Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton): When it was announced, I declared to coworkers “This is a terrible idea and it will go badly” and I haven’t gotten less wrong with time. It just makes me feel like bureaucracy Cassandra.

When it was announced, I declared to coworkers “This is a terrible idea and it will go badly” and I haven’t gotten less wrong with time. It just makes me feel like bureaucracy Cassandra.

Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed. www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...

It’s time to break up the Department of Homeland Security | CNNwww.cnn.com David Perry says the bigotry under investigation at the Border Patrol, the overreach at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the terrible conditions in border facilities show an DHS, it’s time to d...

I know how bureaucracies work and looked at the GOP case to make DHS and said OH HELL NO. They have managed to realize the worst of each of the constituent agencies, not efficiencies, to preserve the employment in every congressional district.

Remember when FEMA was competent and actually feared by the conspiracy theorists who were absolutely positive that FEMA was the key to the trilateral commission one world government NWO (4 life) Russian Paratroopers reading the barcodes on the back of road signs crazies? Then DHS happened. Sad.

Very sad.

“The best time to break up the Department of Homeland Security was in October of 2001. The second best time is now.” -American proverb

I want an MTV Cribs style series on all of the sub-basement complexes built.

I still remember staring in shock as Congress moved that legislation through the process thinking, this seems a bad idea. Does no one else see the bad?

Copped my first stint in Facebook jail back in the day for posting that everyone who voted for it should be convicted of treason, horsewhipped the length of the National Mall, and hanged in front of the Jefferson Memorial as an apology to the nation. I still stand by my statement.

Amen. It’s always been a mistake.

When it was announced I thought, "Isn't this just FBI 2? Only with a much more sinister sounding name?"

Plus aspects of other agencies like the NSA

Lucky me, I have to deal with them all the time working in an airport.

We’re they the ones that made it so that it was illegal for any immigrant to live within 100 miles of any coastal line?

And IIRC they interpreted it so broadly, it included the Great Lakes.

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