A few months ago MAGA social media dickwads were lavishing praise on freakish Libertarian Argentinian President Javier Milei for finally taking a huge bite out of the large South American country’s decades-long inflation problem that had gotten even worse before took power following a landslide win in last year’s election, claiming it as a vindication of government austerity and an omen for a second Trump Reich and all the usual bullshit you’d expect Charlie Kirk and his ilk.

Since then it kind of tailed off and AFP reports why: As a result of Milei’s “chainsawing” public expenditures and payrolls the poverty rate in Argentina shot up from 41.7 percent in the second half of 2023 to 52.9 percent in the first half of 2024, per the INDEC statistics agency. Now this is NOT to say it won’t work out and Argentina will eventually find its way to having a stable and sustainable economy. What Milei’s doing is really the standard operating procedure for reining in inflation. He has the mandate to do this and he’ll have to not fuck up his next steps, whatever they may be.

Whether or not his fanboys here in the United States understand and accept that is besides the point as it’s a safe bet it would be very much lost on most of their fans who would think “Wait, what the fuck? I thought Milei was going to Make Argentina Great Again. Why is poverty UP now?” So the MAGAmerican influencers tweet nothing. Javier Milei isn’t a thing anymore in Catturd Country.