Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro protest outside the Planalto Palace building in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday.Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro protest outside the Planalto Palace building in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday.Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress in the capital of Brasília on Sunday.
Videos and photos of the scenes posted to social media also showed crowds invading and ransacking the presidential palace and Supreme Court. Swarms of the Bolsonaro supporters, known as"Bolsonaristas," were seen charging past security barriers and clashing with police who appeared to be using pepper spray against them.
The scenes mirror that of the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol and come one week after leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wasSince da Silva's defeat of the far-right Bolsonaro in October, Bolsonaro supporters have been protesting the win by camping out in front of army barracks around the country, blocking roads, and calling for armed forces to intervene and overturn the election.
So terrible to see the disease and violence of fascism manifesting in Brazil in eerily similar ways to the recent grotesque insurrection in the US.
Supporters of free elections, which you do not support. You support Lie, Cheat, Steal - Democrat platform.
Get ‘‘em boys.. take back your country!
= home for pedophiles Time to defund NPR over porn for kids
GildaFoster Imagine how the fascist Bolsonaro would handle an uprising if he were sworn in? Bloodshed
Sounds familiar.
Frumpy's pals have been down there agitating. No surprise.
RussianCollusionHoax continues
Just goes to show you how much people hate subhuman marxist trash.
That's because both China and the US interfered in that election. You know that.
Bolsonaro Lives Matter. There. Now you have to support them.
Trumpista
it’d be even more on the nose if they did it two days ago
The Trump Effect
Fascists gonna Trump
Is that Viking helmet fool there?
Let’s hope the law enforcement and military response to this attack is significantly more robust than what we saw in Washington on Jan 6th 2021.
MBGA?
Bolsonaro was a great president
Far right.
Stolen elections have consequences
Copycat
Domestic terrorists
wow, it's their Jan 6th but on Jan 8th
it’s be even more on the nose if they did it two days ago
Pretty f’d up “election” they had there… Something becoming quite regular for the left.
January 6th is spreading. Fascism creeps.
People are frustrated with corrupt elections.
Our democracy destroying bullshit is spreading.
Gee, wonder where they got that idea
Sounds like a good time for some military training exercises.
One wonders where they got the idea.
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