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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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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.
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.
The last time a major terrorist attack happened, the government got expansion of powers.
This is preparing for the next 9/11, reichstag-fire style.
And the dems will approve the Enabling Act.
This is some unhinged shit. Is it the drugs? Is it the Putin?
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
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
Hoping to kick off a war when a bomb does slip through the cracks.
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 hijackings once every 5.6 DAYS.
Why don’t they say ‘well those metal detectors and xray machines are too fancy’
I’m sure they’ll cut maintenance budgets too, it just takes x-ray machines longer to starve
Paging D.B Cooper.
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?
Musk: The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response. So, I think, you know, empathy is good, but you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-musk-said-171900322.html
Fucking psychopath.
quite literally
That’s definitely something a malignant narcissist would say
Oh well I’m sure the cabinet secretary who oversees TSA will get right on that oh wait she loves killing dogs too
Elon orders government. They said it out loud.
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.
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.
Failing to feed and look after animals you are responsible of is animal abuse and illegal.
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.
