Can’t wait to see what cabinet position he gets.
If Trump wants fuck him and he dyes his hair blonde, maybe he could be the new press secretary.
He’ll declare himself President in exile.
And the Untied States will invade Brazil to install him as president. I wish I was kidding and didn’t see this as a real possibility
Brazil isn’t Venezuela, much bigger, stronger institutions, stronger army etc. Never say never but you think Trump is eager on getting into another Iran war?
Well…Iran is a vast country, with a deeply rooted regime, strong military, proxies all over the Middle East ánd the ability to chokehold global energy supplies…
…and yet Trump was stupid enough to wage war on Iran on a whim. Nuff said.
We all agree it would be monumentally stupid, that’s exactly why we’re worried trump will try it anyway.
I hope ‘Untied’ States wasn’t a typo, because that has the ring of truth.
It wasn’t. I’ve been spelling it that way since Trump has been back in power
The Untied Snakes of Vespucciland
Don’t worry, if we were to elect a government in Australia that worked for the people they’d do the same here.
I tried to get hired on as a cement operator (oil and gas) in Australia for a bit. You all dodged a bullet on that one. I would have been there illegally for damn sure after that work posting ended.
Edit: drinking all your Goon.
A Latin American illegally entering the US on a revoked passport? How much would you bet ICE would cuff him at the airport if he was anyone else?
Negative 10 dollars, Alex.
Brazil showing the US how it’s done. Trump should’ve been that scared after Jan 6.
I miss the days when wanabe dictators would flee for Russia…
We’ve always collected them. The Shah, Batista, Santa Anna, the police chief who executed a prisoner in Saigon, President Thieu, that dumb woman who thought she would get put in power in Venezuela if she gave Trump her Nobel Peace prize.
We almost had Napoleon I too (that would have been pretty cool though)
Depends on which crime we talkin.
Idi Amin spent the last couple of decades of his life in Saudi Arabia. I can’t think of anything that Saudi Arabia has in common with Russia …
Slaughtering those that oppose their despotic rule?
I bonesaw what you did there.
I can’t think of anything that Saudi Arabia has in common with Russia …
The prosperity of both seem to have a lot to do with oil exports.
The US is now THE rogue state.
More info from the similar Guardian article:
Bolsonaro allies told Metrópoles [news outlet] that he would land in Florida on Tuesday afternoon and planned to request political asylum. “The Donald Trump administration has been informed,” the website added.
A US state department spokesperson said Bolsonaro and his family would be granted visas “to allow them entry into the United States.”
Bolsonaro has had Italian citizenship since 2023 and reportedly possesses a passport from the European country.
Lula slammed what he called Bolsonaro’s “shameful” decision to flee. “This is what the family Bolsonaro are like. Brazil is their second homeland. Their first homeland is licking the boots of the US, as he’s become accustomed to doing,” he said at an event celebrating his 81st birthday in Brasília.
One of the biggest indicators of whether a country is a fascist country is that other fascists flee to that country.
Eh. This is more an indication that Lulu, specifically, has learned his lessons from his first turn at the Presidency and isn’t going to wait around for the Bolsonaros to organize a coup against him.
Look at Columbia or El Salvador or Ecuador or Chile. They all had a turn at Biden tier liberalism, let the fascism feaster under their watch, and then got flipped to reactionary dictatorships in the next cycle.
Lulu got jailed once. He came out stronger and smarter. He’s too old to get shoved back into prison again.
Just a little correction: his third* turn at the presidency
Didn’t Jair Bolsonaro also flee to the USA immediately after losing his election in 2022?
He for some reason returned and is now in prison.
And his other son is living in Texas avoiding prosecution in Brazil for the coup plot.
wp:Jair Bolsonaro#Post-presidency (2023–present)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro#Post-presidency_(2023–present)
On 30 December 2022, one day before the end of his term, Bolsonaro arrived in the US state of Florida and resided in Kissimmee for several months.[188][189] On 8 January 2023, his supporters attacked the buildings of the Supreme Court of Brazil, the National Congress, and the Planalto Presidential Palace to instigate a military coup d’état and reinstate Bolsonaro as president.[190]
Just what this country needs, another fascist dickwad
send him back please, this POS needs to face justice
Maybe the universe will do us all a solid, and a singularity will open from their handshake and last just long enough to zip them both into the sun.
Obligatory “it’s easier to send someone out of the solar system than fire them into the sun” comment
Obligatory “you could use technically use orbital mechanics to send a craft really far away from the sun and let it fall into the sun… if you wanted to wait a REALLY long time” Comment.
Would if I could. Maybe he’ll fuck off in 2029, if we’re lucky.
Well, the US famously don’t like immigrants, so I’m sure the fine boys from ICE will sort him out.
What?
What do you mean it doesn’t matter because he’s rich?
Well, that’s an oddly unprincipled stance to take. So, perfectly good foreign nationals with low net worth will be incarcerated but literally the devil himself would not if he had wealth?
Yes I know who Elon Musk is…
Seems kinda … cowardly.
Yep
Classic conservative behaviour
It blows my mind just thinking this guy almost won the presidency of the second biggest country of the continent. Two days ago he was voting and lecturing about democracy.
Which country in South America is larger than Brasil?
outside the US the Americas is usually considered a single continent. Not 2.
I’ve only spent a week of my life in that shithole country, and I’ve never heard of the Americas as a single continent.
What about the seven summits?
In Australia I consider Europe and Asia to be a single continent too.
I actually go further personally. Afro-Eurasia is a single supercontinent. The Americas are a single continent. Oceania is one (Not just Australia but all the large islands out that way), and Antarctica. So I’d say we have 4. Then lots of subcontinents.
Never heard of the term seven summits but the Olympic flag has five rings for the five inhabited contingents.
Perhaps they meant hemisphere…? Even then it’d be third though, I’m pretty sure…
Pan-American continent by population, Brazil is second. Mexico comes in 3rd.
Pan-American continent is the same as the Western hemisphere, making the biggest Canada, followed by the US, followed by Brazil, no?
El Dorado.
The Dorodoan people are vast and numerous, covering an area much larger than Brazil. They’re just really sneaky about it.
Paraguay de jure.
Ok. I can’t figure out what you mean by “second biggest.” At first I assumed you meant “America” as the continent, rather than “South America,” since Brazil is the biggest country in the latter by quite a wide margin (it’s about four times the size of Argentina). But Brazil is the third largest Pan-American country after Canada and the US. So, ok, you must have a different definition in mind. Second-largest in the Southern hemisphere, maybe? But Brazil is bigger than Australia, by a million square kilometers.
Second-largest…uh…country with a large part of its mainland in UTC-3? (After Canada.) Second-largest country from which you can draw a direct line to Antarctica? (That one might be debatable, actually.) Second-largest country whose Northern border is closer to Canada than it is to its Southern border? (After the US, and yes, that’s true.)
I need answers!
second largest population, only behind US
Oh! Oh. Ha.
In hindsight it’s so obvious. Thanks.
I was thinking about several things at the same time, but yeah, seems like I was also wrong in the most obvious one: area. However, it’s not that far away from the USA, being Alaska the deciding factor. Second in population and GDP.
That’s a good point about excluding Alaska in the area calculation; Alaska is almost 18% of the land area of the US, so pulling it is significant.
From the perspective of population, I honestly don’t know why I didn’t consider that when thinking through this originally. It seems so obvious in hindsight, lol.
GDP is a little bit more complicated. By pure GDP, it looks like Brazil and Canada kind of flip back and forth depending on the year (right now Brazil is just barely above Canada); though if you look at per-capita GDP, Canada is way higher up the list.
But I don’t think they are flipping back and forward anymore. Canada is facing a trade crisis now that the new NAFTA is over, and Brazil, if the current political environment settles as it should, is facing a brilliant future in BRICS, also being a power in Rare Earths. In any case, you can consider both 2nd in GDP. Finally, sure, GDP per capita is a different beast, that’s the whole struggle of our lives in the “global south”.
Yeah, definitely fair.
Theyre not sending their best. Some are criminals, some are fascists.
Lock him up! Lock him up!
Call ICE.
