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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Fri Sep 2, 2016, 01:05 AM Sep 2016

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, a Woman of Honor, Confronts Senate of Scoundrels

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, a Woman of Honor, Confronts Senate of Scoundrels
August 31, 2016
by Pepe Escobar

Dilma Rousseff entered the Senate and calmly stared down her accusers. She left with her head held high after exhorting those Senators to vote with their conscience.

Most of those politicians present probably had no idea what conscience means; they’re no more than corrupt messenger boys. But the Brazilian collective unconscious – Jung to the rescue – will be marked.

President Dilma Rousseff, in a detailed, occasionally emotional speech, defended herself with honor and dignity from accusations she committed a “crime of responsibility”. She was not actually facing a political cesspool, but that ‘Angel of History’ so beloved by Walter Benjamin. History will judge her kindly.

Meanwhile, it ain’t over till a dodgy politico sings. As I write, Rousseff is on the way to be stripped from the presidency of the world’s 8th largest economy by a bunch of scoundrel-cum-coward politicos. Her only fear, she said, was the “death of democracy”. Rousseff’s impeachment means in practice that democratic voting in one of the world’s largest democracies will be cancelled by a parliamentary coup remote-controlled by oligarchic interests. This is not, and never was, about justice; it’s about dirty, nasty politics.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/31/brazils-dilma-rousseff-a-woman-of-honor-confronts-senate-of-scoundrels/

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Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, a Woman of Honor, Confronts Senate of Scoundrels (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2016 OP

It's always frustrating seeing millions of poor people yell Divine Discontent Sep 2016 #1

He's using the perverted oligarch's handbook,dealing with the poor by separating them through racism Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #3

And yet that "senate of scoundrels" were also elected by the Brazilian people Marksman_91 Sep 2016 #2

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)

1. It's always frustrating seeing millions of poor people yell

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 03:08 AM

Sep 2016

And blame the party that's trying to help them, and run to the oligarchy for leadership. She's surrounded by a cesspool of corruption, as are many political leaders in S America.

When I'm on FB, I shake my head at these poor people on disability and other assistance who are backing Drumf so fervently...

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)

3. He's using the perverted oligarch's handbook,dealing with the poor by separating them through racism

Reply to Divine Discontent (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 06:10 PM

Sep 2016

as in the old "divide and conquer" tactic plays out. They've been doing it since the dawn of time, no doubt, having found out it's always easy to turn part of the uneducated, uninformed element against other parts of the poor by convincing them the other ones are getting something they want, or something which they can be led to believe is keeping them poorer.

Vicious, deceitful, opportunistic deviant people always resort to it.

One day it's going to stop working for them, however, and the parasites who've been living off the poor, exploiting their labor, selling their overpriced crap to them at inflated prices, because they have total control of the market, are going to end up looking at their victims face to face without being able to get the militaries to rush in to protect them against their own countrymen.

That IS the inevitable outcome. It's just a matter of time.

Marksman_91

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2. And yet that "senate of scoundrels" were also elected by the Brazilian people

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:38 AM

Sep 2016

And it was within their legal right to impeach Rousseff as established by Brazilian law. Doesn't seem you like the idea of democracy when it means not getting your way...

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