Teary Bolsonaro calls loss unfair, condemns violence, flies to Florida

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

Two days before leaving office, ending a tumultuous four years as the race-baiting, Amazon-developing, coronavirus-downplaying, vaccine-skeptical leader of Latin America’s largest country, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro remained defiant in a teary farewell address on Friday, defending his record and saying the election that led to his ouster was not impartial, but condemning violence against the result.

Then he flew to Florida, Brazilian media reported, where in the past he has met with former president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He apparently planned to skip the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday, when the outgoing leader traditionally presents the presidential sash to his successor, a ceremony intended to reaffirm the country’s young democracy.

Bolsonaro’s remarks, live-streamed for nearly an hour Friday morning, were his most extensive since he lost the election in October. He still has not conceded the race, but acknowledged that a new administration would take over on Sunday.

“Nothing is lost,” he told supporters. “Brazil is a fantastic country, and Brazil doesn’t end on January first.”

Concern is growing over security around Lula’s inauguration in Brasília on Sunday. Bolsonaro supporters have camped outside army installations since his Oct. 30 defeat to call for a military coup to keep him in power. A group of radical bolsonaristas set fire to buses and tried to invade federal police headquarters in the capital this month after the arrest of a Bolsonaro supporter who was accused of having “expressly summoned armed people to prevent the certification of elected” officials.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/30/bolsonaro-farewell-florida/

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Florida. Mar-a-Loco. Figures.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. He'll be welcome there.

[SoCalDavidS]

7. If DeSatan Wins Presidency, Maybe He Could Run For Governor

I’m sure the voters in FL would elect him, with an (r) next to his name.

[CaptainTruth]

13. Not by me!!!

[bahboo]

2. jesus christ....grow up ya fascist fuck....

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. He's right. Brazil DOESN'T end on the first.

It starts anew.

[whistler162]

4. I should have remembered

The Statue of Liberty does have the engraving -

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, the whiney losers to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

[Lovie777]

5. Reverse .....

bullies now the victim.

Again.

[Rebl2]

6. Going to meet

up with someone in FL?

[IronLionZion]

8. He'll be in good company with TFG and DeathSentence

Floriduh

[Cha]

9. Lol.. jar & dt can commiserate

over their TREMENDOUS LOSS of POWER in the Stinkhole MAL.

Link to tweet

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Like Orban, he will be greeted in FL as a hero celebrity. GOP loves the autocrats.

[Beautiful Disaster]

11. Do fascist losers now retire to Florida?

[rubbersole]

18. Fascist Eden.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

45. Malhalla

[PlutosHeart]

12. Is there a "bad actors" convention there?

Will Maul-leggo blow up like in the Glass Onion movie?

Seriously hope Biden and a few are watching this closely.

[PortTack]

15. Seeking solace and advice from the orange mass who urged him not to concede.

The world will be a better place when both, but especially when tfg is gone!

[marmar]

16. Fascist-friendly Florida

[rpannier]

17. I'd watch him and events closely in Brazil until the inaguration is over

Being out of the country during a coup gives him deniability, and should it succeed, a photo-op of the returning "hero"

[rubbersole]

19. You are correct.

Fucking sad it's plausible.

[sarcasmo]

20. Dictator summit at scam-a-largo.

[lambchopp59]

21. Jair... Trump... Desantis.. Scott... Gaetz...

[bdamomma]

22. Flying to

Florida???? stopping in at Mar A Loco????

[NBachers]

23. Miami- Refuge of dictators and terrorists

I remember when Orlando Bosch, bomb-murderer of Orlando Letelier on the streets of Washington DC; and bomber of Cubana Flight 455, killing all 73 on board, fled to Miami. It was fiesta time in the streets. Welcome home, Hero!

The Justice Department sought to deport him to Venezuela as a terrorist. Half of Miami became apoplectic with rage, demonstrating and threatening violence if Bosch was deported. George H W. Bush & Jeb Bush intervened and Bosch was granted residency.

Bosch was an anti-Castro terrorist and CIA operative who led clandestine raids on Cuba. In 1964, he was caught towing a radio-operated torpedo through Miami in rush-hour traffic.

I remember when Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza Debayle, another CIA patron, fled to Miami on a private airliner, bringing his family and a large portion of the National Treasury. they landed at Homestead Air Force Base and there was a caravan up Dixie Highway into their swank digs in Downtown Miami. Fortunately, Jimmy Carter was president, and Carter refused to grant them residency. Somoza fled to Paraguay, where he was assassinated a year later.

I became affiliated with a colony of Jamaicans who, because of their exploitation and the deteriorating political atmosphere, fled to Miami and established a compound on a five-acre mango orchard. I moved a mobile home onto the property and worked on their compound by day, and guarded the property at night. The way they treated their workers made me understand why they had to raid the treasury and run to Miami in exile.

Just a few Miami terrorist stories of many.

[flamingdem]

33. Yes I remember these incidents well

Didn't understand the part about the colony of Jamaicans. They were the exploiters in Miami as well? From a particular political party? Business owners?

I remember when Somoza fled to Paraguay. A bazooka got him if memory serves.

[bdamomma]

24. Flying to

Florida???? stopping in at Mar A Loco????

[live love laugh]

46. Wondering the same. TFG supported him so it wouldn't be surprising.

[lostnfound]

25. Use Title 42 to reject him at the border

Why the f** isn’t he going to the back of the line??

[area51]

26. Running home to "daddy", aren't you, Bolsonaro?

[flamingdem]

34. Lol! Would not be surprised if Bolsonaro knows Santos

Sounds like another pea in that Russia funded pod.

[Eliot Rosewater]

39. Hip to the jive man!

[LeftishBrit]

28. Two of a kind

Hope Brazil doesn't have its equivalent of January 6th, 2021.

[LeftishBrit]

49. I wish I had been wrong in my fears.

[lonely bird]

29. Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up.

The Velveeta Vulgarian’s Brazilian cousin.

[Timeflyer]

30. How we long for the good old days, before air conditioning,

when the worst things about Florida were heat and mosquitoes, and yellow fever.

[musclecar6]

31. Just

Another worthless totalitarian asshole. Donnie will probably roll out the red carpet for him with high fives. Birds of a feather.

[Captain Zero]

41. They can dance together at ML weddings,

Eh?

[wolfie001]

32. Flees to Governor DeShitbag's state.......

who woulda thought? Poor fucking Florida. What an embarrassment.

[Grins]

35. Should be "FLEES" to Florida....

Because that is what he did. To avoid arrest and prison.

And commiserate with the bloated, constantly aggrieved porcine failure in Palm Beach.

[SouthernDem4ever]

36. trump needs someone to visit him in prison

to bring cookies, cameras, etc

[Martin68]

37. At least Bolsonaro eschews violence, at least in his public statements. That's a huge improvement

over our Insurrectionist in Chief.

[Salviati]

38. With apologies to the several sane Floridians out there:

[Captain Zero]

40. I guess Bannon has left Brazil too?

What if Brazil charges Bannon and wants him extradited there?

[peacebuzzard]

42. trying to find a place to transfer stolen money

from all his ripoffs meanwhile, he blames Lula.

[dalton99a]

43. +1

[Simeon Salus]

44. Runs for Senate...

He'd fit right into the Florida Repugs. Full of bombast, signifying nothing.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

47. The US has an extradition treaty with Brazil.

Hopefully, charges will be brought against him in Brazil, and this fascist POS will be dragged out of our country in chains.

[tamtamp]

48. He knows he committed crimes

That's why he fled.