It’ll be delightful to see the US MSM squirming as a result of Milei’s YUGE win!
Serious about crackers.
November 19, 2023, 08:48 PM
220-9er
I don’t know a lot about the guy other than his basic political position and he so much better than the alternative. Hopefully he has something to turn things around and can do something before the voters run out of patience and things swing back. That’s what’s happened to a number of other countries in the region.
^^^ Well lookie there Seems like all them liberals act just the same, no matter where they're at.
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“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy
November 20, 2023, 12:17 AM
darthfuster
It makes Leftists cry when they can’t take your life, liberty or property.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
November 20, 2023, 12:40 AM
Gustofer
Not quite up to this level, but hey...give them a few days, it'll sink in.
________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it.
November 20, 2023, 02:45 AM
12131
^^^ That nut job is forever immortalized. And not in a good way. Lol.
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November 20, 2023, 03:18 AM
12131
The similarity is uncanny.
Milei has often been compared to Donald Trump, and the two share a disdain for the political establishment, the media, and socialism. (Getty Images)
I love that guys hair! Reminds me of the those 1960 -70's horror movies.
He certainly has focus, you can see it in his eyes. I truly hope he turns Argentina around for the best.
Will the Pope excommunicate him? Itll be a badge of honor.
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Benjamin Franklin
November 20, 2023, 07:03 AM
erj_pilot
If his campaign strategy is/was “Argentina First”, he needs to be applauded. Loudly…
And I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel the same as that bat-shit crazy “thing” screaming in the middle of the sidewalk when Onumb-nutz and Resident Two Scoops were inaugurated. I just had the common decency and sense to scream into a pillow in the privacy and comfort of my living room. Just sayin’…
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
November 20, 2023, 07:33 AM
PASig
I wonder what our resident SF Argentine thinks of all this? I know inflation is eating them absolutely alive, you think it’s bad here, it’s brutal there
November 20, 2023, 07:34 AM
joel9507
As an interested outside observer, change there was/is overdue and I like what I hear about Mr. Milei. Will be very interesting to hear Nicky (0-0) give his opinion.
November 20, 2023, 08:22 AM
stickman428
The timing of this is just so perfect. I got into a political argument with my brother which we had not done in a looooong time.
I said “a libertarian will never be elected as a head of state because there are not enough libertarians out there”. Hours after I said this Argentina elected Javier Milei.
Sometimes I love it so damn much when I am wrong.
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The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance
November 20, 2023, 11:33 AM
chellim1
“The state does not create wealth; it only destroys it. The state cannot give anything because it doesn’t produce anything, and when it wants to do so, it does so badly,” Milei asserted.
“Shatter the System” – Javier Milei Wins Historic Election in Argentina
In an era of universal deceit there comes a time when extraordinary actions become necessary. For those who are deep within the fight, understanding becomes ordinary and few words are needed. We know, we fight, we remain steadfast….
The unabashed, resolute and indefatigable Argentinian Trump, Javier Milei, has won a historic election as the choice of the pragmatic working class who have tried all methods of addressing their grievances only to have their voices dismissed.
BUENOS AIRES — A radical libertarian and admirer of Donald Trump rode a wave of voter rage to win Argentina’s presidency on Sunday, crushing the political establishment and bringing the sharpest turn to the right in four decades of democracy in the country.
Javier Milei, a 53-year-old far-right economist and former television pundit with no governing experience, claimed nearly 56 percent of the vote in a stunning upset over Sergio Massa, the center-left economy minister who has struggled to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis in two decades. Even before the official results had been announced Sunday night, Massa acknowledged defeat and congratulated Milei on his win.
Trump also congratulated Milei. “I am very proud of you,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “You will turn your Country around and Make Argentina Great Again!”
Voters in this nation of 46 million demanded a drastic change from a government that has sent the peso tumbling, inflation skyrocketing and more than 40 percent of the population into poverty. With Milei, Argentina takes a leap into the unknown — with a leader promising to shatter the entire system.
In his first speech as president-elect, Milei told Argentines that “the model of decadence has reached its end. There is no turning back.”
“Enough of the impoverishing power of the caste,” he said. “Today we once again embrace the model of liberty, to once again become a world power.” His supporters joined him in shouting: “Long live freedom, damn it!”
Milei will take office on Dec. 10, the 40th anniversary of Argentina’s return to democracy after the fall of its military dictatorship. (read more)
Freedom is a word often thrown around by those inside the political sphere as they seek to retain the illusion of choice by controlling the population. However, freedom in its truest sense is a battle cry of those who are ignored by the same control agents of government.
As the Washington Post, aka the U.S. intelligence apparatus, dutifully notes, nothing is yet known as to how this will ultimately unfold; but what is known is that something will change…. and that my dear friends is a necessary start.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 47....Making America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die!
November 20, 2023, 01:30 PM
stickman428
^^^^^ that’s pretty cool!
DoctorSolo, the conservatives and libertarians of Argentina won big. Don’t forget about the libertarians. I’ve long thought they are more in line/aligned with conservatives than the regressive radical left.
Change is hard to make and can often be quite painful and unpopular. I wish Javier the best as he takes on the monumental task of Unfucking his country.
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The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance
