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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Just here for my daily question of: How the fuck does this man have the authority to "order" fucking anything within my government?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

And the dems will approve the Enabling Act.

if the patriot act is any indication, yes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This is going to be the thing that gets white people off the train. Being mean to the dogs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

i'd wager good money they ignore it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

They didn't give a shit about kristi noam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Hoping to kick off a war when a bomb does slip through the cracks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

This is some unhinged shit. Is it the drugs? Is it the Putin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Putin. Not even once kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Poutine though, more than once!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If it’s not already a thing we should start a live tracker of Elon’s current or last known whereabouts. For academic purposes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Like the Elon flight tracker?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Maybe some brave air traffic controller can take one for the team and send his plane into the Atlantic Ocean.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

They'll still feed the drug sniffing dogs, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Paging D.B Cooper.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I pray everyday for a poetic Mussolini ending for Musk

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Nah, he's cutting corners in bomb detecting dogs, it's gonna be a Carrero Blanco 2 electric boogaloo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Oh well I'm sure the cabinet secretary who oversees TSA will get right on that oh wait she loves killing dogs too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Sick fuck..

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