In todays Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/18/brazil-moraes-judge-trump-bolsonaro/
Medicynical Note: Much like America once, in Brazil a violent attempt to overthrow an election is not freedom of speech. It’s a crime.
Bolsonaro and Trump actively encouraged crowds to attack their respective legislative branches after losing re-election votes and in doing so committed crimes. A crime that in Brazil, still is a crime. It took just six months for Brazil’s constitutional democracy with a functioning judiciary to ban Bolsonaro from running for election for 8 years and he is now being tried for encouraging sedition.
In the U.S. several hundred people were convicted of similar crimes. But here, with the help of a politicized corrupted Judiciary (yes it really happened here), Trump was never brought to court for his crimes. He ran again for President and somehow was elected. It turns out to be the most remarkably self-destructive error by the American public in history.
Everyone convicted of violence and breaking into our congress has now been freed and pardoned. Trump is rapidly moving the U.S. towards an executive branch with unlimited power and my guess in the next year he will move to corrupt our elections. America’s future, unless of course you are a Bezos columnist, is under threat.
Brazil’s judiciary on the other hand held firm and is holding Bolsonaro accountable I hope they and the Brazilian government withstand the inevitable attempt by our CIA and our military reverse their progress.
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