“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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    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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      Keep in mind what he “says” he’s doing and what happens in two months… Are completely separate…

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      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.

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

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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.

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      Yea ever since he started the doomers have been screeching “4 more years of this!!” when the 130 day limit was always there from the beginning.

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        I’m sure this announcement will have them on their heels! After 60 days of destroying the administrative state, they’ll just have to acknowledge it was all a good thing and no big deal since he’s “stepping down” right? Right?