ICE Butts In

ICE ICE Butthole

Donald Trump thinks he's a genius for coming up with the idea of sending ICE to airports to help alleviate long lines at TSA. It's actually not Donald Trump's idea, and more like a stupid suggestion from an idiotic MAGAt who “retruthed” him on his hideous social media platform.

And conservatives believe this “owns the libs” because they blame them for the long lines at TSA, and now they have to deal with ICE, which they are trying to defund, at the nation’s airports. But this doesn't hurt liberals. This hurts Americans. And if Republicans believe it's a ha-ha moment by hurting Americans, let me remind you, midterms are coming up.

By the way, Republicans, you might want to look at the Florida House District 87 that covers MAGA-Lardo and see what happened there tonight.

Democrats have proposed at least nine different plans to fund TSA, which Republicans have knocked down. The most recent rejection was from Trump himself, who ordered his party not to negotiate with the Democrats. I hope Americans remember this when they vote in the midterms.

Dear TSA agents, it is Donald Trump and Republicans who are refusing to pay you. Don't forget, it was also Donald Trump and Republicans who wanted to gut every federal agency, such as the TSA.

And sending ICE to the airports is a horrible idea. This is one bad situation being poured on top of another bad situation. This isn't like a happy accident where you crashed your chocolate into my peanut butter. This is like dumping toxic waste on top of a tire fire.

ICE is not trained to do the job that TSA does. In fact, ICE isn't even trained to do its own job with immigration.

TSA agents have worked unpaid for five weeks, and putting a bunch of ICE assholes around them probably is not going to put them in a better mood about it. Some of these agents are not anxious to welcome ICE on the turf.

One TSA agent at a mid-Atlantic Airport said, “Best case, they will end up being in the way. Worst case, well, we’ve seen what ICE can do in the worst cases.” He's probably referring to them murdering people.

According to documents provided by a former ICE training instructor to Congress, ICE agents normally receive virtually no training on the work TSA agents do, such as analyzing X-Ray images or identifying items prohibited from being brought onto a plane.

Everett Kelley, President of the American Federation of Government Employees, who represents all TSA agents, said, "Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap. It creates one.”

A D.C.-based TSA agent said, “It’s embarrassing and an insult to us because they have been getting paid and still are.” Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill provided a surge in funding to DHS, which went to ICE, but not to TSA, which is another DHS agency. Can you see which of the two agencies, ICE and TSA, Donald Trump and Republicans care about more?

There are stories today about the prediction markets, and that there may be some insider trading in predicting what the Trump administration is going to do next. I wonder if anyone's gonna make any money predicting the upcoming ice disaster at America's airports.

Creative note: A lot of my colleagues had the same idea for this issue, and they reworked it into their own design. Most of those cartoons are about ICE busting people for what they were trying to bring through TSA, like a tube of oversized toothpaste. One cartoon I read made a joke about ICE beating up a guy for not taking his shoes off, except shoes don't have to be taken off anymore at the airport. But I'm going to cut him some slack for that because I used a little creative license in my cartoon as well, because TSA does not actually do body cavity searches.

And speaking of TSA confiscating shit, they once took a tube of toothpaste from me at the Memphis airport. And no, it wasn't more than 4 ounces. They just found toothpaste very suspicious down there in Memphis.

I used eight layers to make this cartoon.

Spaghetti: I made spaghetti on Sunday night.

I used some ground beef and Italian sausage that had been in my freezer since last summer. I don't think it was the best meat.

The ingredients included an onion, a bell pepper, and a red pepper.

And I got to use my Penzey spices that a few of my readers have sent me. I even emptied a couple of these little bottles that I hadn't realized I was using so much of.

And I got to use some that I had never used before.

And the spaghetti went on top of whole-grain noodles.

This plate was accompanied by a salad. This one plateful was two meals for me. I saved half of this for the next night.

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