Latin America's Trump Hit its Own Marking Point - and its President Jet Skis! (death, dictators)

[Phil75230]

Eerie resemblance to Trump golfing when the US hits it's 100,000 milestone?

https://time.com/5840208/brazil-coro...=pocket-newtab

On May 9, Brazil’s death toll from the coronavirus topped 10,000. Instead of marking the grim milestone with an address or a sign of respect for the victims, President Jair Bolsonaro took a spin on a jet ski. Video footage widely circulated on social media shows Brazil’s far-right leader grinning as he pulls up to a boat on Brasília’s Paranoá Lake where supporters are having a cookout. As he grips onto their boat, Bolsonaro jokes about the “neurosis” of Brazilians worried about the virus. “There’s nothing to be done [about it],” he shrugs. “It’s madness."

[SandyCo]

He's another one just like Trump. There must be a playbook that wannabe dictators pull from. Sometimes I can't decide which one is worse. I wonder if they ever consider exactly what they'll be ruling over when this is all over and the dust settles.

[StillwaterTownie]

Like in the USA, surely plenty of conservatives in Brazil are dismissing the COVID-19 crisis as a ridiculously staged crisis no more than a hoax. It's all for the government to experiment in seeing how far they can control people.