{"id":21623,"date":"2026-03-12T07:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/why-our-disgusting-airports-are-proof-of-the-countrys-decline\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:03:34","slug":"why-our-disgusting-airports-are-proof-of-the-countrys-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/why-our-disgusting-airports-are-proof-of-the-countrys-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Our Disgusting Airports Are Proof Of The Country\u2019s Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Today, I\u2019m forced to offer a correction. I don\u2019t normally do so, but in discussing the media\u2019s deliberately misleading coverage of the terror attack in New York City on Saturday, I made an egregious mistake. I described CBS News as perhaps the worst offender, out of every media organization that lied to the public about what happened. But as bad as CBS\u2019 coverage was, my statement simply wasn\u2019t accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is that no single outlet was more committed to lying about the terrorist attack than CNN, which aired the following analysis from CNN\u2019s Abby Phillip last night. This is one of those clips that seems like it can\u2019t possibly be real, but it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CNN\u2019s Abby Phillip claims that the attempted NYC bombing was \u201can attempted terror attack against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspects were two Muslim terrorists who pledged allegiance to ISIS and were targeting anti-Islam protesters. pic.twitter.com\/xtGIirLPb3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: @greg_price11\/X.com<\/p>\n

The bombing was, \u201can attempted terror attack against New York\u2019s Mayor Zohran Mamdani,\u201d according to CNN\u2019s Abby Phillip. Well, there it is. It\u2019s completely false \u2014 the total inverse of the truth, concerning a major news story that took place more than 48 hours earlier \u2014 and she delivers it live, on-air.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, this false narrative is precisely what every news outlet \u2014 including CNN \u2014 has been trying to suggest for the past 48 hours. They\u2019ve desperately been trying to confuse the public into believing this lie. They know that two Muslim terrorists tried to murder conservative activist Jake Lang, as well as several police officers, in the name of ISIS and global jihad. But as we\u2019ve discussed, the media has been reporting the story in a way that suggests Mamdani was somehow targeted by \u201canti-Islam demonstrators,\u201d because the attack occurred near his official residence. And now Abby Phillip comes out and repeats the same lie that CNN has been spreading all day \u2014 except she\u2019s even more direct about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, on their official accounts, CNN posted the following text on X, as well as their website (in the form of an article).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what CNN wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: @CNN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It reads: \u201cTwo Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could\u2019ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Notice how the propaganda works. Instead of Muslim terrorists whose parents came here from Afghanistan and Turkey, they\u2019re \u201cPennsylvania teenagers\u201d who \u201ccould\u2019ve been enjoying the city\u201d during the nice weather. And these \u201cPennsylvania teenagers\u201d don\u2019t actually do anything. Instead, things happen to them. They get arrested. Their lives \u201cchange.\u201d And we\u2019re told that the incident occurred \u201cduring an anti-Muslim protest,\u201d which suggests that the anti-Muslim protesters were responsible for the bombing. (That\u2019s apparently how Abby Phillip understood the story.)<\/span><\/p>\n

That CNN article was written by two authors, both of them women. One of them went to UC Berkeley and Columbia Journalism School, where the yearly cost of attendance is well over $100,000. She uses \u201cthey\/them\u201d pronouns and identifies as nonbinary. The other author is a Spanish-speaking Colombian immigrant to the United States who holds an undergraduate journalism degree.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"DailyWire+\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s important to understand about this propaganda \u2014 and why I\u2019m opening with it \u2014 is that virtually every single mainstream media outlet is trying to do the same thing. The mistake that CNN made, in this case, was being too obvious about it. But if you pay enough attention, you\u2019ll find that journalists are paid to obscure relevant information, to the extent that the information might lead you to draw some unapproved conclusions. If you draw those unapproved conclusions, then your life might actually get better. The quality of life in this country might improve, instead of continuing its steady, managed decline.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider what\u2019s happening to air travel right now in the United States. If you\u2019ve been on a plane lately, you know it\u2019s as bad as it\u2019s ever been. And now, in the wake of the DHS shutdown, things are starting to fall apart. But the media, as always, isn\u2019t interested in providing all of the necessary context.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a report that just aired on NBC News on the topic.<\/span><\/p>\n

See if you can spot what\u2019s missing:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lines are snaking \u201call the way out the parking garage\u201d at airports in Houston, and New Orleans due to TSA staffing disruptions as a result of the Democrat shutdown of @DHSgov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Totally destructive and harmful to American travelers \u2014 all thanks to Democrats. pic.twitter.com\/KC0guIxqEc<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: @RapidResponse47\/X.com<\/p>\n

So TSA wait times are now insanely long at three specific airports: Atlanta, Houston-Hobby, and New Orleans. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a total breakdown, as you can see.<\/span><\/p>\n

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NEW: TSA line spills into the parking garage at the New Orleans International Airport due to TSA staffing shortages.<\/p>\n

According to local reports, wait times are up to 2 hours, and delays could continue through this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to impacts from the federal government\u2019s partial\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/A2b4E7GXoP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: @CollinRugg\/X.com<\/p>\n

They\u2019re telling passengers to get to the airport several hours early, and the TSA line is so long it snakes into the parking garage. The reason that all of this is happening, according to NBC News, is that Democrats are refusing to fund DHS. You see, Democrats are upset that two Left-wing agitators were killed while assaulting and interfering with federal law enforcement officers, so they\u2019re not paying for TSA anymore. And Republicans aren\u2019t willing to compromise at the moment, so therefore, you get long delays.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as an explanation for what\u2019s happening, again, that\u2019s an incomplete analysis. And it\u2019s incomplete on purpose. You also have to ask yourself this question: Why exactly is the crisis only affecting three airports, all of them located in the American South? The TSA is a national federal agency. None of these officers, anywhere in the country, are getting paid right now. So why isn\u2019t every single airport in every city in the United States experiencing a similar meltdown? Why aren\u2019t lines going to the parking garage in Maine or Vermont?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you look a little deeper, you\u2019ll discover that TSA agents in the South are calling in sick in response to the funding lapse. That\u2019s the reason for these delays. In other words, the TSA agents in these particular airports are committing fraud on the taxpayer. They know that, when the DHS is funded, they\u2019ll receive back pay. But they don\u2019t care. They\u2019re going to take a vacation or work a side hustle, on false pretenses, because they see an opportunity to double dip. And for some unknown reason \u2014 which can\u2019t possibly have anything to do with systemic corruption, or culture, or local hiring practices, or demographics, or anything at all \u2014 the vast majority of TSA agents who are committing this fraud happen to be located in three major urban centers in the southern United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the unprecedented amount of sewage that was flowing onto D.C.\u2019s streets, as the local water board celebrated its \u201cdiversity.\u201d Is something similar happening with the TSA in Houston, New Orleans, and Atlanta? Whatever the case, we need to know why so many of these TSA agents are concentrated at these particular airports, and why they aren\u2019t getting fired \u2014 or even punished \u2014 for committing a very flagrant fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n

But no one at NBC News will ever investigate those questions, and we all know why. They\u2019re afraid of what they\u2019d discover. Above all, the media\u2019s objective is to prevent you from realizing that decline is a choice. All of the daily indignities that we put up with are, in fact, optional. And we know that because, not too long ago, we didn\u2019t indulge the laziness and the corruption of the worst among us.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an upcoming episode of \u201cReal History,\u201d we\u2019re going to talk at some length about the book \u201cThe Age of Entitlement<\/a>,\u201d by Christopher Caldwell. Among other things, it describes many of the ways that society has floundered ever since the Civil Rights Era. It turns out that, when you usher in a wave of anti-white racism at every level of society, things start to break. And they break in ways that many people don\u2019t even realize. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s just a couple of examples from the book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By the 2016 presidential election, the quickest flights from New York to London took 6 hours and 40 minutes, almost three quarters of an hour longer than they had taken during the Nixon administration. The train trip from New York to Washington DC \u2014 a mere 2 hours and 15 minutes when the Beatles made it on their first American tour in 1964 \u2014 now took half an hour longer on the very fastest trains.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe, but it\u2019s true. Travel, by air and by train, has become much slower than it was during the 1960s. There are more passengers and more delays, and the infrastructure has degraded. Meanwhile, airlines decided that flying slower would save on fuel, which is the main reason they stopped making the Concorde.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, you could pick many other metrics where we\u2019ve declined \u2014 from crime rates to fertility rates to literacy rates and so on. But air travel is worth focusing on, because it\u2019s a relatively expensive way to travel. It\u2019s supposed to be the crown jewel of American transportation. If air travel has gotten much worse, then it stands to reason that you probably don\u2019t want to use the local subway system, or take a Greyhound through the Midwest. So what exactly has gone wrong here?<\/span><\/p>\n

To answer that question, you need to recognize that air travel used to look very different compared to how it looks today. For one thing, the security lines didn\u2019t stretch to the parking lot. And being a stewardess was considered a glamorous and desirable job, and passengers weren\u2019t packed together like cattle in the smallest possible seats. <\/span><\/p>\n

Take a look at this Coke\/TWA ad from\u00a0<\/span>1967, which gives you some idea. <\/span><\/p>\n

Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n