Sean Duffy's Daughter Is All of Us As
She Blasts Handsy TSA Agents, Floats Radical Solution
Red State,
by
Bob Hoge
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
12/20/2025 10:36:58 AM
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s pregnant daughter had a bad travel experience Thursday morning, and she’s letting everyone know about it on social media by blasting the TSA and their “rude,” handsy ways. In her tweets, she described the frustration that so many of us feel when we are forced to go through the annoying, often dehumanizing ritual of emptying our bags, taking off our shoes, or possibly even being pulled over for a pat-down.[snip]
Yes, I bet all of us have had the experience of rude, power-drunk agents barking orders at you and treating you as if you’ve somehow committed a crime.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/20/2025 11:00:03 AM (No. 2043564)
The root cause (as our Leftist friends never fail to point out) of this entire mess is decades long policies of Muslim appeasement. When that is gone things will automatically improve.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/20/2025 11:03:59 AM (No. 2043565)
Works for me. I despise TSA, and don't think that they help much, frankly. We managed to survive for a LONG time with people bringing whatever they wanted with them on an airplane.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rakasha 12/20/2025 11:09:36 AM (No. 2043569)
Because it makes perfect sense to harass people who are trying to catch their planes in order to prevent a potential threat while 100,000 unvented terrorists were allowed to walk into our country from Afghanistan.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
3XALADY 12/20/2025 11:16:24 AM (No. 2043575)
Could someone remind me how many terrorists are in the pokey because of the TSA. What a waste of taxpayer assets.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/20/2025 11:20:26 AM (No. 2043581)
Being hearing impaired, going through airport security can be tough for me especially overseas where English is not the primary language for airport security people. Or even here in America, when I'm getting instructions from TSA people who don't speak good English. There is no doubt that the process can be further improved so that travelers don't have to feel like they just survived another TSA shakedown. But at the same time, don't water down the process so that the bad people find new weaknesses in airport security that they will exploit at the drop of a hat.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/20/2025 11:30:48 AM (No. 2043586)
I am still thanking the GOP for acquiesing in allowing the TSA to unionize. Thanks for that!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
czechlist 12/20/2025 11:31:45 AM (No. 2043588)
#5 I have decent hearing but I still avoid dtive through windows. The audio speakers are bad and the mush mouths make it worse. If I can I go inside and save gas and usually time as well.I can't believe people waste gas sitting in line in their cars. Normally I get to see what goes into the bag too, so no surprises when I get home.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
danu 12/20/2025 12:05:15 PM (No. 2043598)
tsa is a RICO investigation and an 'elimination of perversion crusade' begging to happen.
these lowlifes gather around the x-ray machine images that penetrate through clothing.
their success rating for finding and stopping dangerous items from getting on planes is =zip=.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 12/20/2025 12:09:34 PM (No. 2043600)
If you've never seen the TSA questionnaire or taken the test, there are several questions that might jump out at you. Questions such as," Have you ever committed murder?". "Have you ever served time for murder?" "Have you ever committed a felony?" If the TSA needs to ask these questions of applicants, what sort of person is applying for this job, and if any of these questions are answered yes, is that person disqualified from the position? From my experience, for someone who committed murder this is probably a resume enhancement for a TSA position since no matter how rude you are, you can never be fired.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
buckeye1 12/20/2025 12:11:15 PM (No. 2043603)
The good ole days are over. We will not be able to just walk up to the gate to catch a plane. I have been patted down many times because of pins and metal parts in my legs. Get over it! We are told to get to the airport two hours before your departure. That's life. Whst a bunch of cry babies.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/20/2025 12:13:49 PM (No. 2043604)
Haven't been on a plane since 1978 with no intentions of ever getting back on one. I'll drive.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
thefield 12/20/2025 12:42:39 PM (No. 2043611)
Errrrr! Is it possible this agent has got transferred to a prime location?
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I say we go through an old fashion medal detector. Then all passengers are issued a rock as they board the plane. If anyone attempts to take over the plane with a plastic device, we pummel them with rocks. Turn in your rock as you exit the plane.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Daisymay 12/20/2025 3:07:10 PM (No. 2043639)
I think it's not the Pat Down that most of us Ladies hate, it's the enjoyment the Smirking person manhandling us that we hate! I think they could have better people in that position and it would make a huge difference! and they should definitely be more caring with Pregnant Ladies!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 12/20/2025 3:23:00 PM (No. 2043641)
TK was an officer on the LAPD. As such, his police ID allowed him to conceal carry a firearm on airplanes. At TSA checkpoints he would show his ID and state he was carrying. The TSA also notifies the pilot that a carrying police officer is a passenger. He had several pilots come to his seat before the flight to introduce themselves and tell him they were glad he was aboard.
One trip was a quick overnighter, and he only had his carry-on bag. The TSA search revealed his pocketknife, and they required him to put it in a box which would be put in the baggage compartment. At his destination he had to wait at the carousel for his boxed knife. He was livid. He could carry a firearm on board, but not his pocketknife!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Geoman 12/20/2025 4:13:41 PM (No. 2043643)
It is absolutely false that TSA still uses (backscatter) ionizing x-ray technology, developed to screen people for weapons, explosives, and improvised explosive devices. That superior imaging technology, from a detection standpoint, was banned from use in airports over a decade ago given "privacy" concerns. The technology TSA currently uses to screen people in its whole body imaging machines does not use ionizing radiation and it creates computer-generated, Gumby-like images upon which it superimposes red circles around 'areas of interest' to be investigated using manual pat-downs or alternative technologies that do not provide visible, realistic images of of a person's body. If you think looking at images of JC Penney store mannequins is titalating, then condemnation of those reviewing the images makes sense, even if factually incorrect. There never were any so-called "naked scanners" developed by industry in conjunction with FAA or DoT/DHS science and technology labs. It is also a falsehood that no weapons or dangerous items are ever detected and intercepted at airport screening checkpoints. Gun confiscations from passenger carry on bags are a near daily occurrence. I was never a TSA screener but provided law enforcement support, local and federal, for screening activities, both before and after the advent of TSA. In 1988, Pan Am 103 dispelled the notion that there are no explosive threats to commercial aviation. As far as the Duffy lass, there was a small degree of ionizing radiation exposure associated with the banned backscatter x-ray technology, about equal to that which a person receives flying at 35,000 feet for several hours, but the body scanners in use today use technology similar to a sonogram, so there was no ionizing radiation exposure to avoid. Her entitled, "radical solution," to eliminate TSA, which was created by Public law 107-71, and go back to regulated, private screening companies, hired by the airlines, is what gave us 9/11. Papa Sean Duffy cannot unilaterally change the law, so Congress would have to rescind the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, which created TSA and mandated the use of federal screeners, who in large urban airports (JFK, LGA, BOS, BWI, ORD, IAH, IAD, LAX, SFO, etc.), reflect the quality of the Congress creatures in the blue cities and states. In fly-over country, at the smaller airports, TSA is heavily staffed by military veterans, who largely do a fine job.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
navybrat 12/20/2025 5:58:20 PM (No. 2043667)
Agents take the opportunity to steal from luggage while it is open behind the counter.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/20/2025 6:04:59 PM (No. 2043668)
Poster #16: No one was arguing the efficacy or danger of the scanning equipment, but the crude demeanor of the agents. If you say most of them are wonderful. OK. Let me know and I'll use THOSE airports and fly again.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/20/2025 6:59:47 PM (No. 2043673)
I have never had a problem. Frequently flew alone to Europe ad Hawaii. Never hassled. If a bag was looked into it was right in front of me at the time. I would choose to travel with #15 and her husband. And #16(very interesting).
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/20/2025 7:05:32 PM (No. 2043676)
I have always believed TSA prevented nutcases and bad actors from trying to carry out anything on a flight rather than arresting someone dumb enough to try to board with a weapon or explosive device. Prevention by being there rather than apprehension.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/20/2025 7:14:54 PM (No. 2043680)
I hope she wasn't doing the "do you kow who my father is?" bit Attitude can be a two-way street.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/20/2025 7:29:52 PM (No. 2043684)
Re #18, the article discloses that Duffy's pregnant daughter opted for a pat down rather than being scanned.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
franco 12/20/2025 11:47:19 PM (No. 2043707)
#11: Wow! You've got me beat handily. I flew lots from 1984 straight through 2000. I can't even count the number of flights. That was the golden age of air travel. After 9/11/01, I've flown exactly three times. And each time the TSA made the flying experience as unpleasant as possible. Last time was February, 2014, and on that day the TSA exacerbated very bad weather to make flying completely miserable. Instead of one connecting flight to my destination, I got sent on a wild goose chase through 4 connections and arrived 14 hours late to my destination. Each TSA troll acted as though the flying public owed them nothing but smiles while they verbally accosted most travelers and made veiled threats of arrest or physical harm to some of them. As long as there is a TSA, I won't be flying.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 12/21/2025 1:17:23 AM (No. 2043712)
Ditch the TSA. Keep the bomb-sniffing dogs. Implement a new firearm policy: no aircraft can take off until 10% of the passengers are legally packing heat.
Flights would get real calm real fast.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
JimBob 12/21/2025 3:34:23 AM (No. 2043718)
I rarely travel by airline these days, but when I do, the TSA people I have encountered have been decent and professional. If I get the chance, I tell them that I wish they did not have to be there but I appreciate that they are on the job, and I always get a 'Thank You!' in reply. Just like anywhere, there are probably some bad apples in the bunch, but I have not run into any.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Penelope27 12/21/2025 5:22:37 AM (No. 2043723)
I posted this at a Red State also:
Let’s remember who gave us this- W did. If I remember correctly he could have chosen to have given it over to the airlines, where it would have been run professionally, but he was so desperate to get the union nod, which he did not get, that he turned us over to the government aka deep swamp…
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 12/21/2025 6:27:36 AM (No. 2043728)
Israel's airline security is among the best, because it has to be.
When a consultant from Israel looked at our screening processes, he commented that our processes were more to annoy passengers than to protect them.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
chumley 12/21/2025 7:47:37 AM (No. 2043742)
The TSA people havent shown me much the very few times I've flown since 9/11. One looked like Shaggy from Scooby Doo and appeared to be stoned. Several looked like they were ready for a fight at a Waffle House, and one refused to let me board with a really nice bottle opener that was my Dad's. Note that this opener concerned nobody on any other flight. He said I could mail it to myself. Right. From the line to get on the airplane. He seemed really offended when I told him to enjoy my bottle opener.
Seems like the government is hiring a lot of thugs to protect us from thugs.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
chillijilli 12/21/2025 8:29:06 AM (No. 2043755)
Hey #9, if those are real questions that appear on the TSA questionnaire I'd be tempted to answer YES to some of them and see what happens. It would make a great documentary, especially if the applicant claimed some kind of woke status or wore a burqa.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/21/2025 10:01:43 AM (No. 2043796)
No longer unpleasant for me since I stopped flying. When it became more comfortable and faster to drive or take a long motorcycle ride, they lost all of my future business. All they had to do was ban certain types of people from flying but why do it the logical way when you can create thousands of government jobs for the DEI segment?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
paral04 12/21/2025 10:50:48 AM (No. 2043831)
I have traveled a lot and never have had the experiences described above. Some people think they are special and should not have to be checked out. Too bad lady. If you don't like it don't go. I prefer to think there sent any suicide killers on board with me.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
broken01 12/29/2025 7:42:18 AM (No. 2046566)
The TSA I've dealt with from the small airports were to notch as the last time I flown was from Norfolk VA to Charleston WVA. That was ten years ago. Now compare that to the TSA at Chicago O'Hare according to my relatives that flew in for the holidays. They told me the workers at that airport were arrogant as well as rude. I guess it's just the size of the airport that matters.
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I would add stupid and officious to the list. As the column says, not all of them, but all it takes is one to ruin your day.
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