Brazil

[kallend 1,623]

Taking a leaf from the Trump playbook.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/08/bolsonaro-supporters-brazil-congress/

[wmw999 2,120]

Yep. Total shit show. But Bolsonaro did Trump one better — by leaving the country, he’s not going to be accused of drumming them up quite as directly 

Wendy P. 

[gowlerk 1,905]

47 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

Yep. Total shit show. But Bolsonaro did Trump one better — by leaving the country, he’s not going to be accused of drumming them up quite as directly 

Wendy P. 

It will be a test for the Brazilian nation. 

[ryoder 1,381]

From the "Rep Jack Kimble" parody account on Twitter:

Must be tourism season in Brazil

[JerryBaumchen 1,047]

18 hours ago, wmw999 said:

Yep. Total shit show. But Bolsonaro did Trump one better — by leaving the country, he’s not going to be accused of drumming them up quite as directly 

Wendy P. 

Hi Wendy,

And, it looks some here want him gone:  some Democrats called for that predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, to get kicked out of the United States

U.S., Canada, Mexico slam Brazil unrest amid questions on Bolsonaro’s Florida stay - POLITICO

Jerry Baumchen

 

 

[riggerrob 558]

Scary!

Sooner or later, some bunch of rabid election-deniers are going to over-throw a recently-elected gov't in the Third World.

The only thing worse is the way that politicians manage to convince the working class to do their dirty work for them. See the American Civil War when white, lower-class men did the bulk of the fighting and dying, but after the war those "white trash" got displaced by recently-freed slaves.

I can say "white trash" since I am of Scots-Irish descent and was raised in the Appalachian Mountains, albeit the North end of the Appalachians, in Southern Quebec.