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President Jair Bolsonaro was inspired this Thursday (4). So inspired it looked like he had a bulge in his angu.
In Uberlândia (MG), he called “an idiot” who asks him to buy a vaccine. “Only if it’s at your mother’s house! It doesn’t have to be sold to the world!” He said.
Last year, when responsible leaders signed contracts with laboratories, he campaigned against immunization. “If taking and becoming an alligator is your problem,” he said in December. Now, pressured by escalating deaths, he is going after pharmaceutical companies.
A few hours later, in São Simão (GO), he stepped on the accelerator and touched those who mourn for their dead.
“Your [produtores rurais] They did not stay home, they did not flinch. We have to face our problems. No more freshness, mimimi. How long will you be crying? We have to face the problems. Obviously respect the elderly, those who have diseases, comorbidities. But where will Brazil stop if we stop? “
I have already commented in the previous text on the role of this type of speeches in Bolsonaro’s strategy during the covid (“if you catch, you catch, if you died, you died, let’s work”). But that is not what matters now.
The president’s speeches abruptly plunge into the absurd and the grotesque when he wants to divert the focus from something. It’s not that that’s not his nature, but sometimes Bolsonaro seems too bolsonarista. And with statements like these, it is impossible not to appear on the home pages of the mainstream media.
This leaves less space in the public debate for other issues, such as the purchase of a mansion worth almost R $ 6 million by his son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicans-RJ).
Denounced for embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and criminal organization, he is accused of executing a “cracking” scheme when he was a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Rio.
The purchase of the house, revealed by the website O Antagonista, in the second (1), has 1.1 thousand m² of built area, on a plot of 2.5 thousand m², and is located in a privileged area of Brasilia (DF).
According to the Public Ministry, Flávio’s scheme consisted of laundering with the sale of a property and a chocolate shop in Rio. Coincidentally, the amount charged to him for misappropriating the assembly members’ salaries amounts to R $ 6.1 million.
Examples of situations that acted as smoke screens for the president
Some issues have an especially explosive potential for the popularity of Jair Bolsonaro among his followers and, therefore, they are constantly clouded by smoke screens produced by the President of the Republic, his sons and advisers.
On January 20, 2020, Bolsonaro was asked about the investigation against Flávio and his former adviser, Fabrício Queiroz, in front of the Palácio da Alvorada. In response, he addressed the sexuality of journalists. “You seem like a terrible homosexual, so I am not accusing you of being homosexual, although it is not a crime to be homosexual,” he said. After being asked by a journalist about the evidence of the transactions involving Queiroz and his family, he yelled, “Ask your mom what proof she gave your father, right?”
Another example was the WhatsApp audios published by the press on October 27, 2019, showing that Fabrício Queiroz felt abandoned by his political group. “The guy over there is overprotected. I don’t see anyone moving anything to try to help me there. It’s just a beating. The MP has a stick the size of a comet to bury us in. I didn’t see anyone acting,” he said.
Then the next day, a video posted on social media by Jair Bolsonaro compared the president to a bullied lion surrounded by hyenas. They represented the STF, the political parties, the lawyers of the OAB, the Catholic bishops of the CNBB, the press, among others. The lion was saved by another, identified as a “conservative patriot.” The supreme ministers reacted with irritation. Marco Aurélio Mello affirmed, in an interview with CBN radio, that the video was a smoke screen.
Another example: on July 16, 2019, Minister Dias Toffoli, of the STF, responded to a request from the defense of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and suspended investigations into the atypical movements of him and his former adviser Fabrício Queiroz. Which raised questions to impact other investigations.
Therefore, on July 18 and 19, 2019, Bolsonaro told reporters that “talking about hunger in Brazil is a big lie”; had a “leaked” conversation referring to the managers of the Northeast, in a prejudiced way, as “governors of Paraíba”; They defamed the journalist Miriam Leitão, saying that it was a lie that she had been tortured during the military dictatorship; affirmed that the increase in deforestation in the Amazon indicated by INPE “does not correspond to reality”; and that if he could not enforce control over Ancine’s films, the agency would be extinguished.
And of course we have the most classic curtain cover. Bolsonaro was the target of criticism during the 2019 Carnival, being the subject of stables and parades. The public debate was filled with the question “where is Queiroz”, the ties of the president’s family with militiamen and the denunciations of the orange candidacies that involve the PSL, the party for which he was elected.
Then, Jair Bolsonaro posted on his Twitter account on March 5, 2019, the video of a man dancing at a taxi rank after sticking his finger in his anus. Shortly after, another appears, urinating on the head of the one who was dancing. “This is what many blocks have become in the Brazilian Carnival,” he wrote. The next day, he posted the iconic question “What is golden shower?” The repercussion took hold of social networks and part of the press for some time.
It is not possible to infer that, in all cases, there was intentionality in the dispersive effect. But, of course, the temperature of a low problem due to the smoke screens formed. Anyway, we’re not all idiots, but he certainly looks at us that way.
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