Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News

Elon Musk & J.D. Vance tweeted in support of the AfD Party whose racist, anti-immigrant ideologies are shared by a terrorist who just killed 5 people in Germany. Maybe it's not "economic anxiety."

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Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth and the current daddy of the GOP, tweeted an endorsement of the racist, anti-immigrant, pro-Nazi Alternative for Germany (Afd) party.

The timing could’ve been better.

A few hours after his tweet, a terrorist plowed his car into a Christmas market and killed five people in Germany. The suspect is a Saudi Arabian refugee and atheist, who is an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant supporter of the AfD, and a fan of Elon Musk. The suspect also supports Tommy Robinson, the racist hooligan who incited violent riots with his hateful lies and was actively promoted by, wait for it, Elon Musk.

Earlier today, Vice President JD Vance emerged from hiding to tweet what appears to be a defense of Musk and the AfD.

JD Vance has forgotten or doesn’t care he’s married to an Indian American woman and has bi-racial children who are seen as “invaders” seeking to “replace” Western, white civilization according to the AfD and their right-wing supporters, which now includes a man who gave $250 million to elect Donald Trump and feels emboldened to target Republicans and torpedo a bipartisan spending deal.

This is the modern Faustian bargain all Republicans must make to ascend to political power and protect themselves from an increasingly violent, belligerent base that lives on Earth 3 due to a 24-7 IV drip of conspiracy theories fueled by cultural grievances and racism. Please remember it was Vance who once referred to Trump as America’s Hitler. I think Trump took it as a compliment. After all, Trump repeatedly quotes Hitler’s attacks on Jews and immigrants and said he “did some good things” according to his former Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly. Both Vance and Trump aggressively promoted a Nazi conspiracy of Haitian immigrants eating pets even after they were told it was a lie. Trump said there were “very fine people” on “both sides” during the white nationalist march in Charlottesville where people chanted Nazi talking points.

If it talks like a Nazi, tweets like a Nazi, promotes Nazi talking points, apologizes for Nazis, and admires Nazis, you can be confident it’ll be supported by Elon Musk and modern MAGA leaders.

Is that statement hyperbolic in light of everything Musk, Trump, and Vance have openly said?

If you’re still in doubt, just focus on the AfD for a moment. In the summer, the AfD’s Maximillian Krah told journalists that SS members, the Nazi paramilitary group responsible for numerous war crimes including genocide, weren’t automatically criminals. "It depends. You have to assess blame individually,” he told the Financial Times. In the past, one of its party’s leaders described Berlin’s Holocaust memorial as a “monument of shame” and called for a "180-degree turnaround" in how Germany handles its Nazi past. (I assume he wants to replace shame with celebration?)

A co-founder of AfD, Alexander Gauland, has warned about an “invasion of foreigners” and sees Islam as alien to German society. Last February, German courts ruled that the country’s intelligence agency can classify AfD’s youth movement as an extremist movement as it “continues to engage in massive anti-foreigner and, in particular, anti-Islam and anti-Muslim agitation.” In the summer, a German court held that the AfD is an “extremist” organization whose members can be surveilled and investigated by domestic intelligence agencies.

This is the party that Musk just endorsed.

In addition to colonizing America and space, Musk wants to influence and poison European politics to fulfill his unhinged and dangerous broligarchy agenda. He’s increasingly cozy with Reform UK’s Nigel Farage, another far-right, pro-Putin, racist politician - he of Brexit infamy - and is open to donating $100 million to his party and tilting the general elections.

What more do we need to see? How many euphemisms, such as “economic anxiety," do we have to use? Why does our corporate media and establishment not call out the threat and use the appropriate terms to describe these openly racist, fascist forces who are tweeting their Bond villain plans in real-time?

The incoming Vice President and the richest man on Earth - who has now emerged as the leader of the GOP - openly supporting and defending the AfD, an extremist movement whose leaders are sympathetic to Nazis, should be leading news coverage, especially in light of a terror attack in which the suspect shares their ideology and anti-immigrant beliefs.

But, then again, this is America and it’s time for Sunday football.