Trump inspired Bolsonaro stages coup in Brazil to overthrow election results. Compare the similarities.
Supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro attacked the presidential palace, congress, and supreme court, insisting that the country’s October election, in which voters replaced Bolsonaro with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was fraudulent. For months, Bolsonaro supporters have called for the military to stop Lula, as he is known, from taking office. Today, they attacked the government and called for military intervention to remove Lula from office. Many of them wrapped themselves in the Brazilian flag. - Heather Richardson
GOP Treason Is Stalking Democracies Around the World. it’s damn well past time that the people who conceived and ordered and facilitated the execution of this crime against all the rest of us are held to account in a meaningful way - The Hartmann Report.
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Steve Bannon
Trump’s buddy Steve Bannon, who reports suggest has been encouraging Brazilians to believe the election was stolen on his podcast, told the Washington Post for an article titled: Trump aides Bannon, Miller advising the Bolsonaros on next steps: “What’s happening in Brazil is a world event.” And, “The people are saying they've been grossly disenfranchised. [The movement] has moved beyond the Bolsonaro’s in the way that in the U.S. it has moved beyond Trump.” - The Hartmann Report
Imitating Jan 6th insurrection
Brian Klass reports at his Garden of Forking Paths Substack newsletter that Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo was in Washington, DC for January 6th, has hung out with Trump at Mar-a-Largo, and the entire Brazilian event was egged on by American rightwingers: “A guest on Bannon’s show, Matthew Tyrmand, suggested the use of military force in Brazil to put Bolsonaro back in power. Protesters in Brazil have held signs that say ‘Brazilian Spring,’ a term that Bannon coined to suggest that Bolsonaro’s authoritarian thugs were carrying the torch of pro-democracy protesters in places like Tunisia during the Arab Spring. Yesterday, Bannon referred to the mob seeking to overturn the election in Brazil as ‘freedom fighters.’” - The Hartmann Report
Twitter / Facebook disinformation campaign
The anti-democracy rioters in Brazil attacked their nation's capitol buildings nearly two years to the day of the US Capitol Insurrection. As in the US, their passions were stoked by online influencers. In the weeks leading up to the attacks, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter were rife with election-denying content. The organizers coordinated the insurrection over the unmoderated Telegram service. - Code For All
TakeAway: Prosecute insurrectionists staging coups and trying to overthrow democracy in order to stay in power. Otherwise they'll just do it again.
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