The libertarian intern already has a name, meme and even a Pokémon soundtrack
On Monday, May 25, while the country celebrated a new anniversary of the May Revolution, Pablo Quirno —Secretary of Finance and one of the most trusted men of Javier Milei— chose a single retweet to mark his position in the internal war that fractures the ruling party.
The check @nosoypitti published a photo of the president greeting people in La Rosada and then hugging Santiago Caputowith the text: “What hurts the rocket team is that they love each other like this.” Quirno retweeted it. Nothing more needed to be said.
The nickname is already circulating shamelessly among the Caputists: “Team Rocket” is the name they apply to the group he leads Martin Menempresident of the Chamber of Deputies, along with his brother Eduardo “Lule” Menem and other leaders in the environment Karina Milei. The Pokémon reference is not innocent. Team Rocket from the animated series is a band of bumbling villains, always on the verge of winning and always defeated by the end of the episode. The analogy they build The Forces of Heaven It is as cruel as it is deliberate.
Because clumsiness, precisely, is what this whole story is about. The trigger was a tweet from the presidential advisor with the text “What a gagá, @PeriodistaRufus”accompanied by images that suggested that the owner of that anonymous account was Martin Menemsince the link redirected to Instagram, where the suggestion to follow the deputy appeared. The account was closed immediately. The damage was already done.
Then he entered the scene Santiago Oria. The President’s filmmaker, national director of Audiovisual Productions and man of Karina Mileiled him to Javier Milei the version that the link to Menem’s account had been “prefabricated to generate a problem.” Milei came out to support him publicly. Caputo, however, returned to the networks and wrote: “My dear CM answered something that should not have been answered”pointing directly to the Menemist community manager, and in a reference to Alberto Fernández and his “Querida Fabiola”.
From The Forces of Heaven The reading is unanimous: Oria operates for the Menem. Caputo’s entourage publicly criticizes the filmmaker’s “malpractice” and holds him responsible for having sold the President a false version of the events without support. There the nickname of Team Rocket.
The digital rebellion that followed was unprecedented. Daniel ParisiniGordo Dan, head of the digital troops of caputism, published in X: “Don’t ever lie to the President again”and the phrase was immediately replicated by different accounts linked to Las Fuerzas del Cielo. It was, for the first time, Caputo’s troops openly challenging Milei’s position. Fatty Dan went further in public statements: “I am convinced that the account belonged to Martín Menem. They lied to the President, it is not something prefabricated.”
They joined the battalion Agustín Laje and Ramiro Marraboth ratifying that “They are lying to the President”. The intern was no longer a hallway rumor: it was a war with a name, surname and screenshots.
Because the internal crack is not ideological or programmatic. The unrest is not generated by the economic direction or management decisions, but by the debate due to the militant dynamics: those who seek to provide the space with new digital logics – what is proclaimed Caputo— they face those who are betting on building the label in the territory, among whom stand out the Menem and Sebastian Pareja. It is, ultimately, a dispute over who controls the machine.
In the Casa Rosada they try to prevent the dispute from continuing to grow. Although both sectors relativize the possibility of immediate changes, the episode once again showed the fragility of the truce that supports the ruling party and the political importance it acquired. control of the libertarian digital ecosystem.
Team Rocket always loses at the end of the episode. The question is whether the celestials know that they are also in the anime, reciting their own motto—“prepare for trouble”— before flying into the air. Pokémon Team Rocket’s problem was never evil. It was clumsiness.
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