1d ago

Elon reportedly orders government to stop feeding the bomb-sniffing dogs

futurism.com Elon Reportedly Orders Government to Stop Feeding the Bomb-Sniffing Dogs

As Elon Musk's DOGE continues to plunder the federal government, even the TSA's bomb-sniffing K9 units aren't safe.

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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Elon reportedly orders government to stop feeding the bomb-sniffing dogs

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Elon reportedly orders government to stop feeding the bomb-sniffing dogs

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What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah, empathy is his problem ... 🙄 ... besides many, many other problems!

"defund the police!"
the monkey's paw curls another finger
- Damn.
- 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.

K9 units are considered police officers. So he essentially wants to punish some very good (and cute!) police officers who should be getting lots of good food and belly rubs for helping so many people be safe on their flights.
- there are no good cops. not even if they're adorable.
  except christopher dorner, and others like him.
  
  Idk I think the "just following orders" defense is allowed for dogs. They actually don't know any better.

Ok, first remove any kind of bomb detection from any flight he's taking. Need to show that he's serious about saving money
- he flies privately
  
  Makes it easier for someone to place that bomb then.
  
  so he shouldn't be so worried; smaller target.

"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.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  Its always hard to predict the tipping point. When the Berlin Wall came down, it surprised literally every intelligence agency in the world. Everyone knew the Berlin Wall would fall someday, but nobody had a clue when, how, or why. And NOBODY knew it was that close.
  Then one day, it just happened. Someone tried to get through the wall, and a guard just simply refused to stop him, and the floodgates opened. Within minutes, people were smashing the wall with sledgehammers, and within hours the guards were gone, and the citizens were crawling all over it, knocking down sections.
  All we can do is prepare and maintain readiness. One day it will tough off somewhere, and it will spread fast. Have a plan, and remain alert.
  
  That doesn't happen in North America
  
  Crossing the Rubicon

bro, I despised you already but now you went so far beyond the limits, there is no turning back! Don't feed dogs? Anyone who trained a dog and works with that dog would rather starve than not taking care of the dog. But I get it, dogs are loving and loyal to the extreme. Both are concept you will never comprehend.

No more DEI! (Dogs Eating & Ingesting)

- Or eaten by some hungry dogs
- I love that for him
- More like to die from him doing on cocaine. Rich people almost always OD on cocaine and or alcohol, or antidepressants
  
  Is that your Dr Worm? How does someone OD on antidepressants?
  
  Rich people almost always OD on cocaine and or alcohol, or antidepressants
  Some of them die by "suicide" in jail cells.
  
  Either that or auto asphyxiation when a strangle wank goes wrong
- … in Minecraft
  
  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.
  
  Don't taint that game with his presence

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.
- Is it? I think many people might get more upset regarding doggies being starved than cops.
- That's very paradoxical. There are no good cops, but these officers are all good boys/girls. Therefore they can't be police officers.
- 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.

Even Hitler loved animals.
- Adolf Hitler had German Shepherd ( Blondi) which often stayed by his side

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.
- your talking to a guy that uses his child as a human shield, and would abandon him as soon as he has no use for said shield.
- Yet he already did it weeks ago for actual humans.
- 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.

Stop feeding Elon...
- Make it a hashtag. #StopFeedingElon

I'm reading this and thinking "this can't be real". How did we end up here? I really don't get it.
- People in this thread want to blame television which is fucking weird and straight from the 90s. The real issue is every one needs a fucking civics lesson. Half the people don't even know the intended function of government the other half are arguing about which facts are facts.
  I'm mean, not even to mention our society is designed around greed. They dressed it up real nice but end of the day the engine that drives the machine is pure greed.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Or a twisted monster
- It started with Gerry Springer, really. We started celebrating the most awful qualities of humanity and normalized them.
  
  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.
  
  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?
- Millions of people who voted for Biden in 2020 stayed home in 2024. Republican numbers stayed the same.
  By abstaining from voting for Harris, the entire US collectively voted for the worst option.

And he hates dogs?
This man is beyond redemption.
- Sociopaths don't understand the role of pets. That's why Krasnov is the first president in 100 years to not have a pet.
- I heard when Elon played the original Wolfenstein he would kill all the dogs and leave the Nazi soldiers alone. He thought the goal was to collect all the scattered treasure to take to Hitler at the end.
- Like a badly-written comic book villain.
  Except in a comic book, he'd be a one-off.
- How can anyone hate dogs? Afraid? Yeah, I can understand that. Hate? Wow.
  
  Psychopaths usually hate animals. One of the early signs of psychopathy is harming animals.

I propose bringing all the hungry canines over to meet Elon. It should be televized.
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_oIDJ6U4Vso&t=20s&pp=2AEUkAIB

Surely THIS will get price of eggs down.

They can just eat the bombs they find during their work. Like a barn 🐈. They also just eat the mice they catch.

Kristi Noem must have plans for these dogs that for some reason won't need food, shelter, or vet care afterwards.

Dogs taking away jobs from humans? What a disgrace! Surely dogs are DEI hires, if I ever saw one. They're not even people!

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.
- There are dozens of us!
  
  Tens, even!

Cool so bombs are doable now? heh

Bet fElon wants to smuggle drugs on his private plane.
- I'm thinking one of his kids that hates him got a new dog, and this is how he responds.
- No need to smuggle, TSA doesn’t seem care

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."
  
  Obligatory

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.

Maybe its collateral damage from getting rid of drug-sniffing dogs that might narc on him and his friends

Have the police unions feed them. They are well protected.

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.

Well, I know who wants an absolutely explosive birthday gift!

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