Sometimes it seems like nothing ever happens, but this seems like it could be a big deal…
Background: The Brazilian people have flooded the streets in protest at an allegedly rigged and stolen election. Truckers are blocking all highways. Farmers have blocked all ports from exporting agriculture. Bolsonaro has exhausted his legal options, with his election appeal being rejected by a corrupt, opposition-appointed Chief Supreme Court justice.
Bolsonaro is now huddling with the military to plot his next moves.
What is Article 142? The lying New York Times explains:
Many of the protesters said their demands for intervention were supported by Article 142 of the Brazilian Constitution, which says that the military has the role of “guaranteeing constitutional powers” under the “supreme authority of the president.”
They go on to pooh-pooh it citing “experts”:
According to constitutional lawyers and past court rulings, the article does not allow the military to take control of the government.
More from the NYT:
BRASÍLIA — They arrived by the tens of thousands on Wednesday, angry and draped in Brazilian flags, massing outside military bases across the country. They were there, they said, to save Brazil’s democracy from a rigged election, and there was only one way to do so: The armed forces needed to take control of the government.
It was an alarming demand in a country that suffered under a two-decade military dictatorship until 1985 — and yet another bizarre twist in the aftermath of Brazil’s polarizing elections.
A day earlier, the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, reluctantly agreed to a transfer of power after 45 hours of silence following his loss to a leftist former leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But after Mr. Bolsonaro’s years of unfounded attacks on Brazil’s election systems, his supporters appeared far from accepting defeat.
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The widespread protests and calls for the armed forces were an escalation of the Brazilian far-right’s refusal to accept the election of Mr. da Silva, a former president whom many on the right view as a criminal because of his past corruption scandal.
Mr. Bolsonaro, in a two-minute speech on Tuesday in which he did not acknowledge his loss, said he supported peaceful protests inspired by “feelings of injustice in the electoral process.”
Many of his followers saw that as a stamp of approval. “What he said yesterday, that gave me more energy to come,” said Larissa Oliveira da Silva, 22, who was sitting on a beach chair in the protest in São Paulo, propping up her broken foot. “After his comments, I saw that he is on our side.”
Soon?
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When is the US of A(ssholes) going to carpet bomb these terrorist white nazi brazilians into submission?
This Bolsonaro guy is supposed to just cede and roll over like a good dog, and not be questioning the integrity of the nations most secure and open election in Brazils history. Lulu better be on the phone with castro juniour and get some tips on quashing those pesky truckers too, before the bouncy castles, bar-b-ques and street cleaning drivers get settled in.
Frik’n white wing nazi’s are going to make it more costly to implement the WEF’s world domination plans. Better get the propaganda wing ahead of this, people can attend the rallies if they are boosted, papers please.
Banyan, doesn’t know we’re a Republic, he’s another fake ass fuck wad.
This should get interesting.
Sperm counts are still higher in Brazil (don’t ask how I know).
Give it two weeks.
The Brazilian military periodically has to take over when the civilian government goes 100% corrupt…Too bad the US military doesn’t have the balls to do that…
They like the trillions they get from the communists and they can shit bomb anyone they like free of hinderances like morals. Its in US of A(ssholes) security interests you know.
Plus, they get to test all the newest killing machinations that the mics can dream up. Cheney, bush’s and the like, luvs them mic kickbacks.
Something more than half a century ago I read the novel “Catch 22”. In it, at one point a minor military figure with a strong bent toward entrepreneur business schemes works out a way to cut the cost of war and increase the profits. Working with his German counterparts, he has the Germans bomb the German base, and the Americans bomb the American base. What a savings!
Maybe we have not quite reached that point, but the US military sure seems fine these days with doing NOTHING while America is conquered by enemies within.
More or less what’s going in the the Ukie. Just a fake ass gay war. The real war is against the EU (specifically Germany) and U.S and Russia on same side.
We….and the Brazilian people…should be so lucky.
I hope it won’t end in disappointment.