Last week we explained that When the end-of-year holidays come, humanity splits into two major groups. On the one hand, those of us who want everything to happen as quickly as possible. Going to sleep before Christmas Eve and waking up after New Year’s would be perfect. Not much more than that, because it would be dead. The ideal is to aim for January 2nd to avoid the post-New Year gathering with the leftovers from the previous evening, an event just as unfortunate as those of January 24th and 31st.
On the other side of the divide are those who spend the holidays switching from vittel toné to nougat and from vermouth to cider, tucking into Russian salad, tuna mayonnaise, matambre, chicken, turkey, mousse, ice cream, sweet bread and sugared candies. Great simulators of love and joy in complete gluttony.
This last group, those who exaggerate happiness, is in turn divided into two subgroups: those who end the evening with the deplorable habit of dancing with a drink in hand (there are even those who dance to ABBA songs), and those who end the evening by bringing up old family resentments that lead to grievances and even physical violence. It is not clear whether Mayra Mendoza belongs to this last subgroup, but there is no doubt that Juan Grabois is active there.
At least that’s what he showed this week. It is believed that Grabois had the illusion that the oppressed masses would revolt against Milei and overthrow him, but it turns out that the masses were preoccupied with the issue of festivals. and it was hard for them to go out and make the revolution.
Not being able to convince the proletariat Grabois traveled to Quilmes to fight Mayra Mendoza and defend the dirty tricks that take care of cars and extort money from motorists. It may not have been the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, but it is something.
It is clear that the man was not happy with the uprising in Quilmes, because the next day he went to protest in Lanús, where La Cámpora also rules.
Mayra publicly criticized him and Grabois responded: “The internship between La Cámpora and Kicillof was a struggle for me.” We would have to wait for the archdiocese’s statement, but in principle we could say that The guy who sells us wouldn’t be so spiritual.
It is not clear whether the most unpleasant thing in all this is the balls of Máximo, Kicillof or Grabois. What is clear is this Grabois will end up messing with this Máximo-Kicillof intern who says that he is going through his intimacies because he has already done the same with Massa. In April 2023 he insulted him from top to bottom and in October he supported him and voted for him with both hands. They are as violent as they are obvious. Sometimes they also give tenderness.
Reality showed that the Congress in its last session of the year is also full of people from the subgroup who start partying and end up wallowing in the mud. Starting with Senator José Mayans, who said in his Christmas speech: “Patricia Bullrich is ineffective.” What need? It may be that the former minister is, but the reality is that she became a senator 15 days ago. He hasn’t had time to prove it yet.
The Mayans should give her the same opportunities that democracy gave him. Maybe not that long because Let’s remember that the man took office as a senator on December 10, 2001 and has already been in office for 24 years and 18 days. It hasn’t even been two weeks for poor Bullrich and he’s already treating it as useless. It’s not fair.
To make matters worse, Mayans is a province ruled by Gildo Insfrán since December 10, 1995. That is, since then 30 years and 18 days. If Mayans sees himself as a defender of democratic and republican values, it is obvious that he has not been very efficient in this task.
Mayans could argue that Bullrich has already held different positions in different governments of different parties. Maybe we all have a past.
Maybe Pato’s place is the Senate. Grabois is now also a deputy, and in one of them the man there discovers his true calling, leaves the Viet Cong and ends up becoming a more important parliamentary reference than Don Lisandro De La Torre, you never know.
Among other Christmas fights in Congress, the one between Senator Victoria Huala (PRO) and Senator Cándida López (Kirchnerism) stands out. It all started with López reading his speech, which is obviously not correct. The least that is expected of a senator, someone who has the calling to be the voice of his province, is that he can speak. Huala is right about that, but she is a little ungrateful. She should have been more pious and appreciated that at least her colleague López proved that she could read fluently. Not anyone in this room.
The response from Senator Cándida López was immediate: “Shut up, you bastard,” she said to Huala and everything ended, as always, in shouting. Foreseeable. The only thing that is not understood is why they called it “Cándida”.
The interesting thing about the issue is that a few days earlier, Senator Cándida López tried to storm into an office and upon arriving found that the lock had been changed. A fight broke out there between Kirchnerist militants, security personnel and locksmiths. In the above speech, the senator denounced that she had suffered some attacks and “immodest touching” (in the truest sense of the word) during the fight.
From a more macroeconomic perspective, one could say that Kirchnerism is clearly in a quandary between the balls of Grabois and the outrageous sides of Senator López.
All these people should learn from Minister Caputo that he fights with no one except moderation. But since moderation has no family, there are no offended parties.
This week Caputo minted another genius. You have to admit that the guy is a poet who gives you a sentence every week. This time he said: “We must eliminate Argentina’s dependence on Wall Street.” Person.
To be clear: The guy has no reserves, Veraz is on red alert, he has 4,000 Palos Verde due in January, and now he says he doesn’t want to be dependent on Wall Street. It’s the other way around, man. It’s Wall Street that doesn’t care about you. He looks like my friend Fat Tito when he says that he won’t pay any attention to Pampita and that he won’t even answer her when she calls him.
Anyway, this is how the year goes between fighters, inactives and cancheros. And the worst thing is that the piglet from 31 is still missing.
Therefore, dear reader, it’s time for a nice vacation. The last time I did it, Alberto was in La Rosada with one finger raised and the other on Tinder, Massa was the Minister of Inflation and Exchange Rate Difference, Milei was an MP, Macri managed Together for Change, Larreta had the presidency within reach, Cristina saw Máximo as a statesman, Chiqui Tapia lived happily and no one knew who Scott Bessent was. Everything changes.
Therefore there is only the present and a little bit of the past to learn from and have as a reference.
Dear reader, I wish you and your family all the best.
