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Milei’s popularity plummets amid corruption scandal in Argentina

How can you supporters look at all the crazy things. How can you deny this with a straight face? They put some kid that posts on Twitter in charge of some nuclear agency position that is 23 years old.

 
And people said Cristina was corrupt. Argentina has become more corrupt with Milei and his sister.

If you want to know why fixing Argentina feels so complicated right now, you have to look at how the justice system actually works and specifically, you have to look at one judge named Ariel Lijo.

This guy is a magnet for every major political scandal in the country.

Are there sketchy property investigations or controversies involving the current administration's inner circle? Lijo’s got the case. What about massive, multi-million dollar bribery schemes from the previous government? Yep, Lijo’s got those, too.

It’s not a coincidence. By hoarding all the most explosive cases against both the current government and the opposition, he basically holds the ultimate insurance policy. He gets to decide who sweats, whose cases get fast-tracked, and whose files mysteriously gather dust in a drawer. It's not about justice; it's pure political leverage.

But here’s the crazy part: President Milei campaigned entirely on tearing down the corrupt political "caste." He was supposed to be the guy who cleaned house. Yet, his administration is now pushing to put Lijo on the Supreme Court.

To a lot of people, it feels like a massive sellout. The vibe is basically: how can you promise a clean, sensible free-market economy if you're making backroom deals to elevate the ultimate insider judge just to secure political favors? It proves that you can change all the economic rules you want, but as long as the courts operate like a shady trading floor, real stability is going to be incredibly hard to pull off.
 
And people said Cristina was corrupt. Argentina has become more corrupt with Milei and his sister.

If you want to know why fixing Argentina feels so complicated right now, you have to look at how the justice system actually works and specifically, you have to look at one judge named Ariel Lijo.

This guy is a magnet for every major political scandal in the country.

Are there sketchy property investigations or controversies involving the current administration's inner circle? Lijo’s got the case. What about massive, multi-million dollar bribery schemes from the previous government? Yep, Lijo’s got those, too.

It’s not a coincidence. By hoarding all the most explosive cases against both the current government and the opposition, he basically holds the ultimate insurance policy. He gets to decide who sweats, whose cases get fast-tracked, and whose files mysteriously gather dust in a drawer. It's not about justice; it's pure political leverage.

But here’s the crazy part: President Milei campaigned entirely on tearing down the corrupt political "caste." He was supposed to be the guy who cleaned house. Yet, his administration is now pushing to put Lijo on the Supreme Court.

To a lot of people, it feels like a massive sellout. The vibe is basically: how can you promise a clean, sensible free-market economy if you're making backroom deals to elevate the ultimate insider judge just to secure political favors? It proves that you can change all the economic rules you want, but as long as the courts operate like a shady trading floor, real stability is going to be incredibly hard to pull off.
So it sounds like the corruption is worse than ever with this new President. That is sad.
 
The sole purpose of that terrible party that many of us voted for by default is a hodgepodge of criminals, narcos, con artists, whores, and mentally challenged people. Now they are trying to convince LLA supporters to vote for Peronists.

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Seems like the numbers are definitely going down on every possible places that measures it.


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Holy crap. This is terrible. Reminds me of Macri and how quickly support faded for him. But Macri was a normal guy. Not unhinged like Milei. Milei comes across as a total paranoid freak. Russian spies. Come on. They can't even do press conferences, the guy goes off prancing to Israel in the middle of this. Lost all sense of reality.

 
Holy crap. This is terrible. Reminds me of Macri and how quickly support faded for him. But Macri was a normal guy. Not unhinged like Milei. Milei comes across as a total paranoid freak. Russian spies. Come on. They can't even do press conferences, the guy goes off prancing to Israel in the middle of this. Lost all sense of reality.

Definitely that trip to Israel was bad timing. That was the last straw for some of my friends that see him out of touch with reality.

Him trying to get reporters fired that wrote negative things against him and La Nacion refusing didn't help and then kicking out the entire press pool is just strange.

Whatever good will he had is vanishing quickly.
 
Definitely that trip to Israel was bad timing. That was the last straw for some of my friends that see him out of touch with reality.

Him trying to get reporters fired that wrote negative things against him and La Nacion refusing didn't help and then kicking out the entire press pool is just strange.

Whatever good will he had is vanishing quickly.
Does anyone follow him on IG? Yesterday he posted 96 IG stores in less than 24 hours. Does this guy work? How embarrassing. We have the most deranged president in history. Even worse when he does post 90% are negative. The tide has finally shifted.
 
Does anyone follow him on IG? Yesterday he posted 96 IG stores in less than 24 hours. Does this guy work? How embarrassing. We have the most deranged president in history. Even worse when he does post 90% are negative. The tide has finally shifted.
Yes I do. On X too and every time he posts it's almost all negative. I guess his legions of fans are even embarrassed to post publicly to support him. This time last year it was all supporters cheering him on.

The system is a disaster. The subway and trains are a disaster.

 
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