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Flávio Bolsonaro’s Statement in English on His Stolen Presidential Victory
I address the Brazilian people and the international community as Brazil’s leader.
First and foremost, I would like to thank President Milei for his courage, sense of justice, and respect for the law, and President Trump and the wonderful American people for welcoming me. This is a land of freedoms and of brothers and sisters who share the same values as the good people of my country. President Trump is a great defender of freedom of expression.
On Sunday night, I watched in disbelief as electoral fraud unfolded before my eyes. The illegitimate and illegal actions of Lula’s former lawyer allowed a mathematical impossibility to become reality, with Lula gaining more than 10 million votes between the first and second rounds. A ruling by the Federal Supreme Court (STF), overriding the jurisdiction of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), extended voting at the very last moment, and the order only arrived after the legal closing time, when the polls had already closed. Voters were subjected to different rules. So far, the TSE has confined itself to defending the extension of voting hours, without providing even a single credible answer. And these grounds for invalidation are not the only problem. Throughout the campaign, there was abuse of political and economic power, as well as the use of government resources to favor reelection. These are serious acts, expressly prohibited by law, that justify disqualifying the Lula–Alckmin ticket.
The regime’s response to my challenge came swiftly. As though following a previously devised plan, seven minutes after this repugnant electoral fraud, the judge—who is implicated in a massive corruption scandal, directly named in the investigation he used to try to confiscate my passports, and who would very likely be in prison had they not prevented me from taking office—set the regime’s machinery of political persecution in motion. Given that he was legally barred from the outset and entirely lacking in impartiality to initiate any judicial proceedings against me, his mere participation in procedural acts demonstrates the scale of the arbitrariness and illegality now underway.
It was not my intention to leave my homeland, but I know exactly where this is heading. This is the classic playbook of any coup d’état. The political persecution that began with my father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, and spread to thousands of other ordinary, patriotic Brazilians and even American citizens has a single objective: to silence anyone who disagrees with the authoritarian regime established in Brazil through a Supreme Court captured by the Workers’ Party’s criminal organization.
To be clear, there is no arrest warrant against me, because I have committed no crime. What exists is a politically motivated witch hunt intended to hold me hostage and use me as a tool of blackmail to protect corrupt Supreme Court justices from impeachment. Here is the persecution’s script: passport confiscation, an electronic ankle monitor, censorship, house arrest, a sham trial, and, finally, a politically motivated conviction.
I will not subject my family to this, and my country does not deserve to endure this international disgrace again. Faced with the political weaponization of Brazil’s justice system, I brought my family to the United States, where we are safe. Once again, I thank President Trump and the American government for welcoming us and providing the legal protections we no longer have in Brazil.
I want to make this clear: I did not flee Brazil; I left for Brazil’s sake. I left an authoritarian regime so that I could be the leader my people deserve, because silenced, imprisoned, and censored, as my father is, I could not provide that leadership, and we would be left with the institutional theater of an emasculated opposition controlled by a Supreme Court filled with the regime’s servants.
I am not the first person who has had to fight for his own country from abroad. Rui Barbosa went into exile for confronting Floriano Peixoto’s arbitrary rule, and from there continued defending the law and freedom. Charles de Gaulle led Free France from London, sentenced to death by the Vichy regime, and returned to liberate his country. José Martí organized the struggle for Cuban independence from New York. In Venezuela, Juan Guaidó and Edmundo González had to leave the country for confronting the Chavista dictatorship, and María Corina Machado, despite being persecuted, refused to legitimize the fraud and became a global symbol of democratic resistance. All of them were treated as criminals by the regimes they confronted. History called them something else.
This is only the beginning of our struggle for democracy, human rights, and freedom in Brazil. I want to tell not only my 60 million voters, but the Brazilian people, that I am the leader, and that the criminals who stole Brazil’s election are part of a criminal organization that has imposed a tyranny. You wanted change, and I will not abandon you. I will be our nation’s voice and its free leadership.
To Brazil’s institutions, I make this appeal: this madness must end. Brazil today is engulfed in legal chaos, corruption, and political persecution, in which the opposition is afraid to speak and a former president’s family is treated as an enemy of the state. No nation can live in peace or prosper this way. There is still time to restore the balance among the branches of government and give Brazilians back the confidence they have lost.
To the international community, I ask: do not normalize what is happening in Brazil. What is happening in my country today is not normal and cannot be treated as normal.
To the senators, representatives, and governors whom I helped elect, and especially to my candidate for president of the Senate, Rogério Marinho: I know that today you lack the freedom necessary to carry out your political duties fully. Therefore, I will lead the opposition from here. I will say what you cannot say there, and I will take the risks you cannot take.
And to you, who voted for me and dream of change: we are not defeated, and we are not alone. This is only the beginning of our struggle for democracy, human rights, and freedom in Brazil. In the coming days, I will address the Brazilian people regularly, and we will present a strategy to mobilize the opposition and the immense popular support we have, through every peaceful and legitimate means, to prevent Lula from consolidating a dictatorial regime in Brazil. I ask each of you to stand firm and never give up.
I left Brazil, but I have not abandoned the Brazilian people. This struggle did not end on October 25. It will end only when Brazil becomes a free country again. And that day will come.
May God bless Brazil.
Flávio Bolsonaro
Massive increase in indigeneous payouts and lawsuit settlements since Trudeau era
Over 110 billion !!
When are we reconciled one has to wonder ? Where’s the finish line ? What’s excessive ? What’s adequate and just ?
fraserinstitute.org/studies/… @FraserInstitute
Thomas Beyer retweeted
J’ai pris note aujourd’hui de la nouvelle offre de Mark Carney d’obtenir le droit de m’assoir à sa table d’honneur à titre de spectateur, sans droit de parole ni droit de négocier au nom du Québec. Cette proposition revient à demander au Québec de rentrer dans les rangs, avec la vassalisation et l’invisibilisation du Québec que cela implique, en échange d’obtenir de meilleurs sièges de spectateurs pour regarder la partie. Comme premier ministre, je refuserai toujours que le Québec soit réduit au rôle de spectateur lorsqu’il s’agit de représenter et protéger les intérêts économiques et politiques des Québécois.
La réalité est que nous sommes devant une stratégie de marginalisation du Québec sur la scène internationale et de subordination des champs de compétence du Québec à la volonté du fédéral. Je note à cet effet que tous les chefs de partis de l’Assemblée nationale ont indiqué hier que s’ils étaient dans la position de premier ministre et devant un tel sommet sur le territoire du Québec, ils s’attendraient à prendre la parole et à participer à part entière. À Ottawa, le chef de l'opposition officielle ainsi que le chef du Bloc Québécois ont également appuyé notre demande.
J’ai donc pris la plume et j’ai écrit aux représentants de l’Union européenne pour leur rappeler que des ententes qui impliquent l’Europe et le Québec doivent forcément passer par le gouvernement du Québec, et à plus forte raison si le sommet se tient sur notre territoire. Le refus de nous donner la parole à titre d’hôte pour souhaiter la bienvenue à nos invités y est également mentionné.
Je lance donc l’invitation pour une discussion bilatérale dans un meilleur contexte qui permettrait au Québec de ne pas être exclu. À ce titre, j’enverrai le diplomate en chef du Québec, Pascal Paradis, pour ouvrir ces canaux de discussion pour la suite.
Thomas Beyer retweeted
But can we agree that promoting LNG and mineral exports out of a mostly ice-covered port in Churchill using icebreaking, is a lot riskier than sending double hulled oil tankers out of Prince Rupert, which can already accommodate shipping containers that carry 50,000 barrels/8000 m3 of petroleum fuel in their own tanks?
Can we agree there are different standards being applied for political, rather than scientific or technical, reasons?
Thomas Beyer retweeted
We're just tired of watching you guys never work full time jobs, and survive off those of us that do, all while still hating us. Its gotten old, expensive and tedious. We want it stopped.
Thomas Beyer retweeted
AM I A DEI HIRE?
What a terrible question to have hanging over someone’s career simply because of the colour of their skin.
Imagine spending years studying, working hard, making sacrifices and earning your qualifications, only to have someone quietly wonder whether you got the job because of your abilities, or you are another DEI hire?”
Think about how insulting that is. Years of hard work and achievement reduced to race. And here’s the cruel irony: policies intended to empower minorities can sometimes leave them having to defend the very success they worked so hard to achieve.
Let’s be clear. Racism and discrimination exist everywhere you go in the world. And for sure, civilized societies must confront them. And I believe many people who support DEI genuinely want to create a fairer society. But good intentions don’t always produce good outcomes, and we should be willing to question whether our approach is helping or hurting.
I want an Alberta where every child can grow up believing something simple: If I work hard, develop my abilities and earn my qualifications, I will have a fair opportunity to succeed.
Not because someone owes me a position. Not because an institution needs someone who looks like me. And certainly not because my background should define what others expect of me. But because I have something valuable to contribute.
That’s what true inclusion should mean. Creating a fair opportunity for people to enter the room, contribute, succeed and be respected without anyone questioning why they’re there.
That is why I wholeheartedly welcome Premier Danielle Smith’s government decision to introduce legislation aimed at putting merit and qualifications at the centre of public-sector hiring. Credit where credit is due!
The Premier is bringing an important debate about merit, fairness and individual dignity into the open.
We should NOT lower the bar but definitely remove the barriers. That’s exactly what this legislation is going to fix.
DEI is nothing but replace discrimination with another form of unfairness. And don’t reduce anyone’s achievements to their race.
Your skin colour is part of who you are. It should never be the explanation for what you’ve achieved.
That’s the Alberta I believe in.
And that’s why I support Premier Danielle Smith’s proposed public-sector hiring reforms. I admire her courage in tackling an issue that too often gets buried under political correctness and fear of controversy. Whether people agree with every detail or not, this is a debate worth having.
Leadership sometimes means having the courage to challenge conventional thinking, ask uncomfortable questions and stand up for what you believe is right, even when it isn’t politically convenient.
That’s the kind of courage I respect in Premier Smith. And that’s why I support her.
Thomas Beyer retweeted
The codification of UNDRIP was a reckless piece of ideological war on Canadians.
Eby came from Ontario specifically to further his crazed “land back” cause and he luckily found a fool in John Horgan who allows him to promote UNDRIP into legislation
Even Jody Wilson-Raybaud thought that it was wrong.
Every other country on earth save for Bolivia has simply put UNDRIP into its rightful “symbolic only” place.
Canada - with its wallet hanging out of its back pocket as usual - went all in and now look where we are . FFS
Thomas Beyer retweeted
巴西总统公开要米莱道歉，米莱问他当年没坐过牢吗？
拉丁美洲每次大选揭晓，都有一套彼此心照不宣的礼节。
新总统上任，各方哪怕政见再对立，也照样发一份声明恭贺。
智利的卡斯特发了。
秘鲁的藤森庆子发了。
巴西前总统博索纳罗的儿子弗拉维奥，也在社交媒体上公开认输。
大家都在照着外交惯例走。
到了阿根廷的米莱这里，台词停了。
巴西总统卢拉在镜头前公开表态。
他说米莱讲了太多不该讲的话，必须向巴西道歉，向他本人道歉。
记者把话筒递到米莱跟前，问他打算怎么道歉。
米莱连换个委婉说法的打算都没有。
他反问记者：
“我说的话哪一句不是真的？”
“说他是腐败分子，他没坐过牢吗？”
“说他是共产党，他难道不是吗？”
在当年的“洗车行动”反腐调查里，
卢拉确实在联邦监狱里服刑了整整 580 天。
后来巴西最高法院推翻了判决，理由是原审法院缺乏管辖权以及程序违规。
但那 580 天的监狱记录，就真实地摆在历史档案里。
米莱接着问了一句：
“从什么时候开始，说真话的人需要道歉了？”
为了说明这事有多荒唐，他随手指着身边的记者问：
“你多高？”
记者回答：一米八七。
米莱说，如果这时候有人坚称自己感觉上只有一米五，
难道就因为对方不承认客观现实，
我还要跑去为说了一句事实而道歉吗？
外交场合通常把这种点名当成失礼。
但米莱把事情拆回了最朴素的逻辑。
语言最初是用来记录事实的。
当大家习惯为了体面绕开现实，
把事实原样念出来，
在有些人耳朵里，听起来就已经像是在宣战了。
Thomas Beyer retweeted
That’s not reconciliation, that’s handing over half of the province to FNs because an unelected body in New York City said we have to. Abolish DRIPA and abolish the corrupt United Nations.
B.C.’s premier-elect is doubling down on the campaign promise of abolishing legislation that’s meant to set up the framework for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Cecilia Hua has reaction and what repealing DRIPA would actually mean. vancouver.citynews.ca/video/…
Thomas Beyer retweeted
ملت شریف و شجاع ایران،
جمهوری اسلامی امروز دیگر آن رژیمی نیست که یک سال پیش بر ایران حکومت میکرد. این رژیم اکنون ضعیفتر از هر زمان دیگری است و رهبرِ مفقود و دیگر سرکردگان آن، بیش از هر چیز از قدرت ملت ایران هراس دارند؛ از یک خیزش سراسری و مؤثر که به عمر این رژیم شیطانی پایان دهد.
این فرقه جنایتکار و سپاه پاسدارانِ تروریستِ آن، میهن عزیز ما را به جنگ کشانده و موجودیت ایران را به خطر انداختهاند. سلطه سپاه بر ارکان کشور و چپاول منابع ملی، عامل اصلی وخامت روزافزون وضعیت اقتصادی و امنیتی ایران است.
این تبهکاران، نه نانی برای مردم باقی گذاشتهاند، نه امنیتی و نه امیدی به آینده. آنها برای حفظ قدرت خود، حاضرند ایران و ایرانی را قربانی کنند.
اما میهن زخمخورده و رنجور ما، دیگر تابِ تحملِ خسارتهای بیشتر را ندارد. ما باید دست در دست هم بگذاریم و از هر فرصتی برای نجات ایران بهره ببریم.
ما هم برای سرنگونی جمهوری اسلامی و هم برای اداره ایران پس از آن برنامه داریم؛ برنامهای روشن با هدف حفظ امنیت و ثبات کشور در دوران گذار، تضمین آزادیهای اساسی مردم و تامین نیازهای ضروری شهروندان.
خطاب به نیروهای نظامی، انتظامی و امنیتی: به ملت بپیوندید و در روز آزادی ایران در کنار مردم بایستید تا اماننامه دریافت کنید. اما اگر همچنان در کنار سرکوبگران بمانید و در جنایت علیه مردم مشارکت کنید، در برابر قانون و عدالت پاسخگو خواهید شد.
من این بار، نه فقط از نیروهای نظامی و دولتی، بلکه از همه ایرانیان، از اقشار گوناگون، که از این رژیم به ستوه آمدهاند و خواهان آیندهای آزاد و آباد برای ایران هستند، دعوت میکنم از طریق نشانی t.me/BarkhizIranBot در تلگرام، مستقیماً با تیم من ارتباط برقرار کنند و همین امروز به کارزار همکاری ملی برای نجات ایران بپیوندند.
ما آمادهایم تا بر جمهوری اسلامی پیروز شویم و آیندهای تازه برای ایران، منطقه و جهان رقم بزنیم.
پاینده ایران،
رضا پهلوی
Thomas Beyer retweeted
I am Métis. I have never received a single penny from the government for being Métis.
I have had a successful life BECAUSE I do not receive money from the government.
Maybe if more Indigenous got off government funds, they would find a way to success for themselves.
Approximately 1.8 million people in Canada identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit).
Over the past 10–11 years alone, the federal government has directed roughly $250–300 billion toward Indigenous programs, services, transfers, and settlements—primarily benefiting First Nations communities.
Despite this scale of spending, Indigenous people continue to experience the highest poverty rates, the highest incarceration rates, and the highest rates of homicide victimization in Canada.
Repeating the same approach year after year while expecting substantially different outcomes is not a viable strategy.
A fundamental change in policy and delivery is needed.
Thomas Beyer retweeted
500 Milhões de Europeus, esperam que 300 Milhões de Americanos os protejam contra 120 Milhões de Russos que nem conseguem derrotar 40 Milhões de Ucranianos enquanto, não percebem, que estão a ser invadidos por 2000 milhões de Muçulmanos que se dizem perseguidos por 9 milhões de Israelitas!
Thomas Beyer retweeted
Recently I was talking with a friend about universal geniuses. And something struck me.
Florence, 1480–1510. Same city, same moment: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola. Raphael right behind them. They walked the same streets.
Europe, 1600–1700. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz. In two generations, we got calculus, modern mechanics, probability theory, and the scientific method.
Athens, 470–320 BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Phidias, Thucydides. One century, one city, and the foundations of Western thought were laid.
Europe, 1890–1930. Poincaré, Hilbert, Einstein, Marie Curie, Tesla, Planck, Bohr, then von Neumann.
Always the same pattern. In every great era, the West had 15 to 20 minds of this caliber alive at the same time. People who could touch everything and push the frontier of several fields at once.
Today we have one. Just one. Elon Musk.
And Elon is an anomaly.
Not in the sense that he shouldn't exist. In the sense that the world we built is designed so that someone like him never emerges. Statistically, he shouldn't be here.
Because what forged Elon was an absolutely insane move.
October 2002. eBay buys PayPal. Elon walks away with roughly $180M. Anyone else buys an island and never works another day.
He puts $100M into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, $10M into SolarCity. Almost everything. On rockets and electric cars, two industries no sane person wanted to touch.
2006–2008. The first three Falcon 1 launches fail. Tesla is burning cash, the financial crisis hits, investors run. He has enough left for one last launch. Just one. He borrows money from friends to pay his rent.
September 28, 2008. The fourth launch reaches orbit.
December 23, 2008. NASA awards SpaceX a $1.6B contract.
December 24, 2008. The Tesla round closes at the last possible hour. A few more days and everything collapses.
That's what a genius is. Not just IQ. The ability to put everything on the table when the entire world tells you it's impossible, and be right.
Now the real question: why do we only have one?
Because a genius needs three things. The freedom to try. The right to get massively rich if it works. The right to fail without being destroyed.
And that's exactly what the collectivist left and the technocrats have torn down across the West for the past 50 years.
They turned success into suspicion. Making a lot of money became a moral failing. Taking risks became irresponsible. Rising above the crowd became an insult to equality.
They stacked up norms, committees, permits, regulations written in Brussels by people who have never built anything in their lives. In Europe, Elon would never have been allowed to blow up three rockets. He'd have been stopped at the first form.
They want to tax capital before it even exists, cap fortunes, redistribute what others created by risking everything.
They replaced excellence with conformity. Our schools produce docile people, not dangerous ones. And a genius, by definition, is someone who disrupts. Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt.
The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one.
Just one.
And you want to put him in prison.
You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars.
You're disgusting.
History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.
Thomas Beyer retweeted
If, by the way, the same situation that just happened in Brazil had happened but with the parties switched -- if Bolsonaro had won last night's election and then a pro-Bolsonaro judge sent the Federal Police to seize Lula's passport and bar him from leaving the country -- every major western media outlet and liberal NGOs would be screaming about the authoritarian attack on Brazil's elections and the destruction of basic freedoms.
Thomas Beyer retweeted
I agree, Canada is ready move beyond the Indian Act and it needs to be abolished.
And with it; time to abolish the bogus land claims, grift reconciliation industry and the preferential treatments Indigenous get from the courts.
If we going to be one united country, that's the only way forward. As one people. It doesn't mean we don't have to honour Indigenous history, as it is part of Canada's history.
The unique opportunity Mark Carney has right now is the political support and position to put an end to it without risking his government. This the time to move on and stop the billions of dollars of waste and virtue signaling.
It will unleash Canada.
We will see hundreds of billions of dollars in investment and projects greenlight over night.
Thomas Beyer retweeted
Solo los cobardes como Lula, usan el poder para perseguir a sus oponentes politicos. en este caso la familia Bolsonaro es perseguida por este régimen fraudulento y corrupto de Lula Da Silva. #BrasilEnDictaduta
Thomas Beyer retweeted
Carney and his wife the new dictators of Canada:
Thomas Beyer retweeted
Liberals shut down debate on a motion to have Diana Fox Carney, Mark Carney's wife appear before the Fisheries and Oceans Committee to discuss her appointment as Canada's new "Oceans Envoy" and the $1.2 Billion plus tax dollars she's been given.
Thomas Beyer retweeted
Bullshit, the majority of BC thinks *reconciliation* has gone way too far and they’re rightfully pissed off about the way the Eby and Carney govts. have betrayed them.
