{"id":34707,"date":"2018-06-03T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34707"},"modified":"2018-06-03T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:05:07","slug":"one-word-contagion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34707","title":{"rendered":"One Word: Contagion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One Word: Contagion<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Terrible news, I\u2019m afraid.<\/p>\n

The trainwreck that is Italian politics has always been a hoot to watch. But this time around the implications to what happens in Rome are, as Trump would say, yuuuge.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve probably seen the news-flow out of Europe.<\/p>\n

Tasked with finding a suitable candidate to head a coalition between Luigi Di Maio\u2019s Five Star Movement and the far-right League headed by Matteo Salvini, a coalition, which I might add has<\/em> to be scaring the living isht out of Brussels, has not been an easy task.<\/p>\n

Firstly, they went and chose someone nobody has ever heard about.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Well, Italy has many \u201ccolourful characters\u201d in politics, and that is what scares Brussels more than anything else. Draghi\u2019s worst nightmare must be sitting across the table from this guy discussing Italy\u2019s bill to Germany.<\/p>\n

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In case you\u2019re not up to speed on what these gents stand for here\u2019s a sampling from Matteo Salvini.<\/p>\n

Slaves of the European Union? No, thanks! <\/em><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait for Italy, with our government, to regain its sovereignty to defend the national interest in any way possible.\u00a0Unacceptable intrusion from a European bureaucrat in Italy\u2019s elections. The immigration policies and economic sacrifices imposed by the European Union have been a disaster and will be rejected by the free vote of Italians. <\/em><\/p>\n

European bureaucrats calm down.\u00a0League will always defend our fisheries and the agriculture of Italy. Enough with the European standards that slaughter our businesses and our territory!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No! What this coalition needed was someone entirely vanilla, very unlike their own leaders, a nobody, a perfectly useful idiot.<\/p>\n

And so they picked Giuseppe Conte.<\/p>\n

Who, I hear you say?<\/p>\n

Precisely.<\/p>\n

But poor Giuseppe didn\u2019t last very long. Heck, he was tasked with what was one helluva job \u2014 sugarcoating this\u2026<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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