BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: Tapar o sol com a peneira... ‡‡
‡) Lit., “Cover the sun with a sieve...” = a Brazilian aphorism used by graffiti muralist Paulo Ito to refer to the billions & billions of dollars that had been spent by the Brazilian govt. on the World Cup, & after that, the Olympics, while making deep cuts in programs to fight poverty, & dislocating thousands of residents from the stadium sites, all of this galvanizing the Brazilian public, resulting in protests & riots, & esp. to the very weak gestures the govt. had made in response to the protests; Paulo Ito tapped into the zeitgeist with a mural that had adorned the front doors of a São Paulo schoolhouse, a mural depicting a starving Brazilian child of the favela w/ nothing but a soccer ball on his plate, & virally-replicated on social & a-social media all over the world, web media & television — whether left- or right-wing... & after everything they still wound up with a fascist lawn troll as president, that fascist lawn troll being Jair Bonsinaro, who’s now trying to beat the #PutinSponsoredUrineSoakedOvalOffice for the worst leadership during a pandemic, after doing his damnedest to let the Amazon forest burn down. This esp. true with Brasil having some of the world’s highest COVID-19 morbidities. & now Japan goes ahead with 2021 olympics even as another COVD-19 surge hits Japan.
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