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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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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 80 points 5 hours 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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours 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.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 hours ago (2 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.

[–] TheRealAsmodeus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

That doesn't happen in North America

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 hours 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.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 29 points 5 hours ago

Even Hitler loved animals.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

it would be hilarious for elon to die in a bombing

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 29 minutes ago

I love that for him

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

More like to die from him doing on cocaine. Rich people almost always OD on cocaine and or alcohol, or antidepressants

Is that your Dr Worm? How does someone OD on antidepressants?

[–] Marcx1984@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

Either that or auto asphyxiation when a strangle wank goes wrong

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[–] iwasnormalonce@lemm.ee 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

Make it a hashtag. #StopFeedingElon

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 82 points 8 hours ago (3 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.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours 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.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 32 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 22 points 7 hours 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.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 16 points 4 hours ago
[–] disgrunty@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 11 points 8 hours ago

The law is wrong. Dogs can't be fascists.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Bet fElon wants to smuggle drugs on his private plane.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm thinking one of his kids that hates him got a new dog, and this is how he responds.

[–] TK420@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

No need to smuggle, TSA doesn’t seem care

[–] Potato@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago

Surely THIS will get price of eggs down.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 42 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

And he hates dogs?

This man is beyond redemption.

[–] alchemist5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Like a badly-written comic book villain.

Except in a comic book, he'd be a one-off.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour 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.

[–] SilverCode@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago

I heard when Elon played the original Wolfenstein he would kill all the dogs and leave the Nazi soldiers alone. He thought the goal was to collect all the scattered treasure to take to Hitler at the end.

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[–] Flashback956@feddit.nl 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is so fucking funny, everyday we (the world) get to read news articles about the United States of Idiots.

Disclaimer: I don't think that all Americans are idiots, many of you are okay.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 minute ago

There are dozens of us!

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 281 points 13 hours ago (1 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.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 30 points 9 hours 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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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 69 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 26 points 10 hours 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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