LIVE TST (5/23/25): It's Not Gay If It's TSA: REAL ID & the Security Theater Sequel

FULL AUDIO SHOW: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-s-not-gay-if-it-s-tsa-real-id-the-security-theater-sequel-5-23-25--66241342

SYNOPSIS: The REAL ID Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in May of 2005. Due to costs, logistical issues, legal questions, its full implementation was delayed until 2008, 2011, 2013, and then in 2014 set to be gradually introduced instead. But delays continued into 2020, 2021, and finally until May 7, 2025, when it went into full force - kind of.

The REAL ID is a new form of compliant license for entering federal facilities, nuclear plants, and for domestic air travel. Even after 20 years of preparations, implementation is causing widespread confusion across U.S. airports. Up to 7% of domestic flight customers still do not have the new ID and this, mixed with general confusion about requirements, regulations, enforcement, etc., are causing delays and heightening suspicion of every citizen, especially because of the growing frustration and additional screening procedures put in place.

However, those without the REAL ID can still fly. How? Well, they will be subject to additional security and the TSA will have to manually check their regular driver’s licenses like they always have. These people may also be subject to additional questioning and documentation checkpoints.

USA.GOV confirms “Yes. If you do not upgrade your license or state ID, you can use a passport or one of these other acceptable forms of identification to fly.”

What it does not say is that you still may be able to fly without any of those additional ID cards. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the exemption is not just a temporary measure while the bugs are worked out or a matter of presenting a passport: “If it’s not compliant, they may be diverted to a different line, have an extra step, but people will be allowed to fly.” A TSA press release has confirmed this.

When you ask the DHS if their intent is to build a national database and ID system, they say “No. REAL ID is a national set of standards, not a national identification card. REAL ID does not create a federal database of driver license information. Each jurisdiction continues to issue its own unique license, maintains its own records, and controls who gets access to those records and under what circumstances. The purpose of REAL ID is to make our identity documents more consistent and secure.”

In other words, it’s not a card but a standard; its not a federal database, but a state database that links to a nonprofit controlled by the federal government; it’s about privacy, even though the records are collected as part of a drag net of coercion and threats; it’s about ensuring consistency, but each jurisdiction issues its own “unique license” like they always have.

So what’s the point? It’s more extortion for profit (like TSA pre-check), security theater (like hygiene theater in 2020), coercive tactics to enforce compliance with illegal and unlawful dictates (like masking), and another step in criminalizing law abiding citizens (like the TSA Quiet Skies program). Even the name is a scam, the “REAL ID” as opposed to all those fake sate issued ones by the same states that are now going to be forced to issue the true REAL ID. It’s like “patriot act” or “big, beautiful bill.”

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