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A leaked TSA email suggests funding for bomb-sniffing dogs has been halted under Elon Musk.

The email states that vet visits, kenneling, and food are "put on hold" until further guidance.

TSA deploys over 1,000 canine teams, with training costing $33,000 per dog.

The funding freeze contradicts Trump’s "tough on crime" stance and coincided with the White House celebrating "K9 Veterans Day."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Here's hoping buddy goes and gets himself Ramsay Bolton'd

[–] [email protected] 4 points 37 minutes ago

What an amazing end that would be for Elon. You love to see it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 35 minutes ago

Kristie Noem killer her dog with a bullet and MAGA still loves her. This won't change smooth brain MAGA but independent thinkers that love dogs will now hate Elon.

The more Elon hate the better. Fuck him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

What could possibly go wrong?

Yeah, empathy is his problem ... 🙄 ... besides many, many other problems!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

"defund the police!"

the monkey's paw curls another finger

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

you know what, I'd rather they stop the kidnappings and brutalizing impoverished communities first, but if this is how they're doing it, eventually somebody's gonna take advantage. here's hoping their politics are as incomprehensible as mangione.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

K9 units are considered police officers. So he essentially wants to punish some very good (and cute!) police officers who should be getting lots of good food and belly rubs for helping so many people be safe on their flights.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, first remove any kind of bomb detection from any flight he's taking. Need to show that he's serious about saving money

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Makes it easier for someone to place that bomb then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

so he shouldn't be so worried; smaller target.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Richest man in the world to starve dogs so he can have more money."

I wish they'd be more frank. They just want more. The same class that tells us to make our own toilet paper and stop getting that morning coffee, are now digging into the pockets of dogs just for a few more coins to rub together. They'll kill us all for what amounts to pocket change for them. How much better this time line would be if he just ceases to exist.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

Its not even saving anyone money, either, which is the empty pretense they're doing all this under

Last month was more expensive by a significant margin than the same month last year.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I keep waiting to find out where the line is that gets people to actually take to the streets. The bar keeps getting lower as people make more excuses to continue doing nothing.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Its always hard to predict the tipping point. When the Berlin Wall came down, it surprised literally every intelligence agency in the world. Everyone knew the Berlin Wall would fall someday, but nobody had a clue when, how, or why. And NOBODY knew it was that close.

Then one day, it just happened. Someone tried to get through the wall, and a guard just simply refused to stop him, and the floodgates opened. Within minutes, people were smashing the wall with sledgehammers, and within hours the guards were gone, and the citizens were crawling all over it, knocking down sections.

All we can do is prepare and maintain readiness. One day it will tough off somewhere, and it will spread fast. Have a plan, and remain alert.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 23 hours ago

bro, I despised you already but now you went so far beyond the limits, there is no turning back! Don't feed dogs? Anyone who trained a dog and works with that dog would rather starve than not taking care of the dog. But I get it, dogs are loving and loyal to the extreme. Both are concept you will never comprehend.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Legally-speaking, K9 units are considered police officers. "Elon Musk withholds food, housing, and healthcare from over one thousand very handsome police officers" is a much better headline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Is it? I think many people might get more upset regarding doggies being starved than cops.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

That's very paradoxical. There are no good cops, but these officers are all good boys/girls. Therefore they can't be police officers.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They can't be police officers. Dogs aren't bastards.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

Police dogs very much are. It's not their fault though unlike their human counterparts

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some of them are forced to be though. Very much reminds me of the dog that attacked the officer because it saw him beating a suspect.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Can we amend the saying to "the only good cop is either a dead cop or a dog"

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[–] [email protected] 330 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This man is literally trying to starve dogs to death so he can get a tax cut.

That is a level of evil that Saturday morning cartoons would reject as being over the top.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

your talking to a guy that uses his child as a human shield, and would abandon him as soon as he has no use for said shield.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Yet he already did it weeks ago for actual humans.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Straight up, most Saturday morning cartoon villains would be like "go home, heroes. I've got this one, and I don't want you to see what I'm about to do to him."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

No more DEI! (Dogs Eating & Ingesting)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even Hitler loved animals.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I'm reading this and thinking "this can't be real". How did we end up here? I really don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

People in this thread want to blame television which is fucking weird and straight from the 90s. The real issue is every one needs a fucking civics lesson. Half the people don't even know the intended function of government the other half are arguing about which facts are facts.

I'm mean, not even to mention our society is designed around greed. They dressed it up real nice but end of the day the engine that drives the machine is pure greed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Civics and economics are two subjects that aren't treated with the rigor they should be in American high schools. Both subjects are usually taught by coaches as a placeholder to give them a faculty job so they can be on the coaching staff.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

He's basically doing a scream test, you shut off something, and if nobody comes back to you asking why it's down, you can assume nobody was using it, and you can just leave it shut down. If it was needed, you just spin it back up.

Obviously that's not a huge issue with computers (although you'll have a bad time if you do it across the board or with backup systems), but you can't do that shit to people (or in this case animals).

He's doing silicon valley stuff to real life, and you just have to be a complete idiot to think that's a good idea.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I propose bringing all the hungry canines over to meet Elon. It should be televized.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (6 children)

And he hates dogs?

This man is beyond redemption.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Sociopaths don't understand the role of pets. That's why Krasnov is the first president in 100 years to not have a pet.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Surely THIS will get price of eggs down.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

Kristi Noem must have plans for these dogs that for some reason won't need food, shelter, or vet care afterwards.

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