Why is Musk going - and when.

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I'm in the US. I have no doubt it will take twenty years to undo this damage from the ugly little turd.

You don’t like him much then!

He’s started the ball rolling and caused chaos, but. Has a very short attention threshold and is bored already. He will move on and cause chaos elsewhere.

Tech multi-billionaire Musk has posted a series of messages on his social media site X, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute gangs that systematically groomed and raped young girls, and calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to be jailed

Anybody who enjoyed joining in with this care to comment?

I'm in the US. I have no doubt it will take twenty years to undo this damage from the ugly little turd.

No doubt any new "system" will happen to belong to one of Musks techie mates. Imagine that..... Microsoft being co founded by Bill Gates - and he did give some funding to the democrats in the last election (it was the first time that he has openly been "political")

Interestingly, Musk views some of the ‘entrenched’ government suppliers (eg Microsoft) as part of the problem and is looking to bring in more innovative, fleet-of-foot tech providers to replace them. Part of me is interested to see if this can work. I know from past experience, that the public sector has institutional barriers that inhibit use of more innovative technologies. Some good stuff might come from. But there are lots of areas of the public sector where the system really just can’t afford to fail. These guys come from an environment, where the imperative is to fail fast and move on. Getting the balance is what’s going to be really tricky.

I found this pretty chilling article where we meet some of Musk's DOGE team. As well as non political experience they nearly all have financial connections to Musk.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/28/department-government-efficiency-aides-musk-trump/82703804007/

Yes, there is an ambiguity about it ie could it be renewed as in when DOGE's work could be said to have been done

Although in the Politico article there is lots of talk about Musk moving on for other interests ie back to his businesses from Trump himself as well as others by mutual agreement.

It doesn't matter if or when he leaves at this point. He had already destroyed our institutions and left a wake of destruction.

It will take decades to recover, if we ever do.

SKY News is reporting that Elon Musk is on a 130 day contract as a Special Government Employee

It is also speculating as to whether or not he will stay on after the 130 days.