Europe's Leaders Have had Enough of Musk's Meddling

Thursday, January 09, 2025

Elon Musk's invective against major European leaders and his support for right-wing, eurosceptic parties peaked this week, sparking warnings about the US tech billionaire's intervention in the continent's democratic institutions. Now EU policy experts are mulling legal measures to rein him in.

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EU is mulling legal action against US oligarch Elon Musk over election interference across Europe and backing of neo-Nazi party in Germany.

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... The first Monday of the new year got off to a choppy start, with European leaders accusing a billionaire citizen of a friendly nation of intervening in the continent's democratic processes. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-09 01:57 AM | Reply

President Musk will not be intimidated by some European Poofers!

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-09 01:59 AM | Reply

So, apparently, Mr Musk is not trying only to affect Pres-elect Trump, but he seems to have aims with the rest of the free world?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-09 02:01 AM | Reply

Musk already controls Trump and doesn't need him anymore.

It's Canada and Europe he's after.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-09 02:07 AM | Reply

@#2 ... President Musk ...

Yeah, Mr Musk seems to be using his billions as some manner of equivalence of votes for him.

Stated differently, and more simply, in Mr Musk's view, apparently...

Money = Power.

Sadly, I remain to be convinced that he is wrong.

Especially with the current upcoming administration that seems to sell itself to the highest bidder.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-09 02:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

It's Canada and Europe he's after.

He did run to Canada to dodge the draft in South Africa. His dad's money helped with that.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-09 02:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

His dad's money helped with that.

You're not supposed to mention that.

He's a self made man!

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-09 02:19 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#6 ... He did run to Canada to dodge the draft in South Africa....

I did not know that.

Found this ...

Elon Musk
en.wikipedia.org

... Musk applied for a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother to avoid South Africa's mandatory military service,[34][35] which would have forced him to participate in the apartheid regime,[3] as well as to ease his path to immigration to the United States.[36] ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-09 02:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

From "Elon Musk is going full Kanye West" by Caitlin Moran www.thetimes.com):

In the end money doesn't like weird " and it particularly doesn't like loud weird. I will be astonished if, in ten years' time, Musk is still regarded as a brilliant businessman. Even a genius can't run multiple businesses when his main gig is shouting "F U retard" at 7.30am on X. It's all starting to look less like "a big personality" and more like something ... diagnosable. The thing about disaster capitalism is you're supposed to take advantage of it " not be it.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-09 07:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Money doesn't talk, it swears...
--Leon "I said that, and I'll sue you if you say it too" Musk, channeling Robert Zimmerman

#10 | Posted by catdog at 2025-01-09 09:56 AM | Reply

He has the one quality that's absolutely critical to be a billionaire - he's a psychopath. Combine that with a bit of daddy's money and a lot of stupid luck and you get the elongated muskrat.

Hopefully he pisses off the wrong government soon. That's what it's going to take to eliminate that problem.

#11 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-01-09 11:17 AM | Reply

How much longer before Musk buys an island with a dormant volcano, builds a rocket base in it, hires a mercenary army and starts lobbing missles at people he's mad at?

#12 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2025-01-09 11:55 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He did run to Canada to dodge the draft in South Africa. His dad's money helped with that.

Once a wealthy opportunist, always a wealthy opportunist.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-09 12:31 PM | Reply