what would happen if Putin and Musk disagree at some point about what Trump is supposed to do? But the answer is actually easy: whoever strokes Trump's ego better at the time gets their policy through. Trump lives in the moment.

TSA agents are ineffectual on the best of days, but without pay? Between that and the amazing production quality at Boeing I'm quite content to not fly anywhere.

But TSA is a sham. Pure theater and makework.

Out of the loop, what do you mean SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT???

Fuck musk and fuck everyone Like him

That said: fuck everyone who works for the TSA, bunch of useless dickheads who take out their anger on those trying to fly while objectively failing to catch basic security failures. Much like anyone who works for an insurance company: they can rot for all I care

I'm sorry but, FUCK THE TSA. Go join a real theater group, assholes.

Sorry, but unemployed TSA should get no sympathy. In fact, if you want to kill government programs, it should be at the front of the line. Pork barrel security theater bullshit.

Fuck the TSA and the idiots on power trips working for them.

But they're going to get paid when the budget is approved again, right?

It's a problem for who lives paycheck to paycheck, though

Not even a government shutdown can stop the TSA from harassing people

I hope that US citizens will remember who caused the chaos out of pure spite when the next election comes around.

At least half of them voted for that. 🤷

I'm still seeing that the shutdown is looming. Did anything change?

i feel sorry for SNL. how will they survive this?

Who in their right mind is going to work without being paid?

I wonder how this will affect unexpected delays during holiday travel.

Yeah we all hate Elon Musk, but government employees who work during a shutdown are reimbursed for full pay when the shutdown is over. Threads like this make me wonder how much of lemmy is high school sophomores. We don't know how long this latest shutdown will last, but they're getting to be almost a routine political tactic now instead of Congress doing its fucking job and taking care of its bookkeeping. This really isn't a billionaire thing.

I mean.... Good? TSA is worthless anyway, they should be shut down forever. I hope it's one of the first agencies that are completely abolished

Not a meme.