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Updated Tuesday, November 22, 2022-20:04

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  • Brazil Farewell to the 'Lula effect': criticism stalks the president-elect

  • Direct Witness With the Bolsonaristas who are calling for a coup: "Armed Forces, save the nation!"

Deceived by the military, there are Brazilians who have stopped looking at the barracks and are now looking up at the sky.

They turn on the lights on their mobile phones and

place them on their heads to generate SOS signals

: they trust that they will be picked up by aliens who will descend on Earth and prevent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from assuming the presidency on January 1.

It seems like a joke, but it is part of the conversation these days in the largest economy in Latin America.

Folha de São Paulo

opted for irony to address the issue: "Only the revelation that Douglas Adams -author of the science fiction, humor and bizarre literary series

The Backpacker's Guide to the Galaxies

- has taken over the script for Brazil would explain some recent episodes".

It is probable, however,

that Adams himself did not dare so much

.

Starting from the very tight 50.9 percent against Lula's 49.1 over Jair Bolsonaro in the October 30 ballot, Brazil offers a succession of stories that would not pass the sieve for a class Z movie script.

An example: the gods are working on a change of souls so that Bolsonaro continues to govern, but in the body of Lula.

Another example:

Lula has been replaced by a clone

.

More examples: From the video that showed a group of sheep in China walking in circles, the conclusion is that the animals are restless all over the world, a sign that aliens are about to arrive to do the "big cleaning".

The term "aliens" had already begun to appear in searches on Brazilian information sites several days ago.

The sighting of strange lights in the sky in the vicinity of the Porto Alegre airport prompted the debate: a meeting in the third phase, at last?

If so, they would be Bolsonarista extraterrestrials.

That is, at least, the hope of a small group of people in a country of 215 million inhabitants, but which is making an important noise.

The consolation could be that the option of mobile phones asking for help Z intoned by tens of thousands of people three weeks ago in front of military barracks throughout the country.

The

Jornal Catarinense

described the situation: "The video shows dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Southern Military Command, in the Historic Center of Porto Alegre. They are placed in a circle, around a luminous sign fixed to the ground that contains the word " SOS", a call for help. Everyone

holds their mobile phones above their heads and shines the screen light or flashlight into the sky

. They shout for help to a 'general'. It is not yet known who they would be asking for help the Bolsonaristas in reality, if the aliens or the Army general who could be in the barracks at that moment".

Incredibly, the word "extraterrestrial" was used in this context by a senator from the Workers' Party (PT)

to refer to Lula

, who is viewed with concern by the markets after some statements about the fiscal deficit limit rule, which has constitutional status in Brazil.

"I wonder why so many people are asking the same question (on fiscal responsibility). Because he is not an alien, he has already ruled for eight years!" Jaques Wagner said.

O Globo

took the situation with humor and brought up the memory of the road blockade by truckers in protest of Lula's victory.

In the satirical section 'Sensationalist', the Rio de Janeiro newspaper took the opportunity to launch a taunt at the Argentine soccer team after the historic defeat against Saudi Arabia in their debut at the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

"Argentines block roads and give FIFA 72 hours to annul Saudi Arabia's victory"

, was the headline of the article, which added: "According to protesters, the players who scored goals for Saudi Arabia are pre-2020 models and Therefore, they would not be auditable, which would prove fraud.They say they have evidence that a malicious algorithm rigged the VAR to cancel the three goals in the first half.In the protests, the brothers prayed with mobile phones on their heads asking for the intervention of the alien Diego Maradona".

Humor is a good escape valve, but the situation in Brazil is delicate.

Bolsonaro has still not made contact with Lula

, and it is highly unlikely that he will, it is not even clear that he will attend the transfer of power ceremony in Brasilia.

The president was absent from the G20 Summit in Indonesia, he will not attend the Mercosur Summit next week in Montevideo and he is barely visible.

He has disappeared from social networks, he does not visit the Planalto Palace and his schedule does not show signs that he is working too hard.

According to Vice President Hamilton Mourao, Bolsonaro suffers from a bacterial infection -erysipelas- in one of his legs.

"He can't wear pants. How is he going to come, in shorts?" Mourao told

O Globo

.

Bolsonaro, 67, is presumed to be preparing for his role as leader of the very powerful right-wing opposition.

And anything will count in that work that will make Lula miss -and a lot- the room for maneuver he had in his two presidencies between 2003 and 2011.

Fake news

on WhatsApp was not a problem back then, but it is today .

Not in vain did Bolsonaro celebrate the victory of 2018 shouting "Facebook, Facebook, WhatsApp, WhatsApp!"

The most absurd thing is possible in that world.

For example, a message shared countless times explaining why Lula speaks with such a pronounced hoarseness: "Attention, people of God! Have you already noticed Lula's voice, how hoarse it is? The reason for that is the number of times that Luladrón [sic] performs oral sex with Janja (wife of the president-elect)".

The message cites the Paraná Regional Council of Medicine as a source (gross falsehood) and maintains that "the contact of the acidic substances from the vagina with the tongue causes inflammation and weakening of Lula's vocal cords", that he would practice oral sex "At least six times a day."

And oral sex, adds the viralized message, "is not correct, because it does not create life."

Perhaps the aliens are not yet to arrive,

they may already have

.

It would be a good explanation for everything.

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