BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: Rouba, mas faz… acaba em pizza. ‡
‡) Lit. “He steals but the shit gets done...but [if he’s rich & powerful & gets busted] it ends in pizza” = FA sort of street proverb about corruption, that figuratively means “He may steal but he gets the things that need to be done done…but if he’s rich & gets caught, nothing is really going to happen, no consequences… [In re. the book Operation Car Wash: Brazil’s Institutionalised Crime & the Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History, reviewed in LRB, 23 June, 2022, where Pres. Lula da Silva was brought down in 2018 by a right-wing engineered scandal over widespread corruption involving ALL Brasil’s political parties (a corruption so vast that politicians all over Latin America & the Carribean & even the US & in Africa were being bribed vast sums of money), & Lula’s resulting imprisonment for a couple of years.after a corrupt Supreme Court decided to throw him in prison… this resulted in Bolsinario, the mini-Trumpo of Brasil becoming president. & after it was revealed that the judge who’d sentenced Lula & been appointed into Bolsinario’s cabinet, & furthermore had sentenced Lula on Bolsinario’s behalf; Lula was released in late 2019, & the following year was reelected President by a healthy margin, after a runoff ... But Bolsinario still tried to pull Trump-Jan.6-style shite.]
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