The election in Brazil: somehow the left manages to win
And this was the way it happened: the polling stations were ordered to stay open two more hours. A judge in leftist Lula’s camp made the ruling, and it came too late for some areas where the polls had already closed and so it was apparently applied differentially.
The result was that Lula won a victory after having been behind in the original election (this was a runoff because neither candidate reached 51% in the first round). The Bolsonaro supporters are angry and contend that the two-hour election extension was unfair – although, by the way, Bolsonaro had also asked for it for different reasons (weather). The question is whether the judge had the authority to order it, and whether it gave the Lula areas an unfair advantage because more of the areas that ended up staying open were Lula strongholds.
It’s somewhat difficult to get reliable and detailed information on this, but it is highly suspicious.
More here.
Bolsonaro has asked for the results to be annulled.
Good luck with that. If fraud has indeed occurred, it’s almost impossible to change the results and have a do-over – and those who challenge the results are demonized. Thing is, sometimes fraud allegations are themselves fraudulent – and sometimes they’re true.
NOTE: Hugh Hewitt wrote a book in 2004 entitled If It’s Not Close They Can’t Cheat. However, many national elections these days seem to be quite close, so it stands to reason that they can cheat.
A little 5th Brazilian Republic military junta is sounding pretty good right about now.
Democrats are going to cheat. We all know that. It would be really helpful if we didn’t have to fight the Bush/McCain/Murkowski wing of the GOP as well.
The blogger formerly known as Whiskey wrote on his Substack today:
“The GOP being the Washington Generals and ‘failure theater’ have never provided any action to get rid of the fraudulent ballots and voting. People like Thune, Cornyn, and Tillis all worked hand in glove with Schumer to prevent voter ID. I have to show my ID to buy beer, but not to vote. Most of the GOP wants Trump gone, even if it means a Communist / Islamic revolution, because they are stupid enough to think they will still be able to play the Washington Generals and failure theater with the Senate, Supreme Court, and Presidency gone, and a “Committee of Public Safety” ruling things for China. And Iran.”
And “unexpectedly”:
1. Brazil’s stock market plunged 10% in the first hour of trading Monday, triggering an automatic halt to trading.
2. Futures contracts on the Ibovespa, Brazil’s main stock index, fell nearly 20% at the worst point.
3. The U.S. dollar rose 12% against the Brazilian Real.
It’s simply amazing what two hours can do…but you won’t find anything about THAT in this bizarre masterpiece of insane analysis:
“Lula’s Election Win: How Fan Accounts for Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and More Helped Him to a Historic Victory and Defeat for Trump;
“Lula’s 51.79%/48.21% defeat of far right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro is a massive win for Brazil’s cinema and, more importantly, the environment, health service and democracy”—
https://instapundit.com/831724/
File under: Well…it IS, after all, “Variety”…
The first thing out of Lula’s mouth was: “We need to regulate social media.”
Rather extraordinary that it took Brazil ONLY TWO HOURS to perform what California and Pennsylvania, et al. needed almost a whole week to do….
Trump was right. We CAN do better…
CURRENT HEADLINE “After Late-Night Ballot Drop, Joe Biden Wins Brazilian Presidency With 81 Million Votes” at Babylon Bee.
For all those credulous naifs out there, this one’s fer you!
From the “They Said It Could Never Happen Here” File:
“Creepy Paid Democrat Propaganda Script Drops…“—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/creepy-paid-democrat-propaganda-script-drops
(The Democrats really do deserve a lot of credit: THEY KNOW THEIR AUDIENCE!)
Apparently, it’s…aliens…
https://instapundit.com/831746/
So Brazil has Commissar Judges as well.
In a nutshell, while all eyes are directed towards—and distracted by—Brazil, the color revolution to end all color revolutions is in the pipeline for the US:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kunstler-its-all-giant-mind-fk
They reportedly siezed Bolsonario’s passport on orders of the same judge too.
Lula just took the passport away from Bolsinaro, who finished second.
If you are the Chinese Communists you will invest in Brazil.
If you are anyone else you will be very careful when you are contemplating an acquisition in Brazil or are thinking of making a capital investment there. If you do, make sure you bribe the right people.
@ Neo > “However, many national elections these days seem to be quite close, so it stands to reason that they can cheat.”
And some look closer than they really were because they DID cheat.
@ Barry > ” “Creepy Paid Democrat Propaganda Script Drops…“—(The Democrats really do deserve a lot of credit: THEY KNOW THEIR AUDIENCE!)”
What they know is that the audience for one, or even a couple, of these “influencers” is not composed of the same people as the audience for another, so the viewers simply don’t recognize that the clips are scripted. Compilations like the one your linked are necessary, although they will seldom reach the “influenced” viewers who need to see them.
In re Elon buying Congress: I would sell it to him at bargain-basement prices.
Along those lines, I saw a post yesterday that seems apropos. Conservatives often lament that the Right doesn’t have the influence the Left does because we don’t have our own News Media (the big names; we have lots of alternative outlets now), and we don’t own our own Movie Studios (ditto), and wouldn’t it be nice if some conservative analog to George Soros Inc. bought one of those?
Well, it looks like Musk just did.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/10/23/maybe-amanpour-quit-because-she-knew-something-about-cnns-future-n3820258
Information then followed about MS NOW’s Katy Tur going to Texas, with the tidbit that she “is married to CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, who, under Bari Weiss’s guidance, has done a whale of a job bringing that broadcast back to watchable life again.” Dokoupil was involved in some in-house fighting that played out in prior news cycles.
And then this:
Maybe hope is an operational battle plan after all.
See more at this link from the Hot Air post.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-skydance-stake-own-starlink-cnn-1236737973/
The writer is not a Musk fan, or a conservative, so read it with an eye out for sarcasm and spin.
@ John Galt III > “Lula just took the passport away from Bolsinaro, who finished second.”
Now, if US presidents started doing this, we really would have to consider them dictators.
So far it hasn’t happened under Trump, who seems to be the Worst Nazi Ever.
But I would not be surprised at it happening TO Trump and/or his successor and/or his family under a Democrat president.
@ Barry > “In a nutshell, while all eyes are directed towards—and distracted by—Brazil, the color revolution to end all color revolutions is in the pipeline for the US:”
(Authored by James Howard Kunstler, reposted at ZeroHedge)
Kunstler builds on the data trove released by DataRepublican, with due credit, and presents the operational questions that need to be addressed.
The word “coup” with the French silent “p” does not lend itself to English derivatives unless you pronounce it.
Is there a synonym that has the same meaning and connotations of “a sinister plot to overthrow a government” but works better in its adjectival (coup-ish) and derivative (coupster) forms?
The suggestions below from Merriam-Webster don’t have quite the same flavor, but we are definitely treading in their territory.
Maybe there is a French synonym or even an adjectival form of coup, although this site didn’t help any.
https://synonyms.reverso.net/synonyme/fr/coup+d%27%C3%A9tat
Full phrase is “coup d’État”, pronounced “ku deta” – why do the French hate final consonants? – “overthrow of The State” aka government.
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mutiny
revolution
outbreak
rebellion
sedition
insurgence
treachery
treason
sabotage
subversion
rising
misprision
@ Barry > “Apparently, it’s…aliens…”
Both tweets at the Insty post are important:
Mike Gonzalez noted an inconsistency in the top and down-ballot voting; Musk noted a mathematical improbability in the ballot count itself (not surprising given his skill stack); and the commenters pointed out some other interesting things.
Once is an incident
Twice is a trend
Three times is standard procedure
…
Here comes the bossa nova, same as the bossa antigua.
AesopFan @12:28am,
I am a little more than half way through Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk. Fascinating. Sui generis.
As Gomer would say:”Surprise, Surprise, surprise!
To fight is admirable but the Left is too late.
Will the Left be back, yes. Will they have learned from this, yes and no.
Here is how you can HELP ELECT REPUBLICANS – from the comfort of your home if you like: **Updated**
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/10/here-is-how-you-can-help-elect.html
What else is new” ?
The demonkrats, socialist, communists, “liberals,” and fascists will do absolutely anything to achieve and maintain power.
Makes no difference where these leftists reside.
Recall that fascism is communism’s sibling.
“Everything within the state
Nothing outside the state
Nothing against the state.”
This definition of fascism was stated by the founder of this political ideology,
Benito Mussolini, and he actually invented the term fascism.
Aesop Fan: I would choose subversion as the closest word in meaning to coup d’Etat.
But coups are either good or bad, depending on which side of the outcome you prefer – over throwing a republic vs. a tyranny.
I kind of like pronouncing these “new words” with a silent “p”, but I had 4 years of (now largely forgotten) French in HS.
From which I would alter “pronounced “ku deta” ” to “coo day-tah”.
Isn’t “ku” closer to “queue”? 🙂
” why do the French hate final consonants?” perhaps “c’est la vie” or “l’histoire de Francais”; or they just like to mess with the Englsh and Germans?? French can be more languid sounding, I suppose. Maybe they also had something against the source language of Latin?