Posted on 01/07/2025 8:16:51 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
LONDON (AP) — Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win reelection, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive has endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany, demanded the release of jailed U.K. anti-Islam extremist Tommy Robinson and called British Prime Minister Keir Starmer an evil tyrant who should be in prison.
Many European politicians have been left concerned by the attention. Musk’s feed on his social network X is dotted with abusive language — labeling politicians “stupid cretin” and “sniveling cowards” — as well as retweets of far-right and anti-immigrant accounts.
Andrew Chadwick, professor of political communication at Loughborough University, said Musk is using X “a bit like an old-style newspaper mogul,” to promulgate his political views.
“We’ve seen Musk start to align himself much more obviously with an international movement of the far right,” Chadwick said. ”If you look at the kinds of people who Musk himself is boosting on his platform … he’s increasingly started to assemble a group of different right-wing influencers, many of them with large followings, and presenting their evidence as a basis for his interventions into European politics.”
Musk has inserted himself into politics in Germany, which is headed for a Feb. 23 election after center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious three-party coalition government collapsed.
On Dec. 20, Musk wrote on X: “Only the AfD can save Germany,” a reference to the Alternative for Germany party, which is under observation by the domestic intelligence agency for suspected extremism.
He doubled down on support for the AfD in an article for the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, claiming Germany is “teetering on the edge of economic and cultural collapse.”
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Which ones? The ones who care about the people or the ones who care about the government?
Wow. They dont like rich, foreign guys meddling in their affairs.
Hypocrites.
I do assume there is a method to whatever musk is doing.
the pressure he is putting on the UK govt has a goal. possibly replace it with a govt more in line with trump admin goals, be it ukraine or other. who knows what backchannel stuff went on before he went on public attack.
the difficult part for the uk leadership is that he chose an unimpeachable topic - it is completely true, they knew it and facilitated it for decades.
“far-right Alternative for Germany, “
AP - trash
Everyone is looking at the UK differently now. And now we all realize that Tommy Robinson is a political prisoner.
Oh no
Its not just Soros for leftard overlords anymore
I’m okay giving Europe to Elon.
As long as it doesn’t distract him from DOGE.
Elon Uber Alles.
I’m okay with giving George Soros and his entire crew to the Russians
to do as they see fit - Soros has done soooo much damage to America
Have no problem being whores for Soros, then stepping all over their citizens, but now this is a problem.
Bingo on DOGE. America First!
,,, Musk probably won’t hold get togethers at Davos.
Sounds like these leftists are concerned that they’ll not have a stranglehold on the media like they’re used to, and someone might (GASP!) ask them an uncomfortable question on the campaign trail!
Or the truth about what they’ve been lying about all this time could come out for the world to see.
Elon is just a dude, and some of the stuff he does is great, and some of it is questionable. I’ll give him a little space to learn, but I’m liking most of what he’s doing and saying. (Especially if he makes the maggots squirm).
Fixed it
True.
And I cannot recall that AP ever criticized Mr. G.S., a very wealthy gentleman, or his friends/allies, for meddling in political affaires all over the world. Without asking permission from the respective citizenries, of course…
Emmanuel Macron warned Monday about "the risks posed by unchecked power in the hands of tech billionaires and the destabilizing impact they could have on democratic institutions.".....yet they thought it was just fine and dandy when Sergei Brinn, Larry Page (Google) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) who are all multi billionaires controlled social media and censored anything to the right of Karl Marx a few years ago.
“Who could have imagined, 10 years ago, that the owner of one of the world’s largest social networks would intervene directly in elections, including in Germany?” Macron said. Well Lefty owners of social media networks did it in the US first. So this really shouldn't come as a surprise to you by now.
Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis: “Someone cannot simply use their platform, wealth and connections to try to dictate how governments are formed in each nation,” he told Parapolitika Radio. “This is becoming increasingly dangerous.” OH! But it wasn't increasingly dangerous when Leftists were doing it in the US for the last 8-9 years huh? I didn't hear any of you utter a peep about it when they did it. Now that the shoe is on the other foot for the first time though, you're suddenly upset.
"Musk’s recent focus is on child sexual abuse, particularly a series of cases that rocked northern England towns several years ago, in which groups of men, largely from Pakistani backgrounds, were tried for grooming and abusing dozens of mostly white girls. The cases have been used by far-right activists to link child abuse to immigration and Islam." It wasn't just northern England, it was all over the place in the UK. The criminals involved were overwhelmingly Pakis and it wasn't dozens of White Girls it was thousands and it went on for decades. It didn't take supposed "far right" activists to link the rape gangs to immigration and Islam specifically. The Paki Muslim rape gangs made that connection quite clear themselves - as was their very targeted rape of White girls. Notice they didn't repeatedly rape any Paki or Muslim girls.
Starmer then whined that UK politicians were echoing what the supposed "far right" were saying about this....ie the truth. The UK Establishment considers the truth to be "far Right" which is why they've tried to suppress this story for decades now.
Jill left out the reason for this dust up.
Eurogovs allowing rape gangs to run wild.
If you think the USA’s mainstream media is closed and corrupt, then you should look at the EU’s
Mostly state-run media, and private sources have long-ago been coopted and chained to the regime.
OF COURSE politicians are upset. They’ve never faced an un-controlled information source before, and they have no idea what to do.
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