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21 minutes ago, Scarlet said:

The past, present, and future leader of the Party supports the Brazilian autocrat Bolsonaro. I wonder why?  Oh, it's because they're great friends and both love the people of their country as only a dictator can.  

 

Birds of a feather. 

 

And crickets from our reasonable Republicans here. 

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On 10/27/2021 at 8:38 AM, Scarlet said:

The past, present, and future leader of the Party supports the Brazilian autocrat Bolsonaro. I wonder why?  Oh, it's because they're great friends and both love the people of their country as only a dictator can.  

 

It's kind of eerie how similar Bolsonaro's unraveling is to Trump's.

 

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Recent polling in Brazil raises the question of whether President Jair Bolsonaro has already crossed a similar Rubicon. The main culprit is not a hurricane, of course, but a virus – one he famously called “a little flu” and downplayed nearly every step of the way. Now, Bolsonaro’s approval rating has sagged into the 20s in several polls, which also show him losing the October 2022 election by more than 20 points to his nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Does Bolsonaro still have time to stage a comeback? Or have most Brazilians essentially made up their minds, and decided to turn the page? 

 

It sure looks to me like the latter. 59% of respondents in last week’s Datafolha poll said they would not vote for Bolsonaro “under any circumstances,” a number that rose to 64% among women and 70% among the young. (Overall, just 38% said the same about Lula.) A Bush-like 63% say Bolsonaro is “incapable of leading the country,” while majorities also describe him as dishonest (52%) and unprepared (62%). It is one thing for a president to lose popularity; it’s another to lose respect. Once gone, it rarely comes back. 

 

No Ph.D. is necessary to understand how we got here. Bolsonaro’s numbers have been steadily eroding since January, when an emergency social program was scaled back just as the so-called Manaus variant took the pandemic into its most brutal phase. COVID-19 has killed at least 590,000 Brazilians, the world’s second-highest toll behind the United States. On a per-capita basis, Brazil is also among the 10 countries worst hit. Today, cases and deaths are finally falling, thanks to a belated but successful vaccination drive. But by constantly questioning vaccines’ effectiveness and shunning the jab himself, Bolsonaro has accomplished the singular feat of receiving little to no political credit for the improvement.

 

Both of them took the same approach to COVID and it wound up blowing up in their face. Of course Bolsonaro still has a year to try to rehabilitate his image but Lula is pretty popular in Brazil so it's going to be an uphill slog - and much like Trump he's not likely to be able to point to a bunch of competent governance to sway people.

 

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23 hours ago, Scarlet said:

This is a normal and honest take from rising star Laura Loomer.  Here I thought the libs were the snowflakes.

This is such BS and it's so damn frustrating the number of people that fall for this crap.  Oh....there's something you don't like and the President isn't from your party, so blame it on him.  Meanwhile, she must not have flown anywhere in the last 20 years.

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