Breaking: former Trump advisor Jason Miller detained in Brazil, allegedly in the course of seeking black-market chin.
— DemonicEntitiesHat (@Popehat) September 7, 2021
Any sympathy for Miller should be tempered by the recognition that he was heading down their probably hoping to help with mass executions and detentions.
— DemonicEntitiesHat (@Popehat) September 7, 2021
It’s all fun’n’games, until the autogolpe starts. Per the Washington Post:
… In a statement, Miller, the chief executive of the social media site Gettr, said that he and other members of his traveling party were “questioned for three hours at the airport in Brasilia, after having attended this weekend’s CPAC Brasil Conference,” before eventually being released to fly back to the United States.
Miller is among the speakers listed on the website for the Sept. 3-4 Conservative Political Action Conference Brasil. His detention comes on the same day that tens of thousands of people rallied in support of embattled Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, with whom Miller met during his visit…
According to a person with knowledge of the situation, Miller’s questioning was ordered by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The individual spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely talk about the incident.
The order was more fodder for what has grown into a paralyzing constitutional crisis in Brazil. In recent weeks, de Moraes has signed off on the arrest of multiple supporters of Bolsonaro as his office oversees a national investigation into misinformation…
Bolsonaro’s popularity has cratered in recent months as the coronavirus has ravaged the country, the economy has shed millions of jobs and investigations into his conduct have intensified. His discomfort at the inquiries has fueled increasingly bellicose comments, both from him and supporters, some of whom have repeatedly called for him to lead a military takeover of the country and depose those who have sought to constrain his power…
In an interview Monday on former chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, Miller said that after the United States, Brazil is the second-largest country of origin for Gettr users. He praised Bolsonaro’s supporters and said that “a half-million proud patriots” were expected to show up for Tuesday’s rally.
“What I see here, Steve, is so much love and so much enthusiasm for free speech, and especially the folks who are the Bolsonaro supporters. They’re being deplatformed; they’re being shadow banned; they have the long arm of the law. I mean, it’s some pretty nutty stuff,” Miller told Bannon, who served as an informal adviser to Bolsonaro’s 2018 campaign…
I hope someone more knowledgeable than I am (meaning nearly anyone) can explain the context, but this seems like a really reckless time to parachute into Brazil to start shit.https://t.co/Oo5HygY6fs
— DemonicEntitiesHat (@Popehat) September 7, 2021
Argentinian expat in DC:
If Bolsonaro successfully pulls off a Brazilian version of 1/6, it wouldn't just mean the end of Democracy in the world's 5th biggest country, the ripple effects of Bolsonaro's continuing effects on the Amazon would have implications for all life on the planet https://t.co/32YSh1damI
— Landlord Rights Violator (@MenshevikM) September 6, 2021
Jeffro
These scum all use the same playbook, the world over.
Lapassionara
@Jeffro: They do, and it sucks. Aren’t we, here in the US, having another Jan. 6 soonish?
Ken
Anyone know the numbers? No, wait, don’t tell me — I’ll be happier thinking that’s 8 in the US, 5 in Brazil.
Socraticsilence
For added grim humor check out Brazil’s most famous American expat as he attempts to hair split his way to condemning Bolso while downplaying 1/6 and not losing his new MAGA fanbase
debbie
@Lapassionara:
It’s the 18th, I believe.
Kent
The most bizarro experience of the week for me was seeing my rabid MAGA cousin quoting Glem on some Ivermectin bullshit. Apparently he is the new “Colmes” from the old Hannity and Colmes show. The so-called liberal who validates all their bullshit. I guess there is money in that.
RandomMonster
Did nobody tell Miller that the story of Hitler clones in Boys from Brazil was fiction?
Keith P.
@RandomMonster: Miller doesn’t need cloning, since he’s realized there’s bound to be at least one female on this planet willing to fuck him without a condom.
Mike E
I read that as ‘Institutional Rapture’ and almost didn’t give that phrase a second thought.
zhena gogolia
@Kent:
Oh, please don’t tar poor Colmes with that brush!
senyordave
Women of Texas shouldn’t worry, Greg Abbott is on it:
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said in a press conference on Tuesday that the state’s new abortion law would not force a rape victim to carry their assailant’s child to term. To achieve this, the governor pledged to “eliminate all rapists” in Texas, the local NBC affiliate KXAN reported.
Why stop at rape? Why not promise to eliminate all murderers? How about all violent criminals? Then move on to all burglars and petty thieves. Eventually he’ll get around to jaywalkers and speeders. And if he knew all along how to get rid of rapists why has he kept it a secret for so long?
Alison Rose
@senyordave: Did he give a deadline by which he would achieve this miracle? and do we know what his parameters are? I mean, these fuckers tend to have very narrow definitions of rape, or mayhap we shall call it “legitimate rape,” to use their terminology.
RandomMonster
@Keith P.: He probably is aware of that. I meant that he can’t go in search of the Hitler clones themselves.
dmsilev
@senyordave: Prediction: this will be accomplished by defining rape so impossibly narrowly that the only thing which qualifies is someone leaping out of a bush and assaulting a suitably-modestly-attired woman.
mrmoshpotato
Sounds bizarrely familiar and domestic.
West of the Rockies
I said this a post or two downstairs… we NEED to see some A-holes punished for 1/6, especially including the instigators and organizers. Otherwise, RWNJ’s live in a consequence-free world and will continue to storm school board meetings and such.
dmsilev
The impressive, if that’s the right word, thing about Jason Miller is that he’s not even the worst person with the surname Miller in the Trump administration.
mrmoshpotato
@West of the Rockies:
YES! A bazillion percent, yes!
Lady Justice needs to cave in some Dump-humping faces.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
What’s “black market chin?”
Baud
@senyordave:
That’s pretty easy to accomplish. Just repeal the laws making rape illegal.
Ken
@Alison Rose: Now work with me here… We don’t make any laws restricting guns, because only criminals would have guns. It’s practically proverbial. So by the same principle, if we don’t make any laws against rape, or murder, or theft, there won’t be any rape, or murder, or theft. Laws create crime; only a lawless society can be free of crime.
debbie
@senyordave:
He just gets stupider and stupider. ?
Patricia Kayden
Hoping that Brazil will do with Bolsonaro what we did to Trump last November.
Go Lula!!! If the polls hold, he should win (again).
Betty
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: I think he is referring to Miller being weak-chinned and needing an implant.
Steeplejack (phone)
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
A chin purchased on the black market to replace the one that, by all photographic evidence, he does not have. “After-market chin” probably would have been better.
Baud
@Steeplejack (phone):
Pre-owned chin?
Ryan
Drat! Why couldn’t have it been Santa Monica Goebbels Miller?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: Took me a minute, too. I thought, “is that the latest Covid cure on wing nut Facebook? I don’t suppose this one is lethal. Not that I want it to be, of course…”
NotMax
Open thread?
If the vaccine had forced the growing of an aditional thumb, all three would be in the up position.
Experimented with a mix and match of various recipes to make a loaf of peanut butter-cocoa-coffee-raisin bread in the super duper bread machine.
This one’s a keeper.
eclare
@dmsilev: unfortunately true
NotMax
@Baud
Dare one say a manchin?
//
Yutsano
@Ryan: Because these are browns? He’s driven much more by ideology than money.
OT: Update on Minna: they were able to take her back to MRI. Her brother noted her hands were warm again, so possible hope.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
Hard to find one to fit a bowling ball with a goatee. Probably have to be custom made.
NotMax
FYI.
Splitting Image
@Yutsano:
I just saw the original thread. Hope she pulls through OK.
cain
@senyordave:
Perhaps he will have some pre-cogs to help with that?
The diarrhea of the mouth this guy has! If you can have an abortion before 6 weeks, that doesn’t stop you from getting dragged into court by some deviant white man,right?
trollhattan
Bolsonaro, in addition to being a Portuguese-speaking Nazi, is hellbent on mowing down the Amazonian rainforest for mining and to grow cattle and soybeans (waves to the Chinese export market). The so-called “lungs of the planet” are in great peril and by extension, we all are if this guy remains in power.
prostratedragon
A better gift (what wouldn’t be?) from the U.S. to Brazil:
cain
@West of the Rockies:
One thing that has opened my eyes and maybe all of yours as well – is how much the system coddles these folks. Covid deniers/anti-vaxxers goes into a ICU and kicks out people with cancer, accident victims and what not. I have no idea how hospitals allow this.
Then you see these insurrectionists get fairly mild sentences and then the general somewhat sluggishness of the system to respond to all kinds of bullshit the right wingers are doing.
It’s just irritating and I dont’ know how we the majority can effect the system that seems to coddle right wingers.
cain
@Ken: Not quite. But you’re going in the right direction. What their thinking is that they repeal the laws for rape, and then force women to own guns and they get punished if they can’t defend themselves against a rapist. By that measure the rapist gets $10k for helping improve protection for women. :dark humor:
germy
Greenwald gets the Pitchbot treatment:
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Lurve me some Gottschalk and have linked his music multiple times in the past.
This one never fails to perk me up.
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
I’d forgotten about Colmes. Just looked him up to see what he’s up to these days, and to my surprise he is dead. How did I not know that? (Or perhaps I did and had interred the knowledge.)
trollhattan
Here’s a shockeroo:
Afghan sausagefest, just like a death metal concert.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Sharing a desk with Hannity must have knocked a decade, decade-and-a-half off his lifespan I figure. Poor schlub.
WereBear
In the end, it’s always the raging incompetence that brings them down. Prosaic, that.
Not a great thing for the GQP to gamble on in this age of razor-thin margins.
SiubhanDuinne
@senyordave:
I have a feeling he’s going to (try to) decriminalise rape — basically disappear it as actionable. There’s no such thing as rape, little lady, therefore you can’t have been raped, therefore there’s no such thing as a rape exception in the abortion
billlaw.Patricia Kayden
SiubhanDuinne
@Ken:
William S. Gilbert could easily have written this to resolve all the loose plot threads in any of his operettas.
Ken
@cain: Truly, freedom is slavery, war is peace, and ignorance is strength. But the greatest of these is ignorance.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Maybe he’ll lift the idea from Duterte’s war on drug dealers and just go out and start shooting dudes. “You, you look like a rapist. You a rapist?” Blam!
Plus, he’s already shown himself to be a fan of bounties.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Ah! Thought that might be it. Always hurts me to learn that many of his works appear to be lost.
@trollhattan: What in the world is his major mania there? Seems to make the analogies that are drawn between sexual rapacity and callous treatment of the earth and its resources quite exact.
Yutsano
@Splitting Image: The big hold-up was getting her to MRI. I hope there are sparks there. She needs to come back to us.
Anne Laurie
A less-than-six-weeks old embryo doesn’t have a ‘heartbeat’, so not per the existing dog’s breakfast of a law.
Lots of women in Texas will be stocking up on Plan B (48-hours-after-intercourse birth control) and probably also misoprostol.
Of course the Texas fetus-fetishists will go after those drugs next, but it’s a lot harder to harass a woman in her own home. The availability/ information about ‘pharmaceutical’ abortions is the closest we get to a sliver of a silver lining here, IMO.
WaterGirl
@germy: Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
NotMax
@Patricia Kayden
“Shut down” gives an impression which partially overstates the case.
Ken
@trollhattan: Any word on whether any of the new caliphate’s cabinet members were among the thousands released from prison under the terms of the Trump deal with the Taliban?
trollhattan
@Ken:
Great question–have not heard that detail, yet, but will not be surprised.
In other repressive regime news, Matt Gaetz has a friend in Minnesota.
WaterGirl
@Ken:
sigh.
Ghost of Joe Liebling*s Dog
@SiubhanDuinne:
Obligatory “how could they tell”?
Ken
Too soon?
WaterGirl
@Ken: No, not too soon at all. Sigh because there was no reason to let those people go. The 200 dead at the airport and the 13 service people? On T****’s head.
phdesmond
@NotMax:
it’s a great anthem. i enjoyed learning it when i moved to brazil as a kid.
Urban Suburbanite
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
It’s Jason Miller’s only hope for a face that doesn’t resemble a cartoon henchman.
NotMax
@phdesmond
Last time I was in Brazil was — gasp — sixty years ago this summer. If I learned it then it has long since crept back into the wild.
;)
artem1s
@Anne Laurie:
Pharmacists are going to be the first to turn women in or they will be the first to get reported for aiding and abetting an abortion. Just asking about a pharmaceutical option will be grounds for charging someone with an abortion thought crime.
Miss Bianca
@senyordave: Yeah, I bet “eliminate all rapists” is going to be a really popular platform with Abbott’s base.
Uncle Cosmo
FTFY. (You’re quite welcome!)
sdhays
@Anne Laurie: It’s not a silver lining, but I think that since having this fight was basically inevitable as soon as Dump was inaugurated President, it’s good that this law is the first that the Supremacist Court chose to green light. It will cause a backlash (how big is yet to be seen). It may be for the overall good if other states like Florida pass copycat laws too. It could end up costing Republicans everything, including the Supremacist Court.
I don’t say this lightly. A lot of people are going to be hurt. But since that’s already baked in with the current Court, I think the best chance to end this shit quickly (as quickly as possible given our system and structural issues) is for these assholes to go all in on their Cultural Revolution and reap the whirlwind. Hopefully.
prostratedragon
@Ken: Well maybe not quite, but one, interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, is $5million worth of wanted by the FBI.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
I didn’t know Colmes was dead either. Lymphoma at 66 (in 2017). Oof.
phdesmond
@NotMax:
last time i was there was 1966!
Another Scott
Another brainiac who doesn’t understand the first amendment decided to threaten to sue Wonkette.
https://www.wonkette.com/monty-bennett-v-wonkette
Cheers,
Scott.
cmorenc
@sdhays:
Except for the wee problem that SCOTUS seats are life appointments, and can’t be voted off the court.
Ken
@Another Scott: I thought we used the term “Streisand”, not “brainiac”, for people who publicize their own bad behavior.
Kay
Weird that Republicans conditioned “eliminating all the rapists” on banning abortion. Why didn’t they do that before? We have to earn it by having the rapists’ babies? They were fine with the rapists as long as their victims insisted on getting abortions but now we outrank the rapists, where before we were both “bad” so they saw it as even?
Just trying to get my head around this new pregnancy regulation regime. What countries legal system is grounded in this bizarre, brutal moral calculus they pulled out of their ass? Not any country I’m familiar with.
Tim in SF
It took me a long time to figure out “black market chin” meant, and now I’m laughing.
Anne Laurie
You are, unfortunately, correct.
The GOP Death Cultists can’t ‘end abortion’. But they can hurt a great many individuals, and probably kill a few in the process. Like you, I’m counting on the backlash — and also the fact of its ineffectiveness — to blow back at the Republicans. I just wish it didn’t cost so much to so many innocent bystanders!
Eolirin
@cmorenc: Alito, Thomas and Roberts will be dead sooner or later. If we get control of the white house and senate for the next several cycles because of blowback from attacking Roe, we replace them all.
I’m less optimistic about that happening, especially in the face of gerrymandering, willingness to overturn elections, and voter suppression, while voting rights laws are stalled out in the senate, but it could.