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.”

337 points

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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43 points

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.”

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18 points

Magneto would be a great addition here.

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18 points

It’s hard to even see Magneto as a villain anymore. Dude was basically right about everything.

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6 points

The original inglorious bastard

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6 points

Yet he already did it weeks ago for actual humans.

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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.

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12 points

Here’s hoping buddy goes and gets himself Ramsay Bolton’d

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5 points

What an amazing end that would be for Elon. You love to see it.

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73 points
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“defund the police!”

the monkey’s paw curls another finger

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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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3 points

Damn.

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138 points

“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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43 points

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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24 points

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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28 points

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.

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6 points

That doesn’t happen in North America

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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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