- 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.
I say nationalize anything with a government contract. Starlink could be extremely useful to the military and musk shouldn’t be in charge of anyone’s Internet connection, defense contract or not. Military would still get to use it and people would have a taxpayer funded alternative to companies like Comcast.
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.
I am praying so! I have my popcorn ready and I can’t afford to waste it. Lmao
But seriously, I really do want to see some Justice here. He is one man, a private citizen who directly involved himself in foreign affairs and I would believe, he technically committed an act of war by aiding and abetting Russia.
When it happened there was public outcry and as I recall the excuse given was that he had given them Starlink to assist in recovery efforts which is fine. When they started strapping it onto weapons that moved from providing aid to providing weapons to a foreign nation whom at the time was authorized to receive weapons and Starlink isn’t an authorized weapons dealer to begin with. So it was shut down as a knee jerk reaction to avoid penalty US arms dealing penalties.
Mind you this is just from my imperfect memory and only hearsay at that, I honestly don’t know why six out of every ten articles are about this guy.
Violating the Logan Act is a felony, but since 1799 there have been precisely two indictments and zero convictions.
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.
Traitor? He’s south african
Merica’ fuck yea
He immigrated here. His route went from SA, to Canada, to USA. As an immigrant citizen, I would expect more loyalty.
Elon is a piece of shit.
True. And Putin is worse.
That’s about the same praise he gave to Trump.
And just like Trump, Musk is a piece of shit as well.
There’s good reason to expect that Putin has some sort of hold over Trump- he fits the profile (bad at business, constantly needs money, will do anything for attention, has been mob-adjacent his whole life, has been actively groomed to be an asset by soviet-bloc intelligence services, etc).
Now that I see Elon getting the same sort of head-pat treatment, I expect he’s in similar thrall and begin to wonder if that kind of public statement from Putin is anything but a public, encoded reminder that the leash is still there and if he doesn’t behave it all comes tumbling down.
Tesla stock is down 2% today, and down 12% over the last 12 mo. The funny part is that Musk, unlike Trump, has more money than god and 100% doesn’t need Putin or anyone else for that matter. He’s also not shy about saying anything controversial or anything like that, so it is very, very weird what Putin might possibly have over Musk’s head. Unlike Trump who was rumored to have golden shower videos over his head, I highly doubt sex-stuff would bother Musk one bit. And of course money is immaterial to him at this point - Tesla stock could go to 0 and Musk would still be one of the richest people on the planet. And being as rich as he is, power comes naturally. Such a weird dynamic.
what Putin might possibly have over Musk’s head
Well they both had connections with Epstein and have moved in similar circles- that whole thing smells like a long-running Kompromat operation targeting top industrialists and financiers, frankly.
As for Elon’s wealth making him untouchable? My dude, leverage is a thing and he is leveraging other people’s money and as such, he depends heavily upon those arrangements staying where they are. The interest on loan he took to fund the Twitter takeover (with other people’s money) is a lot, and whether or not Twitter can cover those costs is a very real question. This looks a lot like the debt traps Trump is in- they might both have money, but their money is tied up in assets it’ll cost them something to liquidate (and which they can’t readily get more of) and when that starts to look like cycling loans around to stay liquid, that adds up to pressure.
I wonder how much Putin paid for Elon. I can’t help but imagine it was as little as a scratch behind the ear and telling him that “he’s a good boy, yes he is! Yes he is!”
Elon is a fragile narcissist, all Putin has to do is say nice things about Elon, and Elon will eat out of Putin’s hand.
I think Putin is threatening to take Elon’s products to Russia because Elon is on his side now, right?
Russia bitch boy
When you do a job for someone and they only pay you in “exposure”
Completely 100% not suspicious! Nothing to see here
Shocker; the guy who conspired with Russia to thwart Ukraine gets praised by Putin.
pootin also mentioned, under his breath: “he’s also really naive and never checks for cameras before he does objectionable stuff!”
I mean, what else is there to know now? If Vladimir Putin is giving a person praise, they’re likely a piece of shit.
Putin should know to just shut up about him. He’s doing everything he can to be useful to Putin. Why implicate him by association? Just shut up and enjoy your tool.
He has to pay back his debts, and Musk likes to be paid in praise.
holy fuck now it’s highly official: Elon Musk is a greedy, degenerated cunt.
🧑🚀 🔫 🧑🚀
🌍 👨🚀🔫👨🚀
I praise Elon Musk for being such a bootlicker
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.
Are we gonna have to eat this shit up forever? Watching megalomaniacs lick each other’s assholes with their tongues padded with bills?
