https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-supporters-breach-congress/index.html Pro-Bolsonaro thugs have broken into government buildings including the Congress. Developing.
The police appear to be rounding folks up. https://twitter.com/mikeelk/status/1612217696199794688?s=46&t=VK0bjazVNbJJX12fb2UuGw
Lula appears to be pulling no punches in his comments about what happened. https://twitter.com/escargotpro_/status/1612193007150809089?s=46&t=VK0bjazVNbJJX12fb2UuGw
Brazilian Twitter is already hard at work trying to identify the rioters. https://twitter.com/RobertMackey/status/1612167297476726784?s=20
Bolsonaro supporters cheering for the military showing up, only to get arrested by the military. https://twitter.com/populismupdates/status/1612238609746386944?s=46&t=qUeP9Xei232hW1flKK-sQQ
This happened a few hours ago, it's time to heal the divisions, forgive them, and move on as Abraham Lincoln would have wanted.
Brazil to ask US to return Bolsonaro in connection to the attack. https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1612534992588136448?s=46&t=jakgtNPWBPA0IsBAAROReg
The scene at Federal Police Academy in Brazil today. https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1612523115765964800?s=46&t=UG9DD3BwBwv7SUDcPxGDFg Whole lotta people going to jail.
Sure. Got to have a medical reason to delay the inevitable extradition. Edit: Interesting, it appears that Bolsanaro entered the US using a diplomatic visa, one that is no longer valid as he isn't head of state anymore. This may also just be an attempt to extend his stay on medical grounds as he only has 30 days to get a new visa - and there's no guarantee that will happen.
Brazil isn't fucking around. Here's the insurrectionists arrested and gathered in a room at the Federal Police Academy as they are taken off one by one for interrogation as to the ringleaders.
Last figure I’d heard was ~400 people had been arrested for their involvement, with more arrests coming. By contrast, over 900 arrests have been made because of January 6.
Sure, but that 900 is over the course of 2 years. We'll see where the J8 Brazillian response is then, but they are coming out of the gate swinging. It's been 2 days for the first 400, and those were arrested as it happened. And some of them will no doubt talk leading to other arrests. I'm happy that the FBI has been responsive, but there should have been mass arrests the day it happened.
And Brazil does seem to have it's shit together better than we do. Happening right now: Brazilian president Lula, the president of the supreme court, and governors (or vice gvns) of every single state, including those who supported Bolsonaro, together in the same room, unilaterally condemning the failed coup. https://twitter.com/MariaWNorris/status/1612577745049104384
Not just the government. Protestors want the government to throw the book at the insurrectionists. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/wor...razilians-take-to-streets-to-demand-jail-for/
No surprise to see Tucker Carlson backing the insurrectionists... again: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tucker-carlson-jair-bolsonaro_n_63bd329fe4b0fe267cb35f61
Ever notice how the right defends dictators with the same logic coward family members defend wife beaters? "Hey, she loves the big lug; don't interfere, she'll just hate you. ".
Brazilian insurrectionists to be charged under law Bolsonaro enacted. https://www.motherjones.com/politic...uthorities-to-prosecute-his-insurrectionists/
Whoa! Are you sure you want to go that far out on a limb? Brazil's Lula accuses Bolsonaro of preparing Jan 8 'coup' in Brazil
Guess who might be going to jail? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...st-grows-for-bolsonaro-over-jewellery-scandal
