Look here, General, more positive news!!

By Eric Nepomuceno, for the Journalists for Democracy

The other day, General Luís Eduardo Ramos, who holds the position of Chief Minister of the Government Secretariat, asked the media to show positive news about Brazil. 

Or rather: for the public opinion of this country without direction or purpose.

So here we go: since Thursday, there's been a lot of positive news.

To begin with, a scoundrel named Sergio Moro is no longer in the government. The trend is that from now on, the hordes of primate Bolsonaro supporters will erode what little image he still has left. 

Getting rid of a provincial petty judge, a dazzled hick, who for a year and four months freely manipulated the powers he had (and which were being gradually eroded by Jair Messias) to protect those who were undermining him, is highly positive news.

And it's worth remembering that before all this, that scoundrel manipulated a widely rigged process at will, before a cowardly Supreme Federal Court that brilliantly cowered when threatened by the then-powerful General Villas Boas, who cast the final vote to prevent Lula da Silva's candidacy.

For it was he, the already breathless General Villas Boas, who ultimately prohibited Lula from running for office, and allowed the victory of the brainless individual he is now trying to save.

All this only serves to make it, in the eyes of history that will one day be written, positive news: one less scoundrel (Moro) in a government of scoundrels, of which you and your uniformed and pajama-clad colleagues are a part.

It remains to be seen how much lucidity is left in public opinion to understand, from now on, when a battle of reciprocal accusations will break out between two pustules – Moro himself and Jair Messias – who is being dealt with. 

Another piece of positive news, always depending on what remains of lucidity in a manipulated, ignorant, and distorted public opinion: Moro's departure, as it happened and as what followed, exposed in an absolutely clear way the filth that is this government.

More positive news?

Yes, sir, General.

Jair Messias finds it the most natural thing in the world, and with which you gentlemen, it bears repeating, both those in uniform and those in pajamas, agree, to appoint to the position of director general of the Federal Police a fellow who is a close friend of his three sons who are being investigated by the Federal Police itself. 

The figure's name, incidentally, opens the door to a pun as infamous as it is inevitable: naming Delegate Ramagem would be the best way to untangle all the entanglements of the trio of sons who are not only ravages, but also perpetrators of crimes of varying degrees, in light of the Federal Police investigations.

Could there be better news than this, Your Excellency General, who puts the uniform you wear at the service of this kind of fraud?

In my personal case, it's as if I determined that certain friends, not only of my son but of my family, should be appointed to investigate allegations against my son and my family.

Between you and me, and now I'm not just addressing General Ramos, but the entire military surrounding the psychopath: don't you have an ounce, a drop, a trace of shame?

So, General, I leave you with cordial greetings and tons of disgust. 

For you, sir, and for all the uniformed and pajama-clad people surrounding that boor who goes by the name of Jair Messias.

And that, with the participation of your lordships, they are sinking this country into a rare mixture of varied sewers.

Sergio Moro and Jair Messias are scoundrels of the same ilk. And you gentlemen?