On the way to a Brazil without people; together, the STF and the Executive govern the country without any type of competitor or opposition able to impede any of its movements

Translated by @tupireport

Brazil, day after day, is becoming a Soviet country. With the consortium formed by the Federal Supreme Court and the factions that support the President of the Republic, Brazil, increasingly, only has a government – no population.

As in Communist Russia, and all the regimes that have arisen like it, from Cuba to China, the country is on the way to being without institutions; they have not been officially eliminated, but they are worth less and less. Public positions that have real influence on the State machine are being occupied, at each choice, by allies that the consortium imposes.

In practice, there is a single-party regime, the Lula-STF Society S/A – the other parties make some noise, but they cannot control even a CPI that they themselves propose, and they can be fined R$ 22 million if they present a petition to the Justice supreme. There is a National Congress; in Soviet Russia there were too. But the laws approved by the deputies are simply annulled by the STF, when it wants to, and whatever the subject.

This is what is happening with the law on indigenous lands, approved in the Chamber by 283 votes to 155, but on the way to being declared null by the ministers – like Law No. 14,950, on the same subject. Most of the press is dedicated to worshiping Lula, his government and Minister Alexandre de Moraes. It really works like a great Pravda, written and spoken in Portuguese – and often in bad Portuguese.

There is still a long way to go, and the Soviet Republic of Brazil, at least for the time being, is limiting itself to eliminating political freedom. (In communist Russia, for example, there wasn't, and still isn't, a Gay Parade; you also needed an internal passport to go from one city to another, and the Moscow telephone directory was a state secret, among other curiosities that only communism was capable of to create.)

But it is exactly there, a totalitarian regime more in the style of the 21st century and made basically with parts of national production, that the country is going. Ask a simple question: who is going to stop it, if it is the STF and the “L” System that write the laws and decide what is legal and what is illegal? It will certainly not be the Armed Forces, which every five minutes declare themselves in favor of “legality”, that is, of what the STF-Lula consortium says is legality.

Moreover, the military commanders are in favor of this single party that today governs the country; They handed over to the police, locked in buses, the citizens who protested against the result of the elections, in front of the Army HQ in Brasília.

It will not be the Judiciary, which is just a large public office commanded by the STF. It will not, of course, be Congress, which no longer exists as an effective political force.

It won't be the 150 million Brazilians who are busy all day with their physical survival, and don't have time to deal with politics. In short: it's nobody.

In what serious country in the world, the same ones where Lula does tourist “foreign policy” staying in hotels with a daily rate of almost R$ 40,000, does the president, king or prime minister appoint his personal lawyer to the Supreme Court? Not even Stalin did that.

The Brazilian Soviet Union is not a “copy and paste” of the former USSR; although it leads to more or less the same results, in terms of creating an effective dictatorship in public life, it is basically a Tupiniquim construction, without major political philosophies like the German original.

There was no revolution, not the taking of the Winter Palace or the descent of the Sierra Maestra. Its key is the shareholders agreement between the STF and the Executive, as it is embodied by Lula – together, they govern the country without any type of competitor or opposition capable of impeding any of their movements.

The ministers, just to get to the thickest part, eliminated Brazilian laws to get Lula out of jail, where he was serving a sentence for the crimes of passive corruption and money laundering, and to annul all criminal proceedings against him, in order to make his candidacy possible to the Presidency of the Republic.

Then, through the TSE, they commanded the darkest, contested and partial campaign in Brazilian electoral history, with a system of electronic ballot boxes that is not used in any democracy on the planet; counted the votes and declared that Lula had won. In return, the "L" System accepts whatever the Supreme wants done, in any area or occasion.

Together, they choose the new members of the TSE, which is now 100% controlled by the consortium, and agree on who will be the new Attorney General of the Republic, which eliminates the Public Ministry as an independent force in Brazilian public life, as established in the Constitution.

These are decisions taken at Pizza Times that are hermetically sealed and isolated from the rest of the world in Brasilia, with cell phones being prohibited from entering the venue.

What the fucking “institutions” result from such a deal?

In fact, the institutions and mandatory duties of a republic or true democracies are being eliminated, one after the other, by the technically legal decisions of the STF-Lula consortium. The president, amidst the indifference of the population and the moral anesthesia that characterizes Brazil today, appoints his personal lawyer for the existing vacancy in the STF – his personal lawyer, no less. The media, the political world and the intellectual classes pretend that naming is normal, or almost normal.

A very simple fact does not call anyone's attention: it is impossible, in the world of realities, for the new minister to take any decision that is even minimally contrary to the interests of the President of the Republic — or does anyone honestly believe that he can be impartial in his sentences, as is an elementary requirement of any decent democracy?

In what serious country in the world, the same ones where Lula does tourist “foreign policy” staying in hotels with a daily rate of almost R$ 40 thousand, does the president, king or prime minister appoint his personal lawyer to the Supreme Court? Even Stalin didn't do that; it's true that he didn't have a lawyer, and never needed one, but the fact is he didn't .

Lula, in fact, governs without any brakes – because one of the brakes, the Judiciary, is his partner in the single party, and the other, which would be the Legislature, is not able to brake anything, even because, when he tries to brake something, the STF comes and says it is not valid.

The practical result is that Lula buys R$65,000 sofas to decorate his home — with taxpayer money, of course. Buy a new Airbus for your personal transport. A dictator who has a price on his head for US$ 15 million receives in Brasilia for international drug trafficking. Do what you want, and what the STF lets you do.

There are elections in Brazil, but there is also the TSE — and as long as there is a TSE, elections are worthless, or only worth what the “Electoral Justice” says they are worth. The TSE, today, is a political police fully at the service of the government. It is an aberration that manages to spend R$ 10 billion a year, even in years when there are no elections, and has no similarity in any serious democracy in the world — starting with the fact that it gives the right to cancel the mandates of federal deputies or whoever gives you the tile.

It just happened.

Deputy Deltan Dallagnol's mandate was revoked, out of Lula's personal revenge, without the remotest trace of legality; it was an AI-5 decision, with a few fumes of legal procedure that wouldn't fool a ten-year-old.

The result is that the consortium annulled the legitimate decision of Paraná voters; worse still, he rudely appointed the new occupant of the vacancy that was opened by the impeachment, replacing Dallagnol, who had 350,000 votes, with another who had 12,000.

How about, as a cleanup, or mere logic, of the electoral system?

They are now preparing to withdraw the political rights of Jair Bolsonaro, solely and exclusively because they identify in him a possible candidate who opposes the single party STF-Lula with a chance of success. It is a preventive measure, or an early back-up – they are acting as if the next presidential elections could be different from those of 2022, from the operational point of view of the TSE. Again, as in the case of Deputy Dallagnol, Bolsonaro's ban on running for election, or having any participation in Brazilian politics, is 100% illegal.

The excuse is that he expressed doubts about the perfection of the current system of electronic voting machines, only adopted, in addition to Brazil, in two countries, Bhutan and Bangladesh. It could be anything else: genocide, murder of Indians, quilombolas and gays, defense of chloroquine. How is it possible, with a modicum of rationality, to make someone ineligible because he said he had doubts about a voting system obviously subject to all sorts of doubts?

Prior to that, by order of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, the STF revoked, without any legal formality, the mandate of the governor of Brasília. Then he returned it, by another dispatch from the same Alexandre de Moraes – but the governor, today, is capable of swearing that the triangle has four sides, if the ministers so wish.

With Congress it's the same kind of calamity. What's the use of paying R$ 14 billion a year to maintain a Congress whose laws can be annulled at any time, and for no reason, by the Supreme Court?

It's not just the time frame. It was the same thing with the annulment of the law that determined the fulfillment of the sentence in closed prison for defendants convicted in second instance, which removed Lula from the Federal Police chess, where he was locked up for 20 months.

It promises to be like this, in a little while, with the law, perfectly approved by Congress, which made the payment of union dues voluntary – the immediate effect of this law, obviously, was that no Brazilian worker wanted to pay more.

What could more perfectly represent the will of the people?

But Lula wants the tax to become mandatory again, and the STF is preparing to meet the requirement. The minister who was charged with resolving the problem argues that today “times have changed” – a truly astonishing reasoning, taking into account that times are in perpetual change and, as a consequence, no law passed in the past is valid in the present.

That's life!

That National Congress that is there is not even capable of protecting the mandates of its own deputies; not capable of anything. The “Table” of the Chamber of Deputies officially agreed with Dallagnol's impeachment. It had already agreed, not long ago, with the nine-month imprisonment of Deputy Daniel Silveira, also by order of Minister Moraes.

It is directly against the law.

The Constitution says that a federal deputy can only be arrested in flagrante delicto, and for the commission of a non-bailable crime; Daniel Silveira was not arrested caught in the act nor committed any non-bailable crime. And? He was arrested the same way. Incidentally, he is in prison again today, this time for not wearing the electronic anklet that the minister imposed on him, despite having received an absolutely legal pardon from former President Bolsonaro; the STF, as in the laws passed by Congress, decided that the pardon is not valid.

Expect what, if the mayor, deputy Arthur Lira, is willing to sign the annulment of his own mandate, if he receives an order from the STF? There is nothing to wait.

The Soviet Republic of Brazil did not do away with private property – and it doesn't even look like it will, when you consider the unlimited amount of strictly private property the consortium members own.

Nor has it made the collectivization of land legal, at least until now – despite Lula's passion for the semi-terrorist movement that invades rural properties, destroys property and practices armed violence, without a single one of its agents ever being bothered by the judicial system . .

But he already organizes and hosts, in Brasilia, meetings of his own Comintern, which today is called “Foro de São Paulo” and which charges inscriptions in dollars.

He is setting up a Soviet-style state machine, which only serves the party and is further from the Brazilian people than Terra da Lua. The Ministry of Justice, therefore, is already commanded by a communist of flesh and blood; he himself, by the way, has already said that he is a communist “thanks to God”.

That's where the procession goes.