Here's Scruffy McBedbugSores announcing that he really feels like Bolsonaro needs to not concede a lawful election, because surprise of all surprises! He isn't a fan of elections that don't turn out the way he wants. So much like the 2020 elections in the US where
he thought Trump should just declare victory. Damn the consent of the governed--because one side will most assuredly be more aggressive. And he assumes it's the RW side. The macho guys. The fascists. And why does it even matter to Bannon, who doesn't live there?
Because of a movement against democracy, and for authoritarians, where jumped-up know-it-alls who enjoy the smell of their own gas prevail. Bannon
has opinions about what a lot of countries should do. He's playing a game of Risk where other people are doing normal folk things like voting in their self-interest. Or trying to. And he thinks he knows better.
And Bannon has been off-gassing for a long while. He should be declared a superfund site and get cleaned up by professionals. I do not understand his appeal. I do understand why Brazil was a bit fed up with Bolsonaro--he rejects the law and science, and during Covid and the fires in the Amazon was like Nero. He was for himself. That is somehow not a good thing for most people. He was exhausting.
Like Trump lost in 2020 because he blew off Covid and was exhausting. He wanted people to rake the forests to prevent wildfires and had weird ideas about windmills. Maybe flipperheaded fucknuts have no business in elected office. Just a thought.
UPDATE: It looks like
Bolsonaro is doing something a bit more responsible to Brazil's future than Trump had done. I know folks
like Ali Alexander are going to be mad, and like, ok? I know I have a strong opinion about Meloni in Italy because part of my family lives there and my husband sometimes talks about us retiring there. What's Alexander's or Bannon's strong opinion about? It seems like a demonstration that elections are just bad and wrong. I get that people vote for wrong ones sometimes--(2016 in the US, anyone?) but that doesn't mean people having the choice itself is wrong. It's the disinfo, the fuckery, the threat of violence, that make the process bad when it goes bad. It's people letting their short term grievances over things like inflation and fuel prices or propaganda against immigrants foul up their ideas about the long-term consequences of bad, corrupt, or ideologically bent leaders.
Democracy, at its best, is the corrective solution for getting the bastards out, even at the risk of occasionally letting some bastards in. This is why, warts and all, I think it is worth preserving. And why I think the TrumpWorld strongman model, which too often elevates people who pose as strong when they are intellectually low-wattage and would necessarily attract feeble, craven, toadying jerkwagons to their retinue is so dead wrong.
UPDATE: Ali Alexander spells it out--a stolen election is any one whose results he doesn't like:
As if we did not know.
