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.”
Stop feeding Elon…
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.
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
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.
The law is wrong. Dogs can’t be fascists.
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.
And he hates dogs?
This man is beyond redemption.
How can anyone hate dogs? Afraid? Yeah, I can understand that. Hate? Wow.
Waiting for someone to hopefully explain how the title is misleading and the dogs are ok plz
Obviously the dogs’ handlers will continue to care for their dogs. It’s not okay that they might be spending their own money to do so.
Y’all Muricans need to stop this madness. Sincerely, rest of the world.
Have the police unions feed them. They are well protected.
Kristi Noem must have plans for these dogs that for some reason won’t need food, shelter, or vet care afterwards.
I propose bringing all the hungry canines over to meet Elon. It should be televized.
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.
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.”
Magneto would be a great addition here.
The original inglorious bastard
I’m reading this and thinking “this can’t be real”. How did we end up here? I really don’t get it.
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.
Or a twisted monster
I have a idea. We do our own scream test.
Let’s turn his brain off permanently.
And we Don’t bother listening for anyone complaining about it.
It’s the perfect plan.
I prefer Luigi’s method personally. Shoot CEOs until someone cares.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Are you wearing a wire dude?
Are you a Trump supporter dude?
It started with Gerry Springer, really. We started celebrating the most awful qualities of humanity and normalized them.
I’d say that Springer was influenced by Oprah Winfrey, whose show about abuse, neglect, crime and vice was influenced by her harrowing childhood, a product of racism, and capitalist-induced poverty.
Didn’t he apologize for that and said had he known what was unleashed he would have shut it down?
This is opening the gate for the next 911 style attack so they can further reduce your civil liberties.
lol, tsa doesnt prevent shit
They prevented my toothpaste from visiting Boston.
The “terrorists” have won
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Maybe its collateral damage from getting rid of drug-sniffing dogs that might narc on him and his friends
Perhaps we take those dogs. When the unruly mobs kick in the mansions of the ultra rich, we let the dogs feed once more.
Airplane in USA crashes by itself so often that I don’t know I should be worried about TSA or other part of the flight system more.
I would bet that they’re aware of an attaok and opening the doors so that it can happen. They’ve already compromsed the rest of the industry. This is 9/ll all over again.
Yeah, they need something to blame on Canada to get the full support of their idiot population to kill us.
This is literally the plot of Michael Moore’s comedy, Canadian Bacon (1995), starring John Candy. 30 years later, and Republicans are now leading us down a path that even Michael Moore deemed to be so patently absurd that it’d be perfect for a zany satirical comedy.
Holy cow, Michael Moore made Canadian Bacon?? And as late as 1995??
I was surprised when I found that out, too. It’s apparently the only fictional movie he’s made; everything else has been documentaries.
I guess they’ll have to update the Wiki page when it comes true anyway, LOL.
