Bolsonaro Wins! What is happening in Brazil, and How it is similar to the U.S.

Gun Watch ^ | 29 October, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[numberonepal]

FReeper kevao says “Trump of the Tropics”. Love it.

[numberonepal]

He survived one assassination attempt already.

Stabbed in the gut at a Rally.

[rb22982]

It was like that the first go round, but they were more accurate for the head to head

[lee martell]

It probably won’t be the last.
Brazil reminds me of Argentina a few decades ago.
A small group of people (many foreigners) has most the wealth, and don’t want to share with the ‘little people’ (mostly native born or African) of the slums and flatlands.

Many Brazilians remain openly prejudiced in regards to skin color. The lighter the skin, the higher the value is what I have heard. Certainly not all, but many are raised to believe this. Maybe he can reduce the number of Children’s Gangs.

[livius]

Whooo-hooo! Best news I’ve heard in months!

[Vince Ferrer]

Fighting crime is a winning issue in Brazil. Brazilians are fed up with the level of crime, from petty thefts up to murders. If affects them all.

Criminals Target Olympic Site in Brazil

[ptsal]

helicopter pilots in demand....

[lizma2]

Friends of mine from Brazil texting They are ecstatic!

Hope Trump invites him to the White House IMMEDIATELY!!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

It sure does.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Maybe they just didn't like the idea of a commie named Haddad becoming president of Brazil. Haddad was a corrupt and wildly unpopular as mayor of Sao Paulo. I have the feeling that the Israeli flag is just the Avenida Paulista crowd's way of saying <>

[PGR88]

Anyone who broadens gun rights is a true conservative.

Think about it. In such an action, there’s not benefit for the state (indeed quite the opposite), no financial gain for oneself or cronies. It doesn’t create a new class of dependent voters like a welfare program does.

Its purely done for liberty.

[Professional]

Awesome news! God saved Brazil from evil!

[virgil]

We’ll see how he works out, but dictators and tyrants don’t generally like to broaden gun ownership.

[sailor76]

Up to 100 rounds of ammunition per year, per gun, would be allowed.”
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That's one of the "big reforms"?

I was hoping for something with more meat on it.

AFAIK, a guy can do better in just about any other country in South America.

[Rainier1789]

All the MSM is describing Bolsonaro as “far-right”, like Trump. As in the “extreme right” half of America... and Brazil.

That leaves the rest as being various degrees of Wrong.

[MAGAthon]

BBC claimed it would be a tie!

8 Oct: BBC: Brazil election: Far-right Jair Bolsonaro wins first round
With almost all the votes counted, Mr Bolsonaro had 47% and Mr Haddad 28%.
Opinion polls conducted before the election predicted that in a second round the two candidates would be TIED…

28 Oct: BBC: Jair Bolsonaro: Far-right candidate wins Brazil poll
With almost all of the votes counted, Mr Bolsonaro has 55% of the votes against 45% for Fernando Haddad from the left-wing Workers Party…
Some of his voters celebrated in the street outside Mr Bolsonaro’s home in Rio de Janeiro, waving Brazilian flags and letting of fireworks…

He has suggested that Brazil could pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, arguing that its requirements compromise Brazil’s sovereignty over the Amazon region…

Mr Bolsonaro will be sworn in on 1 January 2019 and replace outgoing President Michel Temer, who is leaving office with a record low approval rating of 2%.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46013408

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Don't worry, nobody in Brazil obeys gun control laws anyway. All the 100 round limit means is a business opportunity for millions of poor people who will be able to pick up a few reals reselling ammo to people who've maxed out their ration.

A more significant reform would be to allow the importation of firearms. Any number of people would love to be able to buy a Glock or Smith & Wesson automatic. Right now Taurus has a virtual monopoly on legal guns there and many of the weapons they produce are c... suffer from quality issues.

[sailor76]

Like I said, you can do better in almost every other country on the continent.

Is it progress? I guess so in a country where it's difficult to get anything more powerful than a single shot 20ga shotgun.

[Wuli]

The Left is being hung on its own petard - the arrogance of its dominance. It believes it is G-d in politics. That gets you resistance and rebellion like nothing else.

All along the goals of the Left have not been just some space for its views. It is been (a) orthodoxy in academia in order to subvert education to indoctrination, (b) use of the “Liberal” as its designated “fellow travelers” to institue Marxist-Socialist views in the name of “Liberalism”, (c) continue (a) & (b) until the “Liberal” platform is actually the Marxist platform without the sheeple that go along with it understanding they have been subverted into little Marxists, (d) subversion into the state apparatus until no matter who is elected they dominate in the deep state as well.

At that point all true resistance to the Left is labeled as not part of the “mainstream” - which really just means the “norm” for the institutions they have subverted, including the media.

[PAR35]

MBGA...kinda reminds me of my old MGB...

I think they need to leave off the "A" for "Again".