I just turned 70. Hopefully I can make it through the gate without going through much of that crap again.
Freedom as we know it (at least in rural Texas) is rapidly eroding.
Just don’t crack jokes, don’t say anything to those badge’d up creeps, take your stuff and just move along. I have a special bag of stuff that even they can’t touch; all I have to do is show them MY badge (I carry on the flight deck and have a federal badge to do so).