Mike Benz

trade embargoes, private sector retrenchment of investments.

The whole litany of our Department of Dirty Tricks toolkit would have been crammed down Bolsonaro so fast if he had done that.

But that's because they wanted him to lose.

They wanted Lula to win.

It's as simple as that.

What's happening in Brazil has really much less to do with free speech as it has to do with the State Department and the blobs

designs for who needs to win that election, and they also need to do it cheaply.

It's very expensive to constantly manage each new election.

And so they have this policy of transitional justice and stabilization so that after the State Department overthrows a country or runs tens of millions of dollars to a political opposition and they barely win an election, we have this new policy of transitional justice where we arrest all the opposition leaders.

Bolsonaro right now is...

under countless indictments, just as Trump is here.

And they censor all the forces around that, so they prevent the mobilization and the coordination of that party's resurgence.

They can't get their messaging out, their media's all banned.

And so that way, it's cheap to manage.

You might need to spend $50 million, $100 million to rig it in 2018, but in 2020, because after the stabilization process plays out, you might only need 10 million, because they're polling so low, because all their media's banned and all their politicians are arrested.

So this is a very nasty playbook.

No, both are happening in tandem.

We're doing this with foreign countries in order to contort the economics of the US platforms, to force them to put the pre-22 censorship mechanisms back in place.

And so I call this the boomerang tactic.

There's two ways that the blob can get you.