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Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

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Ten minutes into this and I’d be posting about “AmeriKKKa” on here

omg I just had to laugh. Almost everyone is dissociating.

ICE deployment fixed that right up. Buffoons

I hate that song.

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As do I. It is just a plainly bad song. It would be almost as bad as an instrumental.

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And now everybody in that interminable line hates it too. "Turn it off, that's the torture song."

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As you should. It's a terrible song

At the height of the Gulf War, in OH where I was at the time, all SCHOOL busses played this same GD song on a loop on the way to & from school No joke I've had a visceral violent reaction to this song ever since🤢

Places I would rather visit other than the US. 1. That moon they found all those xenomorph eggs on 2. The Hell dimension from Jet Lee's The One 3.Crematoria from The Chronicles of Riddick

Isn’t repeatedly blaring the Greenwood tune to a captive audience considered a crime against humanity?

Ответ для Cwnidog

If it isn't, it should be

Jingoistic bullshit on a never-ending loop.

No one wearing MAGA hats anymore?

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Noticed a lot of the signs are strangly missing all over the South as well.

Because air travel AND standing in an endless line isn't torturous enough...

“High speed travel” working great I see.

Wherever I would be travelling to, it wouldn’t be important enough for me to stand in that line. Work trip? Fuck that job. Vacation? It would be ruined by the trauma of the airport experience. Plus you gotta come back through at the end of it, fuck that. Mother’s funeral? She’d understand.

Hell on Earth.

And not a single pair of pajamas.. good job Duffy

That's actual hell

You know what, it's been 6 long years since COVID broke and I've been avoiding airtravel for safety but also airlines are a mess. But I think today's the day to get on that plane and go on vacation. Things must have settled by now. Let me just check the weather and my flight info...HOLY HELL!!!

Truth stranger than fiction.

"Mom, I'm not gonna make it, sorry." "Why, honey? Are you sick?" "No, I just can't take the BS at the airport." "But you're already there, right?" "Yeah." "And...oh...are they playing that song that I like?" "Yeah...Listen, Mom, you're...breaking up...I can barely hear you. I'll call when I..."

A lot of these people clearly didn’t want to be filmed.

My ears would bleed.

But Sean Duffy thinks it would make a big difference if all those people waiting in line dressed better. bsky.app/profile/cbst...

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The U.S. Department of Transportation unveiled a campaign aimed at bringing more civility to air travel. Travel experts say they're skeptical it will make much difference. Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/transportation-department-air-travel-civility-golden-age-sean-duffy/ 

The two genders

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That wave was Morse code for T O R T U R E

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Oh shit I'm gonna be on TV vs OH SHIT I'M GONNA BE ON TV!

Are these Americans arriving home? Surely nobody else is visiting the USA at the moment.

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Probably people traveling state to state.

Ответ для Merci Merci Me

What ID do you need to show for internal flights? Is this new?

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I haven't read about any but I would stick with what we always do. Its a place where people from all over the world change planes. I don't see how thus is viable. Yesterday in SFO a woman was tackled & arrested. Her daughter left.

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Wow. That’s dreadful. We had considered a Caribbean cruise next year but I’m not flying via the US or picking up a ship in the US. We will steer clear of America until 🍊 🤡 has gone.

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Please do for your own safety.

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Any place armed masked paramilitaries are abducting people off the streets in broad daylight with impunity should probably be avoided.

Are they handing out Trump bibles also?

Hey, uh, plenty of people in that video indicated they did not want to be filmed

That’s cruel and unusual punishment.

Lee Greenwood re-recorded that song as "Proud to be in Canada." How I would love it if whoever is in charge of the music inserted the "Canadian" version in place of the "American" version.

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Oof 😣 you're certainly welcome to Lee Greenwood. I'd honestly appreciate it if he wouldn't sing about the USA ever again.

I’ve always been tickled by that “at least” in the “at least I know I’m free” line—like he was straight up admitting what a shitty country we could be. Mostly, though, it’s that bottomless grievance, xenophobia and fake humility of contemporary country music.

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I may not have healthcare or a place to live or enough money to make ends meet but at least I know I'm free* *until my city criminalizes homelessness

At least they know they’re free.

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I wonder how many minutes it would take before I'd start lolsobbing/angry-singing my way through the song...

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Forever grateful that they forced some poor 18-year-old kid to go kill the Vietnamese farmer who was going to take my freedom away.

I will be flying out of that airport in about a month. Please let sanity prevail before then so this madness will end. (Obviously, I'm not holding my breath.)

I wonder how many of those people know that Senate Ds and Rs made a deal to fund TSA and Trump turned it down.

Instant charge of plans for me.

"If it's what you say then I love it, especially when it's summer"

Turn that off!

Just got through security at SFO with 2 minute wait.

Ответ для VermontBubbe

SFO doesn't use normal TSA. They use a third party private contractor that was already paid.

Abolish the TSA? As another shutdown impacts travelers, some call for privatizing screeningsMost checkpoints use federal TSA screeners, who must work without pay during shutdowns. Nearly two dozen, however, use private contractors, which keeps lines moving.www.nbcbayarea.com
Ответ для Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

Exactly. Went through yesterday as easy as always. Seattle, so far, has been fine, too, despite having TSA.

Ответ для Dan Grove

Great. My husband is traveling Alaska - Seattle- DC today also.

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My dentist's office blasts country music while I get procedures done and this is a similar vibe.

Oh, the World Cup is going to be fuuuuunnnnn.

Jesus, torturing people who just want to go on vacation? That's beyond the pale. No one should be forced to listen to that shit!

Heart goes out to all the travelers dealing with gestapovers today.

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Gestapovers. Love it! 🤣

This aggression will not stand!!!!!!!!

They say America doesn't make anything anymore but every day they're out there finding new ways to make the dumbest, most unnecessary dystopia

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It’s bad, but some proportion of them won’t rethink their choices unless it hurts them personally, so the innovation in unnecessary dystopia must continue.

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Haha. I’m sorry.

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I think if I was standing in that line I’d feel like it was hurting me personally.

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Probably a good place for James Talarico to be campaigning.

this is insane LOL unreal

Bizzaro World.

Zero sympathy! #FAFO at work! America asked for this lunacy!

Just wonder how long Americans are going to put up with the Traitorous, Disgusting Ways of the SICK, ILLEGITIMATE POTUS & HIS GANG OF TRAITORS TO AMERICA⁉️

trump did that 👆

My definition of a shot hole country.

Grooming and conditioning wow

Depressing

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Welcome to Trump’s America!

Kind of missing the person holding the sign at the end of the line with a "wait time from this point" on it.

That is torture. I'd be screaming.

Fascism in practice...

I don’t know if I could handle this.

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Same.

He is in on the grift for the royalties. Also wrote the exact same song as "God Bless Canada".

Cruel and unusual

You'll suffer AND you'll LIKE IT, DAMN IT!!!!

Many are calling them Trump lines™️

If Hell exists….

With that captive audience I'm surprised they didn't do more tortuous things like making everyone watch the Melania Documentary!

Felon is a fool & Reps can't govern

Ответ для Chris⚖️Justice

Can't do shit except smear shit on the walls

So the Houston Airport is a state sponsor of terrorism (being forced to listen to Greenwood)

That sounds very a clockwork orange. Bit of a self own as now nobody can stand that song anymore (if they could before).

Allow me to pitch another option

Charlie Hunter

If the idea of dealing with ICE at TSA does not appeal, feel free to ask me about the feasibility of taking Amtrak. I have taken Amtrak literally hundreds of overnight trips and can probably answer your question quicker than you could by googling. No charge. I’m just a big fan of taking trains.

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I love Amtrak. I splurged on a private compartment for a trip down to NC once. Peaceful, great views, a steward inviting us for meals. I had steak and whiskey for dinner at a table with a rose on it. I felt like a damn robber baron.

Presumably this is departures, are there also arrivals delays?

Trump and his incel boys sure like things smelly. Sorry humanity.

Helldivers-level satire in real life.

This is torturing American citizens and should be a crime.

Getting the Noriega treatment...

I hope to god they had more variation than just the one song. Although if the entire line-up is annoyingly chirpy jingoism, there's going to be violence eventually.

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That guy at 0.36 in the tan tshirt was channelling the frustration of the entire line.

This is the humiliation ritual they subject you to in America before killing you in a plane crash. Sad!

America's the freeeeest place on earth, in the universe right now.... for oligarchs!

that's about how I imagine the first level of hell to be

I never need to go anywhere that bad. Embalm them a little extra and I'll take a train.

So, we've shot straight past banana republic into...whatever lies on the wrong side of banana republic.

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Citrus fascism?

JFC the irony

This was taken in San Diego today. Line stretches from the terminal out into the parking garage.

torture is against the Geneva Convention

Forget TACO. This is the TOFU presidency. Trump often fucks up.

Guantanamo Bay song

I can't cope with this much freedom

Is it playing on a loop? That would make me feel stabby.

At this point folks… take the damn train

Dystopian

That seems brutally punitive...

That would be torture!

Just be happy John Mulaney wasn’t the DJ.

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🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

If I had to wait AND LISTEN to that, I’d lose it.

This is some kind of abuse.

Do they still get the Noem Breencasts as well? half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Breencast

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Someone who goes here frequently, I can confirm yesterday one of the terminal lines for TSA stretched outside to the drop off/pickup area and was looping on itself, separated by traffic cones and police tape. It was in thr upper 80sF outside, with the concrete and asphalt not making things better.

I'm sure this is a cold take that we can all agree on. I think the person filming this should be boiled.

#Trump #USA 🤣🤣🤣

The music that plays in the waiting room for Hell

And these are just the people who haven’t given up and cancelled their flights altogether.

MAGAtry Anthem.

🎵 Where at least I know I'm free hours early for my domestic flight🎵

My husband sent me this pic from Facebook at Terminal C at IAH today - apparently the drop-off is closed because of the lines. 😬

Winning!

i was in the navy at the o’club in mayport fla, and I think I was the only person there who didn’t rise and snap to attention when that bs country and western song came on.

earplugs or headphones required

I was there on Thursday morning, 5:30AM and the line was out the airport The lines must be so much worse that they have to have the line wrap around the dungeon 😱

Aren’t these people suffering enough…?

You are here, at the intersection of stupid & evil...& ICE isn't even running those checkpoints yet...

They really want to see how far they can negatively polarize people, huh ? 🤣

This is high art in the genre of satire

Was nothing like this at O’Hare (Chicago). A little longer than usual last week (spring break), but not longer than 10 minutes.

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Went through LAX two days ago and it was smooth as silk, and all the TSA folks seemed pretty happy and chill

So we’re full dystopia now.

Wtf is this North Korea shit

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This is literally the most American thing possible and that's meant as a slur

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you ever considered the people that bombed north korea so brutally their main city only had a single building over one story by the time of the ceasefire and the ones telling you the current regime is the worst in the world and the ones who did this are the same people

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They can’t help but be corny

slightly worried about the fella that looks like hes about to do a Falling Down

Ответ для stofle CEO of Underboob Sweat

Not to stereotype, but he looks like a Trump voter. He’s likely getting what he deserves.

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"Just desserts" doesn't rule out "random rage event". Some of those guys are gonna crash out when (if) they realize they voted for this. I'm getting a sort of North Korea vibe off the Lee Greenwood pap coming out of those speakers...

Beside the points, but what an incredible lack of headphones on display. This is what audiobooks were invented for.

The soundtrack makes it cruel

Oh man, that's in the BASEMENT. Like, they're lined up down to the un-airconditioned level with the crappy little tramway.

Ответ для c0nc0rdance

Came here to say this. For the line to be funneled all the way down here, it will need to go up a large flight of stairs, down a long hallway, and then into a gigantic hall where the line will serpentine and THEN you get to the scanners. Absolute hell on earth.

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And it's stuffy as hell down there. They air condition the lobby areas under the terminals, but not the area in-between.

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I'm sweating just thinking about taking the interterminal train in the summer. I'm trying to figure out where the line STARTS. So what, like, people come in the main doors and then get funneled downstairs?!?

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Oh man. That's Terminal C, and the underground line is probably Terminal A. What a cluster.

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Is everyone trying to escape the country…. or just heading to a *different* crowded terminal to go through this again? /s

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It's only going to take one person who's contagious with measles to turn that line into an infectious disease catastrophe.

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At least someone in that line has covid or flu or RSV or something else really contagious for sure.

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the irony is if someone actually wanted to do an attack, you do it before security where there's lots of people waiting

Ответ для pomeranianranger

This is true of a lot of targets (like stadiums, etc.) but planes are specifically vulnerable. A small bomb that might kill 1-4 people in a hallway can kill 200+ people on a plane.

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I was wondering where this was because I didn't recognize the hallway at all

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OMG I'm so glad I haven't needed to fly anywhere since 2018, particularly via United/Houston.

the people of the US deserve what they voted for

Ответ для Owen J Watson

Musk likely had a hand in the election results. So not exactly “who we voted for.”

Just Say No......to flying!!

Pretty sure this is a human rights violation

The administration shooting itself in the foot in advance of the midterm elections.

why aren't they singing? do they hate America?

EVERYTHING is falling apart under this regime! 😡

No doubt TFG did the Lee Greenwood thing. I thought that wasn't allowed. I'd be breaking the stupid speakers. AND would just go home. Screw them. TFG can be responsible for revenue lost by airlines.

Ответ для Chrisby

Another 1984, pounding 💩 into your brains. Over and over and over. Project2025 Plan.

Good you have to listen to that song too. That’s just torture. 

It's Texas, they can keep suffering.

"I'm proud to be an American, and I really have to pee..."

This country sucks so much ass

S

Sounds worse than being blasted by a Castro speech waiting for a flight out of Havana. At least we were already through security and could sit down.

Music torture being used on regular travelers as if they were being held in Guantanamo. Fucking Texas.

Torture techniques in airports now.

The Hague.

What a perfect juxtaposition for this joke of a country.

Is the US great yet?

Yeah, but at least the planes flew on time...

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😭

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If you'll pardon the phrase, that is some dark Fascist humor!

The conservatives claim people don't love America that much, but look at all those people standing for the national anthem.

The Trump administration making the song's opening hypothetical come true: 🎵 If tomorrow all the things were gone I worked for all my life ...

Call Amnesty International

More planes will be forced to land or return to their departure city because More and more people are going to get drunk, get belligerent or get physical with each other or staff. Like flying in America isn't already one the most stressful things some people have to do.

This blows.

Rumor has it this is the punishment on the first level of hell

Why on earth would someone go to visit the US right now, voluntarily? You have to share your socials, email and even DNA I heard, just so you can run the risk of being violently arrested and deported for nothing.

"There's a sucker born every minute" <- USA!

I have to quote him again because it fits, "So much winning."

Worst song ever

That’s basically torture

Ответ для ZWash

Like playing Barney songs for Guantanamo detainees but more musically offensive

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Next thing you know they'll be adding subliminal messages.

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As if the superliminal patriotism wasn’t bad enough

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Now I'm dreading the day Trump demands they swap in an extended cut of the song with blurbs from his favorite "patriotic" speeches he gave added between verses. Ears will bleed.

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at least they'll know that two plus two is four by the end of the day

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Hopefully some folks at least have their Lee Greenwood/Donald Trump bibles to read as they wait in line for hours on end.

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Imagine how much worse it is for the TSA agents who have to listen to it their entire shift. We thought that christmas music on repeat was torture but then this happens and shows how much worse it could be. RIP the agents just trying to do their job hearing this and dealing with mad people😢

*North Korea vibes intensify*

It’s only a matter of time before someone absolutely loses their mind

this would turn me into the joker so fast

Ответ для Brandy Alexander🍸

I'm surprised he isn't creating 100 Jokers a day.

Seeing as they’re from TX, they probably don’t mind.

Ответ для Norwegian Wood

That's not even remotely accurate. (a Texan)

Elections have consequences.

WTAF?

Thank god I'm flying out of Hobby and not Bush this week. Holy fuck.

And to think, they're not all wearing suits! For shame!

OMG! I'd be sick.

I hate that fucking song

My co-worker (he's Canadian) - at IAH right now trying to go through customs and connect to his next flight - says there's about a 4 hour wait to get through. He's already been waiting 1.5 hours. Playing that song right now is like a sick mind fuck. Miller is definitely behind that.

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I'm texting my co-worker in real time - he finally got through and it took him 4 hours to get through customs at IAH.

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He also said ICE agents were there but just standing there "monitoring" not doing any actual work. Last time I was at IAH the garbage bins were overflowing in the terminal and the restrooms. Plenty of things for them to do if they want to help MAGA.

OMG, and I ask myself, how many people in that line understand the irony? Not enough.

It always cracked me up that his real first name is Melvin. Like Raphael Cruz and Kashyap Patel he’s too embarrassed to use it.

Trump supporters waited patiently through one of many hardships caused by their great president.

Serious Gitmo shit

I will celebrate lee greenwood's death more than kissenger's, or cheney's, or even trump's

Torture.

And then when they get on the planes, their safety is at risk because of depletion of air traffic controllers. I won’t fly anywhere until 2029.

Gag me

We should, indeed, deny the evidence of our eyes and bless the USA.

So now they are even torturing travelers

I mean, if the GOP wants to permanently etch Lee Greenwood as the soundtrack to this into everyone's mind, go them, I guess?

Who put the worst co-workers on AUX?

Some Iranians might be going to Hell in a couple of days but check out all these Americans who are already there

Is that torture as defined by the Geneva Convention?

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This is Guantanamo Bay for travelers.

I wish somebody would ask all of them who they voted for in 2024. 🤣😂

POV: you are covid

We’re all suckers and losers now.

I’d be going down that line saying “okay, Trump voters raise your hands! We want to know who we can thank for these lines.”

And another generation of terrorists is created

I'm glad I wasn't there. This song makes me mad in a way I'm not sure I can control.

Someone in my neighborhood (NE Houston) said they got to IAH at 3:30am for a 6:45 flight and still missed it today.

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😵

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🤯

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Sounds about right. We did some air travel in 2024, just before the Band of Idiots took over, & did okay...but you could see the potential...

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I flew out of IAH on Tuesday. Arrived at 5am for a 9:30 flight. Lines were already 4 hours at 5 am…

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😬 My condolences!

If I was Amtrak or Greyhound, I would be offering discounts or even honoring plane tickets for domestic travel.

Trump: "How can we repay Lee Greenwood for all his support?" Random Kiss Ass: "Let's pay him royalties for his song and blast it through airports." Trump: "That's a great I idea. I am glad I thought of it. But we aren't going to pay any royalties."

At least the Trump voters in that crowd get to know what it feels like for People of Color trying to vote in Red States.

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Correct.

Adam Curtis is shaking his head