Elon Musk is right to be outraged about UK rape gangs but hes lost in the circus of internet outrage

It seems 2025 is going to be crazy — we’re just one week into the year and already the world’s richest man is wondering if the US should invade the UK.It’s Elon Musk.The billionaire rabble-rouser.

The man who now seems to spend as much time squabbling with strangers on the internet as he does trying to get human beings to Mars.For the past week Musk has been trolling the British government.Barely an hour passes without him firing off a mean tweet at our Prime Minister Keir Starmer or one of his ministers.He is hopping mad about Britain’s “grooming gangs” scandal.

This is the euphemistic name given to the bands of mostly Pakistani Muslim men who pimped, abused and raped white working-class girls in towns up and down England over the past 20 years.Musk seems to be discovering this horror for the first time.And — like everyone with a working moral compass — he is sickened by it.He’s now going for the jugular of Britain’s political and media elites, whom he accuses of turning a blind eye to this outrage.He branded one minister a “rape geocide apologist” after she rejected the idea of a government-led inquiry into these “grooming gangs.”But it is Sir Keir who’s really feeling the heat of his swirling invective.

Musk has even accused the PM of being “deeply complicit” in the “mass rapes.”Things are so bad in the UK, he says, that liberty-loving Americans might have to pop over here and free us from the yoke of Starmerite tyranny.Should America “liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government,” he asked his 211 million followers on X.So far, 58% of respondents have said “Yes.”Batten down the hatches, fellow Brits — Musk and his battalion of irate tweeters might be headed our way.When the world’s best-known billionaire flirts with the idea of toppling Britain’s government, it is time to hit the pause button and ask: What is going on?What are these “gangs” that Musk and others are talking about? An...