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- Some truck drivers started to stop working in some places across #Brazil prior to yesterday's rallies and, today, more of them have decided to stop. As of a couple of hours ago, there were about 60 blocked roads in 16 states. They are frustrated with the apathetic response from the houses' presidents to their (and all #September7th 's demonstrators') demands, and also frustrated (and angry) by the Supreme Court President Luiz Fux's response, who not only played down the rallies, but also implied that the demonstrators want to unconstitutionally shut down the STF, and that they are irrationally and simply following what President #Bolsonaro says, which are false.
- After yesterday's rally in #Brasilia, thousands of demonstrators (we saw no higher angle or aerial view to tell if it reached the tens of thousands) remained somewhere at the #ThreePowersSquare today rallying and asking either the president of the #Congress or of the #Senate (or a representant) to let them hand a request demanding the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice #AlexandredeMoraes, which still hasn't happened. #bolsonaro #brazil
- “INSTITUTIONAL CRITICISM MUST NOT MIX AND GO ALONG WITH NARRATIVES TO DISCREDIT THE SUPREME COURT (STF) AND ITS MEMBERS, AS IT'S BEING SERIOUSLY DIFFUSED BY THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NATION. TO OFFEND THE HONOR OF THE JUSTICES AND TO INCITE THE POPULATION TO SPREAD HATE SPEECH AGAINST THE STF, AND TO DISCOURAGE THE FOLLOWING OF JUDICIAL ORDERS ARE ANTIDEMOCRATIC, ILLICIT, AND INTOLERABLE PRACTICES.” [...] “NO ONE WILL SHUT DOWN THIS COURT. WE WILL KEEP IT STANDING UP, WITH OUR SWEAT, PERSEVERANCE, AND COURAGE. BY EXERCISING ITS DUTIES, THE STF WILL NEVER GROW TIRED OF PREACHING LOYALTY TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND BY DOING SO, THIS COURT WILL REAFFIRM, ALONG ITS PERENNIAL EXISTENCE, ITS NEEDED COMMITMENT TO THE DEMOCRATIC REGIME, TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND TO THE POWERS AND INSTITUTIONS OF THIS COUNTRY.” This is part of what Supreme Court President Luiz Fux stated in response to the #September7th rallies. He went on to saying that #President Bolsonaro should worry about the #pandemic , the unemployment, and the drought instead. Justice Fux's response is infuriating people. Not only he didn't show any sympathy in regards to the demands of the population—Justice Alexandre de Moraes' impeachment due to his arbitrary and unconstitutional orders, and adding paper trail to the voting machines and having manual count along with the eletronic—but he also lied by implying people are irrationally and simply being influenced and led by Bolsonaro, and by implying there is a demand to shut down the STF, which there isn't.
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- The #September7th rallies were a success. They have been compared to the largest ever made, which were the ones for the impeachment of ex-president #Dilma in 2015, either as big or close to as much. The interesting thing is that, both the left and the right were on the streets for her impeachment, whereas now only the right was on the streets, meaning, whether one considers yesterday's rallies to have been as big or a little less big, the attendance of people mostly from one the right was much higher. #bolsonaro #brazil