Nov 20, 2023
Argentina Elects Trumpian Right-Winger Javier Milei As President
Javier Milei is known as a radical newcomer and wants to abolish abortion and reduce welfare payments.
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To Argentina now, where supporters
of the right wing outsider Javier Melaye
have been celebrating his victory
in the presidential election.
Mr. Millan, known as El Loco
or the Mad Man, pulled off a major upset.
Provisional results show
the self-styled anarcho capitalist
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won with 55.7% of the vote.
The people of Argentina have elected
far right outsider Javier Melaye
as their new president, delighting
the far right here in the United States.
Now, before we get to their gloating,
here are some details about Melaye
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and why voters chose to go
with this anti-establishment candidate.
Now he won against Renewal Front Party
candidate Sergio Massa 55.7% to 44%.
Melaye has promised drastic changes,
which include ditching the local currency,
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the peso, for the dollar
and blowing up the central bank.
He has also proposed cutting welfare
payments and slashing bureaucracy
by closing the ministries of culture,
women, health and education, among others.
On social issues, he is as far right
as you would expect, very similar to what
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we see here among right wing politicians
in the United States.
He wants to loosen gun laws.
He wants to abolish abortion,
which was actually legalized
in Argentina fairly recently in 2020.
And he also wants to allow
the free market sale of organs
in the country, human organs.
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That is.
Now his victory comes amid deep economic,
a deep economic crisis which has
seen annual inflation rise to 143%
and 40% of Argentines living in poverty.
Now I give all that information to kind
of explain where the hearts and minds
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of the voters in Argentina happen to be.
I think that that is something that we
should listen to, we should consider.
So I don't want to put words
in their mouths.
The BBC actually spoke
to voters in Argentina,
and here's what they had to say.
Acuerdo con todas sus politicas sociales.
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Pero segun la mayoria de las economicas,
no esta dando su plan.
No. Esta mucho. Mucho mucho inflation.
Nada es el gobierno de la Victoria de
la Argentina después de la democracia.
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- Por eso un cambio.
- Porque el modelo de pies de
este es un pais a Como te dejo libertario
sin un hombre.
Esto es mucho.
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Diferentes entre un modelo para
mi fracasado en América Latina
y un modelo diferente el todo pero.
- La oportunidad futuro estar en un cambio.
- El cambio por verse pero no lo.
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So anyway.
So clearly they note all sorts of flaws
within the political system in Argentina
that they want to fight back against.
And so they're placing their bets
on this anti-establishment candidate
who is now the president elect.
They mentioned corruption.
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They mentioned an unstable economic system
that has led to poverty.
And as you can tell from the multiple
answers that they gave journalists there,
there is deep anti-establishment sentiment
because they feel
that the traditional political parties
have failed to provide the representation
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that they want in the country.
Yeah.
I don't know when it's going
to get through their heads.
The answer is never for people that are
in Washington, in this country, it's the
whole world is sending the same message.
And it's so obvious.
Change these neoliberals,
which, by the way, the words are confusing
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because neoliberal actually means
economically conservative.
Okay.
But unfortunately,
the Democratic Party has adopted it
from the Republican Party here in America.
So it's filled with neo liberals
like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
Those folks think, oh no,
the establishment is the way to go.
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Status quo, corporate rule bottom down.
We tell you what to do.
You shut up and take it.
If there's ever an economic crisis,
we blame you for it.
We punish you for it.
But we give giant bailouts to the rich,
to the corporations, to the banks.
That's neoliberal policies.
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Well, the whole world
is vomiting those policies.
They hate it.
Wherever anyone raised their hands
and goes, I'm different.
They go, yes, that one.
Even Macron in France.
You know why he won?
Because he was outside the two parties
and people thought he was going to be
for change the first time that he won.
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And then and every time everyone's shocked
and now they're shocked in Argentina.
Can you believe the guy
who's for a lot of change won?
Of course I can believe
that they have inflation at 140%.
What kind of maniac runs on status quo
and the kind of maniacs that run
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the Democratic Party here in America?
And look, I can't help but notice
the parallels to Donald Trump because as
we showed you, the video of the voters
explaining why they support Melaye, you
know, one of the women specifically said,
look, I don't like his social policies.
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I don't favor them, but I do favor what he
wants to do economically right now.
I think much like Trump, he's probably
going to there's going to be a lot of talk
with really no execution, improving the
economic conditions for ordinary people.
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I mean, look, that's just my prediction.
Let's just wait and see, I guess.
Let me be fair.
However, analysts say that Melaye's
aggressive style and his promise
to do away with the political caste,
which he blames for the country's ills
appealed to voters who are fed up
with Argentina's established parties.
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He said, quote, this model
of decadence has come to an end.
There is no turning back, he told
his supporters in his victory speech,
promising a new era for Argentina.
From being the richest
country in the world.
Today we are ranked 130th,
half of Argentines are poor
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and the other 10% are destitute.
Stop this impoverishing
model of the caste.
Today, we embrace the libertarian model
so as to return to being a global power.
And remember, he wants to cut down
the welfare state in Argentina, which I
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would venture to say is unlikely to bode
well for the very voters who are concerned
about their own economic stability.
But we'll see how it plays out,
and there are fair questions
about how much he can actually do,
given the political limitations.
In Argentina, for instance,
his party only holds a small number
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of seats in Argentina's Congress
that he will need to therefore have.
Like he'll have to negotiate with them
and engage in concessions
in order to get any policies accomplished.
But despite his anti-establishment
rhetoric, he has in the past been quick
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to basically bury the hatchet
if it if it benefits him.
Following his win in the first round,
he actually stopped attacking the third
placed candidate, Conservative Patricia
Bullrich, who in turn threw her support
behind him in the second round.
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And even more concerning
is his choice of running mate.
That is something that I think people
in Argentina should be aware of
if they're not already.
So his choice of Victoria Villarroel
as his vice presidential running mate
shocked human rights campaigners
in the country, in which 30,000 people
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were killed or forcibly disappeared
under military rule from 1976 to 1983.
Apparently, his running mate, who is now
going to be the VP, comes from a military
family, has defended officers convicted
of crimes against humanity and proposed
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dismantling a museum which commemorates
victims of Argentina's military junta.
Yeah, so look, guys,
there's the number one problem here
is the establishment all across the world.
Bottles up.
Populous on the left,
and they don't let him out.
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They're like, no, if you're coming from
the left, you have to be an establishment
elitist prick, and you have to talk about
how the status quo is great and we
should all live under corporate rule.
And if any populist pops out there head
like Bernie Sanders did and Jeremy
Corbyn did, they get attacked viciously.
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And if you're not at the stature
of a United States senator
like Bernie Sanders, oh my God,
you're going to get eviscerated, right?
And so what does that do?
It leaves populism only to the right wing.
But populism is going to win.
Of course it's going to win, you schmucks.
So when people are are suffering
under 140% inflation like in Argentina,
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the chances of them voting for the
same old, same old and status quo is 0%.
How could you be surprised by that?
How stupid are all these leaders?
And it's not about being stupid.
It's greed. It's selfishness.
If we just take a little bit more
from the people and call that leftist,
that's not leftist.
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That's the opposite of leftist.
So what is this clown
in Argentina going to do?
He's going to now privatize
almost all everything in Argentina.
And you know what happened last time
that happened in Russia, for example, the
biggest robbery you've ever seen in your
life, it created the Russian oligarchs.
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It created a system that eventually led
to the dictatorial regime under Putin,
at this point faking elections.
ET cetera. At least nothing but disaster.
So since the only option for populists
was right wing, they went right wing
and now it's going to lead to disaster.
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But any time you propose populism on
the left, it's the media that eviscerates.
- No corporate rule is awesome.
- Do not raise your heads, leftists.
So now they're going to.
And by the way, here's a proof of concept.
The one place where populists
on the left was allowed was Brazil.
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And then Lula won, and Lula won easily.
The leftist populist will win much more
easily than right wing populists, but we
have to get under the oppressive thumb
of mainstream media here in America.
So, as I promised, the right wing
in America has been gloating
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about this win in Argentina.
Donald Trump posted about this
on Truth Social multiple times,
in one instance saying, Congratulations
to Javier Melaye on a great race
for President of Argentina.
The whole world was watching.
I'm very proud of you.
You will turn your country around
and truly make Argentina great again.
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You have Tucker Carlson
posting a photo alongside Melaye,
and then The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro
said that this is awesome news.
And then finally, I want to go to the
video posted by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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She celebrated this win by Malay as well
with this video embedded in her tweet.
Let's watch.
Afuera! Ministerio de Cultura afuera.
Ministerio de Ambiente
de Desarrollo sostenible afuera.
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Ministerio de las mujeres y afuera.
Ministerio de Obras Publicas. Afuera.
Teresita's.
Ministerio de Ciencia,
tecnologia e innovacion afuera.
Ministerio de afuera.
Ministerio Ducusin afuera.
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Ministerio de carport.
Afuera. Ministerio de Salud afuera.
Ministerio de Desarrollo social afuera.
SE acabo El curro de la politica.
Viva la libertad, carajo!
- Okay.
- I got to say that fuera is a lot of fun.
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But really, you want to do away
with the tourism industry?
I'm pretty sure tourism
brings money into Argentina.
No. And then you want to do away with
the Technology and Innovation ministry?
No, no. Look what he ripped up science.
He ripped up labor.
Those are the workers.
He ripped up transport.
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So you don't want any
transportation in Argentina.
And these. Look, this guy, he.
This is what I hate
about right wing populism.
They're trying to trick you
into supporting corporate rule even more.
He's like, okay,
we are so tired of the status quo.
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So we should give everything to the top
bankers and to the top corporations,
and we should not serve
the average Argentinian at all.
How is that populism?
How is that for the people?
No, it's a trick.
It's a trick to make
the situation worse, not better.
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God damn it,
the establishment is ruining this world.
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