Translated, Musk’s piece said: “The portrayal of the AfD as rightwing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!”
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has classified the AfD at the national level as a suspected extremism case since 2021.
Shortly after the piece was published online, the editor of the opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, used the US tech mogul’s own platform to post on X that she had submitted her resignation.
“I always enjoyed heading the opinion department at Welt and Wams. Today a text by Elon Musk appeared in Welt am Sonntag. Yesterday I submitted my resignation after printing,” she posted.
“Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the country’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
28.12.2024 20:09 — 👍 873 🔁 301 💬 59 📌 22
As I said on Joy Reid's show a week ago: Elon Musk's support of the far right white supremacist party AFD in Germany is because Musk is trying to create a new white supremacist world order. You can take Musk out of apartheid but you can't take the apartheid out of Musk.
29.12.2024 15:56 — 👍 247 🔁 74 💬 15 📌 1
Imagine voting for Trump bc you believed he'd "cut govt spending"
then watching him try to get the debt ceiling raised before he even takes office
and still not realizing how colossally you've been played.
28.12.2024 15:51 — 👍 2981 🔁 641 💬 132 📌 26
You’re old. :>
29.12.2024 20:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TRUMP: I will. First of all, I think and I know the H1B very well. And it’s something that I frankly use and I shouldn’t be allowed to use it. We shouldn’t have it. Very, very bad for workers. And second of all, I think it’s very important to say, well, I’m a businessman and I have to do what I have to do.
When it’s sitting there waiting for you, but it’s very bad. It’s very bad for business in terms of - and it’s very bad for our workers and it’s unfair for our workers. And we should end it. Very importantly, the Disney workers endorsed me, as you probably read.
And I got a full endorsement because they are the ones that said, and they had a news conference, and they said, he’s the only one that’s going to be able to fix it. Because it is a mess. I think for a period of a year to two years we have to look back and we have to see, just to answer the second part of your question, where we are, where we stand, what’s going on.
Trump, DECEMBER 28, 2024: "I have always been in favor of the visas... I’ve been a believer in H-1B... It’s a great program"
Trump, MARCH 15, 2016: "I know the H1B very well... We shouldn’t have it. Very, very bad for workers... it’s unfair for our workers. And we should end it."
29.12.2024 01:48 — 👍 4596 🔁 1488 💬 243 📌 90
Elon Musk endorsed Germany's AfD party and praised their leader Alice Weidel in new op-ed. What Musk left out was that "Weidel’s grandfather Hans Weidel was a prominent Nazi judge, appointed directly by Adolf Hitler, responsible for sentencing opponents of the Third Reich." Musk is a cancer!
29.12.2024 16:16 — 👍 143 🔁 56 💬 9 📌 2
Huh.
26.12.2024 18:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder because corporate media wants you to forget: On Jan 6, 2021, Trump as President watched his supporters attack the Capitol and brutally beat up police officers for THREE HOURS but did NOTHING to stop it. Instead as we learned he "gleefully watched the attack on television."
26.12.2024 12:47 — 👍 403 🔁 138 💬 24 📌 4
This piece does not mention that Musk has funneled billions to his foundation, securing tax breaks, but Musk’s foundation has not donated the legal minimum to actual charitable causes
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ma...
25.12.2024 21:09 — 👍 4683 🔁 1390 💬 226 📌 73
Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws
A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.
NEW: CBS reporting ethics report finds Matt Gaetz paid numerous women for sex-includ an underage girl in high school--purchased illegal drugs, etc. In other words Gaetz committed STATUTORY RAPE, sex trafficking and more. Why did Merrick Garland NOT charge him?! www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-ga...
23.12.2024 12:39 — 👍 187 🔁 71 💬 33 📌 3
Matt Gaetz report: "The Committee concluded there was substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules, state and federal laws, and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use...obstruction of Congress" ethics.house.gov/wp-content/u...
23.12.2024 21:59 — 👍 108 🔁 33 💬 10 📌 3
When you read about the tsunami of evidence that Matt Gaetz committed crimes from statutory rape to drug related to obstruction of Congress ask yourself why hasn't he been charged with even one crime? The answer: Merrick Garland and the other GOP prosecutors don't prosecute rich, white Republicans.
23.12.2024 22:37 — 👍 309 🔁 80 💬 25 📌 3
Das Weiße Haus mit X-beflaggung
Vorbereitung Amtseinführung
#muskpresident #trumpservant
22.12.2024 22:24 — 👍 1076 🔁 265 💬 30 📌 10
Tell your Senators: Oppose Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence
Please contact Congress now!
Tulsi Gabbard shouldn't even be allowed on the White House grounds. We all know the many reasons why.
Click below to send your letters to your Senators, telling them to oppose Gabbard! It only takes a minute!
22.12.2024 13:49 — 👍 4144 🔁 1381 💬 151 📌 56
Trump just became a PINO-a President In Name Only.
But Musk might be even more dangerous
I wrote an article in October that if Trump won he would be a PINO-A President in Name Only. At the time my focus was Trumps' dementia. But Trump has become a PINO much sooner because GOP officials realize Musk is their future bc of his $. My new article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-just...
21.12.2024 19:55 — 👍 128 🔁 47 💬 6 📌 2
As I said on Joy Reid's show Friday night: Elon Musk's support of the far right white supremacist party AFD in Germany is because Musk is trying to create a new white supremacist world order. His goal is a new whites only Axis Of Evil.
21.12.2024 19:56 — 👍 194 🔁 63 💬 22 📌 1
House Dem Accuses Musk of Killing Initial Spending Deal to Protect His Investments In China, Musk Hits Back With AI Image
Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) accused Elon Musk of working to kill the initial bipartisan spending proposal because it would have regulated his investments in China.
Why is corporate media not covering this more? "House Dem Accuses Musk of Killing Initial Spending Deal to Protect His Investments In China." No debate that the second GOP budget bill took out the ban out on China investments and China is Musk's second biggest market www.mediaite.com/politics/hou...
21.12.2024 12:24 — 👍 843 🔁 335 💬 34 📌 18
i think it is very cool that the political press was basically uninterested in the fact that vance is openly adjacent to/pals around with far-right and Nazi-sympathetic maniacs
21.12.2024 16:36 — 👍 10024 🔁 2586 💬 183 📌 95
Legacy media is telling us that what we see happening isn't really happening.
21.12.2024 18:32 — 👍 29246 🔁 6709 💬 2293 📌 753
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