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So, what happened in Brazil yesterday?
It was a runoff election, between Lula daSilva and Flavio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro had won the first round handily.
Between the first round and the second, there was (at least one) debate. That debate consisted of daSilva promising to arrest and jail Bolsonaro just as soon as the election was run. Apparently you can't arrest a presidential candidate in Brazil, but you can arrest him after the election. No crime required.
Polls were supposed to close at 5 PM. At a few minutes past 5, after some results had even been reported, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that polls would be open another two hours. Stated reason: buses weren't running in one city. They had arrested the guy who was in charge of the buses earlier in the day.
And, lo and behold, daSilva wins 51% to 49%. Results announced roughly two minutes after the polls closed a second time.
Now, Brazil uses 100% electronic voting machines with no paper record. Other than the few results which were returned before the Court intervened, there is no way of knowing what the count would have been without the two hour extension. And there is absolutely no way to audit this result.
If I was Flavio, I'd flee Brazil as quickly as I could get my family together to do so. It was stupid to try to challenge the marxists holding all the cards and all the election machinery. Effectively Brazil is a dictatorship now and only a fool wouldn't see it.
The "Democrats", and the Left in general, is consumed by abject hatred for anyone who would resist them. This is nothing new. But it's now out there, and in everyone's face, and it's getting worse, not better.
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Hey @ewarren, you backed adding four Supreme Court seats with Biden in the White House. Four extra appointments for your own party’s president. You also wanted to abolish the filibuster when it blocked your agenda.
You called that protecting democracy.
You’re awfully comfortable rewriting the rules when Democrats stand to benefit. Your own Senate website still has the receipts.
'An excessive number of extradition requests for Brazilian nationals - initiated by Alexandre de Moraes on questionable grounds - has led these countries to conclude that Brazil is a dictatorship engaged in political persecution.'
🚨 BREAKING NEWS - The United States, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Poland, England, and Japan are no longer accepting requests originating from the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF).
An excessive number of extradition requests for Brazilian nationals - initiated by Alexandre de Moraes on questionable grounds - has led these countries to conclude that Brazil is a dictatorship engaged in political persecution.
Photo: American Representative Maria Elvira Salazar shows the face of Brazilian tyrannical bastard Alexandre de Moraes to the entire world.
Karl Wright retweeted
After all this time we’ve finally found the only foreigner that these assholes don’t want to let into America
Losing an election is not grounds for asylum.
Yet the Trump Administration is giving Flávio Bolsonaro safe haven in the United States. In Brazil, he is under investigation for alleged corruption, money laundering and currency evasion, and was ordered to surrender his passports.
The Trump Administration owes Congress answers on its role helping Bolsonaro flee Brazil in contravention of Brazilian law.
apnews.com/article/brazil-fl…
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Prior to any votes being counted Brazil Judge Alexandre de Moraes had already prepared an order to seize Bolsonaro's passports and bar him from leaving the country despite not having been charged with a crime.
What is occurring in Brazil is what happens when you allow corruption to penetrate your most fundamental institutions.
A democratic system cannot function with a corrupted judiciary and once you lose your judiciary, there is no going back.
Brazil should be a warning to all.
Brazilian authorities and media are trying to find out where Flavio Bolsonaro is.
Brazil's notorious authoritarian Judge Alexandre de Moraes -- before the votes were counted -- already had an order prepared to seize Bolsonaro's passports and bar him from leaving the country even though **he's been charged with no crime** (there are various pending financial investigations). Moraes signed the order barring Bolsonaro from leaving Brazil SEVEN MINUTES after Lula was declared the winner on Sunday night.
A media outlet in Argentina this morning reported that Bolsonaro entered Argentina to fly to the US. His friends and allies deny this, but Flavio could easily just appear in Brazil or even by video and has not done so. Argentina is being sketchy, evasive and somewhat uncooperative with Brazil's federal police (Lula and Milei are obviously not allies).
Whatever else is true, it is not exactly a sign of a healthy, normal or functioning democracy when the candidate who narrowly loses a presidential race -- and concedes defeat -- is suddenly barred from leaving the country by a Supreme Court Judge now globally notorious for censoring, imprisoning and otherwise persecuting his critics and opponents of Lula's government. It is also worth noting that Bolsonaro's party dominates the Senate, having run on a vow to impeach Moraes, and this is seen by many as a kind of leverage/hostage ploy by Moraes to cling to power.
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Lula da Silva’s party has posted a message stating that more arrests of opposition figures are coming in the next few hours.
In this instance, it concerns Senator Deltan Dallagnol. The situation unfolding in Brazil is extremely serious; it is likely that all opposition figures will be imprisoned.
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The future of the US if Democrats gain the White House.
This is extremely serious. It can and will happen here. They’re openly talking about it.
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Me fellow Americans,
If communism ever takes over America, there’s nowhere left for us to flee.
America has always been a refuge for those escaping tyranny. But if we lose freedom here, where do we go?
There is no second America.
We are the last stand for freedom.
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"This is America, my friend. This is the United Nations. This isn't your communist dictatorship. You cannot silence me."
Ambassador Mike Waltz said that at the UN today after Cuba's delegation tried to shout him down in the annual embargo debate. Havana screams "blockade." Waltz says American companies shipped Cuba over $876 million in goods in the first eight months of 2026, including $230 million in fuel. Strangest blockade ever: it delivers.
A regime that jails dissidents lecturing the world on dignity. In 2024 only Israel voted with us. Last year seven nations voted no and 12 abstained. Tomorrow's vote shows who still buys the act.
A lot of people (who should know better) ask why charges aren't brought against people for whom justice seems more than overdue.
The reason is simple: You cannot indict even the most egregious crime in Washington DC, so long as the defendant is part of the "Democratic" Party ecosystem. Just cannot happen. DoJ knows this. Everyone else should learn it too.
Breaking news: A grand jury rejected the DOJ’s attempt to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter. wapo.st/4jFAkbz
Pretending that the Bolsonaro family has any chance of fair justice in Brazil is a dead giveaway that you're dealing with an authoritarian.
I wonder if Joaquin is related to Fidel or Raul? Inquiring minds want to know.
Losing an election is not grounds for asylum.
Yet the Trump Administration is giving Flávio Bolsonaro safe haven in the United States. In Brazil, he is under investigation for alleged corruption, money laundering and currency evasion, and was ordered to surrender his passports.
The Trump Administration owes Congress answers on its role helping Bolsonaro flee Brazil in contravention of Brazilian law.
apnews.com/article/brazil-fl…
Remarkable indeed.
"Democrats" are full-on marxist authoritarians - or, at the very least, full-throated supporters of marxist authoritarianism.
The Democrats’ reaction to America welcoming Flávio Bolsonaro and his family tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
Apparently, criminal gang members, lowlifes, and communists are welcome, but successful, freedom-loving anti-communists are not.
What a remarkable set of standards.
Karl Wright retweeted
No one should be surprised by this. Not because Bolsonaro would be better for business, though he may be, but because this type of blatant election stealing is NOT the hallmark of an emergent first world country
Investors understand this and move their money accordingly
Brazil cannot ignore the rule of law like this and be expected to be treated like grownups.
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In this alternative reality, the opposition leader who is out of power fleeing into exile, and the father who is in prison are the authoritarians. And the guy who controls all security forces of the state, the electoral system, and largely the media through state subsidies, and who ordered a travel ban on his opponent within seven minutes of being declared the winner of the presidential election after having his former lawyer acting as judge extend the closure of the polls and suspend the counting for two hours is the democratic man representing the will of the people.
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Yesterday, Brazil showed the world that the will of the people is stronger than the authoritarians who try to suppress it. Congratulations President @LulaOficial and congratulations Brazil.
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🔥😳WOW… THIS IS INSANITY.
BENZSTRADAMUS @MikeBenzCyber
laid it all all out last year regarding Brazil.
We just watched another possible stolen election in Brazil and Flávio Bolsonaro who said he was going to file for the annulment suddenly says he won’t now because they took his passport and detained him.
This was right after he went to see his father who’s still under house arrest. Same playbook.
The Biden Administration sent THE HEAD OF THE CIA BURNS, SEC. OF DEFENSE LLOYD AUSTIN, NULAND and the rest of them down to Brazil to THREATEN their counterparts before the 2022 election. Don’t question the electronic voting result.
Don’t let Bolsonaro challenge it. Burns told them to stop casting doubt,m… Lloyd leaned on the military… Nuland reinforced the message. They coup-proofed it in advance.
Oh and GEORGE SOROS RIGHT HAND MAN AT OSF WAS THE CHAIRMAN OF SMARTMATIC THE ELECTRONIC VOTING COMPANY.
Mark Malloch-Brown. Yes, the same Open Society Foundation. George Soros the number one donor to the Democrats and his guy was running the machines that got shipped into sensitive elections. Unreal.
Then Brazil throws Bolsonaro in prison for leading a crusade against electronic voting machines. Semiconductors get sent in the middle of a shortage by the Biden State Department to the Brazilian Supreme Court to build secret voting machines.
USAID drops $80 million to fund the Lula side and propped them up while helping the censorship. Narrow loss. Sound familiar?
Now it’s the sequel. Flávio loses, talks about annulling it, and within hours Moraes has the police stop him in the street, cancel his passports and bar him from leaving.
He’s suddenly not filing the annulment.
They neutralized the challenge in 2022 with CIA, Defense and Nuland threats. They’re neutralizing the challenge in 2026 by taking the passport and locking him down the second he questions it.
Personally I think after the midterms Trump should give Lula the Maduro treatment.
They stole an election & THREATENED the real winner and are terrorizing his family & depriving the citizens of Brazil of THEIR VOTE.
Lula always was a globalist ILLEGITIMATE REGIME. End it.