Part 2 - The 2023 Q&A
distressing news from Brazil, but with hope on our 'lunacy'
Q&A's can be cool. I asked the friends and followers to submit their questions in pinned posts to my profiles in Truth Social, Telegram and Gab.
In the first part, I answered questions about US and world geopolitics. Now in this part 2, I gathered the Brazilian questions. The content is disturbing, but there is no reason for despair.
'What is the Covid narrative out in Brazil?' - truthsocial.com/@Pastor_Dutchie /// 'What is Lula doing now with his promise of mandatory forced vaccinations?' - Laughinglizard at Telegram.
PS: We can really expect a complete conversion into COVID madness. If we had any doubt about that, recent developments demonstrate in the most dramatic fashion, as protesters arrested were forcibly injected 'against Covid' as they entered the prison in Brasília. It is framed as a basic, ordinary health measure of the prison system.
This is a hellish development, and I guess all these people will have a great case to sue the Union over this crime.
As for the general population, it is said that the shots won't be mandatory, but there will be social restrictions against holdouts.
'What’s going to happen to Bolsonaro and family?' - truthsocial.com/@laninha
PS: Bolsonaro was admitted to a Hospital in Florida with abdominal pains, still complications from the stab wound he received in during the 2018 presidential campaign.
He has denied that he will be seeking political asylum in Italy, as was said in the MSM. He discharged himself of the hospital against doctor's 'orders', and has said that he intends to go back to Brazil, where his doctors can tackle his health problems more effectively.
There is a distinct possibility that some sham kangaroo court will sentence him to prison. The Judicial dictatorship has no limit, anymore.
However, Lula has publicly said that he fears not to have the support of the Armed Forces, so he might not want to poke the tiger too much.
'Brazilian people were SO brave, why did Bolsonaro feel the need to leave?' - Kae A, at Telegram.
PS: In a podcast right before he departed for Florida, Bolsonaro addressed this, stating that he had no political or military support to continue to fight for a real audit of the electronic ballot boxes, and even got a bit irritated with this kind of demands: 'What do you think, I just have to hold hands with Santa Claus and go?'
Many are not aware that the captain was stabbed in the abdomen during the 2018 presidential election. He is a real fighter - but the intelligent move now is to live to fight another day.
'What would you like to see happen next in Brazil, given what’s taken place in the capital today' - truthsocial.com/@NorbStream2
PS: This is an interesting question. There is a playbook that Brazilians used from 2013 to 2015 - ever-growing mass protests, relentless opposition, until the socialist president Dilma crumbled and was impeached. We know how to do that, it's easy and effective.
However, this time around the Lula 'administration from hell' is much more invested in authoritarian practices, and has taken what I believe to be criminal measures to keep that from happening.
However, Lula and his team can only survive in an environment where he has his tripod of support - Communists, Globalists and Liberal Americans. If Biden were to be removed in any way from power, one leg of this triple support would collapse, and their present overwhelming power would be greatly diminished. I'd like to see that!
'Do you know exactly what happened as to why the military didn't step in and do their constitutional duty when the source code was not provided?' - truthsocial.com/@SouthernTide
PS: The premise of this question is a bit wrong. The Armed Forces do not have a Constitutional duty to intervene in elections. They do have a prerogative as a moderator power when there is a conflict between the powers (Legislative, Judiciary and Executive) - which was indeed the case, but they would have to be activated by the other powers, and, as I said earlier, there was no political or military support for that - and many countries were even threatening to invade Brazil if that happened. Even US military chief came to apply pressure more than a year before the elections.
However we now know that the Army chief (chosen by Lula) refused calls by Minister of Justice Dino to arrest the protesters. It was the Federal Police and the Brasília state police who had to do it.
'What part of Brazil’s history do you think is most relevant to the current events?' - truthsocial.com/@SuzieWarrior
'I would love to know the overview of Brazil’s political history.' - Ashlee at Telegram.
PS: My dear friend Ashlee asked an unanswerable question. To talk about Brazil history is a book, not a Substack, right? But maybe I can jump on Suzie's framing: a relevant part - or two.
BACK TO THE COLD WAR: From 1964 u until the mid eighties, the military ruled in a dictatorship that, while not as brutal as the Chilean or Argentinean ones, did imprison, torture and kill people without much regard for the rule-of-law - and this dictatorship besmirched the military's image for decades. Then, as now, the people called for them to react.
I, for one, feared that they would not step up now. In Brazil, our armed forces have not fought a war since we entered hostilities on the Allied side in WW2. All this time, they were purely ceremonial, and the toughest battles would be in the Amazon against smugglers etc.
In the end, they are state employees that want to guarantee their pension.
Since I refuse to end this on a down note, I also want to talk about Bugler Lopez, from the Brazilian army, during the War of Independence against Portugal, in 1823 - ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
Lopez was serving in a conflict that became known as the Battle of Pirajá, in the state of Bahia, and played a decisive role in the War for the Independence, as it ensured the continuity of the siege of the city of Salvador, which was under the control of Portuguese troops.
The Portuguese army was more numerous, better trained and better equipped. The Portuguese victory was taken fully expected. Faced with the imminent defeat, Commander Barros Falcão ordered the retreat of the Brazilian troops.
But HEY, instead of the call of “retreat”, the bugler Luís Lopes gave the signal of “cavalry advance” and, later, the one of “beheading”. And those who ended up retreating were the Portuguese troops, imagining that the Brazilians had received reinforcements.
We won the battle predicated on the LUNACY of hero bugler Lopes (or was it bravery, or was it divine intervention?)
Fight on, brothers and sisters.
Thank you Sir! Deus te abençoe Paul. Por favor, tenha cuidado. Muitos aqui estão orando por sua segurança, e pela segurança de todos os brasileiros. Paz para você meu amigo.