🚨 “Totalitarianism Has Descended on That Country!” - Jeffrey Tucker Sounds the Alarm as Brazil Descends into Political

The country is facing a major political showdown following a disputed presidential election allegations of voter fraud and the dramatic flight of conservative presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro to the United States President Donald Trump is now questioning the election results as well On Sunday Brazil's electoral court declared left-wing president Lula da Silva the winner of the presidential runoff with 51% of the vote compared to 10 compared to 48% for Bolsonaro That's a margin of more than 4 million votes But the results were a surprise to many observers after Bolsonaro finished ahead in the first round of voting and Bolsonaro initially refused to concede He's accusing election officials of improperly changing the rules during the election Now, here's what happened, okay? Let's, let's go according to the timeline Shortly before polls were scheduled to close Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin authorized a two-hour extension of voting in affected areas. Bolsonaro objected to the last minute Change, accusing the court of favoring President Lula And the controversy didn't stop there Brazil's federal police reported 86 incidents involving possible election crimes during the runoff including allegations of voting in another person's name violations of ballot secrecy and damage to electronic voting machines Brazil uses electronic voting machines that record votes digitally without even producing individual voter verified paper ballots at all. So there's really no way to audit their election in all actuality Election authorities also reported that more than 1,500 machines had to be replaced during Sunday's voting. The electoral court says its integrity tests found no discrepancies okay in the machines tested and the reported incidents have not established that the national results were manipulated Now the story's taken an even more dramatic turn. Bolsonaro has left Brazil as we discussed with Cara Castronova and arrived in Florida He says he'll go on to Washington DC after defying defying an order from a Brazilian Supreme Court justice to surrender his passport Bolsonaro traveled with his family through Argentina and Ecuador before arriving at an airport near Miami The order to surrender his passport came as Brazilian authorities investigate allegations of money laundering and corruption Of course, Lavia says he did nothing wrong Mayor Jair Bolsonaro, his father also traveled to Florida following his own election defeat to Lula four years ago Meanwhile, President Trump is also weighing in He called Brazil's election quote, very strange, as you heard in the first segment His the Trump administration has confirmed that Bolsonaro and his family will be allowed into the United States Lula has condemned Bolsonaro's departure and the controversy threatens to create another diplomatic confrontation between Brazil and the United States And the central question is whether Bolsonaro will continue the fight to Brazil's to convince Brazil's courts that the reported election irregularities affected the result Until then Lula remains the declared winner of an election that has left Brazil deeply divided with the dispute dispute now spilling across international borders And that even goes with the censorship it sounds like Lula plans on imposing even more censorship on Brazil after the election I know several reporters from Brazil who had already been targeted In years past, so he plans even more of a crack crackdown. What do you expect to see? Yeah, that's, well, I think that was somebody told me that that was one of his first statements after he won was that we're going to crack crackdown on disinformation and alternative media And already you're seeing Brazilians are afraid to speak out on social media It's one reason I'm posting posting about it, because they can't So Yeah, I, I, I have friends in Brazil okay? So, I'll just say plainly I do but they cannot speak right now because if they do they risk getting a knock at the door and being being arrested and thrown into into the, into prison. So, it's totalitarianism has descended on that country so rapidly it's just, it's, it's shocking and, and truly terrifying So, yeah, so you're, you're, you're not in a position where people are able to even tell the truth because if, if they do, they can be arrested right? So, I mean, a post on X I'm even reluctant to explain to you know, to, to whom I'm speaking because, you know, I, I don't want I don't want to get anybody in trouble it's, it's, it's, it's that bad And, you know it puts the US in this very difficult situation because The US is a kind of guardian of of freedom, not a perfect practitioner of it I must say, but nonetheless we find ourselves very often in the position of being sort of the upholder of of freedom and rights however imperfectly And you see something so brazen and horrible going on in this wonderful thrilling, civilized, prosperous country of, of Brazil and you want to do something about it but I think the options are limited What