The public overwhelmingly supports Jair Bolsonaro's conviction, seeing it as a vital victory for democracy and accountability in Brazil. Many comments express admiration for Brazil's judicial integrity and criticize the perceived failures in the U.S. justice system, calling for similar accountability for political leaders like Trump. Overall, there is a strong sense of pride in Brazil's democratic actions and a longing for comparable justice in the U.S.

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AntiOriginalUsername

I wish Mr. Jair Bolsonaro a VERY LONG LIFE

Here's to many, many years (hopefully at least 27) in his long future

Califafa

Joadsshovel

Imagine having a justice system that punished treason.

Yarhj

Justice Roberts, take a biiiiig long look.

jough22

steve_ample

flyingtoaster63

Brazil! 🇧🇷 👊🏼
Show the world how it's done!

codacoda74

Somebody else tried this, but I can't think of who it was... It's at the tip of my tongue, I think he might have been a child rapist?

GloriousWhole

I'm jealous.  This could have been Trump if we had the will to do the right thing.

[deleted]

homeboy is going to spend the rest of his life in prison all because he wanted to be like daddy trump

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Arkie1927

team_ti

The people of Brazil suffered for 20 years under a US-backed military dictator. They clearly refuse to live through it again

Nuclear-Jester

OrgnolfHairyLegs

DAMN! If we had half the balls of the Brazilian courts in this country, half our problems wouldn't exist right now.

Niceguy955

JudgeOfGuarantee

Dayum unbelievable, we could only dream of this for the US politicians

DonkeyInevitable664

So people can go to prison for a coup? Wonder if the USA knows that.

AlmoschFamous

#GET FUCKED PIECE OF SHIT POCKET STUCK THE MORNING CARALHO

N4gual

This is the best thing Brazil did ever since Santos Dumont invented the airplane.

borazine

Now do Trump next.  Oh, wait, Republicans were spineless when they had the chance.  And Garland is a feckless wet noodle.

strato15

Holy shit, especially crazy since the maximum sentence for anything in Brazil is 30 years iirc. They saw the shit are doing up here and said we want none of that bullshit

Chang-San

Fun fact: his defence said he couldn't be judged by a specific judge because he threatened to kill that judge


Imagine the level of the other arguments 

agarragarrafa

Good news for Brazil. 


Now, will the time be spent at a luxury spa cell?

colorme1965

C1ccC1ccC1

Excellent.  Hope this sends a message to turds who would try to usurp democracy.  Just sorry we couldn't do the same to Cheeto.

Sethmeisterg

A very rare win for the forces of Democracy today. Now if only it could happen elsewhere in the world.

To the people of Brazil, thank you for keeping the candle burning.

NighthawkXL

one day america will be a great democracy just like brazil....one day

CrimsonGear80

Trump deserves the same fate, you cowards.

umadeamistake

Amazing-Astronaut913

Trump of course is going to have a tariff tantrum.

Funkytowel360

Congratulations Brazil on protecting your nation and achieving justice!

SavagRavioli

I'm super impressed with Brazil! USA needs lessons.

Subbacterium

In retrospective, it now makes sense why Trump didnt want Bolsonaro to get jailed. I didnt realize he was being investigated for plotting a coup. That is quite literally what Trump did back when he lost after his 1st mandate. So it makes sense he couldnt point fingers at Bolsonaro. 

Bolsonaor being imprisioned means that a whole other country thinks what Trump did is to the level of jail time.

ARandomNiceAnimeGuy

He is going to rot in jail for the rest of his Miserable life. Oh well, he did everything to earn his punishment. Hid plan failed, his extortion attempts with trumps government failed  and his legacy Will be one of cowardice, betrayal and ignorance. 

Now we wait until his equally coward and traitorous son step in here again and get his share of punishment. Maybe he Will offer some Company to his daddy ?

Bluewalker_BR

DisappointedLily

Wow, imagine that!  There is accountability for crimes in Brazil, no matter who it is, what office they held, or how much money they have.

We should try that in America.

Electrical-Prize-397

Brazilian here


Let this be a lesson to the rest of the world:


THEY CAN BE CONVICTED FOR THEIR CRIMES!


VOTE! THIS WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE IF LULA WASN'T ELECTED BY A THIN MARGIN! DEMAND! PROTEST IF NEEDS TO!


DON'T LET THE FASCISTS AND UNAPOLOGETIC PSYCHOPATHS TAKE OVER!

Thich_QuangDuc

StandardMacaron5575

Teflon must be fuming one of his authoritarian pals is officially punished by a  SCOTUS who actually upholds the law and doesn’t accept bribery, within a third world country no less!

_Sparick_

Damn Brazil, can we borrow your Supreme Court for a minute?

MetalGearBatman

Trump-like Bolsonaro-should have been in jail after J6 and the world could be a better place

Independent_Reach381

That’s wild, I wonder what the tariffs will be

Edit: 2700%

WhyYesIAmADog

1. HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT THEY WERE GONNA SENTENCE TOMORROW!!!

2. So happy it's a 4v1 to convict him, no way in fucking hell they get to appeal it with it not being a 3v2

3. Wow, Brazil is better at keeping itself a Democracy than the US of fucking A, huh?

MaxEllSibSwe

Fuck this guy in particular. Well deserved.

ElCaminoInTheWest

This guy should have been arrested in 2020 because of his efforts to undermine COVID vaccination in Brasil

furo_pneu

Idiot, you should have tried that in America. We would have elected him president.

5050Clown

Pyro911help

If only the knuckle dragging MAGA could see the light.

CoffeeAndTwinPeaks

From the last 5 presidents, 4 were arrested at some point

Expert-Candidate-879

benjaminsBreakfast

I don't know anything about Bolsonaro but every time a prominent politician is prosecuted I can't help but assume some powerful group of people decided that person was endangering their money or control

BanAnimeClowns

Everyone here sucks. You all know about Bolsonaro and his coup bs and neocon antics so not gonna elaborate on that. Yes he is disgusting and deserves to serve the time. But Moraes and STF are 100% amassing power and playing fast and loose with the constitution in very a dangerous way. Mowing down legislation and freezing up congress in a "moderating power" 4th power-way like the monarchy used to be during the empire instead of a genuine judicial branch. Also probably intelligence community assets trying to implement those very spooky "think of the children!" internet censorship legislation so people stop being anonymous on the internet (but le far-right fake news tho!! just go back to watching Globo pls!!) like they are doing in the UK. Waaaay out of line. Brazilian leftists who unironically support STF are just thinking with passion (justified Bolsonaro hate) and not reason since the bolsonaristas and such are the ones currently being put on blast by this McCarthy-ahh censorship apparatus being built. Once it inevitably starts targeting leftists (since, you know, believe it or not Moraes and his clique are no leftists, they serve the neolib São Paulo finance elite, as admitted by Moraes who just said he apparently sees himself in the Old Republic São Paulo coffee oligarchs who got the country in a stranglehold before Vargas, just like Faria Lima and Agro does today) it will be too late. Eventually leftists (the few actual ones, not the idpol shitters, since those are not even seen as a threat) are going to be the “danger to our democracy” flavor of the month and shits gonna hit the fan bad.

Vito_Kaeno

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Of course, they should stay out of this. It's amazing how this upsets him more than Putins actions

thardingesq

So I gotta pay $1 more per cup of coffee because a billionaire didn't get his way?

Da_Vader

Why is the party of small-government free-market law-and-order trying to use a centrally-planned economic anti-trade policy to punish citizens of a “shithole country” from enforcing and upholding their laws?

scarylarry2150

The killing of Charlie Kirk should have been met with restraint, evidence, and compassion. That is what a democracy does in the face of violence. It waits for facts, it honours the dead, and it upholds justice without weaponising grief. But that’s not what happened in the United States. Elon Musk jumped online and branded the left “the party of murderers” before anyone knew the shooter’s motive. That isn’t just reckless. It is a deliberate act of incitement. He knows his words will be repeated, amplified, and believed. He knows he can smear millions as killers with a single post. And he knows it drags America closer to civil conflict.

Donald Trump followed with the same poison. He blamed the “radical left” without a shred of evidence. It wasn’t a mistake. It was the script. Accuse first. Invent facts later. Repeat until truth is unrecognisable. That is not democracy. That is authoritarianism. It is the same tactic Putin uses to justify war. The same tactic Xi uses to crush dissent. And now it is the tactic of Trump and Musk. Not to strengthen America, but to dismantle it from within.

The hypocrisy is not subtle. Two months ago, a MAGA extremist murdered a Democratic state legislator, her husband, and their dog. Another state senator and his wife were shot and barely survived. The attacker carried a kill list of dozens more Democrats. And what was the Republican response? Silence. No outrage. No demands for action. No mourning of public servants executed for their party affiliation. Nothing.

This silence is not new. It is part of the record. A Trump supporter mailed live pipe bombs to Democrats and journalists. Armed extremists plotted to kidnap and execute the governor of Michigan. On 6 January, Trump told his followers to “fight like hell.” They stormed the Capitol. They hunted lawmakers through the halls of Congress. They beat police officers bloody. They carried Confederate flags through a building that symbolises the Republic itself. And Trump sat back and called them “patriots.” He promised them pardons.

In 2025, he delivered. Nearly 1,600 rioters had their sentences wiped clean. Leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers convicted of sedition walked free. Men with long records of violence, abuse, child exploitation, sexual crimes, absolved. These were not patriots. They were criminals. And instead of punishment they got protection. Some now have the audacity to sue the government, demanding millions from the very democracy they tried to burn down.

This is not random hypocrisy. This is sabotage. It is a conscious project to hollow out democracy and replace it with chaos. Musk and Trump feed the machine with lies. They turn tragedy into propaganda. They excuse extremists when they wear the right hat, and they smear opponents as murderers when they don’t. They are not stumbling into danger. They are building it.

And here is the clearest proof: compare America to other democracies. Brazil faced the same challenge. Jair Bolsonaro tried to cling to power after losing in 2022. He plotted a coup. He incited riots. He fed the same lies of a “stolen election.” And what happened? Brazil’s institutions held. Bolsonaro was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting insurrection, leading a criminal group, and undermining democracy. Twenty-seven years. That is what accountability looks like. That is how a democracy survives.

Now look at the United Kingdom. Only yesterday the UK government fired its ambassador to the United States for ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Peter Mandelson had emails defending Epstein, calling him “best pal,” coaching him to fight his conviction. The moment this became undeniable, he was sacked. No excuses. No protecting a powerful man because of his connections. No pretending it didn’t matter. Action was taken immediately. That is how democracies defend their legitimacy.

And now look back at America. Donald Trump, a man with his own ties to Epstein, a man who incited an insurrection, a man who promised and delivered pardons to seditionists, sits as President again. Not in exile, not in prison, not disgraced. Elected. Empowered. Protected. That is not democracy. That is rot. It is a global embarrassment.

If I wanted to design a machine to collapse America from within, I wouldn’t need to invent one. I would hand the microphone to Elon Musk and the stage to Donald Trump. Between them, they already serve as that machine. They spread lies. They legitimise violence. They shield extremists. They corrode institutions. They have written the script for America’s slow self-destruction. And the country, eyes wide open, follows them step by step toward collapse.

Democracy has rules. Evidence comes before accusation. Violence is punished, not excused. Power is checked, not worshipped. Corruption is exposed, not ignored. That is how Brazil defended itself. That is how the UK defended itself. That is how functioning democracies survive. The United States has abandoned these principles. It protects the guilty and persecutes the innocent. It weaponises tragedy. It pardons traitors.

This is not leadership. This is treason by another name. It corrodes democracy, destabilises society, and hands victory to America’s enemies abroad. Unless it is confronted, unless it is called out for what it truly is, an organised campaign to normalise violence, excuse extremists, and destroy trust, the collapse will not be an accident. It will be a choice. And it will be the end of the American Republic.

antilittlepink

Absolutely!! what are these idiots doing? Trump sits out to piss off all members of NATO who were our allies and wanted to take a stand against the people of Brazil governing their own country

Stormy31568

\&gt;should U.S. just stay out of Brazil's internal matter?

How is this even a question?

css555

Nixon should have been convicted and sent to prison, the precedent of the president just never could be imprisoned created a moral hazard for successors. If the precedent is even the president of the United States can be subject to criminal prosecution, then it would be taken as the rule of law is higher priority than political preferences, and likely we would have imprisoned Reagan for violating the Boland amendment funding death squads and trading with the Iranian government. If this alternative timeline had occurred, Bolsonaro going to likely live out the rest of his life in prison wouldn't be out of the norm and it would have been very unlikely that Trump would be the president after committing a 7-state conspiracy to use fake electors in an effort to overturn a election - culminating in the misdirection/distraction/riot/insurrection of January 6th. 

Trump should be in prison right now, not whining about his fellow tin pot dictator is being held criminally accountable for his crimes.

SeanFromQueens

Bolsonaro's career is over, but not his associates. Either his wife, one of his sons, or ideologically close politicians like SP or MG governors have good chances of becoming president in this cycle (2026) or the next (2030). It wouldn't be terrible if we knew they would step down when the time comes, we are supposed to have swings in government, but unfortunately, his trope isn't very keen on accepting election results.

steak_tartare

&gt; Is Bolsonaro's Political career over

If the courts in Brazil uphold his conviction, his career is over because he'll most likely die in prison before he gets another chance at politics.


&gt; Should U.S. just stay out of Brazil's internal matter?

Fuck yes. Just because the criminal in the WH is whining about it, it means nothing.

TonyG_from_NYC

Get ready for beef and coffee to be even MORE expensive, cuz of the Toddler in Chief.

satyrday12

Yeah, fuck those wokies. Since when is it illegal in a democracy to violently overthrow the government if you don’t like the outcome of an election? /s

Whatever_Lurker

It is not any of our business. This should not be an issue with trade or allyship

MammothComplete2500

Imagine someone in power inspiring a coup attempt facing legal consequences. As an American, I could never.

Another_Road

must be nice to have a functioning democracy and not corrupted highest court

Altruistic-Job5086

It's not clear if Bolsonaro's political future is over. Some people have spent decades in prison and then became active again in politics after they were released. 

Of course the US should stay out of it. Trump is obviously personally interested since he basically is guilty of doing what Bolsonaro did, and because they are both right-wing politicians. The US as a country has no business being involved in this at all.

The US Constitution gives the power to set tariffs to Congress, not the President, just to prevent the abuse of tariffs for political gain. That is exactly what Trump is doing in the case of Brazil.

billpalto

The problem with attempting to criminally try Trump in the US is that the standards of evidence required are very high. And they are especially high when the trial has political ramifications. 

Trump maintains an image of stupidity that is emotionally satisfying to believe. But he has taken great care to insulate himself from the criminal actions he has directed.

Everyone knows he is responsible for j6 and other criminal activities that occured during his terms, but this must be proven in court with direct evidence tying trump directly and immediately to the criminal actions.
Because Trump has insulated himself and never directly involved himself in the criminal acts, it would require a rico case to being him down. And this is unlikely to ever happen.

And even if the trial were to start today, which is basically impossible, there are many many avenues for the Trump team to delay the process and subsequent punishment with appeals.

Even if he were convicted the day his term ended, he would likely die long before the sentence were carried out.

MsFrizzleNo

a globally unified right-wing will mean the death of billions - if not in the zyklon-b showers, then in the water wars.

fry the bastard

the_calibre_cat

Now Brazil has a bargaining chip to play in the Trump tariff wars, remove the 50% tariffs and Bolsonaro can serve his term under house arrest.

you_are_soul

Yes, the US should stay out of this. No question. But I would like to read some non-biased reporting on the case, the standards of proof in particular.

gls2220

Yeah, you’ve already answered your question: the US should stay out of another country’s political affairs. Especially right now, when the US really has nothing to offer to anyone in terms of guidance, experience, morality, etc.

Klutzy_Ostrich_3152

27 years seems extreme and vindictive. Lula was convicted of crimes as well and I don’t think he served any time in prison.

LateralEntry

I think Trump &amp; Rubio are cooking up some plan to spring Bolsonaro from prison, then reinstall him as president. Brazil is the biggest nation &amp; the biggest economy in Latin America by far, &amp; they're determined to have their friend in charge of it. 


Remember...Trump's got all sorts of underworld figures on speed dial, the types of individuals who can disappear folks by snapping their f*cking fingers. I wouldn't @ all be surprised to see the current Brazilian president mysteriously assassinated...&amp; then next thing we know Bolsonaro's right back on the ballot. 

HansSolo69er

If this was absolute sham trial for the purpose of securing Lula’s political position, I think the US would be justified in pursuing action against the Brazilian government. But this really just seems like a failed coup by the former president who was tried relatively fairly in a court of law. I don’t see why the US would be justified in intervening

Ana_Na_Moose

InvalidKoalas

The idiot thought he was in the post2020USA where you can do that stuff without consequences

overkill373

ImplodingBillionaire

CptIskarJarak

This is how you deal with traitors.  At least in the beginning......

SquirrelParticular17

Our independence day is September 7th. Doubt the trial will be this quick but a man can dream

Galahad_the_Ranger

Never in my life did I think I would ever be saying to myself "it must be nice to live in one of those stable Latin American democracies" but here we are.

HereToCalmYouDown

Yeah we could learn a thing from Brazil here in the us… hopefully we eventually do learn

theantig

If everything goes well, next week he will go to jail, I will celebrate this moment a lot.

Zestyclose_Gear1185

😑congrats 

😐happy for you Brazil 

😑nice

Han_Yolo_swag

Esperacchiusdamascus

What's that like?  Asking as an American...

mr_mcpoogrundle

This moron sabotaged the fight against covid, killing thousands. Now this traitor's son is in the US with access to trump administration and harming brazil. This pig has a big part in the 50% tariffs against brazil. May then rot in jail.

jacobs7th

Trump's second term is a warning to what may have happened, had Bolsonaro succeeded in his coup plans. A far-right populist using every avenue available to him to purge dissent from all branches of the executive and installing loyalists. However, unlike the US, we have a Supreme Court which actually does its job. He wouldn't have such a sway in congress either. Still, Bolsonaro and his ilk would have acess to resources to punish individuals who oppose him, and maybe even do worse to them.

LukeD1992

This is how it should be .fuck Trump and his supporters

What’s so interesting is that the right turned on bolsonaro. Even far right publications are saying “to shield a traitor to the homeland is…” but I believe that they thought Trump would sanction the judge only not destroy the Brazilian economy

sabedo

LNEneuro

The fact that Donald Trump is publicly showing outrage over Bolsonaro receiving due justice for his crimes... is so fascist, it's beyond the pale. Trump is so outraged, he doubled the tariffs he is applying for goods imported from Brazil. 

Donald Trump is a fascist wanna-be dictator who should be kicked out of office, along with all of his complicit enabling cohorts. And that includes JD Vance, Speaker Johnson, plus hundreds of others.

cytherian

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison by the Supreme Court for plotting a coup to retain power following his electoral defeat in 2022.

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