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Have you heard about the so-called Argentinian economic miracle? I have news: there is no miracle. This is a lie.

I am the chairman of President Milei’s council of advisors, and I want you to know that there is no miracle here at all.

You read that correctly. No miracle… https://t.co/kmDr9OvdDd

— Demian Reidel (@dreidel1) March 21, 2025

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Have you heard about the so-called Argentinian economic miracle? I have news: there is no miracle. This is a lie.

I am the chairman of President Milei’s council of advisors, and I want you to know that there is no miracle here at all.

You read that correctly. No miracle whatsoever.

What you are witnessing is the most impressive turnaround in the country’s history.

We slashed wasteful spending that once enriched the few at the expense of the many.

We brought down inflation—a tax that disproportionately burdens the poor. As a result, we lowered poverty rates by more than 11% and lifted millions out of poverty

We eliminated the thousands of pickets that made travel across the country a nightmare. Imagine the relief of breathing in fresh air after years of suffocating congestion.

Welfare programs? The left’s favorite: they mostly served politicians. They even stole food from the poor. Yes. They stole food from the poor.

Now, welfare flows directly to those who need it most.

At the core of our strategy, we eradicated the source of the macroeconomic instability that had plagued our nation for so long: we eliminated the fiscal deficit. We now run a fiscal surplus, which has dramatically reduced our country risk—from the 3000s to the 700s.

A miracle, some say? How dare they!

This is not a miracle. This is hard work. This is putting the country first, not politicians.

Why is the opposition protesting so fervently? Not because they care for the people or the nation, but because they fear the truth—that they have been the problem all along. Their time is over.

Again, this is not a miracle.

This is hard work. This is having a vision, formulating a plan, and executing it without fear. This is having the guts to do what is right. This is president
@JMilei
leadership.

The jig is up for the left. They have nothing, and they never did. They do not love the poor. They love poverty.

Now, tell me again that this is a miracle.

We didn’t know it was impossible—so we did it.

Viva la libertad, carajo!

Once more, with feeling: This is no time to go wobbly.

BREAKING: Incendiary Devices Found at Tesla Dealership.

DOGE: IRS Still Can’t Hit This 1996 Deadline but at Least the Consultants Got Rich.

OBAMACARE MADE EVERYTHING WORSE EXCEPT FOR THE WELL-CONNECTED:

You bastard. You took away my low premium PPO and replaced it with a bankrupting piece of crap HMO with outrageous premiums and deductibles and far worse provider choice and coverage.

You ruined the lives of millions of Americans.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) March 23, 2025

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

They’re hiding their organizers and funders

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2025

“While calling for maximum transparency from DOGE,” Winters replied.

RIP: Former Congresswoman Mia Love Dies at 49.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I interviewed her a couple of times and quite liked her. I also remember that her favorite economist was Frederic Bastiat, which was surely unique for the House of Representatives.

HOW’S THAT BOYCOTT WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA?

TSLA is at 271. It was $225 when Tim Walz was so excited about the stock dropping. It was $172 a year ago. Can Democrats do anything right? https://t.co/p7c5OWXCoq

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) March 24, 2025

Pro Tip: Boycotts only work when the cause is, you know, popular enough to cause pain to the boycotted.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Bill Maher Says California Needs an Elon Musk but There’s 1 Little Catch…

Two, actually.

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE: China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable cutter that could reset the world order.

A compact, deep-sea, cable-cutting device, capable of severing the world’s most fortified underwater communication or power lines, has been unveiled by China – and it could shake up global maritime power dynamics.

The revelation marks the first time any country has officially disclosed that it has such an asset, capable of disrupting critical undersea networks.

The tool, which is able to cut lines at depths of up to 4,000 metres (13,123 feet) – twice the maximum operational range of existing subsea communication infrastructure – has been designed specifically for integration with China’s advanced crewed and uncrewed submersibles like the Fendouzhe, or Striver, and the Haidou series.

World War III will be fought pretty much everywhere.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The more vulnerable undersea cables are, the more powerful Starlink becomes.

HISTORY: ‘Liberty or Death’: Patrick Henry’s Immortal Words Turn 250.

SCHLICHTER: The Agony of John Roberts.

Pity poor John Roberts. No, he’s not corrupt or compromised. He is simply a man who has found himself at a pivotal time and place in a position of great responsibility for which he is utterly unsuited. He’s not a dumb man. He is, in fact, a very smart man – Hugh Hewitt knew him personally in the Reagan administration and testifies to that. I have no doubt it’s true. I know many smart people who have similar flaws. As objectively intelligent as John Roberts is, he is unwise, and he is endangering the institution he wants to preserve because he does not understand human nature or the times he finds himself in.

Frankly, I’ll take wisdom over raw intellect any day of the week.

If he had the capacity to lead that he so manifestly lacks, John Roberts could save his institution with decisive and bold action. But that’s not who he is. Understand what John Roberts wants. He is an institutionalist who has always wanted to protect the judiciary branch. He wants it to be a fully co-equal branch that is respected by all. But the very actions he has chosen to take – or not to take – in response to the current crisis of out-of-control subordinate courts are guaranteeing that it will fall.

Read the whole thing.

DON’T GET COCKY: We Dug Into the Polls. Democrats in Congress Should Be Very Afraid.

Congressional Democrats have typically enjoyed higher popularity with their voting base than their Republican counterparts. But the trauma of the 2024 presidential election defeat appears to have ruptured that relationship. A review of Quinnipiac University’s annual first-quarter congressional polling reveals that, for the first time in the poll’s history, congressional Democrats are now underwater with their own voters in approval ratings.

Just 40 percent of Democrats approve of the job performance of congressional Democrats, compared to 49 percent who disapprove. That’s a dramatic change from this time last year, when 75 percent of Democrats approved compared to just 21 percent who disapproved. The Democratic base’s disillusionment runs so deep that it’s eerily reminiscent of Republican grassroots sentiment in the period leading up to Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party.

The numbers are clear: No longer satisfied with the status quo in their party, Democrats are on the verge of a Tea Party-style, intra-party revolt.

The party could use a good shaking up but I’d rather it didn’t happen until after the midterms — at the soonest.

DON’T GET COCKY BUT DO ENJOY THE MOMENT: Dems Admit They’re in ‘Deepest Hole in Nearly 50 Years’ and Is it Too Early for Champagne? “Is it supposed to be the icing on their crap cake that Americans are just as anti-Democrat as they are pro-Trump? Trump has less than four years left in his political career. If ‘At least we still aren’t Trump!’ is still the best they’ve got in 2026 or ’28, the party’s prospects are even worse than I’d dared to dream.”

BLUE ON BLUE: Chuck Schumer rejects calls to step down as Senate Democratic leader.

It’s up to Democratic senators to choose their leader, and none of them have called on Schumer to quit a post that he has held for more than eight years. But some have entertained questions about whether it’s time for a re-examination. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., told a constituent at a town hall last week that “we’re going to have future conversations about all the Democratic leadership.”

Schumer also rejected comparisons to then-President Joe Biden’s refusal to step down as the 2024 nominee, in response to a question about whether he’s making the same mistake.
…
NBC News has reported that some Democrats hope progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., launches a primary bid against Schumer in 2028 if he decides to seek re-election.

Corn, popped.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Monday, Fun Day — Let’s Barter Some Blue States for Canada and Greenland. “Canada is a different story. If it didn’t have the United States on one side and Santa’s elves on the other, it would have been invaded and occupied by a country a third of its size long ago. At the rate it’s going right now, an ambitious Girl Scout troop could use its cookie money to take over Canada.”

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: U.S. intel says China’s Xi Jinping holds $1 billion in hidden wealth through family.

The report stated that as many as 65% of all government officials in China receive unofficial income through bribery or graft — despite more than a decade of anti-corruption efforts that have ensnared over 5 million Chinese Communist Party officials.

“Corruption is an endemic feature of and challenge for China, enabled by a political system with power highly centralized in the hands of the CCP, a CCP-centric concept of the rule of law, a lack of independent checks on public officials, and limited transparency,” the report said.

The report suggests that Mr. Xi’s high-profile 13-year campaign as president to stamp out corruption has been a failure.

The report suggests no such thing. It suggests Xi has been quite successful in making sure the graft goes to the right people.

THEY BECAME MORE BRAZEN ABOUT IT WITH OBAMA, OUR FIRST RED-DIAPER BABY PRESIDENT:

It’s the last play left in their playbook:

1. Lose. Bigly.
2. Complain. A lot.
3. Launch their law drones for counter-loss lawfare.
4. Lose said lawfare suits. Bigly.
5. Send goons. Blow shit up. Riot. Cause chaos.
6. Campaign on “stopping the chaos” in the midterms.

— pipermcq (@pipermcq) March 21, 2025

Is this all they’ve got? For the time being, it’s this and obstruction on Capitol Hill and in the courts, yes.

SOMEBODY SET US UP THE BOMB: Yes, Disney Cares That Its $250 Million ‘Snow White’ Is Tanking at the Box Office.

CHANGE (IT BACK): DEI double take.

In The DEI Catch-22, Atlantic writer Rose Horowitch confirms what I suspected: During the Biden administration, researchers were under pressure to add language on “diversity” and “equity” to grant applications. Now, under the Trump administration, they fear DEI verbiage will doom their research funding.

“When the Trump administration announced that it was canceling $400 million worth of grants to and contracts with Columbia University, ostensibly to punish the university for its handling of anti-Semitism amid pro-Palestinian campus protests,” researchers looked for patterns in which grants were canceled, she writes. “As far as they can tell, nearly all of the canceled grants seem to have made some mention of diversity, equity, inclusion, or other disfavored topics” medical school researchers told her.

“Making the cuts even more maddening is the fact that, at least until a few months ago, the federal government required researchers to include plans to ‘enhance diversity’ in many grant applications,” she writes.

Exit quote: “The University of California system will no longer require would-be professors to submit a ‘diversity statement’ pledging their allegiance to DEI. These statements were unpopular with many professors.”

WE’RE REALLY GOING TO GET GREENLAND, AREN’T WE? Usha Vance Announces Major Overseas Trip.

CHANGE?

BREAKING: Absolutely enormous protests are currently taking to the streets of Turkey, to protest President Erdogan.

Hundred of thousands of Turks no longer want to be ruled by an Islamist dictator. Of course, the media hasn’t covered any of this. pic.twitter.com/11EsGaz4qy

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 23, 2025

The protests have been going on for a few days but haven’t gotten much press.

IT COULDN’T HURT: ‘Four shots of vodka’: JD Vance says he’d need to be totally boozed up to answer questions like Kamala Harris. “The vice president joked that he cannot relate to drinking ‘four shots of vodka’ before every meeting, which he said would be necessary to answer ‘word salad’ questions like Harris.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Husband of Former Squad Member Cori Bush Hit With Federal Charges in COVID Fraud Case.

THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK:

‘We treat former IDF soldiers who travel to Ireland exactly how we would treat former Nazis’.

You’re going to give them teaching positions for almost 30 years at one of the most prestigious secondary schools in Dublin?

OK then. pic.twitter.com/Fw6SteplQs

— Rachel Moiselle 🧡 (@RachelMoiselle) March 20, 2025

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: American Honor Defeats Woke Loser and It Feels So Good.