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Kakistocracy says

you mean President Coulter ?

If this is a comeback, I don't get it.

MisterLearnToCode says

If this is a comeback, I don't get it.

Lots of things people on this forum don't get that voted for Trump.

‘It smells dirty’: scandals loom over Bolsonaro after first month in office.

Far-right Brazilian president plagued by scandal and disaster – not that the bolsonaristas mind. (Just like the 30% in this country)

ietro Sambugaro wept with joy when the far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro was confirmed as president of the world’s fourth-largest democracy. A month into Bolsonaro’s reign, he remains on cloud nine.

“The mood is of immeasurable satisfaction,” the diehard 28-year-old bolsonarista gushed this week.

“It is wonderful to be able to count on the government, to be able to believe that politics can change, that politics can be more honest, that we can trust [our leaders],” Sambugaro continued, heaping praise on Bolsonaro’s early relaxation of gun laws and vow to eradicate corruption.

“The contentment Brazilians are feeling is just gigantic, thank God.”

But as Bolsonaro marks his first month as president on Friday – an anniversary overshadowed by a mining disaster that has claimed at least 99 lives and left 259 people missing – not everyone is so sure.

Bolsonaro built his populist assault on the presidency on a Trumpian pledge to drain its political swamp after the worst corruption scandal in its history.

His appointment as justice minister of the corruption-busting celebrity judge responsible for jailing the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva enraged Brazil’s left but thrilled many citizens desperate to halt the thieving of public money.

In his inaugural address, Bolsonaro promised to lead an anti-sleaze crusade that would forever free his homeland “from the yoke of corruption”.

But already those vows are starting to look shaky as suspicions of political shenanigans and ties to organised crime hover over one of Bolsonaro’s politician sons – and some supporters begin to fret over their leader’s disorderly opening act in power.

“It smells dirty,” one rightwing activist, Guto Zacarias, grumbled last week after Bolsonaro’s international debut at the World Economic Forum was overshadowed by a snowballing scandal linking his son with a Rio de Janeiro death squad.

“I have about 60% confidence in them. I’m definitely wary,” said Verena Schultze, an anti-corruption campaigner and one of the 57.8 million Brazilians who propelled the former paratrooper to victory. “Bolsonaro is not new on the political scene – he’s been around for some 30 years. And we know how old politics work in Brazil. So I have my doubts.”

Bolsonaro, a far-right nationalist known for his hostility to minorities and his affection for authoritarian rule, swept to power last October with a huge mandate from voters to do away with the old.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/it-smells-dirty-scandals-loom-over-bolsonaro-after-first-month-in-office

Speaking of Bolsonaro’s kid and that pesky scandal of his...

Brazilian top court judge reopens probe into Bolsonaro's son

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court justice reopened a probe on Friday into suspicious cash payments involving President Jair Bolsonaro’s son Flavio, reviving an investigation that has dogged the president’s first few weeks in office.

In a decision that revoked an earlier injunction blocking the probe, Justice Marco Aurelio Mello also ruled that the immunity from prosecution enjoyed by top elected officials should not apply to the investigation. Mello said the alleged crimes were committed before Flavio Bolsonaro took office as a federal senator.

The decision to reopen the investigation is a blow to Jair Bolsonaro, who took office last month after surging to victory in elections last year on a promise to clean up years of graft in politics.

The Supreme Court decision, which can be overturned at a later date by the full panel of justices if Bolsonaro appeals, comes on the same day Flavio Bolsonaro is sworn in as a senator, and as Brazil’s new class of federal lawmakers begin the 2019 session.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption/blow-to-bolsonaro-as-brazil-top-court-judge-reopens-probe-into-his-son-idUSKCN1PQ4OI?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Has it collapsed yet? What takes so long?

LOL, and they thought it was rough between Cruz and Trump.

Collapsing like America was gonna collapse under #OrangeManBad

joshuatrio says

LOL, and they thought it was rough between Cruz and Trump.

Oh, we ain't seen nothing yet. This Fall is going to be a hoot. The Dems are going to dig and fling so much dirt on each other, while MAGA Country sits back and enjoys the show.

Collapse is imminent! IMPEACH Jair Bolsonaro!

NPC13547833 new incoming instructions: Brazil man baaad! Rezist brazil man!

#brazilmanbaaad

I'll say it again, people have lost the Art of being on the Down Low.

"Being on the Down Low" may not mean what you think it does.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=downlow

Kakistocracy says

Lots of things people on this forum don't get that voted for Trump.

Lots of things people who didn't vote for Trump don't get.

This is what collapses democracies:

A modern democracy features Governors known as "Coonman" who is a Baby killin' sunuvabitch



Oh, and Dems, you already made it clear HS is fair play, this is college and Med School, so don't even bother with the "only a boy" BS.

Democrat party is the refuge of all the worst racists in America.
Ironic, but so true.

Might be prudent to wait until the promised jobs actually show up before declaring mission accomplished again - the last time a Potus did this, it didn't work out so well now did it ?

Patrick says

Damn, going to have to do some more work on blocking by country. The bots are all from Vietnam lately.

What does a "Bot" message look like? I'm naive on this point.

Ah the Urban dictionary the Snopes of phrases.

Some fat cow and her cucked husband run that site too?


I've seen so much on Urban Dictionary those people don't have a fucking clue. I think words just come to people for the first time, and they run to Urban dictionary to define them.

Tenpoundbass says

Ah the Urban dictionary the Snopes of phrases.

Some fat cow and her cucked husband run that site too?


I've seen so much on Urban Dictionary those people don't have a fucking clue. I think words just come to people for the first time, and they run to Urban dictionary to define them.

Not for me. I live in an area that is half Black so I heard that "down low" phrase for years. I just used that Urban Dictionary as an easy reference.

Well California Liberals obcese over what Black guys do with their Dicks and to each other.

"I'll tell you something but keep it on the DL or down low, but word is the Manger Ryan is going to get fired and replaced."

"Hey can you get me some weed?" - "Yes but keep it on the Down Low, don't tell anyone I got you pot. I don't want people to know I smoke."

But yes it also works for the black pickle smugglers in California as well, and the White Liberal Dinks that obsess over them.

Northam is a Democrat, which is the party of identity politics. Any slight to upholding the identity politics agenda is taken serious. Northam presents a threat to that. So that is why a lot of Dems like your favorite Kamala Harris has called for him to resign. Also it Lt Gov Fairfax is probably more desired to be Governor than Northam, even before this latest episode, and the other one involving his abortion comments.

What, haven't you heard ? "It's a nothing burger."

I expect an in depth analysis regarding at least three thing on his list in 5, 4, 3....

One can only gain so much horsepower, kilowatts, and BTU's from renewable energy. BTU's per hour is critical to keeping a lot of the northern European countries warm during the winter. Solar is not going to help that much in the Nordic countries. Hence, there needs to be more improvement in renewable energy.

The only other way is to influence lifestyle choices and force people to change the way and where they live. Encourage massive movement to urban areas to enable less reliance on individual ownership of gas-burning automobiles.

The above is what probably on the mind of a lot of the global environmentalists.

The modern "conservative" movement (they are anything but) is simply stoking the pre-existing fears and prejudices that exist within American citizens, not to mention taking advantage of the lack of education and dismal attention span that most suffer from.

Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars, Trump and his enablers... all of that is only possible because of the complete and total failure of most Americans to pay even the slightest bit of attention to what is going on outside their daily lives, to educate themselves, and to not allow themselves to fall prey to charlatans.

Trump is a threat to national security to be sure. But so are most American citizens. And that is the real problem.

1990s Safe, Legal, and Rare !
2010s Murdering kids as they to cros the birth canal, SHOUT YOUR ABORTION!

Coastal Elitists assuming people are unhappy because the chose to live out in the rural areas as far away from the Shithole Liberal cesspools they can get.

If you're living in a double wide by a creek on your 5 acre of land 20 miles from the nearest Starbucks. Why in the fuck would be an innovator?

Percentage on Food Stamps is Mississippi? Oh really now? Or are we splitting hairs over the per capita nonsense liberals like to play so they don't look as bad as they really are?

Nobody is shitting on the streets in those states, no City in those states have sidewalks littered with dope needles.

Common Core fucked Education up for everyone, so did the commie teachers in Education. I told Ya, we need to vet the Teachers to get the Pedophiles and Commies out.

I wonder what would happen if you only looked at Whites.

Look a happy sign in the most depressed place on Earth. A fly over red state.

You did hear the update to this story in your shallow Liberal world didn't you?

They changed their minds and are staying now.

Tenpoundbass says

They changed their minds and are staying now.

And they will change again. For the Chinese the negotiations begin after the deal is signed. There is no fucking way they will manufacture low/no profit goods in Wisconsin. Only an idiot like Walker and his republican rubes would fall for that.

The lobbying vig just went up.

Nancy is such a cunt.

MAGA says

Nancy is such a cunt.

Gynosaur

The maximum limit or cap on the state and local taxes (SALT) which includes income tax and property tax is $10,000.

" For example, the average SALT deduction taken in New York was more than $21,000 in a recent tax year. "

However, the standard deduction went up significantly, such as to $24,000 for married couples.

I can see this hurting mostly those households in Democrat states making more than $150,000 per year and owning a home worth more than $500,000.

"Thanks to the Trump-Radical Republican tax cut, millions of families in California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and other high-tax states will owe thousands to tens of thousands of dollars more in federal income tax for 2018 even if their income was unchanged from 2017."

Sounds like a tax increase on the upper class. The same puds that previously pawned their high state taxes onto those in low tax states.

HEYYOU says

"In addition, millions of residents of blue states are about to get hit with big federal income tax increases

Good! Voted for party which supports higher taxes, get higher taxes and do not whine.

Would seem to me the title of the thread is over the borderline a personal attack.

Is it really necessary to install someone's name as opposed to just indicating how screwed up CalPers is?

Moderator ? Moderator ?

Anyone from Management ?