Thread 2807159

How does no one in America even seriously question its existence when millions of Americans see how simple foreign airport security is for the exact same result at 1/10th the time and hassle

>>2807159 (OP)
>How does no one in America even seriously question its existence
Anon every fucking US citizen questions them, media from family guy to sitcoms make fun of how shit it is. You're delusional if you think people don't have open issues about it.

> exact same result at 1/10th the time and hassle
Not really, seen the same shit in TSA been replicated all over Europe and Asia. Probably the biggest issue TSA faces is due to how many fucking people are visiting here with virtually no concept of English. This means all of the people have to stop the entire line for Ahmed Rajeshedi or Zhang Chu or Shawquandica Abdoola and their 8 kids to please calm the fuck down and follow the pictures for instructions. I can't tell you how many times I've been in ORD, LAX, SEATAC, or some other place only to realize yup this line is going to stop for 15 minutes because Ahmed clearly doesn't understand he was suppose to check his luggage. It gets to be nothing burger mainly in the midwest 'flyover' places, texas/Atlanta and such are still bad but no where near shit level of the coastal cities.

Anyone who flies regularly generally knows the hours to go or different gate to use, PHX is hilarious because everyone funnels to one gate when 2 others are open with 80% less traffic. Alternatively, tsa precheck basically solves all my gripes with it and came with Global Entry

>>2807160
Nah you're an autist who misreads the pulse of the average cattle mutt who accepts the TSA as a mere inconvenience but necessary fact of life.

There is 0 legitimate public pressure to disband the TSA. Zoomers grew up thinking it's normal. There's no outrage over it on social media. Whatever the fuck family guy skit from 20 years ago, or stand up joke, doesn't mean shit, retard.

The fact that TSA extorts its own citizens into paying $100 for le precheck for the privilege of not taking shoes off is PEAK humiliation ritual

>>2807161
Anon, TSA is dogshit I agree most are braindead mall cop tier idiots who don't know their ass from their elbow. However, they are a good retard filter for some of the lowest IQ people on the planet so some credit where credit is due. Some of the shit for brains I've seen try to walk through TSA are real grade a retards.

People in the US deal with it because most people aren't frequent fliers and the people who do fly already know how to avoid the pain caused by TSA. What country are you comparing this to and what airports?

>There is 0 legitimate public pressure to disband the TSA
There is constant uproar on the TSA and was huge a few months ago with RealID. There are government officials who say the budget needs to be slashed and overhauled.

If this isn't some retarded bait, what happened they tell you to throw your water bottle away? See some anime porn that was your phone background?

>>2807162
Why are you on a travel board if you don't have global entry as a US citizen?

Airport security was a hassle BEFORE the TSA came into existence. Everyone made jokes about how shitty and slow it was.

Because of Muslims.

>>2807159 (OP)
How simple foreign airport security is? What the fuck are you talking about? Fly through Istanbul or Kuala Lumpur and you have to go through entrance security, then departure security, and sometimes gate security (which makes you throw away your water bottles so you have to buy water on the plane).

TSA is annoying when you fly like once every 1 or 2 years and forget that your laptop needs to come out this time but didn't last time or whatever. Fly through a absolute shithole airport like LHR and get back to me on security processing being dogshit. Or better yet KLM when everyone goes on their quarterly strike because some family wants their brother hired there and calls the place racist. Or hell any Taiwanese, Korean, or mainland China airport security processing.

At least with TSA, I know it's shit but should keep moving along and many post the current wait times. Not every place is going to be Bergen airport levels of ease or Singapore.

>>2807162
>The fact that TSA extorts its own citizens into paying $100 for le precheck for the privilege of not taking shoes off is PEAK humiliation ritual
I think they just did away with that for all passengers

>>2807159 (OP)
For me it's being in a Chinese airport and trying to light a cigarette when all your lighters have been confiscated.

>>2807325
Was in LHR the other week and some faggot had a padlock on his case, but no key. It took like 5 pakis from different queues to band together to solve the problem, while 100s of people were waiting.

>fly out for family funeral with sister
>walk through to TSA precheck
>sister follows me
>oh damn didn't know she had precheck she barely flies whatever
>get up to counter, no precheck
>gets mad TSA is confusing and she already walked all this way
>has to wait in the long line probably was about ~10 minutes
>clear message about removing items posted and being shouted by Aunt Jemima on repeat
>doesn't read any of the signage, so didn't take her iPad out, had a bottle of water in her bag, decided to take all the hotel freebees
>also didn't take off her smart watch or belt
>has to bet patted down because won't take it off
>has to get their bag opened for all the retarded shit
>super pissed at this point
>meets me at the bar
>"Wow that was terrible TSA should be abolished did you know they don't have TSA in Europe, it doesn't even do anything I saw a video by Adam Something and..."
Virtually, every time I hear people talking about how TSA is basically akin to what OP portrays it as, I think of that time. More often than not it's something retarded the people in line did rather than the staff being monkeys.

>>2807159 (OP)
>>2807161
My god foreigners are stupid.

>>2807159 (OP)
I fly bi-weekly domestically. TSA is a crock of shit, worse now you can bypass most of the line with clear. Now every joe blow has tsa pre-check, even gangster niggers.
Only times I get stopped by tsa is when I have a water in my bag. Not guns, knives drugs or anything, water. Because some mossad agent started a fire with water in the 70’s or something. My hands got schwabbed with a napkin last time not sure wtf that was about.

>>2807333
>fly through Southern China or KL
>SIR DO YOU SMOKE MUST THROW AWAY SMOKE
>no I don't smoke
>NO SMOKE! THROW AWAY!
>*make x with arms* No smoker
>SIRS IF YOU HAVE SMOKE OR LIGHTER YOU GET BIG FINE IF NOT THROW AWAY
>go through the machine
>looking for cigs or lighters like I must have them somewhere
>SIR YOU NO SMOKE?
>no I don't smoke never have
>okay but if smoke very very big fine and jail good to tell now to me
>stand there like no I don't smoke
>finally let me go
Such a shitty thing to deal with

>>2807325
Oh man LHR is TERRIBLE

>>2807161
>He thinks pressure will disband government agencies or corporate interests or anything else in (Current Year) except things that are disbanded in the sole interest of the ruling power

Anon, please. The adults are talking.

>>2807159 (OP)
It's the same all over Europe and Japan.

>>2807165
Global Entry is useless nowadays. It takes about 10 minutes to get through immigration/customs without it. At least, it does if you're returning from a good country.

>>2807440
>At least, it does if you're returning from a good country.
Fly into MSP, ATL, DFW, DC, JFK, MIA and get back to me. LAX can be pretty bad at times too. GE is nice because it's also an incredibly useful second form of ID while traveling if anything did happen to your passport and embassy can cut the lengthy shit down to basically nothing.

>>2807444
Just flew into JFK a few days ago. Took about 5 minutes.

>>2807444
Had a bad experience coming back through MSP in 2022 because the stupid scanning machine thingy flagged directly where my penis was.

>>2807457
Some of those machines don't work correctly. Had something similar happen except it was actually my glasses.

>>2807450
Great, flew in through winter and it was a good 30 minute line with also them just shoving all people into a single line that day. It's a toss up where at least GE I walk to the side, wait about 5 minutes, and am through consistently.

>>2807462
I used to have Global Entry and it never seemed fast. There were always tons of people crowding those kiosks. I guess that's what happens when everyone has Global Entry.

>>2807460
At least you didn't have to get a pay down

ITT: plebs who don't have frequent flyer status and use the priority lane.

Hating TSA is facebook boomer tier observational humor from the 2000s

Anyone who has traveled since early 2025 knows that the nicest CBP agent makes the most petty asshole TSA agent look like Mister Rogers

>>2807159 (OP)
Explosive tech and facial recognition have come a long way in the near 25 years since 911, as well as passenger profiling.
The stuff you see in the terminal is window dressing. Right now the threat has moved away from islamic terror to insider threats/people with access and insider knowledge.
Skyking, and a bunch of high profile smuggling operations have slipped through the TSA, so everyone watches everybody. Its like that scene in Casino, which a fuck load more cameras.

>>2807343
>hands schwabbed with a napkin
That’s a trace explosives test. You wipe the scan.
>>2807457
flagged directly where my penis was.
Take your cock ring out.

>>2808835
If that were the case 4th of july in america would have flagged hundreds of people. Get the fuck outta here with that dog and pony show.

>>2807942
Lmao at this cunt. Thinks we’re living in mission impossible ghost recon. Reality is tsa are minimum wage retards who are probably on military disability because they're so dumb.

>>2808844
>t. TSA was mean to me once
Get thicker skin

>>2808844
The most confident people are often the dumbest.
>The TSA explosive wipe test, also known as an Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) test, is a security procedure used to screen for trace amounts of explosives on passengers, their belongings, and in the airport environment. Officers use specialized swabs to collect samples from surfaces, which are then analyzed by a machine for traces of explosive materials

>>2807457
that's the chad detector for the section 8 employees to get their hourly cock pat as part of their federal union contracts

>>2807942
The CBP didn't even talk to me when I returned after nine months overseas. They just scanned my passport, took a photo of my face, and handed me an exit pass for the guards manning the exit gates.

>>2808844
cherry bombs aren't real explosives retard

>>2809945
they still leave residue fuckwit

>>2809959
You're dumbfounded by a swab test so things must be at least 25 years behind us in whatever shithole you're from

>>2809962
Cherrybombs will leave explosive material compounds all over your hands retard. The amount is so low you'd have to be asmongold levels of not washing to keep the residue on you.

Go take a shower smelly

>>2809963
Those existed in airports before the year 2000, they're no big deal to us. Sometimes we forget how blessed we are here and people from undeveloped nations can find our tech confusing and intimidating.

>>2809959
tiny amounts no one cares about unless you assembled them or sat on them

>>2810007
>>2810034
>I specifically went to a place where they will test for this material had it found and it's their fault!
Stoner level logic of like "Bro we had weed for 2000 years bro like it's not even a big deal why the fuck did the drug test care?"

>>2810035
stop rubbing firecrackers on your crotch

>>2807333

Bro this happened to me flying through Xiamen. I knew something was up when the guy started shouting at the girl at the counter in Chinese. Then they call some BIG motherfucker from the back and they surround me. I'm like "wtf" is this? Guy who was shouting turns to me and says, "U HAVU LAITA!!! LAITA IN YOUR BAG!!"

I totally forgot that I had a spare bic in the top pouch of my backpack. I was like "whoops" and threw it away in front of them. They became super friendly after that. The hilarious part is when I get to Thailand and make it all the way to my hotel, I realized that I had my old paratrooper knife (pic related) in the bag and had forgotten about it to (it was my camping backpack).

I kek'd for at least 5 minutes, after they went through all that drama over a lighter when I had a decent sized knife in there the whole time. Glad they didn't find it though, as I'd have been in DEEP shit had they discovered it and figured out what it was.

Gun power can trigger a swab test. The follow up is usually just a conversation with the passenger profiling specialist screener after double checking your bags.
>been shooting lately?

>>2807333
I lamented when I saw the transparent box full of lighters outside the security check at Shanghai airport.

>>2807162
It's a $100 for 5 years. I spent a $100 having 3 cheesesteaks delivered to my house last night for uber eats. If you can't afford $20/year for a precheck, you need to rethink your life choices.

>>2810305
3 cheesesteaks per meal will cost you thousands in hospital bills

>>2807301
>buy water on the plane
what on earth

>>2807343
>flies biweekly
>still seething about the 20 year old liquid gels and aerosols regulations


This exists because you can hide a ton of dangerous disguised as these items. Rather take the time to examine every enema, they cap the limits to the extent you’d need a small army to smuggle in amounts that could be threatening. There is some talk about removing this restriction since technology has improved, but nothing beyond that.

>>2810430
Insane when you can just fill up your bottles in the toilets for free, kek. Some people just LOVE funding the bigcorpo empire.

>>2810659
I saw some free water points at some airports in China

>>2810659
>drinking toilet water to own big water

>>2807159 (OP)
>millions of Americans see how simple foreign airport security is

They don't. The vast majority of US citizens (well over 50%) have never had a passport. Of the remainder, many are turdie third world immigrants who only go to 3rd world countries to visit relatives and of the remainder a lot have done something stupid like going to Cancun on a cruise.

The very small minority of Americans actually travel and most Americans still believe in American exceptionalism.

>>2811039
Also, when they go home to Israel, they see crazy security checks, which probably makes them double down on their amazing security procedures.

>>2807159 (OP)
>How does no one in America even seriously question its existence
>>2807161
>the average cattle mutt who accepts the TSA
I'll never understand why foreigners come on 4chan and pretend to be American.

>>2811039
They don't care if you're traveling to see relatives. You still have to go through security.

>>2811039
>most Americans still believe in American exceptionalism
Well yeah, it's true.

>>2807159 (OP)
>how simple foreign airport security is for the exact same result at 1/10th the time and hassle
What country, other than Singapore, do these people live in where a major international airport is a brisk walk through? Not talking random shitty airport in northern Sweden or whatever. Talking multiple international coming and going flights hourly.