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.”
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
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
What an absolute cunt.
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
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.
Failing to feed and look after animals you are responsible of is animal abuse and illegal.
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.
I thought that we already established that in Magastan “illegal” is only for poor people.
And abuse is a key part of the plan.
and critics. dont forget critics
Elon order government. They said it out loud.
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.
That’s actually really shocking. I looked it up, and you’re correct. Hijackings were extremely common in the 60s and 70s.
They’ll still feed the drug sniffing dogs, though.
Paging D.B Cooper.
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
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
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.
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
That didn’t sound like the best idea ever for someone using jets so often. That could blow up in his face.
🙏
nice pun 😙👌
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.
