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3 hrs ago·edited 3 hrs ago

I enjoyed reading and listening to her speech. I will be paying attention to Giorgia Meloni's words more often in future.

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Bravissima! Meloni, Milei, and Bukele are true leaders. They are showing the West that oikophobic declinism through mass migration, socialism, and crime is a conscious choice. The US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany would gladly trade their corrupt, incompetent ESG/DEI regimes for any one of them. Can anyone imagine Biden, Harris, Starmer, Trudeau, or Macron delivering a patriotic speech defending the West and its ideals?

One minor suggestion - no need for several introductory paragraphs allowing MSM to smear and define her. The Prime Minister can speak for herself. Grazie.

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Back when I lived in the Boston area, I was surprised by the local media's deep hatred of the Boston sports teams - the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, Bruins.

All four franchises have had a large impact on their respective sports, yet, to read the pages of The Boston Globe, you'd never know it. Every loss was due to extreme mismanagement and ineptitude. Every win was despite even greater mismanagement and ineptitude.

I came to understand that's just how the media talked about sports in the Boston area.

I think what's happened is that mentality has infected the rest of the media, and it has become more a national phenomenon. Elitists, whether writing for the major newspapers and television outlets or spitting out doctrine as college professors in this day and age where anyone at the correct intersections can have a Ph.D. without doing any meaningful work, despise achievement.

So, yes, it's important to put Meloni's words in context by acknowledging that the hate we've all heard about her comes from those people - those who hate anyone who achieves.

When the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, after close to 100 seasons of sometimes close, sometimes not, the local media was despondent. Everyone else celebrated. Italians should celebrate Meloni and we should consider this lesson every time we read about or hear from the Ivy Leagues or the media.

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