Letter to a Bolsonaro-supporting neighbor

Jô, Bolsonaro's Big Guard,

My dear friend, let's get to the facts: 

I'll give you here, Baita-Guarda, the answers to the tricky questions you asked Valmor on Saturday the 5th. 

First, I want to point out the blatant cynicism of your 21:53 PM post in the street's WhatsApp group, candidly commenting: "I thought we weren't supposed to talk about politics in the group, apparently only leftists can...". It was your biased response to the timely video posted three minutes earlier by Valmor, where a young man I don't know politely and accurately points out the most glaring contradictions of that blunt captain you praise and mythologize. 

It wasn't an undue and random intrusion by Valmor, but a fair response to your previous video (Carvalho Emanuel) at 21:40 PM, with a cheeky collage of edited and out-of-context images, attacking the stance of the governor of São Paulo, with an old statement later corrected by Dráuzio Varela himself. The video title contains a ridiculous definition: "Before Carnival he [Dória] said that so the money would come in." 

In other words, once again, the Bolsonaro-supporting fable – and therefore idiotic – that all 27 governors in the country, not just Doria, invented this whole murderous pandemic just to make money!... You're still out of touch, aren't you, Baita-Guarda?, proudly trapped in your silly Bolsonaro-supporting obsessions. 

With Valmor's elegant subsequent post, you attempted that feigned surprise: "...I thought we weren't supposed to talk about politics...".  

Valmor exposed you right in the face, Baita-Guarda: “You are a notorious poster of political messages. This last one about the governors is extremely explicit, always defending a psychopath/genocidal maniac.”

 In your wicked mind, Baita-Guarda, everyone else is a politician, and you're nothing more than an immaculate virgin... Nobody here is a fool, Baita-Guarda!

At 22:02 PM, seven minutes after Valmor's accurate strike, you came with your indignant defense of the captain: "Genocider why? Don't you have any idea what you're talking about? I believe not... and psychopath why? Because he doesn't condone the thievery of the leftists?"

 Valmor didn't even waste time replying to you. Well, I'll gladly take on this task, and, like Jack the Ripper, I'll slice up my rebuttal to your obscene nonsense, Baita-Guarda. 

 By sophistically stating that 'apparently only leftists can talk about politics' in the group, you raise a first question for me, Baita-Guarda. 

Is 'left-handed' here synonymous with left-wing? I imagine that, ever innocent, you're not thinking of someone who, by mere genetic predisposition, instinctively prefers to use their left hand or foot more for their skills. In your dark style, 'left-handed' must be someone who thinks and acts according to the ideological values ​​of the left. Is that it, Baita-Guarda? 

By symmetry, as an 'openly left-handed' person, I can define you as a 'closeted right-hander'. Is that it, Baita-Guarda? Or openly right-wing, to be clearer and more frank, something that, it seems, doesn't embarrass you. And it shouldn't, because your petrified, regressive, and anti-humanist ideological stance already defines you with millimeter precision. 

Baita-Guarda, I must remind you that in 2011 your mythical messiah was serving his sixth and fruitless term in his innocuous 28-year career as an obscure member of the lowest ranks of the Chamber of Deputies, a long period in which he approved only three of the 171 projects of his paltry authorship. 

So, the boorish Captain was asked by a distracted journalist if he was right-wing. Rude, the reporter didn't ask if he was 'right-wing'. He bluntly asked if he was right-wing. Bozo was indignant: “Right-wing, no! I'm far-right!”, he clarified proudly. Or, to follow your mild script, Baita-Guarda, Bolsonaro defined himself as 'far-right'. By symmetry, therefore, you must be like your idol – a far-right Bolsonaro supporter. Is that it, Baita-Guarda? In that case, enjoy!

 I'll tell you privately, Baita-Guarda, what I already said and wrote publicly, in a text widely circulated on the internet, exactly one year ago, in June 2019. [If you're interested, search on Google, "Bolsonaro is the first Brazilian president to admit to Operation Condor"]. There, I bluntly state: "Based on what he has repeatedly said – shamelessly – in recent years, Bolsonaro is probably the most lethal, stupid, and crude ruler on the planet." 

 I stated there that no one defined the grotesque figure of the Brazilian president better than the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, leading the rejection in the largest American city of the captain's presence in April 2019, where he was to be honored with a gala dinner: "Jair Bolsonaro is a dangerous human being. His blatant racism, homophobia, and destructive decisions will have a devastating impact on the future of our planet," De Blasio defined.

  In 2017, when he was already a presidential candidate, Bolsonaro participated in an event with businessmen in Porto Alegre and, there, uttered his definitive psychopathic phrase: “I am an Army captain, my specialty is killing.” Or is that not something a psychopath would say, Baita-Guarda? Only an ignorant and murderous military man like Bolsonaro is unaware of the classic definition of the Army, which exists to defend a country's borders against an external enemy and to protect, not kill, its people. This sick mental attitude of his explains, well, the serial killer captain's affinity with death and his lack of empathy for life in a grieving country that suffers the loss of one Brazilian per minute to Covid-19, which he scorned as 'a little flu'. A 'little cold' of a psychopath that today, Sunday, June 14th, marks exactly 42.791 deaths and 850.796 confirmed cases. Just to refresh your indulgent memory, Baita-Guarda. 

A projection indicates that, within a month and a half, if the acceleration curve of the pandemic continues, Brazil will surpass the world champion in deaths, the USA. On July 29th, Brazil would have 137,5 deaths, compared to 137 in the USA. That would be about 4,4 deaths in Brazil, double the American world record, which reached 2.262 deaths on April 14th. Do you think that's some kind of 'left-handed' calculation, Baita-Guarda? 

Wrong, old Indian!...

It's a projection from the respected Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Do you know who uses this projection, Baita-Guarda? The White House of your idolized – by symmetry – Donald Trump, the psychopath from Big Brother North.

Incidentally, the Great Psychopath of the South, who mirrors his Yankee idol in everything he does, thinks, and says, received a public dressing-down from Trump a few days ago in the revered gardens of the White House: "If the US had acted like Brazil, they would have up to 2,5 million dead...", Trump said in a press interview. Doesn't that shame you, Big Guard?

Definitive proof of Bozo's psychopathic tendencies came this Thursday, the 11th, when the captain, in his weekly live broadcast, under the pretext of combating the 'political use' of pandemic data, urged his Bolsonaro-supporting flock to commit a crime: "If there's a field hospital near you, find a way to get in and film it." 

The captain's insane call threatens the integrity of hospitals and jeopardizes the health of the very invaders willing to take that risk. Hey, it's time to decree, not the arrest, but the legal incapacitation of Bozo due to absolute mental incapacity and blatant insanity. Only a straitjacket can contain a dangerous madman like that!

Bolsonaro, indifferent to the dignity of the office he holds and which he should respect, displays his extreme devotion, his unbridled debasement, and his explicit servility whenever he can. In September 2019, in New York, he crossed paths with Trump at the UN headquarters, who spoke immediately after the Brazilian at the opening of the organization's General Assembly. 

Upon suddenly encountering his conspicuous crush, your idol, Baita-Guarda, the straight, virile, and masculine Bolsonaro couldn't control himself upon seeing that broad-shouldered alpha male with piercing blue eyes and impeccable orange hair, and declared himself in his meager Hollywood Rambo-esque English, defying the unwavering protocol of a president's office: 

"I love you," Bolsonaro gushed to his White House colleague. Trump wasn't swayed by the captain's unexpected and sweet declaration of love, and replied curtly: "Good to see you again!"   

 The healthy social and political distancing that Trump is now adopting in relation to his leprous friend, the captain, reinforces the global consensus that we have, in the Presidential Palace, a symptomatic, evident psychopath clinging to his fixed ideas, always stupid and increasingly stubborn. "I am prejudiced, with great pride," the captain said in 2011, nine years before assuming his post as the greatest threat to the public health of Brazilians.  

Instead of following the advice of scientific experts and the dismissed technicians from the Ministry of Health, Bolsonaro wastes his useless time and empty agenda insulting the WHO. The WHO has made mistakes, as it has done several times since the beginning of the crisis, but it acknowledges its errors and always corrects itself—something the psychopathic captain never does. He is always right, and the world—oh, the world!—is all wrong...  

Worse. Instead of prioritizing Health, Bolsonaro fires two ministers in the midst of a pandemic, within the space of a month, and puts in a rustic logistics general who avoids press conferences to avoid answering uncomfortable questions and, in the protected enclosure of a ministerial meeting, tries to pull the Equator down to insert the hot Amazon and the torrid Brazilian Northeast into the Northern Hemisphere, susceptible to his crazy, transplanted winter imagination. 

Bolsonaro, with his general and the 25 military personnel summoned to replace the platoon of scientists and specialists who deserted this government of lunatics, has transformed the Ministry of Health into an 'annex' of the Army. As the captain-president has already explained, these people are trained to kill, not to heal. 

“My specialty is killing, not healing anyone,” the psychopathic president remarked in Porto Alegre. “I learned to shoot with all kinds of weapons, I’m a paratrooper, I’m a professional diver. I know how to do sabotage, without handling explosives. You [Brazilians] train us, you pay us for it.” If the captain thinks this, what can we expect from the skills of the general and his comrades in arms in the Health Ministry, according to Bolsonaro’s serial killer philosophy? To kill, not to heal… Got it, Big Guard, or do you want me to draw you a picture?

Our genocidal captain, lest I forget, is a good comparison to the genocidal corporal of the Third Reich, Baita-Guarda. Made German chancellor in 1933 in clean elections like those that elected our captain, Adolf Hitler never personally killed anyone as Führer of Nazi Germany. But no one doubts that the directives of Hitler and his Gestapo entourage, commanded by him with an iron fist, engineered the mechanism of death that allowed the industrial-scale genocide of 6 million human beings in death camps like Auschwitz—slightly less than the 7,8 million people infected worldwide by Covid-19, according to today's update (June 14th) from Johns Hopkins University. 

 Bolsonaro in the Planalto Palace didn't personally kill anyone, Baita-Guarda, but his chronic, endemic irresponsibility and his exemplary disregard for international health standards are strong drivers of the increasing deaths Brazil is experiencing, in an uncontrolled escalation that has not yet reached its peak. This justly gives him the credentials of a genocidal maniac, Baita-Guarda. The cities and states that rushed to end isolation, as the captain wants, saw their rates skyrocket again, and many were forced to backtrack, reinstating restrictions and lockdowns.

Bolsonaro's genocidal instinct is clear, Baita-Guarda, in the uncomposed response he gave in July 2016, in an interview on Jovem Pan radio: "The dictatorship's mistake was torturing and not killing." Because the dictatorship always praised by the captain did both wrong things, Baita-Guarda – it tortured and killed. A killer instinct that crosses borders and consciences, Baita-Guarda: "General Pinochet should have killed more people in Chile," said your beloved Captain in 1998.

In May 1999, when he didn't even dream of being president, Bolsonaro gave an interview to 'Câmera Aberta' on TV Bandeirantes, and openly displayed the genocidal side that so shocks you, Baita-Guarda. He said, during the FHC government: “Through voting you don't change anything in this country, nothing... It will only change, unfortunately, on the day we go to a civil war here... and do the work that the military regime didn't do, killing about 30. Starting with FHC.... Killing!”. 

 The psychopath and genocidal Bolsonaro, whenever he can, praises his greatest hero: Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra (1932-2015), the most notorious torturer of the dictatorship, always celebrated by the demented captain. During the Médici government, he built and commanded the DOI-CODI on Tutoia Street, in the II Army of São Paulo, the bloodiest and most lethal torture and death center of the military regime. In his 40 months in charge, between September 1970 and January 1974, the Bolsonaro hero Ustra left a trail of pain and blood: 40 people died at his workplace (one per month) and 502 torture complaints were registered (one every 60 hours), according to the "Brazil Never Again" Project of the Archdiocese of São Paulo, led by the brave Cardinal Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns — who, for you and the captain, Baita-Guarda, must be nothing more than a lowly 'leftist' of the Church. 

In those terrible years, the dedicated patriots who served in the DOI-CODI of the four Army commands were always majors and did not use their real names in their evil workplaces. They used code names, as required by their commanders. The code name of then-Major Brilhante Ustra, Bolsonaro's hero, was 'Dr. Tibiriçá'. 

Each DOI-CODI had an interrogation section with 36 people, divided into six rotating shifts. Torture, it seems, is incredibly tiring... The interrogation chiefs were always officers with the rank of captain. Let's remember, Baita-Guarda, that a captain's cruel specialty is killing, as the good old Captain Bolsonaro used to say...

Baita-Guarda, so you don't think this is just leftist speculation, I'll give you the data from the National Truth Commission (2012-2014), which investigated the crimes of the dictatorship. The DOI-CODI of the two largest Brazilian capitals, Rio and SP, recorded the deaths under torture of 81 prisoners (51 in SP, 31 in RJ), which means ¼ (or exactly 23,8%) of the 339 people murdered during Bolsonaro's favorite regime. 

While you're tearing yourself apart to defend the indefensible, Baita-Guarda, your idol is being ground down, slaughtered, and vilified by the biggest and most influential opinion leaders in the world, who treat Bolsonaro with scorn, mock his vile statements, and lament the image of political and moral decay that Brazil is being dragged into by this fool pretending to be president. I'll give you some terrible examples of the image that Bolsonaro's treacherous Brazil has in the world today:

Ian Bremmer, president of EURASIA GROUP, the world's largest political risk consultancy, in New York: “Bolsonaro is the worst democratically elected president to handle the coronavirus crisis, personally responsible for the negative international attention the country has received. Even when you compare him to Trump, who is extremely controversial in the US, you have to admit that Bolsonaro is worse, and that's saying something.”

FINANCIAL TIMES, London, the world's leading business newspaper: “It may sound exaggerated, but few presidents-elect would consider participating in a demonstration where protesters call for Congress and the Supreme Court to be shut down and replaced by the regime. That is what Bolsonaro did – not once, but several times.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, the world's leading newspaper: “Virus deaths in Brazil are now the highest in the world. Investors are fleeing the country. The president, his sons and allies are under investigation. His election may even be annulled. The crisis facing the country contrasts sharply with Brazil's history of innovative and swift responses to healthcare challenges, which made it a model in the developing world in past decades... Jair Bolsonaro is the smallest, most boring and most insignificant of leaders.”

LE MONDE, Paris, the most influential newspaper in France and the world: “After denying the Holocaust, praising the dictatorship, denying the fires in the Amazon and the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bolsonaro and his authoritarian temptation risk leading Brazil into a dangerous, reckless adventure… Bolsonaro’s Brazil inhabits a parallel world, a theater of the absurd where facts and reality no longer exist. In this tense universe, fueled by slander, inconsistencies and deadly provocations, opinion is polarized in a thick cloud of simple but false ideas. The denialism fueled by power (…) and Bolsonaro’s unbelievable political gamble, believing that the devastating effects of the health crisis will be attributed to his opponents, shows that this obscure former far-right congressman was nothing like a statesman.”

THE GUARDIAN, London, one of the world's most respected newspapers: “Bolsonaro is dragging Brazil into calamity... Bolsonaro is one of four world leaders who still underestimate the threat of the coronavirus, alongside the authoritarian presidents of Nicaragua, Belarus and Turkmenistan.”

EL PAÍS, Madrid, one of the most influential newspapers in Europe: “Bolsonaro, who has always been an irrelevant politician, famous for his rudeness towards those who are different and women, is today examined under the dark traits of his personality. Psychology describes him as a paranoid with inferiority complexes and destructive death rages.... It is urgent that Brazil and its democratic forces unite to stop the uncontrolled horse of old authoritarian nostalgias.... In him, there are no limits or fences capable of distinguishing between civilization and barbarism. And he still believes himself to be sent and enlightened by God...”

BBC, London, the world's leading public television network: "From what we can see, when it comes to the response to Covid-19, or the lack thereof, Bolsonaro is in a category of his own, as the most ignorant and isolated far-right leader in the world," says Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde.

THE ECONOMIST, London, the world's most respected conservative economics magazine: “For BolsoNero, the coronavirus is just a little flu… In the 15 months since he became president, Brazilians have grown accustomed to his macho bravado and ignorance on issues ranging from the conservation of the Amazon rainforest to education and policing. But this time the damage is immediate and obvious: Bolsonaro has coupled provocative rhetoric with the active sabotage of public health… Even by his own standards, the violation of Bolsonaro’s primary duty to protect lives has gone too far… Much of the government treats him like a difficult relative showing signs of insanity. Bolsonaro is supported by a small circle of ideological fanatics, including his three sons, by the faith of evangelicals, and by the lack of information about COVID-19 among some Brazilians. The latter two factors may change as the virus hits its fatal groove in the coming months… The president may not be able to shield himself from blame for the economic impact. For his recklessness with the lives of…” Brazilians, Bolsonaro has pushed the possibility of his own departure to the forefront of the political agenda. It's likely this will remain the case even after the pandemic subsides... Bolsonaro's isolation could be the beginning of the end of his term.

Do you know what Bolsonaro's response was to this barrage of sensible and accurate criticism, Baita-Guarda?

That's the one that crossed your mind: "The world press is leftist," Bolsonaro replied when asked in the Alvorada Palace's enclosure. 

The captain could shrug and make a face: “So what? I don’t perform miracles…”

Only a deranged mind and congenital paranoia, which makes him repeatedly curse and mistreat reporters, newspapers, and TV networks, can explain Bolsonaro's militant imbecility in putting the Times, Le Monde, BBC, The Economist, El País, Guardian, and Financial Times, among others, in a basket of 'leftists' – as Baita-Guarda would say, in his unconditional and complicit submission to the nonsense that the captain does and says every single day.   

There's more, Baita-Guarda. I discovered on your Facebook page that your cynicism is a bottomless pit. In one of your posts, you indignantly ask: "My God! Why does every action of this government become a discussion? Where were these people when the country was being looted by the PT?"

So I'll return and update your question, Baita-Guarda. Where were these blatant Bolsonaro supporters of today, while the Captain's mischievous sons were embroiled in 'kickbacks', the scandalous disappearance of Fabrício Queiroz, money laundering, ongoing crime and the terror of militias against poor and vulnerable populations, the indecent decorations awarded by Flávio 01 to incarcerated military police officers, and the frenetic production of fake news managed by Carlos 02's hate cabinet embedded in the Planalto Palace? 

Where are the fanatics of the Bolsonaro flock to repudiate Bozo's vertical and oblique attempts to tame the Federal Police and prevent them from continuing to track down his sons who are in trouble and involved with illicit enrichment and the production of fake news? 

In another post on your Facebook page, comparing Nazism, the left, and the right, you endorse a Bolsonaro-style trickery that enshrines intellectual dishonesty and historical falsehood by attempting to equate the left with Nazism. The Captain himself, without fear of his public imbecility, did this during his official visit to Israel in April 2019, where he repeated this idiotic thought. He was immediately rebuked by the German government itself, as well as by serious historians, respected universities, and recognized entities and academics from both Israel and Germany. 

As the cherry on top of this festival of ignorance, days later, in a meeting with evangelicals in Rio, Bolsonaro thundered: “We can forgive the Holocaust, but we cannot forget.” The imbecile captain was harshly challenged by the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, and by the Holocaust Museum, who reminded Bolsonaro that the genocide of 6 million Jews is neither forgotten nor forgiven. The following day, the captain had to send a letter apologizing to his 'Jewish friends'... 

Bolsonaro didn't realize, Baita-Guarda, that no Jew, and no conscious human being in the world, faced with Nazi barbarity, has the right and the audacity to shrug their shoulders and say: “So what? I'm sorry. What do you want me to do? I'm the Messiah, but I don't perform miracles...”. If he's not a miracle worker, Baita-Guarda, your messiah could well start by trying not to make mistakes or say foolish things. 

 More courageous on Facebook, Baita-Guarda, you openly display on your page the nonsense and absurdities of the lunatics and fanatics with whom you happily share the most outrageous and barbaric ideas of your 'extreme-right-wing' faction. For those who prefer to live outside the box, it must be a comfortable position. 

Brave, but not too much, Baita-Guarda. On your Facebook page, you display the names and photos of 126 friends, who must sympathize with your radical and outlandish positions. But nothing is known about you. Your photo isn't there, replaced by a bold black circle, and you don't have the basic information that everyone displays, without hesitation, on their Facebook pages: where you were born, where you lived, where you worked, where you studied, what websites, links, and contact information you use. You show nothing, you don't display anything. Zero. You even seem like one of those captains from the DO-CODI dungeons, who lived under the calculated anonymity of a codename... 

I'm fortunate to know you live in Brasília because, coincidentally, I'm your neighbor here in Lago Norte. That's all I know about you.    

 I, on the other hand, don't have Facebook, a tool I detest, like Twitter and other such gadgets. I'm content with Gmail and WhatsApp. Despite this, I don't hide like you, Baita-Guarda. 

My ugly face, my photos, my Wikipedia biography, my email, my positions and opinions have been exposed for decades in hundreds, perhaps thousands of texts, videos of lectures and interviews, articles from seminars and lectures replicated here and abroad, in my capacity as a journalist with half a century of activity in the most important major newspapers in the country. Among them, Zero Hora, Veja, Jornal do Brasil, IstoÉ, O Globo, O Estado de S.Paulo, Rede Globo and Correio Braziliense. None of them, for your comfort, can be defined as 'left-wing' or anything similar. 

On the Observatório da Imprensa website alone, there are over 100 articles of mine. Any quick Google search will prove that I'm telling the truth. 

In all of them is present my unconditional, open and transparent defense of democracy, freedoms and human rights, which includes the protection of the environment and the full exercise of freedom of opinion and expression – things always threatened by your captain of faith and his government of scoundrels and values ​​defiled by the dictatorship and the arbitrariness always praised by your psychopathic and genocidal captain. 

Out of moral obligation, political common sense, historical awareness, and professional duty as a journalist, unlike you, Baita-Guarda, I have always been against dictatorship, against torture, against censorship, against violence, against stupidity, against denialism, against religious fundamentalism. 

I always fight against the ignorance of those who attack science, knowledge, wisdom, universities, and the universal landmarks of civilization. And I denounce the ridiculousness and blindness of those who believe the Earth is flat, contradicting what books, scientists, satellites, and even astronauts who have recently orbited our spherical planet, such as the Brazilian Marcos Pontes, who happens to be a minister in this illiterate, boorish, and crude government like your captain-president, have taught and proven for millennia. 

I hope that, of all these sins, Baita-Guarda, you at least still resist the flat-earth theories of these idiots...

I've used quite a few adjectives to give a pale idea of ​​how I see this Bolsonaro monstrosity, a tragedy that plagues us along with Covid-19. Brazil didn't deserve this double calamity. We need to get rid of both.

But one adjective was missing. A word that perfectly defines, summarizes, and synthesizes what this unbelievable Bolsonaro is and represents, along with his vast arsenal of nonsense and trickery, renewed daily, frightening Brazil and Brazilians. That adjective was found by prosecutor Paulo Brondi, of the Public Ministry of Goiás, and revealed to the world last March on Juca Kfouri's blog. 

The prosecutor defines it, accurately and forcefully: “Bolsonaro is a scoundrel. His sons are also scoundrels, decrepit and ignorant. Most of those who surround him are also scoundrels... Bolsonaro perfectly reflects that wretched side of society. His election brought out of the closet the most vile creatures, regulars of the gutter, who commonly crawl in secret, far from the eyes of the people.... Many regretted it, of course. However, it is more true that the vast majority of this electorate still cheers at every stupid, idiotic, and worthless phrase of the chief imbecile.”

In short, that's it, Baita-Guarda. Bolsonaro is a tremendous, a real scoundrel!

Baita-Guarda, thank you for getting this far. I think that's enough. This is the first and last time I write to you, without much hope of bringing you back to the box of common sense or converting you to the reason of knowledge. 

Like you, I have more important and healthy things to occupy myself with. 

As a good polemicist, I will always be here, attentive to any aggression, absurdity, or authoritarian and Bolsonaro-style abuse that contradicts common sense, progress, reason, and freedoms. 

This is my side of the trench, Baita-Guarda. Unfortunately, you've already chosen yours. 

I won't bother you again, Baita-Guarda. But I'll be back on the job whenever necessary, depending on your reaction and willingness. 

 To the next. 

 Democratic, anti-fascist... and leftist greetings.