# I think Doctor Who was just elected president of Argentina
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 17, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722 "2023-08-17T13:21:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/1 "2023-08-17T13:21:03Z")
If this guy isn’t a Time Lord, I don’t know who is. (No pun intended.) [Google Image Search.](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=557782243&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS742US742&sxsrf=AB5stBhrgeLux5PNtTwIlnoSc8mtQnuI7Q:1692278263357&q=javier+milei&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-4v3l4-OAAxXzk2oFHdedAawQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1745&bih=846&dpr=1.1)
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/2 "2023-08-17T13:40:24Z")
Sounds like a good guy. Good job, Argentina! 🙄
> The presidential hopeful says he believes the country’s Central Bank should be abolished and that he wants to dollarize the economy
> Milei has called climate change a “socialist lie,” as Argentina [suffers](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/24/argentina-brazil-south-america-drought/?itid=lk_inline_manual_20) through a severe, three-year drought that [experts](https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/heat-and-drought-bite-large-parts-of-south-america) say was probably exacerbated by higher temperatures brought on by climate change.
> Milei has said that the buying and selling of organs should be treated as “just another market.” He has taken a strong stance against [abortion](https://www.washingtonpost.com/abortion/?itid=lk_inline_manual_21), which was made legal in Argentina in 2020, and has [said](https://www.cronista.com/economia-politica/javier-milei-denuncio-que-la-esi-es-un-plan-para-eliminar-a-los-seres-humanos/) he believes sexual education to be part of a “post-Marxist agenda” that aims to destroy the concept of family.
> **[Who is Javier Milei, Argentina’s far-right president-elect?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/14/javier-milei-argentina-presidential-election/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjkyMjQ0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjkzNjI3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTIyNDQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjM4ZjEzNWM1LTQ1ZTMtNDZlOC1iZThkLWQ4ZGZiMTgxNDk3NSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93b3JsZC8yMDIzLzA4LzE0L2phdmllci1taWxlaS1hcmdlbnRpbmEtcHJlc2lkZW50aWFsLWVsZWN0aW9uLyJ9.zaYyjBQoferQ0_F1nCU295lt5dx4WvfhER5-RlQ2pI8&itid=gfta)**
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> Argentina’s next president will be Javier Milei, a libertarian economist who embraces comparisons to Donald Trump and promises to take down the establishment.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/3 "2023-08-17T13:50:25Z")
(eye twitch)
The Doctor’s name is not “Who.”
(eye continues twitching)
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/4 "2023-08-17T13:52:26Z")
Except in the Peter Cushing films- it’s canon that those films were made in the universe in which the Doctor is real based on rumors and hearsay.
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### Author:  [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/5 "2023-08-17T14:06:03Z")
Why does the neoliberal press insist on using euphemisms such as “libertarian” to describe reactionary far right fascists?
Does the article also describe him as a “conservative populist” or similar? I don’t have a WaPo subscription…
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### Author:  [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/6 "2023-08-17T14:14:05Z")
I think he’s running for president. The election is on October 22. Polls show he has about 5% support (at least according to Wikipedia).
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#):
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> Why does the neoliberal press insist on using euphemisms such as “libertarian” to describe reactionary far right fascists?
I think I would give them a pass this time… the guy is running from El Partido Libertario (The Libertarian Party).
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/7 "2023-08-17T14:17:01Z")
> [@Cervaise](#):
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> (eye twitch)
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> The Doctor’s name is not “Who.”
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> (eye continues twitching).
Sorry about the blepharospasm. But if I had titled the thread “I think the Doctor was just elected president of Argentina”, many Dopers would have missed the meaning.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/8 "2023-08-17T14:18:54Z")
> [@mjmartin](#):
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> I think he’s running for president. The election is on October 22. Polls show he has about 5% support (at least according to Wikipedia).
He’s a Time Lord. He’s not bound by the calendars of this insignificant planet.
AKA. Oops.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/9 "2023-08-17T14:41:22Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#):
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> I don’t have a WaPo subscription…
It’s a gift link you should be able to read it.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/10 "2023-08-17T14:50:49Z")
Oh god, where to begin.
It looks like it’s our turn to be the “Country that decides to elect an idiot/ commits to very stupid course”, like the brits with brexit, the americans with Trump, our neighbors in Brazil with Bolsonaro, etc.
The idiot in question has NOT won the presidential election (yet).
We have open (and compulsory) primaries and we count the votes received in total by each party, which gives some reliable (but not certain) data about how the general election is going to go.
This creature’s party got 30% or so of the vote, the “sane” (for some very generous definitions of sane) right wing party got about 28% and the Peronists (think the labor union part of the democrats, that also have a few fascists and also have a few extreme leftists in their rows and you’ll be completely mistaken but thats as close as you are going to understand Peronism without taking a college course on it) got about 27%.
We have no idea what’s going to happen in the general election, I _hope_ that many voted for this idiot as a protest vote knowing that this was a primary and not the general and will vote for a sane option in october.
I hope.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/11 "2023-08-17T14:56:23Z")
Time Lords are supposed to be both wise and intelligent, this guy is neither.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/12 "2023-08-17T15:03:44Z")
There’s a bad apple in every bunch.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/13 "2023-08-17T15:08:54Z")
I know but even the evil Time Lords where at least _coherent_
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/14 "2023-08-17T23:55:41Z")
All good markets need a government sponsored pump-priming to get them moving. Perhaps this fellow could launch the human organ-selling market by auctioning off his kidneys, liver, and evidently unused brains.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/15 "2023-08-18T00:04:28Z")
Frankly this sucks big hairy donkey balls, It’s very probable that if he’s elected he’ll end up fleeing the country before his term ends, but even so It would take decades to fix what he can destroy in a couple of years.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/16 "2023-08-18T00:06:38Z")
> [@Frodo](#):
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> … but even so It would take decades to fix what he can destroy in a couple of years.
Welcome to the club. Ouch!
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/17 "2023-08-18T00:08:09Z")
Any tips for the (possible) next four years?
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/18 "2023-08-18T02:16:12Z")
I believe it was Bluto in Animal House who said “Drink heavily!”
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/19 "2023-08-18T14:50:39Z")
> [@Frodo](#):
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> I know but even the evil Time Lords where at least _coherent_
“Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude…”
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722/20 "2023-08-18T16:01:30Z")
That guy’s hair is one part Boris Johnson, one part Beatle, one part young Zac Efron, and all bad.
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