You are watching supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro break
into a government building in the country's capital of Brasilia.
According to the Associated Press on Sunday rioters broke,
windows toppled furniture, hurled computers and printers to the ground.
They puncture a massive Emiliano Di Cavalcanti painting in five places.
They overturned the U shaped table at which Supreme Court justices convene,
they ripped a door off one of the justices offices.
They also vandalized an iconic statue outside the court.
As you can see from these scenes of the riots, a lot of parallels with what
we experienced here in the United States on January 6.
But believe it or not, the Jair Bolsonaro, supporters managed to be even goofier and
more embarrassing than the Trump supporters here in the United States.
Because they decided to carry out this riot on Sunday when there are no
government officials present.
So there was really no plan in place other than calling for
the military to essentially conduct a coup.
Something that the country of Brazil is familiar with.
But when soldiers arrived to the scene, these individuals were actually arrested
and the military did not assist them in conducting a coup.
Now, this follows the election of its new leftist president in Osceola Da Silva.
Of course, Jair Bolsonaro is known as the Trump version of Brazil.
In fact, after the election, he decided to travel here to the United States,
met with all sorts of unsavory figures including Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.
And he is still in the United States, he was actually just hospitalized for
abdominal pain and there are calls for him to be extradited for
allegedly inciting the rioters.
Now, I have a few more details actually, a lot more detail to share with you and
you don't want to miss those details because it's fascinating what's happening
in Brazil right now.
But before we get to that Cenk just some first reactions.
>> Yeah, look, the parallels between January 6 here in America and
what happened there is uncanny.
They broke in in very similar ways and
Bolsonaro right now is in Florida, getting advice from Republicans.
And so his supporters do exactly what Republicans do,
Republicans did here in January 6.
So the plague that is Donald Trump continues to spread throughout
the globe and I can't believe that America has made attacking
democracy chic in the world now that's real traumatizing.
>> To be fair, America made destroying democracy extremely chic in a lot
of Latin, American countries in the history and the world history.
So they love to overthrow leftist leaders, but in a weird twist in this case,
you have President Joe Biden and his administration showing support for
Lula da Silva and of course condemning Jair Bolsonaro and the rioters.
Now, here are some more details.
It's important to note that Lula da Silva seems to be a lot more aggressive
in ensuring that there is justice brought to those who have suffered
the consequences of these rioters.
So thousands of people have already been arrested.
We'll hear from his speech in just a moment, but
a few more details before we do so.
Bolsonaro had been stoking belief among his hardcore supporters that
the electronic voting system that was used in the election was prone
to fraud though he has much like Trump, never presented any evidence.
And his lawmaker son,
Eduardo Bolsonaro held several meetings with former US President Donald Trump.
Trump's longtime allies, Steve Bannon and his senior campaign adviser, Jason Miller,
I believe earlier, I said Stephen Miller, I mixed the two up all the time.
Apologies for that.
Now, in yet another parallel to January 6th in the United States.
Of course, there were some questions as to whether the police were either complicit
in this attack or if they were just ill prepared.
Police were noticeably slow to react even after the arrival of more
than 100 busses carrying Bolsonaro supporters of course.
One video showed one group of protesters easily pushing through a police barricade
with only a few officers using pepper spray.
Another showed officers standing by as protesters stormed the congress,
including one using his phone to record what was happening.
And there are plenty of videos just all over the Internet where you can clearly
see the identity of the individuals who decided to riot on Sunday.
Now the federal district Governor Ibanez Rocha confirmed that
he had fired the capital city's head of public
security because of their slow reaction to the rioters.
And as I mentioned earlier,
Lula Da Silva is not holding back in calling for justice.
Here, is a little piece of
his speech following the riots.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> So in that speech, Lula da Silva of
course mentioned a decree, want to give you a few more details on that.
It's he read a freshly signed decree for
the federal government to assume control of security in the federal district.
He said that the so called fascist fanatics as
well as those who find their activities must be punished and
also accused Bolsonaro of encouraging their uprising.
And there are already officials in Brazil who have called for
the extradition of former President Jair Bolsonaro back to Brazil so
he could face a possible investigation.
>> This is where the similarities end,
because here authorities appear to be taking action on like in America
where they're like attempted coup against the country.
I don't know, we're gonna have to ask permission of the people who attempted
the coup to see if we can prosecute them.
No, you just go after them and you arrest them.
It's not that complicated.
And by the way, the people here know it's not that complicated because they do it
to the schlepps who were part of the riot in the first place.
So both Brazil and the United States arrest people that were on the ground and
broke into the buildings.
But when it comes to the people who organized the coup,
America refuses to arrest them.
Absolutely, because they were part of the elites.
And so the elites, number one rule is never ever arrested other elite unless of
course they stole from rich people, other rich people.
Then you can get arrested.
But other than that, even a coup won't do it.
But in Brazil they're instantly firing people arresting people.
And by the way you saw their Lula saying they're fascists.
See no hesitation, no mealy mouth bias,
some of my best friends are cu committers is that a thing?
>> [LAUGH] it's actually a pretty popular rock band.
Yeah, the cu committers, they're unbelievable, Joe Biden,
still calling him there for his friends.
So it's possible.
Okay, look, last two things here for me.
Number one, Lula and the others are 100% right
in pointing out this specific thing that we didn't bring you yet.
Not only did people who paid for it in general, but who paid for the busses?
Because if people are getting bussed in somebody paid for those busses,
that's the person who organized the coup and that will unravel everything here.
If it was America, you would find about find out about it 40 years later when
someone did an investigation, but no one would ever be held responsible.
I hope they don't take that lesson from us and of course you're right that we've done
endless coups and organize them here in America.
My point was one of the few things that we do right is a peaceful transition of power
and now Trump has destroyed that as well.
So now the new precedent as well, if America is doing it, if I ever lose
an election, of course I'm gonna try to do a violent takeover instead.
And so that's what we're seeing now from his cult is Trump's international cult and
is one of his composes Bolsonaro and
that's why he's hiding out in Florida with Trump.
>> And just a little bit of Brazilian history,
Brazil had experienced a coup previously was a military coup at a time when
I believe the whole scenario was part of the military.
And my favorite part of this story, it's I mean it's a terrible story.
We've experienced it here in the United States.
So I'm not making light of it, but I will dunk on the rioters,
especially considering the whole scenario supporters
because they really thought the military was gonna come in and help them out.
So let's go to graphic four here because this is my probably my favorite tweet on
the entire incident, Bolsonaro supporters cheering the arrival of the military
right before getting arrested by them.
[LAUGH] so they're like, yeah,
military help us coup with military yeah, hands behind your back bro.
We're taking you in okay, sorry.
But I do want to also just quickly go to desirable scenarios, response or reaction
because it's similar to what you get here in the United States with right wingers.
On one hand, pretending to condemn the bad actors, but
then drawing these false equivalencies.
So he writes in a tweet,
peaceful demonstrations in the form of the law are part of democracy.
However he's talking about the writers, invasions of public buildings has occurred
today as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017 escaped the rule.
So, I don't remember the left rioting in federal government buildings and
demanding overturning the results of a democratic process.
[LAUGH] now Jair Bolsonaro of course made Lula da Silva a political prisoner back
in 2018 when Lula Da Silva was of course favored to win that presidential election.
So he had a judge essentially throw Lula da Silva in prison under these
ridiculous and unfounded corruption charges and
later that was completely thrown out by another judge.
So if he really wants to talk about the bad actors here,
he should take a good hard look at himself.
>> Yeah, I'll give the last two comments to members on twitch JMM Fraser
said all I see is a bunch of right wing tourists.
And mine grifter said fascism is our number one export right now.
And that's depressing.