Posted on 02/04/2025 3:40:47 PM PST by Openurmind
Mike Benz on how USAID spent tens of millions of dollars of US taxpayer funds to remove Jair Bolsonaro from power and end free speech in Brazil:
“When populist waves swept the world within the U. S. in 2016 with Trump and with what happened all over Europe with Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini and Nigel Farage, USAID declared censorship holy war against every single populist group, including Bolsonaro. Steve, I’m telling you right now, if USAID did not exist, Bolsonaro would still be the president of Brazil and Brazil would still have a free and open internet.
It was USAID that spent tens of millions of dollars of American taxpayer money funding the push to get anti misinformation bills passed in the parliament there. Funding the legal advocates who pushed the censorship court there, the TSE, to crack down on Bolsonaro. tweets and WhatsApp and Telegram messages.
They built a censorship octopus in Brazil and it was built entirely on USAID because USAID declared Bolsonaro a populist, Trump of the tropics, and then set up this operation to control the information ecosystem there. One of the USAID grantees even said on a public call that the purpose was to eliminate the, uh, the international exchange of ideas between the Trump movement and the Bolsonaro movement.
That’s what USAID does. They kill domestic populism because it gets in the way of their foreign policy goals.”
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Just don’t forget how bad that guy Putin is...
Infuriating but not the slightest bit surprising.
Obama-Biden, Biden-Harris as endorsed by the neocons, by the Lincoln Project, by Liz Cheney and a bunch of never-Trumpers, RINOs who were lining their pockets all the while.
Lula is a socialist, and the American socialists hated that a conservative would rise. Ditto with the AfD in Germany and more....
It was not “USAID”. It was people using USAID. We need names
It is CIA stuff...
Thank You...
So it’s becoming very apparent why the Democrats don’t want the Trump administration opening up the government books exposing their waste of tax payer money.
Don’t forget how pro-China and Russia Bolsonaro’s opponent was and is.
Anti-populism is nearly a synonym for pro-China, pro-Russia and pro-Iran.
Well said, that is a fact.
Look at what we did to Iran. They were a thriving country under the Shah. We got rid of the Shah and see what we have now. This is just one of many examples of our meddling.
I know it is early yet and he is busy, but I am extremely curious how Trump is going to handle the Brazil situation. :)
I haven’t posted in over 4 years, but now I’m so f’n mad….
Biden overthrew Bolsnaro and interfered in another nations elections.
This calls for dramatic and immediate action.
Yep...
Contact Brazil and inform them to free Bolsnaro or face the full force of the us military
My relatives in Brasilia have been very, very quiet the last couple years for good reason. Anyone remember the stabbing of Bolsanaro?
CIA and their regime changes.
Holy cow, well I hope you can find time to come more often! Thank you for dropping in!
I think we have to stand back and look at this for what it really is. The “NGO” angle is a little shy of reality. This is shaping up to be an outright money laundering operation to directly fund the CIA and Blackops...
I think it needs to be taken even more serious than it has been.
IF this proves to be true, some HEADS of Department need to ROLL.
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