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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    13 hours ago

    Kristie Noem killer her dog with a bullet and MAGA still loves her. This won’t change smooth brain MAGA but independent thinkers that love dogs will now hate Elon.

    The more Elon hate the better. Fuck him.

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    “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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      you know what, I’d rather they stop the kidnappings and brutalizing impoverished communities first, but if this is how they’re doing it, eventually somebody’s gonna take advantage. here’s hoping their politics are as incomprehensible as mangione.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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        Either that or auto asphyxiation when a strangle wank goes wrong

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        No, in real life, so we don’t have to deal with that piece of human garbage anymore.

        This isn’t social media controlled by a billionaire, you don’t have to bring this mass social media brainrot.

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    Ok, first remove any kind of bomb detection from any flight he’s taking. Need to show that he’s serious about saving money

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    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.

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      He’s basically doing a scream test, you shut off something, and if nobody comes back to you asking why it’s down, you can assume nobody was using it, and you can just leave it shut down. If it was needed, you just spin it back up.

      Obviously that’s not a huge issue with computers (although you’ll have a bad time if you do it across the board or with backup systems), but you can’t do that shit to people (or in this case animals).

      He’s doing silicon valley stuff to real life, and you just have to be a complete idiot to think that’s a good idea.

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      It started with Gerry Springer, really. We started celebrating the most awful qualities of humanity and normalized them.

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        MTV becoming a viral “reality” TV show hosting things like “The Real World” I think brought awful qualities to the mainstream, then social media gave everyone the opportunity to be THAT viral reality tv star. It may have started with Jerry, but MTV spread it to the masses. At the end of the day it was all driven by the pursuit of profits. All roads lead to capitalism, after all.

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        Didn’t he apologize for that and said had he known what was unleashed he would have shut it down?

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            regretted everything

            Including paying prostitutes with checks. The bank was not amused.

            Twenty-four hours later, the 30-year-old Springer was testifying at the trial of three men accused of operating the Northern Kentucky “health club” where he admitted going twice for sex – once the previous December, once in January. On the stand, he identified a $50 check he made out to 26-year-old Norma Jean Hall.

            “It was in exchange for an act of prostitution,” Springer said.