Brazilians Storm National Congress Over Bolsonaro Losing Election

Brazil seems to be going via its personal January sixth second — only a couple days after the 2-year anniversary of our personal, no much less — all as a result of Jair Bolsonaro misplaced the election.

The ex-Brazilian Prez — who helmed a conservative first time period, and was searching for a 2nd within the 2022 Brazilian basic election — was high of thoughts Sunday for hundreds of his supporters … who descended upon the National Congress in Brasilia throughout what rapidly grew to become a riot.

Tons of video is surfacing on-line that exhibits the mob breaching limitations and storming previous officers to interrupt into the Congress constructing, in addition to the Supreme Federal Court and even the Presidential Palace itself, the place just-sworn in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva now resides.

It appears all of the buildings in query have been empty previous to the break-ins, however this sight is an unpleasant one to say the least — and really reminiscent to what occurred at our Capitol.

The rioters are turning the grounds the wrong way up … destroying property and coming into areas the place they might clearly by no means have the ability to attain underneath regular circumstances. Just like right here within the States, they appear to have busted via home windows and locked doorways — and are making themselves at residence in a chaotic scene. Numerous them are draped in Brazilian flags.

Some studies point out {that a} good quantity of those of us are literally armed, and threatening to occupy the premises for so long as it takes for his or her calls for to be met — which appear to lie in the truth that they assume the election was stolen. Why does that sound acquainted?

As for the response … Brazil’s Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, is reported to have mentioned he’ll use the total extent of the regulation to prosecute these vandals — however in the meanwhile, it would not seem like the police on the bottom are having a lot luck in getting ’em the hell out of there.

Just like they have been right here, regulation enforcement is totally outnumbered and being overrun by civilians … and a few of the clashes have turned fairly violent.

It’s truly astonishing how a lot this parallels what occurred right here within the States — a few of the snapshots are nearly equivalent — with rioters coming into places of work, taking computer systems and posing for selfies all all through the world and celebrating their illegal infiltration.

Remember, we noticed this precise sort of habits ourselves … the one distinction being that our lawmakers have been in the course of a dwell session, and had to enter hiding.

This present tried coup is going down on the weekend — when federal staff and elected officers aren’t round, it appears — but it surely’s no much less discomforting to look at unfold dwell.

Time will inform what comes of this in Brazil. As we all know, there was a particular congressional committee fashioned that dug into the origins of Jan. 6 — they usually concluded by pointing the finger at Donald Trump … claiming he incited the insurrectionists and needs to be prosecuted.