“I am the vein and you are the needle / I am the gas and you are the spark / I am the fire and you are the gasoline / I am the gunpowder and you are the mine”. The music of Roberta Sá and Lenine was not appropriated by the Bolsonarista base, but it is the perfect description for the current moment in the country: a president who does not recognize the electoral defeat in a mini-speech to Brazil and sympathizers in the street in favor of a coup military.
Jair Bolsonaro, who lost at the polls in last Sunday’s elections, took two days to break the silence in a country that is beginning to experience protests, that is, trucker blockades. Regarding the limitations caused, even in critical infrastructures such as airports, it was pointed out that “peaceful demonstrations will always be welcome”, but that “the methods cannot be those of the left, which have always harmed the population, such as the invasion of properties, destruction of heritage and curtailment of the right to come and go”.
However, “the current popular movements are the result of indignation and a feeling of injustice at the way the electoral process was carried out.” In other words, music to the ears of the base that, together with sound columns, in front of the Southeast Military Command, in São Paulo, celebrated the words of the president entitled to rockets.
If the base was already inflamed, now it is even more so. “I thought that he was forceful with what we already expected, those of us who are here expected that he would pronounce himself that way, that he would not hurt himself, but he is on our side. We are aware that the whole system played against him and he cannot harm himself, so he was neutral, “notes one of the TSF supporters.
Another calls the speech “very good” and then says he “just didn’t admit it.” “He didn’t recognize a clean election, he really wasn’t clean,” says Cláudio, who showed some reservations when revealing the nickname.
Already in the messages in the Bolsonarist groups a cheat sheet circulates with the “message of the president in the speech”. Of the phrases said by Bolsonaro, messages such as: “our reason”, “continue”, values ”to defend” or “resistance to communism” and “count on me”.
However, even if Jair Bolsonaro had spoken at some point of a clean electoral process, no one here would believe him. The idea is closed, it runs at the speed of messages in WhatsApp groups and, in the protest, the message was even anticipated that he “will say what he has to say” because he “can’t say more”.
The great fear of the protesters is to tie Bolsonaro to the instigation of a coup in the country. Literally overnight, they stopped talking so much about Jair Bolsonaro, they censored their language and now they say they are “for Brazil” and not for Bolsonaro. Still, they vibrate with every word of the president.
Speaking of Lula da Silva, winner of the elections, or Alexandre de Moraes, president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal, they can speak. In fact, the louder the better: it’s from the thief up in the chants that alternate with the Brazilian national anthem or some “Our Father”. After all, he is “God in charge”, as can be read on some posters.
“Request for help
As people arrive, signs and banners also appear. Many of them are intended for the Armed Forces, including the largest: “Socorro Forças Armadas”. It is in military intervention where hope lies, that is, in a coup d’état.
“I prefer a military intervention, I prefer to be governed by the military than to be governed by a corrupt person. It’s not just me, there are 58 million Brazilians, we can’t take it anymore,” says the same Cláudio who considered Bolsonaro’s two-minute speech.
Precisely because the coup idea gains scale with each passing hour, the Superior Electoral Court decided to order the WhatsApp and Telegram platforms to block the groups calling for strikes on the highways and advocating the military coup.
“Censorship”, they often comment on the protests, forgetting that many of the arguments they are using, for example, to allege electoral fraud, have so far been proven false by the courts and also by the media.
However, as groups are blocked, others are created at the same rate. It is a stone in the gears, but nothing prevents contacts from continuing with the call for “everyone to take to the streets.” Even if fake news is in the mix.
On Tuesday night, one of the messages that circulated said that “a CNN journalist” had just learned that “Alexandre Moraes had just sent an extrajudicial notification” to the Brazilian telecommunications regulator and that, in turn, it would go online. . companies. Goal? “As of 10 p.m., all internet servers in Brazil will be turned off to prevent the largest demonstration in the history of Brazil from being coordinated this Wednesday.” “Review urgent”, concludes this user who continued to receive messages in the group early in the morning outside.
More curious was another person from this group who transmitted this same message when it was already 23 minutes after 10 at night.
The strength of fake news is such that the Forum Magazine published an article that places them in the category of “Parallel Universe”, speaking of a “moment of collective hallucination”. They were videos of demonstrations where the Bolsonaristas celebrated the arrest of Alexandre de Moraes. Note: he was not arrested (despite the chants of “Hey, Xandão, your place is in jail”).
“Trash Press”
Another of the most recent targets of Bolsonaro’s supporters, who add “Freedom” to the fascist slogan “Deus, Pátria, Família”, is the press.
At the microphone, a 19-year-old from the Northeast dressed in camouflage preaches that it is necessary not to go out into the streets and continue the fight against an election that “was not clean” and in favor of the “unconvicted.” She also says that she is staying because she doesn’t want to eat from the garbage in the future or that when she has a daughter she will go to a unisex bathroom.
From then on, for the press that “celebrated” Lula’s victory, it was a success. He says that Bolsonaro has cut funds for the media and that, therefore, the media is favorable to Lula. “The matata is over,” he says, drawing applause and pointing out that this money must be invested in the town. More applause.
In the case of the international press, the case changes shape. If on the one hand they criticize the tone with which Bolsonaro is described in the media outside of Brazil, they also want to get the message across because they believe the world is not paying enough attention to the “electoral fraud” that they say is happening in Brazil. Brazil. But more than once, before opening their mouths, they ask TSF: “What is your political position?”
And now?
With this magazine filling up, the mobilization for this Wednesday has been a lot of effort. All the Telegram and Whatsapp groups that have not yet downloaded, are calling for the Bolsonaristas to go out to the doors of the barracks throughout the country, as well as to give maximum support to the truckers and agribusinessmen who block the roads.
The fact that Bolsonaro has already admitted to the Federal Supreme Court that “it’s over”, thus acknowledging Lula’s victory, is nothing more than a footnote for the president’s base who, dressed in green and yellow, want as many people on the street as possible, so that the “flag is never red”.
Nobody knows what will happen, but that mobilization is still strong, on and offline, nobody can deny it. “This is a spark and it will catch fire,” says one supporter. TSF talking about the days to come. “Our game is dangerous, girl / We are fire / We are fire / We are fire and gasoline”, Roberta Sá and Lenine sang.
Source: TSF
