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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.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 days ago (3 children)

"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.

[–] lka1988 32 points 4 days ago

I just want to watch Trump have a full-on narcissistic collapse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sure, why not? I hear Russia is extremely drug-use-positive and cultivates oligarchs who don't submit to authority.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

They have incredible windows too

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I seriously applaud whoever managed to push that through.

I don't support anything they do, but that is top tier comedy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The dude with access to all of the federal government data gets offered asylum and you wonder how that happens?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Russia must be loving this. Now nobody is talking about a third of their air force being wiped out by toy drones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

lol this is Putin's wet dream come true.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago

I mean Putin already has his ear. Guess they want the rest of him.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do it. Pull a Steven Seagal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but what would passing out and shitting himself really accomplish? Focus, man!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

If Musk actually does go to Russia, then I think any of his American investments will be up for grabs. That would be quite entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

From Ketamine to Krokodil, hell yeah I hope Elon takes Putler up on that offer

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

No, no, no.

I live in Finland and that is too close.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Wait, what about "killing 258 million americans"? What did I miss? That's a larger portion than I'd suspected they were aiming for...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

That's like 2 or 3 fentanyl pills, if I understand Bondi right...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

its the amount of fentanyl, bondi claimed to have prevented that much deaths like last month.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of course he can, he's earned it several time over. He's done more damage to the US on Russia's behalf than 50 years of Cold War ever did.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

How quickly and conveniently they offered him asylum and publicly 🤣😆

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

its gonna be hard for this to be any more hilarious

[–] gigachad 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Skiluros 7 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] can 11 points 5 days ago

That would not end well.

He should do it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If his story ends in defenestration I would be tickled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Assuming the feud is real (I'm still suspicious, as when they announced him leaving no one believed musk was truly leaving) I would imagine musk would try to get trump removed and after failing I really wouldn't be surprised we would see some assassination attempts.

BTW I'm not on Twitter, but when he says that trump wouldn't win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.

I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don't know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we'd know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Sorry for not being clear. I do too think that musk helped in a significant way, but I wanted to someone to reasons to musk this way to trigger him and hopefully spill more incriminating information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I think what another important thing he did is he spoiled the place for the democrat-leaning public that started to see less and less content\traction\support there than they did before, but saw swarms of bots, elonposting, weakening factcheck and moderation instead. Twitter launched a lot of #movements, even those localized in the internet, due to it's turbulent nature. But on X many felt disengaged, lonely and not pumped up enough to do anything, even vote.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Wait I'm out of the loop, musk and trump have been fighting?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes, very publicly, but remember that they lie about everything anyway. So it's not like the world is a better place because two pieces of s*** are insulting each other in front of the world. They could fight today and work together next week if they think it'll get them more power and money, because that's all they live for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

No yeah I figure everything coming from those guys mouths is to be taken by with an oceans worth of salt. But besides them just shouring as we expect from the kids they are, wasn't there something that ignited it?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Exactly what everyone expected would happen is happening.

The 2 egomaniacs are sick of each other and lashing out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Oh man, I'm jealous you get to hear it all at once. It's only been a couple days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

he lasted 6.7 longer than truss.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

He'd have a good time there with the others who got asylum... Assad, Yanukovych, Marsalek, ...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Brought to you out of the playbook:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Great, a new country for Musk to rule over

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Of course they would, think of how much data this guy has that he could provide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

This is fucking hilarious

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