Elon Musk Says Only Far-Right Extremist Group ‘Can Save’ Germany

Elon Musk, America’s wealthiest oligarch, tweeted an endorsement of Germany’s AfD governmental enactment and galore Germans aren’t blessed with that fact. Why? It astir apt has thing to bash with AfD’s racism, xenophobia, and links to neo-Nazis. You know, conscionable the mean things that Musk finds himself promoting present successful 2024 arsenic a apical advisor to Donald Trump.

“Only the AfD tin prevention Germany,” the billionaire wrote successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Friday.

Musk’s tweet was promoting different tweet from Naomi Seibt a German clime alteration denier who roseate to prominence arsenic the anti-Greta Thunberg. Seibt has besides promoted conspiracy theories and been accused of being antisemitic, according to the Guardian, a assertion she denies.

The far-right successful Germany were thrilled with Musk’s tweet, including Alice Weidel, who’s moving to beryllium chancellor arsenic co-leader of the AfD successful the upcoming February elections, arsenic Germany’s DW quality outlet reports.

“Yes! You are perfectly right!” Weidel tweeted to Musk. “Please besides person a look into my interrogation connected President Trump, however socialist Merkel ruined our country, however the Soviet European Union destroys the countries [sic] economical backbone and malfunctioning Germany!”

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, its home quality organization, has listed AfD arsenic a “suspected violent organization” and astatine slightest 2 German states person officially classified it arsenic such, according to DW.

But galore different politicians successful Germany were little than enthused, noting Musk’s interference successful German authorities and his alternatively notorious deficiency of intelligence, often displayed successful late-night tweets. Alexander Throm, a person with the Christian Democratic Union governmental party, adjacent joked astir Musk’s cognitive difficulties portion talking to section media.

“I was a spot amazed due to the fact that we usually perceive that Elon Musk is this talented wunderkind, but erstwhile I perceive these comments, I person to uncertainty that,” Throm told DW. “Change tin lone beryllium made by those who govern. And the AfD volition not govern. Because nary different enactment volition signifier a authorities with them.”

Musk’s endorsement has superior implications for Americans arsenic well, fixed the information that helium appears to beryllium the astir almighty governmental fig successful the state close now. Musk has doubled his nett worthy this twelvemonth arsenic the wealthiest idiosyncratic successful the satellite and helped Donald Trump get elected by spending implicit a 4th of a cardinal dollars connected Republican races successful the 2024 election.

Musk, who has a past of racist comments, insists that helium lone voted for a Republican for the first time successful 2022, suggesting helium lone voted for Democrats earlier that. But adjacent if we instrumentality him astatine his connection (he lies frequently, similar erstwhile helium initially denied backing Trump’s statesmanlike campaign) he’s inactive go a powerhouse successful Republican politics. And he’s utilizing that powerfulness close now.

In fact, Musk has promised to initiate primaries against immoderate Republicans that transverse him, which is nary idle menace fixed the information that he’s inactive operating a governmental enactment committee called America PAC. Musk has besides been backing a radical that’s moving ads to beforehand Pete Hegseth’s confirmation arsenic Secretary of Defense. Those ads person been credited with applying pressure to Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa who was seen arsenic a imaginable ballot against Hegseth owed to her past arsenic a combat seasoned who has publically talked astir her acquisition with intersexual violence. Hegseth has been accused of sexual assault, a complaint helium denies. Ernst present appears to enactment Hegseth’s confirmation.

Musk has besides been making waves successful the satellite of authorities adjacent earlier Trump officially takes powerfulness connected Jan. 20, 2025. The U.S. House is presently trying to walk backing to support the authorities unfastened earlier a 12:01 a.m. deadline that would unopen down galore governmental functions, but Musk has been credited with tanking 2 bills that were brought up Thursday.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is reportedly moving connected different mentation of the backing measure that’s expected to get a ballot Friday. But everyone is keeping an oculus connected Musk’s X account, which is wherever helium gives orders and organizes his service of dipshit influencers who unit politicians. If Musk gives the thumbs up, it seems apt to pass. If helium says no, Trump volition apt travel and we’ll find ourselves successful a authorities shutdown close successful the mediate of the engaged vacation question season.

We unrecorded successful a precise transparent oligarchy astatine this point. And Musk’s promotion of a far-right enactment similar AfD isn’t a large motion of what lies ahead.