#tbh i wanna know why he was on the boat. we were in international waters. we docked in foreign ports.

[roseverdict]

wrote the Horrors. think i've got it out of my system. will probably post at some point when i have the brain power to manage tags and whatnot. not using the Creepazoid's actual name because unlike SOME PEOPLE i have respect for where and when folks choose to give their names, but i will not lie it is very much the Horrors given a quick coat of teetle paint and fiddled with to make sense within the teetleverse

[brazilianism]

What’s going on in Brazil?

I don’t know which version this is anymore but it was written as of the 30th of March of 2021. 

Long story short, a third of the government or whatever (I don’t do math) quit or was fired this week.

Early Monday the Minister of Defense was fired. This led to five more secretaries and ministers quitting (among them the ministry for justice and public safety, the attorney general, and the international relationships minister, but that last one was already on it’s way since he got involved in a nazi scadal the week before [yeah] [we do not have the time to get into this on this post]). 

This morning the heads of the Army, the Navy and the Airforce also all resigned. 

Brazilians are all very anxious about this because we do not know what it means or how it will affect politics from now on. 

Let’s turn back a few days to understand the situation: the Bolsonaro government is under the biggest pressure it has ever faced. Today, there have been more than 3700 deaths by covid, and they have been above the 3k for over a week. The economy is bad - inflation is high, and if you turn on the television you will see campaigns for food donation, as we are officially back to people-are-starving-times. The government neglected and refused offers to buy vaccines when they were offered early last year, and we are far, far behind on the amount of doses that are needed, and the hospitals are full in most States. There were no hospital beds available in over 80% of the cities last week for anything. 

So, to say the least, they did not handle being a government well. But they could have gotten away with it, tbh, it wouldn’t even have been hard. What really changed the game in Brazilian politics this month was that our ex-president, Lula, is now apt to run for re-election in 2022. His judgment and condemnation were recently ruled as unfair and are being recalled (for those of you who don’t know, long story short: he was accused of corruption and was in prison so he couldn’t run in the 2018 elections, we can discuss this in a longer post if y’all are curious).

“Wait, wait, do you guys wanna elect a guy who was in prison????” 

well. here’s the thing. at this point I personally would elect ANYONE because it has become obvious that a horse holding a paint brush while ice-skating would make better decisions than our current president. But here’s the thing about Lula: he is beloved. This guy left the presidency with over 80% of approval. This was the man who took the country out of the lists of “countries with people starving” (yeah the ones we’re back into now). And while the corruption trials DID tarnish his image a lot (and i’m not even saying he’s innocent), he is still the most popular candidate to beat Bolsonaro.

So Bolsonaro is nervous, right? The men is a wreck, his approval is lower than ever (although still in the 30%’s), the country is in shambles and he now has a REAL political adversary. 

So we wake up to the news that he’s firing people. 

And we’re all fucking nervous because rumors on the capitol have it that the Minister for Defense was fired after what? after refusing orders to impose military orders on congress and/or on the supreme court. Oh, did I not mention that half the people the president named for cabinets and ministries are military, as is he? 

My bad. Yeah, it’s a government mostly composed by people from the military, also. 

Political analysts now have been seeing the situation in two different ways: (1) either everyone is quitting the boat and the government is melting down, or (2) this man is surrounding himself with loyal people to attempt a coup. And to be fair, if people are leaving because the government is dying (1), that also left a bunch of new spaces for Bolsonaro to do as he pleases with the seats, and maybe get more loyal people involved in whatever is on his head (2). 

To calm the waters, the vice-president [who is also a General] has claimed today that the Military is solid and “would not embark on any coup attempts”, which........ while semi-tranquilizing, has not been true in history. Tomorrow, March 31st, marks the anniversary of our last (official) military coup-d’etat. It was only 57 years ago.   

So. I’m not saying there FOR SURE is gonna be a coup soon, or even that we are sure this is the plan, or that it would be successful (or that Bolsonaro has or hasn’t got the support to do it) - at this point it really is very hard to see through the mess and the chaos that the government purposefully very often creates as distraction. There are other theories, there are other opinions, and there are more details to this story, but one thing is certain: Bolsonaro is now a cornered animal, and those are the most dangerous. Perhaps this is why half his cabinets are emptying, perhaps it is not, but regardless, we will all have to keep our eyes very much open tomorrow and for the rest of his term. 

TLDR: Half the Bolsonaro government quit or was fired and we’re all fucking scared this is gonna somehow lead to a coup attempt but who the fuck knows.