As a taxpayer in the U.S. I am not a happy camper. In fact, Europe is not speaking “German” today because of our dead and wounded soldiers and helping to win WWII!
The U.S. pays around $3.5 billion annually to NATO.
Can we get a refund – that would help pay down our debt?
And they turned down the President’s help request? Did someone say they only wanted them to answer the phone?
No offense to the citizens of the world by this humor. It just makes me sad. My Mother always taught us, “Walk softly and carry a big stick.” I will have to change that saying to, Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine.
Doesn’t this smells like a coordinated MO chaos? Our country has been through so much of their bad dealings play book by causing chaos. In the past, it has been part of their plans to increase the chaos when things are tough to make people more anxious. Remember – You Never Want A Serious Crisis To Go To Waste.”
Mr. Duffy needs to build a surplus list of older trained retired folks thru a manpower contractor who are wanting extra work when he needs them. Remember that folks have been taking earlier retirements.
Another reason, the lefties might be paying them thru their party to not show up. Trust – but verify?
On Fox News Sunday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy spelled it out plainly. With the Department of Homeland Security partly shut down for about 30 days, many TSA workers missed pay and some left their jobs. Duffy said this is not a question of safety at checkpoints but a question of time spent in line. He urged lawmakers to reopen DHS so operations can return to normal while talks continue.
Why TSA Workers Are Leaving
Duffy explained that TSA agents do not earn large salaries and a missed paycheck forces hard choices. Some agents have quit and others are calling out more often. The secretary noted roughly 300 agents have resigned and call out rates have doubled. People are choosing other work like driving for rideshare services or restaurant jobs because families need food on the table.
Travelers Face Long Lines
The practical result is long wait times at airports. Duffy said travelers are seeing lines that can last one to four hours. That does not mean airports are unsafe, he emphasized, but it does mean people may rethink flying if they face multi hour waits. That hurts airlines, airports and travelers who have real plans and schedules.
Democrats’ Motive, According To Duffy
Secretary Duffy directly blamed Democratic leaders for choosing to keep DHS closed as a political tactic. He argued their goal was to force ICE officers to remove face coverings so those agents could be identified, exposed and harassed. Duffy warned this kind of pressure risks doxxing officers and putting families in the crosshairs instead of focusing on border enforcement and public safety.
What This Means For Flights
Beyond the immediate delays there are longer term worries about rebuilding the workforce. Duffy asked whether the agents who left will come back and what the recruitment picture will look like. Aviation depends on coordination between DHS, the FAA and the Department of Transportation, so prolonged disruption could reduce capacity and make flying less reliable for months if not fixed quickly.
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I smell the Democrats working their Obama/Biden “magic” again. Normal Americans would be working to make things run smoothly, especially with a war going on.
John Kennedy Had One Word for Susan Rice After She Threatened Every CEO in America
March 18, 2026
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Obama’s point woman just threatened every corporation in America with government punishment.
Now the one senator who always says what nobody else will say has responded.
And the word he used to describe what Susan Rice is doing tells you exactly where the Democrat Party is headed.
Susan Rice Threatens Corporate America With an Accountability Agenda
Susan Rice sat down on a podcast in February and said the quiet part loud.
Every corporation, law firm, university, and media company that worked with President Trump is now on a list.
“It is not going to end well for them,” Rice promised.
She called it an “accountability agenda.”
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., had one word for it.
“What Ms. Rice is talking about is payback,” Kennedy said — no hedging, no diplomatic cushion, no both-sidesing it into something polite.
Kennedy went further, reading Rice’s exact words into the record: “When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media, it’s not going to end well for them.”
Rice isn’t some fringe activist shouting on a street corner. She ran Obama’s National Security Council and Biden’s Domestic Policy Council. Now, she sits on Netflix’s board of directors — which is why Trump called on Netflix to fire her immediately or “pay the consequences.”
This is the Democrat establishment, in plain language, threatening American companies for the crime of following the law under a Republican president.
Democrats Weaponized Government Before and Susan Rice Just Promised to Do It Again.
(Yes, that is what happens when you don’t take care of business the first time around and now she is even more radical.)
This isn’t new.
What Susan Rice just described out loud, the Obama machine did in secret for over a decade.
Starting in 2010, the IRS began systematically targeting Tea Party organizations — hundreds of conservative nonprofits — holding their applications in a black hole while liberal groups sailed through.
The Obama White House had been loudly denouncing conservative groups as threats to democracy.
IRS official Lois Lerner wrote to colleagues that Tea Party applications were “very dangerous.”
A 2013 study concluded the targeting cost Mitt Romney between five million and eight and a half million votes in 2012 – the year Obama won by five million.
Democrats didn’t just threaten corporate America back then – they quietly used the IRS to kneecap the political opposition during a presidential election.
Rice is now promising to do it openly, to a broader list of targets, when they come back to power.
Kennedy called out the same playbook when Merrick Garland launched criminal probes against Trump while he was running for president.
“They have unleashed spirits they cannot control,” he said. And he was right.
Schiff and Senate Democrats Are Already Drawing Up the Target List
Rice isn’t operating alone.
According to Axios, Sens. Adam Schiff, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Richard Blumenthal — all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — are already in early planning sessions mapping out subpoena campaigns against companies that worked with the Trump administration.
Schiff has already filed Freedom of Information Act requests on a dozen issues as a dry run.
On the House side, Rep. Pramila Jayapal was even more direct about the strategy: “I don’t think you can do like 100 but I think you can do three and start with that.”
Pick three companies. Make an example of them. Watch the rest fall in line.
That is not an oversight agenda. That is a protection racket.
Rice said it on a podcast. Schiff is building the machinery. Jayapal just explained how it works.
Rice Told Corporate America to Start Preserving Their Documents
Rice’s threat works whether Democrats win in November or not — the warning itself is enough to move corporate behavior.
Companies already saw what happened to those who resisted Obama-era pressure.
These corporations are already watching the Left organize protests, boycotts, and store takeovers against businesses that aligned with Trump’s agenda.
Rice explicitly told corporate America to “preserve their documents” – the language of someone signaling that investigations are coming.
And she told companies they need to “preserve their documents” and “be ready for subpoenas” — and she said it on a podcast, in public, without apology.
Kennedy sees it for exactly what it is.
“What Ms. Rice seems to be saying is that it’s okay in America today to use the law to prosecute and harass your political enemies,” he said.
Rice doesn’t need to win in November for this to work.
Every corporate lawyer in America heard “preserve your documents” and started making calls.
(Senator, with all of the information Bondi/IRS have available about what they did to the country – we hired you folks to correct this. What’s taking so long? We need it done like yesterday.
