And absolutely no one was remotely surprised.

I like threads about the new Argentine president because I can point out the fact (look it up if you don’t believe me) that he said he held a seance for his dead dog and the dog’s ghost told him to run for president. And people in Argentina were fully aware of this and still voted for him.

The world is doomed.

i wasn’t paying as much attention as i should to the election in argentina but here comes trump: the bellwether of stupid and bad

This is the best summary I could come up with:

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has long praised a particular type of foreign leader — men he describes as “tough” and “strong,” even if they have chipped away at their countries’ democratic norms.

“A very special congratulations to Javier Milei on a great race for president of Argentina,” Trump exulted in a video posted Tuesday on his social media site that echoed an earlier statement.

Milei often stoked comparisons to Trump during his campaign, praising him in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and promoting unproven theories about election fraud in his own race before he won.

He has been particularly enamored of late by Orbán after an interview in which the Hungarian leader blasted the Biden administration and said the only path to ending the war in Ukraine would be Trump’s reelection to the White House.

Speaking Saturday at an event in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Trump spent several minutes praising Orbán, saying he was “very honored’” by the comments from a man he called “one of the strongest leaders.”

Hungary,” Trump said of the country, which European Union lawmakers last year declared was no longer a democracy and had instead become “a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy” under the leadership of its nationalist government.

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Of course he would. He respects those types of leaders a lot.