Nov 20, 2023
Trump Reveals Shattering TRUTH Over Disastrous Presidential News
Donald Trump reveals the terrifying track Argentina's new president elect Javier Milei is on as Trump and other right-wingers including, Ben Shapiro, Marjorie Greene, Tucker Carlson and more celebrate the presidential election news. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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A number of right wing figures here in
the United States enthusiastically greeted
the Argentinian presidential
election results.
Donald Trump says, congratulations
to Javier Milei on a great race for
president of Argentina.
The whole world was watching.
I'm very proud of you.
You will turn your country around and
truly make Argentina great again.
[00:00:19]
And that means a lot, because he
definitely knew who that person was and
he could name three facts about Argentina.
>> Speaker 3: Yes, he could.
>> Speaker 2: And when he says, make it
great again, he thought about that for
even a second.
That's why that's a meaningful
statement from the former and
perhaps future president, United States.
[00:00:35]
It's not just an empty thing where he
heard the dude's a right winger and
doesn't believe in climate change, it's
substantive and equally substantive for
the rest of them.
So Ben Shapiro,
who doesn't give a damn if Argentina fell
into the ocean-
>> Nope.
>> Says, awesome news, and
if it goes poorly, like,
[00:00:53]
if this economic philosophy, the
destruction of sections of the government,
goes poorly for Argentina,
then he'll admit it, Ben Shapiro.
>> Yes.
>> He's intellectually honest and
he cares about the Argentinian people.
And then, look,
we could go on to Swami blah, blah, blah.
[00:01:11]
And I just wanted to get to Elon Musk
replying to end wokeness, saying,
prosperity is ahead for Argentina.
And to that, I just want to say,
to all you people who said a year or
two ago, Elon Musk is right wing.
[00:01:26]
You can't say what his politics are,
we don't know.
He's an independent,
maybe left wing, maybe right wing,
it's impossible to say what he viewed.
He's just super enthusiastic about a right
wing anarcho libertarian taking over
Argentina and
promising to restrict reproductive rights,
end the fight against climate change,
flood the streets with guns
[00:01:44]
while destroying the government's capacity
to help anyone other than the 1%.
But other than that,
we have no idea what his politics are.
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> Save these tweets, save them.
Go there, Elon.
My God, and you know what?
He's gonna go there and be like,
God, it's really expensive.
[00:01:59]
Why is it so expensive in this country?
I just wanted to go to get a cheap steak
because they dollarize their effing
economy.
But this is the thing, these are
capitalists who also have taken advantage
like vultures of countries like
Argentina who have tanked their
[00:02:17]
economy time after time after time and
then these vultures swoop in.
They buy the debt for
pennies on the dollar.
Hello, Paul Singer, who's buddy buddy
with our Supreme Court justices.
And then they privatize more and
more, it leads to no prosperity.
And then when everything goes into
the toilet, all those vultures,
[00:02:36]
they lift up and they fly away.
And again, the people of
Argentina are left to suffer.
And lastly, only thing I'm gonna say about
climate change, it's very interesting
in Argentina, because what happens is that
arid lands, flooded lands, means more and
more concentration of wealth
in terms of farmland.
[00:02:52]
Argentina is massively rural,
there's a lot of incredibly rich farmland.
And what happens?
People get displaced from that land and
they move where?
They move to cities and become what?
Part of the urban poor,
part of shanty towns, right?
And so part of real climate
change in Argentina and
[00:03:08]
stopping it is about economic justice
as well as it is across the world.
So, I just wanna put that out there.
>> Speaker 1: That is a great point.
And that's why I'm so
glad that the office react and the results
of this came on a day that you're on,
that you can bring not only your, but also
your personal experience living there.
I'm joking about how little
they know prior to this.
[00:03:25]
I want to be super clear,
if it's not already clear.
I know effectively
nothing about Argentina.
A little bit,
little sprinkling of historic and
economic facts, that's about it.
I at least was in graduate school for poli
sci, and I did study a number of other
countries as part of both non Western
politics and international relations.
[00:03:44]
But that was not, the region isn't
my expertise, the country isn't.
The difference is that Ben Shapiro will
pretend that he either knows anything or
cares at all, and
all of them will do that.
>> Speaker 3: But John,
I have to say one thing.
I just one, one last thing is that I have
to say that all that anyone needs to know
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about Argentina economically is that it
was the poster child for how the ideology
of people like Ben Shapiro of
privatizing everything, how that works.
And it always works, and it always works.
And then in 2003, there was a massive
crash, 2001, 2003, I'm forgetting it.
[00:04:18]
2001, yeah, massive crash,
the economy went to crap.
And it was proof, our little poster child,
that we thought was so good.
When you privatize even the roads,
the water, everything,
that it'll distribute prosperity for
all, that did not bear out.
[00:04:33]
So Argentina, if anything,
is proof that neoliberal economics,
that free trade fails the people.
That's all you need to
know about Argentina.
They went through six
presidents in a week, right?
So, we are not far out from that,
but, I guess, hey,
[00:04:50]
let's try this psycho wolverine,
libertarian wolverine on for size.
>> Speaker 2: I despise the concept,
the idea, the very idea that we should
learn from the past,
>> [LAUGH]
>> It's so stupid of you to ask us to do,
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why would we do that?
I said sarcastically, while knowing
deep in my gut that we never have and
never will.
Tax cuts for
the rich have never worked in America,
you know when we're going to get those?
Every single time a Republican wins for
the presidency, for the rest of time,
Trump wins, they're gonna do more.
[00:05:23]
It doesn't matter that it doesn't work.
Like you said, save the tweets, sure,
save the tweets, we'll feel good.
>> Right.
>> Speaker 2: The audience will feel good.
It won't matter.
Elon Musk tweeted in the beginning
of the pandemic that by April,
there'd be zero cases.
Like, it doesn't matter how verifiably
moronic he is, it doesn't matter.
[00:05:44]
How did Brexit go?
Because, you know, before it,
people were saying, I don't know,
it seems like kind of a bad idea.
These promises you're making
probably won't come true.
They didn't, it was terrible.
No one will learn.
Literally no one.
Learning is not allowed.
[00:06:00]
And now it's come to Argentina.
So see what happens,
he's making big promises.
Doesn't mean necessarily that he can
get all of this done, but we will see.
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