News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
BUENOS AIRES — A catastrophic tragedy has befallen the former socialist utopia of Argentina as 1 billion citizens have already died due to Libertarian candidate Javier Milei being elected president.
“These deaths occurred just as we had predicted,” said smart socialist Juan Taburito while piling corpses into an old-timey corpse cart. “I blame the president-elect for making people think they deserved things like money and rights. Look what it’s done!”
Devastating libertarian policies have decimated the population of a country that, for decades floated comfortably on the blessings of a huge government and a burgeoning inflation rate of 120%.
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At one time this was the most prosperous country in Latin America. The governments then made all the mistakes they could think of from wars, to crazy economics to Peron’s ill defined populism. Just could be they got it right this time. Couldn’t be much worse.