Everyone should have realized it was security theater when nobody was asked to remove their underwear after the underwear bomber.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Next up is to ditch the fluid restrictions.

“I’m sorry, that’s too much fluid, here, let me dispose of it right next to this massive line of people in case it has an explosive, chemical, or biological component…”