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.”
I have an idea for what we could feed those 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.
I’m not sure whether that would be healthy for dogs.
Every time I read something about the USA in the last few weeks I think “Wow that’s shitty. How can it get worst?”
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, there is only one point where “it cannot get any worse”: death.
Turns out rock bottom has a basement.
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.
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
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
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Can’t keep a bs trade war on fentanyl, if dogs are stopping the fentanyl.
Are we planning 9/11.2? Do we need to get bombs on board of airplanes, or what is the genius in this?
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
That’s definitely something a malignant narcissist would say
Fucking psychopath.
quite literally
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!
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
You can’t put food “on hold”.
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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.
That didn’t sound like the best idea ever for someone using jets so often. That could blow up in his face.
That didn’t sound like the best idea ever for someone using jets so often.
I am sure that he doesn’t fly on commercial public transport.
🙏
nice pun 😙👌
Having dog handlers pay for the dogs they need for work is totally in line with having teachers pay for teaching tools.
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.
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And the dems will approve the Enabling Act.
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.
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