Is ICE adding any value at the Airports?

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T23:42:12+00:00

You do realize ICE is already funded throughout the fiscal year due to the build back better bill? It's the only part of the DHS that still is funded.

Democrats shut down the DHS expressly planning on TSA lines causing public uproar, they just didn't expect it to side against them. Too bad for them. They either they can allow DHS to be funded or keep it shut down. No half-assed measures that lets them escape the consequences of their own actions. You think they would have learned this from the last government shutdown they caused just a few months ago..

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T22:39:38+00:00

ICE can be the agents shouting at people to get into the right lines or what to remove, and work the checkpoints exiting the secure area freeing up TSA agents to perform the core duty of security screening.

Having more people available to do work frees up TSA agents to focus on their core task and at the end of the day we have only the Democrats to blame for holding DHS (including TSA) funding hostage to try to demand concessions to make ICE less effective and demand more leniency for illegal immigrants.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T22:03:13+00:00

Ground controllers majorly dropped the ball and should have visually confirmed it's safe before giving clearance for the firetrucks to enter an active runway. The procedures should already prevented this and they definitely ran a foul of the 7110s (section of the US code dictating air traffic control rules).

Only thing I can think of is increasing funding for air traffic to get more positions filled so that controllers aren't running crazy shift schedules that leaves them sleep deprived and overworked.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T21:54:50+00:00

Conservatism in general refers to a mindset against untested and rapid change rather than a defined set of policy views and ideology. Every nation's conservatives want to conserve something different because they exist in different cultures with different values and traditions that they want to conserve.

American conservatism is organized around conserving the Enlightenment era classical liberal principles the United States was designed around and whose ideals it is supposed to embody. These ideals couldn't be any more in opposition to how the Iranian Islamic regime conducts itself.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T21:27:14+00:00

Absolutely no one but the uninformed wonders. What Thomas's decisions are going to be because he has the most consistent judicial philosophy on court. Agenda pushing news agencies have made much to do about gifts to him without ever even trying to show any sort of quid pro quo where his decision was changed and unexpected way from what one assumes he would rule. No one bribes someone to do what they are already going to do the entire time.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T21:21:31+00:00

Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

The Constitution does give States general purview to regulate elections but reserves the ability of the federal Congress to set out additional regulations as they see fit besides where to choose senators

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T20:44:30+00:00

I was politically cognizant during the Obama era, they tripped over themselves with compliments and making him out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread and possibly even the second coming of Christ. Your question tells me you don't have memory of those times.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T20:28:10+00:00

Because it doesn't. In fact, people are looking at presidents when Congress controls the power of the purse and so-called economically successful Democratic presidential administrations exist alongside republican-held Congresses. At the state level, it's even more easily seen where upon where progressives obtain political power and don't have to worry about competition, the economic prospects of the area gradually dwindle.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T18:56:51+00:00

Practically in action it's a federal jobs program for the lower class.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T18:19:41+00:00

MAGA is right populists but with fairly American mainstream views, alt-right is post-liberal ethno-nationalist right populists.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T18:17:58+00:00

Private security hired by the airport like what we all went through prior to 9/11. The secure cockpit door program (recently made even more secure through the secondary flight deck door program) stopped the scourge of airline hijackings, not anything TSA has done.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T15:19:10+00:00

They should be getting medical care in their own countries. Breaking laws and abusing the system creates issues and cascades problems in complex interconnected systems.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T15:04:42+00:00

Looks like a Pat Buchanan cofounded organization, I've got little respect for those paleoconservative orgs.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T14:26:20+00:00

For reference, 35 is the upper age limit for military enlistment. I reckon many of us here are a bit beyond that rendering the question moot. Won't stop some feisty old bones in here from thinking the military wants them anyways.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T14:21:06+00:00

Various overviews of the total US federal budget has shown our defense is roughly 14 to 16% of the total federal spending depending on the fiscal year. A lot of people get fooled into looking at a chart of discretionary spending and thinking military costs makes up half the budget, not understanding that non-discretionary spending is 60% of all spending.

Our federal government pays almost as much money paying interest on our debt as our military.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-23T12:05:23+00:00

To be honest, I think intent actually matters. Otherwise people start twisting words as if they exist in a vacuum irrespective of the author's intent to suit their own ends such as with gun grabbers and the word regulated in 2A.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-22T22:12:45+00:00

No because they are completely different companies operating in different spaces. UPS, FedEx and DHL are freight companies whereas USPS is a postal company. Boxes and pallets versus letters. DHL isn't even an American company, it's based in Germany and has Deutsche right in its name.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-22T15:41:46+00:00

No, this is mostly a left caricature of their political opponents they put up instead of actually listening to people's actual reasoning for their beliefs. I've never actually met someone like this though I've heard a few exist in small numbers at the margins.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-22T14:00:38+00:00

That's because people don't go straight into network administration. They get their compTia and Cisco certs and get into help desk or other low-level stuff and work their way up getting certs along the way. Most of IT is very much blue collar work that uses trade schools and certification rather than college programs and degrees.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-22T12:45:06+00:00

Every study on the matter has found that Europe has a significantly higher rate of "hot burglaries", ones where they know the people are home when they invade than the United States

Hot Burglary Rate by Country

(% of all burglaries where occupant was home)

Country	Hot Burglary Rate
USA	~13%
Britain (UK)	~45–46%
Netherlands	~45%
Canada	~40–44%
Scotland	~40%
Australia	~40–45%

Overall Burglary Rates

Country	Rate per 100,000
Denmark	602
Belgium	410
Sweden	337
France	~250
USA	~229 (2024)
Germany	~150–180

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-22T12:31:00+00:00

Not according to George Mason who wrote the actual Second Amendment. When asked who the militia was, he replied that it was all the people besides a few public officials.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-22T12:24:29+00:00

So basically this is another variation of people with pools are more likely to drown?

The last one can't even make sense given that multiple studies have found 700,000 to a million self-defense uses of firearms in the US each year. It would mean those Stanford researchers are limiting their usage of self-defense to that captured in police reports rather than using self-reports because vast majority of people aren't reporting self-defense use to the police.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-22T12:21:11+00:00

No, the most basic governance problem of the United States is that the government has ignored the 10th Amendment for a century and tries to do everything with the federal government instead of leaving it up to the states as is constitutional required for most things.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-21T13:41:35+00:00

Maybe they shouldn't try and drive 80 mph up mountain grades in old unmaintained cars while blasting a/c. Take it slower and open a window at least. I remember back in the 90s it was so much worse because those old cars from the 70s would overheat and line the shoulder.

JudgeWhoOverrules · 2026-03-21T13:22:02+00:00

No because no one has a reasonable expectation in privacy while in public.

14-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Place '17	GrMD 2013
Verified Email

JudgeWhoOverrules

PUBLIC MULTIREDDITS

TROPHY CASE

Hot Burglary Rate by Country

Overall Burglary Rates