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[Blue_Tires]

Link to tweet

It took decades to make Brazil into a functional democracy again and just a few short months to burn the whole thing down...

[Eric J in MN]

2. Greenwald is against Bolsonaro

...and has spoken out against him multiple times, including: https://mobile.twitter.com/democracynow/status/1056895437221834752

[Blue_Tires]

3. Day late and a dollar short...

Although I will admit it amuses me to no end to see him pretend to fight Bolsonaro when he's never stopped cheerleading for Trump. So you'll forgive me if his protests seem a little hollow since "woke" Glenn magically was born the day fascism came to his own fuckin' doorstep. And all the while he's been smugly mocking the #Resistance and the nightmare we've had to live under in Trumpworld... A shame Glenn wasn't able to pin the rise of Bolsonaro on Washington, he might have hustled another pulitzer out of that one.

If Glenn really tries to oppose Bolsonaro, he's getting a .357 through the dome... So I honestly hope he does go for it.

[Maven]

4. Also I notice that he goes the extra step in another tweet of distinguishing Bolsonaro from Trump

As an old-school right-wing demagogue as opposed to the newer more "modern" alt-right.

[Blue_Tires]

5. He's upped his game... Made it a bit more subtle and lowkey

Because he's got to balance the role of wannabe resistance leader for his Brazilian audience, while maintaining his ANTI-resistance, anti-Kremlingate stance for the leftbros in North America and Europe...

And I'm going to enjoy watching it all fall apart...

[KayF]

6. many people first heard of Bolsonaro from this 2014 article

in The Intercept:

https://theintercept.com/2014/12/11/misogynistic-hateful-elected-official-democacratic-world-brazils-jair-bolsonaro/

Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman
December 11 2014, 10:48 a.m.

THE MOST MISOGYNISTIC, HATEFUL ELECTED OFFICIAL IN THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD: BRAZIL’S JAIR BOLSONARO

After do Rosário left the podium, Jair Bolsonaro – a right-wing Congressman since 1990 who served in the military during the dictatorship and is still an ardent defender of it – stood to speak. He began by immediately demanding that do Rosário, who was preparing to leave the chamber, remain to hear him, yelling: “No, Maria do Rosário, don’t leave! Stay here, Maria do Rosário. Stay!” Referencing her statements about the well-documented use of rape by the military dictatorship against female opponents, he bellowed: “I would not rape you. You don’t merit that.” The meaning was clear, particularly in the original Portuguese: while some women are good enough to be so blessed, do Rosário wasn’t even good enough to deserve his rape.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R for excellent, insightful thread title!1