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Brazil have Lula as president now. Last time he was president, he had to buy another presidential plane because the older one couldn't take off with the weight of his tungsten balls.
An arrest already? I thought you had to wait a couple of years at least. >

What’s going on with Trump is ridiculous. Especially seeing it on the front page all the time >

It's pretty clear none of our politicians want to open the Pandora's box of of locking up the wealthy and privileged classes, unless it's a violent crime of some sort.  That's not something they can step back from.
After two years of this bullshit, I can't come to any different conclusion than this. >

I think its more the pandoras box of arresting a former president . They are scared. There have been politicians who have been locked up but not a president. >

I don’t understand this. How is it possible to arrest and hold traitors accountable? What wizardry is this?? >

I have to admit that I didn’t have “I admire Brazil’s justice system. I wish the justice system in the US was more like Brazil’s.” on my 2023 bingo card. Definitely not in the first few weeks of the year. >


I admire Brazil’s justice system

Is this a joke?
We're in this mess to begin with because Brazil's blatantly partisan Justice System put Lula in prison and prevented him from running in the 2018 election, which is what led to Bolsonaro's victory that year and everything that has transpired since then!
Jesus fucking Christ people, jog your memory banks a bit and try to remember what came before Z. Either you're an ignorant foreigner who knows nothing of Brazil's political arena, which is forgivable, or worst, you are a Brazilian but have the memory of a goldfish. >

He will probably open his mouth now and bring Bolsonaro with him. >

I can already taste the tears of rage from his followers >

Ballsacknaro >

The similarities between Trump and Bolsonaro are uncanny. There have to be more cases of this happening around the world, right? >

Probably but I don't think the similarities would be as much as in this case. A part of Brazil has the terrible habit of imitating the US and Bolsonaro and it's followers' actions show that perfectly. >

It’s part imitation, yes, but look back over the last couple of  years and see why Brazil had their very own CPAC, where Bannon spent time with Bolsonaro and his sons. 
This isn’t merely imitation, it’s instruction. There’s a handbook for toppling democracies. >

Fascinating! What is Bannon, exactly? If it's not merely a coincidence, then he should be on some kind of watch list. I can't imagine the CIA wouldn't spy on him 24/7. >

Steve Bannon. He's been working with conservatives around the world to fuck up democracies for quite a while. >

He got chummy with Orban when CPAC went to Hungary didn't he, or am I thinking of someone else? >

Wow they're moving swiftly, almost like it should be taken seriously. Imagine that. >

This is what would have happened in America if Bernie was in power instead of Biden. 
The Democratic Party purposefully goes easy on the Republicans and hurt actual progressives because they both only serve capital. >

A draft order formalizing the coup was found in the former Minister's house. There is much speculation as to why the order wasn't issued. Some people are pointing that a bomb was planted in a gas truck in brasilia's airport by a Bolsonaro supporter and the bomb didn't explode because the driver saw it and called the police when he came to work. It's very possible that this terrorist attack, if it went through, would be used by Bolsonaro's government as an excuse to actually issue the order in the name of "ensuring order and safety" >

As an American. Yo. You can just do that? >

Yes, when the opposition party isn’t completely full of shit and tacitly endorsing the fascist party’s actions. >

Even if it is. What you need is a democracy, laws, and people with integrity that are paid to enforce it.
America is missing some of the list >

Respectfully, I find this to be a nonsensical comment. Institutions aren’t apolitical entities devoid of interest or bias. If you have two parties in power who agree to use or misuse the institutions in a certain way, or if you have institutions that were designed to be used in certain ways, you can’t suddenly overcome those problems with abstractions like “democracy” and “laws.” We have racist laws put in place by racist politicians who were put in place by so-called “democratic” means (I.e. gerrymandered elections, a propagandized electorate, racialized socioeconomic caste system, etc. etc). This is what has been advertised as democracy to millions of US citizens.
Most of these kinds of appeals to “democracy” are made devoid of any grounding historical or material connection to the reality in which those institutions exist. My comment is precisely about the politics of parties / people determining the behavioral outcomes of institutions, not how those institutions will magically ensure “justice” in any meaningful sense because of the presence of abstractions like laws or integrity. It all comes down to power and its use. Brazil has one of the highest corruption indexes on Earth. Lula had been imprisoned on false charges not long ago. This didn’t happen because Brazil is a nation of laws but because it’s a country where power is contested between rival parties.
The US, on the other hand, is really a single-party corporate state with two wings putting on a wrestling show. Democrats are the face, Republicans are the heel. >

👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽 >

Meanwhile, Merrick Garland and his special prosecutor continue to allow traitors and seditionists to live in luxury and continue planning their next insurrection.  Trump and co. should be waiting in jail with no bail while the investigation continues. >

tbf, the Dems in Congress had two years to enforce the 14th Amendment, and chose not to. >

Not with such a slim majority, they did not. >

Wow maybe we need a few pointers here in the US. >

Why can’t we do this? Go after the people who actually incited it? It’s ridiculously soft to only arrest the plebes. >

Because Biden is a spineless centrist more concerned with looking bipartisan than doing what is right. >

First fact I see. >

You mean there’s absolutely no reason to wait several years????? >

Brazil seems to have more guts than the US