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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years and three months in prison, hours after being convicted by what can only be called a kangaroo court of plotting a coup to stay in energy after shedding the 2022 election. This was the second part of a no-holds-barred assault on the mildly conservative Bolsonaro that started shortly after he took workplace in 2019.

To most observers, Bolsonaro was focused by Brazil’s energy construction, harassed by a forms that refused to settle for his management, and finally convicted in a horribly unfair continuing in which the presiding choose was also the lead prosecutor. You’d suppose that would horrify most Americans, but then you would not be an tutorial at a top-tier college or a Democrat senator.

Shortly after Bolsonaro took workplace in March 2019, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) launched an inquiry into the allegations that he had unfold faux news and attacked democratic establishments. Bolsonaro and his allies have been also investigated for utilizing social media to undermine the judiciary and electoral system. In Brazil, Heaven only is aware of what that can be. It will get better. In 2020, the “fake news” declare was expanded to embrace alleged false claims about COVID-19 vaccines and electoral fraud. In June 2021, Federal police raided places of work linked to Bolsonaro’s sons (Flávio and Carlos) based on accusations of spreading disinformation.

In June 2021, Bolsonaro was accused of shenanigans involving the acquisition price of an Indian developed COVID vaccine.

When Bolsonaro misplaced in 2022, he made allegations about improprieties in the electoral course of. Given Brazil’s squeaky-clean voting document, he was clearly mistaken. The allegations, though, obtained him an investigation by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for abusing energy by casting unfounded doubts on the digital voting system during the marketing campaign. 

Questioning the 2022 election on U.S.media obtained Bolsonaro fined and led immediately to the 8-year ban from working for workplace slapped on him by the TSE on June 30, 2023.

Fortunately, election denial isn’t a crime in the U.S.

Here’s 24 straight minutes of Democrats denying election outcomes.

Whatever you do don’t share this!!! pic.twitter.com/PPG1GuUfs5

— Libs of TikTookay (@libsoftiktok) June 28, 2024

But there’s more. On January 8, 2023, Bolsonaro supporters, complaining of electoral fraud, stormed the Supreme Court, Congress, and Planalto Palace; see WATCH: Pro-Bolsonaro Supporters Storming the National Congress and Other Government Buildings – PinkState.

Bolsonaro was accused of inciting the unrest by delaying army intervention and praising rioters online. I do not suppose he told any of his supporters to “stand back and stand by,” but you may stop if any of this begins sounding acquainted.

In March 2023, he was accused of utilizing public funds to buy luxurious jewellery, and in July, his residences have been raided by police. In 2024, he was indicted for embezzlement and money laundering; his spouse, Michelle, was implicated but not charged.

His trial for plotting a coup before a five-judge panel. One of the judges, Alexandre de Moraes, led the prosecution of the case, offered the closing argument, and then voted on his own work product. Unsurprisingly, Bolsonaro was convicted, but by a 4-1 vote. 

As background, de Moraes is a Stalin-in-training whose bullying and threatening of U.S. social media platforms obtained him sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department, and he obtained his own Executive Order: Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Brazil Read President Trump Issues Order Addressing Threats to United States by Brazil.

So by now you are questioning where this goes. On Friday, as most of the nation was still following the assassination of a younger father in Utah, the New York Times ran an op-ed by a couple of leftist school professors—a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins and a professor of authorities at Harvard—holding up Brazil as the model for how the Democrats ought to have dealt with President Trump after 2020: Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed.

In both the United States and Brazil, then, elected presidents assaulted democratic establishments, in search of to preserve themselves in energy after shedding re-election. Both energy grabs failed — initially.

But that’s where the 2 histories diverge. Americans did remarkably little to defend their democracy from the chief who had assaulted it…

Brazil adopted a different path. Having lived under army dictatorship, Brazilian public officers perceived a menace to democracy from the start of Mr. Bolsonaro’s presidency. Many judges and congressional leaders noticed a need to energetically defend their nation’s democratic establishments. As Justice Moraes told one of us, “We realized that we could be Churchill or Chamberlain. I didn’t want to be Chamberlain.”

Viewing themselves as a bulwark against Mr. Bolsonaro’s authoritarianism, Brazilian justices pushed back forcefully. When evidence emerged that the Bolsonaro marketing campaign had made widespread use of misinformation during the 2018 election, the court started what turned identified as the Fake News Inquiry, in which it aggressively sought to crack down on what the justices considered as harmful misinformation.

The two proto-fascists go on to lionize Brazil’s judges for suspending social media accounts and bastardizing the voting course of so the vote tallies and outcomes have been announced concurrently, so Bolsonaro “would not have time to contest them.” Along the way in which, these people proved that they have been completely keen to burn down what passes for governmental establishments in Brazil if they might elect their favourite, the socialist, and I predict soon-to-be-overt-communist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. They even went so far as to have officers acknowledge the vote tally immediately. It can be like Joe Biden getting elected by having House Democrats immediately certify an unverified vote tally on the night time of November 5. It is a good factor he never thought of it.

To put Bolsonaro away, that they had to keep him from working again. And they did.

After the occasions of Jan. 8, 2023, made it clear that Mr. Bolsonaro posed a menace to democracy, Brazilian courts moved aggressively to maintain him to account — and stop his return to energy. In June 2023, the Superior Electoral Tribunal barred Mr. Bolsonaro from holding public workplace for eight years, closing the door on a 2026 presidential bid.

And then they began the assorted prison investigations of Bolsonaro, his household, pals, and associates, which completed its first stage on Thursday.

Incredibly, after Brazil’s Deep State and judiciary ran roughshod over whatever semblance of a system Brazil has to hamstring a president elected by the bulk of Brazilians, corruptly defeat his reelection, ban him from politics, and place him in prison for what might be the remaining of his life, the clowns who are educating our kids say:

With all its flaws, Brazilian democracy is more healthy today than America’s. Keenly conscious of their nation’s authoritarian past, Brazil’s judicial and political authorities didn’t take democracy for granted. Their U.S. counterparts, by distinction, fell down on the job. Rather than undermining Brazil’s effort to defend its democracy, Americans ought to study from it.

This isn’t the fevered goals of a couple of offended losers who misplaced their scorching homosexual post-doctoral college students when the USAID grant money was pulled by Trump in January. A U.S. Senator endorsed it.

Brazil is sending its election denier to prison for 27 years. We despatched ours back to the White House. Brazil already lived under army dictatorship and noticed the menace clearly. We failed to defend our democracy. We need to study from Brazil before it’s too late. pic.twitter.com/0APO5vdPVm

— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) September 12, 2025

What a shame that a sitting US Senator would pose for a photograph while having a US Flag prominently laying on the ground in the background.

There was a time in America that this kind of insult can be end of a political profession.

Sad . . .

Disgraceful . . .

— John (@Johnand28314) September 13, 2025

This variety of might-makes-right operation has no place in American politics or even in America. If our increased schooling system was something but a sinecure for leftwing midwits, these two guys can be out of a job.

When Lula da Silva is eliminated from energy, and it’ll occur to him just as it occurred to Pol Pot and others, everybody concerned in this scheme ought to get to really feel the full weight of the vengeance of the winner, so what stays of Brazil’s socialist institution will never do this again.

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