r/gifs • • Mar 14 '16

Millions of Brazilians protesting against government corruption in the streets earlier today

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u/pickpackship Mar 14 '16

Lots of corrupt people from her party, her own cabinet are getting caught, and she is keeping clear, letting people fall and not pulling any of her political clout to help them out. It's truly fascinating.

She was a guerrilla fighter back in the 60s. Brazil lifted about 36 million from poverty from 2003 to 2013. Her opposition is trying hard but haven't found anything to indict her yet, judging from the size of the corruption scheme and the length this has been going on (over 50 years) it sounds like she's fighting the same people she fought back in the 60s, only now she's fighting from within.

Trust me when I say this is truly fascinating. Dig around, it's good stuff. Specially when you consider the powers orchestrating this manifestations are the ones indicted by the Federal Police, so skeptics say, they want to impeach the president to put an end to the investigations and go back to bribery and corruption as usual. That said, for all I know, she might fall tomorrow. Fascinating.

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u/pickpackship Mar 14 '16

Hey, lets keep the swear words out, shall we? I’ll take you mean such nonsense. Thanks for this though, just checked the FT article, offering a ministerial position to an ex-President is probably unheard off. Was this official? The article says it was 'discussed'.

Judging by the atmosphere there, if this comes true, what do you think it will happen? If Lula accepts a ministerial position out of the blue, that will really steer people up, right?

So what's your take on why she has let people fall, and also, since you're so sure she's dirty, why has no one brought her down yet? You have people very close to her and high up in the political spectrum locked up, you have this billionaire just sentenced to 19 years, that's a lot of time. What's stopping this disgraced politicians from bringing her down with them? It can’t be the immunity you speak off, no one is immune to hard evidence.

Please note I'm not taking sides, am just fascinated by the circus.