understand there is been social disruption and trauma and it s time to together get a handle on. it keith alison. thank you very much for your time. that s all on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight start tonight. this tuesday night. good evening, chris. thank you as always. thank you for joining us this hour. 13 years ago this week, a right wing, anti abortion group called operation rescue emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to bring the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d.c., to earn that effigy. i m not showing you this becaus
13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
it also came after outgoing president bolsonaro broke his postelection silence last week, telling his supporters quote, who decides where i go are you. who decides which where the armed forces go are you. it is been more than a month since the brazilian presidential election and bolsonaro still has not conceded. his followers of called for military intervention, a coup to bar lula from office and keep their leader in power. so bolsonaro is alluding to the armed forces here is a terrifying process prospect. there are a lot of comparisons we can draw from that to our own politics at home, the one i want to focus on tonight is this one. the fuel at the core of this anti-democratic movement is a conspiracy theory. the conspiracy theory that the election was rigged, that it was stolen. some bolsonaro supporters are claiming online that last night s violence was a false flag opposition by leftist lula supporters.
federal police headquarters. the thing that brought these supporters out under the street last night was a temporary arrest of a man whose results supreme court said so expressly to prevent the certification of election. the violence yesterday came after the candidate who beat bolsonaro, president elect louis has to silva, known as lula, after he had his eye looked oral when officially certified. it also came after outgoing president bolsonaro broke his postelection silence last week, telling his supporters quote, who decides where i go are you. who decides which where the armed forces go are you. it is been more than a month since the brazilian presidential election and bolsonaro still has not conceded. his followers have called for military intervention, a coup
provide a reprieve. because what s been happening in brazil during bolsonaro s today the postelection silence has been chaotic. truckers and demonstrators blocked roads throughout brazil since sunday. all in support of bolsonaro. some of the truckers protesting have called for a military coup to prevent low level on taking office. today, bolsonaro failed he called his supporters off, instead he welcomes peaceful demonstrations. so the door here is fairly wide open for more of these truck blockades. but at least the paulson arrow administration appears to have begun the transition process. and it was a real concern that this would not actually happen. that no member of the bolsonaro administration would even utter the word transition. that s because of the new york times has got documented, bolsonaro has been saying exactly that for months. he s been telling the world that if he lost, it would only be because the election was stolen. he s literally been casting doubt on legitimacy of br