My dog ​​asked me to elect the president: Argentinian “dog maniac” President Mirej, and his fantasy about the past life of replicating dogs

▌My dog ​​asked me to elect the president: Argentinian “dog maniac” President Mireille, and his fantasy of replicating dogs in his past life

“The person who controls the destiny of the country wakes up every day and communicates with the dog…” Javier Milei, who was just elected as the new president of Argentina, has a very strong personal image. In addition to his far-right radical economic policies, he has another What has attracted widespread attention is the pet dogs he raises – the five English mastiffs Mireille currently raises were all created through genetic duplication technology after the death of his original pet dog Conan. “Copy Dog”. The unmarried Mireille regards his five dogs as his family and calls his dogs “the best political analysts in the world” (although he did not respond to whether he consults his dogs for advice); he won the When he won the most votes in the presidential primary, he dedicated his victory to his “four-legged children” in his speech. According to Mirej, after the original Conan passed away in 2017, he talked with Conan through a psychic, and it was Conan who conveyed to him God’s mission for him to become the president of Argentina.

Mireille’s relationship with Conan began in 2004, when Mireille adopted Conan and used it in the 1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger film“The Sword of the King”(Conan the Barbarian) The protagonist is named after his pet dog. At that time, Mireille was in a tight financial situation. He sold his motorcycle and often only ate one pizza a day to save money in order to buy high-end dog food for Conan. . Mireille, who is unmarried and has no children, believes that Conan is her “true and greatest love” and regards Conan as her biological son and confidant.

After Conan passed away in 2017, Mireille sought a psychic to have a telepathic conversation with Conan. At that time, Conan conveyed to him the mission of “God wants him to become the president of Argentina” – Mireille also participated in the 2023 Argentine presidential election. I mentioned this once and believed that I could achieve my goal.

Furthermore, according to Argentina“National”According to reports, Mireille believed that his real “first encounter” with Conan was more than 2,000 years ago. At that time, he and Conan were gladiators and lions in the Roman Coliseum, but the two sides who were supposed to be fighting to the death did not fight because they Destined to join forces in the future – Mireille regarded this as Conan’s explanation for conveying to him the mission of “running for the president of Argentina”.

Mireille, who missed Conan, later paid US$50,000 to the American technology company PerPETuate in 2018 to use Conan’s DNA for replication. Ron Gillespie, the head of PerPETuate, toldBuenos Aires HeraldIt was revealed that usually after the dog cloning process is completed, 1 to 2 embryos will eventually survive, but Conan’s case is quite special – after the embryos were implanted into a female dog in the laboratory, the female dog gave birth to a total of 6 puppies. After the puppy was born, PerPETuate sent the puppy’s saliva sample to the genetics laboratory at the University of California, Davis, and commissioned it to be compared with Conan’s DNA sample. After confirming a perfect match, PerPETuate started sending the puppy to cloth. Enos Aires to Mireille.

One of the six cloned puppies died shortly after birth, and the remaining five were delivered to Mireille’s home. Mireille named one of them Conan, treating it as the continuation of the life of the deceased dog. The four are named after conservative economists Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman and Robert Lucas, namely Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas.

Mireille calls the copied Conan his “son”, and Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas are his “grandsons”.

Mirej has always been generous in expressing the importance he attaches to his pet dogs. In addition to talking about it on the show, after winning the highest number of votes in Argentina’s August primary election to determine his qualifications for running for president, he also expressed his respect for his “four-legged child”. “Thank you and give the victory to the dogs.Mirej has become the focus of media attention both at home and abroad in Argentina since the primary election, and his pet dog has also been widely reported – Mirej accepted the interview in September“Economist”During the interview, he also talked about his love for dogs. He said that the only people who have always been by his side and have never betrayed him are his sister Karina (Karina Milei) and Conan. Now having five clone dogs of Conan to accompany him is equal to “joyful multiplier”. It’s like that joy multiplied by five.

Because of Mirej’s high dependence on his dog, Argentinian journalist Juan Luis González even wrote his own unauthorized biography of Mirej, Mirej’s first biography, “Madman” ( Temporary translation, the Spanish original name is El Loco, which is Mireille’s nickname in his early years), it is pointed out that Mireille will consult his dog on policy and campaign strategies, and the five dogs “each perform their own duties in different fields such as politics and economics” This also aroused discussion in the media. When Mireille himself was asked about this by The Economist, he neither admitted nor denied it, but simply replied:

“They say my dogs determine my strategy, right? They’re like my strategic committee? They’re the best strategic committee in the world. That’s right. When has anyone ever achieved what we did in 2 years? Achievements achieved? If it’s like outsiders say, they are the best political analysts in the world.”

Gonzalez pointed out many of Mireille’s eccentric words and deeds in “Mad Men”. Although he said that he did not intend to allude to whether Mireille had mental health problems, he also expressed concerns about such an “unstable leader” serving as a leader. González, the president of an already unstable country, noted: “This man who controls the fate of the country wakes up every day, communicates with dogs and then makes decrees accordingly. This is very shocking.” And Mirej’s opponent in the election Sergio Massa also questioned Mireille’s behavior of talking to his dog like a human during the campaign before the vote.

And what do Argentine voters think of Mirej’s maverick behavior? Are these bizarre behaviors approved by voters? Lucas Romero, the head of local Argentinian political consulting firm Synopsis, said in an interview with the Associated Press:

Andrei Roman, CEO of Brazilian polling company Atlas Intel, also pointed out:

“A lot of voters were not convinced to vote for Mireille. They wanted to cast a spoiled vote or a blank vote, but when polling day came, they voted for Mireille anyway because they were so angry about the status quo… Everybody was I am afraid of Mirej being elected, but I am even more afraid that Massa will win, and that the economy, inflation, and all other problems will continue.”

Text/Lai Yun