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JUDGE ALEXANDRE DE MORAIS VS CONGRESSMAN DANIEL SILVEIRA

#SupremeCourt (#STF) Judge #AlexandredeMorais issued an arrest warranty against conservative representative #DanielSilveira. Morais is infamously known (among other things) for ordering the arrest of a journalist twice, whose title of 'journalist' was ignored by him in official documents, being called a 'blogger' instead, and who got paralyzed from waist down during prison the second time.

Silveira posted a video where he says, “BE A MAN ONCE IN YOUR LIFE” [...] “YOU [JUDGE #FACHIN], [JUDGE] ALEXANDRE DE MORAIS, [JUDGE] #MARCOAURELIO, [JUDGE] #GILMARMENDES, THE ONE THAT FREES CRIMINALS ALL THE TIME, GIVES HABEAS CORPUS ALL THE TIME, SELLS HABEAS CORPUS, SELLS SENTENCINGS. 'HEY THERE! HE WAS ARRESTED? HERE, SEND HIM TO ME!' YOU DISRESPECT THE INTERNAL RULES; THIS LITTLE SUPREME COURT, WHICH IS NO SUPREME. THE REQUIREMENTS FOR YOU TO BECOME A JUDGE-MINISTER IS IN THE ARTICLE 101 OF THE #CONSTITUTION; BUT YOU ALL ARE EMPTY, INNOCUOUS, RETARDED, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE. ESPECIALLY YOU, FACHIN. YOU ARE PART OF THE VERY SHIT THAT [THE STF] IS.”

“HERE'S THE THING, FACHIN. EVERYBODY IS FULL OF YOUR SON-OF-B***H'S FACE, THIS VAGABOND'S FACE” [...] “SEVERAL TIMES I VISUALIZED YOU BEING BEATEN UP. NOT ONLY YOU, BUT ALL THIS COURT'S MEMBERS” [...] “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY? THAT I AM ENCOURAGING VIOLENCE? NO, I JUST IMAGINED, AND ME IMAGINING MYSELF DOING SUCH A THING, YOU KNOW IT'S” [imagining hurting someone in advance, speaking about it, but not doing it] “NOT A CRIME” [because he has an extra constitutional protection when it comes to free speech compared to a regular citizen, where he can only be punish for his speech, it doesn't matter what he says, literally, by the Congress].

“I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO WITH THE GENERALS” [...] “THE LITTLE MEN OF THE GOLDEN BUTTONS [one way leftists sarcastically refer to the military], DO YOU REMEMBER? I KNOW YOU REMEMBER; INSTITUTIONAL ACT N° 5 [#AI5]; YOU WERE A PT MILITANT, FROM A COMMUNIST PARTY, FROM THE COMMUNIST ALLIANCE OF #BRAZIL” [the AI5 was the fifth of seventeen institutional acts written during the military regime that defined the actions taken in order to reorganize the government. The AI number 5 was the most polemic, as it allowed for the dissolve of the Congress and the Senate.]

“I TOTALLY AGREE WITH [THE EX-MINISTER OF EDUCATION] #ABRAHAMWEINTRAUB WHEN HE SAID [during a ministerial meeting] 'IF IT WAS UP TO ME, I'D PUT ALL THESE VAGABONDS IN JAIL.'” [...] “I'M GOING TO GO AFTER YOU. I'M NOT AFRAID OF VAGABONDS, OF DRUG DEALERS, OF MURDERS; I'M GOING TO BE AFRAID OF 11 THAT ARE OF NO USE FOR OUR COUNTRY? NO, I WON'T. I KNOW WHO YOU WALK ALONG, WHAT YOU DO.”

After he was notified of his arrest, he recorded another video while he waited for the arrival of the federal police, in which, in part, he says, “FROM THIS POINT ON, THE LEVEL OF THE GAME IS A LITTLE HIGHER. I'M GOING TO DEDICATE EACH AND EVERY MINUTE OF MY TERM TO SHOW WHO ALEXANDRE DE MORAIS, FACHIN, MARCO AURÉLIO DE MELO, GILMAR MENDES, #TOFFOLI, #LEWANDOWSKI ARE. I'M GOING TO PUT EACH ONE OF YOU IN YOUR PLACE. I DON'T CARE. FOR MY COUNTRY, I'M WILLING TO KILL, TO DIE, TO BE ARRESTED, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO MAKE ME FEAR YOU. IT'S THE CONGRESS WHO WILL DECIDE OVER KEEPING ME ARRESTED. YOU JUST RIPPED UP THE CONSTITUTION ONCE AGAIN. I'M LETTING EVERYONE KNOW SO THAT THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, SO THAT I CAN SHOW BRAZIL WHO'S ITS ENEMY. OTHER THAN THAT, I'M GOING TO SLEEP IN JAIL, AND LET'S SEE WHAT'S NEXT. LET'S SEE WHO'S WHO. [LET'S SEE IF] IT'S [ABOUT] YOU OR [ABOUT] ME AND THE PEOPLE.

Some hours after his arrest, there was a vote in the STF to know if there was majority support, and all of them voted to keep Daniel Silveira arrested, including the vote of #Bolsonaro's appointee #KassioNunes.

We don't know if Silveira's seemingly unconstitutional arrest has anything to do with prompting this, but Bolsonaro just nominated four names for the #RepublicCouncil, among them, two military, one of them a very solid conservative, General #AugustoHeleno, currently the secretary (minister) of the Department of Institutional Security. The Republic Council is responsible for giving a final opinion on the need for a political intervention, a national defense law, or a martial law, and also for matters related to the balanced relationship of the institutions.

Dozens of big politicians and many celebrities from the left already said and expressed themselves publicly against Bolsonaro in a threatening, disrespectful, and defamatory way innumerous times and neither the STF nor any of its judges ever at least said a word condemning the acts, so Silveira's arrest seems to be one more attempt to input fear into conservatives and to pressure Bolsonaro into losing it and thus give the STF and the Congress a reason to impeach him. Judge-minister Mendes came to the point of saying in a live last year that Bolsonaro was responsible for a genocide when referring to the #pandemic. Absolutely nothing happened to him and none of his colleagues made any comments.

The document containing the order for the arrest says that the video justifies an arrest warranty for a flagrant act, since the video is still circulating. We, the TBB, had a lot of difficulty to find the original video. We could only find clips and read transcripts in order to write this post. Even the channel where it was posted no longer exists. According to the Article 53 of Section V of the Constitution, the STF is responsible for ultimately certifying congresspeople's and senators' election. After that, the STF no longer has power over them. If they are caught committing an unbailable crime, then the most the STF can do is to ask the Congress to act.

The Congress is supposed to receive from the STF the formal accusation within 24 hours so that it can be taken to a vote in order to be decided if the arrest is acceptable. Some are citing the Articles 22 and 23 of the National Security Law, which say that one can be arrested for inciting violence, instability among institutions, or threatening animosity between the people and government institutions, punishable with 1 to 4 years in jail.

In the 2005 edition of Alexandre de Morais' own book 'Constitutional Rights' he quotes the words of another person to illustrate how congresspeople have their speech protected, where it says they can't be arrested for “THOUGHT OR WORD CRIMES, SUCH AS CRIME AGAINST THE HONOR, CRIME INCITEMENT, ORAL DISRESPECT FOR RELIGION, ETC.”

The judge-minister Marco Aurélio stated, referring to the Congress vote, “CONGRESSPEOPLE WILL BE ACCOUNTED FOR IN 2022 IF THEY FREE A RIGHTWING FANATIC AND POPULIST [COLLEAGUE].”

All Daniel Silveira's social media pages were shut down on the day of his arrest.

  • The #Congress plans to start discussing in the next weeks changing the #Brazil(ian) electoral system. The discussion will be about adopting the American system. As is, a councilor or a local representative can live in place A, campaign for people who live in place B, and work for people in place C. Also, candidates who receives insufficient votes, even 1 single vote, can be elected if they're chosen by their party and the party has accumulated enough votes to transfer the excess. To make things even worse, the list of candidates the party chooses to receive the excess of votes is open, meaning the party can pick a name AFTER the votes are counted. Believe it or not, that's how it works in Brazil. Since this electoral system started, in 1988, more than 85% or all councilors and state and federal representatives were elected indirectly.
  • In #Brazil, there is this national association for lawyers and attorneys called #OAB, Brazilian Attorneys-Lawyers Association, and in one post where the association asks for recently graduated attorneys and lawyers (up to 5 years) to attend a commission, you can see the image of a man fixing his LGBT-colored tie and the title “ADVOGADX INICIANTE, PARTICIPE DA SUA COMISSÃO” ('NEW ATTORNEY-LAWYER, ATTEND YOUR COMMISSION') where the first word is the gender neutral form of ADVOGADO (male attorney/lawyer) and of ADVOGADA (female). Every single attorney-lawyer has to be a member of OAB if they want to be able to practice their profession, just so you have an idea of the outreach and power this association has.
  • Although #OperationCarWash was very important for #Brazil to get rid of the left (that was in power), there are some things about the operation that raise questions about the legality of the whole operation, especially since the main member of the operation, #SergioMoro, started messing up by saying #Bolsonaro used to interfere in his work in the #DepartmentofJustice (#MinistryofJustice), more specifically, interfere in the #FederalPolice's (the #Feds) freedom to act, saying during his resignation press conference he had proof of it but never presented it, and since then turning himself into a political enemy. One of the things about #CarWash that has called the attention is the amount of data collected by the operation, reaching 350 terabytes, while the Public Prosecutors Office involved in it has had access to only 40. Attorney General #AugustoAras requested access to the rest of the data, but another important member of the operation, #DeltanDallagnol, asked the #SupremeCourt's (#STF) to deny access. #moro #lavajato
  • #SaoPaulo Governor #Doria is feeling the heat because of his unbridled political aggressiveness towards the #Bolsonaro administration, allies, and even simple citizens, like journalists, and, after some recent and fierce disagreements with big names in his party, the #PSDB, him leaving it is starting to get unavoidable. The reason behind this conflict is the fact that the PSDB, even though it's definitely not a Bolsonaro ally, is not willing to take on Dória's aggressive political antagonism.
  • The #Brazil(ian) #SupremeCourt (#STF) put down #Bolsonaro's vetoes on the mandatory use of masks in schools. One more time, the STF ruling on what it shouldn't, just to antagonize the president. You see, back in 2020, the STF ruled that states and cities should be responsible for what anti#COVID19 measures they take and how they are applied, including the #lockdown, but now each school can't decided over mandating or not, or partially mandating the use of masks.
  • The congressman #FilipeBarros wrote a law bill that removes the absolute power of the Electoral Supreme Court (#STE) to create, change, and remove election rules. The law bill proposes that this becomes the #HouseofRepresentatives' (#LowerHouse #Congress) responsibility. It's already clear that the #SupremeCourt (#STF) is working against the #Bolsonaro administration by ruling about things they shouldn't be ruling, and STF Judge #AlexandreBarroso revealed last year his excitement about the implementation of the vote by phone. If an app happens to be unveiled and the STF rules it will be the means to vote, there will be nothing Bolsonaro or the Houses can do. This law bill is from last year, but the previous chair of the Congress wouldn't even put it to vote, but now that the chair is more aligned with the president and the chair of the commission that analyzes the constitutionality of law bills is a strong Bolsonaro ally, this law bill is sure to go a vote.
  • As has become much more usual in #Brazil after #Bolsonaro was elected, some of the #SupremeCourt (also called #STF) judges keep giving interviews, and in Judge #AlexandreBarroso's latest interview, he said, DO YOU THINK #VENEZUELA IS CONSERVATIVE? I DEFINITELY THINK SO, EVER SINCE #HUGOCHAVEZ. IN MY OPINION, THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A RIGHTWING TYRANNY WITH A DISGUISED RHETORIC. PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T LIVE DURING THE #DICTATORSHIP [it was a #militaryregime, actually] ARE INFLUENCED BY THE RHETORIC OF THOSE WHO MISS A TIME THAT DIDN'T EXIST [one can romanticize about a time they didn't live, but not miss it, or the judge is just dismissing the opinion of those who lived back then, which is vastly positive]. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO LOST FAITH IN BRAZIL AND MISS WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. He also said that it's necessary to DEMYSTIFY FETISHES about the past. In that past, crime was lower, individuals had more freedom, families more power, and development was higher. Are these fetishes to one of our highest level judges?
  • The number is still small, but teachers in private schools in #Brazil are already experimenting pushing for the use of #genderneutral words. For instance, 'thank you' is 'obrigado' when said by a man and 'obrigada' when said by a woman. Its gender neutral is 'obrigade.' Most parents and students are reacting negatively and have been demanding explanations.

  • The Public Prosecutors Office for Labor wrote a recommendation letter for companies and public attorneys where it asks that conflicts over the vaccination of employees be avoided, but it ultimately settles in that, in order to preserve the health of coworkers, the employer can try to convince the employee to get the shot, and fire them if they refuse to get it.
  • A Justice Court ruled in favor of conservative #TerçaLivre channel #YouTube permanently suspended to be reinstated, or they will have to pay a fine for every day that they don't. Terça Livre was suspended as thousands of channels are, without YT making clear what part of a video broke which guideline. This is a great victory for free speech and it opens a precedent for #socialmedia to be finally regulated.
  • Congressman #DanielSilveira (plus 19 others) presented a law bill that prohibits #socialmedia platforms from censoring, shadowbanning, or outright banning posts and accounts whose content do not conflict with constitutional rights. This bill had been presented before, but the previous chair of the House of Representatives would not even put it to vote. Now, under the new chair, the hopes of seeing this law bill going for a vote is back, and Daniel and the others are asking for urgency. After the mass censoring of #Trump, allies, and supporters during his campaign and their eventual mass banning, they don't see why the same won't happen to Bolsonaro, allies, and supporters during this year's #elections. If this bill passes, it will (curiously and surprisingly) teach Americans, mainly #Republicans, a lesson, and #Trump, allies, and supporters will surely cheer.
  • Some people are recording others receiving the anti-#COVID19 vaccine without the nurses being aware, and some of them are seen not giving the shot. You can see the nurse inserting the needle, but they don't push the plunger. #coronavirus
  • #PauloGuedes, the secretary of the department of economy (called 'Ministry of Economy,' and him, 'minister'), said his hopes of having several economy bills passed rose after the election of the new chair of the #HouseofRepresentatives. The previous chair didn't even put the bills to vote.
  • #Bolsonaro, who is currently without a party, is considering joining '#Patriotas' (Patriots) in order to run this year for a second term. His preferred party is '#AliançapeloBrasil' (Alliance for Brazil), but it's still in the process of collecting signatures in order to complete its creation, and thus not ready to have its candidates run in time in this year's elections.
  • Billboards of #SãoPaulo Governor #Dória have been spotted in a city called #CampoGrande, State of #MatoGrosso. Two different billboard versions, one showing him wearing a mask, holding a syringe in one hand, the toothpaste-like box of the only vaccine he's been promoting, the #Chinese #CoronaVac (infamous for its 50-ish % efficacy rate), and the title, VACCINE FOR ALL. The other version shows him wearing a mask and waving a V, and it says, CONGRATULATIONS, DÓRIA. V OF VICTORY, V OF VACCINE, V OF 'VERDADE' (TRUTH). VACCINE FOR ALL. A video went viral for showing a woman driving by when she saw one of those, stopped, pulled her phone up and started recording, showing the billboard in the background while she demanded answers to why São Paulo's governor was being promoted in her state, and who could be funding it, but it was taken down by #YouTube, which claimed it broke their community guidelines. A congressman contacted YT Brasil demanding an explanation, since the video doesn't contain anything that can be considered defamatory, threatening, criminal, or illegal.

  • Now that the antagonistic president of the #HouseofRepresentatives is gone and that the chair of its #CCJ* ('Justice and Constitution Comission,' a department that can be composed of up to 66 representatives and is responsible for analyzing the legality of a bill through public hearings before it heads to the House for a vote) is now a strong #Bolsonaro ally, Congresswoman #BiaKicis, the hopes of campaign promises to become a reality are back to high, such as, ending career-ending justice hearings for every single case of a law enforcement officer firing a gun, such as, giving Army soldiers the permission to be able to act as police officers in cases when they are sent to help keep or restore order (believe it, as of now, they can't shoot, but just hope their presence intimidates), and such as, approving the Gov't Administrative Reform. Of course, there are many more things relate to gun and administration issues Bolsonaro hopes to have the House finally vote.

SÃO PAULO'S GOVERNOR DÓRIA VS JOURNALIST CONSTANTINO

This week, while on a radio and video morning show broadcast by #JovemPan, #RodrigoConstantino commented on and criticized #JoãoDória's strong but ineffective fight against #COVID19 infection and death rates, and also Dória's offensive comment on #Bauru's mayor #SullemRossim, because she was loosening the #lockdown measures and also because she went to meet directly with President #Bolsonaro and some of his ministers, in order to expose her city's critical financial situation due to the #pandemic, making the governor fume and call her a '(science) denier' and a 'vassala of the president.' Vassala means 'someone who's dependent on someone else.' It originally means the same as 'vassal,' and it still passes a negative (for today's standards) impression, because it's rarely used and thus not have undergone any practical change or softening of meaning, and it also sounds strong. This is a word that you simply don't hear in #Brazil in everyday talk and, worse, she's black. But, the #BlackLivesMatter and the #feminist movement... Guess what? Haven't said a word.

After #Constantino's comment and criticism, saying things like, “THE GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT IS ABJECT,” “A VASSAL MAY BE THE GOVERNOR HIMSELF, OF THE CHINESE REGIME,” “HE ONLY THINKS ABOUT (THE ELECTION OF) 2022, THAT'S WHY HE GOT SO IRRITATED (BY HER DECISION TO ESTABLISH A DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH THE PRESIDENT),” “HE'S MAKING THE PANDEMIC ALL ABOUT POLITICS SINCE IT STARTED,” “HIS STATE HAS THE WORSE NUMBER OF COVID CASES IN BRAZIL (IN SPITE OF ADOPTING THE STRICTIEST MEASURES) [true], AND I ASK MYSELF HOW HE CAN HAVE SUCH A BRAZENLY ARROGANCE TO TRY TO TEACH THE REST OF THE COUNTRY (HOW TO DEAL WITH THE PANDEMIC).” This was not the first time Constantino comments on how Dória is running São Paulo, but it was last straw.

These quotes are the strongest parts of Constantino's criticism, which lasted only 70 seconds, but it was enough to make Governor #Dória call in during the same show asking the host to give him the right to respond and rebut Constantino, who was present. His call was unannounced and got everybody by surprise, and he asked for his right to respond and rebut on spot, which is very unusual, as the contact for a response and rebuttal is made in advance (so that the counterargument can be prepared) and, in most cases (especially when it involves high profile people), it's requested by their lawyers.

His call can be considered an exemplary study case about how basic leftist tactics of attack work, and how embarrassingly out-of-touch with the people a politician can be. Perhaps a #Marxism 101 class? And, not because this is anywhere a rare thing, leftists do this often, but because of who he is: The governor of the most powerful and rich state in Brazil, and Bolsonaro's biggest self-declared archenemy among all the governors. Read on below Dória's response and rebuttal (with comments and small pieces cut out for the sake of length).

NOTE: This line-by-line commenting was greatly inspired by a video posted by #PaulaMarisa on #YouTube.

“DEFENDING LIFE AND SCIENCE, AND REBUTTING CONSTANTINO, A (SCIENCE) DENIER, BOLSONARO'S IDEOLOGUE” [instead of rebutting Constantino, he starts by framing his character], “DEFENDER OF A HOMICIDAL GOV'T” [accusing the Bolsonaro administration of being homicidal is quite a serious thing to say, and it's further character framing, as if Constantino knew about a plot by the gov't to kill people; a conniver]. “BY THE WAY, THE SAME RODRIGO CONSTANTINO THAT DEFENDED A RAPIST ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND (BECAUSE OF THAT) WAS FIRED FROM JOVEM PAN” [this was a confusion caused by a misinterpretation and the fact that the network was too fast to react to the mounting outrage that built up on #Facebook and #Twitter, fueled by leftists, but the company later apologized to Constantino and re-hired him; you see, the governor totally ignored the fact that he was back to the same company and same show, showing disrespect for Jovem Pan, as if implying the company lacked judgement by hiring him back].”

“RODRIGO CONSTANTINO, #SÃOPAULO DEFENDS #SCIENCE, #HEALTH, AND #LIFE. THIS IS SOMETHING YOU AND #JAIRBOLSONARO NEVER DID. ON THE CONTRARY, YOU AND BOLSONARO ALWAYS SAID THIS WAS A LITTLE FLU, A LITTLE COLD” (Bolsonaro didn't express his own thoughts, but replicated what an until-recently-and-unanimously-respected and a venerated-by-the-left doctor called #DráuzioVarella said on video on social media). “TODAY, BRAZIL ACCOUNTS FOR MORE THAN 225,000 DEATHS DUE TO A PANDEMIC WHOSE EFFECT COULD HAVE BEEN MINIMIZED IF WE DIDN'T HAVE A GOV'T THAT DENIES (SCIENCE)” [the gov't's hands were partially tied from the beginning when the #SupremeCourt, #STF, ruled out that the decision about how to apply health prevention and care measures during the pandemic, including lockdown measures, would be the mayors' and governors' responsibility, not the State's], “AND JOURNALISTS, I MEAN, PSEUDO JOURNALISTS LIKE YOU” [calling a journalist a pseudo journalist before any rebuttal was made sounds like further character framing], “DEFENDING THE EARTH IS FLAT” [not everybody on the side of #conservatives, #rightwingers, and who is a Christian agrees on this, but many leftists call absolutely everyone who supports Bolsonaro a '#flatearther,' as if in one more attempt to frame one's character].”

“IT WAS HERE IN SP, RODRIGO CONSTANTINO, WHERE THE #VACCINE WAS MADE AVAILABLE. THE ONE WHICH YOU AND JAIR BOLSONARO REPEATEDLY MINIMIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF” [this vaccine, called #CoronaVac, was approved by the Brazilian health agency #ANVISA by a critical margin, it has several reservations, and is still not recommended for everybody to take; these things are never mentioned during press conferences in SP], “CALLING IT 'VACCINE FROM CHINA'” [Is it not? What's the problem here? It sounds as if he knew many people were growing suspicious of, critical of, and put off by the Chinese gov't, and Constantino and Bolsonaro, according to Dória, shouldn't be saying that it is Chinese in order to avoid scaring people], “BUT THIS IS THE VACCINE THAT WAS APPROVED BY ANVISA” [by the same time, Oxford's was as well], “A VACCINE THAT'S SAVING MILLIONS OF BRAZILIANS, BRAZILIANS WHO ARE IN THE FRONTLINE, WHO DO WHAT YOU DON'T DO, DOCTORS WHO HELP SAVE LIVES. SHOW HEALTH PROFESSIONALS THEIR DUE RESPECT” [there's no record of Constantino disrespecting health professionals, and the governor still hadn't started his rebuttal].

“SHOW RESPECT TO SCIENCE, TO THE FAMILIES OF 225,000 DEATHS, AND ALSO TO THE PEOPLE, TO THE AUTHORITIES, WHO ARE FIGHTING TO DEFEND LIFE AND PEOPLE. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY [...]. BUT, LET ME REMIND YOU GUYS. IF RODRIGO CONSTANTINO RESPONDS AND REBUTS (AGAIN), I DEMAND THE SAME BE GRANTED TO ME.”

At this moment, Constantino, who was live, said, “YOU CAN STAY ON AIR, (MR) GOVERNOR. YOU CAN STAY ON AIR TO HEAR MY ANSWER. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU FEEL HURT FOR ME PRESENTING FACTS, AND YOU COME AGAIN WITH THIS ATTEMPT TO MONOPOLIZE THE VIRTUES, THE SCIENCE [...].” Right there, the governor cuts him and keeps cutting him, never letting Constantino finish any single thought, and he repeated several times that Constantino defended a rapist, and he also repeated all the other things he said previously. Constantino did well, could still make some good points. Near the end, the governor went further and implied the network should fire Constantino again.

“SHAME ON YOU FOR WHAT YOU SAY EVERY MORNING ON JOVEM PAN. IT'S NOT UP TO ME TO JUDGE WHY JOVEM PAN REHIRED YOU. #THIAGOUBERRAICH [the show host], JOVEM PAN LISTENERS, AND JOVEM PAN MANAGEMENT,...” At this point, the host asks the governor, “DO YOU WANT TO CONCLUDE, PLEASE, FOR US TO FINISH?,” but Dória presses on. “IT'S A SHAME THAT WE HAVE THIS KIND OF DEBATE ON JOVEM PAN, THIAGO, THAT'S A SHAME. IT'S A SHAME THAT JOVEM PAN, AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF TRADITION IN JOURNALISM, HAS IN ITS TEAM OF COMMENTATORS SUCH A DISASTROUS PERSON LIKE RODRIGO CONSTANTINO. DEFENDER OF 'BOLSONARISM,' DEFENDER OF AN EXTREME RIGHTWING IDEOLOGY, (if he's a defender of that, he's conniving and/or he is a rightwing extremist; character framing again; no rebuttal). IT'S A SHAME THAT JOVEM PAN GIVES SUCH A PERSON ANY SPACE [again, implying Jovem Pan had bad judgement when they rehired Constantino after firing him unfairly). I WANT TO EXPRESS, AS A JOVEM PAN LISTENER, AS A CITIZEN, AND AS A DEMOCRAT [as if #Democrats had a good reputation], MY PROTEST.” Thiago interrupts, curtly, “DO YOU WANT TO HANG UP, (MR) GOVERNOR? WE APPRECIATE IT.” Dória, “YES. THANK YOU.”

Constantino, as a commentator, not only for Jovem Pan but also other media, exposed this event, and many others did as well. Only the original video with the interaction reached a million views in three days. The governor apparently gave up on pushing this further, maybe due to the backlash and perhaps for realizing how insane (and quite badly calculated, we might add) his attitude was.

It's worth remembering that Dória was elected because of Bolsonaro. He strongly campaigned for and supported the president, showing up in rallies with him, defending the same policies in these rallies, and on radios, on TVs, and on social media, and even produced, wore, and distributed apparel containing the saying “BolsoDória.”

Rodrigo Constantino promised to sue Dória for saying he defended a rapist. Now, will the Bolsonaro administration sue Dória for the accusation that he's been using the State machine to intentionally let people die? We aren't talking about a simple citizen, but a very high profile politician who has an army of opposition (fake) news media to amplify his out-of-touch and authoritarian-like rhetoric.

What could Dória possibly be thinking when he asked for Constantino's head on air when he was rehired and he has built a good reputation (and in country that's still not a dictatorship)? #XiJinping certainly didn't like Dória's lack of basic research, planning, and preparation.

#CCP #christians #leftists #leftism #leftwing #feministmovement #sciencedenier #feminism #fakenews

  • Out of curiosity, the presidents of both houses have unbelievable royal treatment. For instance, they never have to open doors, having someone to walk ahead of them and open, and they don't have to answer their own phones, also having someone to do so. A journalist called #ZéMaria (a good journalist when it comes to Brazilian politics ONLY) told a curious story. After leaving the presidency of a house, an ex-president missed his phone ringing. He wondered if his cell was defective. He called himself from another phone to test it. It rang. From that point on he realized how his presidency was meaningless and absolutely no congressperson had any reason to contact him again.
  • As was expected (as long as there's no #fraud), the candidate of the now ex-president of the #HouseofRepresentatives, #RodrigoMaia, one of two biggest obstacles to the #Bolsonaro administration along with the #SupremeCourt (#STF), lost the election. Rodrigo Maia, while sitting in the house presidency chair, cried like a baby. #ArthurLira, #Bolsonaro's choice, won 302 votes, nearly three fifths of the house. At least in rhetoric, this is a big win for the government. Arthur promised to put to vote the Government Administrative Reform during his first 100 days. Another very important vote is the auditable voting system, which is extremely important in order to avoid what seemed to have happened to Trump, which is even worse in Brazil, as there's zero way to audit the vote.

#jairbolsonaro #representatives

As was expected (as long as there's no #fraud), the candidate of the now ex-president of the #HouseofRepresentatives, #RodrigoMaia, one of two biggest obstacles to the #Bolsonaro administration along with the #SupremeCourt (#STF), lost the election. #ArthurLira, #Bolsonaro's choice, won 302 votes, nearly three fifths of the house. At least in rhetoric, this is a big win for the government. Time will tell.

#jairbolsonaro #representatives

As was expected (as long as there's no #fraud), the candidate of the now ex-president of the #HouseofRepresentatives, #RodrigoMaia, one of two biggest obstacles to the #Bolsonaro administration along with the #SupremeCourt (#STF), lost the election. #ArthurLira, #Bolsonaro's choice, won 302 votes, nearly 2/3 of the house. At least in rhetoric, this is a big win for the government. Time will tell.

#jairbolsonaro #representatives

The #STF (Brazilian #SupremeCourt) ruled that states can buy vaccines without the approval of the #ANVISA ('Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária,' or National Health Regulatory Agency), which is the Department of Health's branch responsible for giving the approval of safe use of any product or service that's related to health, produced in #Brazil or imported. Under this rule, the approval of a vaccine by the health agency of the country of origin will be enough.

Among the governors in favor of bypassing the gov't's agency, #SãoPaulo's Governor #JoãoDória has been the most vocal, prompting President #Bolsonaro to repeatedly say that no vaccination will be sold in Brazil without ANVISA's approval. The decision of the STF is another humiliation for Bolsonaro if he doesn't have any card under his sleeve.

It's important to note that not a single vaccine company from any country has ever asked ANVISA for authorization so far, which is suspicious.

And today the STF voted unanimously in favor of compulsory vaccination. One more humiliation for the president (again, if he doesn't have any card unde his sleeve) who publicly and repeatedly said that no Brazilian would be forced to take the vaccine.

Some judges said that nobody will be forced to take it if it means people going through any kind of embarrassment or humiliation, but there's a caveat. Private and public institutions and businesses will be allowed to demand that their employees, clients, and customers prove that they are vaccinated. For instance, an airline can demand passengers to show this proof in order to board the plane or buy a ticket, and a school can demand it in order to accept an enrollment.

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