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Brave Sir Flavio
One of the biggest indicators of whether a country is a fascist country is that other fascists flee to that country.
Eh. This is more an indication that Lulu, specifically, has learned his lessons from his first turn at the Presidency and isn’t going to wait around for the Bolsonaros to organize a coup against him.
Look at Columbia or El Salvador or Ecuador or Chile. They all had a turn at Biden tier liberalism, let the fascism feaster under their watch, and then got flipped to reactionary dictatorships in the next cycle.
Lulu got jailed once. He came out stronger and smarter. He’s too old to get shoved back into prison again.
What a bunch of garbage all around. If only people stopped electing asshole criminals like him, orange and others around the globe. Stop being idiots and stop electing pos like these. Stop thinking they’re “strong” and want to “feel strong” too by proxy or whatever stupid psych bs used as an excuse. Be best!
Theyre not sending their best. Some are criminals, some are fascists.
Why not both?
Oh great another fucking fascist we’ll have to deal with.
Where is ICE? Trump is right on this one, it is not one of their best.
Well, the US famously don’t like immigrants, so I’m sure the fine boys from ICE will sort him out.
What?
What do you mean it doesn’t matter because he’s rich?
Well, that’s an oddly unprincipled stance to take. So, perfectly good foreign nationals with low net worth will be incarcerated but literally the devil himself would not if he had wealth?
Yes I know who Elon Musk is…
Arrest him
Would we be given that luxury?
Seems kinda … cowardly.
Yep
Classic conservative behaviour
Smells like BITCH to me.
No thanks. We don’t want him.
In other news, dark horse candidate, Blavio Folsonero, is hitting the presidential campaign trail.
If Dems win in a landslide house and Senate I forsee Trump fleeing on his Saudi gifted plane to Saudi Arabia
The Dems aren’t going to do shit. They’ll continue their insider trading and send a few really strongly worded tweets. Then they’ll go to his events and invite his family to their personal events. The rich protect the rich.
lol if dems win they’ll shrug and let it all go so the country can “heal”. Same thing happened after Watergate and Iran Contra. Rich people don’t face consequences here
You are behind the times. The Dems are making lots of plans to investigate MAGAs when they take over the House and Senate. Jeffries has already set up several committees, assuming he remains Speaker (I hope he gets replaced). The House Dems just released their report on Trump’s involvement in the Epstein Files, signaling that it will be a primary investigation.
After Jan 6, I argued with MANY who said there would be no justice for the Insurrectionists, and yet, step by step, they eventually imprisoned well over 1000 Traitors. Trump later pardoned them, but the fact remains that those who assumed the Dems would do nothing were entirely wrong.
And they’re wrong about this as well. I just watched an interview with a Dem member of Congress who said that we absolutely cannot go back to the old ways of doing things, if we expect to regain the trust of the rest of the world. He said we have to make major systemic changes, and rebuilding after MAGA gives us the perfect opportunity to remake the government properly.
Your wish that MAGA gets away with their crimes will not come true.
You are not a student of history I see. The rest of us understand the person you are replying to doesn’t “want” the Democrats to punk out. “Investigate”? Do you know how many Democrat investigations we’ve lived through? Fuck-tons! An absurd amount of wasted air. And they never produce anything. They are the perfect distraction. “Investigations” are the balancing flap of the other wing of the one party. Oh boy, I’m sure Don Trump Jr is just terrified of the grilling Elizabeth Warren is going to give him /s
Where do we start with remaking the government properly? Remove the electoral college? End the two party system? Rewrite the Constitution? None of this is going to happen, and although I hope I’m wrong, I believe after one cycle of having Democrats in power the people will say they didn’t do shit and go right back to the Republicans.
It’s almost as if two parties is a bad idea
“wish” lol, my only wish is democrats actually grow a spine one single time in the last 50 years
Original comment was specifically about Trump anyway, he will never face consequences because dems are afraid of him and his followers. Otherwise he’d already be in prison for the insurrection. Or at the very least not allowed to run again because him being on the ballot directly violated the 14th amendment. Trump will pardon himself and issue a blanket pardon for all his henchmen and the dems will say “aw shucks well what are you gonna do?” or issue a strongly worded letter
IDK, I’ve heard a lot of US sex offenders flee to Israel.
they flee to europe apparently, they still want that taste of something close to the us as part of thier livelyhoods.
Qatari. Get your bribes straight, man!
Saudi Arabia is not very happy with being ignored when they asked for help to fight the Houthis. Twice. Moreso after all the “investment” they did into trump’s close circle
they gave kushner 2bn in investments, they dint seem to gain much influence since then, in fact thier influence diminished. if they were backing propaganda outlets, then they wouldve had a chance.
It blows my mind just thinking this guy almost won the presidency of the second biggest country of the continent. Two days ago he was voting and lecturing about democracy.
Ok. I can’t figure out what you mean by “second biggest.” At first I assumed you meant “America” as the continent, rather than “South America,” since Brazil is the biggest country in the latter by quite a wide margin (it’s about four times the size of Argentina). But Brazil is the third largest Pan-American country after Canada and the US. So, ok, you must have a different definition in mind. Second-largest in the Southern hemisphere, maybe? But Brazil is bigger than Australia, by a million square kilometers.
Second-largest…uh…country with a large part of its mainland in UTC-3? (After Canada.) Second-largest country from which you can draw a direct line to Antarctica? (That one might be debatable, actually.) Second-largest country whose Northern border is closer to Canada than it is to its Southern border? (After the US, and yes, that’s true.)
I need answers!
I was thinking about several things at the same time, but yeah, seems like I was also wrong in the most obvious one: area. However, it’s not that far away from the USA, being Alaska the deciding factor. Second in population and GDP.
That’s a good point about excluding Alaska in the area calculation; Alaska is almost 18% of the land area of the US, so pulling it is significant.
From the perspective of population, I honestly don’t know why I didn’t consider that when thinking through this originally. It seems so obvious in hindsight, lol.
GDP is a little bit more complicated. By pure GDP, it looks like Brazil and Canada kind of flip back and forth depending on the year (right now Brazil is just barely above Canada); though if you look at per-capita GDP, Canada is way higher up the list.
But I don’t think they are flipping back and forward anymore. Canada is facing a trade crisis now that the new NAFTA is over, and Brazil, if the current political environment settles as it should, is facing a brilliant future in BRICS, also being a power in Rare Earths. In any case, you can consider both 2nd in GDP. Finally, sure, GDP per capita is a different beast, that’s the whole struggle of our lives in the “global south”.
Yeah, definitely fair.
second largest population, only behind US
Oh! Oh. Ha.
In hindsight it’s so obvious. Thanks.
I’m pretty certain South Africa is bigger than Brazil perhaps at second biggest country in the Southern hemisphere?
Not even close. South Africa is like an eighth the size of Brazil. Australia is significantly bigger than South Africa, too, though slightly smaller than Brazil; and Angola, Peru, a good chunk of Congo, and Argentina are all (a) South of the Equator, (b) bigger than South Africa, and © smaller than Australia.
Which country in South America is larger than Brasil?
El Dorado.
The Dorodoan people are vast and numerous, covering an area much larger than Brazil. They’re just really sneaky about it.
outside the US the Americas is usually considered a single continent. Not 2.
Most (maybe all?) European countries consider them to be two continents. Because they are.
But even if we look at the Americas as a single continent, Brazil would only be the third largest country, because Canada would be second.
Haha, Canada is bigger than trumpland.
TIL, thanks
Brazil is 2nd largest by population in the americas. That’s what the OP was referencing.
Ah, then it makes sense.
I’ve only spent a week of my life in that shithole country, and I’ve never heard of the Americas as a single continent.
What about the seven summits?
In Australia I consider Europe and Asia to be a single continent too.
I actually go further personally. Afro-Eurasia is a single supercontinent. The Americas are a single continent. Oceania is one (Not just Australia but all the large islands out that way), and Antarctica. So I’d say we have 4. Then lots of subcontinents.
Never heard of the term seven summits but the Olympic flag has five rings for the five inhabited contingents.
What movies are distinction between a geographical definition of a continent and a political definition.
The geographical definition of a continent puts large parts of China in Europe and that just doesn’t seem right. It also means that New Zealand is its own continent all on its own.
parts of China in Europe
What a weird way to put it. I’d argue Europe doesn’t exist. It’s a pureply political distinction. It’s just far west asia. Or Eurasia if you want to be a bit inclusive.
Probably meant American continent with the US having a larger population
Perhaps they meant hemisphere…? Even then it’d be third though, I’m pretty sure…
Pan-American continent by population, Brazil is second. Mexico comes in 3rd.
Pan-American content is the same as the Western hemisphere, making the biggest Canada, followed by the US, followed by Brazil, no?
south america is in the "southern hemisphere though.
There are four hemispheres; each colocated with halves of two others. There’s a Northern and Southern hemisphere, yes, but there’s also an Eastern and Western hemisphere; one from the Prime Meridian East to the Date Line, and the other from the Prime Meridian West to the Date Line.
And actually, geographers talk about a third hemisphere delineation: the “Land Hemisphere” and the “Water Hemisphere.” The “equator” of this hemispherical division is a circle that runs south from Baja California to just under Peru, curves across South America and across the Atlantic where it ducks under South Africa, then curves back North to skirt just below Vietnam and Japan before turning South again over the North Pacific. That might not sound like a hemisphere, but it is when you look at a globe; and the “Land Hemisphere,” which is centered on France, contains 81% of Earth’s land, while the “Water Hemisphere,” which is centered just south of New Zealand, contains about 63% of Earth’s water.
So the Earth consists of two whole spheres!
each colocated with halves of two others.
No.
What is Western Hemisphere, Alex?
Brazil is 48% of the continent. Argentina in second at 16%. Not even close.
Paraguay de jure.
Can’t wait to see what cabinet position he gets.
He’ll declare himself President in exile.
And the Untied States will invade Brazil to install him as president. I wish I was kidding and didn’t see this as a real possibility
Brazil isn’t Venezuela, much bigger, stronger institutions, stronger army etc. Never say never but you think Trump is eager on getting into another Iran war?
Do you think Trump has the prefrontal cortex mass remaining for that level of critical thinking?
No, but maybe there are still some left in the Pentagon who have not been purged yet and some influence left.
I wouldn’t count on it. Kegsbreath will probably have his public execution if they resist.
i suspect RUBIO would have a hardon in invading South america.
no, it was destroyed by cocaine and adderall.
He doesn’t have the juice for that.
well more epstein stuff has come up so.
Never say never but you think Trump is eager on getting into another Iran war?
I hate that this question doesn’t have a clear an immediate answer as “of course not!”. Because… yes, I can see pedohitler considering this to hide the disaster of Iran.
by creating another IRAN, to distract from the iran war to distract from NETANAYAHUS problems.
Lol! In two more steps he will be trading nuclear hits with France and the UK to distract the population from his earlier mistakes…
I noticed that my phone no longer autocorrects wwiii to WWII, and has started correcting it to WWIII
Well…Iran is a vast country, with a deeply rooted regime, strong military, proxies all over the Middle East ánd the ability to chokehold global energy supplies…
…and yet Trump was stupid enough to wage war on Iran on a whim. Nuff said.
He’s an idiot. Also a narcissist, so easy to manipulate. He always thinks he’s right and he always thinks he knows better. He’s unpredictable imo.
They also have 60 million people that voted for Facio.
I hope so, but history indicates otherwise.
Not a fucking chance. What we would do, is cut a deal with their military to seize control, which, is what we did in Venezuela in case no one told you that yet.
The mid-terms are a week away.
What’s your A1C on that? I mean, I’d ask Gary Webb butt…
What’s your A1C on that?
What’s an “A1C”?
FWIW, I’d bet money that the House will flip, and I’m sure that the Senate will win ≥48, probably more. It’ll slow, but not stop, Trump, who might be his own worse enemy. The next Democrat President will be a relative dark horse, as was Obama in 2006, Clinton in 1990, or Carter in 1974; and the next Republican President will be about as bad as Dubya Bush or Trump.
(This posted 10:14 UTC (6:14 AM EDT), 28 October 2026.)
Kind of depends on paying your rent and the fact that money is, was, and never will be real beyond a collective imagination, at most.
its much harder to invade it, much like iran its similar, the terrain is very prohibitive of enemy movement, when you have things like massive rivers and amazon jungle in the way.
I hope ‘Untied’ States wasn’t a typo, because that has the ring of truth.
It wasn’t. I’ve been spelling it that way since Trump has been back in power
The Untied Snakes of Vespucciland
Puck’s gonna be mad at one of us for outing him like that.
Don’t worry, if we were to elect a government in Australia that worked for the people they’d do the same here.
I tried to get hired on as a cement operator (oil and gas) in Australia for a bit. You all dodged a bullet on that one. I would have been there illegally for damn sure after that work posting ended.
Edit: drinking all your Goon.
Pretty much. All of this is part of their theater. He flies from facing the consequences of his crimes but the far right will of course spin it around, lying about some political witch hunt. It’s always the same with these criminal politicians. Everyone else is the bad one. They know they simply have to keep denying everything and some idiots will keep believing them. It’s sad, really.
Guaido 2.0
