> nor the attempted January 8 coup succeeded
What effect would this have had?
What effect would this have had?
It wasn't for a lack of popular support, I'll tell you that. I watched many of my countrymen get on their knees and beg for military intervention. Way too many of them. On brazilian independence day, I saw an insane number of people on the streets because of him. I thought brazilian nationalism was dead and buried until I saw that. It got to the point they tried to make it illegal to associate the holiday with Bolsonaro. All those people, they would have supported him. I'm sure of that.
He might actually end up in jail because of his plans to do a coup. We'll have to wait and see.
I don't doubt he'll end up in jail but I don't think they'll arrest him for that. Of all the extremely dumb shit he's said and done, they rendered him ineligible for his perfectly valid criticism of the electronic voting system. I bet whatever they arrest him for will be an equally inconsequential non-crime. It's like the courts are trying to be ironic. They'll probably give him 22 years of jail too just because it's his party's number.
> they rendered him ineligible for his perfectly valid criticism of the electronic voting system.
Again, this is a lie, or denying reality:
Bolsonaro systematically attacked the Brazilian voting system, which he has been elected for thirty years (before becoming President).
In 2021, he used the State Television to spread lies about the voting system and saying that If the printed vote was denied by our Congress he will never touch in such subject, another lie by him[0].
In July 2022, he stated that he won the elections in the first turn, saying he had concrete proof about it, which he has never shown. Moreover, in the same month he called ambassadors from 70 countries to spread more lies and question the validity of the Brazilian vote machines[0], which rendered him convicted for Electoral crime. Here is an except from the Electoral Supreme Court Minister Benedito Gonçalves's referendum[1], a rough Google Translate:
"I consider the request to convict the first person investigated, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, partially valid for the practice of abuse of political power and misuse of media in the 2022 elections, due to his direct and personal responsibility for the illicit conduct carried out for the benefit of his candidacy for re-election. I declare your ineligibility for 8 years following the 2022 election."
Reference again in Brazilian Portuguese:
0. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/relembre-vezes-em-que-...
1. https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/06/27/relator-vot...
“We're discussing which edge of the flat Earth we're going to jump off.”
That's literally your approach to discussing all matters in this thread.
Reference:
0. https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2021/06/02/estamos-dis...
Your excerpt for example makes the persecution of Bolsonaro obvious to everyone on this site. "Abuse of political power"? What made up nonsense is this? That's ridiculous. It's just like the totally arbitrary fines and censorship they imposed on Google for the crime of posting a link on their own homepage. "Abuse of market position" they called it. It's painfully obvious that these judges wanted to destroy the guy. One judge even bragged about it in public. Unashamedly. Who's denying reality? Your posts border on gaslighting.
The link you just posted is yet another example. I was a very vocal critic of Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic during his mandate. So I actually agree with what Dr. Luana Araújo said in that news article. That's why I think it's hilarious that of all the dumb things he said and did he went down for his perfectly valid criticism of the electronic voting machines.
https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/podem-os-juizes-legisl...
You're apparently incapable of seeing the fact that the judges have essentially given themselves power to legislate, investigate and judge. They've been doing it ever since one particular publication attacked them and they show no signs of stopping any time soon. It was painfully obvious during the election but it started much earlier than that.
https://www.conjur.com.br/2022-nov-27/inquerito-fake-news-st...
If you can't see this, it's pointless to continue this thread.