The Great Brazil Topic

[RodPresident]

Minister of Planning and Budget Romero Jucá (PMDB-RR) is first casualty of Temer's cabinet. He resigned after wiretapping between him and former senator Sérgio Machado (PMDB-CE), who served as CEO of Transpetro (oil transport Petrobras subsidiary) about stopping Operação Lava Jato. They talked about stopping Lava Jato and that Dilma's impeachment was the only way to do it. They talked about PSDB links to corruption schemes (They were leaders of Cardoso's government and were members of PSDB before supporting Lula), saying that "Aécio will be first to be eaten". There are talks that Machado is doing a plea bargain and have tapes with Renan Calheiros and José Sarney.

[RodPresident]

I think that a new election is the best solution for the political crisis.

But a new election can take place only if both Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer resign. Or if Michel Temer resign after the end of Dilma's impeachment process.
If he resign until December 31th 2016 (first half of the term), the new election will be direct. If he resign after December 31th 2016, the Congress will vote for the new president.

Michel Temer will resign only if there is a big pressure.
I think that, unfortunately, he will be the president until December 31th 2018.

Well, there will be pressure. At least as much pressure as Dilma faced. The question is, when is it coming to head: before or after the end of the year. It is hard to see how he survives to the end of the current term once sh**t truly hits the fan.

I have a suggestion. They should somehow get Pele into Congress, have him appointed Speaker, have Temer resign and have Pele be president for the Olympics, with election happening shortly thereafter. This is, probably, the only way Brazil avoids being a scray laughing stock right at the moment all the attention is on it.

Romário is already in Senate.
But things are getting uglier for PMDB. Now, in more one of Machado tapes, former Transpetro CEO is talking about that he helped the traitor and usurper acting President Michel Temer to finance Gabriel Chalita's failed campaign to mayor of São Paulo. And there are talks about a Machado tape with Temer.

[RodPresident]

You would think these idiots would stop talking about shady s[Inks] on telephones that might be tapped.

Machado taped not on phone, but during personal meetings with barons. As he served in Senate, he still had links with Senate masters, like Sarney, Calheiros and Jucá.

[RodPresident]

Eduardo Cunha resigned today. He is not the president of the House anymore. But he is still a representative. Maybe, there was an agreement with his allies so that he could resign without losing his term as a representative.
Eduardo Cunha met Michel Temer in Temer's office last week.

He's a removed representative. Things for Cunha are very complicated. His main bribe operator, Lucio Bolonha Funaro, was arrested after a bargain plea by Flavio Cleto, former Vice President of Caixa. Cunha was appointed as receiver of 80% of bribes. But a delation of Cunha is very feared by usurper acting government. Now Cunha is under juridisction of 2nd Group of Federal Supreme Court, led by Gilmar Mendes, a very pro-PSDB partisan judge, who makes a pact to save Cunha very likely.

[RodPresident]

Today, Coup's Trial was started by Senate, presided by President of Supreme Court Ricardo Lewandowsky. Audit's Court Prosecutor Julio Marcelo, one of main accusers of President Dilma Rousseff, was refused as witness, because his positions for rejection of Dilma's govermnent accounts. He was accepted only as informant, unable to produce proofs against Rousseff.
And Car Wash are receiving attacks from pro-PSDB members of Judiciary after a leak of OAS (building company) about a household renovation of Federal Supreme Court Minister Dias Toffoli (Lula's appointee but that became aligned with Gilmar Mendes, most anti-PT Supreme Court minister).

[RodPresident]

Repression is starting in Brazil. Sao Paulo's police repressed anti-Temer acts with ferocious methods. They used gas bombs and rubber bullets against demonstrators. Deborah Fabri, 19, student, lost eye view because of a rubber bullet against her. In Rio Grande do Sul, Mauro Rogerio Silva dos Santos, a lawyer was assaulted by policemen while he tried to prevent agressions against demonstrators. His son reacted against a policeman and was charged of a manslaughter attempt! He was tortured with attempts of asphyxia and death threats by policemen. And he's black, another factor that made torture stronger.

Torture video
In Salvador, there are anti-Temer acts everyday.

[RodPresident]

For the Americans who read this thread, imagine the following situation, an analogy for Dilma's impeachment:

Consider that the USA has a Democratic president and a Republican strong majority in both houses of the Congress. The vice president is a conservative Democrat who has close ties to Republican leaders. The Democratic president accepted this ticket in the election in order to have centrist votes. There is an economic crisis. The president wants to increase taxes in order to reduce the budget deficits. The Congress wants to cut spending in welfare. No agreement is reached. Then, the Congress finds a minor mistake commited by the president as an excuse to impeach him. The conservative Democrat VP becomes the president and appoints top Republican leaders to be secretaries. He leads a conservative administration supported by the Republicans in the Congress. Since the USA is a more serious country, I don't believe this situation could happen there.

In Brazil, party presidents are very powerful. If they don't like a thing, party hardly will go for it. Temer was President of PMDB and Speaker of Chamber in 2010. And Temer wing remained very close to PSDB until 2006 (I remember Temer standing behind Alckmin in 2006 concession speech).

[RodPresident]

There were demonstrations in many state capitals calling for Michel Temer's resignation and new presidential election.
In São Paulo, there were 100.000 demonstrators. After a peaceful rally, the riot police started the violence.

In previous day, effective illegitimate president said that acts were made only by "40 persons who only break cars".

[RodPresident]

In last Monday, former Speaker and coup's mastermind Eduardo Cunha (still PMDB-RJ) was expelled from Chamber of Deputies by 450 to 10 voting. 9 abstained (including Majority Leader André Moura, one of most loyal Cunha allies) and 43 were absent. Carlos Marun (PMDB-MS) was the only to speak in his favour, while Edson Moreira (PR-MG) spoke and abstained.  Speaker Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ) didn't vote. Cunha after voting said that his expulsion from congress was made by a coalition between Temer, Maia, PT and allies. Many people in Temer's government fear a Cunha plea bargain.

[RodPresident]

One thing I just can't comprehend...

Temer was allowed to take office in August, despite being found guilty of breaking campaign finance rules in June. He's thus banned from running for any office for the next eight years, but somehow it's OK for him to take over as President.

Mind blown.

In judicial brazilian system, an electoral crime is a different to a common crime. And Temer was found guilty by 2nd degree trial who makes him a "dirty sheet" politician. But he's appealing this decision. Today, Regional Electoral Court of Sao Paulo is trying a similar case that can alter Temer's situation.
Today, "Car Wash" prosecutors indicted former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva for passive bribery and money laundering along former First Lady Marisa Leticia, aide Paulo Okamoto and people linked to builder OAS. In a power point full of mistakes, like "proinocracy", prosecutors tried to show that Lula received bribes and was maximum commander of Petrobras corruption scheme. This case is very weak, but "Car Wash" judge Moro is very likely to accept denounce and to find guilty, while PSDB politicians sleep soundly.

[RodPresident]

Far right groups have already scheduled a pro-Trump rally which will take place on October 29th, at downtown São Paulo. They will rally against Hillary Clinton, the "American Dilma".

They're so dumb. As all of Brazilian right. Hillary supports American Free Trade Agreement, received money from Itau (Brazilian largest private bank), and Bill have good relations with PSDB. She's all that coupist government wants.
#ForaTemer
#ForaHillary

[RodPresident]

Judge of Supreme Court Teori Zavascki died in a plane crash.
He was in charge of the "Lava Jato"
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38685289

Brazilian "Pelican Brief" is happening. By Supreme Court rules, Zavascki's replacement (to be named by illegitimate president Michel #foratemer will manage Car Wash inquiry. Temer's government leader and PMDB president Romero Jucá (PMDB-RR) in one tapes recorded by former senator and Transpetro Sergio Machado (PMDB-CE) who made a plea bargain...
MACHADO: "A way is to get someone with a link with Teori, but it looks that he doesn't have anyone.
JUCÁ: No one. He's a closed guy. A sh**t bureaucrat.

[RodPresident]

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/03/14/brazil-president-michel-temer-flees-ghosts-oscar-niemeyer-home-palacio-da-alvorada-brasilia


Is Temer doing it on purpose or something?

And he spent $7000 of our money to refurbish and install a child safety screen in palace. Legitimate president Dilma Rousseff trolled Temer saying that "she didn't see any phantoms in palace".

[RodPresident]

Brazil's state of exception promoted by Car Wash is showing signs of getting deeper. Judge Sergio Moro ordered that blogger Eduardo Guimaraes to be taken from home for questioning. Guimaraes, who ran for town councilor for PC do B in São Paulo, leaked in February, 2016 about Lula's arrest for questioning and the search warrant against seat of Workers Party. They took his equipment (notebook and smartphone) to know about his sources. Guimaraes has already denounced Moro in National Council of Justice (judiciary's control board) for his pratices. And Moro accuses Guimaraes of libel. I'd compare this affair with Assange's wikileaks, as Moro and allies are trying to take informations from Guimaraes notebook and smartphone about his sources, as trying to retaliate Guimaraes.
https://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/moro-viola-sigilo-de-fonte-de-blogueiro-que-o-denunciou-no-cnj
http://jornalggn.com.br/noticia/com-o-caso-eduardo-guimaraes-moro-atravessa-o-rubicao

[RodPresident]

Breaking news: Michel Temer has been caught on tape asking JBS' CEO Joesley Batista to pay bribes to Eduardo Cunha to avoid a whistleblower agreement from Cunha.

This is the end of Michel Temer. I expect him to resign pretty soon after this.

JBS is world's largest meat processing group. They bought a lot of companies of meat and they mounted a large business company, including power plants, paper companies and . Aecio Neves, president of PSDB, was taped too, saying that we "need one person (to carry bribe money) that can be killed before doing a plea bargain". Bribe money to PSDB and PMDB were track backed and money was put in a company of senator Zezé Perrella (Aécio's ally).

[RodPresident]

The chances of this guy becoming President just shot up.



But ideally someone like Joaquim Barbosa will be selected.

This guy is the Commander of Brazilian Army, general Vilas Boas. But they will trying someone from justice. Marina Silva is openly courting members of justice system to get along her.

[RodPresident]

Temer lost the support of 4 more parties the parties are:

Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB)
Popular Socialist Party (PPS)
Podemos (Formerly PTN)
Humanist Solidarity Party (PHS)


Together the 4 parties have 66 deputies.

These are pretty hilarious names for pro-Temer parties.

PTN and PHS are small "rent parties" that supports who pays better them. They grow a lot after 2016. In Brazil, many congressman go from large parties to small parties to control state sections to have control over coalitions and party funds. PPS is a joke socialist party (one congressman of them is the reporter of Retirement reform), while PSB became a bizarre thing during Campos era (ultraconservatives like Paulo Bornhausen and Heráclito Fortes are in, but they have a good progressive faction, like senators da Mata and Capiberibe).

[RodPresident]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazils-president-gets-police-questions-corruption-probe-230303800.html

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Temer is getting better than Lula that was ilegally conducted to police questioning without being asked first to go to police.

[RodPresident]

Yesterday, former Speaker of Chamber of Deputies and former Minister of Tourism Henrique Eduardo Alves (PMDB-RN), one of top allies of Michel Temer, was arrested for charges of receiving bribes from building of World Cup Arena in Natal (RN) and for sharing a bribe account with his sucessor as speaker, the already jailed Eduardo Cunha. He'll join Cunha and Rodrigo Rocha Loures (boy who received a bribe bag from JBS) in jail. Things are going to be very ugly for Temer and his gang.
While that Temer is in troubles for lying about a flight going to a business forum (owned by São Paulo's mayor João Doria) in a plane owned by Joesley Batista, JBS owner who delated him. He said that he used a Air Force Plane, but flight reports showed that he went in Batista's plane and his wife received flowers from Batista.

[RodPresident]

PSDB decided to stay in Temer's government. Many say that main reason behind it is that PSDB wants PMDB support in 2018 and PSDB fears that Aecio can lose PMDB's support in Senate Ethics Committee.

[RodPresident]

Yesterday was a great day for Temer's allies: Aecio Neves (PSDB-MG) got back right to serve in Senate after a decision of Minister Marco Aurelio Mello (Collor's cousin) while Rodrigo Rocha Loures (PMDB-PR), known as Temer's "bag man" who carried JBS bribe money for Temer was released by Minister Edson Fachin.

[RodPresident]

Temer's criminal procedure report made by congressman Sergio Zveiter (PMDB-RJ) was rejected in Committee of Constitutional Affairs and Justice of Chamber by 41-20 vote. Another report, against indictment, was made by Paulo Abi-Ackel (PSDB-MG), consecrating Aecio-Temer alliance for survival. Of six PSDB members in committee, only two voted for Temer. From Maia's DEM, 3 voted against indictment and one voted for. Government's ally parties (PMDB, PTB, PR, PSD, PP) changed members to defeat Zveiter's report. Government freed a lot of money to buy support.
Lula's sentence and Temer's victor were a cover up after a labor reform was approved by Senate without ammendments.