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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] 1 points 44 minutes ago

And still there are americans who support him and his policies

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours 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] 4 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

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] 3 points 3 hours ago

Exactly what everyone expected would happen is happening.

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

its gonna be hard for this to be any more hilarious

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

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] 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago

Do it. Pull a Steven Seagal.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

he lasted 6.7 longer than truss.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Brought to you out of the playbook:

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[-] [email protected] 71 points 16 hours ago

"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.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

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] 129 points 19 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 98 points 19 hours ago

Do we really want the guy who just made off with a large portion of government sensitive data to go to Russia?

[-] [email protected] 156 points 18 hours ago

Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

they hacked it the moment doge had access to those databaes.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Physical distance of his testicles and some pliers might be the deciding factor between giving all the data and ALL the data.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

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...:)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 41 points 18 hours ago

Like he hasn't already given Russia the data.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 18 hours ago

I'd rather punish him here

[-] [email protected] 24 points 18 hours ago

The guy in the White House already gave it to them.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 18 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Great, a new country for Musk to rule over

[-] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

Ha, not a chance. Putin is the absolute master of keeping his oligarchs in line. Muskateer would be just another convenient pawn of his. Wouldn't surprise me to learn that Putin is actually the richest person on earth, far surpassing Musk's volatile market-based wealth. Dude is pure evil, but, unfortunately for the world, also appears to be quite shrewd.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 30 points 17 hours ago

They have incredible windows too

[-] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

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 13 hours ago

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] 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours 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] 3 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 36 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago

No, no, no.

I live in Finland and that is too close.

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