Libertarian Javier Milei is Argentina’s New President
Milei on woke leftists: “And since they can’t beat us with real arguments they just use the repressive apparatus of the state with loads of taxpayer money to destroy us and yet they’re still losing!”
Argentina’s inflation is above 140%. People are starving. Poverty is awful.
Argentines elected libertarian Javier Milei, 53, as the country’s next president. The congressman defeated Economy Minister Sergio Massa 56% to 44%.
Milei describes himself as anarcho-capitalist. Now, before you get wadded up like a pretzel, let me tell you that it’s not as bad as it sounds. It sounds like a libertarian.
An anarcho-capitalist hates the state and wants to privatize as much as possible. In other words…CAPITALISM. A real free market without state intrusion.
It’s what Argentina needs even if the suffering won’t stop overnight:
Among the most daunting challenges for Milei when he takes office on Dec. 10 will be trying to narrow a gaping budget deficit and sort out about $41 billion in unpaid import bills left by the unpopular and free-spending government led by Fernández and his vice president, Cristina Kirchner.
Inflation is running at 143%, more than 40% of the population is living in poverty, and factories have been forced to halt production because of a shortage of dollars to pay for imports. Argentina’s crisis is considered by economists to be the worst since a $100 billion debt default in 2001 that led to a revolving door for five presidents in two weeks and riots that resulted in more than 30 deaths.
The Argentine peso has lost some 90% of its value against the dollar on the black market, its collapse leaving many Argentines struggling to get by on earnings of about $200 to $300 a month.
Milei had this great line: “Like all change, it always entails a risk. That’s why we have courage, we take the risk, and we go for glory.”
Milei is currently converting to Judaism. One of his closest advisors is a rabbi from Latin America’s largest Jewish population.
Newly elected Argentinian President Javier Milei, last month:
I dont go to Church, I go to Synagogue.
I dont follow a priest, I follow a Rabbi.
I learn Torah.
I’m known internationally as a friend of Israel.
In addition to aligning with the US and Israel, I want to move our… pic.twitter.com/M04HYkBr0e— Charles Weber (@CWBOCA) November 20, 2023
It’s not a shock if you’ve seen the videos on social media. Milei wants to downsize the government literally.
The media makes it sound like we will end up hating him.
No, this is what we want.
NEW: Argentina's new president Javier Milei is against abortion, pro-gun, vowed to cut ties with China, insulted Pope Francis and says humans are not behind climate change
READ: https://t.co/iU8wMvdW2D pic.twitter.com/iyl8e1wh3A
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) November 20, 2023
In this video, Milei tears down the government departments he wants to disband.
I love how he calls the Ministry of Education the Ministry of Indoctrination. If I had the power as president to dissolve departments, I would immediately target education.
I present: The President of Argentina. pic.twitter.com/C3Jrp5wwg8
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 20, 2023
Milei hates woke leftists:
MILEI: You can’t give sh*t leftards an inch.
REPORTER: Can you define sh*t leftist?
MILEI: All collectivists, all kinds of collectivists.
REPORTER: But why do you call them sh*t?
MILEI: BECAUSE THEY ARE SH*T!
REPORTER: If you think differently from them…
MILEI: THEY WILL KILL YOU! This is the point. You can’t give sh*t leftists an inch. If you give them an inch they will use it to destroy you. You can’t negotiate with leftards. You don’t negotiate with trash because they will end you!
If they, the left, have a guy that beats his wife off, if it’s one of them, he puts on the green scarf (pro-abortion) and yells about neoliberalism all the time and they hide it.
If suddenly there’s a journalist who molests another journalist, they hide it. When it’s one of them, they hide it. They hide all those aberrations.
Now, if you are on the other side, they will RUIN YOU. They’ll kill you. They will throw you everything. they don’t care if they ruin your whole life. Why? Only because you don’t think like them. And do you know what’s the good part in all of this?
Because since to err is human, since everyone can be mistaken, they force us to be better.
And since we are getting better than them, since we are crushing them in the cultural battle, we’re not only superior economically, we are MORALLY superior. We are aesthetically superior. We are better than them at EVERYTHING and that TRIGGERS them.
And since they can’t beat us with real arguments they just use the repressive apparatus of the state with loads of taxpayer money to destroy us and yet they’re still losing! They had to remove the blacklist.
You understand? They’re LOSING! They’re desperate.
Sh*t leftists are losing the cultural battle!
For the first time ever, they are cornered, those SH*T LEFTARDS!
Meet the new President of Argentina
He really hates WOKE leftistspic.twitter.com/Tkl6nLNJCf
— The Pleb 🇨🇦 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) November 20, 2023
This is gorgeous. I have this flag waving in my background and a sticker on my car.
Holy sh*t. Argentina just elected Javier Milei as their next president.
History has been made today. pic.twitter.com/YMBlzWPIl6
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 19, 2023
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“inflation is above 140%”
It’s the economy, stupid.
It would be nice if we were much more honest about inflation here. Using the method used during the Carter years inflation is currently as bad or worse than the Carter years. But nowadays the government cooks the books to hide inflation.
They are hiding a massive new wealth robing tax in the form of inflation.
And publishing an entirely artificial, unicornish “Consumer Price Index,” which conveniently includes no food or energy, two of the top five things consumers need most to exist.
Not “as much”, but everything, even police and fire. However, I am not all that concerned (besides Argentina not being my country). He isn’t a dictator, and there is plenty to do before he could get to privatizing the essentials.
He is dissolving the central bank, tieing the currency to the dollar, increasing trade with the USA and decreasing it with China and other communist countries. He is also radically downsizing government and revamping schools along with the welfare state. He is also a fan of Austrian Economics (Mises) and Trump.
We need a President like this.
“libtards” had me cracking up
He can do all that without Congress?
Who needs Congress? Here, as long as enough damned fools think Executive Orders are law, a president can do anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frente_de_Todos
Check out the commie coalition list at wiki.
The hard left Frente de Todos is a coalition that seeks to create a union of all sectors of Peronism (including Kirchnerism), progressivism and social democracy […]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Argentine_legislative_election
2021 elections:
The main opposition alliance, Together for Change, was seen as the big winner of the election. On 14 November 2021, Frente de Todos lost its majority in Congress for the first time in almost 40 years in midterm legislative elections.
2019 elections:
Both elections were won by the Frente de Todos, a new coalition formed by a number of Peronist and Kirchnerist parties […} Frente de Todos coalition won 64 out of 130 seats thus currently accounting for 120 seats in the 2019–2021 period – 9 seats short of a majority.
I’d settle for one that called leftists “libtards” and told everyone what a disaster things were in. “Long Live Damn Liberty” is a nice touch.
“Damn” is a bit of a euphemism. “Carajo” derives from a late Latin word meaning “stick” or “rod.” You get the idea.
“libtards” had me cracking up”
I was impressed it translated to Spanish.
Is he the man to give the national debt a haircut?
if I had been drinking anything, my keyboard would now be wet.
So he’s not gonna start a war to deflect attention from bad Government policies?
Argentina needs a Ministry of Ministry to manage all of their Ministries.
With a Prime Prime Minister?
Love this guy. My bet is they throw him in jail, eventually.
I took a class at NYU in the ’90s by guest lecturer, Domingo Cavallo, a former Argentine Economy Minister. He was brought in to be Economy Minister under Menen. Cavallo’s reforms brought inflation from triple digits to zero; productivity and standards of living soared. It was an economic miracle, similar to what happened in Chile after Allende was removed in a coup.
Anyway, after the Menen government (thanks to Cavallo) restored sound fiscal and monetary policy leading to prosperity, Argentines do what they always do and elected another left wing Peronist government to destroy the economy.
After the left’s policies produced a poor economy and soaring inflation, voters decided it was time to return to sanity. They voted back in a center-right government. Cavallo was given another high level Minister position.
Except this time Cavallo made a boneheaded decision to temporarily freeze bank accounts to stabilize things. That, understandably, led to civil unrest. Riots.
The Peronists made up accusations against Cavallo and he was thrown in jail for a few months. He was exonerated on those charges but they made up new ones accusing him of embezzlement.
All that as background to say I have little doubt the left wing Peronists will make up something and this guy will be in jail sometime in the coming years.
That seems to happen frequently no matter where you are in the world if you challenge the liberal establishment.
The global left will spare no effort in removing him. When his policies start to bite, even though things are bad and have been bad, the left will be in the streets like ‘bad’ only began the day he took office. An epic war is descending on Argentina..
Dude is rocking the ’70s haircut, sorta like Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men.
Leftist media organs are pushing the “threat to democracy” line. Every single one of them are parroting that phrase. Some add “the far-right threat to democracy,” as a meat additive to the left-vegan political diet to make it all super-duper unpalatable.
“The media makes it sound like we will end up hating him.
No, this is what we want.”
Nevertheless, all the stories will continue to report that we hate him.
Some supposedly neutral “thought leaders” are already questioning Milei’s integrity. Like he’s in the WEF bag, or something bad in ways perfectly indescribable; hinting at the amorphous somethings.
And people are in agreement with the perfectly indescribable thing – meaning – pseudo academic word salad verbiage. I literally have no idea what they’re even hinting at.
Argentina is the 21st century version of the Weimar Republic – doctrinaire 1918 Euro marxist styled Social Democratic party theology. Wheelbarrows of cash for a loaf of bread.
Milei was fairly voted in, is not a militarist, and was wholly open regarding his politics and agenda.
How many seats does he have in Congress?
Good question. I’m making time tonight to chase down the congressional profiles. Lots of translate spanish-english webpage work.
Groty upthread mentioned Domingo Cavallo. Cavallo was/is a center-right economic fixer. The left-Peronista’s ensnared him in legal pitfalls much the same as Trump is ensnared now. They jailed him.
The military have a history of overthrowing leaders they don’t approve of, though its questionable if the Peronista faction own the military or not.
I hope Milei doesn’t fall into the orbit of the IMF gangsters.
Take a look at Argentina and what the left Socialists did to it. This is our not so distant future.
This is my kind of guy! He says the same things I tell my wife at the dinner table!
There is no way they can allow a guy like this to take over because his ‘radical’ ideas may very well make things materially better for people. Something like that might spread like wildfire. I suspect he’ll meet an untimely death before the end of his first year in office, I’m very sorry to say.
They are busy writing the shooter’s manifesto as we speak.
What can he do without Congress?
Lots of Argentines on Maui.
Many own businesses and often hire young Argentines to come here to work. Without exception the dozens I have met have great work ethics, are intelligent and generally attractive and positive people.
When you talk to them of their homeland they praise the beauty, food, sports and culture. When asked why they left it is because of the corruption and economic hopelessness.
However, most seem to favor the same policies for America that crushed Argentina (left wing propaganda masquerading as news is quite powerful and effective). It appears that a majority of their countrymen have voted to use the intelligence and courage that I see in the expats to save their country.
Your first hand experience is far more valuable than a thousand twitter hot takes. Thanks.
The Global Deep State is already hard at work making sure he fails.
Milei is against everything that the long existing government has been doing and the many ministries, which we would call departments or agencies. He wants to remove most of government and the ministries, change the way they operate their economy, and make private business increase to cut inflation and taxation. There will be a fight between him and the existing government.
/moar popcorn