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Posted on 06/06/2025 6:19:52 PM PDT by algore
The TSA is expressing frustrations with travelers who are not providing a proper REAL ID to fly.
In a Facebook post Wednesday, the TSA made it known that a Costco membership card is not an acceptable identification.
“We love hotdogs & rotisserie chickens as much as the next person, but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as a REAL ID because it absolutely does not,” the TSA wrote in the post.
Starting May 7, most adults catching a flight in the U.S. are now required to present either a passport or an upgraded identification card that meets federal REAL ID standards.
According to the Associated Press, the requirement is 20 years in the making.
A REAL ID is a driver’s license or other state-issued ID that meets security requirements mandated in a 2005 law passed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In most cases, REAL IDs are designated with a white star in a yellow circle.
REAL IDs have been available for years from the DMV. People who didn’t get one by May 7 can still apply.
The Department of Homeland Security website links to information in each state on scheduling appointments and lists the documents needed.
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Yet illegal aliens are allowed to fly and only have to show paperwork provided during their processing by Border Patrol agents, but US citizens now have to comply with the Real ID requirement.
Go get a packet of gold stars at Dollar General and stick one on your Circle K discount card and see how that floats...
I remember a time when the USA didn't have them, but it was not an unknown concept. In that era, the USSR had them.
For real.
Not the Babylon Bee.
What is wrong with this picture?!
LOL!
(This isn’t The Bee???)
I hadn’t look at the headline twice to make sure this wasn’t the bee
If a state driver’s license isn’t a valid ID to fly into or out of an airport in that state, that state has officially declared itself nonviable and planes shouldn’t be flying there.
In some red states I expect Costco to do better vetting than some of the liberal blue state we got now.
The problem with state drivers licenses is that DMV employees were making extra cash by selling illegals valid drivers licenses. They would take the cash and then print the license.
It got so bad in Tennessee that when you go get a drivers license at the local county drivers license station they only print you a license on paper that is only good for 15 days. They will mail you a real license from the secure facility that makes them.
The overwhelming attempts to use a Costco card as ID is on Spirit Airlines.
Exactly. That's my point. A state that can't validate its own IDs is nonviable. That's third-world corruption, not ironically serving up fake IDs to illegal aliens from third-world countries. Airplanes should not be flying there.
In Florida, I got my driver’s license during first visit to DMV.
A bit ago I had to get my military ID card (dependent) updated. I read the list and so I brought my Real ID, my SS card, Birth Certificate and Marriage License. The not yet expired military ID card was, for some reason not allowed as a valid ID for renewal.
As I put laid all the documentation out on the desk I joked, "I also have a Sam's Card". She looked at me and said, "About 50% of the people trying to renew seriously try to use that."
Great movie. Was the go-to to show off your theater room in the late 90s / early 2000s.
Love the negotiation scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Qcm24dxaA
So then they get stolen out of the mail by corrupt Post Office people?
That was certainly going on with checks in my part of the world, starting 5-6 years ago.
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