Bolsonaro in Minas Gerais on September 6th 2018, right before he was stabbed by someone on a mission from God. (Via VOA News)
Jair Bolsonaro (1955- ), a Brazilian congressman from Rio, is running for president of Brazil in 2018. Opinion polls show that he is likely to win the run-off election on October 28th.
The Brazilian Trump: Like the US Trump, Bolsonaro:
- Admires Donald Trump.
- Is far-right and proto-fascist.
- Says nice things about dictatorships.
- Wants generals in his cabinet.
- Deeply divides the nation and even families.
- Makes openly racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and misogynistic comments. Therefore:
- Is heavily favoured by Whites and Evangelical Christians.
- Is running as a supposed outsider who will shake things up and clean up government.
- Accuses the press of fake news – while well-financed supporters busily spread fake news on the Internet.
- Wants to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
- Wants to scale back affirmative action.
- Believes that greater gun ownership and police violence will bring down crime.
- Wants to give police a freer hand despite their hideous rates of police brutality against Blacks.
- Is good at reaching the masses through the Internet.
- Has little understanding of economics.
- Seen as a dangerous nut by the right-wing Economist.
- Endorsed by White nationalists David Duke and Steve Bannon.
Army captain: He was an army captain under Brazil’s military dictatorship, which ruled from 1964 to 1985. Since 1991 he has been in Congress.
Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) is a huge scandal that has overtaken Brazil’s rich and powerful, sending politicians and millionaires to prison. Even Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2010, is now in prison. The scandal has destroyed faith in the main political parties, particularly Lula’s left-wing PT, which had lifted millions out of poverty.
Bad times: On top of the scandal, 13% are now out of work. Brazil’s already high murder rate is at an all-time high, 5.5 times higher than in the US.
Enter Bolsonaro: Five years ago he was a congressman mainly known for homophobic remarks. But now, untouched by Lava Jato, he steps forward into the power vacuum left in its wake.
Fernando Haddad, of the now-discredited PT, is running against him. Haddad was mayor of São Paulo from 2013 to 2017.
Paulo Guedes is Bolsonaro’s top economic adviser. Guedes was educated at the University of Chicago and is a naked capitalist of the Milton Friedman sort.
Bolsonaristas hope Bolsonaro can restore faith in government and put the country back on the right course.
São Paulo, September 29th 2018: 150,000 protest against Bolsonaro. Click to enlarge. (Via Portal Vermelho)
#EleNão: Those against Bolsonaro fear he will destroy Brazil’s young democracy as well as turn back the clock on people who are poor, queer, female, or not White. Hashtag: #EleNão (#NotHim).
Some infamous quotes:
“The dictatorship’s mistake was to torture but not kill.”
“A policeman who does not kill is not a policeman.”
“She doesn’t deserve to be raped because she’s very ugly.”
“I’d prefer a son to die in an accident than appear with a moustacho [be gay].”
“I went to a quilombola [a settlement of African slave descendants] in Eldorado Paulista. The lightest Afro-descendant weighed seven arrobas [a unit used for livestock not humans]. They don’t do anything. They’re no use even to procreate.”
Bolsonaro and the very dark-skinned Hélio Negão, whom Bolsonaro likes to be pictured with. Neither thinks Brazil is racist. Notice the Margaret Thatcher T-shirt. (Via Black Women of Brazil)
– Abagond, 2018.
Update (October 29th): Bolsonaro won 55% of the vote. He will become the next president on January 1st 2019. His term lasts four years (till January 1st 2023).
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You should read what brazilians say about him, instead of white american racists say. For example:
https://www.jornaldacidadeonline.com.br/blogs/50/otto-dantas
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More unbiased opinions about Bolsonaro (neither one is a white racist american):
https://mobile.twitter.com/fernandoholiday
https://www.instagram.com/agustinofficial/?hl=pt-br
https://mobile.twitter.com/karllasilva9871
Now, put these names and Hélio in Google and read the hate speech that PT has about them.
https://eleicoes2018candidatos.com.br/candidato-deputado-federal_RJ/helio-fernando-barbosa-lopes_190000614709
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@ Alberto Monteiro
In what way is my post affected by a racist White American bias?
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@abagond
You used only one-sided sources, those that are aligned with Big Media, controlled by white racist americans
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(Paulo Quilombola talks about his candidate for the 1st round:
(https://youtu.be/tHeSBPc_o30)
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PT threated to murder Paulo Quilombola for his crime of thinking. Considering that Bolsonaro was almost killed by a member of PSOL (one of the parties that play allegiance to Lula), it’s not something to be ignored
https://www.newsatual.com/assista-presidente-das-comunidades-quilombolas-denuncia-ameaca-de-morte-por-apoiar-bolsonaro/
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@ Alberto Monteiro
Your sources are in Portuguese. Do you have any English language sources that are substantive and evenhanded?
White racist Americans agree with Bolsonaro’s tactics, positions and rhetoric. They are similar to the tactics, positions and rhetoric White supremacists employ in the USA. Therefore, your arguments are not making sense.
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@ Abagond
That image of Bolsonaro and Hélio Negão speaks volumes.
Makes me think of GWBush and Clarence Thomas. Negro window dressing.
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This is Bolsonaro’s Family. In the USA, his wife would be black (in Brazil she is white). Michelle was a single mother (the older girl is hers). He also has four sons by two other women
https://pleno.news/brasil/eleicoes-2018/bolsonaro-fala-emocionado-sobre-a-esposa-e-a-filha-laura.html
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@afrofem
So, when a white man takes a picture with a black man, this means that he is racist?
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@Alberto Monteiro
“his wife would be black (in Brazil she is white).”—This is false. From what I have seen in pictures of her she would either be white or hispanic in the USA, but not black in the slightest.
“So, when a white man takes a picture with a black man, this means that he is racist?”—Not trying to answer for Afrofem, but when a white man says racist things he is racist. A black man supporting it just shows how stupid the black man is.
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@Afrofem
The link he posted above translates to:
“Paulo Quilombola, President of the Federation of Quilombola Communities and Traditional Populations of the State of Pará, denounced that the PT is threatening members of the community who declare support for candidate Jair Bolsonaro.
Paulo also denounced the creation of ‘fake news’ by big newspapers that changed their lines and divulged lies.”
Nothing states proof he did what he is being accused of. Sounds like what abagond mentioned above about Bolsonaro’s camp creating fakenews.
https://www.newsatual.com/assista-presidente-das-comunidades-quilombolas-denuncia-ameaca-de-morte-por-apoiar-bolsonaro/
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That Helio Negão looks like those Uncle Toms and other sunken place black people that stupidly support Trump and wear those red MAGA hats here in America. It blows my mind how these racist can always find some Uncle Tom or Aunt Tomasina to support them.
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He is identical to the monster we have in the White House.
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Update: Bolsonaro won 55% of the vote. He will become the next president on January 1st 2019. His term lasts four years (till January 1st 2023).
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Alberto Monteiro
One of your sources called former president Dilma Rousseff the daughter of a whore. As far as I know her mother was a schoolteacher.
Arguably most English-language media is “aligned with Big Media, controlled by white racist americans”, but that still does not tell me how that bias affected my post.
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@ Sharina
“…when a white man says racist things he is racist. A black man supporting it just shows how stupid the black man is.”
Well said. I second that emotion.
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Racist?
http://mentiramparamimsobreojair.com/2016/05/07/5-racista/
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“@Alberto Monteiro
“his wife would be black (in Brazil she is white).”—This is false. From what I have seen in pictures of her she would either be white or hispanic in the USA, but not black in the slightest.”
Not true. You forget the very blond Walter White of the NAACP and others like him. At any rate, if this guy got 55% of the popular vote, you need to explain why 14% of the nonwhite population voted for him. Calling them uncle Toms is lazy. After all, they’ve been voting white (Lula, Rousseff) regardless of the party in power.
“Preliminary results from the 2010 census, released on Wednesday, show that 97 million Brazilians, or 50.7% of the population, now define themselves as black or mixed race, compared with 91 million or 47.7% who label themselves white.”
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@Grojo
Walter white is consider such by a choice of identity or by USA standards. No ine would look at him and state him as black. Neither would they of the several other Americans that pass as white.
Except I never called anyone uncle Tom, but stupid. People will happily vote against their own interest, especially if taught to play it safe. Happens all the time here in the united states. Prime example is people not voting out of a belief that another party has no chance.
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correction one*
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Alberto Monteiro
Again a bunch of pictures with the people he needs the votes from does not mean he is not racist. Oldest trick in the book for politicians.
Hus quote denouncing supremacist is an added bonus, but which supremacist is the question.
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Interesting read https://theintercept.com/2018/10/28/jair-bolsonaro-elected-president-brazil/?fbclid=IwAR38gNNE4pYqg3tpqi1rt058tdgC5iH7q0rPhYUOYCfpQzV6BkOMNlgORnU
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sharinalr, I only pointed out to you the fact that perfectly white people such as White have identified as ‘black’ in the USA and been accepted as such, so your objection to A. Monteiro cannot be as categorical as you phrased it. The habit of racializing political views gets one nowhere. Blacks as well as whites, are susceptible to fascist, i.e. tough guy, political propaganda.
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@gro jo
I get what you are pointing out, but I never made the claim of what a person chooses to identify as.
Alberto Monteiro Stated. “In the USA, his wife would be black.”
Unless she chose to identify as such she would not be considered black nor would she be accepted as such. More often most blacks would not be quick to consider her as such upon first glance and be weary of it even if she claimed to be. So what he said was frankly false. Even in the case of Walter he identify as negro and was able to pass as white during investigations in the southern state.
“so your objection to A. Monteiro cannot be as categorical as you phrased it.”–Actually it would, because it is not about how they choose to identify but how they would be classified in the USA.
“The habit of racializing political views gets one nowhere. Blacks as well as whites, are susceptible to fascist, i.e. tough guy, political propaganda.”—They are, but in this case we are specifically referring to the blacks that happily support a man who openly says racist things. Whites who vote for it are just as stupid if you want to argue that, but who wouldn’t support a racist if they think their skin color affords them protection?
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Multiply this by 60000 and you will understand why Brazil elected Bolsonaro
http://www.caneta.org/noticias/pai-de-familia-e-assassinado-e-degolado-por-declarar-voto-em-bolsonaro/
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@ Alberto Monteiro
I suggest that you search for webpages in English with an equivalent or similar political leaning, if you want to reach the audience in this blog. Otherwise your efforts of selling Bolsonaro (I should say, President Bolsonaro) will be in vain.
At this point in time, the most we can do is to relax and watch how the Bolsonaro’s Presidency will unfold.
Soon we will see if he meant it real when he professed his antipathy for places aside for Black students (called “cotas”) in Brazilian Universities, something that can reverse recent societal gains of Blacks and I find controversial, given the stratified character of Brazilian society and today’s position of Blacks there.
We will see also if he’ll be able to slay the corruption in the political and economic system, something that, if done, would be very good!
And we will see if he will be able also to fight drug trafficking and its ominous pressure on under-privileged areas of the large urban zones (favelas in Rio or Sao Paulo, etc). If properly done this would be also a noteworthy achievement.
Let’s see and let the man work!
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Alberto M.
What will your boy Bolsonaro do for these Brazilians?
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/americas/brazil-amazon-slavery-freedom-project/index.html
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I heard about this guy from somewhere briefly. I’ve been meaning to look up more info on him since I heard his is a Trump-alike.
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@gro no
Bolsonaro didn’t comment on the increase of slavery under the PT government, except to mention the support PT gave to the slave trade of cubans.
http://www.camara.leg.br/internet/sitaqweb/TextoHTML.asp?etapa=3&nuSessao=227.4.54.O&nuQuarto=62&nuOrador=1&nuInsercao=0&dtHorarioQuarto=16:02&sgFaseSessao=GE%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&Data=14/10/2014&txApelido=JAIR%20BOLSONARO&txEtapa=Com%20reda%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20final
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Also, please stop calling the supporters of Bolsonaro as bolsonarists. As we learned from the Klingons of Star Trek, offense is an Art. It’s “bolsominions”, and the leader is O Coiso (more or less translated as The He-Thing)
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Ok, now that he has dealt with “…the support PT gave to the slave trade of cubans.” What does he intend to do for his and your fellow Brazilians, living like slaves in Brazil, or don’t you guys care about them?
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Slaving is a crime in Brazil. Like murder, rape, corruption, etc. But the legislative process is too slow, the punishments are ridículous. This is one thing he pretends to fix immediately
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Good to know. Next time, this family will steer clear of such cattle ranchers, unless hunger drives them again to the same type of exploitation. How come you didn’t accompany your comment with a link to a Brazilian article on the subject, don’t you guys discuss such shameful practice? What’s Bolsonaro’s stance on hunger, pro or con?
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Bolsonaro proposes anthropophagy to solve the hunger problem:
https://br.noticias.yahoo.com/bolsonaro-diz-que-usou-auxilio-moradia-para-comer-gente-131136800.html
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So, this is what passes for ‘wit’ among right wing pricks? Your boy is a tad touchy isn’t he? Compared to Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, his whine comes up short.
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@Alberto Monteiro:
Is that you Bolsonaro?
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Reblogged this on A Black Writer in Berlin and commented:
From Abagond, about Bergen-Bolsonaro’s dumb ass. More on him later.
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Some people were worried that Brazil would retrocede in time after the election of Bolsonaro.
They may be right.
Crime, that has been increasing horribly since the 1980s, show signs that it went back 28 years – a reduction of the order of 30%
https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/instituto-politeia/homicidios-2019/
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First ladies of Brazil and South Africa dancing together
https://t.co/BmHJbkpwhD
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