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No surprise that AOC supports this authoritarian. A vote count tells you who won an election, not what the men who were elected may do. AOC, Bernie and others like them think it is a blank check to do as they please. A country is free when its government is limited to protecting individual rights. Brazil's majority chose a man who rejects that limit just as AOC does. Lula came out of the metalworkers' union, built the Workers' Party on class struggle, and co-founded the Foro de Sao Paulo with Fidel Castro in 1990. His fundamental premise, like AOC's, is that wealth exists to be redistributed and the man who produced it has no prior claim on it. The record after his third term: - Gross public debt at 82.9% of GDP. - A deficit of 9.48% of GDP once interest is counted. - A central bank rate of 13.75%, among the highest real interest costs in the world, paid by anyone who borrows to build or buy. On speech, one Supreme Court justice took X offline for the entire country for 40 days in 2024. Lula defended it. The same court blocked Rumble in 2025 and now holds platforms liable for user posts with no court order required. A Brazilian who wants to be heard needs the state's permission.

It is time for a change. Time for a change from treating rhetoric as a substitute for reality, where "work every day to make this country better" means another round of programs paid for with borrowed money. Time for facts and reason instead of slogans. The facts: $40 trillion in debt, $2 trillion added this year alone, and both parties still promising more. The candidates you're endorsing offer government-run healthcare and bigger spending, which is more of what produced the crisis we find ourselves in and which people like Obama want to ignore in favor of their political religion. You told us this week that your Iran deal kept the peace while the regime hid its weapons archive and enriched toward a bomb. Words don't restrain dictatorships and words don't balance budgets. A real change would be a government that protects rights, spends within its means, and leaves producers free. You and everyone on your ballot is offering the opposite.

Here are the sources for each claim : Obama's "shrunk almost down to zero" quote (NPR, April 7, 2015): npr.org/transcripts/43165255… timesofisrael.com/obama-deal… Deal terms, 300kg cap, 3.67%, sunset clauses: the JCPOA text itself and the AP reporting in the Times of Israel link above cover the caps. For sunsets beginning to lift in 2025, the ASPI Strategist analysis of Albright and Burkhard's archive book describes the clauses removing nearly all enrichment limitations beginning in 2025. 2018 nuclear archive raid, Amad Project, preservation after 2003: isis-online.org/isis-reports… isis-online.org/isis-reports… isis-online.org/isis-reports… IAEA uranium traces at undeclared sites and Iran's failure to explain: isis-online.org/isis-reports… egyptindependent.com/iran-fa… IAEA comprehensive non-compliance report of May 31, 2025, and the 408.6 kg stockpile at 60%: isis-online.org/isis-reports… The $1.7 billion cash payment and roughly $100 billion unfrozen: the $1.7B settlement, $400M principal plus $1.3B interest, is State Department and Treasury public record from January 2016, reported by AP, WSJ, and Reuters at the time. The $100B figure comes from Treasury Secretary Lew's 2015 congressional testimony, with the administration estimating $50-56B readily usable.