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John Oliver discusses Jair Bolsonaro, how he’s run Brazil as president, how far he might go to maintain power after the upcoming election, and, of course, nunchucks.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒaˈiʁ meˈsi.ɐz bowsoˈnaɾu, ʒaˈiɾ -]; born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who has been the 38th president of Brazil since 1 January 2019. He was elected in 2018 as a member of the conservative Social Liberal Party before cutting ties with it. From 1991 to 2018, Bolsonaro served in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Bolsonaro was born in the town of Glicério, in the state of São Paulo. He graduated from the Agulhas Negras Military Academy in 1977 and served in the Brazilian Army’s field artillery and parachutist units. He became known to the public in 1986, when he wrote an article for Veja magazine criticizing low wages for military officers, after which he was arrested and detained for 15 days. A year later, the same magazine accused him of planning to plant bombs in military units, which he denied. After being convicted by a lower court, the Brazilian Supreme Military Court acquitted him in 1988. He moved to the reserve in 1988 with the rank of captain and ran for the Rio de Janeiro City Council that year, elected as a member of the Christian Democratic Party. In 1990, Bolsonaro was elected to the lower chamber of Congress and he was reelected six times. During his 27-year tenure as a congressman, he became known for his national conservatism. He is a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage and homosexuality, abortion, affirmative action, drug liberalization, and secularism. In foreign policy, he has advocated closer relations to the United States and Israel. During the 2018 Brazilian general election campaign, he started to advocate economically liberal and pro-market policies. A polarizing and controversial politician, his views and comments, which have been described as far-right and populist, have drawn both praise and criticism in Brazil.
Bolsonaro announced his candidacy for president in March 2016 as a member of the Social Christian Party. He left the party in 2018 and joined the Social Liberal Party, and then launched his presidential campaign in August that year, with retired general Hamilton Mourão as his running mate. He portrayed himself as an outsider and a supporter of family values. He came in first place in the first round of the general election on 7 October 2018, with Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad coming in second. The two candidates had a runoff on 28 October 2018, and Bolsonaro was elected with 55.1% of the popular vote.
Bolsonaro placed many army officers in key positions in his cabinet. Before his inauguration, he said he would fill positions in his government based only on technical qualifications and skills rather than ideological sympathy. During his presidency, many appointees have clashed ideologically with the government. His ministers of Justice, Education, the Secretary of Government, the head of the postal service and other government officials fell out of favor with Bolsonaro and resigned. He focused on domestic affairs in his first months in office, dealing primarily with the fallout of the 2014 Brazilian economic crisis. The economy did recover, albeit slowly, during his first year in office, while crime rates fell sharply. In 2019, Bolsonaro left the Social Liberal Party amid a confrontation with other members and formed the Alliance for Brazil. During his presidency, he rolled back protections for Indigenous groups in the Amazon rainforest and facilitated its destruction through deforestation. Bolsonaro’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil was criticized across the political spectrum after he sought to downplay the pandemic and its effects, opposed quarantine measures, and dismissed two health ministers, while the death toll increased rapidly.
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Superman Movie Retrospective, Part 3: Despite the behind the scenes conflicts of Superman The Movie which saw director Richard Donner fired, Superman II was still a huge success. Capitalising on this, the Salkinds moved forward with a third Superman movie. However due in large part to an awkwardly crowbared in Richard Pryor, Superman III is where things started to go off the rails.
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Is Legend of Korra Too Western? – On Korra & Colonial Era Chinese History – Erratum: “Note that I got some facts mixed up in this video. Yu Dao didn’t become Republic City itself, but part of the United Republic of Nations. It was Cranefish town that became Republic City specifically. And when I said “waist binding,” I meant tight-lacing, but it may not have been as damaging to your health as popularly believed?”
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Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this Patreon-sponsored episode, Linkara looks at a Transformers comic that changes how the movie went!
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Queen Elizabeth is dead, but the world keeps on turning, and there is a dark side of this “fairy tale monarchy” in the United Kingdom we need to bring back into public. And here we are: These videos from münecat are going to be focussed on how the tabloids, in her opinion, basically manipulated an entire country (and people in other countries too) to believe a certain narrative for profit and the history behind the UK’s conservative and reactionary tabloid industry and how it’s successfully promoting racist and misogynistic viewpoints along with the “anti-woke” agenda, and how this ended up with a country-wide hatred of Meghan Markle, leading to her and Prince Harry bolting to America.
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Chinese Cultural and Philosophical Inspirations in Kung Fu Panda – Xiran Jay Zhao takes a look at it this time. But before we beginn, there’s a PS, Jennifer Yuh Nelson the Head of Story (and director of Kung Fu Panda 2 & 3) is Korean American, not Chinese American.
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TNG decided to remake an episode of classic Star Trek, but make it the crappy version. Data and Yar do it.
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Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this Patreon-sponsored episode, Linkara looks at a Star Wars comic showing a different ending to A New Hope!
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What Do Human Composting and Trans Rights Have in Common?
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Emma Thorne says: “One of us! One of us! Britney Spears posted an emotional voice memo to her Instagram in which she rejects God and announces herself an atheist. I have feelings about it.
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The first Crisis Pregnancy Center was opened in 1967 in response to the ever-growing rise of pro-choice feminism and the future of an abortion-friendly America. As time has gone on, Crisis Pregnancy Centers have become a backbone feature of the pro-life movement. Tricking people into attending by offering “medical advice”, they have become synonymous with spreading misinformation about abortion and working to dismantle it from the inside out.
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