Brazil

[heydaralon]

Did Paulo get a helicopter ride?

[C-Mag]

Did Paulo get a helicopter ride?

[Speaker to Animals]

Did Paulo get a helicopter ride?

Last we heard from Paulo, he was heading into the Amazon to protect some tribe of Amazonians from the evil rubber company that wanted to move them to a different area for worker safety. Turns out the rubber company was worried that they were cannibals. Oh well. He died helping the people that he loved. God bless his bleeding heart.

[TheReal_ND]

Brazilian Presidential Candidate Jair Bolsonaro Stabbed During Rally

Disturbing.

And Bolsonaro Wins
Brazilian Election: Nationalist Congressman Jair Bolsonaro Wins Presidency – Another Rebuke of Establishment Politics…

Some have called him the Brazilian Trump, a populist candidate for the presidency. His mantra: “Brazil Above Everything, God Above Everyone”. The professional political elites who rule within international circles have been throwing every attack possible at candidate Jair Bolsonaro.
Two-months-ago his left-wing political opposition stabbed him in the liver in an attempted assassination. Bolsonaro believes in open market free-trade; Brazil-first nationalism, and protecting the integrity of the Brazillian national identity.
Today he wins the presidency. The global progressive movement is going bananas…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/

Long live Jungle Hitler!

[Fife]

Of course there is no commentary from Carlin, but Carlin Lite is on it.

Somebody get a Maid of Orleans lifeline out to him.

[Speaker to Animals]

Sad.

[Martin Hash]

I’ve considered the Death Squads aspect of The Right: per my experience, no one changes ideologies; if Marxists just keep gaining strength, there’s no other way to stop them. Democracy fails in this application.

p.s. I’m not condoning Death Squads, but like genocide, I see the horrible logic in it.

[Speaker to Animals]

Yeah, it usually happens as a response to Marxism. I look at it more as a social response to stimuli. Regrettable, and I wouldn't want to participate, but it happens all the time in history since the advent of Marxism.

[Fife]

I gave Danielle and his followers a reply on the twitter asking for clarification.

[Fife]

Some interesting history and current reporting from a Brazilian journo now living in California:

Understanding "Brazil’s Donald Trump"

Bolsonaro, who served in the Brazilian Army's field artillery and parachutist groups through the late 1970s and 1980s, was a product of the regime, which relied on public support thanks to its anti-communist rhetoric, but that in the end, installed a dictatorship very similar to what we see in socialist countries , where inflation and the nationalization of businesses are all too common.

In the minds of many of those who lived through that period, however, what they left with was the realization that they had escaped from a red future — one that would have isolated Brazil, turning it into another Cuba. Bolsonaro appears to feel the same, seeing the coup as the only alternative then to a communist takeover. And to many of his supporters now, Brazil has gone through something similar, as the government led by the Workers Party was largely to blame for the country’s disastrous economy in the past years.

To understand Bolsonaro, therefore, one must understand Brazil’s long-time war between classical liberal and socialist ideals, and how political factions seize on these ideologies whenever possible.

As the WSJ explains, Haddad is trying to rewrite the Brazilian constitution to mirror what Hugo Chávez did in Venezuela, giving the president the power to rule over military promotions. In light of what Brazilians see happening in the neighboring country , Bolsonaro’s platform, which includes privatization promises, the restraining of government spending, and the deregulation of much of the economy, sounds much more realistic and plausible, even if the candidate is, indeed, a hot-headed loudmouth.

Much like what happened in the United States during the 2016 presidential campaign, the media categorizes Bolsonaro as a “hateful” candidate, without ever analyzing or even taking into consideration how Brazilians have suffered.

It’s clear that virtue signaling pales in comparison to putting food on the table, and to the common Brazilian, the “red scare” is once again very real, as powerful politicians in the country would turn Brazil into another Venezuela in the blink of an eye.