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blogslug

(39,161 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:16 PM Oct 2025

Nancy Mace had a meltdown yesterday at the Charleston International Airport

https://www.wired.com/story/nancy-mace-berates-cops-airport-meltdown/

Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, unleashed a tirade against law enforcement at the Charleston International Airport on Thursday, WIRED has learned.

According to an incident report obtained by WIRED under South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act, Mace cursed at police officers, making repeated derogatory comments toward them. The report says that a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor told officers that Mace had treated their staff similarly and that they would be reporting her to their superiors.

According to the report, officers with the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department were tasked with meeting Mace at 6:30 am to escort her from the curb to her flight and had been told that she would be arriving in a white BMW at the ticketing curb area. Around 6:35, the report says, they were told she was running late; they never saw the car arrive.

Shortly before 7 am, the report stated, dispatch told the officers that Mace was at the entrance for the Known Crewmember program—a trusted access lane with a smaller checkpoint overseen by the TSA and intended for flight crew members...

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Nancy Mace had a meltdown yesterday at the Charleston International Airport (Original Post) blogslug Oct 2025 OP
She's stable as wet dynamite. RandySF Oct 2025 #1
Great Simile! ProfessorGAC Oct 2025 #2
"Do you know who I am??!??" Ocelot II Oct 2025 #3
The Top 10 has competition. 🤣 TheBlackAdder Oct 2025 #12
Yeah, shes somebody who thinks shes fucking better than her constituents. Volaris Oct 2025 #22
I'd like for someone to make sure that her constituants understands that she threw a fit because she did not...... FadedMullet Oct 2025 #4
Mace is also still being paid. Hugin Oct 2025 #16
She should be forced to fly on commercial flights Emile Oct 2025 #5
Checked. nt mr715 Oct 2025 #7
I was thinking a No Fly List. mwooldri Oct 2025 #11
On Spirit! BidenRocks Oct 2025 #14
I wouldn't want to sit next to her...just wow! wcmagumba Oct 2025 #26
Main Character Mace Initech Oct 2025 #6
(we all hope that pos loses her seat) nt orleans Oct 2025 #19
I always wondered how markodochartaigh Oct 2025 #8
That was good...theres not a series of Duzy catagories, but if there was Volaris Oct 2025 #24
I was directed to the crew member line in Fort Lauderdale. Turbineguy Oct 2025 #9
hysterical!! orleans Oct 2025 #20
Can i steal that please, thats awesome Volaris Oct 2025 #25
She's a known drama queen trying to look important. Ritabert Oct 2025 #10
If only she did truly melt down NewHendoLib Oct 2025 #13
Like this! sheshe2 Oct 2025 #17
When isn't she having a meltdown? Buddyzbuddy Oct 2025 #15
So much entitlement with her! Pucks mom Oct 2025 #18
oh thank god the police gave her different treatment than the rest of us would have gotten because she's so special orleans Oct 2025 #21
They should have Maced her Grim Chieftain Oct 2025 #23
that woman barbtries Oct 2025 #27
It's not her fault. COL Mustard Oct 2025 #28

Volaris

(11,691 posts)
22. Yeah, shes somebody who thinks shes fucking better than her constituents.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 08:43 PM
Oct 2025

Shes a member of Congress, not cleopatra, queen of the Nile.

The self-important bitch is lucky shes not dragging her own luggage through Domestic Customs (TmTSA).

FadedMullet

(914 posts)
4. I'd like for someone to make sure that her constituants understands that she threw a fit because she did not......
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:23 PM
Oct 2025

.......receive the special treatment that she has come to expect. You know, an oversight that made her air travel more difficult, just like the rest of us deal with every day.

Emile

(42,219 posts)
5. She should be forced to fly on commercial flights
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:29 PM
Oct 2025

in coach. She might get off her high horse then.

markodochartaigh

(5,538 posts)
8. I always wondered how
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:41 PM
Oct 2025

that toxic spray that makes people run away got its name. Good to find out.

Volaris

(11,691 posts)
24. That was good...theres not a series of Duzy catagories, but if there was
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 08:47 PM
Oct 2025

That post absolutely wins for subtlety!
Very good job, even i almost missed it.

(And not for nothin, if you can write 20 minutes of that, you need to go find an open mike night).

Turbineguy

(40,045 posts)
9. I was directed to the crew member line in Fort Lauderdale.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 07:07 PM
Oct 2025

I was the only person there, so there was no line. Other people were in the long line, some giving me nasty looks. So I told them, "this line is for Democrats".

Buddyzbuddy

(2,587 posts)
15. When isn't she having a meltdown?
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 08:22 PM
Oct 2025

BTW, Nancy Mace is synonymous with meltdown.
Like Chernobyl just had a Nancy Mace or Antarctica just had a Nancy Mace, Alaska is Nancy Macing at an alarming rate.

orleans

(36,906 posts)
21. oh thank god the police gave her different treatment than the rest of us would have gotten because she's so special
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 08:41 PM
Oct 2025

and fragile and sensitive and deserves to be treated with kid gloves



"“Any other person in the airport acting and talking the way she did, our department would have been dispatch (sic) and we would have addressed the behavior,” the incident report concludes."
(from link in op)

COL Mustard

(8,198 posts)
28. It's not her fault.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 09:18 PM
Oct 2025

She just misread the sign. She thought it said "screw" members and she was looking for a good time.

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