If you knew anything about this "judge," you'd be calling him a Nazi. It was just a few years ago that the Brazilian left branded him a white supreamcist and fascist coup-monger guilty of -- and I quote -- "racist genocide." But since he's now persecuting people you dislike politically, you present him as some sort of neutral law-enforcement agent does doing his job, like the local sheriff. This "judge" is implicated in financial and corruption scandals far more grave than Flavio Bolsonaro, yet his passport remains fully valid. So does the passport of Lula's son, who fled Brazil and is living in immense and inexplicable luxury in Spain despite multiple investigations into how he corruptly leveraged his influence in his father's government for lobbyist clients. The same is true of countless allies of Lula who with millions in Swiss bank accounts, who spend more time in Dubai and Paris than Brasilia. There are a lot of topics and countries I don't know much about, and when I'm faced with news stories about such matters, I opt to remain silent until I can be informed, so that I don't end up saying things like you just did.

Brazilian authorities and media are trying to find out where Flavio Bolsonaro is. Brazil's notorious authoritarian Judge Alexandre de Moraes -- before the votes were counted -- already had an order prepared to seize Bolsonaro's passports and bar him from leaving the country even though **he's been charged with no crime** (there are various pending financial investigations). Moraes signed the order barring Bolsonaro from leaving Brazil SEVEN MINUTES after Lula was declared the winner on Sunday night. A media outlet in Argentina this morning reported that Bolsonaro entered Argentina to fly to the US. His friends and allies deny this, but Flavio could easily just appear in Brazil or even by video and has not done so. Argentina is being sketchy, evasive and somewhat uncooperative with Brazil's federal police (Lula and Milei are obviously not allies). Whatever else is true, it is not exactly a sign of a healthy, normal or functioning democracy when the candidate who narrowly loses a presidential race -- and concedes defeat -- is suddenly barred from leaving the country by a Supreme Court Judge now globally notorious for censoring, imprisoning and otherwise persecuting his critics and opponents of Lula's government. It is also worth noting that Bolsonaro's party dominates the Senate, having run on a vow to impeach Moraes, and this is seen by many as a kind of leverage/hostage ploy by Moraes to cling to power.