Javier Milei, a pro-Trump libertarian with no prior government experience, has won Argentina’s presidential election, pledging a Right-wing overhaul and advocating for reduced government intervention and privatisation. The Mail has more.
Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa conceded defeat to Milei in Sunday’s fiercely polarised presidential runoff even before the country’s electoral authority released official results.
Massa congratulated his opponent, a right-wing economist who has promised a dramatic shake-up for many of the nation’s institutions and welcomed frequent comparisons of him to Trump.
Immediately after Massa’s concession speech, the Argentine electoral authority released partial results: With 86.6% of votes tallied, Milei had 55.95% and Massa 44.04%.
With a Milei victory, the country will swing to the Right amid discontent over soaring inflation and rising poverty, and empower a freshman lawmaker who describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist and got his start as a television talking head blasting what he called the “political caste”.
Milei brings a background perhaps more outlandish than his hero Trump’s prior to his rise to power.
The President-elect – who is also a prominent economist and radio chat-show host – has spoken about his preference for threesomes, why he believes poor people should be free to sell their body parts and how he enjoys communicating via telepathy with his dead dog for political advice.
Milei pulled off a shock victory in the primary round of voting ahead of the runoff election, in large part due to support from young voters who are so disenchanted with more ‘conventional’ politicians that they have turned to a man whose recent biography was titled El Loco (The Madman).
A political unknown until only a few years ago, Milei, 52, was elected to Argentina’s parliament in December 2021 as a member of La Libertad Avanza (‘Freedom Advances’).
He prefers to call himself an anarcho-capitalist, which means he’d like to rip up as much government intervention in people’s lives as he can and leave it all to the free market.
“If I had to choose between the state and the mafia, I would choose the mafia,” he once said. “Because the mafia has codes, the mafia adapts, the mafia doesn’t lie. And above all, the mafia competes.”
His ‘chainsaw plan’ to slash the bloated state includes getting rid of Argentina’s public health and education systems along with shuttering ten out of 18 Government departments.
Milei is also so anti-progressive he has repeatedly taken aim – rather bizarrely – at Pope Francis, his compatriot, calling him a “f***ing communist”, “communist turd” and the “representative of the evil one on Earth” in brutal social media posts, simply because of his perceived support for “social justice” and policies to help the poor.
“Jesus didn’t pay taxes,” Milei memorably tweeted.
His private persona appears to match the public image of an unpredictable eccentric.
At home he keeps four 200lb English Mastiffs. All named after famous right-wing economists – and each one cloned from a fifth, now-dead dog named Conan (after the Barbarian).
A recent biography by journalist Juan Luis González revealed Milei studies telepathy in his spare time and has a medium to “communicate” with Conan, who died in 2017, asking him for advice on political matters.
Milei hasn’t denied the claims. “What I do in my house is my business,” he told a Spanish newspaper.
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Good luck to all Argentinians. This could be the start of some sort of crazy dictatorship or it could be the blueprint for reducing the big state. He certainly has style and with those sideburns looks like a detective from a 1970s-era cop show but will he be ‘allowed’ to stay in post by the bankers? Let’s be real, that is how the world is run now: if they don’t like you and you don’t dance to their tune, you won’t last that long.
I for one wish him well
So do I, Dings. Release the sideburns!
The guy’s hilarious in his bluntness, LOL! I do like a person who tells it like it is; ”you can’t negotiate with shit leftards!” PMSL…….
I did see a pic of him ages back on the WEF stage though so I guess time will tell as to just how legit he is. We all know you need to sell yourself to get elected ( if an election even takes place at all ) and basically tell the people what they want to hear to secure the votes. Look at Italy’s Meloni, for example. A 2min clip;
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1726383046742376755
Or look at Republican candidate Vivek….He makes all the right noises but he has some damning quotes over ‘Covid’ farce!
Brilliant….I hope he’s right about the Leftards losing the culture war, but every time you think things have reached peak wa@k, it gets worse!
It turned out Meloni was told ‘accept immigration or there will be no money’ by the Banksters. Personally I think she should have told the Italians what the choices were and let them decide, but maybe she wouldn’t have lived long after doing so. Who knows
Dictatorship? Why?
He can hardly be much of a dictator if what he wants to do is shrink the state.
It is the state that dictates with its bureaucrats and its regulations all of them established under the cloak of “democratic” elections.
The bigger the state the bigger the dictatorship.
And the more money is hovers up, look how many councils are going bust, ready to increase tax, that is the wan@ers answer to everything!
Now watch him be painted as Hitler by MSM/deep state.
They can paint him however they like, if he sticks to his guns, the public will love him!
They will dabbotage him and leave him a million poison pills to choke on.
Of that you can be sure.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s been allowed to get this far just to then make him fail badly to show to the world that anti-establishment leaders can’t succeed and crush all hope.
What you can be sure of is that the establishment isn’t going to sit and watch quietly to see how he gets on.
The Mail, supposedly a Conservative leaning paper, has already started in that hit job above. I can’t begin to imagine what the left leaning rags say. Well, probably the same actually. They’re all establishment and this guy seemingly isn’t, so they’ll all be out to get him.
Incredible only 55% of the adult population voted fur him when inflation is 140%.
And don’t forget that Communist president of Brazil has mandated Covid jabs for kids, if they refuse, state benefits would be stopped. Milei is right about collectivism being evil.
“Painted as Hitler”, a La Modi
Popular in India, but apparently not with the BBC
He is converting to Judaism (so he recently stated).
Jewlensky in the Uketopia with Nazi brigades is NOT Hitler.
But a libertarian who believes in freedom and a small state, who may convert to Judaism is of course a Hitler.
I hadn’t heard about him converting to Judaism. What a great move! If genuine, this guy is going to cause many ripples.
Is taking aim at Pope Francis really “bizarre”?
The comments quoted above re the Pope are absolutely bang on. The Pope is very much part of the Davos Deviants mob. I would confidently assert that he has sold his soul to the devil. That is certainly the view of Archbishop Vigano.
I tend to agree and so do quite a few Catholics that post here and elsewhere
Dustbin Jellybaby is not much better
The similar (although less flamboyant) Bukele in El Salvador has turned his country around in just a few years, so it can be done. All the best to Melei and Argentina! MAGA!
“ at Pope Francis, his compatriot, calling him a “f***ing communist”……Well at least here in the UK we have Justin Welby!
Hmm … Jesus did pay taxes. Or at least advocated in favour of paying them.
[17] Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
[18] But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
[19] Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
[20] And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
[21] They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=4478498
What a hit piece! Sounds like Trump Derangement Syndrome starting all over again. Where do they keep that playbook? The real nutcases are those trying to foist Net30 down our throats.
it’s Ultra stupid to include the words “Trump” Into the titles. No? so why not include or compare Netanyahu? Sunak? Ayatollah Khamenei? It’s vicious.