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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] 16 points 2 days ago

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 1 day ago

lol this is Putin's wet dream come true.

[-] [email protected] 138 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 104 points 2 days 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] 165 points 2 days ago

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

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

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days 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] 9 points 2 days 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] 7 points 2 days 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] 44 points 2 days ago

Like he hasn't already given Russia the data.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

I'd rather punish him here

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days 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] 25 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 80 points 2 days 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] 31 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 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] 68 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

They have incredible windows too

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

Do it. Pull a Steven Seagal.

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

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

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days 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 2 days 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...

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days 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] 6 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

No, no, no.

I live in Finland and that is too close.

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

its gonna be hard for this to be any more hilarious

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

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days 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] 1 points 1 day 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] 5 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Exactly what everyone expected would happen is happening.

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

That would not end well.

He should do it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

he lasted 6.7 longer than truss.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

If his story ends in defenestration I would be tickled.

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

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.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Brought to you out of the playbook:

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

Great, a new country for Musk to rule over

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

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

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