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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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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I seriously applaud whoever managed to push that through.
I don’t support anything they do, but that is top tier comedy.
The dude with access to all of the federal government data gets offered asylum and you wonder how that happens?
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.
Russia must be loving this. Now nobody is talking about a third of their air force being wiped out by toy drones.
lol this is Putin’s wet dream come true.
Do it. Pull a Steven Seagal.
Yeah, but what would passing out and shitting himself really accomplish? Focus, man!
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.
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.
How quickly and conveniently they offered him asylum and publicly 🤣😆
its gonna be hard for this to be any more hilarious
Wait I’m out of the loop, musk and trump have been fighting?
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.
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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Exactly what everyone expected would happen is happening.
The 2 egomaniacs are sick of each other and lashing out.
Oh man, I’m jealous you get to hear it all at once. It’s only been a couple days.
he lasted 6.7 longer than truss.
Brought to you out of the playbook:
Great, a new country for Musk to rule over
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.
And still there are americans who support him and his policies
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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?
Yes we do.
Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?
physical distance might not stop you from sending an email, but it can stop an attacker from coercing you into sending that data.
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.
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.
The guy in the White House already gave it to them.
“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.
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.
I’m just here for the titty baby tears. Anything more is a bonus :)
I just want to watch Trump have a full-on narcissistic collapse.
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
