by friendlyskies » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:17 pm
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trp09n82gVc[/youtube]
If you haven't been keeping up with the clusterfuck in Brazil - the world's eighth-largest economy, hosting the Olympics this summer - do yourself a favor and spend half an hour on Twitter reading about it. You'll laugh, you'll cry, if you're USAmerican you'll appreciate how relatively sane DC is.
TL;DT: Petrobras, Brazil's most important company and maybe the world's largest oil producer, got popped in the biggest scandal of all time ever because of this ridiculous Breaking Bad, car-wash-as-money-laundering, small-time bullshit. Every Brazilian politician with a modicum of power has been got caught with their pants down, including embattled current President Rousseff. Then it reached demigod and former President Lula, the greatest President of Brazil ever unless you're part of the top 10%, in which case he's a Kenyan Muslim giving free stuff to lazy takers. But before they could shuffle his roly-poly ass off to jail, Rousseff made him a cabinet member, so the popular courts can't touch him. So the right wingers called for mass protests, but hardly anyone protested - against Lula, they don't care about Rousseff, she's just a normal person, not the second coming of Socialist Jesus like Lula. It's madness, and in the context of the Chinese commodities collapse, Venezuela's descent into the failed-state zone, and Macri-economics (Argentina finally settling up with the parasites at Elliot Management), it's the greatest telenovela ever written in Portuguese. So, someone made a House of Cards video.
"4 cylinder Camaro=communism" El Presidente
"You can smoke salmon but it's not quite the same as smoking heroin." nanuq