German of the day: Frontfrau

That means frontwoman.

Musk interviews German far-right frontwoman – Elon Musk took his endorsement of Germany’s far-right party to the next level on Thursday, hosting a live chat with its frontwoman, Alice Weidel.

The 74-minute conversation ranged across energy policy, German bureaucracy, Adolf Hitler, Mars and the meaning of life…

She insisted her party was “conservative” and “libertarian” but had been “negatively framed” by mainstream media as extremist.

Sections of the AfD have been officially classed as right-wing extremist by German authorities.

She also described Hitler as an “antisemitic socialist”.

On other matters, she and Musk chimed – and at times giggled – over Germany’s infamous bureaucracy, its “crazy” abandonment of nuclear power, the need for tax cuts, free speech and “wokeness”.

“Disrespect, defamation and interference?”

Because of a discussion on X?

Discussions with the AfD aren’t allowed in Germany. That’s the real disrespect, defamation and interference.

Musk plans discussion with German far-right leader on X – The live chat with the AfD’s chancellor candidate is proposed as Germany’s political leaders accuse the tech billionaire of election interference…

The German government must clarify “whether the repeated disrespect, defamation and interference in the election campaign were also expressed in the name of the new U.S. government,” Rolf Mützenich, a prominent politician from Germany’s Social Democratic Party, told German outlet Spiegel.

Germans would never seek to influence foreign elections!

It’s just not their thing.

Musk causes uproar for backing Germany’s far-right party ahead of key elections – Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk caused uproar after backing Germany’s far-right party in a major newspaper ahead of key parliamentary elections in the Western European country, leading to the resignation of the paper’s opinion editor in protest.

Germany is to vote in an early election on Feb. 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party governing coalition collapsed last month in a dispute over how to revitalize the country’s stagnant economy.

But it will continue to use the Teslas it already owns “for reasons of sustainability and resource conservation”

Drugstores with Teslas?

They are clearly making way too much money. Maybe we should no longer support these drugstores.

German drugstore chain shuns Teslas over Musk’s support for Trump – German drugstore chain Rossmann said on Tuesday it would no longer buy Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab cars for its corporate fleet due to CEO Elon Musk’s support for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The drugstore chain, which is among the largest in Europe, said its decision was with immediate effect and due to what it called an “incompatibility” between statements by Musk and the values that Tesla represents.

My Hero

I’m sure he’ll let me down sooner or later (like all heroes eventually do) but for now, Elon is on a roll. Run with it!

Elon Musk gets into German debate over migration.

Billionaire Elon Musk waded into German politics on Friday, sharing the post of another account on his social media platform X that attacked the government’s handling of illegal migration and backed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

The post shared by Musk came from an account identified as Radio Genoa. It criticized the German state for funding charities rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean and included videos of rescue missions. “Let’s hope the AfD wins the elections to stop this European suicide”, it read.

Critics of the charities accuse them of encouraging people to make the dangerous crossing — something they deny.

“Let’s hope the AfD wins the elections to stop this European suicide.”

Electric Car Man Bad

He’s bringing more jobs to us here in Germany.

When will the horror ever end?

Tesla Submits Application to Expand German Plant – Tesla has submitted an application to build on a further 100 hectares east of its plant in Germany, expanding the site’s area by a third, local newspaper rbb reported on Thursday, citing the local mayor.

The electric carmaker, which already has 300 hectares of land for its auto factory and battery plant under construction, planned to build a freight station, logistics areas and parking spaces on the additional space, Gruenheide mayor Arne Christiani told RBB.

Elvis Has Left The Building

I mean Elon. And what I actually meant was that he entered the Gigafactory.

Tesla’s Musk appears to have landed in Berlin – Tesla Chief executive Officer Elon Musk appears to have landed in Berlin, The Twitter user @ElonJet, who tracks the movements of Musk’s private jet, posted on Monday.

It’s the eve of Tesla Gigafactory Berlin’s first Model Y delivery event, and preparations are well underway in the company’s expansive Grunheide site. As images of recent activities at the Giga Berlin complex are shared online.

Bureaucracy? In Germany?

No way.

No way this is a news item, I mean.

Tesla’s Musk blames bureaucracy for German gigafactory delays – Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk called for cuts to German red tape on Monday as he said it was unclear when exactly the first electric car would roll off the production line of its planned plant outside Berlin.

This guy really is a visionary, a dreamer. If he actually believes this could ever be possible in Germany: “There should be some kind of active process for removal of rules. Otherwise, over time, the rules will just accumulate and you get more and more rules until eventually you can’t do anything.”