And so the myth becomes a legend, the "headless mule".
In the current political landscape, we have a typical and nefarious "headless mule," the result of a relationship with a "faith-based swindler" who calls himself a pastor.
Those who witnessed the severe outbursts of former president and future prisoner, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, during his four years in office, would never have imagined that, in such a near future, this "quixotic" figure would undergo such an abrupt metamorphosis. It's not that the caterpillar emerged from its cocoon to transform into a beautiful butterfly; on the contrary, involutionarily, what was a myth has become a legend: the "headless mule."
From herald of the Military Dictatorship to supplicant for an institutionally self-indulgent Amnesty, as seen in his weak and dramatic speech on Avenida Paulista on February 25th, the only alternative left for this creature was to cohabit with the radicalized neo-Pentecostal hordes through the faith entrepreneur, Silas Malafaia.
Following the Supreme Court's decision to lift the secrecy surrounding the testimonies of those investigated for the attempted coup d'état, as stated by renowned jurist Lênio Streck, "There is no doubt about Jair Bolsonaro's involvement in the coup plot." (https://www.brasil247.com/brasil/podem-encerrar-as-investigacoes-ja-ha-provas-contra-bolsonaro-diz-lenio-streck).
Although the terrorist/coup conspiracy failed, it continues through the criminal pronouncements of habitual offenders like Silas Malafaia, who, based on these recent events, will certainly (once again) incite his bestial hordes, promoting the spectacle of disinformation, fraudulent communication, the spread of fake news and decontextualized statements with the sole anti-democratic objective of distorting objective reality, which he has always done with aberrant impunity.
Thus, paraphrasing the popular folklore legend in which the priest's wife transforms into the cursed creature known as the "headless mule," we have in the current political scenario a typical and nefarious "headless mule" resulting from a relationship with a "faith-based swindler" who proclaims himself a pastor. Let's await the next chapters of this bizarre relationship, a true Olavo de Carvalho-inspired, denialist, flat-Earther tale...
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