Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from holding political office for the next eight years. The country’s Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that he had abused his political power, attacked the electoral system and misused the media. Analysts say he’s likely to suffer more consequences, as this was just one of more than a dozen cases pending against the former president.
The ruling has left some wondering how Bolsonaro could be stripped of his right to hold office in Brazil, while his idol, Donald Trump, in the United States is still a leading candidate for the Republican nomination next year. For legal scholars, the answer comes down to the differing role of free speech rights in each country.
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TRUMP 2024
Biden has been the MOST AUTHORITARIAN PRESIDENT, Trump is NOT the problem. It is the real facists, the Marxist Progressives who are the real threat. Obama & Biden ATTACK whistleblowers & The Press who report the truth.
Please keep your videos at 10 mins or less, you guys upload great work would love to see daily vids even!
It’s a banana republic, just as the US has now become. Effectively prohibiting or trying to imprison political opposition is totalitarian. Both countries are a disgrace to the ideals of democracy, a,though I’d argue there is never democracy without proportional representation anyway.
Trump of the Tropics
Any president who spreads disinformation should be banned from politics. Especially when they are potential Russian shills.
What about the Biden family? Laws were changed just for them….
So this is the way that the oligarchs and big business is going to control the world this is a travesty of free people to hold free world elections
Wtf that’s communist
Echo
Hopefully we who are most affected by the policies of the class which Bolsonaro is part and parcel of can see in Brazil a small though for the Brazilian people especially a significant victory against those who rule without true consent of the majority and against their interests with lies and populist rhetoric. I hope that the American system of judicial processes can move with celerity and without undue hindrance to perhaps find the ways and means to show that D. Trump is unfit for any political office by his criminal activities (I'm certain many Americans feel that there could be many more malfeasances which might be added to the reasoning for banning him from holding political office) before he is able to barge in where he doesn't belong once again.
Birds of a feather really do flock together
We live in a free country where criticism of corruption government is guaranteed
This is a dangerous precedent. The allegations are weak. Politicians should be allowed to allege that elections are fraudulent because sometimes they are. It doesn't matter whether this one was or not. Balsonaro and his pet judge used lawfare against Lula and Dilma Rousseff years ago. The left-liberals now use such a weapon against their adversary which legitimizes it. This won't have the effect they think it will have. This is the same short-sighted thinking that has much of the left defending online censorship because some "Not Sees" say the N word sometimes. It's not in anyone's interests, especially the left, to allow the neo-liberal-corporate oligarchy to censor our speech, though. This is madness and I have to wonder what has happened to Lula.
its hilarious that he has been barred while they let the current president out of jail from corruption charges after he was convicted to run
Jair Messias Bolsonaro, The Best President 🇧🇷🇧🇷
They shouldn't have banned him. They should have given him the death penalty to set an example. He completely tore the country apart, leading to misery for millions. Similarly, Trump needs to go to prison or get the death penalty.
Who decides what is truth and is not? The real news network or myself? Community or myself? Those who benefit from the (true) statement or myself? Maybe the statement which best benefits myself. Is this the real measure of truth for myself? After all, a thought process had to be introduced to me before adopting the thought. Was that thought process a benefit for me and/or a benefit to the teacher?
Who teaches truth which is not a benefit to the teacher? This would be unbiased truth … so rare as to be missed by the masses. Rare, unbiased truth has little competitive chance to spread until its time. Then, it cannot be stopped … god help us all !
Censorship! That's how Democracy Debates. ? WTF!
When you fill your heart ❤️ full of hate, eventually you become what you hate 🖤 and you don't even realize it.
That’s called the weaponization of the “legal system.” Tactics most communist and banana republics use. Don’t be fooled. You don’t want to live in a country that employs such tactics. Wake up and quit being manipulated.
Wonder if brazil will break into cvil war soon.
LOL, didn't the same supreme court overturn Lula's conviction so he could be reinstalled as president!?!?!? Millions of people protested and no investigation ever……
Evangelicals need to face more substantial punishment for what they did in Brasilia and Washington.
He should actually be banned for life. Even better thrown in the slammer and the key thrown into the Amazon river.
I’ll be more impressed if Trump is held accountable for… well,… any of his crimes, or affiliated crimes.
The saboteurs of democracy are active in EVERY ONE of the world's democracies. AND THEY ARE ALL ON THE RIGHT. These days, simply restoring the fair and transparent democratic process is revolutionary.
Do Not Vote Do Not Participate In This Form Of Dysfunctional Democracy. These woke turds of mainstream media are contrary to reality and reason.
Good news for the Amazon rainforest, at least for 8 years.
When u start to ban ur political opponents then it is not democracy. U say u believe in it..u even took it as part of ur name…lets see if u are as big a hypocrite as I suspect u are.
Free speech must not include evident lies, calumnies and bulling
Exactamente. Sin mentiras
Suspend him for life.
He's a Neonazi
I always watch your excellent videos.
I'll donate when I get a job 😢
Banned? when will he be prosecuted for crimes against humanity?
I believe that it was the right way to handle such behavior by a politician and a former president
Bolsonaro is delusional…
And so is his wife.
They've bought into their own BS.
Sad times for the 🌎, when America must wait to learn how to act from other countries.
Bolsonaro should be happy he hasn't been hung upside-down in the streets and be content with riding off into the sunset.
The US should learn this from Brazil – it's not that complicated to ban Fascists from running for public offices in government.
When it comes to corruption, disinformation and abuse of power, Biden and his cronies are way out in front.