A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump
Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.
“I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it,” Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.
Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.
I seriously applaud whoever managed to push that through.
I don’t support anything they do, but that is top tier comedy.
Well both Trump and Elon have Russian ties. Right now Trump is the bigger asset to them. So if they publicly offer asylum to Musk, it makes Elon look like the worse bad guy and make Trump less bad and possibly slow any attempts to having him removed by the Senate.
So Russia can get Elons money being spent there, and Trump’s dumbassery trying to reduce and remove sanctions against Russia.
In their eyes it’s a win win.
The dude with access to all of the federal government data gets offered asylum and you wonder how that happens?
I’m not sure it’s a smart move by Russia if a Russian official sides with Musk at this point. Not saying it’s not a perfect match though.
I was honestly surprised that they went with such a statement. Putin is smart enough (smarter than much of the US) to understand that Trump is a lazy degenerate, but it seems a bit premature to openly ridicule Trump.
This is fucking hilarious
Take it! I mean, people act like he “owns” his companies but he owns like 8% of Tesla and SpaceX is probably similar. No one gives a shit about his monkey torture project and X+xAI is worthless. Boring Company isn’t doing anything. And if you’re the “CEO” of more than one company, you’re actually running zero. He’s a mascot. We could probably be rid of him for less than the price of widening an interstate for ignorant reasons.
SpaceX is probably similar
Tesla is a publicly-traded company. There is no reason to believe SpaceX, which is still privately held, should be similar.
A 2023 Wall Street Journal article (linked here in archive form) claims Musk controls 42% of its equity has 79% voting control.
Thank you for the clarification. None of us know their cap table, obviously, but that’s more plausible than me just guessing based on Tesla.
Sure, why not? I hear Russia is extremely drug-use-positive and cultivates oligarchs who don’t submit to authority.
They have incredible windows too
That would be the dumbest thing he could possibly do to himself. Honestly I hope he is smarter than that because Putin would turn him upside down and shake him until every last nickel falls out of his pockets, and put it all into the war effort against the Ukraine.
That would not end well.
He should do it.
Yes. please take him.
Do we really want the guy who just made off with a large portion of government sensitive data to go to Russia?
I’d rather punish him here
Between Agent Krasnov and Agent Muskovite I’m sure they already have full access, this is just their way of getting a dig in at everyone who already knows this is the case. The Kremlin is basically rubbing it in our faces to tell us they own all these guys and they know there’s nothing we can do about it.
Yes we do.
Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?
Physical distance of his testicles and some pliers might be the deciding factor between giving all the data and ALL the data.
If I may put on my conspiracy theory hat:
With all the DOGE-starlink-russia shit I’ve been reading about, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia has a data pipeline directly to the US government, no Musk required. I would guess it would be more of a “he might tell the US government what/how we know” which would require coming up with a new golden pipeline.
Kinda like how the Cheeto Taco unwittingly showed the world the US satellite capabilities in his first term by showing a picture. There’s a lot of information Musk could tell the US about his visits with Putin, where if he was in Russia, the US is stuck guessing what made it out and what Russia has access to.
Russia already has all the data, silly. It would be fun if they try to confirm that Elmo’s not holding some out, with a pair of pliers though…:)
they hacked it the moment doge had access to those databaes.
Like he hasn’t already given Russia the data.
The guy in the White House already gave it to them.
So it is all theatre.
Because Russia is now involved in the “fued.” Orchastraited by the Kremlin no doubt. Is it to set up reasoning to help Elon avoid legal consequences in exchange for money? Data? Is it to distract from the funding bill and policies being enacted to kill 258,000,000 Americans?
Wait, what about “killing 258 million americans”? What did I miss? That’s a larger portion than I’d suspected they were aiming for…
That’s like 2 or 3 fentanyl pills, if I understand Bondi right…
The numbers floated around were a healthy population of “around 100m” and Bondi stated something about saving 75% of Americans.
They lie, but they certainly can’t come up with numbers for a lie.
its the amount of fentanyl, bondi claimed to have prevented that much deaths like last month.
Of course they would, think of how much data this guy has that he could provide.
He’d have a good time there with the others who got asylum… Assad, Yanukovych, Marsalek, …
Steven Seagal
No, no, no.
I live in Finland and that is too close.
yeah let’s let elon elope to one of our most significant international rivals after letting him plunder virtually every datapoint owned by the federal government. i look forward to the russian bot farms becoming personalized down to the individual.
i mean no offense but are you guys that are cheering for this fucking stupid? do you just read stuff and respond based on how it makes you feel?
do you just read stuff and respond based on how it makes you feel?
I mean, yeah? Don’t you?
no lmao.
surprisingly hot take these days but I prefer critical analysis to being an emotional reactionary.
i suppose that’s just "cringe’ tho, isn’t it?
“Elon has too much government information to go to Russia!”
Y’all, please, listen, Russia already has our government information. The important thing to note here is that whether Elon runs off to Moscow or not, Russia making the offer may well drive a wedge between Russia and Trump. That, in and of itself, is good news. Trump has very few political allies at this point, with most of the world turning against him and trusting the US less. If he is even further alienated, there’s a decent chance his party loses reelection or refuses to go along with his insane 3rd term plans. It’ll take us a long time to rebuild international goodwill, but alienating Trump is a good thing.
Happy to proven wrong is there’s an aspect I’m not considering here, but in my mind when the fascist fight each other it’s good for the rest of us. Makes them easier to tackle, especially if the nonfash (and specifically the left) can unify.
I just want to watch Trump have a full-on narcissistic collapse.
On what do your base that Russia already have all the US secrets? I see several people on this talking point and I would really like something backing this claim.
This (as it stands right now) is not going to drive a wedge between Russia and Trump That’s the reason it’s a lower official saying it. Deniability. But let’s see how it develops from here.
Anyways I agree with you that it’s always better when the right is fighting each other instead of anybody else.
From Ketamine to Krokodil, hell yeah I hope Elon takes Putler up on that offer
