Brazil's Supreme Court Finds Bolsonaro Guilty of Plotting Military Coup

I have to confess I’m feeling a bit proud to be Brazilian today. There’s still a lot to do, but a strong message was sent.

At least 20 years in prison.

He's already in house arrest. He's quite old and sick so I don't think the sentence will change much, he'll spend some time locked in his mansion.

And Israel, ex-president was jailed for rape, and ex-PM jailed for corruption.

We (Colombia) barely joined that club a few weeks ago for a few days, but corruption and the dark powers that have ruled this country for a long time kept reigning.

A shame it will not be joining the ranks of El Salvador and Nepal.

Brazil is not a democracy. These judge-kings prove it.

Trample the constitution? They do it on a daily basis. It was especially noticeable before the 2022 election when they engaged in blatantly unconstitutional political censorship. I saw them do it.

Their profoundly destabilizing actions are a major reason why there was a "coup attempt" in the first place. If only the condemned had actually tried. At least they would have gone down fighting and might even have succeeded. Maybe we wouldn't be living under the rule of communist judge-kings.

Brazil and democracy in the same sentence is just disgusting. Not a single person voted for these judge-kings. They essentially make up laws as they go along. They walk all over our senate. Our elected representatives are nothing before them. They are so brazen as to raise taxes. They have been grabbing power since at least 2019 and by now have usurped every single function of the government.

It's important to know the context. That poll was made the very same days the Brazilian Federal Police performed search warrants against Bolsonaro and his allies. Which was a key step in finding incriminatory evidence now publicly presented and accepted during the current judgment. IMO it's no wonder 47% of respondants said so in that moment. You can also check that this was the opinion of ~82% among those who voted for Bolsonaro at the presidential election 16 months before (49% of votes). And in another question of the same poll, 99% of his voters believe ex-president Bolsonaro was being unjustly persecuted (average was 42%).

It is. Polls are not necessary. One needs simply to observe how these judges act to arrive at this conclusion.

The judges responsible for finding Bolsonaro guilty went out of their way to censor him and his supporters prior to the 2022 election. Literally unconstitutional censorship. They're the supreme court, nobody can stop them even when they violate the nation's highest laws.

It's a literal crime for these judges to engage in political and partidarian actions. Does that stop them? No. After doing literaly everything they could to put Lula in power, they went on to brag about it in public. We defeated Bolsonarism, one of them said.

Now these same judges condemn Bolsonaro, just like they condemned thousands of civilians over what was little more than a protest. Leftists once set fire to the exact same buildings but now it's a coup attempt.

Among the judges we find such impartial characters as the current president's former lawyer and a proud self-admitted communist.

This guy's sentence was pre-determined. He was guilty from the start. This circus was merely for show.

There was a poll released this week [1]:

[...] What is your position on the final outcome of the trial?

49.6% The fair outcome is for Jair Bolsonaro to be convicted

36.9% The fair outcome is for Jair Bolsonaro to be acquitted

¹ https://www.cnt.org.br/pesquisas

This is one of the few polls that got the 2022 election results right, so pretty big deal.

Everyone knows the US is the most important of them all. Why do other countries even dare to exist when the US does.

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