cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51070777

“Yet, they never have the funds for healthcare coverage for all,” said Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.

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    I kinda missed part 1 of the story; what’s the deal for Trump here?
    He wouldn’t be doing this if there wasn’t something in it for him.


    Oh and just in case somebody isn’t 100% clear what Milei is about:

    While Milei has drastically slashed inflation, the reduction has come via the devaluation of the peso and massive cuts in government spending, including the evisceration of social programs resulting in more expensive housing, healthcare, and education.

    And Trump doing mafia style threats again:

    “If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina,” Trump told reporters. “I think he’s going to win, and if he wins, we’re staying with him, and if he doesn’t win, we’re gone.”

    Lawmaker Margarita Stolbizer:

    “Trump tells us Argentines that if we don’t vote for Milei, we’ll be punished,” she added. "The interference is absolute, the libertarian surrender is total.

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      Argentinian government debt is mostly owned by big American investment firms like Black Rock. If their economy crashes, American Oligarchs lose $$$$ so they convinced Trump this is in his best interests.

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      TBH I don’t try to understand Trump, he’s a dumbass and everything he touches turns to shit, but hypothetically IF he weren’t a concaveman, a moron of the fourth and highest order of dumbfuckery, and instead some other president then the play would be increasing US authority in South America either preemptively or as a direct response to eastern influences like Russia and China. You know. The same shit that’s been going on for almost a hundred years, now. It’s called a cold war.

      But again, I don’t think Trump’s capable of rational thought.

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        the play would be increasing US authority in South America either preemptively or as a direct response to eastern influences like Russia and China.

        Maybe, if there was a smart big thought in that brain. This will be simpler, as they will just build a building or two, a tower and hotel or something with his name on it. In exchange for $40 bil of other people’s money. He doesn’t care about strategy or geopolitics, this guy is 100% about the corruption and the personal benefit, the quid pro quo, he’s the mob president.

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      I think that article is not well researched. Devaluing the currency causes inflation (in Argentina’s case), not the opposite. In fact, Milei did not sufficiently devalue the peso, because devaluing further would have caused more inflation. It’s exactly because he did not sufficiently devalue that the peso is now in crisis.

      I don’t know about the other ones, but under Milei housing listings have become cheaper, when adjusted for inflation.

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      Im all about Milei. Im all about reducing the size of bloated governments and frivolous spending. Governments love to pay useless people to do useless and many times redundant work. I understanding these are people with jobs and paychecks, and people should be able to have a good job and pay check, but not pointlessly and at the expense of the tax payers.

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        What do you do? Let me judge how useless you are and how useless your job is.