09x23 - Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT
WITH JOHN OLIVER

Welcome to "Last Week Tonight"!

I'm John Oliver.
Thank you so much for joining us.

It's been a busy week,
and a lot has happened.

In Iran, there've been huge protests
over the k*lling of a young woman

after she was arrested
by their morality police.

We also learned
that Adam Levine is as bad at sexting

as he is at coming up
with meaningful tattoos,

and Joe Biden
declared the pandemic over.

Which isn't just irresponsible,
it's complete bullshit.

You can't just declare something
and make it a reality.

If I declare the Queen is alive,
that doesn't make it true.

We all know she's in the afterlife now,
looking up at Diana.

But we're going
to start with Ron DeSantis,

Florida governor and Playmobil figurine
inspired by a detailed HR complaint.

DeSantis made headlines
recently after doing this.

This morning, a surprising scene
in Martha's Vineyard.

Two planes filled with about


including several children,

arriving in Martha's Vineyard,

flown in by Florida Republican governor
and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis.

An effort to turn the spotlight
to immigration

just two months
before the midterm elections.

Yeah, it certainly was "a surprising
scene on Martha's Vineyard,"

which, to be honest,
sounds like a romance novel

designed to make you cum
pumpkin spice.

Sending a group of migrants there
was extremely reckless

because Martha's Vineyard isn't set up
with any of the key resources

that migrants need,
unless they're desperate

for a fishmonger
to over-describe what it was like

to sell Jackie O. a pound of scallops
in 1983.

And if this seems like a stunt
made for Fox News,

you are absolutely right but it also
may've been made by Fox News.

Because just two months ago,
Tucker Carlson did a segment

pointing out the whiteness
of Martha's Vineyard

and he had this fun proposal.

They are begging
for more diversity.

Why not send migrants there,
in huge numbers?

Let's start with 300 000
and move up from there.

Okay, first,
Martha's Vineyard is an island

that has a year-round population
under 20 000.

So, suggesting
sending 300 000 people there

is a little like suggesting
you let Tucker Carlson

bring you to sexual completion,

it isn't just a disgusting idea,
it's a logistically impossible one.

But it seems DeSantis
just took that idea and ran with it.

I guess it is true they say:
good artists borrow,

great artists steal, r*cist governors
get their ideas yelled at them

by the human equivalent

of the boat shoe found
at the scene of a hazing death.

This stunt was both grim
and deeply cynical,

especially given that the migrants
were reportedly lured there

with empty promises of jobs and housing
and even handed brochures

listing government assistance
that they were not eligible for.

In fact, that brochure
was so sloppily designed

that, while it featured
a flag for Massachusetts,

that's not the state's actual flag.

This is the real flag.
That is just a fake flag

they found from this post online
made by somebody who said,

and I quote, "The current one
blows so I made this one."

The Boston Globe actually tracked down
the guy who made it, who said,

"No one had seen this flag until some
idiot staffer for DeSantis or whoever"

stumbled across it.

"I cannot fathom
why they would use the wrong one,"

adding, "This is all hilarious,
although at the same time deeply sad,

'cause the real story is asylum seekers
being exploited and human trafficked."

Which is absolutely true.

Also, you would think Ron DeSantis
might have caught that error

given that he spent three years
at Harvard Law School,

which is, correct me if I'm wrong,
in f*cking Massachusetts.

I hope DeSantis paid more attention
to the law part of law school,

especially as it seems
like he might well need it right now,

given that a Texas sheriff
has opened a criminal investigation

into the migrants' trips
to Martha's Vineyard.

And if you're thinking, "Why a Texas
sheriff and not a Florida one?"

For all DeSantis' talk about the
urgency of this issue for his voters,

these migrants didn't even come
from his state.

Why not? You know what?
I'll just let him explain.

The problem is is we're not seeing
mass movements of them into Florida,

so you end up
with a car with maybe two.

And if we know that that's illegal,

and there's someone that's smuggling,
then committing crime,

then you can do arrests,
there have been drug seizures.

But that's not effective enough
to stop the mass migration,

but it's just coming
in onesie-twosies.

Okay.

First, "onesie-twosies?"

These are real people's lives,
not a baby's f*cking toes.

But second, it seems,
this huge problem for his state,

mass migration,
is actually so little of a problem,

he had to borrow 50 migrants from
a state halfway across the country.

But still, you know what,
credit where it's due-nothing says,

"I'm against illegal immigration
and human trafficking,"

quite like making fake documents
to smuggle people across a border.

We could spend the rest of this show
talking about DeSantis,

and why he always looks like
he's wearing a suit under his suit.

But there is also an urgent
crisis going on in Puerto Rico.

This morning, Puerto Rico in the dark
after powerful winds from Fiona

knocked out power
to nearly everyone on the island.

In Utuado in the center of the island,
this new metal bridge,

built just four years ago after Hurricane
Maria, was swept away like a twig.

Holy sh*t. That is devastating.

When you hear that something
has been "swept away like a twig,"

you expect that something to be
Timothée Chalamet in a light breeze,

not a large piece
of infrastructure in a river.

One remarkable thing about the current
devastation in Puerto Rico is that,

while it's reminiscent of what happened
there 5 years ago with Hurricane Maria,

that hurricane
made landfall as a Category 4 storm,

whereas Hurricane Fiona
was just a Category 1.

And that speaks to the fact
that the recovery from Maria

has been a complete shambles,

from the moment that Tr*mp flung
paper towels at people, to right now.

There have been unforgivable delays

in strengthening infrastructure
like the power grid there,

despite billions of federal dollars
being allocated to it.

And about that power grid.

After years of mismanagement
by the island's publicly-owned utility,

in 2021, a private company called
Luma Energy took over operations.

But incredibly, since then, things
have only managed to get worse.

Not only
are outages now even longer,

at one point,
a hospital lost power for 16 hours.

And that was during
normal weather.

Now, as for the head of Luma,
in a congressional hearing last year,

he didn't seem especially
concerned about how things were going.

How would you characterize
Luma's transition

to managing Puerto Rico's
electrical grid so far,

with one being a total disaster
and 10 being a remarkable success?

When I look at it on balance,

I would give us, you know, a B.

I think we have a lot to do.

So one to 10, one to 10,
you would give yourself like a six?

I'd give myself, I'd give us a seven.
Considering what we've…

How many blackouts

have been reported
since Luma took over on June 1?

The system has a very large number
of outages, congresswoman.

Is it so big you can't even
keep track of them all?

There are outages
every single day.

That is a terrible answer.

First, you should be keeping tracks of
the outages happening on your watch.

Second, the question was based on a
scale of one to 10 and you answered B.

And finally, a seven out of 10
would be a 70% grade,

but that's actually a C-minus.

So, if I were to grade
your ability to grade yourself,

I'd give you a two out of 10,
which, for the record, is a f*cking F.

Honestly, I don't know why you didn't
just leave that Zoom immediately

and blame it on a blackout.

You're the CEO of Luma Energy,
it would've been entirely believable.

And while Luma has repeatedly
promised over the last year

that things are improving,

even before Fiona hit,
there were clear signs of trouble.

Just look what happened when
the governor there, Pedro Pierluisi,

spoke to discuss plans
for the coming storm.

Don't need to know what he's saying,
you just need to watch what happens.

Yeah, that's not great, is it?

I don't know what's worse there,
the fact the power went out

in the middle of his press conference
about storm preparedness,

or the fact that no one in the room
seemed that surprised.

The only way that could've been
more ominous is if,

when the lights came back on, Michael
Myers was standing right behind him.

People have been understandably
furious in Puerto Rico for a while now.

There've been street protests
with people making protest signs

out of appliances
that were ruined during power surges.

And just watch this reaction
at a Bad Bunny concert in San Juan

when he called Luma out.

Luma can go to hell.

It says a lot about how much people
hate that company

that that elicited
the kind of crowd response

you'd normally expect when someone
announces something like,

"Everyone gets a free car!"
or "Henry Kissinger has d*ed!"

Bad Bunny has been trying to draw
attention to Puerto Rico's problems

for a while now.

Just last Friday, he released a new
music video for his song, "El Apagón",

which literally translates
to "The Blackout".

But around a minute into the video,
there's a significant tonal shift.

Puerto Rico keeps struggling
with power outages

that are leaving dozens of thousands
of people without electricity.

This expl*si*n left the entire country
without electricity back in April.

Yeah. Bad Bunny
suckers you in with a song,

and then hits you with,
and this is true,

a 20-minute
deep-dive documentary

featuring the reporting
of a local investigative journalist.

And it is legitimately well done.

There's infographics
of donations to politicians,

and an explanation of Act 22,

the Puerto Rican law that lures
wealthy investors to the island

with the promise
of no capital gains taxes.

Honestly, the video
is sort of like this show,

where you think
you're getting something fun

before getting tricked into watching
"Homework: The Television Show".

Also, like Bad Bunny,
I too am young and hot.

I'm young and I'm hot and going places,
like my peer, Bad Bunny.

We're more similar
than we are different.

The point is, people in Puerto Rico
are justifiably fed up,

and they are making it very clear

that they're not going to
stand for this much longer.

You know that if Luma Energy
doesn't do what it should be doing,

it better get ready.

Because Puerto Ricans are nice people,
but when we get irate,

you better scramble to board
a plane and say, "Buh-bye."

Exactly!
And look, if I'm the head of Luma,

I don't know exactly
how nervous I should be right now,

but if you ask me
on a scale of one to 10,

I'd probably say a f*cking shitload.

And now, this!

And Now…

The Queue to End All Queues.

In London, people are continuing
to queue for hours

to pay their respects to the Queen,

who's lying in state
at Westminster Hall.

The late Queen has done us proud.

She's brought the country together.

She's brought together probably
the best British queuing of all time.

What I've loved about this queue
is that it's a great equalizer.

No matter your job, your class,
your age, your status,

you line up with your fellow Brits.

We didn't used to be good
at queuing.

We were famous for rioting
and cutting kings' heads off.

It's become this gargantuan
human snake,

sort of engorged on bouquets of flowers
and a million mini Paddington bears.

So many people turned up to pay
tribute, they had to close the queue

and put them in a holding pen
in another queue.

If people don't feel the urge to queue,
what does it say about them?

The Brits love a queue,
but this was the queue of all queues.

This queue is different
to all other queues I've ever been in.

It's the queue to end all queues.

I've spoken to people who had
no intention of joining the queue

that just got sucked into it.

Such is the seductiveness
of the queue.

Moving on.
Our main story tonight concerns Brazil.

The only country whose flag lets
a little circle wear a fancy sash.

Isn't that nice?

The circle is all dressed up
for its big day being on the flag.

Brazil is one of the largest
democracies in the world,

with more than 156 million people
eligible to vote.

And next Sunday,
it's having a massive election.

We've mentioned Brazil's
elections on this show before,

partly because campaign
ads there can be spectacular,

like this one, for a man
currently running for state deputy.

I'm samurai taxi driver.

You can find me
around Pernambuco.



Excellent!
I don't know anything about nunchucks.

I don't know if they are historically
a part of samurai taxi driver culture.

I don't know if using your armpits
so much is usually a part of it.

But I'm impressed that he spent
so much time learning to use them,

but seemingly zero time learning
how to edit out the part of the video

where he turns his phone off.

Many elected positions are on
the ballot in Brazil next Sunday,

from governors to senators.

But the key one
is the office of president,

where Jair Bolsonaro
is running for reelection.

You may remember,
four years ago,

we actually discussed
his first presidential run.

I assume. I don't watch this show.
But if you missed it, a quick recap:

Bolsonaro is a right-wing
ex-m*llitary populist

who, when in Congress,
told a female colleague,

"I wouldn't r*pe you,
you're not worth it," has said,

"I would prefer my son to die in an
accident" than to have him be gay,

and loves making finger g*ns
all the f*cking time.

Basically, Bolsonaro campaigned
as a misogynistic h*m*

who gestures
like he runs a tech startup.

But now, he's campaigning
as an incumbent president,

and he's been drawing
on all the perks of the office,

including recently turning the 200th
anniversary of Brazilian independence

into what was essentially
a campaign rally for himself.

His rally
in Brazil's capital city Brasília

drew tens of thousands
of supporters,

and a m*llitary display of planes,
parachutists, and tanks.

Even the embalmed heart
of monarch Dom Pedro I,

who declared Brazil's independence
from Portugal 200 years ago,

was brought over
from Europe to be on display.

First, if you were wondering
what Dom Pedro I d*ed of,

it was probably
his heart looking like that.

It's true, they put a two-century-old
heart on an Air Force plane

and flew it to Brazil.

It is the first unnaturally
preserved human body part

to fly on a m*llitary jet
since all of Tom Cruise.

Bolsonaro's main opponent
in this election is former president,

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

He was incredibly popular
while in office,

but later got caught up in the
international corruption investigation

Operation Car Wash,

even landing in prison during Brazil's
last election, so he couldn't run.

But his conviction
has since been annulled,

and polls now show him leading
the race by a wide margin-about 10%.

But the concerns in Brazil
are that if, as seems likely,

Bolsonaro loses, he won't give up
his office without a fight,

and could even
"follow Tr*mp's example

in encouraging supporters to back a
tropical version of the Capitol riot."

Which isn't great.
Although-for the record,

you really don't have
to use the word "tropical"

to describe an insurrection because
you're talking about Latin America.

Especially because "tropical riot"
sounds like a Mountain Dew flavor

that was recalled
for blinding several children.

And Bolsonaro's version
of January 6th

could be a lot more destructive
than Tr*mp's,

given that he has done a great deal to
cultivate support within his m*llitary.

All of which makes
it more than a little concerning

when he stands in front of his
supporters and says things like this.

There are only three
alternatives for me:

to be arrested, to be k*lled,
or to be victorious.

And I tell those scumbags,
I will never go to jail.

Okay, that is never a good omen,
is it?

No one says that
before doing something pleasant.

No one says their options
are "victory, prison, or death"

before they, say, march into 'The Great
British Bake-Off' tent for biscuit week.

Not even the German guy, and honestly,
I was half expecting that from him.

The first round of the election
is next Sunday,

and if no one wins
more than 50% of the vote,

it will go to a second round
on October 30th,

although, worryingly,
Bolsonaro has already said

that if he doesn't win
outright next Sunday,

receiving at least 60% of the votes,

something, quote,
"abnormal" took place.

If one of the world's
biggest democracies

seems like it might
be barreling towards a cliff,

tonight,
let's talk about Jair Bolsonaro,

the man with his foot planted firmly
on the gas.

And let's start with the fact
that, unfortunately,

he's governed pretty much
exactly how he said he was going to.

He's followed through
on a big campaign promise

to make g*ns
more freely available in Brazil,

loosening g*n laws to the point
that, since he took office,

"the number of g*ns in private hands
has doubled to nearly two million",

despite polls showing
the majority of Brazilians

are against making the sale
and possession of weapons easier.

So, he is giving people something
they didn't ask for and don't want.

Which I believe
is also the job description

for the head of original
programming at Netflix.

But much more than that,

Bolsonaro has been an absolute
disaster for the Amazon,

a rainforest that is critical for Brazil
and, you know, the Planet Earth.

He has loosened regulations
to expand logging and mining there,

and massively scaled back
protections and enforcement.

And almost immediately after he
took office, conditions deteriorated.

Under Bolsonaro, deforestation
is at its highest point in a decade,

with an area 10 times
the size of New York City

destroyed through October this year.

And in August, there was an average
of 1 000 fires every day.


That is so many fires!

If you asked me what happens
in the Amazon 1 000 times a day,

my first guess
would be capybaras f*cking.

Selfexplanatory.

My second
would be frog birthday parties.

There's got to be at least 5 000
of them with a birthday every day

and we have to assume that some
combine parties for convenience

and others just don't want
to have a big thing this year.

But exactly zero
of my guesses would be fires.

These fires are often
part of illegal deforestation,

to clear areas for industrial uses,
deforestation, incidentally,

which can encroach on land
where Indigenous people live.

They have been forced to confront these
loggers, ranchers, miners on their own,

which can be both very dangerous,
and deeply dispiriting.

When we confront them, they say,
"Don't you watch the news?

Bolsonaro said that when he won, we
could take wood from Indigenous land."

This is what they say to us.

Right. And it has got to be tough
to fight someone taking your stuff

when they feel
they've got permission

from the most powerful person
in the country.

If I stole your wallets and then
played a clip of Biden saying,

"Hey John, I don't give a sh*t if TV
hosts rob their audience members.

If you'll excuse me,

I'm gonna go say 10 wrong or weird
things in a row on '60 Minutes,'"

there really wouldn't be
much that you could do about it.

The point is the destruction
of the Amazon under Bolsonaro

has been devastating.

In fact, while "worldwide
greenhouse gas emissions

plummeted by almost 7%" in 2020,
due to the pandemic,

Brazil's emissions
actually grew by nearly 10%.

And Bolsonaro's
added insult to injury,

claiming those fires in the Amazon
were false flags,

"accusing outsiders

of being part of a nefarious plot
to seize Brazil's jungles,"

and accusing Leonardo DiCaprio
of funding arson in the Amazon.

Which is just absurd!

Where would Leo
find the time to do that

between his busy film schedule,
his daily yacht f*ck,

and having a big laugh at every Tweet
about his May to December love life.

"Man, the internet got me again!"

Leo shouts to the richest people
on the planet

over a bottle of wine
that costs more than your rent.

But perhaps the defining catastrophe
of Bolsonaro's presidency

has been his handling
of the Covid pandemic.

Brazil has suffered massively,

over 34 million cases,
and over 685,000 deaths.

And right from the start,
he refused to take it seriously,

initially dismissing Covid
as "a little flu,"

and then,
once the death toll started rising,

shrugging off responsibility
in the most dickish possible way.

Everything is about
the pandemic nowadays.

We have got to stop with this.
I'm sorry for the dead.

I'm sorry,
but we're all going to die one day.

Everybody here is going to die.

We have to stop
being a country of sissies.

That is just monumentally shitty.

I got to say, America's Covid
response left a lot to be desired,

but at least the CDC's slogan
was never,

"What are you complaining about,

death comes for all of us,
man up and die in a hole."

But Bolsonaro didn't just abdicate
responsibility for fighting Covid,

he actively made it worse,
attacking governors

and anyone else who promoted
shutdowns or social distancing.

To the extent that lockdown orders
were issued at all in Brazilian cities,

they sometimes
came from very surprising places.

The situation has become so serious

that the drug gangs that rule this slum
and other slums in Rio de Janeiro

have decreed a lockdown,

and they have forbidden all clandestine
parties from happening.

It's true! Drug gangs ended up
being more responsible

when it came to Covid
than the Brazilian government.

Although, let's not give them
too much credit for banning parties,

you know what is pretty appealing

when you're stuck inside
with nothing to do and nowhere to go?

dr*gs.

And what is so frustrating here is
that Brazil was better positioned

than many other countries
to handle Covid.

It has a long history
of successful inoculation drives,

starring their beloved vaccine mascot,
Ze Gotinha,

who, at best, looks like a super sperm
and at worst,

a Klan member
all dressed up for jazzercise.

And yet, Bolsonaro not only
sowed doubts about the vaccines,

his administration
delayed ordering doses for months.

In fact, last year,

Pfizer apparently reached out
to the Brazilian government 81 times,

trying to set up a deal
to provide doses of vaccines,

but most of the time got no answer.

And some of those emails
from Pfizer were just sad.

One read,
"Hope all is well with you!

I just wanted to confirm that you
received yesterday a communication

sent on behalf
of the president of Pfizer,

with the updated proposal of a possible
supply of Covid-19 vaccines.

Will you let me know?"
And come on, Pfizer!

If you're getting ghosted like that,
you got to be more blunt than that.

Something like,
"Attention Dickheads,

Your country has Covid, we have
a vaccine, let's do this thing."

Or even, "Earth to President Bitch,

stop subtweeting Leonardo DiCaprio
and answer your f*cking phone."

And the thing is, it is not
like Brazilians didn't want vaccines,

proven by the fact that,
once they finally became available,

virtually 100% of the adult populations
in Rio and Sao Paulo

got fully vaccinated, a number that
no American city has managed to hit.

And the Covid debacle
would be comfortably enough

for people to be done with Bolsonaro,

but there is so much more,
including the fact

that, despite running on an anti
corruption platform four years ago,

Bolsonaro and his inner circle
have since become engulfed

in a growing number of criminal
and legislative investigations.

And while he has denied
wrongdoing,

one sign of just how touchy
he is about these allegations

is that when a journalist
asked him about one of them,

he replied, "I feel like punching you
in your mouth, okay?"

So it is just no wonder
that he is trailing in the polls.

Which is not to say that Bolsonaro
doesn't have supporters,

because he does,
and they can be intense.

Thousands of supporters lined up
in front of this gym

next to Rio de Janeiro's iconic
Maracana football stadium.

Inside, crowds wearing the
colors of the Brazilian flag

cheer for President Jair Bolsonaro,
calling him the messiah and the myth.

Okay, I love that man. I love
his outfit. I love his face paint.

I love the way
he looks like the Hulk

losing his sh*t
at a Green Bay Packers game.

But what I love most of all

is what appears to be a security guard
over his shoulder,

scanning the crowd for threats,
while looking everywhere

but at the bright green man
right in front of him,

screaming so hard
he might explode.

Bolsonaro seems to be laying
the groundwork with his supporters

for an eventual Tr*mp-style
refusal to accept the election results,

even pointing to our last election
as a cautionary tale for Brazilians.

What happened
in the American elections…

Basically, the problem,
the cause of this crisis

was the lack of trust in the vote.

There were people
who voted three, four times.

Dead people voted.
It was a mess.

Great. So, that is the January 6th oped
absolutely no one needed,

from the man
no one wanted to hear it from,

and from the camera angle
that absolutely no one deserves.

He's saying his stupid
opinions out loud,

you really don't have to go hunting
for them right up his nostrils.

Bolsonaro has been going
out of his way

to undermine faith
in Brazil's election system,

suggesting judges and officials
are trying to sabotage his reelection,

and fearmongering about the country's
electronic voting machines,

machines which are even the subject
of ASMR election PSAs like this one.

Electronic ballot box ASMR

Do you still have questions
about the elections?

We're here to make things simple.

And today's question is: why vote?

Horny.

Every day
there are millions of people

experiencing their own
personal sexual awakenings,

and I'm guessing that today
at least one of them

discovered that softly fondling
Brazilian voting machines

is apparently their thing.

Welcome to the rest of your life.

But Brazil's voting machines
aren't just quietly erotic,

they're also widely seen
as secure.

"They are not connected
to the internet,

which makes them all
but impossible to hack."

And it's worth knowing that,
since their introduction in 1996,

authorities "have never found
any evidence of widespread fraud."

Yet Bolsanaro has repeatedly
att*cked the machines as crooked,

claiming that his margin
of victory in 2018

actually should have been
even larger.

He even subjected
a room full of diplomats

to a 45-minute presentation accusing
Brazil's elections of being rigged.

And that is incredibly dangerous,

partly because people
will agree to anything

if you thr*aten them with
a 45-minute PowerPoint presentation.

In our office, we have an email
security seminar once a year,

and this year I broke my laptop
with a hammer

just so I could claim
that it did not apply to me.

It was the right call
and I will do it again.

I don't want to waste time knocking down
every one of Bolsonaro's complaints,

In raising these objections
in the run-up to the election,

his intention isn't to maximize
the security of the vote,

but to maximize the amount
of distrust that people have in it.

And his supporters have been
very much listening to his bullshit.

If the elections are fair,
he wins in the first round,

only in the first round.

He will only lose the election
if there is fraud,

and the people will take to the streets
to stop that from happening.

That's interesting, isn't it,
because if you look at that man

you'd think, "He loves Brazil."

But if you listen to him,

you'd learn he's willing
to burn his country to the ground

based on a flimsily-laid
conspiracy theory.

But I guess that duality is part of the
boundless mystery and contradiction

that makes human beings
the absolute f*cking worst.

And given Bolsonaro's rhetoric,

it is no wonder there've already
been outbreaks of v*olence.

One Lula supporter was k*lled
when a Bolsonaro supporter

invaded his Lula-themed
birthday party and sh*t him,

while shouting
that "all PT partisans,"

that is, supporters
of Lula's political party, "will die."

So, things are very tense
right now in Brazil

and that is before you consider

just how close Bolsonaro
is to the armed forces there.

Not only is he ex-m*llitary,
not only has he expressed admiration

for the m*llitary dictatorship
that ran the country until 1985,

his government is also heavily
stocked with m*llitary personnel.

And some leaders
of Brazil's armed forces

have raised
similar doubts to Bolsonaro's

about the integrity
of the elections.

All of which
has led some in Brazil

to understandably worry
about what lies ahead.

This flirting of President Bolsonaro
with a coup

is not a recent thing,
it's an old thing.

The people that support him
are willing to do anything.

Just like the supporters
of President Donald Tr*mp

when the Capitol was invaded.

I have no doubt, I have even
written about it, that here in Brazil,

we will have a tragic, dramatic
repetition of what happened there.

Yeah, except, crucially,
it could be much worse there,

because luckily for us,
Tr*mp's allies were generally limited

to a shirtless man in a fur hat,

a perpetually hoarse pillow baron,
and some of his dumber children.

But Bolsonaro
has significant m*llitary support,

and there is some question of what they
might do in the event of an uprising.

Which raises the stakes significantly.

Generally,
when someone threatens democracy,

it's a lot easier to say,
"You and what army?"

when you're
absolutely certain

that that person doesn't have
an actual army behind them.

The point is, for Brazil,
there is a lot on the line here.

And right now,
it seems the most likely scenario

is that no one
will win outright next Sunday,

meaning that both Bolsonaro
and Lula

head to a run-off on October 30th.

But the weeks ahead
could be extremely nerve-racking.

And the fact is, if Bolsonaro
eventually loses

and chooses to fight the results,

it is going to test the strength
of Brazil's relatively young democracy.

So, to the people
there who are worried right now,

let me address you in the two languages
that I know you'll understand:

Portuguese and, of course,
the language of the 'chuck.

So, please.

If you will bear with me.

Hello, Brazil!

I'm samurai talk show host.

I am sorry for what you are
going through right now.

Our thoughts will be with you
in the next few weeks.

Good luck!

That is our show, thank you
so much for watching.

We'll see you next week,
good night!

I just need to find the button.

Is this it?