Posted on 12/23/2024 4:38:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
Elon may already be undertaking the “Free Europe” process too.
In a prior article, “Whining Euro-weenies on full display”, I suggested that after Elon and Vivek are done transforming the federal government, they can tackle the liberation of Europe—Elon may be undertaking that process earlier than I expected. In a six-word tweet, Musk asserted that “Only the AfD can save Germany.” AfD is the Alternative for Germany party. The European ruling class responded with predictable pearl-clutching and hyperventilation, but remained impotent in their ability to censor him. However, they are correct to infer that Musk threatens the power of the current political class in Europe that has left the continent bankrupt in a real and metaphoric sense.
Since the end of WWII, the objective of the European political class has been to create a straitjacket to prevent any nationalist ambitions. In the last two decades, they have used the specter of climate catastrophism to tighten the straitjacket, but it is starting to have the opposite effect. Their society is starting to divide between ordinary people and a ruling class that is not only wealthy enough to withstand the economic pain of the enacted climate policies, but clever enough to often benefit from them.
The AfD has been pointing out that the German energy transition, Energiewende, has brought deindustrialization and economic misery. For that, and its position against immigration, the AfD has been branded by the mainstream political parties as a pariah. The mainstream parties have constructed the cartoonish image that the AfD embodies the spirit of the Nazis. They have tried to censor and ban it. Their techniques differ somewhat from those that the Democrats employed against Trump such as spurious investigations, impeachments, and lawfare, but essentially the mainstream parties orchestrated the same political persecution of the AfD.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Elon is kicking the hornet nest.
Not entirely sure what I think of him.
“Musk backs the AfD”
...and Trump backs Musk, and Russia backs Trump.
Bottom Line: The AfD is a PUPPET of Putin and must be DISBANDED, immediately - you know, due to ‘European Values’.
Actually, I’ll be surprised if the Fascists in Europe DO NOT disband the AfD before the Feb. 2025 election, since the AfD opposes the Ukraine War (and also oppose mass immigration, but that’s not nearly as important to the EU, at this point).
The title of the bbc piece below
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37274201
is “Germany’s AfD: How right-wing is nationalist Alternative for Germany?”
But the question is asinine, considering no one is asking, “How left-wing is the German government?”
If you look at the map at the link, it’s rather interesting to note that the majority of those leaning AfD are those of the former East Germany.
The bbc article concludes with,
“If the EU fails to reform and continues centralising, the AfD says, the party will seek to pull Germany out of the EU.”
Musk has correctly shone a spotlight upon AfD; we should be supportive of those who oppose leftists in euroland and help the Germans avoid falling for the trap of demonizing the party as the media - and, ironically, the left - has done.
Active businessmen and companies should avoid politics.
The ‘rats and the EU can be nasty.
Well, I was banned on Twitter five years ago.
Note the timing.
Three recent appeals and I’m still banned on X.
I’m told I’m also prohibited from creating a new account.
If I’m not alone, and I sure wasn’t in 2019 was I, then Musk still has a problem on X.
Agree.
Interesting article and comment. HOORAY Elon!
> Active businessmen and companies should avoid politics. <
Participation in politics destroyed the My Pillow guy, Mike Lindel. He was unbelievably naive about the whole process. Musk is much smarter in that regard.
Both men are patriots. And Musk a real shot at making all the pieces fit.
GERMANY IS CENSORING INFORMATION ON THE CHRISTMAS MARKET ATTACK
The link tax, the meme ban, the Digital Services Act, the Online Safety Act were all previous of coming attractions.
And were ignored.
Banning conservatives at Twitter still happens.
Twitter still censors conservatives. It “shadow bans”, meaning conservatives post but their posts are not shown to many people. They show their posts just enough to not be accused of shadow banning but they do ban.
Twitter still also allows liberals to say anything without repercussions but conservatives get temporary bans for up to a week and get told to take down posts or their account will be locked.
“Active businessmen and companies should avoid politics.”
...until it bites them and impoverishes them, I guess.
You are seriously behind the times and totally out of synch with world events
Twitter does not exist.
It (as Twitter, and possibly X) shadow banned RFK Jr throughout his campaign and he isn’t even a conservative.
I am sure Musk thanks you for drinking the Kool-aid.
RFK was shadow banned for saying conservative things.
Aahhh.....so that is the reason. You are so backward you can’t grasp the fact that Elon Musk is one of the best and probabli the very best American industrialist to have lived and done business.
Envy of his ability and wealth destroyed your judgement
Their only strength really is immigration. If other parties adopted a harder line on that the appeal of the AfD would probably be much lower, as happened in Denmark in 2015.
The Euro’s Deep $tate is much older and deeper than ours.
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