Recent content by Pierre Smith

Lol. Man, this whole Milei experiment is either going to fail completely, or turn Argentina into the wealthy country that it should be, with positive knock-on effects across the entire continent.

This is a pretty strange thing to raise, considering that there will be savage cuts across the board and a total re-imagination of government among much more austere lines. 'Oh no, this extremely marginal group numbering possibly in the 10s across the 10,000+ workers that will go, they could...

He does not speak English

No, as the guy explains, in fact, the economy is already massively dollarized. Just taking off capital controls and allowing people to pay taxes, etc. in dollars will be a hugely important change that will majorly improve the operation of the economy.

This has me a lot more convinced than I once was.

Idk, 44% of the vote is absolutely enormous, and kind of astonishing given the state of the economy. If it were Alberto running, it would have been a slaughter, sure, but Massa really did a respectable showing, and 44% makes it impossible to write off the peronists for now. I don't know, Milei...

I think the problem is far far worse than Massa, Cristina, and the President all being awol at the same moment, or even the debt rollover talks coming in, or even the congressional balance that has sort of already doomed Milei's presidency, or the complete dedication of the state employees to...

Strangely, Milei's win at ~56%-44% is about what I personally feel as to how much I want him to be the president. Know that he's better than the rest, highly trepidatious though. The various peronists still control the congress (barely) and the states are another matter, but I really really do...

Milei himself is obviously homosexual. Anyway, this surprises me greatly. It looks like he managed to consolidate the mainstream right after all, and will become the weakest president in 20 years, even though his win alone gives him a crazy strong mandate. I was so wrong about Boric v...

I don't know. I think Milei is most likely over, but certainly if it was head-to-head Massa v. Bullrich (or my man Larreta), Massa is nuked. Bullrich being sidelined, you had a stark question: do you want fanatical change, or not? Milei will lose with like ~43% or so, which is still a...

^ nah, it's Boric v. Kast again. There simply isn't a 50%+1 for Milei, he's now dropped below 30% in the counting.

I think this is right. Probably more like Boric v. Kast but, yeah, certainly it's clear that he will not become the president this time around. Kind of surprising that Massa will be the guy, and I definitely do not think he is the man for the job, but I also take heart that had Milei won, I...

Wish I would have gone with my gut and bet against Milei at those numbers.

I don't know, man. I really hope for the people of Argentina that Milei wins, even if I kind of know that his policies that make Argentines much wealthier will also make Argentina far more costly. You couldn't call me a right-wing guy, but I'm for sure Milei-pilled. But like, you know, you...

It's a funny measure of the impotence right now of the far left, here in America and especially over in Europe, that they're trying in their domains of control (the media, mainly) to assist the left in Argentina, without any understanding that the reason that Milei may or may not become the...