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Eugene

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Fri May 15, 2020, 04:18 PM May 2020

'The ship is sinking': Bolsonaro battles to block foul-mouthed cabinet video

Source: The Guardian

'The ship is sinking': Bolsonaro battles to block foul-mouthed cabinet video

A partial transcript of the meeting in Brasília offers a glimpse of the paranoia and ideological obsessions of Brazil’s president

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 15 May 2020 18.29 BST
Last modified on Fri 15 May 2020 20.13 BST

The coronavirus pandemic has halted production of Brazil’s steamy telenovela soap operas – but one small-screen blockbuster is on everyone’s lips.

A two-hour video of a heated and expletive-ridden cabinet meeting chaired by President Jair Bolsonaro last month has become the subject of an extraordinary political arm-wrestle, exposing the intrigues and eccentricities at the centre of Brazilian power.

“This meeting is the perfect portrait of the Bolsonaro administration,” said Bruno Boghossian, a columnist for the Folha de São Paulo newspaper in Brazil’s political capital, Brasília.

“Conspiracy theories, ideological issues, made-up battles, and culture wars – all right there at the heart of government.”

The video of the supposedly private plenum on 22 April was unexpectedly thrust into the public domain by the resignation of Bolsonaro’s justice minister, Sergio Moro, two days later.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/jair-bolsonaro-video-cabinet-foul-mouthed
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'The ship is sinking': Bolsonaro battles to block foul-mouthed cabinet video (Original Post) Eugene May 2020 OP
Terrific article. It's funny the public is seeing Bolsonaro so out of control, really struggling. Judi Lynn May 2020 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. Terrific article. It's funny the public is seeing Bolsonaro so out of control, really struggling.
Fri May 15, 2020, 10:25 PM
May 2020

He always was so pompous up to this point.

Quotes from the article:

“I’m not going to wait for [the federal police] to fuck my family and friends just for shits and giggles,” Bolsonaro fumes at one point, according to the official account, apparently in reference to police inquiries involving his politician sons.

Elsewhere Bolsonaro allegedly brands São Paulo’s governor a “shit”, calls Rio’s governor “manure” and seems to recognize the chaos engulfing his government, as it faces economic meltdown and a public health crisis that has claimed more than 14,000 Brazilian lives.

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“The ship is sinking,” Bolsonaro is quoted as saying by the Estado de São Paulo during the assembly at the presidential palace.

One of his people revealed he despises feeling obligated to say "indigenous people" instead of whatever slur he usually uses. Not all that grown up, yet, himself. That's why Bolsonaro appointed him, of course.
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