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Lee Heidhues – New Year’s Eve 12.31.2024
Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) boss Alice Weidel has caught herself a big fish, Elon Musk, as she seeks to become the nation’s Chancellor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Weidel
The world’s richest man Elon Musk is swimming happily in stormy German political waters. Insulting the President of the country. Elon Musk has added German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the list of politicians he has insulted in Europe. He also announced a plan to speak to the leader of the country’s far-right AfD.
Continuing his extremist trolling and interference in German affairs while he blankets the planet on his @X platform
Injecting himself into the German electoral process campaigning for the far right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) as the February 23, 2025 election nears.
Plans: online Musk-AfD boss Alice Weidel meeting
The spokesman for the leader of the AfD, Alice Weidel, said concrete plans were underway for an online meeting between her and Elon Musk.
That came after Musk himself suggested a meeting between the two via X’s Spaces chat feature. “Wait until Alice and I do an X Spaces conversation. They will lose their minds,” he posted.
Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck on Tuesday hit out at Musk and his attempts to influence the German elections.
“Elon Musk is equipped with billions and unbridled communication power,” Habeck wrote on X. “His call for the AfD is systematic: He wants to weaken Europe. Power must be limited: no business model must destroy our democracy. Europe must now use its power consistently.”
Concerns are also growing in the UK as Musk takes an increasingly close interest in Britain’s political scene, aligning himself with hard-right lawmaker Nigel Farage.
Musk has busied himself with taking aim at the UK’s center-left Labour government, launching a series of blistering comments against British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
AfD boss campaigns on the slogan “Time for Deutschland.” For whose Germany is it time??
https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-insults-german-president-frank-walter-steinmeier/a-71191756
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