Trump has steps WAY over the line in Brazil, sanctioning a Judge overseeing a criminal case against former President Bolsonaro, who made an attempted coup when he lost his election for the Presidency. He is also imposing 50% tariffs on the country because of the Court case against Bolsonaro, the former strongman of Brazil. We are familiar with Trump going over the line in many areas, but to interfere in the justice system of another country is indefensible.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlzn72eg25o

Section 1.  National Emergency.  As President of the United States, my highest duty is protecting the national security, foreign policy, and economy of this country.  Recent policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Brazil threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.  Members of the Government of Brazil have taken actions that interfere with the economy of the United States, infringe the free expression rights of United States persons, violate human rights, and undermine the interest the United States has in protecting its citizens and companies.  Members of the Government of Brazil are also politically persecuting a former President of Brazil, which is contributing to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Brazil, to politically motivated intimidation in that country, and to human rights abuses.

Recently, members of the Government of Brazil have taken unprecedented actions that harm and are a threat to the economy of the United States, conflict with and threaten the policy of the United States to promote free speech and free and fair elections at home and abroad, and violate fundamental human rights.  Indeed, certain Brazilian officials have issued orders to compel United States online platforms to censor the accounts or content of United States persons, where such accounts or content are protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution within the United States; block the ability of United States persons to raise money on their platforms; change their content moderation policies, enforcement practices, or algorithms in ways that may result in the censorship of the content and accounts of United States persons; and provide the user data of accounts belonging to United States persons, facilitating the targeting of political critics in the United States.

For example, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has abused his judicial authority to target political opponents, shield corrupt allies, and suppress dissent, often in coordination with other Brazilian officials.  Justice de Moraes has authorized politically motivated police raids, arrests, and bank account freezes.  He has also authorized the confiscation of passports, jailed individuals without trial for social media posts, opened unprecedented criminal investigations, including into United States citizens for their constitutionally protected speech in the United States, and issued secret orders to United States social media companies to censor thousands of posts and de-platform dozens of political critics, including United States persons, for lawful speech on United States soil.  When United States and United States-headquartered companies have refused to comply with his unlawful censorship demands, Justice de Moraes has imposed substantial fines on United States and United States-headquartered companies, ordered the suspension of United States and United States-headquartered companies in Brazil, and threatened United States and United States-headquartered company executives with criminal prosecution.  In fact, Justice de Moraes is currently overseeing the Government of Brazil’s criminal prosecution of a United States resident for speech he made on United States soil.

These judicial actions, taken under the pretext of combatting “disinformation,” “fake news,” or “anti-democratic” or “hateful” content, endanger the economy of the United States by tyrannically and arbitrarily coercing United States companies to censor political speech, turn over sensitive United States user data, or change their content moderation policies on pain of extraordinary fines, criminal prosecution, asset freezes, or complete exclusion from the Brazilian market.  These actions also chill and limit expression in the United States, violate human rights, and undermine the interest that the United States has in protecting its citizens and companies at home and abroad.

Brazilian officials are also persecuting former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro.  The Government of Brazil has unjustly charged Bolsonaro with multiple crimes related to Bolsonaro’s 2022 runoff election, and the Supreme Court of Brazil has misguidedly ruled that Bolsonaro must stand trial for these unjustified criminal charges.  Political persecution, through drummed up prosecutions, threatens the orderly development of Brazil’s political, administrative, and economic institutions, including undermining the ability of Brazil to hold a free and fair election of the presidency in 2026.  The Government of Brazil’s treatment of former President Bolsonaro also contributes to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Brazil, to politically motivated intimidation in that country, and to human rights abuses.

I find that the unprecedented actions taken by the Government of Brazil have violated the free expression rights of United States persons, interfered with the economy of the United States by coercing United States and United States-headquartered companies to censor United States persons for speech protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution on pain of extraordinary fines, criminal prosecution, asset freezes, or complete exclusion from the Brazilian market, subverted the interest of the United States in protecting its citizens and companies, undermined the rule of law in Brazil, and jeopardized the orderly development of Brazil’s political, administrative, and economic institutions. 

What a big, steaming pile of stinking B.S.!!!

Frank is exactly the type of idiot Trump was referring to when he said that he could shoot someone in cold blood in front of him, and he'd still support him

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 1^st, 2025 at 7:00pm:


Putting too much gold in the Oval Office? Sure, why not!

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 1^st, 2025 at 7:00pm:


That's not entirely fair, Frank may agree that if Trump is in the Epstein files and he's proven to have sexually abused children that he'll want Trump to face justice.

Forget that Trump is involved for a minute. Are there genuine problems in Brazil?

Armchair_Politician wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2025 at 8:02am:


And it would be the same if it were any other external world leader interfering, not just Trump.

I can't imagine Americans would be ok if the roles were reversed.

America interferes with foreign countries all the time.

SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2025 at 8:12am:


No other world leader is interfering.

SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2025 at 10:18am:


I guess asking people to stop thinking about Trump for 5 minutes was asking too much.

A foreign policy stance is not interference.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 1^st, 2025 at 12:59pm:

Of better things to come.

Jasin wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 2:07am:


Indeed.

Trump is old and unwell, so he'll die in the not too distant future.

So yes, better things to come.

Paki gob on a stick wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2025 at 11:41pm:

In October 2014 a highly distressing Facebook post showed half a dozen or so deceased children. The headline screamed “Child Genocide in Palestine” (again, sound familiar?). It went on to claim “614 Palestinian children murdered by the Israeli IDF forces”. Except they weren’t. The image was of Syrian children, murdered by the Assad regime in 2013 in a chemical weapons attack near Damascus. This image was first published originally by National Geographic.

The post was a lie. The words were lies. And this “story” was shared countless times in a few days, seen by millions across multiple platforms. Blatant, deliberate lies. The news outlets who publish them are lying. The politicians, the actors and people of influence who share them, perpetuators and collaborators with those lies.

What I’m describing here isn’t new. Come back in time with me to the northern autumn of 1944. Nazi propagandists made a film and the subject was Theresienstadt, the concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.

A quick history lesson. This film was made after German authorities successfully deceived the Red Cross (what a shock …), which visited the camp after pressure from the Danish government, anxious about the fate of Danish Jews. In a now-famous example of how far the Nazis were prepared to go in order to carry out their Final Solution, they gave the death camp an elaborate facelift that made it look like a spa town. They built a swimming pool and landscaped the gardens. The Red Cross delegation was thrilled; nothing to see here, they told the Danes, and the Nazis realised the weapon they had created. The film was made, every person in it was a prisoner. Many of them were executed at the camp where 33,000 Jews were murdered.

This propaganda told the world all was well. It said, look! Jews are retiring here, living well here, celebrating their culture here! That film became a key tool in the plan to deceive the world about what was really going on in Theresienstadt, in Treblinka, Auschwitz, Dachau and all the other death camps. As deadly as an atomic bomb, these lies condemned so many to death, while useful idiots in the West believe it all. Sound familiar?

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/useful-idiots-of-the-west-target-isr...

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 1:00pm:

"If you are OK to weaponise and exploit the sickness of a child suffering since birth with serious health issues, simply to push your anti-Israel agenda, you aren’t just part of the problem, you are the problem."

Frank wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 1:29pm:


I must say, F A T Frank you defend a known child predator and adjudicated rapist, but never once see yourself as any part of any problem.

F**king retard.

Frank wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 12:58pm:


Yes it sounds familiar. It explains your own modus operandi.

You use the same tactics here on a daily basis, dear boy. There's no need to virtue signal to us, we know.

You Nazis pulled a job on the silly old Danes back in WWII, now you want to do it all again.