• selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    It blows my mind just thinking this guy almost won the presidency of the second biggest country of the continent. Two days ago he was voting and lecturing about democracy.

  • LSTNYER@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Criminals used to flee America. Now we’re importing them and giving them government jobs. I hate this timeline

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      He is an asset of Trump (more specifically of Rubio) to destabilize Brazil’s democracy. He lost and now he is going to the US to ask asylum. Besides that, he’s a notorious corrupt politician and there are many criminal investigations that will proceed now that he’s close to losing parliamentary protection.

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    More info from the similar Guardian article:

    Bolsonaro allies told Metrópoles [news outlet] that he would land in Florida on Tuesday afternoon and planned to request political asylum. “The Donald Trump administration has been informed,” the website added.

    A US state department spokesperson said Bolsonaro and his family would be granted visas “to allow them entry into the United States.”

    Bolsonaro has had Italian citizenship since 2023 and reportedly possesses a passport from the European country.

    Lula slammed what he called Bolsonaro’s “shameful” decision to flee. “This is what the family Bolsonaro are like. Brazil is their second homeland. Their first homeland is licking the boots of the US, as he’s become accustomed to doing,” he said at an event celebrating his 81st birthday in Brasília.

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        Pretty much. All of this is part of their theater. He flies from facing the consequences of his crimes but the far right will of course spin it around, lying about some political witch hunt. It’s always the same with these criminal politicians. Everyone else is the bad one. They know they simply have to keep denying everything and some idiots will keep believing them. It’s sad, really.

      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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        And the Untied States will invade Brazil to install him as president. I wish I was kidding and didn’t see this as a real possibility

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          Not a fucking chance. What we would do, is cut a deal with their military to seize control, which, is what we did in Venezuela in case no one told you that yet.

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          Brazil isn’t Venezuela, much bigger, stronger institutions, stronger army etc. Never say never but you think Trump is eager on getting into another Iran war?

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            He’s an idiot. Also a narcissist, so easy to manipulate. He always thinks he’s right and he always thinks he knows better. He’s unpredictable imo.

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            Well…Iran is a vast country, with a deeply rooted regime, strong military, proxies all over the Middle East ánd the ability to chokehold global energy supplies…

            …and yet Trump was stupid enough to wage war on Iran on a whim. Nuff said.

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            Do you think Trump has the prefrontal cortex mass remaining for that level of critical thinking?

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            Never say never but you think Trump is eager on getting into another Iran war?

            I hate that this question doesn’t have a clear an immediate answer as “of course not!”. Because… yes, I can see pedohitler considering this to hide the disaster of Iran.

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              Lol! In two more steps he will be trading nuclear hits with France and the UK to distract the population from his earlier mistakes…

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                I noticed that my phone no longer autocorrects wwiii to WWII, and has started correcting it to WWIII

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          Don’t worry, if we were to elect a government in Australia that worked for the people they’d do the same here.

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            I tried to get hired on as a cement operator (oil and gas) in Australia for a bit. You all dodged a bullet on that one. I would have been there illegally for damn sure after that work posting ended.

            Edit: drinking all your Goon.

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    Brazil showing the US how it’s done. Trump should’ve been that scared after Jan 6.

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    What other Brazilian would be able to fly here on a questionable passport (seeing as he was ordered to surrender it) with no clear plans to ever go back to Brazil? I promise if he was pregnant they would kick his ass back home after some torture.

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      What other Brazilian would be able to fly here on a questionable passport (seeing as he was ordered to surrender it) with no clear plans to ever go back to Brazil?

      Perhaps his brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who has already been living in the US while facing an arrest warrant in Brazil.

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        Don’t forget about Alexandre Ramagem, former congressman and director of ABIN (Brazil’s CIA)

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    A Latin American illegally entering the US on a revoked passport? How much would you bet ICE would cuff him at the airport if he was anyone else?