- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Elon Musk, calling the Tesla and SpaceX founder a “talented businessman.”
- Putin was discussing Russia’s space program after a failed moon landing last month.
- His comments come after Musk said last week that he refused an emergency request by the Ukrainian government to extend coverage of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to Sevastopol in Crimea.
Can we define Musk as a traitor now? He is actively interfering in a conflict in an active combat zone the USA has already picked sides in and sided with the enemy.
At the very least, all government contracts and grants should be pulled from SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, and any other Musk run businesses.
Can we cut out the middle-part and just send him back to South Africa?
Nah, send him to his father illegal mine in Zambia as a worker.
South Africa has suffered enough
Instead let him fly to Russia so he can get his medal.
An adequate punishment would be helping with demining or helping those injured by russian attacks, but I’m worried, he would half-ass the latter.
Blind fold him, tie his hands up and drop him off at the Frontline and tell him if he can make it back to America he can have one of his businesses back. Have a camera drone follow him and live stream that shit.
Or just lock him in a padded cell where they force him to listen to Die Antwoord 24/7.
I know we don’t like Musk, but this is going too far
Don’t threaten him with a good time
That’s definitely not a good time.
If Putin were to say Biden was a great guy would that make Biden a traitor? No. Putin is full of shit and he is setting out to create as much trouble as he can to destabilize the western powers who he views as his enemies.
Has putler ever praised Biden? No. This is because Musk is putler’s, Biden is not.
For me, it’s not so much the praise from Putin, but Musks own admission that he intentionally hampered the war effort.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-twitter-b2408081.html
If he actually did tell his company to take an action that effectively contravened official US policy (and it looks like he did), he broke the law. Specifically, 18 U.S. Code § 953 - Private correspondence with foreign governments:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
I am willing to bet that someone in the Ukrainian foreign ministry was aware of this law, and then had some pointed questions for the US State Department on whether or not Elon’s refusal to share intelligence should be taken as an official US position on the matter, and if not, why Elon/SpaceX’s behavior is effectively contradicting official US policy.
This should get interesting, and it could put Elon in some real legal jeopardy on a matter that the US tends to not fuck around with.
Probably depends on who is in charge and if they’ll indict
Dick Cheney is a war criminal and still walks free, and so does George W Bush, where the fuck do you think Elon learned that shit from? Ha!
Only thing about that though, is that they were all representing our country and had the right to influence policy since we elected them or they were appointed after an election. Elon has no such right. He hasn’t been elected or appointed for anything.
Congress did, when they started treating him like something special and he played them all. He knew he can influence Ukraine war by giving Ukraine free sat connection and then control it by taking it away from them, oldest game in the book.
Elon has no such right. He hasn’t been elected or appointed for anything.
Man, congress really looks dumb right now.
What if, we sieze his assets and pay off the US national debt 👍
Pfft… You and so many other people hear he is worth $200 billion plus and think that is his actual worth lmao. If you sold everything Elon has and liquidated it, it would not come up to $30 billion in cash. US national debt will never ever be paid.
What if, we sieze his assets and pay off the US national debt
Also, a portion of that $200 billion likely directly or indirectly is US debt.
Well, even 10 billion would be nice.
You know you’re a bad human being when Putin praises you.
Understatement of the year
He praised Biden as well.
I wouldn’t take anything Putin says at face value.
Russia bitch boy
Praising Elon like a baby is part of Russia’s war plan. That’s the timeline we are in.
When you do a job for someone and they only pay you in “exposure”
Completely 100% not suspicious! Nothing to see here
Tankies who simp over Russia are going to have an existential crisis.
If you’ve got a murderous autocrat praising you, it should trigger an “I’ve made a huge mistake” response.
Not so for narcissists though - anything that boosts their ego is welcome, anything. Russia knows this, and plays the fuck out of it like a shit fiddle, Randy.
And useful idiots fall for it, like really powerful idiots. It makes me sad for humanity that such depraved sociopaths can still win out in this day and age.
Elon is such a fucking clown.
Hey now, being a circus clown is a perfectly reasonable profession. And I don’t know any clowns who would defend posting CP.
If Elon really doesn’t have any alliances, he really knows how to put himself between a rock and a hard place.
Sucks I don’t give a fuck about billionaires or their miserable, stressful, apathetic, pathetic, shallow existences.
Live like a hedonistic die like one.
So this is just confirmation he’s in his pocket. I mean how else could anyone look at this?
I see it as Putin seizing an opportunity to troll. Anything to stir shit up and divide people.
I guess he has to do it himself now that Prigozhin is dead.
That’s exactly what Putin/Russia wants you to think. I mean, cmon…
Musk is an idiot and a tool, but this is just Putin playing with the public opinion :)
I praise Elon Musk for being such a bootlicker
How though? He didn’t follow orders.
And yet Phoney Stark has the gall to blame Dark Brandon and Co for not extending SpaceX coverage to Crimea.
Actual traitor Elon Musk.
And not just to something as banal as his country; to democracy, liberalism, international order and the value of human life.
Agreed, but I couldn’t help but read that to the tune of:
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Yeah that may have been on purpose, lol.
If you drive a Tesla you may have blood on your hands.
I mean, that is true of a ton of other, if not most, consumer goods
