#totalitarians

How do you say "LOCK HIM UP!" in Portuguese? 😁

By my estimation, he will be freed in time for his 98th birthday.

This is what should happen to leaders who try to destroy democracy in their countries.

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison Thursday after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat. The far-right politician who governed Brazil between 2019 and 2022 was found guilty on five counts by four members of a five-justice panel. The latest to rule were Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin on Thursday, a day after another justice, Luiz Fux, disagreed and voted to acquit the ex-president of all charges. Bolsonaro is currently under house arrest in Brasilia. His lawyers have said they will appeal the verdict to the full Supreme Court of 11 justices. The ruling and sentence could deepen political divisions and prompt a backlash from the United States government. U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was "very unhappy" with the conviction. Speaking to reporters as he departed the White House before the sentence was announced, he said he had always found Bolsonaro to be "outstanding."

Of course Trump is "very unhappy". He thinks the world should be run by personally insecure totalitarian bullies with ties to enormous wealth who like to use violence.

Joost A.M. Meerloo

Real life supervillains are a lot more pathetic looking than the ones in movies. But they are far more dangerous because their miserable demeanor makes people greatly underestimate them.

But there is a superpower we can use against them — the vote.

So are you registered? Have you registered at your new address if you moved since the last election?

Republicans are lying outright and they just don’t care that you know that they are lying.

Anderson Cooper did a piece in which you see (below, starting at 2:15) a split screen in which on the left side of the vid you see Republican House members lying about the events of January 6th while on the right you see the actual events they were lying about.

Cooper exposes the Republican Party with side-by-side video

The vast majority of people who vote in Republican primaries won’t see this vid because they are part of the Trump cult which only watches Fox News – or even worse brainwashing channels.

It is no longer hyperbole to say that Republicans are using totalitarian propaganda techniques. They feel, like Hitler crony Joseph Goebbels, that if you repeat lies often enough then people will start to believe them. If Republicans could, they would edit history to their advantage the way Stalin did.

US Representatives Paul Gosar (R-AZ-04), Jody Hice (R-GA-10), Andrew Clyde (R-GA-09), and probably many of their colleagues are trying to get people to believe that the pro-Trump terrorists who rampaged through the US Capitol actually had the temperaments of Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama.

The Washington Post has investigated those arrested for the January 6th attack. SPOILER ALERT: Don't expect these terrorists to get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.