[FOREIGN] >> That
was a glimpse of the protests that
are taking place in Brazil as
the number of Coronavirus
deaths has unfortunately exceeded
500,000 people.
Jair Bolsonaro is a complete and
utter disaster has been a complete
and utter disaster.
He's been referred to as Brazil's
Trump and the number of COVID death
certainly bears that out.
During the protests,
you're likely to hear things like
get out Bolsonaro, genocidal.
That was yelled by real
demonstrators, some
of them wearing t-shirts or masks
with the image of former leftist
president Luiz Inacio da Silva or
Lula da Silva as many refer to him,
who leads Bolsonaro in some polls.
So Lula da Silva was a political
prisoner Bolsonaro and
his cronies imprisoned him when he
was leading in the polls in
the presidential election that
eventually got Bolsonaro elected.
Luckily, he was eventually
released and he is running for
president again.
And he is leading in the polls,
which is good news.
So this comes after Bolsonaro's
terrible Trump like response to
the pandemic.
Dubbed Trump of the Tropics by some
of his opponents Bolsonaro has
dismissed COVID-19 as a little flu,
while refusing to follow or promote
mask wearing quarantines and
social distancing,
despite having contracted the virus
himself last year.
Bolsonaro has also encouraged large
gatherings and disparaged vaccine.
So I mean, it's just a mirror
image of Trump really.
And with about 100,000 new daily
infections and around 20,000 people
dying each day from COVID-19,
Brazil is currently suffering
the world's second
deadliest outbreak after India.
According to Folha de Sao Paulo,
only 15% of Brazilians have been
fully vaccinated against
the Coronavirus.
A sore point in the nation that
prides itself on its historically
successful vaccination drives.
So look the the positive news even
though it's really hard to find a
silver lining in all this awfulness
is that, unlike the United States,
Brazil actually has a great option
when it comes to electing a leader.
And it's the same leader who had
lifted literally tens of millions
of people out of poverty in that
country.
Yes, that is Lula da Silva.
We're not talking about a Biden
like figure who's going to
constantly capitulate with
the right wing.
And look, if we're going to talk
about Brazil, I would really regret
not bringing up the incredible
coverage that my late friend,
Michael Brooks, did on Lula.
Please check out his elicit
history, it's a mini doc on the
Lula de Silva and his leadership.
I'm going to give you a little
taste of some of his
coverage right now, take a look.
>> This guy was put in jail during
Brazil's military junta years
because he was a labor union
leader.
He came from absolutely nothing to
become president, and really,
arguably be the best president in
modern politics, in terms of what
he delivered for his people.
Here's some of the things that he
did in his two and again,
very moderate terms.
The minimum wage was increased by
50% are both familiar program which
insisted impoverished families
while simultaneously ensuring the
children deserve quality education
one international renowned.
We proved the fighting poverty was
good economic policy.
And then he talks about how our
progress was interrupted not
through the ballot box.
Though Brazil's free and
fair elections have said President
Dilma Rousseff was impeached and
removed from office for an action
that even her opponents admitted
was not an impeachable offense.
I2 was sent to prison after
a dubious trial on corruption and
money laundering charges.
>> And the US media was complicit
in the political imprisonment of
Lula da Silva for obvious reasons.
He was a leftist leader that
actually cared about the poor
as opposed to
multinational corporations and
US based businesses.
>> Yeah, so first on Bolsonaro
typical right wing,
he combines corruption with
ignorance with incompetence,
so anti-mask for no reason.
It's now become a right wing
thing all across the planet.
Thank you, Donald Trump and
now it's going to spread
this disease further and further.
It's totally ridiculous has no
point at all.
I don't know I guess they think
they're being macho if they don't
wear masks, it's so painfully dumb.
And then the incompetence in
dealing with the disease
because why?
Why is the right wing more
consistently incompetent than
the left wing?
because they only care about
themselves.
>> Yes. >> So when you ask them to
actually deliver for anyone else,
they don't care enough to do
it right.
They're like,
how does that help me?
So that's why you're seeing the
same thing in Brazil as you did in
America when Trump was in charge.
And then finally to Lula da Silva.
Look, Michael Brooks did amazing
work on that,
he was an expert on that.
But these days there's a lot that I
disagree with Glenn Greenwald on,
but he also did amazing work.
We're fair about when people get
things right and Glenn was amazing
on Brazil, in Bolsonaro corruption,
and the corruption that led
to the attacks against Lula da
Silva, okay?
And if Lula comes back and
wins, it's justice.
Ana is right this is not like we
have to hold our nose and vote for
this guy and
hope that it gets better later and
hold them accountable.
You actually have an amazing
choice in Brazil.
>> Right.
>> So in a sense, I'm envious that
you have that choice in Brazil.
>> Yeah. >> So let's go Lula da
Silva, let's see if he can make
a great comeback, and he should.
>> Yeah, and you make a great point
about right wing leaders because
there's a similar thread when you
look at the way the United States
handled Coronavirus under Trump.
You have Bolsonaro very similar to
how Trump handled Coronavirus but
in this case in Brazil, and
then look at Narendra Modi, right?
Modi in India, very similar case.
And why is it?
Why did they all handle COVID
similarly?
Because they didn't want to force
or push for social distancing.
In the case of India, Modi still
wanted to do his political rallies.
In the case of Donald Trump I mean,
it was the same thing.
And he wanted to ensure that
businesses remained open because he
didn't want the economy to suffer,
which would reflect poorly on his
leadership, right?
It's all about self-interest,
it's not about doing right by
the very people who elected them,
the very people they're supposed
to be representing.
It's not even about saving lives,
they don't care,
that's the part of it.
I mean,
how do you not get jaded while
being informed about politics?
And what actually drives and
motivates people who run to be
leaders?
>> I actually want to talk about
that in the bonus episode for
the members.
Why the bad guys rise to the top in
these systems?
There's actually a very logical
reason why, but we'll have time for
that in the bonus episode.
TYT.com/join to become a member to
get that we do an extra half
an hour every day for the members.
Okay, but on this Ana there's more
evidence to your point.
Erdogan same exact thing right wing
leader in Turkey.
And in the beginning they
were doing a good job of containing
Coronavirus, but when Erdogan
wanted political rallies, and
he needed to rile people up and
cause distractions.
He did massive political rallies
and started doing a terrible job,
and guess what happened?
Giant Coronavirus breakout
in Turkey, tons of people died.
They're so incredibly selfish,
really it's unbelievable.
And then we just had a spectacular
example of it not in Coronavirus,
but another issues with Netayanhu.
So Netanyahu was about to lose and
then he eventually did right and
gets thrown out of power.
The other side's about the former
coalition government and
it might be with some Arab parties.
What does that Netanyahu do?
He starts a war with Gaza.
He basically raids the Al-aqsa
mosque and causes tremendous death,
death of civilians,
let alone the damage to Israel and
the Gaza Strip etc.
Why for his own political purposes?
They're just driven by
their ego and greed and
they don't give a damn about you.
And that's what defines the right
wing all across the world.
All right guys we got an amazing
bonus episode I'll give you that
issue that I was talking about, and
we got more on that.
And by the way,
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