EEEEEP! We’ve been keeping a secret from you, Rebooties!!! We made the most RSR-coded holiday gift EVER: it’s called The Red State Reboot Activity Book, and it’s available NOW on www.FGTM.store !!! :)
Now that we got our gift/grift out of the way…. Today, we’re talking Argentina. We cover Trump’s bailout, Argentine President Milei’s (failed) rockstardom, and explore how patterns of colonization and extractive capitalism repeat themselves over and over again in the region, and how the Don-roe Doctrine is unfortunately a very real thing.
TLDR: Showboys and bailouts and beef, oh my!
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New episodes of Red State Reboot drop every Monday.
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IG: @redstaterebootpod
Website: www.redstatereboot.com
Contact: rsr@friedgreentomatomedia.com
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SOURCES:
Alcoba, Natalie. 2025. “Argentinian President Wins Critical Midterm Elections.” NPR, October 27. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5585097/argentina-president-wins-milei-midterm-elections
Iglesia, Facundo, and Tom Phillips. 2025. “Burning Down the House: Milei Plays Rock Star as Argentina Economy Crashes.” The Guardian, October 7. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/07/javier-milei-argentina-economy
“Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %) - Argentina.” n.d. World Bank Open Data. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.DEFL.KD.ZG?end=2024&locations=AR&start=1983
Sánchez-Garzoli, Gimena. 2025. “Attention Needs to Be Paid to the Situation in Argentina.” WOLA. February 18. https://www.wola.org/analysis/argentina-attention/
Wirtschafter, Valerie. 2023. “Argentina Dives Into the Unknown With Lessons for Future Elections.” Brookings, November 22. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/argentina-dives-into-the-unknown-with-lessons-for-future-elections/
Yang, John, and Azhar Merchant. 2025. “Why Trump Is Giving Argentina a $20 Billion Lifeline to Help Its Flailing Economy.” PBS News, October 17. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-trump-is-giving-argentina-a-20-billion-lifeline-to-help-its-flailing-economy
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