Son of a bitch, it's hard not to get whipped into a lather by this. It must be madness in Argentina right now. It's going to be nutty to watch it unfold.
Don't believe shit politicians say. Judge based on actions, not words.
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He is talking about real skin in the game for politicians. That would be something, if that really happens.
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Nice words but can he execute? It reminds me of Trump. He was correct in diagnosing a lot of the problems, including the corruption, but the corruption went deeper than ever as TPTB threw off ever more pretense at fairness in order to get him out
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Campaigning and governing are two different pairs of shoes.
In the UK for instance, there is an unelected class of bureaucrats (government employees) that has silently been thwarting and frustrating the implementation of the conservatives agenda (immigration, brexit, taxes...) despite the clear mandate the party received from the people more than a decade ago and that was again emphatically reaffirmed during the last général elections.
In a country like Argentina, where ~2/3 of the active population is under government payroll, it's hard to believe how Milei will achieve his goals. But again, Argentina is a different country, with a different culture and a different set of laws, so the comparison in probably not completely appropriate...
Anyway, good luck to him!
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there is an unelected class of bureaucrats (government employees) that has silently been thwarting and frustrating the implementation of the conservatives agenda
Lol, you'd expect that people who think they are "conservative" would value bureaucrats that don't want to change the status quo too quickly.
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All a sham.. He is going to place Toto as finance minister.
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Any chance of a link to a transcript or summary?
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My (best effort) captions from the video:
We aren't above the ones we represent. In financial terms: "The derivative is never worth more than the underlying asset". The derivative exists, because the underlying asset exists. We exist as representatives of the people, because the people exist. It is maddness, it is delusional, to think that a representative of the people is above the people themselves. It is a delusion in which the political caste lives. In our government, the politicians will have the same priveleges that the common citizan has. They will have to internalize their externalities. They will have to internalize their externalities. If they screw up, not only will honest Argentines suffer the consequences, the politicians are going to suffer even more. They will have to live like the honest Argenties live. Their priveleges are over, the party is over. This is something only an outsider can achieve. Only a guy who comes from outside can do it. And not just any kind of outsider, because history is full of outsiders who get into pre-existing structures. We are outsiders outsiders, because we are outsiders without a pre-existing structure. We built it for this. What for? To kick their ass out. The party is over. Priveleges for politicians are over, it's over. A different Argentina is impossible with the same old people. Enough with this, the party is over. That's why they want to smear me. That's why they send my way the 200 loser economists. That's why they send my way the pseudo-intellectuals. That's why they send my way the slum priets. That's why they attack me through the media. That's why the prebendary businessmen attck me. Because the party is over. Why does the attack intensify? Because they believed that this wasn't going to happen. They realize now that the population is shouting freedom, they shout freedom. They discovered that they do not want to be lambs They discovered that they feel better being lions. Because, as I said in my first speech: "I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions" and they are waking up. They are waking up. They will devour the thieving politicians. They will devour the prebendary businessmen. They will devour the unionists that betray their people. They will devour those in the media who were functional to all of these thieves. To keep the party going. They will do away with the econo-frauds, the poll-ologues and all that garbage. They advocate for the religion of the State, because they steal from it. Argentina is waking up. Is there light? Yes. There is light, because people are waking up. They discovered that slavery is not a good deal and there is a better life which is to live as free men. This is why you are seeing what you are seeing. This works just like an exponential function: at some point there was a turning point and now they cannot stop it. They cannot stop it. When the exponential function begins to grow, you cannot stop it.
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Thanks for that.
Not the prose of Brutus - but the poetry of Mark Antony.
Shakespeare would be all ears and have a field day with what comes next: history play, comedy or tragedy.
We've all got a ringside seat to see what comes next.
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You're welcome.
You've probably also seen @elvismercury's update on this:
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I have now, thanks 🧡
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