Minha colinha final pra votação de 1º Turno:
Dep. Estadual: Kogos 22038
Dep. Federal: Mário Frias 2208
Senador 1: Derrite 111
Senador 2: André do Prado 222
Governador: Tarcisio 10
PRESIDENTE: Flavio Bolsonaro 22 "o filho chad do Mito" pra exterminar a comunada do 13 e M13L
EDITORIAL | Juízes fazem o diabo para ajudar Lula – “Em nome de seus interesses políticos, Gilmar Mendes e Estela Aranha violaram a liberdade de imprensa e cassaram o direito do eleitor de ouvir as propostas dos candidatos à Presidência”. Texto completo em @opiniao_estadao → https://t.co/gcrQkgKsRo
One reason Lula's campaign has been dragged down in recent weeks is because of the unparalleled and filthy corruption scandal of the notorious Supreme Court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, whose Lula's allies on the court have shielded from investigation (we're talking tens of millions to his family from a now-collapsed bank that was Ponzi scheme).
In The @TheEconomist today, the journalist who did the most to break the story and then relentlessly and courageously pursue it, @malugaspar, explains the scandal. This concise paragraph is shocking in its weight. It's amazing that Moraes isn't in prison (he's imprisoned his political enemies for far, far less), let alone still on the Court. Read this paragraph:
Até quando vamos achar normal perder, pouco a pouco, a nossa liberdade?
O absurdo de um dia só consegue ser menor que o absurdo do dia seguinte:
primeiro, censuraram influenciadores de direita. Depois, censuraram o maior líder da direita, @jairbolsonaro. Agora, censuraram a maior emissora do país, a Globo. Faltam 2 dias para a mudança.
E a mudança é 2️⃣2️⃣✅. Vote pela sua liberdade de expressão, pela liberdade de ir e vir sem o domínio do crime e pela sua liberdade econômica.
It's hard to overstate how insane things in Brazil have become after Lula's polling lead over Flavio Bolsonaro -- held most of the year -- has largely vanished. The first round of voting is Sunday. The likely Lula/Bolsonaro runoff would be Oct. 25. Look at this:
Last night, Brazil's largest media outlet, Globo, was to hold the only presidential debate thus far. Lula refused to go.
Globo's rules (which Lula's party agreed to) are that any candidate who refuses to debate will have an empty podium with their name on it -- to highlight their refusal to debate for the voting public -- and the other candidates will be given time to state the questions they would have posed to the missing candidate. This is common.
But at the very last minute (just moments before it was to begin), a left-wing, Lula-aligned election judge issued a censorship order barring Globo from showing Lula's empty podium, and also banned Globo from allowing the other candidates to state the questions they had for Lula. So Bolsonaro pulled out over the censorship, and Globo canceled the debate in anger.
As Lula's campaign gets more desperate, the election (like the country itself) has come to be ruled by his allies on the Supreme Court and judiciary more broadly, using blunt, daily censorship (as they did when Lula barely beat Jair Bolsonaro in 2022) to ensure Lula's victory. Kind of amazing to watch how deeply into full-on lawlessness and tyranny they're plunging.