My Favorite Things (TSA Version)
A reined-in TSA would be the sound of music to many Americans' ears.
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Parody of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "My Favorite Things," written and performed by Remy. Music tracks mixed and mastered by Ben Karlstrom.
Barking out orders to the lined up masses
Patting them down on their chest, groin, and asses
Blue denim packages, grabbing your peen
These are a few of my favorite things
Plundering iPads and pocketing 40
Acting like I am a suppository
Groping survivors of mastectomies
These are a few of my favorite things
Scanning your schnitzel, your johnson, your noodle
Saving that data and chain-yanking poodles
A penis that shape oh it's probably Steve
These are a few of my favorite things
Seeing a man trying to plan
A lacrosse jihad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad
Making you throw away half-empty Yoohoo
Taking your rights and selling them back to you
Seeing good people lose their dignity
These are a few of my favorite things
They just searched me for seven minutes! In heaven
Their budget's 10 times bigger than post-9/11
In undercover tests they barely catch a thing
Give us a list of your favorite things
Treating free people like potential muggers
Patting more children than lonely Josh Duggars
Seeing our new intrusions met with apathy
Seems like a good list of favorite things
Fights against terrorists we have eased up in
But to us you still give the blue-gloved cupping?
Who do you view as the real enemy?
What's your idea for solving these things?
- Producer: Meredith Bragg
- Producer: Austin Bragg
- Producer: John Carter
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I had to give up a perfectly good massage stick that had been permitted on previous flights simply because some TSA clown thought it could be used as a weapon and the medical device exemption didn't apply.
perfectly good massage stick..
Must have been a nasty looking dildo.
It made a funny! I did genuinely laugh, so good one.
Discovered during his body cavity search.
But be comforted, as you recover from the complementary groinal area massage, that TSA fails to discover actual guns and knives at astounding rates.
Pure gold as always from Remy.
Remy videos are one of my favorite things that brings a grin in an otherwise hard-scrabble Holiday.
Duggar is a pretty dated reference. I would have gone with:
Good people treated like they're just bad rumors,
Patting more children than LGBT groomers.
That's more 2023.
Meh ... lyrics kinda forced. Not Remy's best effort to date. I wish he had emphasized the abandonment of any pretense that the TSA is still protecting us against terrorists. I doubt that the security guards at the airports actually enjoy patting people down. Just another demographic hired to do useless boring jobs, implement meaningless bans, inflate the public service welfare rolls and intimidate the public for no good reason.
And create an atmosphere in which civil rights are automatically not assumed.
Look at any young adult born after 9/11. They don't remember airports before the TSA. This is all they've ever known. So, they think this is perfectly normal and acceptable. Status quo.
WSJ this weekend has an article about how bad behavior on planes continues to be quite high (not at high as during masking, but still high)... my first thought was, well, if you start the day with a TSA exam, it's not going to put you in the best mood to begin with.
Fire 'em all. Personally, I'd charge every one of them with violations of the 1st (free assembly - implying the right to get to such a place) and 4th amendments (the whole thing) and 9th (just because).
Amazing
Remy Videos is one of my favorite videos so beautiful and knowledgeable.