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"Musk’s team said it saved the country $115 billion by slashing wasteful and redundant spending. Not everyone agrees, but he feels he has the country on track and he can step aside."

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

Saved $115 billion... While the economy tanked by trillions. 🫢

Good job, guys. Work well done! /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Why stay in the house when you lit it on fire.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

How about just get the fuck out of the government right now? Monday would be great. Here's your pink slip. Buh bye.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

lol, so he got fired.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Aka shutting the fuck up and sitting down.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Okay Elon. Here at the grand canyon. Let's take a photo... Step a little to the side...a little more. A little more...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Has everything he needs to wreck u.s. public holdings remotely ..?

[–] [email protected] 144 points 4 days ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Keep in mind what he "says" he's doing and what happens in two months... Are completely separate...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

So he'll just be a different special employee a day after. Or whatever they need to justify his return.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

He should step off of a bridge instead

[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

I thought he wasn’t part of DOGE? Haha

[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He should be stepping down from a gallows.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

a very very sudden big step

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A roll, or partial roll, if you would.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

So when TSHTF over what a wreck he made he can say he doesn’t have anything to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Is he going to step down the same way he stepped down from being the CEO of twitter?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This has got to be because he was going to get fired from Tesla if he didn't, right?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 days ago

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.

https://www.doi.gov/ethics/special-government-employees

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The board is completely under his control, so that’s unlikely. It’s probably more about Tesla’s stock price.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (7 children)

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).

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

This is somehow ominous actually.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yea right it’s all smoke and mirrors

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Sure, like he stepped down at Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

otherwise he’d need confirmation

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