Argentina's Trump bound for Presidency?

[OzTitan]

I'm impressed something like this can still cause a scandal somewhere - it wouldn't even make the news in the US if Trump did this.

[Starkiller]

Crypto has enabled a whole new generation of scammers and cons that the old school scammers could only dream of

[OILERMAN]

57 minutes ago, OzTitan said:

I'm impressed something like this can still cause a scandal somewhere - it wouldn't even make the news in the US if Trump did this.

 

Huh? 

Trump literally did this

[Jamalisms]

2 hours ago, OzTitan said:

I'm impressed something like this can still cause a scandal somewhere - it wouldn't even make the news in the US if Trump did this.

 

It already happenned and it made news but the grift hardly really registered for most people.

[OzTitan]

Fair enough, I was aware of Trump coin but didn't really connect it as the same thing for some reason, but it likely is.

 

Trump wannabes around the world need to remember the flood-the-zone tricks before scamming.

[OILERMAN]

5 minutes ago, Jamalisms said:

 

It already happenned and it made news but the grift hardly really registered for most people.

 

It cracks me up what Trump will do for a few mill. Assuming he's this super rich Billionaire the lack of self respect for just a few mill. 

[OILERMAN]

1 minute ago, OzTitan said:

Fair enough, I was aware of Trump coin but didn't really connect it as the same thing for some reason, but it likely is.

 

Trump wannabes around the world need to remember the flood-the-zone tricks before scamming.

 

Google more, Melaina had one too! 

[Jamalisms]

24 minutes ago, OzTitan said:

Fair enough, I was aware of Trump coin but didn't really connect it as the same thing for some reason, but it likely is.

 

Trump wannabes around the world need to remember the flood-the-zone tricks before scamming.

 

There is a difference in that Trump owned it and put his name on it and didn't try to slide it past in quite the same scummy manner. I do think that's meaningful ... even if it's just the difference between a turd and a turd wrapped in pretty paper.

[Starkiller]

27 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

 

It cracks me up what Trump will do for a few mill. Assuming he's this super rich Billionaire the lack of self respect for just a few mill. 

Well before becoming president, Trump was a fake billionaire with probably more in debts than in actual assets. A few million here and there was actually a huge deal for him.

 

Now he has wrung literally billions out of his army of suckers.

[Starkiller]

28 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

 

Google more, Melaina had one too! 

And the family has some sort of entirely separate World Liberty Financial crypto platform

[IrishTitansFan]

On 1/28/2025 at 5:57 PM, Justafan said:

That’s a cop out and naïveté to the situation. We’ve had this discussion before. I won’t have it again but I’ll continue to post the amazing success and unsurprising story in Argentina where a once rich country became poor with stupid socialist policies and is slowly climbing its way back out with free market economics. The only form of economics that has ever created wealth and had a long term positive human impact.

Argentina is down in basically every economic metric bar inflation, sorry I'll correct myself, poverty is way up

 

GDP, real purchasing power, industrial production, real wages, currency reserves etc all down. As I said, taking a chainsaw to everything to reduce inflation is so easy a retard could do it, the challenging part starts now

[Justafan]

4 hours ago, IrishTitansFan said:

Argentina is down in basically every economic metric bar inflation, sorry I'll correct myself, poverty is way up

 

GDP, real purchasing power, industrial production, real wages, currency reserves etc all down. As I said, taking a chainsaw to everything to reduce inflation is so easy a retard could do it, the challenging part starts now

That was always going to happen no matter what they did or did not do. The only difference now is that there is no artificial demand creating hyperinflation which creates an environment where eventually they will be able to turn things around instead of digging the hole deeper and deeper.

 

I completely agree though that the challenging part starts now. People have to make some very difficult decisions about priorities and investments, they have to govern intelligently, and the people of Argentina will bear the cost of a generation of poor governance which will have significant fallout. There is no easy path out when you spend so recklessly for so long while undercutting economic production. 

 

Argentina should stand as a bleak warning for the rest of the world. They were the fourth largest economy in the world at one point and have squandered it into poverty. It SHOULD be a rich country but instead they are paying for the short term thinking of those who came before them. 

[IrishTitansFan]

10 minutes ago, Justafan said:

That was always going to happen no matter what they did or did not do. The only difference now is that there is no artificial demand creating hyperinflation which creates an environment where eventually they will be able to turn things around instead of digging the hole deeper and deeper.

 

I completely agree though that the challenging part starts now. People have to make some very difficult decisions about priorities and investments, they have to govern intelligently, and the people of Argentina will bear the cost of a generation of poor governance which will have significant fallout. There is no easy path out when you spend so recklessly for so long while undercutting economic production. 

 

Argentina should stand as a bleak warning for the rest of the world. They were the fourth largest economy in the world at one point and have squandered it into poverty. It SHOULD be a rich country but instead they are paying for the short term thinking of those who came before them. 

The lesson that should be learned from Argentina is that protectionism led by a populist wannabe dictator leads to disastrous results. I wonder where that lesson can be learned

[Justafan]

41 minutes ago, IrishTitansFan said:

The lesson that should be learned from Argentina is that protectionism led by a populist wannabe dictator leads to disastrous results. I wonder where that lesson can be learned

I think that's insisting on a lesson that isn't grounded in reality. Millei's policies have without question achieved what they were meant to, and as well as they possibly could have given the situation. Insisting that they didn't, because you don't like the person or the policies isn't grounded in reality. 

[IrishTitansFan]

Just now, Justafan said:

I think that's insisting on a lesson that isn't grounded in reality. Millei's policies have without question achieved what they were meant to, and as well as they possibly could have given the situation. Insisting that they didn't, because you don't like the person or the policies isn't grounded in reality. 

I was talking about Trump