MidlandsMan

We don't have to agree but we should question everything.
Respect the place you live in.

[Fernando @Brazilian__News]

“EU NÃO VOTEI NO LULA PRA ELE CORTAR BILHÕES DA SAÚDE E EDUCAÇÃO”

VOTOU SIM!

“MAS EU NÃO SABIA”

SABIA SIM!

É O QUARTO MANDATO, NÃO O PRIMEIRO. TU NÃO É BURRO E NEM INOCENTE!

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@FatEmperor You take their money and do their bidding, it never ends well. They're not people to dwell on rescuing former puppets.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Lula came back promising to save the poor, and Brazil wanted to believe him one more time.

But instead of building anything, he opened the treasury and spent like a man playing with borrowed money.

Handouts to buy loyalty, a bloated government to buy silence, and a bill that the poor would end up paying.

Now look at what that left behind. Food costs more. Jobs are disappearing. Shops have been shrinking for 17 months straight. A family now loses almost a third of its salary just to service debt, and if they dare to use credit, they are charged 62% interest to stay alive. Interest rates sit at 13.75% while inflation runs at 4.63%, the whole country is trapped in expensive money and shrinking hope.

That is Lula economics. Not growth, just redistribution of poverty.

And when it started to fall apart, Lula did what he always does. He didn't look in the mirror. He didn't question his formula. He pointed everywhere else.

He blamed Bolsonaro for the mess he inherited, the courts for not obeying him, the farmers for producing too much, the banks for being greedy, Trump, America, social media, even the weather. Everyone was guilty except the man holding the pen.

Because in Lula's world, socialism never fails. Only people fail socialism.

So while ordinary Brazilians struggle to afford food, to keep a business open, to live with dignity, Lula is in Manila posing for photos at ASEAN, smiling as if Brazil is thriving.

And at home, the opposition is being hunted. Flavio Bolsonaro didn't run because he was afraid. He ran because his passport was seized, investigations were piled on him, and the Supreme Court had been turned into a weapon against the family that dared to challenge Lula. That is not democracy. That is a dictatorship wearing a smile.

Three terms in power. Same promises, same excuses, same debt, same poverty.

It is the old playbook we know too well from Zimbabwe under Mugabe: spend, borrow, print, blame. And it always ends the same way.

Lula is not the victim of Brazil's crisis. Lula is the author of it.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@asimonreynolds @orlandoguerreir He's been involved in gargantuan corruption scandals. Those who ran against him in each Presidential election are either dead, under house arrest or living in exile. I'm sure it's a series of coincidences.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@vonderleyen @andyburnham You ought to know, between Boris Johnson and Labour we've no money left to extract from us.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@vonderleyen @andyburnham A gathering of crooks

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@vonderleyen Clinically insane.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@Enoughsenough00 At this rate, it will behove everyone who works hard to pack it in and join the fat arsed disadvantaged souls wallowing on the dole.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@LoftusSteve Unfortunately not so good for our rivers and bathing waters.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@NovoSeculum33 @NeilMcCoyWard Food will be extremely expensive in the West and non- existent in parts of Africa and Asia. Like it or not, nations are going to have to enforce borders.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@AnnaChenMiaow Free Tibet

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@latimeralder A bargain for around £140bn plus a tariff on every bill.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@CutMyTaxUK As she's only here till shit calms down at home, she has no need to buy a home.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@DannyLyons18607 @CapTweed Now they've discovered you can fit kill switches to ICE vehicles and they all have in-system sims which give location when prompted, I think they'll back away from the e-car thing. It was about control but they have it now anyway.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@CapTweed If you buy an e-car you might as well set fire to a wad of cash right there on the forecourt.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@BGatesIsaPyscho The irony should not be lost as the Indian Army's Sikh soldiers were some of the best in WW2

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@RFERL I hear this and wish Iran a moderate and respectful government. However, at this time it is the least of our problems in the West.

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@BGatesIsaPyscho You can't park there, mate!

[MidlandsMan @midlandsman123]

@marcosagusstinn The last sentence made me laugh out loud.