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Originally posted by shankspony:
I hear a libertarian with very strong views on who Argentina should be working with has been elected. Anyone have an Idea of what hes like. The reports Im seeing are a mishmash of semi hit jobs.

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

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Originally posted by shankspony:
I hear a libertarian with very strong views on who Argentina should be working with has been elected. Anyone have an Idea of what hes like. The reports Im seeing are a mishmash of semi hit jobs.

He makes Trump look semi-sane.

Expect a coup by the military in January, maybe February...

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Yeah this is the trouble. What Ive seen reported that he has said is good. Pro democracy, unwilling to work with the "problem" nations. Wishes to move closer in partnership with the US.
But the media all show a clown in a superhero costume and a lot of foul a language.

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Still, perhaps nothing has raised more questions about the President-elect’s mental acuity and fitness to lead than the widely-reported (and ridiculed) matter of whom he turns to for advice: Conan, Murray, Milton, Robert, and Lucas. They were the first people he thanked when he finished first in the country’s presidential primaries in August—except they’re not really people.

“Who else?” he said. “My four-legged children,” referring to his five dogs whom he has called “the best strategists.”

It all started when Milei adopted an English mastiff named Conan, a reference to the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian, in 2004. González, the Argentinian journalist and unofficial Milei biographer, wrote in the Buenos Aires Times that the pet became, in Milei’s words, his “true and greatest love” and that Milei came to see Conan as “literally his son.” Milei, who is never-married and childless, has credited the 200-pound dog with being his closest friend and confidante and sticking by his side through difficult and lonely times.


When Conan died in 2017, Milei reportedly visited a medium to communicate with his late beloved pet. It was in that telepathic conversation, Milei has said, that Conan relayed God’s mission for him to become President of Argentina. According to Argentina’s La Nacion newspaper, Milei believes that he and Conan first met in a previous life more than 2,000 years ago as a gladiator and lion in the Roman Colosseum and that the pair did not fight because they were destined to join forces in the future (which he believes was a prophecy of his animal-influenced presidential campaign).

In 2018, Milei went on to pay about $50,000, according to Reuters and the New York Times, to U.S. company PerPETuate to clone Conan using his DNA, something Milei had reportedly been planning to do for some time. The procedure resulted in five puppies, whom Milei named after the original Conan and the economists Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, and Robert Lucas. Milei regularly refers to the current clone Conan as his son—and doesn’t distinguish him from the original Conan—and the other four dogs as his “grandchildren.”

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Thank goodness for that. A dog person is relatable. Id a hated to hear he had cats.

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A dog guy that Jeff and pymple doesn't like? He must be great!

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Originally posted by Bivoj:
Hopefully Argentina can get for once away from corrupted nepotistic system that held people down and messed with their currency for long time
But I will not keep my hopes up as their whole system is corrupt to the core

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by Bivoj:
Hopefully Argentina can get for once away from corrupted nepotistic system that held people down and messed with their currency for long time
But I will not keep my hopes up as their whole system is corrupt to the core

As exemplified by America and its political system!