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Musk on the German Election

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Posted By: Christopher L, 1/2/2025 5:59:05 PM

Elon Musk has raised eyebrows to DefCon1 with his recent endorsement of the insurgent AfD (“Alternative for Germany”) Party in Germany’s snap election next month, in the pages of DieWelt, one of Germany’s leading newspapers. AfD has a checkered character, but like Marine le Pen in France, it seems the unified front of the established political parties against considering AfD as part of any governing coalition is only helping AfD’s appeal to fed-up German voters (just like endless lawsuits against Trump helped him with many voters). An English translation of Musk’s article is out today. Judge for yourself.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: HPmatt 1/2/2025 6:37:00 PM (No. 1865575)
Unless some industrial or factory in Germany has some super-unique product, that can absorb its energy input costs increasing 4X, they will go out of business. A few years ago we visited the Miessen porcelain workshops near Dresden - not a factory - no machines make their product since 1710 - AfD country in East Germany - they were telling us their Natgas contracts were expiring and their costs were going to quadruple….told us they really didn’t know how they were going to stay in business. BMW was showing their super hi-tech e-car factory in Dresden - saw were they were shuttering it for time being - no Sales demand - hard to charge when electricity is unaffordable b/c no cheap coal power plants, yet alone no-carbon nuclear plants Greens finally got to shut all down after 50 years of ‘save the planet’ - a concept predating carbon b/s man made global warming….from non-thermal nukes….
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Reply 2 - Posted by: stablemoney 1/2/2025 6:44:59 PM (No. 1865578)
The parties that have been running Germany have a "checkered" character, and a well earned reputation for ruining the country.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 1/2/2025 7:12:06 PM (No. 1865584)
German industry, unless they restart their nuclear power plants is absolutely toast. VW, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche are all going to find it difficult to sell cars, and EVs are going to be even nastier mess, nearly impossible to get off of dealer lots.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 1/2/2025 7:20:28 PM (No. 1865596)
Everything Musk wrote is, from what I know, true about AfD. They would get Germany away from the death spiral that Frau Merckel put the country into....probably as she worked for the Kremlin.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: NotaBene 1/3/2025 1:30:49 AM (No. 1865712)
I was thinking that influencing German politics is over Elon’s pay grade, but then his pay grade is the highest in the world.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: privateer 1/3/2025 11:07:39 AM (No. 1865918)
FTA: Musk quote: 'I hope they consider doubling down on safe nuclear power, together with battery energy storage to buffer large swings in electricity usage, as that is the obvious solution.' Erroneously named 'fossil fuels' are Nature's storage batteries for the sun's energy.
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