It just means DOGE will operate in more obscurity. He might "step down" but DOGE ain't going away.
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Lackluster reporting. The article misses the fact that he has to step down as he's a special government employee and so can only work for 130 days.
Strange that that's the one law that he decided to follow.
The Russian constitution omly allowed 2 consecutive terms.
Putin endorsed Medvedev, who served 1 term, then Putin resumed power afterwards.
At which point he removed the 2 term restriction.
They've already found another placeholder.
Keep in mind what he "says" he's doing and what happens in two months... Are completely separate...
They would keep him on if they wanted to, he's insufferable to the point that the weirdo accelerationist psudeo-nazi death cult can't tolerate him.
So he'll just be a different special employee a day after. Or whatever they need to justify his return.
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He saved the US nothing. He actually cost us money by having all the lawsuits and the loss of services & revenue the US Gov could have had. He did nothing for us. This was a scam to shut down investigations into his businesses and a revenge tour. Breaking the government is not a 'savings'. So is May the month that they decide to declare martial law because there is an 'emergency'? Like all the other 'emergencies' and 'national threats' that they made up? When do they start broadcasting all the news in Russian?
Probably your tax money will also be wasted replacing government buildings and resources that were flogged off for practically nothing, which has been the right wing playbook since Thatcher and Pinochet.
He should be stepping down from a gallows.
a BIG step.
You know when you go to step off a curb, but miscalculate the depth, and end up taking a really big, jarring step down?
Like that, except it's REALLY jarring.
its always the sudden stop that gets you.
a very very sudden big step
A roll, or partial roll, if you would.
part of him is rolling on the ground.
part of him is still dangling above it.
Ooooh. A whole $115 billion?
That’s nothing in a trillion dollar budget. Not to mention most of his “savings” have turned it to be bad math if not outright lies.
A best it's pocket change that was saved however that would require understanding finances, budgets, and payments. Concepts far above the idiots at the Department of Government Enshittification.
Musky is only using big numbers to easily bamboozle the MAGA clown show about how much money he allegedly managed to save for the government.
This has got to be because he was going to get fired from Tesla if he didn't, right?
No, this is him lying again. He runs the country, he isn't stepping down from anything, he is trying to disconnect his name from the shitstorm.
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It is because they classified Musk as a Special Government Employee, which can only be employed for 130 days out of the year. The article references the 130 days, but doesn't say anything more about it.
The board is completely under his control, so that’s unlikely. It’s probably more about Tesla’s stock price.
Jokes on him. This isn’t going to save Tesla. He’d have to get kicked out of the company permanently, and then it would be a slow climb to build back any trust.
I wouldn’t be surprised if another car company buys Tesla on the cheap at some point, and changes its name (or just adopts the branding of the buyer company).
Their development seems to be very slow and Elron can't focus on them as a car company. And obviously, while they were expected to solve FSD before the completion, they're not, and meanwhile focus turned to things like their stupid robot. The real models haven't been updated in years while meanwhile they released a horrific travesty of a truck. Tesla may still have some useful technology but they're being rapidly left behind while their CEO goes on deranged power trips with the government.
Elon focusing on them as a car company is where that horrific travesty of a truck and the stupid robot came from, not to mention the false promises of FSD. I think Tesla is better of without Elon's focus.
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Saved $115 billion... While the economy tanked by trillions. 🫢
Good job, guys. Work well done! /s
I thought he wasn’t part of DOGE? Haha
How about just get the fuck out of the government right now? Monday would be great. Here's your pink slip. Buh bye.
No one is actually getting that. I'll make a bet they pay like two months of that termination pay then end it and try to claw it back calling it illegal.
This is somehow ominous actually.
So when TSHTF over what a wreck he made he can say he doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Yea right it’s all smoke and mirrors
He should step off of a bridge instead
Why stay in the house when you lit it on fire.
Sure, like he stepped down at Twitter.
Okay Elon. Here at the grand canyon. Let's take a photo... Step a little to the side...a little more. A little more...
Has everything he needs to wreck u.s. public holdings remotely ..?
What a coincidence...I also quit LARPing when it became apparent that I was going to become bankrupt if I continued it. The difference, of course, was that I was fully aware that I had no power or authority and that it was all make believe.
otherwise he’d need confirmation
There's no reason to believe him now. Do you think he would willingly give up the power that he gained 2 months ago? Of course not... So even if what he's saying is technically true, it's only going to be a piece in his game to amass even more power. Remember, evil m************ like that take as much as they possibly can, for as long as they possibly can, forever.
lol, so he got fired.
He's afraid... somebody caught on to one his hidden schemes or assets. He will continue to mettle behind the scenes and use Trump as a puppet.
Aka shutting the fuck up and sitting down.
wish he'd step up to the headman's block
and then kneel down over it.
so he's only about halfway 'done' then? needs another month or two to finish copying every scrap of data and the sabotage of government systems, workflows, policies, procedures, and relationships.
Is he going to step down the same way he stepped down from being the CEO of twitter?
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