[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat &
total & entire point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
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, & in the
nxt election 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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