Friday, October 30, 2026

Links - 30th October 2026 (2 - Brazil 2026 Election)

Gina Milan on X - "I see a lot of people, including the left-wing media and Democrats, running their mouths about Bolsonaro, calling him corrupt and accusing him of money laundering. LOL. Yet none of them want to talk about the actual truth about Lula and the corruption charges he was convicted of.  So let’s talk about that.  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption and money laundering in Operation Car Wash, Brazil’s biggest graft scandal.  In the Guarujá triplex case, OAS handed him a renovated beachfront apartment as a hidden bribe worth roughly R$2.2 million, tied to Petrobras contracts. In 2017, Judge Sergio Moro convicted him of passive corruption and money laundering and sentenced him to 9 years and 6 months. The appeals court unanimously upheld the conviction and increased his sentence to over 12 years.  He spent 580 days in prison.  In the Atibaia ranch case, he was convicted again for renovations worth about R$1 million, paid for by OAS and Odebrecht, at a property he and his family used. His sentence? 12 years and 11 months.  Then, in 2021, while he was out of office, the Supreme Court overturned the convictions on procedural grounds. The court ruled that the Curitiba court lacked jurisdiction and that Moro was biased. The cases never went to a new trial on the facts, and the prosecutions ultimately ended because of statute-of-limitations issues.  After slithering back into the presidency in 2023, Lula appointed his own personal defense lawyer from those same Car Wash cases, Cristiano Zanin, to the Supreme Court.  His own defense lawyer. On the Supreme Court. Ironic, isn’t it?  And that same lawyer is the one who granted the 2-hour extension for voting in the 2026 runoff, where Lula magically gained enough votes to win.  So the next time you see the media and the left gushing about how wonderful this man is and portraying him as a martyr, LOL, remember the truth.  Lula is the actual dictator thug who was convicted on corruption charges.  Not Flávio Bolsonaro."

Gina Milan on X - "Let me break down the Flavio Bolsonaro situation and why he is in the United States just hours after the election…  First, they imprisoned his father. They sentenced Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and placed him under house arrest after he challenged the 2022 results and was accused of plotting to overturn the election.  In this recent election, Bolsonaro was ahead. Lula and his thugs, including his former corruption lawyer, who now sits on Brazil’s Supreme Court, requested a two-hour extension that miraculously produced enough votes for Lula to win. That extension added only about 35,000 votes, roughly 0.03 percent of the total, which is nowhere near enough to explain Lula’s final margin of roughly 4.4 million votes.  Bolsonaro immediately challenged the election because anyone who is not a communist and has a brain could see that the election was stolen from him if they actually paid attention to what was happening. President Trump called the outcome a rigged election and said it looked very bad.  Hours later, they accused him of trying to overturn the election, EXACTLY as they did to his father, and accused him of inciting “violence” in the streets. Then they prohibited him from leaving the country, even though he had committed no crime, and canceled his passport to make sure he could not leave.  Fortunately, Bolsonaro had been working with the United States. They extracted him in an undisclosed operation before the authorities could throw him in prison just like his father.  Meanwhile, while ALL of this is unfolding, Lula’s little tranny lover, Erika Hilton, who is a “Congresswoman,” is publicly calling for the Brazilian government to seize Bolsonaro’s and his wife’s assets and freeze ALL their bank accounts.  DOES THAT SOUND NORMAL TO YOU? A man challenges an election, and suddenly the Brazilian government is coming after him for doing exactly that.  THIS IS COMMUNISM.  So while you see Democrats across our country congratulating Lula on his victory, including Alex Soros, the biggest demon of them all, understand exactly what you are looking at. These are the people cheering on a government that is targeting its political opposition. They are the enemy, and they will attempt the SAME thing against a Republican here in America, just as they did to Trump.  This is EXACTLY why it is essential to vote RED and make absolutely sure our country NEVER becomes what Brazil has become.  ONCE YOU GO COMMUNIST, YOU CAN NEVER GET OUT OF IT."
Only one week ago, left wingers were claiming it was wrong to prosecute your political opponents. Of course, that's only true when left wing politicians like Ilhan Omar are being prosecuted. The speed at which they flip flop is impressive - especially now that they've gone 360 degrees already (i.e. flip flopped twice)

Mike Benz on X - "The Lula regime is now going around seizing the passports of every major figure associated with the political party that beat him in the general election 3 weeks ago."
Left Wingers are celebrating the defeat of "fascism". Left wingers always project

Arturo Dominguez on X - "Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly fled Brazil. He plans to claim political asylum when he lands in the U.S. He's most likely headed to Miami, where far-right figures from Latin America love to go because they have support."
David J. Bier on X - "So the US is going to parole someone here to claim ASYLUM!? Gotta love it"
Daniel Heneghan on X - "This is a legitimate asylum request unlike a married african muslim with two children claiming to be fleeing gay persecution.   Within minutes of the election the renegade and corrupt judge issued an arrest warrant for Bolsinaro, no charge, no evidence of any wrongdoing, but this is just what leftist/libertarians do."

Gerry Callahan on X - "If Bolsonaro were an illiterate Somali scammer or Haitian gang banger, Democrats would demand Trump let him in country. But he’s white and conservative and genuinely persecuted, so they want him to die in a Brazilian prison."

Congressman Rich McCormick, MBA MD on X - "I am deeply concerned by reports that Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Flávio Bolsonaro to surrender his passports following Brazil’s presidential election.  Allegations of election irregularities, including changes to voting hours, raise serious questions that demand transparency and independent scrutiny. The Brazilian people deserve confidence in their elections, the right to challenge results, and protection from political retaliation.  The United States must stand for free and fair elections, due process, and fundamental freedoms. The concerns surrounding Brazil warrant serious scrutiny, particularly given what we have witnessed in Venezuela."

Glenn Greenwald on X - "CRUCIAL FACTS ON THE FLAVIO BOLSONARO MATTER:
It's not just Flavio Bolsonaro who fled Brazil to escape the tyrannical persecution of Alexandre de Moraes and the pro-Lula wing of the Supreme Court. There are dozens of Brazilian exiles who have done the same: dissident journalists, activists, bloggers, and politicians who all fled to avoid certain prison for political opposition.   In most of these cases, Moraes has demanded the extradition of those who fled and whom he wants to imprison back in Brazil. But Moraes' extradition requests have been repeatedly denied by multiple countries and institutions on the grounds that these prosecutions are politically motivated or otherwise corrupted. Among those concluing this: Spain, Italy, INTERPOL, and even the US under Biden.  Just today, Italy refused Brazil's demand to extradite a person named @edutagli , who was once a top aide to Moraes, but then fled to Italy after Moraes accused him of having been my source in a huge leak from Moraes' office that I obtained for reporting I did with @Folha  in 2024. That massive leak enabled us to publish roughly 20 articles proving systemic abuses of power by Moraes against his political enemies: exactly the reason so many Brazilians, including Bolsonaro, know they can't get a fair trial in Brazil.   Italy today refused to extradite the person accused of being our source on the grounds that the proceedings would be a farce because Moraes — as he so often does — wants to act as the supposed victim, investigator, and judge, and thus his demand falls well outside of Italy's extradition standards. Again, multiple countries have concluded the same, showing what a farce Brazil's once-respected judicial system has become under the Lula/Moraes regime.   Moraes has overseen a system of political persecution masquerading as criminal justice that has been recognized as a sham by multiple countries that are not exactly Bolsonaro allies. Nobody in their right mind who is a political enemy of Moraes would remain in Brazil once if it is clear that he intends to imprison you, since he has proven that guilt is a foregone conclusion and he operates with no legal or constitutional limits of any kind.  That is why asylum under international law exists: to protect those who cannot obtain justice in their own country because the justice system has been corrupted and commandeered for political persecution. Many people, such as Julian Assange, have needed that protection (which Lula cheered). Now people need it from Moraes in Brazil. That is sadly one of the main legacies of both Lula and Moraes over the last six years."

Glenn Greenwald on X - "The Brazilian Supreme Court Judge revered by the Brazilian left (and now the American left for seizing Bolsonaro's passport), Alexandre de Moraes, comes from the extremist "law-and-order" faction of the Brazilian Right as well as its extreme pro-austerity neoliberal pro-banker wing.  Less than a decade ago, when Moraes was nominated to the Supreme Court, the Brazilian left branded him a white supremacist, a fascist and a leader of the right-wing coup government. One of Brazil's leading left-wing politicians (@GuilhermeBoulos ) explicitly accused Moraes of having committed the worst crime against humanity that exists: "RACIST GENOCIDE," by deliberately murdering poor black people en masse while he was the Justice Secretary for São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin (who himself spent years being called all the same names by the Brazilian left until Lula picked Alckmin as VP in 2022).   Then -- starting in 2019 -- Moraes began censoring, imprisoning and persecuting Lula's enemies and imprisoning his own critics, and was overnight transformed by the large Brazilian media and the left into the Savior of Brazilian Justice and Democracy. Only on the left can one transform from from *fascist and genocidal racist* to heroic guardian of justice in less than a decade. Also, Moraes' own corruption scandals make everyone else's seem trivial, yet his passport works just fine and he freely travels the world in great wealth that he and his family received from the corrupt billionaire banker responsible for Brazil's worst-ever banking collapse. Enjoy!"

Donnie Cope on X - "😂 😡 🤬 🤣 Allies in Brazil 🇧🇷 are reporting the President Lula turned red, stammered, spat, and screamed at Federal Police Director Andrei Rodrigues to find and arrest Flavio Bolsonaro immediately, warning that the last thing Brazil needed was its own Maria Corina rallying the opposition from exile.   The reported outburst comes as multiple countries currently refuse Brazilian Supreme Court extradition requests over political persecution claims, and as the same court has targeted Bolsonaro family members with probes and travel bans. The pattern is clear: lose the argument at the ballot box, then use the police and the courts. 👈"

Joaquin Castro on X - "Losing an election is not grounds for asylum. Yet the Trump Administration is giving Flávio Bolsonaro safe haven in the United States. In Brazil, he is under investigation for alleged corruption, money laundering and currency evasion, and was ordered to surrender his passports.  The Trump Administration owes Congress answers on its role helping Bolsonaro flee Brazil in contravention of Brazilian law."
Daniel Di Martino on X - "It is when they take your passport away and threaten to jail you for your political opinion. That is the lawful definition of asylum, actually."
David Adler on X - "Who threatened to jail Bolsonaro for his political opinions? These people are either illiterate idiots or sociopathic liars. Sometimes both."
Students For Liberty on X - "No one in the Soviet Union was arrested for "political opinions.”  They were arrested for “treason,” “sabotage,” or any other crime the system came up with against its political opponents. Some of the charges were even true; others were completely baseless, but that did not matter—the verdict was always the same: guilty.  And that is the whole point. When you do not have the rule of law, as Brazil seems to no longer have, the law no longer exists to punish criminals. It becomes merely a tool used against those who dare defy the system."

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Judge Alexandre de Moraes signed an order demanding Bolsonaro hand over his passport WITHIN SEVEN MINUTES of the close of voting. Before votes had even been counted.   What did he know about the vote results that enabled him to make this order within seven minutes of polls closing - seemingly confident that Bolsonaro had already lost?"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on X - "Yesterday, Brazil showed the world that the will of the people is stronger than the authoritarians who try to suppress it. Congratulations President @LulaOficial and congratulations Brazil."
Martin De Luca on X - "In this alternative reality, the opposition leader who is out of power fleeing into exile, and the father who is in prison are the authoritarians.  And the guy who controls all security forces of the state, the electoral system, and largely the media through state subsidies, and who ordered a travel ban on his opponent within seven minutes of being declared the winner of the presidential election after having his former lawyer acting as judge extend the closure of the polls and suspend the counting for two hours is the democratic man representing the will of the people.    Please follow @AOC  for more daily comedy and satire."

PCO - Partido da Causa Operária on X (Translated) - "Flávio Bolsonaro is being persecuted because he received nearly 60 million votes, said Rui Costa Pimenta. See what he said in the Analysis of the 3rd:  "The persecution has nothing to do with the defense of democracy. It is political persecution. Why is Flávio Bolsonaro being persecuted? Because he received nearly 60 million votes. Because he has a majority, he has a very significant bloc in the Senate and Congress. He can secure the impeachment of certain STF ministers. So, the persecution is because of that; it's a power play.""
Clearly, the Communists in Brazil are really fascists

PCO - Partido da Causa Operária on X (Translated) - "Seven minutes. That was the time between the TSE confirming Flávio Bolsonaro's defeat and the Federal Police requesting his passport from Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes authorized it that same night.  Anyone who thinks this is that so-called "fight against fascism" is being deceived. It is, pure and simply, political persecution against someone who received nearly 60 million votes.  And who is leading the hunt? A minister whose wife has over R$200 million in contracts with companies owned by Daniel Vorcaro, the banker at the center of the Banco Master scandal. With what moral authority does this judge rule on someone for corruption?  It is the mockery of the Republic. An insult to the intelligence of the Brazilian people."

LeeKuanYewRespecter on X - "Understand how the narrative works.   Ahead of Brazil’s election, they were gearing up to blame Meta if Lula lost. Now that he’s been declared the winner, we’re hearing about the brilliant use of WhatsApp (Meta) that helped deliver his victory.  When Obama won in 2012, they celebrated his shrewd use of Facebook, voter data and microtargeting. When Brexit happened and Trump won in 2016, we got the Cambridge Analytica moral panic.  When the left wins, it’s brilliant digital campaigning. When the right wins, it’s social media manipulation undermining democracy."

Adalex Góis on X  (Translated) - "LULA ISN'T ABLE TO SLEEP PEACEFULLY (Special Wednesday article, October 28, 2026)
 Something strange is happening after the Brazilian elections, and I'm not just talking about the result.  Lula, the PT, and the entire political system that worked alongside them supposedly won the most important contest in recent years.  So explain this to me: WHERE IS THE CELEBRATION?  Look at the atmosphere that formed after the result was announced. There isn't that natural euphoria of someone who just defeated their biggest political adversary and secured four more years in power.  Lula's expression, the reactions of his allies, and even the behavior of some of his voters convey far more concern than relief.  Obviously, no one can figure out what a person is thinking just by looking at their face, but a journalist also can't ignore a contradiction when it starts lining up with other equally strange facts.  And that's exactly what happened.   While Lula and his allies were managing the fallout from the election, Flávio Bolsonaro and his family left Brazil in an operation that put the United States at the center of the story.   The importance of this episode isn't just in Flávio's physical departure from the country, but in what it reveals: the dispute stopped happening exclusively within Brazilian institutions and started directly involving a foreign government with infinitely superior economic, diplomatic, and strategic power to any domestic player.  This is where Donald Trump (@donaldtrumpjr ) comes in.   For years, Lula, Alexandre de Moraes, and other STF ministers faced Bolsonarism on terrain they knew and controlled: the Judiciary, Federal Police, TSE, inquiries, and decisions made within Brazilian jurisdiction. But what happens when one of the main players in this conflict starts counting on political support from the President of the United States?  Brazilian authorities can control what happens inside Brazil. They don't control Trump, the State Department, the U.S. Treasury, or the decisions Washington can make.   And Trump has already begun ramping up the tension by publicly questioning the Brazilian election, raising suspicions about the result without presenting any public evidence so far to back up those accusations.   But there's an even more troubling element.  According to a report cited on CNN, Trump has in his hands a dossier with information on the entire Brazilian electoral process, including suspicions related to STF ministers.  If this information is correct, there's a gigantic difference between an American president simply stating he distrusts an election and the U.S. government possessing gathered material on what happened, who made certain decisions, and whether there was any irregularity capable of compromising the process.  Now go back to the beginning. Lula wins, but doesn't seem to celebrate. Flávio quickly leaves Brazil with American involvement. Trump starts publicly questioning the election. And information emerges that Washington has a dossier on the electoral process and on players directly involved in it.
WHAT DOES LULA KNOW THAT MOST OF HIS VOTERS STILL DON'T KNOW?
 Because maybe the problem for Lula and his allies isn't simply in the ballot box results. Maybe it's in what can happen when Donald Trump decides to reveal what he has—and turn a Brazilian political dispute into an international crisis that Brasília can no longer control.  If that's the case, the result announced by the TSE may have only wrapped up one part of the election.  
THE OTHER MAY BE STARTING NOW—AND A LONG WAY FROM BRASÍLIA."

Matteo Mattioli on X (Translated) - "The wife of Alexandre de Moraes, a judge 🇧🇷 who sentenced father Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison and seized the passport of his son Flavio, has a €20M consulting contract with Daniel Vorcaro, CEO of Banco Master, which was shut down by the Central Bank for serious irregularities."

Richard Hanania on X - "Colombia's president says Lula legitimately won the election. Everyone in the region seems to understand that Lula isn't that radical and there's something very sinister about the Bolsonaros. They aren't a normal right-wing Latin American movement."
Murphy🌐 on X - ""Lula isnt that radical" Lula banned people from viewing the dollar value one time because it was hurting his popularity."

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "If there’s anything Brazil has taught us over the last four years, it’s that Leftists will rig elections, call themselves defenders of democracy while they’re doing it, hijack the courts after they’ve won, use them to convert the country into a soft dictatorship, and then arrest their political enemies, ban free speech, and attack social media platforms they can’t control in order to guarantee that they never lose power ever again.  And with that power they will construct an inverted hierarchy that places troons, third worldists, criminals, drug addicts, and mentally ill lunatics at the top of the social pyramid, all while acting like they’re fighting for equality and just being a heckin’ decent human being."

Karina Michelin on X - Federal Deputy Jilmar Tatto, from the PT of São Paulo, made a gravely serious statement from the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies this Tuesday, October 27. Not only did he defend the return of Jair Bolsonaro to prison, but he announced new arrests of political opponents, claiming to have information from the Federal Police.  “I have information from the Federal Police that they’re going to arrest a lot of Bolsonaristas. The Federal Police has all the information. A lot more people are going to be arrested in this country.”  Pay attention to the gravity of these words!  A parliamentarian from the party that controls the federal government claims to have advance knowledge of future arrests of political adversaries. Since when do government deputies receive privileged information about police operations? Who transmitted this information? And why does a PT parliamentarian publicly announce who will be arrested?  The statement comes amid the escalation of judicial measures against Flávio Bolsonaro, who denounced political persecution and left Brazil for the United States.  The main figure of the opposition leaves the country, while a deputy from Lula’s party—and Lula’s party itself—announces that other Bolsonaristas will be arrested. This is the political scenario Brazil faces after the 2026 presidential elections.  The Federal Police is a state institution, not a partisan police force. There is no constitutional authorization to turn investigations into instruments of political intimidation, much less to announce arrests in advance as if they were decisions made in party meetings.  Lula’s Brazil has turned into a dictatorship, and this didn’t happen overnight. For years we have denounced abuses of power, political persecution, censorship, and the authoritarian advance over institutions. For years we have warned of this catastrophe; unfortunately, we have arrived at the consolidation of a regime that no longer hides its willingness to silence, intimidate, and politically eliminate its adversaries.  What we once denounced as a threat now presents itself before our eyes as a reality."

Schneiden on X (Translated) - "🚨URGENT - Alexandre de Moraes attempts to request the cancellation of Flávio Bolsonaro's Italian passport.  The Supreme Court of Italy responds that it will no longer examine orders from an incompetent judge, who positions himself as judge, accuser, and victim in the same process."

El Trumpista on X (Translated) - "There are 106 ballot boxes where Bolsonaro received 0 votes, in those Lula tallied 14,860 votes.  There are 125 ballot boxes where Bolsonaro received 1 vote, in those Lula tallied 15,408 votes.  There are 163 ballot boxes where Bolsonaro received 2 votes, in those Lula tallied 18,832 votes.  Strange, to say the least. Source: TSE"

La Derecha Diario on X (Translated) - "🚨🇧🇷 | LULA'S REGIME NOW GOES AFTER NIKOLAS FERREIRA: With Flávio Bolsonaro apparently in exile, the Brazilian officialdom has requested the withdrawal of the passport from the most voted deputy in Brazil's history and a reference point for conservative youth, to prevent him from leaving the country over an investigation into alleged "slander" against Lula."

方伟|Allen Zeng on X (Translated) - "Incredible, yet entirely predictable Brazilian election, and the latest dramatic curtain call:
1. On Sunday, Brazil held the presidential runoff election. Bolsonaro, who led incumbent President Lula by 2 percentage points in the first round, absorbed votes from two other conservative candidates in the primaries and should have won by a much larger margin, but ended up losing by a 3.5% gap. Out of 14 million runoff ballots, an astonishing 10 million "went to" Lula, while only 3.7 million went to Bolsonaro, "accomplishing" an election that defies mathematical possibility.
2. Before polls closed at 5 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, Lula demanded that the Brazilian Electoral Court extend voting by two hours, citing that over 20% of public buses in three cities weren't running, preventing poor people from voting. Bolsonaro also applied to extend voting time, citing heavy rain obstructing votes.
3. But Supreme Court Justice Zenin, Lula's former personal lawyer, overrode the Electoral Court after 5 p.m. and approved Lula's request. By then, most polling stations had shut down their voting machines due to time expiration—an irreversible action, as the machines couldn't be reopened. Yet the voting machines in Lula's districts, as if prescient, hadn't been shut down and continued operating for two more hours. At the same time, monitors from Bolsonaro's Liberal Party were ejected from the election operations headquarters in Brasília.
4. After that, Lula's votes kept pouring in steadily, ultimately giving him a lead of 4.3 million votes over Bolsonaro.
5. Bolsonaro announced he would not accept the election results and demanded the election be annulled.
6. On Monday, after visiting his father—the elderly Bolsonaro under house arrest—Bolsonaro received an order from Brazil's Supreme Court on his way home, demanding he surrender his passport within 24 hours.
7. Meanwhile, world leaders rushed to congratulate Lula on his "victory" as president, but U.S. President Trump did not. Trump said: "This looks like a rigged election."
8. On Monday afternoon, under a "the situation is stronger than the man" reality, Bolsonaro was forced to announce acceptance of the election results.
9. On television, Lula demanded an apology from Argentine President Milei, who had voiced support for Bolsonaro. Milei told reporters: "Why should I apologize for telling the truth?"
10. Reports say Bolsonaro fled Brazil with his entire family, passing through Argentina and boarding a private jet to Florida, USA. It's said this was arranged by U.S. Secretary of State Rubio. Bolsonaro's flight after the election serves as an action telling all the world leaders who congratulated Lula: Lula not only illegally seized the presidency but also persecuted his political opponent! In his wake, he leaves behind a Brazilian version of Venezuela."

teo_naudomoi on X (Translated) - "Now they're raiding the headquarters of Bolsonaro's party in Brasília. Frankly, I just don't know how someone can defend the idea that what's happening in Brazil is democracy without admitting their mental deficiency."

Lucas 💢◤✠◢ on X (Translated) - "In Araruama, Flavio won the first round with more than double the votes of Lula.
Araruama in the second round:
Flávio won 11 votes
Lula won 5,581 votes.
 This means that, in a city where Flavio Bolsonaro won with MORE THAN DOUBLE the votes of Lula in the first round, the current president had 507x more votes than Flavio in the second.  The same pattern repeats in the neighboring cities, which are also very bolsonaristas.  The mathematical aberration of this is astounding."

Glenn Greenwald on X - "Brazilian authorities and media are trying to find out where Flavio Bolsonaro is.   Brazil's notorious authoritarian Judge Alexandre de Moraes -- before the votes were counted -- already had an order prepared to seize Bolsonaro's passports and bar him from leaving the country even though **he's been charged with no crime** (there are various pending financial investigations). Moraes signed the order barring Bolsonaro from leaving Brazil SEVEN MINUTES after Lula was declared the winner on Sunday night.  A media outlet in Argentina this morning reported that Bolsonaro entered Argentina to fly to the US. His friends and allies deny this, but Flavio could easily just appear in Brazil or even by video and has not done so. Argentina is being sketchy, evasive and somewhat uncooperative with Brazil's federal police (Lula and Milei are obviously not allies).  Whatever else is true, it is not exactly a sign of a healthy, normal or functioning democracy when the candidate who narrowly loses a presidential race -- and concedes defeat -- is suddenly barred from leaving the country by a Supreme Court Judge now globally notorious for censoring, imprisoning and otherwise persecuting his critics and opponents of Lula's government. It is also worth noting that Bolsonaro's party dominates the Senate, having run on a vow to impeach Moraes, and this is seen by many as a kind of leverage/hostage ploy by Moraes to cling to power."
Glenn Greenwald on X - "For those who decided to invent some bizarre new authoritarian law-and-order rule today to justify Moraes' ban on Bolsonaro leaving the country -- that if you're under investigation (without even being charged), it's normal to have your passport seized -- please note:  Lula's son is engulfed in several major financial scandals and investigations relating to lobbyist corruption. His passport has never been seized or cancelled. In fact, he left Brazil to go live in extreme luxury in Spain (in the same neighborhood where several of the world's highest-paid soccer players live), where nobody can explain the source of what appears to be his great wealth.   Countless rich and powerful people in Brazil, including Lula's allies, are under investigation yet freely leave the country when they want: jetting off to Dubai, France, wherever. Truly bizarre how some on the left start fabricating extremist police powers when it suits them."

Schneiden on X - "🚨 BREAKING NEWS - The United States, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Poland, England, and Japan are no longer accepting requests originating from the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF).  An excessive number of extradition requests for Brazilian nationals - initiated by Alexandre de Moraes on questionable grounds - has led these countries to conclude that Brazil is a dictatorship engaged in political persecution.  Photo: American Representative Maria Elvira Salazar shows the face of Brazilian tyrannical bastard Alexandre de Moraes to the entire world."

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