Dilma Out: Brazilian Plutocracy Sets 54 Million Votes on Fire

[MADem]

2. Dilma is NOT "out." Good grief. She is on trial and she is SUSPENDED. For now.

The judiciary has six months to find her guilty or innocent.

If they find her guilty, she is out.

If they find her innocent, she is reinstated.

If they fart around and don't get it done in six months, she goes back to work.

COUNTERPUNCH, as usual, is being hyperbolic, overly dramatic, and partisan to the point where they screw the narrative for their OWN supposed side.

Unless they've decided she's guilty before her trial and they're throwing gas on that fire.

Dilma plans on fighting the charges. If the pretext is flimsy, as COUNTERPUNCH says, maybe she will succeed. Maybe she's got evidence that will exonerate her. It's all down to accounting, really--this isn't a matter of OPINION, this is a matter of where's the cash and how was it managed.

Yet COUNTERPUNCH has already convicted her while AT THE SAME TIME wearing a hair shirt and whining about the Great Unfairness of It All.

Feh.

I'm a fan of letting the process play out.

She is NOT IMPEACHED until there is a conviction. That's Brazilian law--maybe the geniuses at COUNTERPUNCH ought to learn that before they write hyper-dramatic screeds accusing the Judiciary of convicting her before the trial has even begun.