Bolsonaro: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

foreign concerns Brazil is the only country whose flag has a small circle where a fancy sash is not so pretty the circle is all dressed up for your big day on the flag Brazil is one of the largest democracies in the world with more than 156 million people eligible to vote and next Sunday there will be mass elections. We've mentioned Brazil's elections on this show before in part because campaign ads there can be spectacular like this one for the man currently running for state representative. I am a samurai taxi driver. You can find me. about parenting buco 10554 excellent appearance I don't know anything about nunchucks.

I don't know if they're historically part of the Samurai Taxi Driver culture and I don't know if using your armpits so much is usually part of that, but I will say this. I'm impressed that you spent so much time learning how to use them, but apparently you didn't have time to learn how to edit the part of the video where you turn off your phone. Many elected officials are on the ballot in Brazil next Sunday for Governors. to the senators, but the key is the president's office, where Jaya Bolsonaro is running for re-election. You may remember that four years ago we talked about his first presidential candidacy.

I guess I don't watch this show, but if you missed it for a moment. Summary Bolsonaro is a right-wing populist ex-military man who, when he told a colleague in Congress, "I wouldn't rape you, you're not worth it," told her I'd rather my son die in an accident than for him to be gay, and he loves to make guns with his fingers all the time. Bossner basically campaigned as a misogynistic homophobe who gestures like he runs a tech startup, but now he's campaigning as a sitting president and has been taking advantage of all the perks of the office, including the recent 200th anniversary of independence. from Brazil. at what was essentially a campaign rally for Israel itself in Brazil's capital, Brasilia, before tens of thousands of supporters in a military display, waves, planes, paratroopers and embalmed tanks in the heart of Monarch dumpia across the first who declared Brazil's independence from Portugal 200 years ago. from Europe to be a slave Go first if you were wondering what Don Pedro the first died of, his heart probably looked like this, but it's true, they put a two-century-old heart on an Air Force plane and took it to Brazil .

It is actually the first unnaturally preserved human body part to fly on a military plane since all of Tom Cruise's main opponents in this election are former president Luis Inácio Lula de Silva. He was incredibly popular while in office, but then got caught up in the international corruption investigation. Lava Jato operation even landed him in prison during Brazil's

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election so he couldn't run, but his conviction has since been overturned and polls now consistently show him leading the race by a wide margin of around 10 percent, but The concerns in Brazil are that if Bolsonaro is likely to lose as it seems, he will not resign without a fight and could even follow Trump's example by encouraging his followers to support a tropical version of Riot in the capital, which is not very good. , although for the record, it's not really necessary to use the word tropical to describe an insurrection just because you're talking about Latin America, especially since tropical riots sound like a flavor of Mountain Dew that was recalled for blinding several children and the version of Bolsonaro's January 6 could be much more destructive than Trump's given that he has done a lot to cultivate support within his military, all of which makes it more than a little worrying when he stands in front of his followers and says things how are you doing.

There are only three alternatives for me to be arrested, killed or victorious. and I tell them motherfuckers I'll never go to jail, okay, that never bodes well, no one says that before doing something nice, no one says your options are prison victory or death before they say Go not even the German to the Great British Bake Off tent for cookie

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and, honestly, I half expected that the first round of the elections would be next Sunday and if no one wins more than 50 votes it would go to a second round on the 30th October, although, worryingly, Bolsonaro has done so.

I already said that if he doesn't win outright next Sunday receiving at least 60 percent of the vote, something abnormal will happen, so if one of the world's largest democracies looks like it could be heading off a cliff

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, let's talk about Jaya Bolsonaro, the man. with our foot firmly planted on the accelerator and let's start with the fact that he has unfortunately governed exactly as he said he was going to; has fulfilled a major campaign promise to make guns more freely available in Brazil, relaxing gun laws to the point that since he took office the number of guns in private hands has doubled to almost 2 million despite that polls show that the majority of Brazilians are against facilitating the sale and possession of weapons, so it is giving people something they did not ask for and do not receive.

I don't want to, which I think is also the job description for the head of original programs at Netflix, but much more than that, Bolznora has been an absolute disaster for the Amazon, a rainforest that is critical for Brazil and, you know , planet Earth, has relaxed regulations to expand logging and mining there and massively reduced protections and law enforcement, and almost immediately after he took office, conditions deteriorated under Bolsonaro. Deforestation is at its highest point in a decade with an area 10 times the size of New York City destroyed as of October this year and in August there were an average of a thousand fires each day Amazon a thousand times a day my first guess would be the capybara, which is self explanatory, the second would be the frog birthday parties, statistically there must be at least five thousand of them with a birthday every day and we have to assume that some parts were combined for convenience and others simply They don't want to have much this year, but exactly none of my guesses would be fires.

These fires are often part of illegal deforestation to clear areas for industrial uses, incidental deforestation, which can invade lands where indigenous people live and have been forced to confront these lockers, ranchers and miners on their own, which It can be both very dangerous and deeply discouraging when we confront them, they say, don't watch the news, Bolsonaro said that when we win, we could take wood from indigenous lands, this is what they tell us, right, and it has to be difficult to fight against someone who takes your things when they feel they have permission from the most powerful person in the country, if I stole your wallet. and then played a clip of Biden saying Hey John, I don't give a damn if TV hosts rip off their audience members now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and say 10 wrong or weird things in a row on 60 Minutes there.

There really wouldn't be much that could be done about it, the point is that the destruction of the Amazon under Bolsonaro has been devastating, in fact, while global greenhouse gas emissions plummeted almost seven percent in 2020 due to the pandemic, Brazil's emissions actually grew by almost 10 percent. percent and the boss knows that, to make matters worse, claiming that those fires in the Amazon were false. Flags that accuse outsiders of being part of a nefarious plot to take over the jungles of Brazil and directly accuse Leonardo DiCaprio of financing arson in the Amazon, which is simply absurd. Where would Leo find it's time to do that between his busy movie schedule, his daily yacht schedule, and laughing hard at every tweet about his love life from May to December.

Oh man, the internet got me again. Leo shouts that they are the richest people on the planet with a bottle of wine that costs more than his rent, but perhaps the defining catastrophe of Bolsonaro's presidency has been his handling of the covid pandemic. Brazil has suffered massively over 34 million cases and over 685,000 deaths and from the beginning refused to take it seriously, initially dismissing Covet has a little flu and then once the death toll started rising, ignoring the responsibility in the stupidest way possible, it's all about the pandemic nowadays we have to stop this, I'm sorry for the dead, I'm sorry but we're all going to die. one day everyone here is going to die we have to stop being a country of cities wow, that's just monumental shit.

I must say that the coveted response from the United States left a lot to be desired, but at least the CDC's motto was never what are you complaining about? about death coming for all of us, we get up and die in a hole, but Bolsaro not only abdicated responsibility for fighting kovid, he actively made things worse by attacking governors and anyone else promoting lockdowns or social distancing, in fact, to the extent that closure orders were issued in Brazilian cities sometimes coming from very surprising places the situation has become so serious that the drug gangs that rule this favela and other favelas in Rio de Janeiro have decreed a confinement and have prohibited all clandestine parties from taking place, it's real drugs, the gangs ended up being more responsible when it comes to covid than the Brazilian government, although we don't give them too much credit for banning parties, you know what It's quite attractive when you're stuck inside with nothing to do and nowhere to go, drugs and whatnot.

The most frustrating thing here is that Brazil was better positioned than many other countries to handle the kovit; has a long history of successful inoculation campaigns starring its beloved vaccine mascot, Sega China, who at best looks like a super sperm and at worst, a costumed clansman. Jazzercise and yet Bolsonaro is not only so hesitant about the vaccines that his administration delayed ordering doses for months; In fact,

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year Pfizer apparently contacted the Brazilian government 81 times trying to reach a deal to provide vaccine doses, but most of the time there was no response and some of those emails from Pfizer were just sad, I hope everything be well with you.

I just wanted to confirm that you received a communication yesterday sent on behalf of the president of Pfizer with the updated proposal for a possible supply of covid-19. vaccines, let me know and come on, Pfizer, if they trick you like this, you just have to be more direct, something like the care your country has covered, we have a vaccine, let's do this or even the Earth to the president, stop subtweeting Leonardo. Dicaprio and answer your phone and the point is that it's not that Brazilians didn't want vaccines, as evidenced by the fact that once they finally became available, practically one hundred percent of the adult population of Rio and Sao Paulo were vaccinated by complete, a figure that no American city has managed to impact and the cover debacle would be comfortable enough for people to end up with Bolsonaro, but there is much more, including the fact that despite running on an anti-corruption platform he does four years, Bolsonaro and his inner circle have been involved since then. in a growing number of criminal and legislative investigations, although he has denied any wrongdoing, a sign of how touchy he is about these accusations is that when a journalist asked him about one of them, he responded: I feel like punching you in the face. mouth.

It is not surprising that he is lagging in the polls, which does not mean that Bolsonaro does not have followers because he does and they can be intense. Thousands of fans lined up in front of this gym next to Rio de Janeiro's iconic Maracanã football stadium. stadium inside, crowds wearing the colors of the Brazilian flag applauding the president calling him the Messiah and the myth, okay, I love that man, I love his outfit, I love his face paint, I love the way he looks like the Hulk losing his his and the green. Bay Packers game, but my favorite thing of all is what appears to be a security guard over his shoulder scanning the crowd for threats while looking everywhere but at the bright green man right in front of him. him shouting so loud he could explode and Bolsonaro appears to be deliberately laying the groundwork with his supporters for an eventual Trump-style refusal to accept the election results, even pointing to our last election as a warning to Brazilians, which happened in the US election , basically the problem, the cause of this crisis was the lack of confidence in the vote, there were people who voted three four times, the dead voted, it was a disaster, okay, great, so that's the opinion article from January 6, absolutely no one needed the man, no one wanted to hear him from and from the camera angle. absolutely no one deserves it is saying his stupid opinions out loud you really don't have to go tolooking for them under their noses Bolsonaro has been doing everything he can to undermine faith in Brazil's electoral system by suggesting that judges and officials are trying to sabotage his re-election and scaremongering about the country's electronic voting machines, by the way, which are even targeted of ASMR election PSAs like this one, don't give up, you know that every day there are millions of people experiencing their own personal sexual awakenings.

I guess today at least one of them discovered that gently caressing Brazilian voting machines is apparently their thing, welcome for the rest of your life, but Brazil's voting machines are not only discreetly erotic, they are also considered safe , they are not connected. to the Internet, making them almost impossible to hack and it is worth knowing that since their introduction in 1996, authorities have never found any evidence of widespread fraud, yet Bosnara has repeatedly attacked the machines as corrupt, claiming that their margin victory in 2018 should actually have been even bigger, he even subjected a room full of diplomats to a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation accusing Brazil's elections of being rigged and that is incredibly dangerous in part because people will accept anything if you threaten them with a 45-minute PowerPoint presentation in our office.

We have an email security seminar once a year and this year I smashed my laptop with a hammer just so I can claim it doesn't apply to me, it was the right decision and I'll do it again and look, I don't want to spend too much time tearing it down. each of Bolsonaro's complaints because it is quite clear that by raising these objections in the race. -Until the elections, his intention is not to maximize the security of the vote but rather to maximize the distrust that people have in him and his followers have heard him say a lot, if the elections are fair, he will win in the first round.

Only in the first round will he only lose the elections if there is fraud and people will take to the streets to prevent that from happening. You see, that's interesting, isn't it? Because if you look at that man you would think, "Oh, he loves." Brazil, but if you listened to him you would know that he is willing to burn his country to the ground based on a flimsy conspiracy theory, but I guess duality is just part of the mystery and limitless contradiction that makes human beings absolutely worse and given Bolsonaro's rhetoric it is not surprising that there have already been outbreaks of violence: a Lular supporter was murdered when a Bostonian or supporter invaded his Lular-themed birthday party and shot him while shouting that all PT supporters who are supporters of luna's political party dies, so things are very tense right now in Brazil and that's without considering how close Bolsonaro is to the Armed Forces, not only is he a former military man and not only has he expressed admiration for the military dictatorship that ruled the country until 1985.

Its government is also heavily staffed by military personnel and some leaders of Brazil's armed forces have raised similar doubts to Boston Arrows about the integrity of the election, all of which has led some in Brazil to understandably worry. , so what awaits you is this flirtation from President Bolsonaro. with the coup it is not something recent it is something old the people who support it are willing to do anything just like the supporters of President Donald Trump when they invaded the capital no, I have no doubt I have even written about it here in In Brazil we will have a tragic dramatic repeat of what happened there, yes, except, crucially, it could be much worse there because, fortunately for us, Trump's allies were usually limited to a shirtless man with a fur hat, a pillow perpetually on horseback, the Baron and some of his sillier sons, but Bolsonaro has significant military support and there are questions about what they could do in the event of an uprising that significantly raises the stakes.

Generally, when someone threatens democracy, it is much easier to say you and what army when you are absolutely sure that person does not have a real army behind them, the point is that for Brazil there is a lot at stake here and at the moment it seems that the most likely scenario is that no one wins outright next Sunday, meaning that both Bolsonaro and Lula are heading to a second round. on October 30, but the next few

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s could be extremely stressful and the fact is that if he ultimately loses and decides to fight the results, it will test the strength of Brazil's relatively young democracy, so to people who are worried in this moment, let me I address you in the two languages ​​that I know you will understand Portuguese and of course Chuck's language so please and bear with me look for that's our program.

Thanks so much for looking. See you next week. Good night.