The Thread you can all ignore Brazil, Brazil, Brazil.

[Macunaima]

No. Car or airplane crashes is my bet.

[JJCH nli]

So you are a retired cop and live in a R$4.000.000 house right next to the President. You’re photographed with him. You are linked to a militia connected to the President’s son. His son even employed the wife and daughter of that criminal organisation on his official staff. Your daughter dated one of his sons and you are fingered for murdering a city councillor.

Surely it’s just an every day set of coincidences?

[Macunaima nli]

Really.

Ronnie Lessa, the newly arrested principal suspect behind last year's assassination of our friend, Councilwoman Marielle Franco, lives in an expensive house in an exclusive, small condominium in one of Rio's most expensive neighborhoods, Barra da Tijuca, which he bought with his pay as a retired sergeant of police.

Really?

And now the official line is that Ronnie killed Marielle because he had a personal grudge against her: no one ordered the very professional-style hit.

Really?!

And Ronnie got the bullets which killed Marielle and her driver Anderson from the Federal Police by stealing them all by his little own self.

Really?!!

And Ronnie's neighbor in this closed, exclusive, small condominium just happens to be Brazilian President Jair "Bozo" Bolsonaro.

Really?!!!

And in spite of said condo containing fewer than 150 households, President Bozo has never seen Ronnie in his entire life.

REALLY?!!!

[Guest]

Here’s a question for the class. How does a sergeant in the PM afford to live in the same apartment building as the President of Brazil. Have prices dropped significantly in Barra da Tijuca?

Four to one both of the suspects die mysteriously in custody in the coming week.

Sound investments in his 401K?

[Macunaima nli]

Here’s a question for the class. How does a sergeant in the PM afford to live in the same apartment building as the President of Brazil. Have prices dropped significantly in Barra da Tijuca?

Four to one both of the suspects die mysteriously in custody in the coming week.

Sound investments in his 401K?

Is that an brand of assault rifle?

[guest]

How does a sergeant in the PM afford to live in the same apartment building as the President of Brazil.

Wise investments.

[rebelyell2006]

He saved and invested his bribes.

[JJCH nli]

At last they are as one. Bozo and the Gibbon basking in each other’s unpleasantness. They even share similar office dynamics, there’s something of a split forming on foreign policy within the Palácio do Planalto. I think the greatest threat to Brazil’s fortunes is likely to be how far up Trump’s arse Bozo will climb and how pissed off Brazil’s largest trading partner will become. Fun times ahead!

[Guest]

Trump wants Brazil in NATO.
Is Brazil in the North Atlantic?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN1R01VV

[Bronshtein]

Whereas Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovakia Slovenia and Turkey all have North Atlantic seaboards?