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.
That would not end well.
He should do it.
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.
Wait I’m out of the loop, musk and trump have been fighting?
Exactly what everyone expected would happen is happening.
The 2 egomaniacs are sick of each other and lashing out.
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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Oh man, I’m jealous you get to hear it all at once. It’s only been a couple days.
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.
I mean Putin already has his ear. Guess they want the rest of him.
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
The guy in the White House already gave it to them.
Like he hasn’t already given Russia the data.
Yes we do.
Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?
they hacked it the moment doge had access to those databaes.
Physical distance of his testicles and some pliers might be the deciding factor between giving all the data and ALL the data.
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…:)
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.
physical distance might not stop you from sending an email, but it can stop an attacker from coercing you into sending that data.
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.
If his story ends in defenestration I would be tickled.
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.
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.
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.
his starlink satellite also manipulated the voter counts of the machines.
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.
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 🤣😆
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.
Do it. Pull a Steven Seagal.
Yeah, but what would passing out and shitting himself really accomplish? Focus, man!
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This is fucking hilarious
Of course they would, think of how much data this guy has that he could provide.
Why elon musk doesn’t just leave? he have money, he can be doing anything, he can be learning how to bake, or, improving his gaming skills without the media eye
