In this video, I talk about recent developments in our tropical House of Cards. Things are getting pretty nasty around here, and everyone seems to be losing their right perspective about what to feel, think or do regarding Michel Temer’s presidency. If you understand Brazilian Portuguese, have fun! 😉
José Dirceu
A Sacada de Percy Castanho, Jr.
Percy Castanho, Jr.’s Take
Enviei hoje o seguinte e-mail ao ministro Gilmar Mendes:
“Parabéns, Ministro.
Vossa Excelência está conseguindo nivelar a credibilidade da Justiça à credibilidade dos políticos…
Suas referências a Curitiba e a não se curvar diante dos “meninos” da Procuradoria durante o julgamento do HC de Dirceu não escondem seus sentimentos e mostram claramente que interpretações da lei podem ser feitas usando outras partes do corpo que não o cérebro…
Percy Castanho Jr.”
Envie você também um e-mail para ele – mgilmar@stf.jus.br
Today, I have sent the following e-mail message to Justice Gilmar Mendes:
“Congratulations, Justice Mendes.
Your Excellency is succeeding in reducing the Judiciary’s credibility to the politicians’ credibility…
Your speech regarding Curitiba and not submitting to the “boys” of the prosecutor’s office during Jose Dirceu’s habeas corpus trial do not hide your feelings. It clearly shows that interpretations of the law can be obtained through the use of body parts other than the brain…
Percy Castanho, Jr.”
Send one e-mail message to him, too — mgilmar@stf.jus.br
Proteção Garantida…
Guaranteed Protection…
The dog in the pictures is one of the Brazilian “supreme court” justices, who has just freed these two criminals. In Mr. Eike Batista’s case, it was even worse, because the justice’s wife works for the attorneys who represent Mr. (Eike) Batista. The “supreme court” justice had an obligation, by law, to declare himself completely unable to offer any judgement on that case. Mr. Jose Dirceu’s case is a shame. Convicted of several crimes in a 32-year sentence, he now can walk free again and continue to act criminally while the Car Wash investigation starts to go down the drain.
(Source: the internet)
Sergio Garschagen e a Solidão de Dirceu…
Sergio Garschagen and Dirceu’s loneliness…
Ninguém me ama, ninguém me quer – Dirceu está ressentido com lideranças do PT, sobretudo com Lula, com quem não fala desde antes de sua condenação no mensalão. Zé Dirceu queixa-se da falta de apoio público por parte da cúpula do partido. Como esperava, sua defesa não foi feita, mais uma vez, na reunião de terça-feira da Executiva Nacional do PT. Desde que começou a cumprir pena, ele deixou de participar dos destinos políticos do partido e pouco foi visitado pelos “companheiros”. Em março deste ano, seu almoço de aniversário, antes marcado pela presença de políticos de todos os calibres, contou com poucas pessoas e nenhum figurão da legenda. “Cuidado com as más companhias”, ensinavam as nossas mamãs.
Nobody loves me, nobody wants me… Jose Dirceu feels resentment against the Workers Party leadership, especially Lula – with whom he has not talked since he was convicted in the “mensalao” (big monthly allowance scandal) trial. Dirceu comlains that the top party leaders won’t lend him any public support. As expected, the Workers Party National Executive Board meeting last Tuesday did not produce any defense of Dirceu. Since he started doing time, he stopped being a participant in the party’s discussion about its political future and was seldom visited by his “fellow party members”. In March of this year, his birthday lunch — an event always full of politicians from all the political spectrum, had little people and no big shot from the Workers Party. “Beware of bad company”, our moms taught us.
(Newspaper headline): José Dirceu is arrested
(Incoming voice): I am feeling very lonely!
(Lula da Silva): Who’s talking? Who’s talking?
Claudio Lessa Por Escrito
Claudio Lessa in writing
CHORO DE TOLO
As notícias dos jornais são de que o canalha multi-criminoso José Dirceu estaria lamentando o abandono de seus companheiros de quadrilha neste momento de dificuldade, em que ele estava para ser e acabou sendo preso. Isso me fez lembrar de uma conversa, ocorrida há vários anos, com uma então deputada, petralha de primeira hora, com influência na região de Santos, São Paulo. Ao descrever os métodos da quadrilha, ela fez questão de afirmar que naquele meio, quem caísse ficava para trás. Ninguém daria meia volta para socorrer um dos seus. Caiu, caiu. Que se lasque. E aí, ao me lembrar das palavras dessa hoje ex-deputada, fico tentando entender o motivo de tanto choro e ranger de dentes. Afinal, o canalha José Dirceu rezou por essa cartilha durante toda a sua vida. Será que agora, quando ele provou a colherada, achou o gosto do remédio amargo demais?
THE WEEPING FOOL
News stories around Brazil tell us that the scoundrel, multi-criminal Jose Dirceu is said to be very dissatisfied with the fact he is being abandoned by his fellow gang members in this moment of difficulty, when he was about to and ended up being jailed. That reminded me of a conversation I had, several years ago, with a then-congresswoman, founder of the Workers Party, with her political influence extended over the Santos, Sao Paulo region. When she described the gang’s methods, she was very precise and rough to explain one thing: in that environment, anyone who fell was left behind. No one would turn back to try and save the fallen buddy. It is remembering the words of that former congresswoman that I try to understand so much weeping and gnashing of teeth. After all, this scoundrel — Jose Dirceu — lived all his life practicing this philosophy. Would he be finding the taste of this medicine too bitter, now?
A Lista das 10 Mais de José Dirceu na Cadeia…
José Dirceu’s Top Ten List…
O Blog do Lessa presta uma homenagem a David Letterman e apresenta as 10 Coisas que José Dirceu Pode Fazer na Cadeia diretamente do Teatro Ed Sulllivan, em Nova York… O texto é de @Paulo Francis_, no Tweeter.
The Lessa Blog pays a tribute to the greatest — David Letterman — by presenting avery special Top Ten List: 10 Things that José Dirceu Can Do in Jail, directly from the Ed Sullivan Theater, in New York. The list was compiled by Twitter’s @Paulo Francis_. And, yes… you’ve got to understand Brazilian Portuguese to understand this one. 😉
Não Custa Repetir…
It’s worth remembering…
Esse papo de blindagem não cola — pelo menos, não cola mais. Dilma, a Mulher-Sapiens, teve conhecimento de todo o esquema desde o início, quando era ministra das Minas e Energia, presidente do Conselho de Administração da Petrobras, chefe da Casa Civil e posteriormente presidente da República. Mesmo que ela não tenha levado dinheiro na proporção do outros, ela é cúmplice, conivente, parte integrante e beneficiária direta do esquema.
This talk of “shielding” Dilma to avoid the administration from being contaminated does not stick — at least, not anymore. Dilma, the Woman-Sapiens, had knowledge of the complete scheme since its inception, when she was the head of Mines and Energy Ministry, then president of Petrobras’ Board of Directors, then Lula’s Chief of Staff and later president herself. Even if she didn’t take money in the same proportion as everyone else involved, she is an accomplice, she is an accessory, she is an integral part and direct beneficiary of the scheme.
(The picture above is from Folha de S.Paulo newspaper’s website)
A Sacada de @RaulFranca1
@RaulFranca1’s take
“Não vamos estabelecer uma meta para o tempo de prisão do Zé Dirceu. E quando atingirmos essa meta a gente dobra a meta”.
“Let’s not set a target for José Dirceu’s time in prison. When we reach that target, we double the target.”
(This is a spoof on Dilma Rousseff’s stupid thought expressed in public a few days ago.)
Laerte Rímoli e a Prisão de Dirceu
Laerte Rimoli and Dirceu’s imprisonment
Esquisito, a segunda prisão do Zé Dirceu mais me entristece do que alegra. Ela representa o fim de uma quimera. Não a ilusão que nos foi vendida pelo PT, um partido feito à imagem e semelhança do Lula. Partido cheio de vícios, aparelhamento, roubo e que nos legou, nos seus estertores, a Dilma. Mas dá uma certa nostalgia. Do romantismo de gente que lutou por um ideal, mas que ao chegar no poder resolveu chafurdar na lama, no dinheiro fácil, no bolivarianismo . Fumar charuto cubano com licor. Usar bermudas floridas caras. Trocar de namoradas, todas jovens, como se troca de roupa. Ostentar o poder pelo poder. Quem sabe, num rasgo de consciência, esse cara resolva contar das tenebrosas transações urdidas em Palácio, com o chefe da gang. Fala, capitão. Revolva seu íntimo e ajude a passar o país a limpo. Isso significa desvendar Luiz Inácio. Dá um exemplo pros seus netos. Retome aqueles antigos ideais (ou eles eram falsos?). Dignidade, ainda que tardia.
It’s strange, but José Dirceu’s second arrest has left me sadder than happier. It represents the end of a dream. Not the illusion sold to us by the Workers Party, a party made in Lula’s image and likeness; a party full of vices, rigging and theft that left us Dilma at the very end. However, it is somewhat nostalgic. There was this romantic feeling in the people who fought for an ideal, but when in power decided to bathe in the mud, in the easy money, in the bolivarianism. They decided to smoke cigars with liqueur. They went on to wear expensive flowery bermudas. They swapped girlfriends, all of them very young, as one changes clothes. It was power for the sake of power. Who knows… this guy could have a crisis of conscience and could decide to tell all the dark transactions schemed in the Planalto Palace with the gang leader. Tell everything, captain. Find it in your heart to help us clean up this country. This means revealing Luiz Inacio. Give an example to your grandchildren. Recapture those old ideals (or were they fake?). Have dignity, even at this late stage.
Não Muda Nada…
Nothing changes…
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
(Left): During an interview to Radio Jovem Pan, Sao Paulo Gov. Alckmin said that “the impeachment is a trauma for the country. We need to care for democracy.”
(Right): In 1999, while leading a movement to oust then recently elected president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, now convicted criminal José Dirceu said that “any congressman can request the start of an impeachment process against the president. To say that this is a coup is just a lack of what to say.”
The Lessa Blog shows each one of these individuals, in their own time, seeking to defend their own personal interests with complete disregard for the real needs of the Brazilian people. Tsk, tsk…
Sylvio Guedes e as Alegrias da Vida
Sylvio Guedes and the joys of life
Parágrafo do noticiário de hoje:
“Dirceu cumpre em prisão domiciliar o restante da pena de 7 anos e 11 meses estipulada pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal, por corrupção ativa. Ele também é investigado por suposta participação no esquema de corrupção da Petrobras.”
Ahhh, são essas pequenas alegrias que dão sentido à vida…
A paragraph of today’s news:
“Dirceu is on house arrest for the remainder of the 7 years 11 months conviction by the Brazilian Supreme Court for corruption. He is also investigated for his supposed participation in the Petrobras corruption scheme.”
Ooooh, those are the little joys that help our life make sense…
Judiciário 3 x 0 José Dirceu
Judiciary 3 x 0 José Dirceu
O canalha mensaleiro condenado José Dirceu, ex-chefe da Casa Civil de Lula da Silva (chefe da quadrilha criminosa que se fantasiou de partido político e jogou o Brasil no desgoverno), está envolvido até o pescoço no “petrolão”, o maior escândalo de roubalheira já desvendado no Brasil, a partir da operação Lava Jato. José Dirceu teve negado, pela terceira vez, o seu pedido de um “habeas corpus preventivo.”
José Dirceu — scoundrel, convicted “mensalão” mastermind & operative, former Lula da Silva’s Chief of Staff (Lula, a.k.a. Brahma, is the head of the criminal organization disguised as a political party that threw Brazil in an administrative/financial/economic black hole), is up to his head in the “petrolão” the scandal involving Petrobras’ assets theft. It is the widest, deepest scandal ever uncovered in Brazil, starting with the Federal Police’s “Car Wash” operation. Mr. Dirceu, currently under house arrest, had his third request for a “preventive” habeas corpus denied.