Turns out that Bolsonaro is way more democratic and responsible

[malaise]

than the Slobfather and his goons. Bannon, Pillow Guy and Slobby must be so disappointed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63494525

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has appealed to truckers protesting against Sunday's election results to clear the roads and protest elsewhere.

Supporters of the far-right president have erected hundreds of roadblocks across Brazil since it was announced that Mr Bolsonaro's left-wing rival Lula won the election.

Mr Bolsonaro said blocking roads was not a part of "legitimate" protests.

He encouraged people to choose other ways of demonstrating.

[hlthe2b]

1. You have to know Trump, Bannon and all his ilk have pressured the hell out of him to

allow the "unrest/set-ups" (they surely arranged in the event of his losing) to proceed. I'd have to suspect Bolsonaro KNOWS he can't trust Trump any more than we do. The history of US relationships with South American dictators is fraught at best and someone like Trump would not think twice about turning on Bolsonaro for his own benefit.

So, maybe he actually does sincerely care about his country, unlike Trump... or maybe he just sees the writing on the wall and is biding his time for the next election. We shall see.

[malaise]

3. So true

but at least he called them out.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. Sure helps to show up Trump, Bannon,

And the other scum for the traitors they truly are.

[malaise]

4. I've been studying this one recently and I have a serious question

Are the big banks facilitating the rise of fascism? Remember now the German bank has provided loads of money for the Slobfather.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon

[SergeStorms]

9. More like the entire corporate world.

The rise in record corporate profits, and creating rampant inflation for voters just before election time, certainly suggests they're attempting to sway the outcome of the mid-term elections.

But they wouldn't do that. Would they?

[Eugene]

5. More like Dump telling the Jan. 6 rioters to go home late in the day.

Reluctant and late in coming.

Brazilian citizens already started clearing out the roadblocks. This strategy wasn't going to work.

Bolsonaro is allowing a transition, but he still hasn't acknowledged the election result.

It's a case of partially doing the right thing... after trying every alternative.

Bolsonaro's autocratic instincts just aren't as greedily stupid as TFG's.

[malaise]

6. Good points

Like the last line

[mopinko]

7. in fairness, i assume he doesnt have 1/10th the army of goons at all levels.

cuz he prolly hasnt spent a lifetime bribing and blackmailing anyone and everyone to get what he wants.
if he had the mango menace's war machine, i think this falls out very diff.

[malaise]

8. Not sure I agree

All of our countries have goons who can be bought on the cheap.

[mopinko]

14. i think he takes it to a new level.

same playbook, true. same as it ever was.
but- he strong armed ppl for the sport of it. he was soooooo good at it.
it is true his money is a fun house mirror. his power and connections r not.

i mean, roger stone. does this guy have a manafort and stone? sure, he has thugs and evil. but does he has slick assholes like all these freaks?
stone stole 2000 in plain sight... and has only filled the holes ever since.

[onetexan]

12. Agree. They're both crooks. Difference is the Con has alot more assets at his disposal

Bolsonaro doesn't have a means to rip the simple people off and fundraise like the Con does. This of course being many of Bolsonaro's followers are too poor to be contributing regularly to his election. The Con here is able to do so because millions of simpleminded are dumb enough to give him their money.

[localroger]

10. I strongly suspect the two days of silence

...after the election were spent feeling up military leaders to see if he had support for a coup, and we're seeing this "responsibility" because the answer was no.

[malaise]

15. Profound point

The Supreme Court also made its position clear.

[piddyprints]

11. Well, it is a pretty low bar.

It would be hard to be less democratic and responsible than the Slobfather and his goons.

[lark]

13. Putin and his greedy hate filled acolyte tfg are the true fascists.

The guy in Belarus isn't far behind.

[malaise]

17. Bannon is as bad or worse than any of them

He is a true monster.

[lark]

18. Bannon is a hanger on, yes, very toxic, but basically a follower.

He's like Guiliani, dangerous because of his associations and who he supports.

[malaise]

19. After reading everything about him on that Wiki link Imam no longer

sure that he’s just a hanger on. I think he’s an ambitious evil fuck.
The good news is that he is an incompetent two-bit loser who thinks he’s a genius.

[lark]

20. Yes, totally agree that he's a loser who thinks he's a genius.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. good thread.

[malaise]

21. It's evolving

Dammit😀
When I return home I am going to list all of his losses ending with the result in Brazil.

[Evolve Dammit]

25. Ha! Good one

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. Not everyone is an asshole/cry baby like TFG

[republianmushroom]

23. A lot more class than the ORANGE A-O

but than one can walk thru a dog kennel and have stuff on his shoe that has more class than the ORANGE A-O. IMO

[CottonBear]

24. Biden, sent the CIA Director, a career diplomat, to speak directly w/ Bolsonaro in 2021

President Biden and his administration were proactive.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/05/cia-director-bolsonaro-brazil-voting-system-election

Brazil

CIA director urged Bolsonaro to stop doubting Brazil’s voting system – report

Fears Brazilian president might refuse to accept defeat in this year’s election as leftist rival Lula is set to announce candidacy

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Thu 5 May 2022 17.02 BST
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The CIA director William Burns urged Jair Bolsonaro to stop questioning his country’s voting system, it has been claimed, amid growing fears the Brazilian president might refuse to accept defeat in this year’s election.
Polls suggest Bolsonaro, a far-right populist famed for his adulation of Donald Trump, will struggle to secure a second term when about 150 million Brazilians head to the polls in October to choose their next leader.

…snip…

On Thursday, Reuters claimed that last year the CIA chief had told top Bolsonaro officials their president should stop casting doubt on Brazil’s voting system during an “intimate” private encounter in the capital, Brasília.

When the meeting took place, in July last year, Bolsonaro hinted Burns’s visit was partly motivated by US concern over the political situation in neighbouring countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. However, Reuters claimed Burns had voiced concern over the situation in Brazil, telling two of Bolsonaro’s closest allies that “the democratic process was sacred, and that Bolsonaro should not be talking in that way” about the election.