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'Unqualified, dangerous': the oddball officials running Bolsonaro's Brazil
While the far-right president has trashed norms the lower ranks of his administration have shown jaw-dropping offensiveness
Tom Phillips and Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Thu 2 Jan 2020 05.05 EST
Brazils far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, and his gun-loving sons have hogged the headlines during his first year in power with their incendiary declarations, social media meltdowns and scandal-hit lives.
Endless column inches have also been devoted to the eccentricities and extremist ideas of his top lieutenants, including the foreign minister who insists climate change is a Marxist plot and the education minister who enjoys tweeting about his dogs habit of defecating on Brazils top newspapers.
But the lower ranks of Brazils government apparatus are also being populated with less well-known characters who trumpet white supremacist slogans and rage against the left.
Say whatever you like about Bolsonaro, one has to recognize his rare talent of choosing the most unqualified, lunatic and/or dangerous people for jobs, the journalist Mauro Ventura wrote earlier this month.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/bolsonaro-brazil-government-oddball-officials
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'Unqualified, dangerous': the oddball officials running Bolsonaro's Brazil (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jan 2020
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Eugene
(61,906 posts)1. Gee, that has an awfully familiar ring to it.
Kakistocracy... only the best people.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)3. Oddballs? How about our downright dangerous and totally unqualified dorks running our government?
Jeesh!