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Trump is not alone
Don Surber Substack ^ | 26 Sep2024 | Don Surber

Posted on 09/26/2024 6:15:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan

In June, the two most important heads of state in the Western Hemisphere met in San Salvador. Merco Press reported at the time, “On his way back from California, Argentine President Javier Milei stopped in El Salvador for Nayib Bukele's new inauguration ceremony, which was also attended by other heads of state and government, such as King Felipe VI of Spain with whom he exchanged a brief moment that caught the eye given the recent diplomatic crisis with the Socialist administration of Pedro Sánchez.”

The two men have emerged as reformers of sloppy governments in their country. They threw down the gauntlet this week and challenged the new world order of governments being in cahoots with corporations. They take on actual fascism nearly 80 years after Italians executed Mussolini and his mistress.

Oh, I could do the hokey thing and credit Donald Trump for inspiring them, but that is trite and worse, wrong. The situations these men faced in their home countries were so dire that they jumped into the fray to save their nations. They seem to be successful.

El Salvador was the murder capital of the world. Bukele took over and sent hundreds of thousands of gang bangers to prison. San Salvador is now the safest city in the Western Hemisphere.

Milei has reintroduced capitalism to the Argentinian economy and has begun weeding the government agencies with a chainsaw.

This week, they were among the world leaders who spoke at the annual opening of the United Nations, which had devolved into a wannabe world government.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 202406; argentina; bukele; california; communism; crime; elsalvador; javiermilei; kingfelipevi; milei; nayibbukele; pedrosanchez; reform; socialism; spain; trump; unitednations

1 posted on 09/26/2024 6:15:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
“On his way back from California, Argentine President Javier Milei stopped in El Salvador for Nayib Bukele's new inauguration ceremony, which was also attended by other heads of state and government, such as King Felipe VI of Spain with whom he exchanged a brief moment that caught the eye given the recent diplomatic crisis with the Socialist administration of Pedro Sánchez.”

Why write three sentences when one will confuse the reader enough?

2 posted on 09/26/2024 6:20:01 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Rummyfan

“The two men have emerged as reformers of sloppy governments in their country.”

The two most important leaders in that part of the world since the guy that had commies taken for helicopter rides (I’ve been told that he was a “Leftist,” lol).


3 posted on 09/26/2024 6:25:41 AM PDT by cdcdawg (The Left can't meme.)
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To: cdcdawg

Oh, I forgot: are there two men but just the one country in that sentence? Editors, do your jobs!


4 posted on 09/26/2024 6:28:12 AM PDT by cdcdawg (The Left can't meme.)
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To: Rummyfan

Great post. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 09/26/2024 6:39:12 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Rummyfan

Great words from Don Surber. Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 09/26/2024 6:46:53 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: cdcdawg

And the man behind the helicopter 🚁 rides was Augusto Pinochet, in case you didn’t know his name.


7 posted on 09/26/2024 6:55:00 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: HIDEK6

Why look at what could be when we can be unburdened by what has been?


8 posted on 09/26/2024 7:50:03 AM PDT by BipolarBob (You may call me blind, deaf and dumb but I'm sill a Pinball Wizard.)
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To: BipolarBob

We can have the opportunity for our dreams, ambitions and aspirations.


9 posted on 09/26/2024 8:41:22 AM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: Rummyfan

Armando Bukele Kattán (16 December 1944 – 30 November 2015) was a Salvadoran businessman of Palestinian origin and Muslim religious leader and father of current Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Bukele_Katt%C3%A1n


10 posted on 09/26/2024 8:53:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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And he has Christian close family members as well. He keeps his core beliefs close to his vest, but he says all the right things publicly in his heavily Catholic/protestant country. There’s no reason to think he is crypto-Islamist and he is at the very least respectful of the Judeo-Christian worldview (Israel is very popular in El Salvador), unlike Western leaders.


11 posted on 09/26/2024 9:15:24 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: No name given
Augusto Pinochet was a great man. First world leader ANYWHERE to show that Communism didn't have to be forever.

Almost as great was his plan as implemented showing that social security systems could be privatized with astounding success. He didn't write the plan, but he knew who to call on to do it.

Between that one-two punch, Chile went from being just another Latin American banana republic to first world status in a single generation.

12 posted on 09/26/2024 9:57:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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13 posted on 09/26/2024 11:31:10 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: BipolarBob

“I am unburdened by what has been,” every time I take a shit.

I do not need a lesson on taking a crap from Kamala Harris.

Neither do the vast majority of US citizens.


14 posted on 09/26/2024 12:41:52 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Rummyfan

Milei’s speech to the UN was astounding.

Many suspect him of being a opportunist just saying what he thinks will get him elected, but even if true what he said was breathtaking for that gang of Orks: he trashed their collective collectivism and told them it was a failed ideology of the past, and made a full throated defense of life, liberty and property with an emphasis on economic liberty.

Imagine that the President of Argentina is three standard deviations smarter then the President of the United States. But it’s true.


15 posted on 09/29/2024 10:34:43 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Rummyfan

True heroes *bump*


16 posted on 09/29/2024 10:41:06 AM PDT by Yardstick
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