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erronis

(21,571 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 01:08 PM Saturday

Don't Worry, Farmers, Trump's Got A Bailout ... For Argentina!

https://www.wonkette.com/p/dont-worry-farmers-trumps-got-a-bailout
Marcie Jones

Farmers have been begging Trump for a bailout with tears in their eyes because his tariffs have wrecked agricultural markets, but no bailout yet! The government is shut down, and civil servants and the military aren’t getting paid because Senate Republicans are insisting that the government can afford nothing less than having a 60-year-old couple making $85k a year paying $22,000 more a year for health insurance.

So why is the administration bailing out Argentina for $20 BILLION dollars in a currency swap? Wasn’t Trump ‘sposed to put America First? LOL!

And why does Argentina even need help, hasn’t President Javier Milei been going all over the world touting Argentina as a “global example of fiscal responsibility”? Didn’t he already save his country by taking a pimped-out chainsaw to the cancer of wokeness? And didn’t China just buy their farmers’ soybeans instead of ours?

Guess all of that didn’t work out. Just like Trump, Milei claimed he was going to do shock therapy chainsawing the government budget to the bone, and promised that after some temporary pain the economy would be better than ever. But the first thing happened, and the second thing did not, and growing unemployment, slowing economic activity, and a weak peso put Argentina on the brink of defaulting on its debt. Sure hope that never happens to US!

Here is one clue to perhaps why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is so eager to bail Argentina out: He’s got rich cronies who are set to gain bigly! Including two of his besties Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, whom he worked under when he was an investor for George Soros, and also funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity, and Pimco. Does it not bother MAGA conspiracy theorists that Bessent worked for George Soros? Don’t be silly, by the time you reach the end of this sentence they have already done the mental gymnastics and stuck the landing explaining why that is totally fine.

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