Posted on 11/26/2022 7:45:21 PM PST by TigerClaws
Sometimes it seems like nothing ever happens, but this seems like it could be a big deal…
Background: The Brazilian people have flooded the streets in protest at an allegedly rigged and stolen election. Truckers are blocking all highways. Farmers have blocked all ports from exporting agriculture. Bolsonaro has exhausted his legal options, with his election appeal being rejected by a corrupt, opposition-appointed Chief Supreme Court justice.
Bolsonaro is now huddling with the military to plot his next moves.
What is Article 142? The lying New York Times explains:
Many of the protesters said their demands for intervention were supported by Article 142 of the Brazilian Constitution, which says that the military has the role of “guaranteeing constitutional powers” under the “supreme authority of the president.”
They go on to pooh-pooh it citing “experts”: According to constitutional lawyers and past court rulings, the article does not allow the military to take control of the government.
More from the NYT:
BRASÍLIA — They arrived by the tens of thousands on Wednesday, angry and draped in Brazilian flags, massing outside military bases across the country. They were there, they said, to save Brazil’s democracy from a rigged election, and there was only one way to do so: The armed forces needed to take control of the government.
It was an alarming demand in a country that suffered under a two-decade military dictatorship until 1985 — and yet another bizarre twist in the aftermath of Brazil’s polarizing elections.
A day earlier, the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, reluctantly agreed to a transfer of power after 45 hours of silence following his loss to a leftist former leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But after Mr. Bolsonaro’s years of unfounded attacks on Brazil’s election systems, his supporters appeared far from accepting defeat. … The widespread protests and calls for the armed forces were an escalation of the Brazilian far-right’s refusal to accept the election of Mr. da Silva, a former president whom many on the right view as a criminal because of his past corruption scandal.
Mr. Bolsonaro, in a two-minute speech on Tuesday in which he did not acknowledge his loss, said he supported peaceful protests inspired by “feelings of injustice in the electoral process.”
Many of his followers saw that as a stamp of approval. “What he said yesterday, that gave me more energy to come,” said Larissa Oliveira da Silva, 22, who was sitting on a beach chair in the protest in São Paulo, propping up her broken foot. “After his comments, I saw that he is on our side.”
[rigged election]
Oh, that never happens.
Ask the Democrat scanning ballots multiple times in Georgia.
We Norte Americanos should be doing this. I am hoping for a rally in Massachusetts which I can join. I’ll bring my camera, too — just as I did at the freeper rally in Massachusetts.
Apparently the 'winner' of their sham 'election' is a corrupt convict thug, remarkably similar to our senile moron FJB.
And yet, nary a peep out of our enemydia at the time.
What is worse - elections that people don’t trust? Or military rule?
I suppose if you have the former, you will eventually get the latter.
Surely you meant Cuidado Massachusexico
So, socialists can only get away with rigging elections in America. Wonderful.
IN THEORY you could have a temporary military rule until free and fair elections are re-established.
IN PRACTICE... once you go junta, you don’t go back!
LMAO
Just because something is unConstitutional?
Pfftt! That just means the Republicans can’t do it.
Here in the USA we have two or three sets of rules ya know.
If more states would adopt Florida’s election rules and enforce them, we’d likely have (1) results the day of the election and (2) 20% plus Republican wins.
Record inflation, rampant crime, and terrible candidates who don’t even bother to campaign.
I remember Biden during his basement campaign said, “I’m not asking for your vote.” Huh? He said he was just asking for support after he was in office.
That seemed like a big warning sign. That and “the most sophisticated voter fraud operation in history.”
Think about dementia. Often those folks will just blurt out the truth unexpectedly.
In countries without a second amendment the military is often regarded as the "reset" button when things go wrong.
While you may end up living under a the rule of a guy wearing a funny looking uniform for a while it is unlikely that the same guy will be interested in wrecking the economy or trying out crackpot social theories on the general public.
When I first started reading what was in their constitution, for a half a second there, I thought, too bad we don't have that. Then I thought NO and hellNO
Well now, it’s easy to see how prescient our Military Leaders are.
They may have anticipated an action like this happening here, in the USA, sooo what to do?????
I know...let’s SISSYFY THE MILITARY.
Boy, those deviants really know how to stay in power, don’t they.
“We Norte Americanos should be doing this.”
Isn’t that what happened on January 6th? And isn’t that also the reason for the show trials being conducted by the Democrats and RINOs now?
Got to keep the serfs like us in line because if we ever really found out how crimminally corrupt and evil people like Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Romney, Cheney and Kinzinger are, we’d shut down their money laundering and then probably execute them without trial.
Maybe this is why Obama and Biden made sure to wreck the US military? “White rage” Millie couldn’t pull this off.
Unless you get a guy like Hitler or Stalin, and then its “All crackpot social theories, all the time”.
CC
We need the military to intervene here and soon.
GG, that’s what General Milley is here to prevent.
The Creepy Generals that arrived around the early 2000s.
We be stuck with them for a while.
Between 2008 and 2012 much bad stuff was influencing our beloved Military.
It worked reasonably well for the Turks for 80 odd years, until Erdogan.
Kemalism kept the politicians and Islamists in line to a degree.
All the while an election ia stolen in Arizona.
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