Aécio, Temer, and Gilmar want 20 years of power.

  It makes me laugh to hear the PMDB whining about demanding Imbassahy's (white) head from their top leader, Temer.

   They're terrible actors. They know very well that Temer would never do that because he's not crazy enough to mess with someone who is Aécio's eyes and ears in the government.

   Removing Imbassahy would only be worthwhile if it meant replacing him with another member of the PSDB party, but why swap one bad situation for another?

   So why the whining?

   Because, as they used to sing in the old street carnivals, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

   And the PMDB members want more in return for the PSDB member remaining in office.

    Temer and Aécio have much more in common than suitcases full of money in their biographies.

    And they are married until (political) death do them part.

    But they could not be what they are, nor do what they do, nor get away with what they do, if they did not have the friendly robes of Gilmar Mendes in the Supreme Federal Court and the Superior Electoral Court.

   Gilmar is worth two. He advised Temer to appoint Alexandre de Moraes to the Supreme Court and Raquel Dodge to head the Attorney General's Office, who are and will be firm pillars of this government that does not want to end in 2018 as the electoral calendar dictates.

   Temer and Aécio are not ungrateful to Gilmar, not at all. If there is any serious threat of impeachment of the magistrate, the senators from PSDB and PMDB will be there to face it head-on.

   Temer thanks Gilmar for his good services, who has been his lawyer since the JBS crisis through the hefty sponsorships of Itaipu Binacional – which will not be privatized – to the minister's seminars, even in Portugal, as I recently read in Piauí magazine.

   Therefore, there is no shortage of treats from both sides.

   The more time the trio spends together, the more alike they become.

   Temer is becoming more and more like Gilmar. His latest statement – ​​“I receive whomever I want, whenever I want, wherever I want” – seems to be taken from the ruthless repertoire of the lifetime Supreme Court Justice.

   The three of them – Aécio, Temer, and Gilmar – while protecting each other, dictate the national agenda that destroys labor rights and promotes a massive liquidation of Brazilian assets, and they intend to continue dictating it for a long time. About 20 years.

   The Temer government, which lacks popular support, has only two paths to perpetuate itself in power: parliamentarism or dictatorship.

   A dictatorship like the one Bolsonaro proposes, explicit and blatant, isn't quite as popular yet, but they're going to try to force parliamentarism down the throats of Brazilians, and they've already started talking about it, selling it as something "modern."

   The constitution requires a plebiscite in case of a change in the system of government, but Congress can do anything, as we are tired of seeing – and in 1961 it approved parliamentarism against the popular will.

   They'll find a way to change the electoral rules so that those in Congress can be re-elected without the risk of being rejected by voters, and then elect the nation's bigwig, the prime minister.

   It could be Temer himself. After all, he has been the great benefactor of the congressmen he has co-opted.

   Cunha is in jail – and it seems he won't be getting out anytime soon because he shows no willingness to reveal everything he knows.

   The king is dead, long live the king.

   They'll even let the people choose the president in free and direct elections, but he won't have any real power.

   She'll be like the Queen of England. Even if her name is Lula.