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Right-Wing Populist Wins Argentina Presidency
Right-wing populist Javier Milei will become the next president of Argentina after promising a dramatic shake-up ...
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Is this the nut job on the far right?
#2 | Posted by Tor at 2023-11-19 08:04 PM | Reply
He understands the inherent idiocy of Command and Control economics.
So I guess so.
#3 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2023-11-19 08:10 PM | Reply
So, O/U, when does he invade the Falklands?
#4 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2023-11-19 08:22 PM | Reply
I heard from a friend that he's a libertarian. Is my friend full of crap?
#5 | Posted by Tor at 2023-11-19 08:49 PM | Reply
Not good Argentina not good!
#6 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2023-11-19 10:33 PM | Reply
You'd think those stupid Pampas-Spics would learn to vote according to their own economic self-interest.
Misinformation on the internet has apparently brainwashed them into thinking a future of wind turbines, insect protein, and social Equity isn't the direction they should go.
#7 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2023-11-19 10:48 PM | Reply
What a crying shame this is.
#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2023-11-19 10:52 PM | Reply
My memory is that argentinians like order and this is not order this is madness and chaos that will be coming from the top levels of Their Own government.
#9 | Posted by Tor at 2023-11-19 11:02 PM | Reply
Not good at all. However I cannot blame the people of Argentina as they have been dealing with this economic turmoil for a very long time now with no end in site. Essentially the same thing led to the rise of Hitler though... And yes, perhaps ironically Argentina is indeed a spot many of his devotees fled to at the end of WWII.
#10 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2023-11-20 09:19 AM | Reply
He's the perfect Right-wing nutjob.
He wants to end all sex education and abortion. He wants to get rid of the department of Education and the department of Health. He wants to gut labor protections. He wants women back in the kitchen and gay people back in the closet. He doesn't believe in climate change.
And he wants to take the entire economy off the peso and put it on the dollar while eliminating the central bank.
Basically he's an anarcho-capitalist and libertarian.
And like Trump, he's a sex crazed weirdo: "He also delved into his personal life and once presented himself as an expert in tantric sex, openly discussing how he had repeatedly participated in group sex and providing tips." Odd considering he wants to end sex education.
#11 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-11-20 11:50 AM | Reply
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At least now we know which South American country Hair Feuhrer will flee to.
#12 | Posted by Corky at 2023-11-20 12:45 PM | Reply
Mao Content wrote, "You'd think those stupid Pampas-Spics would learn to vote according to their own economic self-interest." What a racist statement.
My main concern about the Argentinians electing "el Loco" is that he will destroy what is left of Argentina's economy with his BS government. Millions of people will end up bankrupt without any help from their government. Sure get rid of public education. I've been to Argentina a couple of times and there is already tens of thousands of citizens without anyway to get ahead financially. Most cannot pay for public education but, I guess this guy thinks they can all just home school their children? He will end up getting ran out of town on a rail as their economy slips even lower with his stupid idea of getting rid of their peso for the dollar. The international bankers will not Argentina exchange that weak ass peso for a dollar. They will match it to it's worth and the Arggies must really know this? I hope they enjoyed their joy of winning the World Cup, tainted as that was by the Qatar government and FIFA, as they will rue the day they put el Loco into charge.
#13 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2023-11-20 12:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Tired of the term "populist" being thrown around like halloween candy, typically with respect to rightwing nutcases.
Eliminating his nation's health and education departments is not populism. Abolishing sex ed is not populism. Revoking their abortion law with no exceptions for rape is not populism. Privatizing the YPF is not populism.
This guy appealed to people who want to generically throw a wrench into the system, but his actual stances on issue's couldn't be further from populist.
#14 | Posted by JOE at 2023-11-20 01:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
------- autocorrect threw an apostrophe into "issues." I would never.
#15 | Posted by JOE at 2023-11-20 01:01 PM | Reply
As always, Argentina is always a f***** up place. There really is an underlying national identification with totalitarian rule that has been in existence since well before Juan and Evita Peron. The strange is, Argentina is one of the nations that does not seem to care whether it's totalitarians are left wing or right wing.
#16 | Posted by moder8 at 2023-11-20 01:20 PM | Reply
-Argentina is one of the nations that does not seem to care whether it's totalitarians are left wing or right wing.
why should they?
totalitarian is bad either way.....but you think it matters.
LOL
#17 | Posted by eberly at 2023-11-20 01:22 PM | Reply
The fundamental similarity of all types of totalitarianism is wide spread, all encompassing corruption as a basic part of how the government operates.
#18 | Posted by moder8 at 2023-11-20 01:37 PM | Reply
The inherent love of strong authority; the abandonment of personal & societal responsibilities.
#19 | Posted by DMTDust at 2023-11-20 02:26 PM | Reply
How young Argentines helped put a far-right libertarian into power www.vox.com
... Hernn Stuchi, a 29-year-old food delivery driver in greater Buenos Aires, grew up as a left-wing activist. During this year's presidential election in Argentina, he told Vox he would make a starkly different choice, and back Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian trumpeting socially conservative culture war issues and explosive proposals to reshape Argentine society. "It was a kind of innocence," he said in October, discussing his previous support for left-wing leaders. "It's not like us poor people ever stopped being poor." At the polls this fall, Stuchi was far from alone. Milei shocked the country when he topped Argentina's two main political forces in primary elections in August. Now, he's defeated Sergio Massa, a left-wing establishment candidate, in a runoff election. According to provisional results, he won about 55 percent of the vote. A main fount of that support is, surprisingly, young people " and young men in particular. ...
"It was a kind of innocence," he said in October, discussing his previous support for left-wing leaders. "It's not like us poor people ever stopped being poor."
At the polls this fall, Stuchi was far from alone.
Milei shocked the country when he topped Argentina's two main political forces in primary elections in August. Now, he's defeated Sergio Massa, a left-wing establishment candidate, in a runoff election. According to provisional results, he won about 55 percent of the vote. A main fount of that support is, surprisingly, young people " and young men in particular. ...
#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-20 02:44 PM | Reply
#15 | POSTED BY JOE AT 2023-11-20 01:01 PM |
A couple of weeks ago I was typing a message on my phone and I used the word "misattribution", which is a real word and I spelled it correctly. When I tapped the space bar after finishing typing the word I saw my phone change it to "Mozart right on".
#21 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-11-20 05:20 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Oh look, another crazy uncle for Trump and the GOP to go GaGa over...
#22 | Posted by earthmuse at 2023-11-20 09:07 PM | Reply
Didn't the nazis escape to Argentina?
#23 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2023-11-20 09:38 PM | Reply
This is the wacko that cloned his dog and made 5 copies, right?
The original dog was a 200 lbs English mastiff named Conan, that he believed was his son. His closest friend. His confident. When said dog died, what'd he do? Went to see a medium so he could telepathically communicate with his said dead dog.
What did he learn in that "conversation"? His dead dog was clear that he should run for President of Argentina. Seriously. He had reason to trust his dead dog's telepathic message, though. Their relationship goes back to when soon to be El Presidente Loco was a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum where they (his dead dog) first met.
So what does one do when his pet - I mean his "son" died? He cloned him. 5 times. One of which he swears is Conan incarnate and the others he calls "grandchildren."
Way too many in this world have lost their minds.
And Mao thinks this guy is just awesome?
I wish I was surprised.
#24 | Posted by YAV at 2023-11-20 09:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
He won 65% of the vote
Should at least understand why?
Proclaiming 65% of the Argentina population has lost their minds makes you ignorant.
#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2023-11-20 09:54 PM | Reply
@#24 ... Way too many in this world have lost their minds. ...
Mesmerized by a cult?
#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-20 09:56 PM | Reply
I didn't make that claim. I do not equate 55.7% of the vote (not 65%) with 55.7% of the population. Honestly you aren't coming from a position that would grant you the right to call anyone, especially me, ignorant. You've only managed to impugn your own understanding.
#27 | Posted by YAV at 2023-11-20 10:50 PM | Reply
@#27 ... You've only managed to impugn your own understanding. ...
So... I'm not the only one who has noticed that aspect of that current alias.
(more to say on that, but I'll leave it at that for now)
#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-20 10:55 PM | Reply
I get it, Argentina just elected Milei, who pledges to slash spending and restore fiscal responsibility and who openly calls for a close relationship with the US and a turn from China.
Of course our garbage Lumpers are livid and wish him ill.
You truly are international Lumper trash.
I get it, I really do, you hate America.
#29 | Posted by oneironaut at 2023-11-20 11:35 PM | Reply
I didn't make that claim. ~ Yav
Way too many in this world have lost their minds. ~ Yav
Whatever.... deny your own statements.
#30 | Posted by oneironaut at 2023-11-20 11:36 PM | Reply
(more to say on that, but I'll leave it at that for now) #28 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER
You couldn't argue your way out of a paper bag.
#31 | Posted by oneironaut at 2023-11-20 11:37 PM | Reply
@#31 ... You couldn't argue your way out of a paper bag. ...
Projecting?
(yet again?)
What else yer got?
#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-20 11:53 PM | Reply
Proclaiming 65% of the Argentina population has lost their minds makes you ignorant. #25 | POSTED BY ONENUT
That's not what his claim was.
Have someone explain it to you.
#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-11-20 11:56 PM | Reply
@#34 ... You stupid ----- are about to have the Wrath of God brought to bear on your algorithm-driven narratives ...
Why?
#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-21 12:25 AM | Reply
" Why?
#35 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2023-11-21 12:25 AM | FLAG: "
I think what he's saying is that this is a harbinger of what is going to happen elsewhere, namely the US.
#36 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-11-21 12:36 AM | Reply
Isn't Argentina on Bitcoin or something like that? Or did I smoke too much Joe Rogan.
#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-11-21 12:40 AM | Reply
@#36 ... I think what he's saying is that this is a harbinger ...
Your current alias' interpretation of what was stated does not answer the question I posed.
#38 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-21 12:46 AM | Reply
namely the US.
Y'all been saying that since Reagan.
#39 | Posted by horstngraben at 2023-11-21 12:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
@#37 ... Isn't Argentina on Bitcoin or something like that? Or did I smoke too much Joe Rogan. ...
Trump-admiring populist Milei wins in Argentina, edging the country closer to a dollarized economy www.cnbc.com
... The far-right libertarian outsider has pledged to dollarize the economy, abolish the country's central bank and privatize the pension system. ...
#40 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-21 12:49 AM | Reply
#38. My current alias answered your question just fine.
#41 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-11-21 01:06 AM | Reply
@#41 ... My current alias answered your question just fine. ...
Not really.
I asked, "why."
I see no answer to that question.
I did see a supposition of what might have been stated. But not an answer.
#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-21 01:17 AM | Reply
#34 | POSTED BY MeAO
What does the president of Argentina have to do with America?
#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-11-21 02:56 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
this is a harbinger of what is going to happen elsewhere, namely the US. #36 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
Look how excited you are.
#44 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-11-21 02:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
@#36 ... that this is a harbinger of what is going to happen elsewhere, namely the US. ...
... and that would be A Good Thing for America?
#45 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-11-21 03:12 AM | Reply
that would be A Good Thing for America?
It would be, if you hate the direction America has been heading down since FDR.
Today's Republican Party is set on destroying all progress achieved in our nation.
#46 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-11-21 03:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Using Argentina to prove anything about American politics is asinine.
If this angry clown with telenovela hair had lost, would that be a harbinger Trump would lose?
#47 | Posted by rcade at 2023-11-21 09:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
Don't cry for me, Argentina.
Waiting on a reply from Eva Pern in interview with Media Matters.
forget that she's been dead since 1952.
M.M. will just "manufacture" the interview as they are fond of doing.
#48 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 09:31 AM | Reply
So fr I haven't read that this is "the nadir of Argentinian history...
end of democracy
he's worse than hitler
yada yada yada..
I"m sure it's just a matter of time.
#49 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 10:07 AM | Reply
#36 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
You wish.
Argentina apparently can't help but be an awful place.
I like to think that we can avoid its fate. And avoid Trump's version of a Dirty War. His major policy initiative at this point, by the way.
#50 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 10:09 AM | Reply
I"m sure it's just a matter of time (end of democracy).
#49 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN
Trump says that it will happen immediately, should he be re-elected.
So, what do you do with all these direct warnings? ---- them out?
#51 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 10:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
If Trump presses ahead with the political arrests he intends, and the concentration camps, there will be a civil war unless Trump is assassinated first.
Too real?
#52 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 10:13 AM | Reply
#51 | Posted by Zed
from the BS lies about trump and immigrants from Mexico ...to russian disinformation etc /
speaking of "----"...info you base these so called warnings on is full of it.
#53 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 10:24 AM | Reply
#52 | Posted by Zed
what a load of hyperbolic garbage.
you should be ashamed to even write that stupid...---- ----.
#54 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 10:26 AM | Reply
#54 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN
I repeat nothing more than what Trump says.
What Trump says, nothing more.
What's the phrase? Swallow it?
#55 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 10:38 AM | Reply
from the BS lies about trump
#53 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN
This is interesting.
You think it is PROPAGANDA that makes Trump insane.
#56 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 10:40 AM | Reply
#55 | Posted by Zed a
what the democrat butt kissing police state media tells you..
maybe you should stick to something more suitable.
like the latest taylor swift report..
#57 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 10:42 AM | Reply
well bless your little heart...
you have zero credibility after writing this, so why bother ? ....so move along and have a great day
-30-
#58 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 10:45 AM | Reply
oh gosh...I apologize Zed....you were just confused about who was calling for the police state to put people into camps...
Clinton calls for 'formal deprogramming' of MAGA 'cult members'
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, former Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton discusses why she believes supporters for former President Donald Trump are intimidating "sane" House GOP members and calls for a "formal deprogramming" for MAGA "cult extremists."
and all because she got ------------ in 2016.
#59 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 11:26 AM | Reply
you have zero credibility after writing this
#58 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN
You have zero credibility for denying it.
#60 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 11:27 AM | Reply
#60 BTW I know where this illiterate trash came from....one of them anyway...
Joe Scarborough is a goddam liar...which is why I have to work to keep from gagging when I listen to
the worthless lying -----.
#61 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 11:32 AM | Reply
American democracy in a second Trump term may hinge upon the refusal of the military to carry out unlawful commands.
How did Hitler solve that problem? He demanded loyalty oaths from each individual service member to him personally.
#62 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 11:33 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Hitler's first concentration camp was at Dachau, for political prisoners, defined as anyone who critiqued or opposed him.
I expect that this will also be Trump's first effort, even before concentration camps for the Jews, er, immigrants.
#63 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 11:34 AM | Reply
Joe Scarborough is a goddam liar..
#61 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN
Joe Scarborough just reacts to the news.
#64 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-21 11:36 AM | Reply
Joe said people will be imprisoned and executed......so what do we hear from the leftist-dogma KLAN ?
HE'S WORSE THAN HITLER....
so I guess that means trump will exterminate 6,000,001 Americans ?
will it be the gas chamber, lethal injection...or boring them to death with "the view" on loop ?
-.-you people are out of your effing minds.
seek help immediately.
#65 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2023-11-21 11:50 AM | Reply
2024 is already a full out disinformation campaign by Republicans. Trump has, as Zed states, called for the end of the Constitution. Trump has called for imprisoning his political opponents and anyone that hurts his little feefees. Trump will be unrestrained if he gets back in office. He is Mao's "retribution." There is no thinking in him or those that vote for him. There are only misplaced feelings of lost perceived entitlement and power. Power his followers have never had and never will have. They are tools.
There is no choice in who to vote for in 2024 if you want to live in a Constitutionally moderated democratic republic.
#66 | Posted by YAV at 2023-11-21 11:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
you people are out of your effing minds.
#65 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN
If you believe one word that twice impeached criminally indicted lying rapist Trumpy has said that then it's your mind that needs the help bro.
obviously We don't need any help from you. We got help. Called Dark Brandon. The one man currently standing between us and your dream of revenge and retribution and civil war apparently.
#67 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-11-21 12:14 PM | Reply
"so I guess that means trump will exterminate 6,000,001 Americans ?"
He's off to a good start.
Roughly a million Republicans chose to kill themselves, following Trump's lead on COVID.
#68 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-11-21 12:17 PM | Reply
so what do we hear from the leftist-dogma KLAN ? HE'S WORSE THAN HITLER....
Why do you lie about everything? Is it all you have?
#69 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-11-21 12:22 PM | Reply
I probably have over a hundred stories I could tell about Argentina, having lived there during very turbulent times. My conclusion has been that it is the kind of place Benito Mussolini would have felt very much at home.
#70 | Posted by moder8 at 2023-11-21 01:34 PM | Reply
Stop governing with elections you filthy populist.
#71 | Posted by humanimal at 2023-11-21 04:42 PM | Reply
#71 | Posted by humanimal
If he lost he'd say the election was stolen like america's fascist party leader.
#72 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-11-21 04:58 PM | Reply
Populism promotes freedom for the people. Leftism promotes facism control and government corruption that benefits only the world elites. Big government creates more bureaucrats. Fewer bureacrats always gives us more freedom and less command control. Our country was founded on freedom.
#73 | Posted by Robson at 2023-11-21 08:47 PM | Reply
Rwing populism brought actual Nazi fascists to power in Germany in 1930's with 25 percent of the vote, just as rwingers in the US are trying to do today.
#74 | Posted by Corky at 2023-11-21 09:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#73 populism is the cover word for fascism. Just as pro life is the cover for anti choice. They stop being pro life as soon as the head crowns. Populism here depends on the electoral college to defense the popular vote, which almost always favors the Dems.
#75 | Posted by northguy3 at 2023-11-21 09:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"Pro Life" is disinformation and a lie.
#76 | Posted by YAV at 2023-11-22 09:49 AM | Reply
Our country was founded on freedom.
#73 | POSTED BY ROBSON
Yes, ROBSON. Our country was. Where are you from?
#77 | Posted by Zed at 2023-11-22 10:37 AM | Reply
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