The demoralized leader undermines the coup.

Even before the morphine-induced trance version of events, Bolsonaro would already have been the main attraction of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Coup. Now, there's no way around summoning him to explain how he continued inciting coup-mongering while under the influence of an opioid.

In an unimaginable scene from the theater of the absurd created by Bolsonaro's supporters, he and General Gonçalves Dias could testify at the same time, side by side, to narrate their sensory experiences.

Bolsonaro would recount how he took morphine and pressed the wrong button, sharing a coup-mongering video on social media instead of saving it to a file on his phone.

And the general could explain how, without taking anything, he didn't press any buttons and allowed the Planalto Palace, which he was supposed to protect, to be invaded by Bolsonaro's group.

In Brazil, a country of unpredictable events, the general in charge of protecting Lula was unaware of what was happening outside the president's office, while the mob was destroying everything and demanding water because the power was out.

And the crazy ex-president, under the influence of some drug, didn't know he had spread yet another piece of fake news. Both the coup plotter and the general were out of control of their own desires.

Believe both versions if you will. We've reached the point where a sworn-in con man resorts to an excuse that disqualifies him. And a general belittles himself for not having managed to become a general.

It is a picture that is beginning to solidify as the image of a Brazil that cannot rid itself of the effects of fascism. We have reached the limit of definitions for what has been happening since the 2016 coup.

Absurd, unbelievable, irrational, astonishing, appalling, offensive, indecent. There's nothing more to say about situations where no adjective can adequately describe the scenario with the far right still in power.

This Bolsonaro, physically frail, psychologically unstable, and morally deplorable, now says that he becomes mentally vulnerable if he takes morphine.

Surrounded by accusations of being a con artist, identified as a con artist, denounced and prosecuted as a con artist, the individual presses a button that reaffirms his status as a con artist, but only because he is allegedly drugged.

Bolsonaro is discrediting his own base. People who admitted to being coup plotters, spoke out against the authorities, and ended up imprisoned in Papuda get a slap in the face with the morphine story.

Does this mean that insisting on the theory of fraudulent voting was a blunder by someone who's lost their mind?

Minister Alexandre de Moraes has already observed, after a visit to the Papuda Penitentiary, that a brief observation confirms the existence among the prisoners of people who had hallucinations on January 8th.

Half of Brazil, in the October election, was under the influence of some kind of fascist drug.

But who really believes that morphine was to blame for one, and only one, coup attempt, right after a failed coup?

Some people believe it, but could it be someone from the police or the justice system?

Who will jump on Bolsonaro's bandwagon at a time like this, on the eve of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry that could finally bring to justice those who have been acting since 2016 and are now cowering? Who?