Elon reportedly orders government to stop feeding the bomb-sniffing dogs
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26858906
Summary
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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Every time I read something about the USA in the last few weeks I think "Wow that's shitty. How can it get worse?"
In short order, the answer to my question is served up. I find it worse when the victims cannot speak or stand up for themselves. Though horrible things are happening to a wide range of victims at least they can protest, take action etc. The dogs cannot. I only hope that the handlers make sure the welfare of these animals is taken care of despite the order. They do not deserve to be pawns in the MAGA game, but then no one does.
Same here. Since 2016.
There's no such thing as rock bottom. It can always get worse.
Except: death. Total annihilation. Planet im- or exploding. That's the only actual rock bottom there is.
Yes, but is it instant death, like a plane crash, because the FAA got defunded, or a slow excruciating death because your Healthcare was cut? Or by dehydration in some internment camp because you liked a tweet by AOC?
Slow starvation is a popular selection.
Turns out rock bottom has a basement.
Elon orders government. They said it out loud.
I have an idea for what we could feed those dogs.
I'm not sure whether that would be healthy for dogs.
The rich?
I was thinking kibble, but I like where this is going.
Maybe they can feed the dogs fresh pork, however the pork tastes strongly like fascism and class traders.
Failing to feed and look after animals you are responsible of is animal abuse and illegal.
I thought that we already established that in Magastan "illegal" is only for poor people.
and critics. dont forget critics
And abuse is a key part of the plan.
All that's going to happen is the people who the dogs live with will end up buying them food. As if they would starve a member of their family.
Having dog handlers pay for the dogs they need for work is totally in line with having teachers pay for teaching tools.
Stop feeding Elon...
He has enough body fat to survive until the heat death of the universe anyway.
Yeah he keeps it in his frunk.
Or feed him enough fent to take care of the problem
Fucking psychopath.
quite literally
That’s definitely something a malignant narcissist would say
That didn't sound like the best idea ever for someone using jets so often. That could blow up in his face.
I am sure that he doesn't fly on commercial public transport.
Yes. Elon has a private jet which we can all track through Mastodon, in spite of Elon's attempts to silence it.
🙏
nice pun 😙👌
This might blow up in his face. In more than one way.
They want chaos to justify the suspension of all civil rights. Ask me how I know.
Da, tovarisch
I pray everyday for a poetic Mussolini ending for Musk
Nah, he's cutting corners in bomb detecting dogs, it's gonna be a Carrero Blanco 2 electric boogaloo
Just here for my daily question of: How the fuck does this man have the authority to "order" fucking anything within my government?
Executive branch controls executive things. Voters elected orange man who likes elon.
Put simple, because people wanted this.
Millions of DNC voters stayed home in the 2024 election and known pro-billionaire convicted felon Donald Trump won the presidency.
Now that still technically doesn't give him the power to create a new office. Instead, they kicked everyone out of the digital services office and changed the sign on the door to DOGE. Now that STILL didn't give him power over other offices and the budget, so they've instead been working alongside traitors in the treasury and fighting the courts over legitimacy of their firings and funding freezes.
I heard republicans canceled many votes tirelessly looking for small mistakes
There absolutely was voter suppression, a voter deregistration campaign, and thrown out votes but sadly it wasn't anywhere near a close enough race for those votes to make a difference. Trump won by millions, and theres a much bigger difference between Harris and Biden 2020's numbers to the tune of 7 Million votes.
That's not fraud or corruption. Thats low turnout.
I thought he won by about 1.5 mil
2.3 Million
Beyond animal cruelty, you NEED bomb sniffing dogs! Holy shit! Do they realize that now potential bombers would have a huge upper hand in carrying explosives into airports? Why don't they say 'well those metal detectors and xray machines are too fancy' and go back to the late 60s when there was a hijacking once every 5.6 DAYS.
That's actually really shocking. I looked it up, and you're correct. Hijackings were extremely common in the 60s and 70s.
https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/columns/2023/07/02/miller-airplane-hijackings-during-the-late-60s-and-early-70s/70365468007/
They'll still feed the drug sniffing dogs, though.
I'm sure they'll cut maintenance budgets too, it just takes x-ray machines longer to starve
Paging D.B Cooper.
As a Canadian I welcome their national security cuts.
Will you reclaim it for the crown. Can we agree to name half of it new Canada and the other half new Australia I'm sure we would lend some troops to help out our Canadian friends in their conquests for the crown.
So long as we can rename New York back to New Amsterdam, people will like it better that way
Relevant TV trope : https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KickTheDog
Dude I thought we all agreed that you can’t just drop links to TV Tropes all willy nilly like that. I have things to do today
Tvtropes will ruin your life!
Yes let’s start starving animals now. Great job Republiscum.
if the patriot act is any indication, yes.
The one person who voted no to the Patriot Act was voted out next election.
Let that be a lesson to all Americans. The one person who voted to protect the freedoms of America was voted out because it looked bad on paper.
They gladly will, especially if its a reach around in the name of compromise and good faith to the "Actually Just Open Nazis and Bad Faith Liars" party.
If it’s not already a thing we should start a live tracker of Elon’s current or last known whereabouts. For academic purposes.
Like the Elon flight tracker?
Yes, but I was thinking of a system with more … granularity and resolution. Maybe take the flight tracker and add to it, like noting the color of the vehicle he got in and its plate number. For research. Let’s say it’s to help calculate his efficiency with tax payer dollars.
Maybe some brave air traffic controller can take one for the team and send his plane into the Atlantic Ocean.
Oh well I'm sure the cabinet secretary who oversees TSA will get right on that oh wait she loves killing dogs too
He's starving dogs!
Yeah Elon Musk is a sick fuck, though lets be real. We all knew he wasn't above something like this, this is just proving what we all knew about him. It's still horrible though.
You can't put food "on hold".
You can but the consequences can get pretty extreme.
What will actually happen is, the dog handlers are now forced to pay for food and vet visits out of their own paychecks. And Elon can claim to have saved a couple thousand dollars, until the lawsuits start.
Why would he care about the lawsuits? It won't ever come out of his pocket. It just becomes someone else's problem.
Clearly you can
When I import things to the US through work, they always get stopped by Explosive Detection Dogs, at a cost of around 300 quid per pallet. I wonder if that will stop or drastically reduce. Certainly doesn't seem like a good idea if you want to stop things coming in that shouldn't be.
Can't keep a bs trade war on fentanyl, if dogs are stopping the fentanyl.
What an absolute cunt.
Well i can tolerate some things but starving dogs its not one of them
Sounds like those dogs should start letting bombs through to me.
This is going to be the thing that gets white people off the train. Being mean to the dogs.
i'd wager good money they ignore it
They didn't give a shit about kristi noam.
I'd take the dog home and keep it as a pet. Stop bringing it to work. No bomb dogs at the air ports.
Sorry, that dog you gave me died of malnutrition. This is sam, he's a totally unrelated good boy.
Sick fuck..
Just because Republicans SHOOT their Puppies and DEFUND Dogs DOESNT mean they HATE Dogs!
Not surprising sadly. This is the same man that labeled people relying on the government for a safety net to fucking live parasites.
I am one of those people that is part of the parasite class. I look forward to being able to get teamed up with a doggo in the camp. That actually kinda makes me feel a little better if that would happen actually.
What a freaking shitshow.
The only REAL parasites are the oligarchs.
All of them rely on govt way, way more than anyone else. Of course they try to paint themselves as entrepreneurs who pull themselves by the bootstraps without no help from anyone
This is some unhinged shit. Is it the drugs? Is it the Putin?
Can we please stop blaming ‘drugs’ or ketamine specifically, even when joking. This is seriously hurting its reputation and future use as a therapeutic option. It might not feel like a big deal but every time we say this it normalizes it. Not targeting you specifically just trying to call it out any time I see it - thank you.
Putin. Not even once kids.
Poutine though, more than once!
Hoping to kick off a war when a bomb does slip through the cracks.
So how does it go down when a moral human is forced to respond to this? Curious to get a scenario where an unelected bureaucrat tells you to ignore congress?
Someone should make him watch this
With our luck, he'll wind up also refusing to feed Jim Belushi.
His career would have done that after a year or two if his brother hadn't died
Are we planning 9/11.2? Do we need to get bombs on board of airplanes, or what is the genius in this?
Ya see folks. In elons mind the future is chaos for all of us. Death war, disease, terror (likely instigated by them)
Follow what these billionares are doing. They will be living in palaces and far from the chaos theyre plotting
Please wake up
There is a certain type of person that gets extra upset when dogs are harmed. Make no mistake, I'm still very pro-feeding dogs. This is a fucked up event, yet events like these always bring a special type of "animal lover" outrage. If dog food budget is the Elon thing making you angriest today, then your priorities are out of whack.
Especially so if you eat cows, chickens and pigs, they're all animals. Just so tired of the selective outrage.
Found the vegan.
I beat ya to it.
But seriously, look at this thread. There are people saying this one is too far, that NOW they are convinced Elon is malicious, that this causes the most harm to US national security. All of those things are true and accurate, but if bomb sniffing dogs was your breaking point instead of mass layoffs of both cyber security and nuclear defense personal, racist interns copying entire database of SSN/Addresses/MedicalHistory and Elons full throated holocaust denilaism, then those people were either wildly misinformed or letting doggy emotions dictate your stance more than reason.
Downvote me, that's fine, but y'all need to get a grip.
I had to, considering the username. I don't think you're entirely wrong, but dog people really love dogs. You're playing with fire here.
so they're fucked up for having different feelings for different animals, but it's ok for vegans to selectively judge human animals for having those differing feelings. this is just speciesism directed against humans.
"it's racist against humans for a human to disagree with a human"
lol ok
That's not what I said. what I said is it's speciesist to treat them differently.