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Elon Musk denied reports that he plans to step down from his role as a special government employee, calling them “fake news.”

The White House and Musk both rejected claims he would leave at the end of his 130-day term on May 30.

DOGE has faced backlash for rapidly dismantling federal agencies and cutting tens of thousands of jobs, prompting lawsuits and threats against Musk’s team.

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    Good. Stay the shitface for people getting fired and social security and medical payments being withheld. May Teslas stock drop to zero.

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    Well yea, he won’t step off. He will get pushed off by the other sycophants. He failed, lost favor with the King so the other courtiers will push him aside. US government now has the same political system as a Medieval Kingdom.

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      To cut those kings and peasants some slack, medieval kingdoms weren’t nearly as centralized and Kings didn’t have nearly as much power or leeway as the American President. You’re probably thinking of absolute monarchy in the modern age.

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        Yeah. I guess it’s closer to Louis XIVs court, just with less shitting in the hallways. Hopefully.

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    haha this is the bold “I got shit on trump and willing to spill it if I’m told to leave” we were waiting for. Go on. … tell us what it is you’re ‘hiding’ so well.

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    So as a thought experiment, if he does get pushed out by Trump then he’ll have been rejected by the right and the left. What in the world would the world’s richest man do at that point to redeem himself in his eyes? Any chance we can inception him to go to war against oil or something positive like that?

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    Lol, they were doing damage control, and Elon accidentally exposed yet another lie.

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    I, for one, support Musk and Trump using their respective cudgels of capital and government to beat one another bloody.

    If we’re going to burn, and it looks like we absolutely will, why not have a little entertainment?

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    I bet he’ll stick around and continue being the fall guy for Republicans. Their base will continue to place all the blame on Musk while the Republicans fuck us all.