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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Pretending to help in cases of need, but filling their pockets on over-managed organisations filled to the brim with marxists. Where were their tears for Syria and Yemen, and the ‘unfathomable death and destruction’ which has been on a much greater scale that that seen in Gaza.?
Its a open secret that a tiny fraction of money actually reaches the point of need, also its not funny anymore, so it looks a bushed flush to me. What happened to Lenny Henry? I sat and watched his TV debut live on New Faces in 1974. He was a breath of fresh air, very funny, and no-one cared about his skin until he made it an issue. He was just a funny young man and got a good career out of it. Now he’s preachy and everything is about his skin and he isn’t remotely funny.
So much easier to blither on about stuff going on halfway around the world than sort out our own house, isn’t it?
Just saying.
Where was “Comic Relief” in the lockdowns, hm? And during the almost forced jabbing of everyone with untested and dangerous crap, huh? And during the vilification and denunciation of anyone who spoke out against it all, y’ know? Cos all this happened on our own goddamn doorstep.
Burning money would do more good than donating it to comic relief, at least that act would generate some heat.
Cheaper than electricity too.
Yes that statement is just so full of hatred.
The biggest crisis about comic relief is that it hasn’t been funny in decades.
Not true, there was one good bit in 2021.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coSSvLB2YrE
I’m guessing he’s a Mizrahi Jew.
And your point is? Apart from showing how smart????? you are?
I don’t blame Israelis that aren’t backing a ceasefire if this is the sort of psychopathic nextdoor neighbours that make up the civilian population of Palestine. Would it not be like making HMP Wakefield an open prison then expecting families to live just the other side of the fence? And boy do they love to stick the knife in ( <1min );
”These are the type of people that Israel has been forced to release from its prisons in exchange for the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Mainstream media is trying to portray them as regular Palestinians , but nearly all of them are terrorists.”
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1728518034397319640
Ooh look at all of these under 18yrs and female Palestinian prisoners being released. I didn’t know such people existed….
”The list of terrorists to be released Saturday night includes 33 male underage terrorists, and six female terrorists. Among these is Asra’a Jabas, a terrorist from Jerusalem, who suffered burns to her face while attempting to carry out a terror attack.
Jabas was sentenced in 2016 to 11 years in prison after she caused a gas balloon to explode in a machine near the al Za’im checkpoint near the city of Maaleh Adumim in 2015.
Police officer Moshe Hen, who was at the scene, suffered burns to his face and chest, and Jabas herself suffered burns, among other things to her nose. She has asked multiple times to receive money for cosmetic surgery, but was rejected. At the same time, she has undergone multiple medical treatments at the expense of the Prisons Service.
A request was filed to revoke her Israeli residency before her release from prison. She will return to her home in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of Jerusalem following her release.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380911
Crikey, fantasy becomes reality. And here’s me thinking female terrorists were an urban myth, a bit like black racists and under 18s that try and kill people, and they didn’t really exist. Actually, I think this one has ”freedom fighter” written all over her, no? There’s some crazy-assed biatches living in Palestine, that’s for sure. Coming to a Western country ( with refugee status ) near you, soon;
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1728434313102848430/video/2
Never given a penny to Comic Relief and never likely to. It’s a politicised, pretendy-charity, run by the usual assortment of left-wing activists claiming to be funny.
Funny really, what has any of this to do with Comic Reflief? Why don’t they leave politics where it belongs and get on with the job?
Time Comic Relief was binned, like all money making so-called charities.
All good causes become businesses and then rackets.