What does new Argentinan president Javier Milei look like?

he looks like Chateaubriand!

remake of peckinpah's straw dogs starring the wurzels (as they were in 1971)

^ this. Failing that though, option 2 it is

he looks like Chateaubriand!

― budo jeru, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:15 (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The writer or the steak dish?

He looks like Tim from The Office in the inevitable 'where are they now?' show filmed in 2035.

I think he looks a little like Lee Brilleaux from Dr. Feelgood, if Brilleaux had made it another 10 years.

Unshaved Garfield

Frodo Baggins getting ready to file a complaint at Kroger's

The important thing is that Argentina is open for business

but not with Brazil or China

Write-in vote, courtesy of the Garbage Day email newsletter: "Milei kind of looks like if Wolverine was a used car salesman"

the animal hybrid human in Swamp Thing

nice pic:

https://www.diariodecuyo.com.ar/__export/1630154960571/sites/diariodecuyo/img/2021/08/28/60eb61a1ac78f.jpg

Joaquin Phoenix if he played Anton Chigurh

Post-rehab Ronald McDonald

picture generated by an ai that has only ever seen these 12 photographs

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https://i.imgur.com/MNJ1mcG.png

telling my grandchildren this was glinner when he was still funny

https://i.imgur.com/17j7MUI.png

Late '70s Alain Delon as Anton Chigurh

we're all sleeping on this:

https://www.comedygigs.co.uk/img-magazine/new-19-1.jpg

Is that the poster for Trolls

He's kinda got an Evil Knievel thing going on:

https://people.com/thmb/XAXtDMVIAalexLoDrmITLfclJx8=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(119x0:121x2):format(webp)/evel_knievel240-d661a07ac1ce479f996d6badae378d5c.jpg

Or maybe a hint of George Jones? It's the hair helmet and burns.

The writer or the steak dish?

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, November 20, 2023 11:29 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://delibere.fr/wp-content/uploads/Chateaubriand1840.jpg

say what one more goddam time

I really didn't know anything about this guy and now that I've read a lot of stuff about him I feel like I somehow know even less.

https://latinoamerica21.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/352-G-1-1024x621.webp

(To be clear, that is an actual photo of Milei.)

I have to believe that Argentinians' election of this guy is a measure of their desperation.

https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/-mm-/e67536830489338d9fe9a47fb014b1b00bc02c33/c=112-0-775-884/local/-/media/2018/06/07/USATODAY/USATODAY/636639894076620958-Syndrome-.JPG

I was speaking to the Argentinian guy I work with today and he was saying this guy was potentially worse than either Trump and Bolsanoro because unlike them, and despite appearances to the contrary, he is not an actual moron.

He's both an economist and a cosplayer. An anarcho-syndicalist and a right-wing authoritarian. He seems like someone who cherrypicked their ideology out of whatever hat did that to his hair.

Whether these types of populists are morons or not, they're kind of like the game managing quarterback archetype.

They're just lighting the match and throwing it on the already existing fire and trusting that their dutiful voters will do the legwork they're unable to do, so they can mildly condemn it in public but privately rejoice.

Before DeSantis started his anti-drag measures, conservatives in Florida outright didn't give a shit about drag. Lots of them went to drag shows! The "ok groomer" shouts only appeared after he told them to. Now the LGBT Center in town is regularly spray painted and defaced.

Which isn't to say a politician who is more savvy isn't more dangerous, but I don't think they need to be to wreak havoc. Idiots don't even pay attention to risk assessment and do things that hurt them but severely hurt civilians that a savvier person might have sidestepped (aka Jan 6th)

This guy regardless severely sucks ass and it's a bummer that Argentinians have to deal with him now

xp sorry but he's definitely not an anarcho-syndicalist

I remember the last time I worked with an Argentinian, about 20 years ago, was when inflation was something like 200% and the banks had just collapsed. It's rarely dull in Argentina.

The important thing is that Argentina is open for business

― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 20 November 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Organ export business

In South Florida I was getting tired of picking on Argentines for their infamous high-handedness (they make Cubans look like chimney sweeps).

My Peruvian friends regard them as fairly dull-witted and mildly annoying (but they love Buenos Aires).

xp sorry but he's definitely not an anarcho-syndicalist

― budo jeru, Wednesday, November 22, 2023 4:35 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh lol, I misread 'anarcho-capitalist' from his laundry list of 'I am a human iPod shuffle' traits and didn't even bat an eye.

The men are gorgeous -- when they don't look like this fool.

Can we please do a thread about this pic of Daniel Craig

Has a man ever looked more ran through than Daniel Craig wearing these glasses pic.twitter.com/WSXRF30F1I

— James Marsh 🌹 (@JamesWillMarsh) November 21, 2023

We can do ten variations of "European banker"

Not sure what "ran through" means in this context but it's funny nevertheless.

European sonned

My wife and I were looking into Argentina for a little while before we moved to Montana. I have some friends making jazz and avant-garde music in BA. Think we made the right choice.

Urban Dictionary not much help in this instance.

Argentina obv has a very sordid past with actual fascism as well

Fortunately it seems like this guy's party is pretty fringe, he'll have a tough time building an effective coalition to do anything

The new guy and his party are trying to argue that the numbers of disappeared have been exaggerated.

I know little about Argentina's system other than what I read in the papers, but I hope they have a better time of it than we did with a fringe candidate in January 2017.

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The new Argentine president looks like Wolverine from X-Men if his mutation was being a pedophile

looks like a fucking asshole

Hell yeah. pic.twitter.com/4T0Rr9aBad

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 24, 2023

he was made by ai

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BREAKING 🇦🇷 President Javier Milei announces a total crackdown on Argentine civil society, calling on armed forces to break strikes, arrest protestors, “protect” children from families that bring them to demos, and form a new national registry of all agitating organisations. pic.twitter.com/fCoARokulb

— David Adler (@davidrkadler) December 15, 2023

Ugh.

Kind of heard about this yesterday but…

Seeing it and black and white

Really fucking bad

There is going to be a lot of opposition, and it could get ugly very quick.

For my english speaking buds in here, to let y'all know what's happening in my country:

At 9 PM today Javier Milei came in via national broadcast to announce the nullifying, by a DNU ("Necessity & Urgency Decree" - so a presidential edict), of around 300 laws, featuring... https://t.co/p7fOQEVBoR

— 🍃🌿𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆🌿🍃 (@FedericoS15190) December 21, 2023

fuck

couldn't see this one coming