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https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-argentina-bailout-sparks-fury-among-farmers-republicans-10809559PARDON ME for quoting right wing sources, but I couldnt resist.
Trump has made much about putting America First, so, independent of the merits or demerits of the financial assistance, to his base it appears inconsistent with the ideology hes set forth, said Ian Vasquez, vice president for International Studies at the Cato Institute.
Lots more swell FAFOing at Newsweek.
The emperor giveth $20B and the emperor giveth $10B to undo.
ITS NOT HIS MONEY. ITS FRICKIN OURS.
Elon screams about the national debt, but finds a way to kiss the emperors ring.
WHICH IS STUCK FIRMLY UP HIS ASS.

Eliot Rosewater
(34,247 posts)There is absolutely no other reason he would do it, I am as sure of it as I am who is to blame for this whole nightmare from 2016
peppertree
(22,856 posts)A regular Mark Sanford, that guy.
(it's funny, too, because in Spanish, Bessent sounds a lot like besante - "kisser" )
Eliot Rosewater
(34,247 posts)If a Democratic president did this Maga would go out with their guns and hunt that president down until they were dead, Trump does it and they actually like that he does it they love that he profits off of them.
Just like they will love it when he has us killed.
Some of us talked like this eight years ago but we got pummeled with, thats over the top or why are you so dramatic
Yeah
peppertree
(22,856 posts)In any case, Milei - and his pseudo-fascist coalition - are absolutely hopeless. And Trump and his advisers are starting to realize that.
The only reason they cheered him on (besides sharing a racist, fascist worldview), is because they saw him as adamantly anti-Chinese.
But now they realize that not only is he a massive liability to U.S. geopolitics (Milei's corrupt childishness and living standard-crushing policies are a walking ad for Chinese-friendly parties throughout the 3rd world) - but that the little bastard will gladly do business with China, at the expense of U.S. farmers, whenever it suits him.
So that U.S. taxpayer-funded bailout is starting to look like a real blunder to even the most acrid cold-warnik.
CivicGrief
(234 posts)a glass of water, and send them back to bed with smiles on their faces. Sweet dreams children, daddy is in charge.
Coldwater
(274 posts)JI7
(92,719 posts)and gave refuge to Nazis after they lost the war.
usonian
(21,054 posts)Saudi? Qatar? No way to sell that vodka!
Argentina? A nice home for nazis escaping prosecution.
More pieces of the puzzle show up as this unfolds.
Look at what our tax money can buy for him.
He Gone
peppertree
(22,856 posts)So many Nazis were ferreted into the Carlsbad-Escondido, CA, area, in fact, that as recently as the 2000s, some antique stores there looked like Third Reich museums.
I knew a few of their descendants - all rabid Republicans, not surprisingly.
usonian
(21,054 posts)Cant give you references off the top of my head (I have lots of chores to do here)
Well, the nazis have come out of hiding lately. But I think that when the Epstein business is further disclosed, the individuals involved will need to go far, far away.
Farther than a motorhome can take them? (ahem), though I imagine one could drive from Washington to Argentina.
Some billionaires are building bunkers (Zuck, notably) but more likely for the zombie apocalypse than sexual abuse crimes. (Though you never know).
peppertree
(22,856 posts)It's most often associated with Argentina because there's where it appeared to have "succeeded."
But elites in the other countries in the region made similar efforts as well - by way of everything from wars, to domestic raids and genocides, abstaining from pandemic prevention (when it appeared to most often affect Black and Indigenous people), etc.
The real reason Argentines are mostly white (around 2/3 I'd say) is because a country of 2 million people in 1875, was flooded with 6 million mostly European immigrants by 1950.
Imagine - if you will - that one billion people from China emigrated en masse to the U.S. over the next 75 years....
Suffice it to say, the U.S. population would look very, very different by 2100 - besides having a very different culture and even accent.
That's why to this day most Argentines (except northerners), have that Italian accent - even if they're not of Italian descent.
But yes: Argentina certainly has its share of right-wing racists - nearly all of whom were Macri voters in 2015 and '19, and Milei voters in '23.
And that's why Trump has such affinity for the smelly little lunatic.....although rumor has it in Buenos Aires, that Scott Bessent has his own motives here:
Argentine investments (though a cutout, of course), and, reportedly, a mistress.
A regular Mark Sanford, that guy.
notinkansas
(1,277 posts)Are they AWOL?
tanyev
(47,939 posts)And, you were apparently ready to go to the mat for him on Jan.6, so how about you STFU?
😠
peppertree
(22,856 posts)In fact - he probably wouldn't need even that much.