Javier Milei, Argentina Hard Rt Pres Stages Rock Concert, Pagan Mass, Bk Show: 'I'm the King, I Will Destroy You'

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- 'I’m the king and I will destroy you!’: Argentinian president stages frenetic stadium appearance,' The Guardian, May 23, 2024. Ed. - Entertainer- in- Chief Javier Milei stuns nation with free market book release party-cum-rock concert described as ‘pagan mass’ in famed Buenos Aires venue.
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Argentinians call him “the Madman”. This week he declared himself their monarch.

“I’m the king of a lost world! I’m the king and I will destroy you!” Javier Milei bellowed into the microphone on Wednesday night as Argentina’s showman president took to the stage for his first stadium gig since his election last year. The concert, at a famed 8,000-capacity Luna Park arena in Buenos Aires, drew hordes of adoring rightwing fans – the majority young men – who had come to see their rock-loving libertarian leader up close and wearing a knee-length leather jacket.

I did this because I wanted to sing,” proclaimed Milei, 53, who as a teenager was the frontman in a Rolling Stones cover band called Everest and is also said to be a fan of the opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. Loyalists lapped up Milei’s decision to perform on a stage previously graced by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Duran Duran, Liza Minnelli and where the football legend Diego Maradona threw a lavish wedding reception in 1989.

Sergio Gómez, an owner of a transport business who flew more than 700 miles to witness Milei’s “fiesta of freedom”, admitted the president’s radical economic policies had, without exception, “been directly detrimental to my personal activity”. “He has removed all the subsidies from public passenger transportation, prices have gone up and that has affected the people directly,” Gómez said. “But I am convinced we must finish the economic cleanup – we can’t keep living a lie,” echoing the frustrations of the more than 14 million voters who brought Milei to power.

Ana Eugenia Clemente, a Venezuelan actor, clutched Milei’s new book as she exalted the entertainer-in-chief. “I feel a deep hatred for the evil left that damaged my country and feel Milei is a person who has come to save not only Argentina, but the world.”

Argentina’s opposition was less impressed, calling the jam session an attempt to distract from domestic woes exacerbated by Milei's austerity drive and reforms that the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has described as “Thatcherism on steroids”. “With his show at Luna Park, Milei is covering up an enormous economic and social crisis, which his economic administration only aggravated,” said Itai Hagman, a lawmaker for the centre-left coalition Frente de Todos. “[There is] no prospect of short- or medium-term improvement; the idea of a quick recovery or a foreign investment boom is only in the mind of the president.”...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/javier-milei-buenos-aires-argentina
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'Javier Milei, the hard rocker in Argentina’s highest office, turns his book talk into wild show.' President Milei turned a lecture touting his new book praising free market economics into a frenetic rock performance...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/javier-milei-promotes-economic-book-rock-performance-rcna153756

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1. The South American Idi Amin

And he's destroying their (already weak) economy about as fast, too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/111698027

Cry for Argentina.

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3. The King thinks this spectacle will entertain and distract

from the damage his policies are causing. Does it get much more whacked. Cry for Argentina is right. Thanks for replying.

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2. Soon millions of Argentinians will find their way to the U.S. like the Venezuelans

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4. So much 'freedom' people want to leave. Very bizarre and sad.

Milei’s latest flamboyant episode Wednesday comes at a sensitive time for Argentina, in the midst of its worst economic crisis in two decades with more than half of the population living in poverty and annual inflation surging toward 300%.

Milei’s severe austerity measures have so far compounded the struggles of Argentina’s poor and middle classes.