Mike Benz

Well, it comes from a lot of places. You have these Pentagon relationships between the U.S. military and the Brazilian Army. You have these state department grants to the region, which are huge. Remember, USAID is getting folded into state. So you have the state department funds. Then you also have the active AID ones that need to be cut, not just paused, but cut.

Well, it comes from a lot of places. You have these Pentagon relationships between the U.S. military and the Brazilian Army. You have these state department grants to the region, which are huge. Remember, USAID is getting folded into state. So you have the state department funds. Then you also have the active AID ones that need to be cut, not just paused, but cut.

You have the Department of Labor ones. You're probably going to have Department of Energy ones. You're going to have weird juicing of the universities through some of these other grant organs as well. There's... All of that is one thing that at least creates a fair fight. I brought up, for example, the $12 million grant to Lula's unions right after the 2022 election.

You have the Department of Labor ones. You're probably going to have Department of Energy ones. You're going to have weird juicing of the universities through some of these other grant organs as well. There's... All of that is one thing that at least creates a fair fight. I brought up, for example, the $12 million grant to Lula's unions right after the 2022 election.

The Solidarity Center just gave a $7 million grant to the unions. That's tens of millions of dollars. You're capturing... Essentially, you're pumping up this. This is not Bolsonaro who's getting tens of millions of dollars from it. And so that also makes people... Ideology is a funny thing. Sometimes people are true believers. Most of the time, hearts and minds work is about cash.

The Solidarity Center just gave a $7 million grant to the unions. That's tens of millions of dollars. You're capturing... Essentially, you're pumping up this. This is not Bolsonaro who's getting tens of millions of dollars from it. And so that also makes people... Ideology is a funny thing. Sometimes people are true believers. Most of the time, hearts and minds work is about cash.

I always call it hearts and minds and cash because you're only really sort of getting the tail end of people through hearts and minds when they read the news. usually it's downstream of their cultural leaders, their community leaders, their politicians, their significant people of note in the country. And if you capture them with cash, you get the whole hearts and minds behind that.

I always call it hearts and minds and cash because you're only really sort of getting the tail end of people through hearts and minds when they read the news. usually it's downstream of their cultural leaders, their community leaders, their politicians, their significant people of note in the country. And if you capture them with cash, you get the whole hearts and minds behind that.

And so you take the coup cash out of Brazil, I think you will see a much fairer fight. And I think that people will be more responsive to their own people because they will not have a foreign source of funds that are basically telling them, advising what the judges should do.

And so you take the coup cash out of Brazil, I think you will see a much fairer fight. And I think that people will be more responsive to their own people because they will not have a foreign source of funds that are basically telling them, advising what the judges should do.

And again, getting back to that USAID CEPPS program, they literally said in the launch event of the program that one of its purposes was to make the partner networks feel supported. by the US government. So one of the reasons that you've had this, I think this perception that there's nothing to fear from any sort of anger of Americans against what Brazil did is because

And again, getting back to that USAID CEPPS program, they literally said in the launch event of the program that one of its purposes was to make the partner networks feel supported. by the US government. So one of the reasons that you've had this, I think this perception that there's nothing to fear from any sort of anger of Americans against what Brazil did is because

They had the support of the Biden administration. The U.S. Embassy didn't do squat when that happened. You remember, I posted every day, day 27, day 28, here is what the U.S. Embassy page, here's their Twitter account. They're posting about, you know, disabled gymnasts in Brazil and, you know, how we need, you know, to support the LGBTQIA2++ rock climbers in Brazil. As X, a major U.S.

They had the support of the Biden administration. The U.S. Embassy didn't do squat when that happened. You remember, I posted every day, day 27, day 28, here is what the U.S. Embassy page, here's their Twitter account. They're posting about, you know, disabled gymnasts in Brazil and, you know, how we need, you know, to support the LGBTQIA2++ rock climbers in Brazil. As X, a major U.S.

champion, was shut down and as Starlink, a major U.S. military contractor, had its assets seized. And as they began to potentially move into the Chinese Starlink competitor into that, this is the sort of thing we have a State Department to stop from happening. And the State Department was – their silence –

champion, was shut down and as Starlink, a major U.S. military contractor, had its assets seized. And as they began to potentially move into the Chinese Starlink competitor into that, this is the sort of thing we have a State Department to stop from happening. And the State Department was – their silence –

combined with the fact that they have formal State Department programs to make this happen, formal USAID programs to make this happen, you have Biden and Lula colluding on it. They wanted that to happen. They were supported for that to happen.

combined with the fact that they have formal State Department programs to make this happen, formal USAID programs to make this happen, you have Biden and Lula colluding on it. They wanted that to happen. They were supported for that to happen.

The SEPS program literally says that the plan is to get foreign countries to implement legal and regulatory measures to go after the social media companies to force accountability on them.

The SEPS program literally says that the plan is to get foreign countries to implement legal and regulatory measures to go after the social media companies to force accountability on them.