Italianbros, please redpill me on this man. Are the comparisons between him and Trump accurate...

Italianbros, please redpill me on this man. Are the comparisons between him and Trump accurate? I've heard mixed things about his leadership.

The only things they have in common is being billionaires (according to google he's richer than trump, didn't know that), politically he was very moderate, trying to make people vote for him by saying he would lower the taxes and stuff like that but he was mostly in it to avoid going to jail
We reached our apex under his leadership economically but who knows if it would have happened with someone else

> Promising things he can't honor
> Media saturated with him, opponents totally shadowed
> Hate him or love him, no middle ground
> Rich as fuck, don't need to be bribed
> Seen as right-winged but actually a moderate leftist
> Friend with Putin, hated Merkel
> Moderately hostile toward bankers
> Allied with the anti-european party
> Great charisma
> Appeal to nationalism: his party was called "Forza Italia"

Yes, I think they can be compared.
After all, he was not a bad leader.

Some good points, media was saturated because he owned them while in america it's like 6 out of 7 against him so it's a bit different
Also his party is in the EPP in the EU parliament and they aren't anti europeans at all

I wrote "allied" with anti-eu party.
Silvio was allied with Lega Nord, not against EU himself, but for sure he didn't liked to have Germany as the leading country.

Being allied with an eurosceptic party doesn't mean much, especially when your party has like 40% of the votes and the eurosceptic less than 10%
I miss how he would call Merkel and unfuckable lard-arse though

>I miss how he would call Merkel and unfuckable lard-arse though

Silvio did nothing wrong.

When he was in charge he was the main argument the media talked about. He was depicted as one of the biggest evil ever happened to Italy and people here loved him or deeply despise him.
He made lots of effort to approve laws to benefit his own business, and basically this is the only real issue you americans you should worry about when you have to decide if to vote for Trump or not.
But basically Silvio was golden compared to the post-coup puppet governor we had afterwards.

Berlusconi is a piece of shit that think with his penis

Why so butthurt? Are you one of his former sluts and didn't receive all of your checks?

He was actually bretty good, became a senile retard during his last term and almost bankrupted our country while he was busy snorting coke and fucking underage hookers

Can't really blame him, his ex wife sued him for something like 50 millions per year in alimonies. He got a ticket into the JUST league since then

Yeah, but he was corrupt and embarrassed us with the Bunga bunga scandals. The one thing i liked a lot was his friendship with Putin and Gadaffi

>bankrupt

what are you referring to? Do you know the "spread crisis" was orchestrated by EU overlords (with the collaboration of president Napolitano), because Silvio's economic and foreign politics were not in line with EU's directive?

The mob will take a cut either way. At least as far as south Italy is concerned. Socialist or nationalist, If an upheaval does not take place you are fucked 6 ways to sunday. Just like murika.

Please, i still remember his appointed ministers with horror.
And there was no orchestration, don't fall for the Libero memes, i trade derivatives for a living. Spread widened up because of the perceived instability by market partecipants in regards to Berlusconi's policies, they literally thought he was fucking crazy.

Napolitano just exploited the whole thing to take him out of the games

Actually we had lower unemployment and debt back then than now after five years of pro-eu respectable well dressed liberal leaders.
Fuck that.

>Actually we had lower unemployment and debt back then than now after five years of pro-eu respectable well dressed liberal leaders.

It was called "global financial crisis" because everybody got fucked in and out of the EU.
Now wisen up and vote for Grillo, this country is pissing every year 120bn in tax evasion and something between 30 and 70bn per year in corruption

It is not Libero claiming these things, but Timothy Geithner who was the US Secretary of the Treasury and a central banker.

Geitner said Berlusconi had to GTFO to solve the spread crisis, he was merely stating the obvious.
Governments have no control over the markets, especially when they are this big and this liquid, they just have to adjust and do what they say (otherwise you end up creating huge systemic risks)

Markets have no desire to topple governments btw, they simply aggregate and report the general mood of the investors and their perceived risk. And i can tell you they were pulling the plug on italian equities with Zio Silvio, they wanted nothing to do with our country

>Governments have no control over the (((markets)))
>they simply aggregate and report the general mood of the (((investors)))

I see where the problem is right fucking there.

>wisen up and vote for Grillo
e perchemmai dovrebbimo

M5S is pro or against EU? They want open or closed borders? They want a welfare system or not?

Save the memes for another time big boy, (((they))) are actually the worst enemies of the free markets, the only weapons we have to destroy (((them))). See recent FED policies

We want a non cucked EU with more stringent immigration policies and less austerity measures. We will accomplish that by focusing on fighting corruption and tax evasion from the inside of the political system. We want accountability and transparency for every single politician getting money out of the taxpayers' pockets. We want an attractive country for foreign capitals, we want it to become rich and powerful in order to gain further leverage in the EU. We want citizens to personally get involved with politics after we've cleaned it up for good

We want closed borders, nevermind what the cucked ultraminority of antifa says. We want a welfare system for newly wed couples and welfare for children in order to solve the demografic issue.

You allow antifas in your ranks and, if I remember correctly, you sent away a guy because he was antisemite.

I vote for M5S for the local elections, but I don't trust you for the foreign policies, sorry but you change ideas too often and, sometime, you have no ideas at all.

He had great taste in women that can't be denied

I voted for M5S when they first was running, but after these years I noticed they do not have a steady program, they are very compliant to our US overlords and basically do not know how to handle power.

love how the 99% of anons are italians but still they all write in english. we're gonna integrate way better than spics in the usa when we'll move down there (Only if Trump wins,of course)

OP is Amerilard asking for info, you faccia di cazzo. Why speak italian?