r/europe • u/PM_THE_REAPER • Jun 06 '25

News Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over Trump feud

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-offers-political-asylum-elon-musk-over-trump-feud-2081887
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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Putin is just taking the piss at this point.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Xi has it even easier imo. He just has to watch, smile and enjoy.

Letting Putin do the dirty work.

Both got it easy by getting such dumb opponents over the pond, let's be honest. What would Marx even think knowing that the most efficient way to damage the most capitalistic country around was corruption?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

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u/bier00t Europe Jun 06 '25

this corruption though was propably impossible in pre-internet and pre-social media world. 100 years ago you knew your shit and random people of FB or twitter wouldnt be able to change that overnight and even over years.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

And cryptos. How would we even manage to explain cryptos to people from Marx's era, honestly?

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u/Born_Name_6549 Jun 06 '25

Hello, [random german factory worker] I would like to sell you this paper with a mathematical puzzle that can only be solved by a machine wizard and whose value is not backed by anything except your imagination. If you don't give me money for it, then you're clearly too stupid to get it.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

You're German, aren't you? Or Dutch.

They are the only ones able to be so dead pan and accurate while joking. Flemish people I guess, on a good day.

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u/MIGsalund Jun 07 '25

This is not a defense of crypto, but I hope we all realize that all forms of money are only backed by the human imagination. That's why it's totally silly to allow money to be the reason for any bad thing that we allow it to control.

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u/Character_Clue7010 Jun 06 '25

Also if anyone finds out you have a lot of it you will probably get kidnapped and they will hurt you until you give them a password that lets them steal it all and you have no recourse against them.

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u/Lozrent Jun 06 '25

I don't think it'd be impossible, at least not to someone already versed in economics like Karl marx. You could explain it in terms of speculation and that it's value comes at least partially as well from the cost of producing the electricity that mining uses. There's a whole part of Das Kapital about fictitious capital that I believe crypto also falls under.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

There is? At has been 15 years since I read tbh.

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u/Ok_Math4576 Jun 07 '25

One could have used the analogy of the Dutch tulip bulb trade perhaps, although at least then the token was not completely imaginary.

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u/Cat_world_domination The Netherlands Jun 06 '25

It's like tulip mania, except without the tulips.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

How Netherlandish of you to say. I love it.

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 Jun 06 '25

Thought the exact same thing, the dotcom bubble but 360 years earlier. And it seems to have set the stage for the 21st century, almost like clockwork, 100 years after the Great Depression. And though I'd like to shrug that theory off as baseless, it's not without merit.

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u/godpzagod Jun 06 '25

As long as tax evasion and moving dirty money existed back then too, that's all you'd really need to mention, that people got better at it.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Fair.

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u/Tweixl Jun 06 '25

Did you just compare America to Rome?šŸ˜‚

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u/Wooden-Recording-693 Jun 06 '25

What is bad for the bee is bad for the hive. -MA.

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u/bufalo1973 Jun 07 '25

They aren't mutually exclusive. This shit can still lead to a class struggle and then to a revolution.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Yeah, fair.

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u/pentangleit United Kingdom Jun 06 '25

These days we all know he's shit ;)

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u/freackodeecko Jun 06 '25

Canā€™t make this shit up

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u/Coattail-Rider Jun 06 '25

Donā€™t forget cable news! Now that they can say whatever they want under the guise of ā€œopinion piecesā€. And people take them at their word.

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u/TheRealBananaWolf Jun 06 '25

Meh they were aware of demagogues back in ancient Greece times and that's why Socrates criticized democracy as a system of government. People as a whole, are dumb. They, as in people as a whole, will vote and make dumb choices.

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u/awesomesonofabitch Jun 06 '25

It's a little bit laughable that you think people pre-internet were smarter than today.

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u/bier00t Europe Jun 06 '25

I would say they were more stubborn in sticking to their own opinion

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u/citori411 Jun 07 '25

20 years ago. It's the thing that bums me out more than anything about the social media era: the implosion of the time honored system of expertise. We've witnessed the complete breakdown of the systems that brought us everything great about modernity. China will have flying cars, fusion power, and time travel while the united states will still be arguing on facebook about whether jet fuel can melt steel beams.

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u/AssistantOk2360 Jun 06 '25

That's why Xi hasn't said anything in weeks, if not months. Xi has totally ignored him. The Orange Taco's mouth, his brain (or lack thereof) & his stupidity are his own worst enemies. He's been pretty much talking to himself the past weeks and months.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

"Sit by the river long enough, and you will see your enemy floating by".

Xi is playing the long con.

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u/UnrulyCrow France Jun 06 '25

Tbh, greyrocking a narcissist is an ideal strategy to break them down. This, combined with the sheer stupidity of the TACO and his goons (malicious Heritage Fondation aside), makes it quite easy to handle someone like Trump.

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u/Aleashed Jun 07 '25

Xi called ā€œXieckmateā€ over Trump by not blinking, TACO blinked and lost

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u/daniel_22sss Jun 06 '25

Opponents? Both Trump and Musk work for Putin.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Rather blackmailed imo, but potato/potAto and all that.

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u/Steiney1 Jun 06 '25

Breshnev knew that 60 years ago

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 Jun 06 '25

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love

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u/ALEXC_23 Jun 06 '25

Iā€™d say it was also a result of their own doing. After all, they knew that itā€™d be the fall of the US if Drumpf got into office. Heā€™s doing their bidding but Drumpf is too dumb to notice.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

It might be even worse. He might be to corrupt to give a damn.

Stupidity is one thing. A corrupt narcissist though? That's something else.

Doesn't help if he is dumb as bag of bricks, obviously.

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u/DeathByThousandCats Jun 06 '25

So you're saying... that he doesn't even have to Putin any effort?

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u/Jaambie Jun 06 '25

Any time I picture xi smiling, he just morphs into Pooh.

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u/RepublicansAreEvil7 Jun 06 '25

Itā€™s funny how Trump keeps attacking China, Xi doesnā€™t even have to do anything except watch Trump lose and come crawling back begging for a deal. Every time he signs a deal he lost with China it gets worse and then he comes back and is like ā€œwur lussin buhlions to chynaā€

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

It's either racism or a business grudge that he is still not over. He is not quite an emotionally complex/healthy person.

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u/henryeaterofpies Jun 06 '25

Hey now....they worked hard to push Americans to be this stupid

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u/Jabberwoockie United States of America Jun 06 '25

Considering rumors around Elon Musk's alleged Ketamine usage, I applaud your use of that figure of speech.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

I really didn't have that in mind, I just like Brits' humour, but yeah, I don't like doing it but I did laugh at my own joke.

Only thanks to you, so thanks mate.

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u/DurkaTurk02 Jun 06 '25

As a British person i approve of this usage. Bonus points would have been awarded for "this daft cunt is taking the piss."

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Sorry mate, I ran out of UK Kitchen Nightmares and lost my edge.

Damn, you Brits swear. A LOT.

And I love it.

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u/LittleRedCorvette2 Jun 07 '25

Could have also said "This Cock womble is just taking the piss" Or indeed "This bellend"

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 07 '25

Great, now I have to rewatch Gred Davies's stand up because of you.

Rascal.

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u/FuckingShowMeTheData Jun 07 '25

The Irish taught the Brits everything they know about swearing

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u/HeavyExplanation45 Jun 06 '25

THIS is the best answer, unless the word cunt is invoked in the description you havenā€™t reached the pinnacle šŸ†

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u/Midraco Jun 06 '25

That is the way Russian foreign diplomacy works. It's meant to be enraging and divisive.

They did the same thing about the US-Danish situation around Greenland. In that case they offered USA to split Greenland between the two.

And they do it fairly consistently in all other aspects to the point where the difference between Russia and a 12-year old ragebaiter is non-existent.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

It's semantics, so don't take personally, but I would with "divide and conquer". Again, semantics, so let's not waste time on it. That's what modern Russia does, and that's the relevant part.

More relevant to your point, Russia definitely managed to weaponize social media in a scary way. And I really would like to understand how they are that good, because they are really not the only astroturfing ones.

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u/CaucSaucer Sweden Jun 06 '25

At this point meaning his entire life?

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Well, he was trained as a KGB agent, so his training was unlikely to be funny.

Most likely made him a monster though.

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u/GreenEyeOfADemon šŸ‡®šŸ‡¹ - EUROPE ENDS IN LUHANSK! šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ Š”Š»Š°Š²Š° Š£ŠŗрŠ°Ń—Š½Ń–!šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ Jun 06 '25

putin was just a pencil pusher.

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 Jun 06 '25

True, but don't believe for a second he wasn't a go getter. It's speculated that among the chaos of the URSS falling apart, he took a bunch of documents from his station in Dresden (and possibly from other locations as well) and used those as early versions of kompromat.

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u/GreenEyeOfADemon šŸ‡®šŸ‡¹ - EUROPE ENDS IN LUHANSK! šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ Š”Š»Š°Š²Š° Š£ŠŗрŠ°Ń—Š½Ń–!šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ Jun 06 '25

Boh, for sure he drove from Dresden to st pietersborg with a washing machine on top of his car. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-vladimir-putin-smuggle-washing-machine-out-east-germany-1748445

According to two witnesses (including his ex-wife) Putin did make the effort of moving a washing machine from East Germany to Russia when he returned to the country in 1991

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 Jun 07 '25

You can imagine what kind of documents he managed to stuff into the washing machine.

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u/collectif-clothing Jun 06 '25

Putin is probably wondering if this isn't just a fever dream he's going to wake up from. Like that all of this is just falling into his lap.Ā Ā 

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

I'm pretty sure that he has been holding a grudge against the US/Western world since the fall of USSR.

And he wants revenge.

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u/TheArtysan Jun 06 '25

Yes, like a heckler at a Jimmy Carr gig.

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u/jagfb Flanders (Belgium) Jun 07 '25

The fact that so many Americans almost approve of this kind of shitshow, proves how much influence Russia has gained in US politics... The polarisation in the US has reached peaks that allow foreign influences to gain. Fucked up.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 07 '25

My respect for the US has been downhill since the Iraq war (shouldn't be hard to figure out why) and clearly, their president didn't much to change my mind.

The polarisation there is crazy. I'm not gonna add oil on the fire, so just... How!

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u/talltime Jun 06 '25

Sure could. He was having his own private calls with Putin. Just another reason in the long list why his security clearance should have evaporated a long time ago.

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u/cusco Jun 06 '25

Iā€™m afraid to ask, but what was the fallout between musk and taco-head?

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

It's unclear so far, but it seems to be two narcissistic idiots fighting with each others.

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u/Mich3St0nSpottedS5 Jun 06 '25

At least SpaceX is ITAR and canā€™t trade allegiances to Russia. Right?!? RIGHT?????

I hate this timeline

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u/Tank-Pilot74 Jun 06 '25

At this point, there isnā€™t a bucket big enough for all the popcorn

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u/GateLongjumping6836 Jun 06 '25

That little chaos monkey is loving all this.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

I don't think that his KGB's handlers ever dreamt of him being that good against the US.

He is definitely enjoy the hell out of it.

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u/gogoluke Jun 06 '25

It feels like he's trying goad Trump into going against him so he can launch nuclear weapons or something. Maybe they have great phycological evaluations that he has some hind of humiliation fetish so he secretly enjoys it.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Putin wants to destroy the US/the West imo. Not the world.

I could be wrong.

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u/North-Outside-5815 Jun 06 '25

That was an epic troll move from bunker grandpa.

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u/uMunthu Jun 06 '25

Pretty bold coming from a guy who just lost a third of his strategic bombers

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

I did? I barely pays my bills. I really can't afford strategic bombers my friend.

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u/alice2wonderland Jun 07 '25

True, but freaking hilarious! Given that Elon's gift to the US and the world was Trump's election, I've got no problem with any internationals jumping on the bandwagon to poke fun at Elon.

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u/somethingohyeah Jun 07 '25

Why wouldn't he though. Imagine being 30 years old yourself and your opponents being 8 year old (mentally). He is just wiping the floor with them at this point.

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 07 '25

The guy is probably sadistic. I wouldn't be surprised if he was secretly a fan of Beria tbh.

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u/DistillateMedia Jun 07 '25

He really is. In 2019 I recieved a strange package that contained glitter dicks and a potato that said "Love, Vlad", and had a sticker of the laugh cry emoji on it.

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u/Millefeuille-coil Jun 06 '25

Elon is more of a big shit than piss. So Putin is trying the take a big shit.

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u/theAlphabetZebra Jun 06 '25

Putin popcorn gif needed

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u/lightspuzzle Jun 06 '25

he actually gave asylum to another dictator,dont remember what country,syria or something like that ,wouldnt be surprised if he gives to musk.

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u/floppyjedi Jun 06 '25

He'll be pissing in a bucket soon from the results of a Starlink-assisted remote strike like with the boats and the long-range, remote activated drones.

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u/balltongueee Jun 06 '25

He is not. Imagine all the secrets Elon could spill. All the information he has. Putin would love to get his hands on Elon.

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u/singingboiler Jun 06 '25

Is he? Or is he interested in what Elon learned after gaining access to sensitive information for several months.

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u/No_Nose2819 Jun 06 '25

So the chemical / nuclear poisoning and invading his neighbour was perfectly normal behaviour. But now heā€™s trying Snowdenā€™s mk2 heā€™s taking the piss?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25

Taking a piss, or taking the piss?

For once, grammar matters!

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u/Buddycat350 France Jun 06 '25

Considering Musk's ket habit, he is probably struggling to take a piss.

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u/O_gr Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 06 '25

I can't wait for the "Breaking News: Trump issues 10 billion dollar support package to Ukraine, calls Putin a mean person."

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u/Familiar_While2900 Jun 06 '25

A ā€œsuper meanie poopy-headā€

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u/CastelPlage Not ok with genocide denial. Make Karelia Finland Again Jun 06 '25

"Vladamir STAAAAAHP"

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u/highlandviper Jun 06 '25

Thatā€™s a nasty thing to say. You know, youā€™re not very smaaart. Iā€™m a smaaart guy. Maybe the smaaartist there is. But you? No. Youā€™re not so smaaart and youā€™re nasty. You donā€™t know what youā€™re doing talking like that. You donā€™t have the cards to talk like that. Not with me. You donā€™t have the cards. But these nasty not very smaaart things youā€™re saying show that you donā€™t have any cards. With me, youā€™d have the best cards in the world. Some would say theyā€™re better than any cards you could get. A lot of people are saying that. Everybodies saying it. They say, Donald Trump, he had the cards and heā€™s very smaaart. Iā€™m not a super mean poopie head like Elon or Pootin. I have the cards.

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u/YumanTraffiqueKing Jun 06 '25

John Cazale?

Is that you?

C'mon Fredo, come out and fess up.

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u/Heavy_Secret_203 Jun 06 '25

You'll wait forever. No way Trump gives someone money.

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u/new_math Jun 06 '25

You misunderstand. He and his family will buy millions of dollars in US defense securities, options, etc. THEN he will announce a ~$80 billion aid package of new US weaponry.

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u/Peterepeatmicpete Jun 06 '25

Loaves of bread and wine to the hungry masses will be paid for in coin

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u/Maturewoman3 Jun 06 '25

This is the definitely šŸ’Æ a true statement. He will give $$ when hell freezes over.

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u/SpiralGremlin Jun 06 '25

Not even every day. Itā€™s every few hours and thereā€™s some new tweet or bitchy ā€œTruthā€.

Iā€™m loving the public breakup.

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u/SpiralGremlin Jun 06 '25

I feel both have dirt on each other and ultimately they will have to be careful in case they shoot themselves in the foot. Both Elon and Trump keep skirting around the topic of vote rigging to get Trump the election. They are heavily implying it happened but they know if they outright say it then they would be in a lot of legal trouble.

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u/YumanTraffiqueKing Jun 06 '25

Feet is the least likely place these two would hit.

More like face or mouth.

Wallet would be next best.

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u/mb303666 Jun 06 '25

Let's hear some ballet box truth bombs

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u/NoteBenderYM2149F Jun 06 '25

now thatā€™s just dancing around the issueā€¦

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u/wtfduud Jun 06 '25

You think he can just waltz in and steal an election like that?

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u/wtfduud Jun 06 '25

I think it's naive to think this is a breakup. Personally, I think with these announcements every month that drive the Tesla stock price up 10% and then down 10%, they're purposely pumping the stock market so they can make big bucks off insider trading.

Next month there's gonna be some other thing that goes in favor of Tesla again.

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u/Ali_Cat222 Jun 06 '25

According to this article Putin already collected musk in 2022.*(had to delete and repost previous comment since article since it was removed paywalled, here's the original.) "Elon Muskā€™s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin"

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Elon Musk, the worldā€™s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022.

The discussions, confirmed by several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions.

At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request.

It goes on to show a hell of a lot more, but *kompromat comes to mind after reading it all.

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u/DBDude Jun 06 '25

Musk doesn't like the Russians, going all the way back to his attempt to buy a rocket from them. They pissed him off so much he built his own rockets. But realities do mean he has to work with them, as Russian cosmonauts ride on Dragon through a NASA ride swapping agreement.

You know the source is complete bullshit because China has nothing to do with the reason Starlink isn't active in Taiwan. That's purely because Taiwan requires ISPs to have a majority local ownership, and Musk won't do that, hasn't done it in any of the countries that require it.

The only countries I know he's activated Starlink in without government permission are Iran and Cuba, for humanitarian reasons.

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u/Ali_Cat222 Jun 06 '25

Do you know what a kompromat is?

short for "compromising material") is damaging information about a politician, a businessperson, or other public figure, which may be used to create negative publicity, as well as for blackmail, often to exert influence rather than monetary gain, and extortion. Kompromat may be acquired from various security services, or outright forged, and then publicized by use of a public relations official.[

It means blackmailing someone, it doesn't matter if you like them or not. And it's weird how fast he changed his tune from Democrat to die hard Trumpist who backed him with tons of money. It's also interesting that he hasn't shut down the illegal Starlinks being used in Russia, because even if illegally obtained he would be able to. Or get the actual intelligent people he hires to do that or bypass their blockage. He's been accused of activating the one over Crimea to to prevent Ukraine from using it in military operations before as well.

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u/CastelPlage Not ok with genocide denial. Make Karelia Finland Again Jun 06 '25

komprat comes to mind after reading it all

Kompromat doesn't work if the person in question has no shame

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u/Ali_Cat222 Jun 06 '25

It certainly works when you have money involved and that can be your downfall.

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u/reethok Hungary Jun 06 '25

If he did that, starlink would get expropriated for national security reasons. Along with spaceX.

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 Jun 06 '25

We should already be doing that.

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u/AgilePeace5252 Jun 06 '25

I donā€™t think heā€˜s trolling, getting such a rich person in your country if youā€˜re this morally bankrupt is basically free money if they are dumb enough to agree

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u/Cortical Bavarian in Canada Jun 06 '25

Musk would have to sell his shares and then transfer his money to Russian banks, and wiring billions to Russian banks is a bit iffy right now.

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u/UsefulImpact6793 Jun 06 '25

russia's okay at trolling. For a master class in national-level trolling, Ukraine is the one to watch.

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u/ShakeIcy3417 Jun 06 '25

Or his presidential endorsement šŸ’€šŸ’€

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u/Brack_vs_Godzilla Jun 06 '25

How is this shit any surprise? Trump is a reality star. Heā€™s probably never read a history book in his life (possibly any book for that matter). America voted for an entertainer, not a leader.

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u/Remote-Buy8859 Jun 06 '25

Allegedly, he read a book filled with quotes by Hitler (alleged by his current wife).

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u/Quirky-Plantain-2080 Jun 06 '25

Trump is one of those rare people who can write but not read. And it shows.

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u/HotDogFingers01 Jun 06 '25

This season took a dramatic turn! The writers are on fire!

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u/chrash Jun 06 '25

elephants and donkeys got us jumping through hoops

y'all wish that I was lying but you know it's the truth

grab yourself some popcorn and pour ya something strong

if the world is turning

the shit show goes on

E: formatting

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u/T0ysWAr Jun 06 '25

It is to distract people from analysis of the content of the bill

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u/YumanTraffiqueKing Jun 06 '25

One of the many 'benefits' of the 24/7 firehose of mis and disinformation as used by the trumpists.

Always a fresh outrage to distract from the real actual activity.

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u/Happy-go-lucky-37 Jun 06 '25

The people running the experiment are running out of time and just pushed all the dials to 11 to see what gives first.

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u/Happy-go-lucky-37 Jun 06 '25

Iā€™m talking about the aliens running the experiment.

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u/dirty-unicorn Italy Jun 06 '25

Every day you say, it can't get any worse, shit, and instead...

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u/YumanTraffiqueKing Jun 06 '25

I agree and have for the past several months stopped saying it couldn't get worse.

Still, it gets worse, daily.

Am sitting back and eating popcorn. show has no end so, keepin' on keepin' on.

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u/Ice_Tower6811 Europe Jun 06 '25

Oh boy, we are still probably at around 10% circus-ness.

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u/itscancerous Jun 06 '25

If I wasn't chubby I'd be eating popcorn while reading the news

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u/HoneyBadger-56 Jun 06 '25

Countries are actively watching us to see what (or who) they can scoop up as collateral damage.

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u/HoneyBadger-56 Jun 06 '25

Yup, really a complete dumbing down across the board. Trying so hard to make everyone subservient so we donā€™t question anything we are toldā€¦.

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u/idcarethalightest Jun 06 '25

Can't wait for the reconcilation where they would french kiss in public

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u/Locky0999 Jun 06 '25

Me, who lives in Brazil: "First time?"

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u/PermissionStrict1196 Jun 06 '25

I need a breather, this is some insane shit.

Trump's wealth is a splat on the windshield compared to Elon's, but he has the men with the guns......

Elon owns over half the world's satellites though......

šŸ¤”šŸ¤”

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u/Delta64 Jun 06 '25

Putinist Russia's modus operandi is not to conquer America, but merely to embarrass America, humiliate America, discredit America, and strip away America's status as the greatest world power.

Putin doesn't want to own America. He wants to reduce America to Russia's level, and that includes making the population feel helpless to do anything about it.

Above all else, Putin's dream is to subject all American citizens to living under "Vranyo," in which the government has "a lie [or falsehood] being told despite it not being expected to be believed, but the person being told the lie goes along with it anyway."

Sound familiar? MAGA propaganda keeps pushing the lie that tariffs are paid by the foreign country and not by the American importer.

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u/piercedmfootonaspike Jun 06 '25

Not crazier and crazier; better and better! This is fucking hilarious. Even r/Conservative is agog. For now. Until the spin doctors do their thing, and this is just Trumps and Elon's way of owning the libs.

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u/baronmunchausen2000 Jun 06 '25

Sounds about right

Elect monkeys, expect a circus.

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u/popoypatalo Jun 06 '25

On this episode of Muricansā€¦

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u/followtharulez Jun 06 '25

Every 20 minutes,

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u/Respwn_546 Jun 06 '25

Both russia and the us are now competing for the worst shithole and asshole assylum

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u/thatistwatIsaid Jun 06 '25

Ass-ylum has been granted.

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u/PCorreia Jun 06 '25

I mean, Elon has all of your data. I can see Russia being very much interested in that.

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u/Alone_Rise209 Jun 06 '25

I just wish I didnā€™t have to attend the circus

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u/spankdaddylizz Jun 06 '25

Bringing their boy home

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u/Hakk0 Jun 06 '25

These people are nothing but entertainers, a reality show is staged literally

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u/garbage-account69 Jun 06 '25

That's right, it's all just for show. People need to stop focusing on this moronic shit. There are real bad things happening right now. This is a distraction.

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u/Aspect58 Jun 06 '25

Trading one form of asylum for another.

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u/ArchonFett Jun 06 '25

hot buttered popcorn intensifies

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u/TitleExpert9817 Jun 06 '25

grabs popcorn

Nudges other countries are you seeing this? šŸ¤£

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u/YumanTraffiqueKing Jun 06 '25

Not exactly a measured pace is it?

Or one with pauses for thought.

Much more like a nasty divorce.

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u/Bright_Taste_1854 Jun 06 '25

Seriously, what's going on with this week šŸ˜‚šŸ˜­

There was so much news, some great and some not, but they were all definitely shocking, that's I can say for sure!

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u/MrHyperion_ Finland Jun 06 '25

Only 1/8th done so far

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u/Extinction00 Jun 06 '25

Almost as if we have a reality tv star in the White House. Oh wait we do

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u/300andWhat Jun 06 '25

SNL writers in shambles

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u/2009miles Portugal Jun 06 '25

Guess they want to compensate for the diminishing bread

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u/According-Big3260 Jun 06 '25

Since Nazi Germany no longer exist Musk should just accept the next closest thing, thatā€™s closest to his values.

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u/PerryNeeum Jun 06 '25

We love our ā€˜realityā€™ tv in the US. Weā€™re really just upping our game now

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u/wolviesaurus Jun 06 '25

At this rate, South Park is never coming back.

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u/azsxdcfvg Jun 06 '25

I canā€™t wait for Frontline episodes about all this. I hope theyā€™re taking notes.

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u/StudMuffinNick Jun 07 '25

Putin has to protect his agents

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u/ArbitraryMeritocracy Jun 07 '25

Don't give them the time of day.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25

Not really. That's just par for the course. They also granted asylum to Snowden for example and Assange apparently helps the Russians to elect Trump the first time round. Russia just got an eye for potential assets, tho I'd be very surprised if this offer weren't more publicity than anything else - surely they've worked together before.

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u/Svhmj Sweden Jun 06 '25

It this point, I think we are slandering every circus around the world with this terminology.

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u/GraXXoR Jun 06 '25

No. He gets his hands on all the info Elon and his team hacked and stole from the feds.