So why does Bolsonaro have major beef with President Macron of France? Taking cheap shots about the age of Macron’s wife and saying that Macron “can’t even prevent a fire in a church” (while conveniently forgetting that not so long ago the National Museum in Brazil burned down destroying a lot of heritage, at least “Macron’s church” is still standing).

I mean these verbal attacks are such children playground level that they reach the news here.

OH Boy. thank you for sharing this. I missed a few of those issues.

S.Peelman said: So why does Bolsonaro have major beef with President Macron of France? Taking cheap shots about the age of Macron’s wife and saying that Macron “can’t even prevent a fire in a church” (while conveniently forgetting that not so long ago the National Museum in Brazil burned down destroying a lot of heritage, at least “Macron’s church” is still standing). I mean these verbal attacks are such children playground level that they reach the news here.

The thing is politicians have notoriously targeted individuals on a 4-5th grade education level.  When Michelle Obama gave that speech that made the news about 4 years ago, it made the news because it was written on a 12th grade reading level... which doesn't same much about the state of humanity to be quite honest. 

A hallmark of ignorance is loud, boisterous, fact free drama. 

You know the shit has hit the fan when:

Caller: "Excuse me, Brazil, we're really concerned about a large amount of smoke blowing over here from your wood fire."

Agent: "OK, from where are you calling?"

Caller: "From space!"

Well, I'm not going to keep arguing with Bolsonaro defenders, it's like talking to a wall. But I'd like to tell you some things that happened after I made that post, in between calling Macron's wife ugly and cancelling science scholarships, that are even scarier than my OP (I'll put this there as an update too):

• Men from the military have been attending meetings at Cinemateca Brasileira (Brazilian Cinematheque), to "help" decide what exhibitions were going to be presented, with the excuse of fighting "getting to know the institution and its goals". This month, there is going to be an exhibition there about the military with the goal of "fighting cultural marxism", congressman Castello Branco - from Bolsonaro's party - announced in a video where he and other retired captains and soldiers chanted Bolsonaro's campaign slogan "Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos" (Brazil above anything, God above everyone) and saluted.
• After less than 24 hours of an exhibition of political cartoons criticizing Bolsonaro in Porto Alegre, it was closed down by a congresswoman, who said that she did that because it was "offensive against Bolsonaro [...] it's inconceivable to create an exhibition that offends the president of our nation." If you wanted a clear, undeniable case of censorship, here it is.
• Rio de Janeiro's mayor requested that all copies of a Young Avengers comic book be confiscated from a book fair because there was a page where two male characters kiss. He also sent a commission of government employees to check each book and see if they were "appropriate".
• Bolsonaro went through the list of films that would be financed by ANCINE, the agency that funds Brazilian film productions, and cancelled the funding of every film that contained LGBT+ themes, even those that were already approved to get financed.

Just not worth it. I'm still in shock that people saying the fire in Amazon is a lie.

This is disturbing: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49633136

The official who protected indigenous Amazonian tribes has been assassinated.

Recently he's son just threatened the National Parliament and Supreme Court with another AI-5: https://istoe.com.br/eduardo-bolsonaro-ameaca-com-ditadura-e-cita-novo-ai-5/ 

For anyone who's not familiar with brazilian history, AI-5 was the most infamous legislative political regulation during our last military dictatorship. It suspended several of our political (and human) rights

I'm really afraid now

Willing to go to street protests if situation get worse

Just a quick update here on some recent news:

- Bolsonaro joined a pro-dictatorship rally amidst the coronavirus crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/20/jair-bolsonaro-dictatorship-rally-protest-brazil-president-denounced

- Bolsonaro fired the Minister of Health for encouraging social distancing while Bolsonaro claimed that covid-19 was "just a little flu": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52316150 (In his place, Bolsonaro put a "puppet" of his, who accepts everything he says and is being used as a dummy to reflect all criticisms about the government's handling of the crisis: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-teich/brazils-bolsonaro-appoints-nelson-teich-as-health-minister-idUSKBN21Y38M)

- The Minister of Justice resigned because he was being forced by Bolsonaro to fire the Director-General of the Federal Police (who was investigating Bolsonaro's son in a corruption scandal and a lot of Bolsonaro's friends). During his resignation, he claimed that Bolsonaro said "he wanted someone who he knew and trusted on the position and someone who he could directly talk to": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/brazil-justice-minister-sergio-moro-resigns-jair-bolsonaro Later that same day, Bolsonaro, in a shockingly disjointed speech, confirmed the allegations and said that it wasn't wrong of him to want that.

- When confronted with the number of confirmed deaths due to the coronavirus in Brazil, Bolsonaro said "so what?": https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/apr/30/so-what-bolsonaros-response-to-coronavirus-deaths-riles-brazilians-video

Well those points don’t sound good. Brazil is one of the few countries in South America not on the verge of economic collapse so at least it could be a lot worse.