Brazil General Discussion 2019: It's Slammer Time!

[buritobr]

In 3.5 years in the office, Jair Bolsonaro didn't have a bilateral meeting with a western European leader. He met some of these leaders only in g20 summits and in the WEF in Davos.

[NewYorkExpress]

A Bolsonaro supporter murdered an official in Worker's Party.

[buritobr]

Congressman David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's husband, is in the hospital, in a very bad situation. Last week, he started feeling not well in the intestine, and he had to go to the hospital. He is young and he used to be a healthy guy. His dog had to go to the vet because it has the same disease.

[Mike88]

Happy 200th anniversary Brazil!!!

[buritobr]

Happy 200th anniversary Brazil!!!

Obrigado!

In this video, we can see the meaning of the national dates and the history of the anniversary of the Brazilian independence in 1872, 1922, 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkACtj7AIzc

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Happy 200 years!

Viva Brasil!

[Alben Barkley]

Looks like the polls underestimated Bolsonaro...

[CumbrianLefty]

Looks like the polls underestimated Bolsonaro...

Generally suspicious of "shy voter" theses, but in this case there may indeed have been a few who were unwilling to admit supporting the literal personification of evil.

[Hope For A New Era]

Looks like the polls underestimated Bolsonaro...

Generally suspicious of "shy voter" theses, but in this case there may indeed have been a few who were unwilling to admit supporting the literal personification of evil.

Standard "right-wing populist on ballot in two-candidate (or practically two-candidate, if not technically so) election" poll pattern. Opponent gets roughly their poll percentage, while the vast majority of "undecideds" vote for the RWP candidate.

You'd think polling companies would have figured this out by now and adjusted their polls accordingly. Apparently not.

[Senator-elect Spark]

If Bolsonaro loses, will he transfer power?

[NewYorkExpress]

Apparently Bolsonaro's proud of being a cannibal?

It was a shocking statement, even for a politician who has glorified torturers and called for rivals to be shot.

“I’d eat an Indian, no problem at all,” Jair Bolsonaro bragged to a foreign journalist in 2016, as he described a trip to an Indigenous community where he had purportedly been offered the chance to consume human flesh.

Indigenous leaders have rejected Bolsonaro’s boast as yet another lie from Brazil’s far-right president. The Yanomami people from the territory Bolsonaro claims to have visited say they have never engaged in such acts.

However, footage of Bolsonaro’s cannibalism comments – first broadcast on his official YouTube channel six years ago – has gone viral on social media and been seized on by Brazil’s opposition as further proof of the president’s depravity.

“Bolsonaro has revealed that he would eat human flesh,” a television advert produced by Bolsonaro’s leftist rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared on Friday after the remarks were unearthed.

[FT-02 Senator A.F.E. 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

https://twitter.com/brianmtelesur/status/1581632507178426370

[Red Velvet]

Bolsonarists in defense mode is fun. Now they will have to waste money on online ads saying Bolsonaro is not a pedophile. Already saw some.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Bolsonarists in defense mode is fun. Now they will have to waste money on online ads saying Bolsonaro is not a pedophile. Already saw some.

"I'm not a pedophile. I’m nothing you’ve heard. I’m you.”

[NewYorkExpress]

Bolsonarists in defense mode is fun. Now they will have to waste money on online ads saying Bolsonaro is not a pedophile. Already saw some.

"I'm not a pedophile. I’m nothing you’ve heard. I’m you.”

I almost wonder who Christine O'Donnell would have endorsed in this election.