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.
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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.
Saved $115 billion... While the economy tanked by trillions. 🫢
Good job, guys. Work well done! /s
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.
I thought he wasn’t part of DOGE? Haha
He should be stepping down from a gallows.
Why stay in the house when you lit it on fire.
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.
So when TSHTF over what a wreck he made he can say he doesn’t have anything to do with 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.
lol, so he got fired.
Okay Elon. Here at the grand canyon. Let's take a photo... Step a little to the side...a little more. A little more...
Aka shutting the fuck up and sitting down.
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.
Has everything he needs to wreck u.s. public holdings remotely ..?
This has got to be because he was going to get fired from Tesla if he didn't, right?
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.
The thing is recently when he thinks about Tesla, it's stupid AI crap and things like the robot. So not only is he detracting with idiocy like the CT, but also distracting Tesla from what is supposed to be their real focus.
Useless almost-pickup-trucks and union busting?
That's Elron's style, too. What they should have been doing instead of the inane CT is updating their normal vehicles. They make incremental improvements but they're looking pretty aged at this point.
I've never looked at them as serious vehicles because of the whole "everything is computer" thing. Touch controls for absolutely everything is insane.
Oh, it's horrific. That's been a bad enough trend in cars for many reasons, such as how it makes it almost impossible to adjust anything without looking at the screen, unlike physical buttons. Things like "can't open the glove box manually" is ridiculous. Then there are also issues like the electric doors that you can't open from the outside if the car lacks power, and how the manual releases are difficult to locate and in some models, rear doors don't even have manual releases. The regular door operation is stupid, too. When I was in a Model 3 Uber, it wasn't even clear to me how to open the door from the inside at first. That just scratches the surface too.
Is he going to step down the same way he stepped down from being the CEO of twitter?
This is somehow ominous actually.
Sure, like he stepped down at Twitter.
Yea right it’s all smoke and mirrors
otherwise he’d need confirmation
wish he'd step up to the headman's block
and then kneel down over it.