{"id":13240,"date":"2026-06-28T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:30:00","slug":"alexis-tependriss-and-anyway-the-crazy-fifty-something-half-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13240","title":{"rendered":"Alexis\u2026 Tependris\u2019s \u201cand anyway\u201d\u2026: the \u201ccrazy fifty-something\u201d\u2026 half-kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A patriot and a revolutionary, standing with the people and supporting major investments, Alexis Tsipras is here, just like another Andreas Tependris.<\/p>\n<p>     Alexis Tsipras appeared at the <b>National Council of the I.X. <\/b>party<\/b> he founded, once again promising money from the \u201cmoney tree\u201d he brought over from the headquarters of SYRIZA, showing that not only has he not changed, but <b>he is once again peddling the same fairy tale of the revolutionary semi-teenager who is already over 50. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>     From <b>\u201cthe sea has no borders\u201d <\/b>he moved on to <b>\u201cleftist patriotism\u201d<\/b> and, in a brief speech, once again displayed his <b>\u201ceither way\u201d tactic,<\/b> since, while presenting himself as the <b>Robin Hood of the poor<\/b> and the people\u2014accusing the 1% of living off the backs of the 99%\u2014he also spoke of major investments that might come, perhaps because the investors know that<b> he doesn\u2019t really mean what he says about taxing them<\/b>\u2014as he demonstrated during the 2015\u20132019 period. <\/p>\n<p>     With a sort of\u2026 \u201chalf-grown-up\u201d style\u2014a proverbial catchphrase from the SYRIZA era for certain people over 40 and 50 who claim to be revolutionaries\u2013 Alexis Tsipras is attempting to appeal to young people <b> thinking he\u2019s making a splash,<\/b> although this didn\u2019t go very well in 2023, despite what pollsters and analysts at the SYRIZA headquarters on Koumoundourou Street were telling them during his presidency. <\/p>\n<p>     Alexis Tsipras essentially declared himself <b>an economic wizard <\/b>\u2014as he himself has said, the economy is his strong suit\u2014after speaking of growth and benefits worth billions of euros that he will secure through\u2026 their integrity and the moral revolution that, apparently last time, <b>got lost among the institutes of Florence, scandals such as Novartis, Justice Ministry outposts operating within the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, and unbridled divisive rhetoric such as \u201cit\u2019s either us or them\u201d and \u201ceither we finish them off or they finish us off.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p>     The mention of Pavlos Marinakis in the film <b>\u201cThe Crazy Fifty-Year-Old\u201d<\/b>, starring Lambros Konstantaras as Andreas Tependris, seems to perfectly capture Alexis Tsipras\u2019s tactics. After all, Andreas Tependris pretended to be something he wasn\u2019t, closed deals without having a profession himself, and <b>promised money he didn\u2019t have.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patriot, a revolutionary, a champion of the people, and a proponent of major investments\u2014Alexis Tsipras is here, just like another Andreas Tependris.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}