Grimes shares her mother's plea to let her kids visit their dying great-grandmother

[my_moloko]

Grimes shares mother’s plea for Elon Musk to let their children see their great-grandmother

Grimes' grandmother is receiving end-of-life care and wishes to see her great-grandchildren one last time https://t.co/2Ps4hmWzOT
- NME (@NME) July 27, 2024
Grimes' mother, Sandy Garossino, took to Twitter to plead with Elon Musk to let his children visit

Comments

[varioussaints]

I genuinely don't know what outcome they're expecting after airing all this in public. Elon is who he is. Unless we're missing some key piece of information, Grimes knew exactly who he was before she had children with him and yet still freely chose to do so. This is what happens when you have children with controlling, angry, vengeful men. I feel badly for the children but I'm not sure what else to say beyond that.

[sandstorm]

They think public shaming will work, to either his investors or (less likely) his fans who may encourage him. But his fans are just like him so.

[bellyroomfan]

If he is truly keeping her children from her in an illegal manner, I am sure she is hoping that public pressure will help her get justice. Just like tweeting at an airline after customer service won't help you in private.

[varioussaints]

If he really is keeping her children from her illegally, then I hope this is helpful in her legal battle. But we don't have an actual source regarding the legality, just posts on Thread from Vivian Wilson. Not to say Vivian isn't telling the truth, but Vivian is the sole source. Neither Grimes nor her mother have made a similar claim (possibly because they cant, but also possibly because a formal decision hasn't been made

[bellyroomfan]

We have heard no reason why she shouldn't have some form of custody and access to her children. Until we hear a valid reason for him to have sole custody of these kids, given his track record, I am going to continue to believe that this is abusive litigation, especially since he has a history of this kind of thing.

But yes, I agree. Even if she had some custody of her kids, that doesn't entitle her to take them out of the country.

I am sure that Grimes has gotten her way with things in the past using white woman tears so she probably believes that would work here. But white woman tears don't work when you are using them against white men.

[varioussaints]

Before a legal custody arrangement exists, it's two yeses/one no as to whether those kids can leave the US. If the kids are born in the US, they usually stay with the American parent in the US until there is a formal agreement to the contrary. If she can't stay in the US, she cannot be the custodial parent until an actual legal custody arrangement exists. You can file for emergency custody orders, but as she lives in and is a citizen of a foreign country, Elon likely wouldn't even have to pull out the fancy lawyers to mount a decent defence preventing their removal to a foreign country. This happens every single day when it comes to custody fights between ex-partners with different nationalities. It's unfortunate that this seems to be dragging on for as long as it is (and I would definitely believe that Elon is using abusive litigation strategies and throwing a lot of money around to ensure it does so), but it's also unsurprising that it's such a mess.

[ahegao]

he took at least one of the children to Paris for the olympics, apparently, so..?

[afeelingunacted]

Feel like it's a last ditch attempt because they've tried everything else.

Also people in this kind of emotional situation aren't exactly rational. It's a terrible, terrible thing to lose someone you love.

I feel sorry for Sandy. She is actually quite a normal person (Canadian former prosecutor) and quite lefty. She hates Musk but bites her tongue about it. It must be hard not to see her grandkids.

[littlepunkryo]

It won't really help them in family court bc they aren't really structured to be pressured by stuff that happens on social media to that degree and I doubt he's ever been shamed into anything either so that's out. If they were hoping that public opinion would sway him they are both a) underestimating how much public opinion can make him do anything he feels he's "forced" to and b) counting waaaay too much on people to take their side when a whole lot of people come down on a father's side in discussions about family court bc "the courts are biased against fathers and they're HIS kids, why should he be forced to do anything?"

[likeiused2]

seems like a waste of energy trying to shame someone who doesn't have any