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This past week has... I don't know.

There's really not a word or a phrase to really capture the events of this past week.

I will just start in the most recent order. I'll start with what happened yesterday.

Brazil decided that they wanted a man who revels in the ideal of military dictatorship and the idea of killing of

hits of killing people from the LGBT Q community, Brazil's very own version of Trump, but probably on steroids.

Jair Bolsonaro was elected president by an impressive majority. So it's not only a

statement of the problem with this particular leader but also the problem with the electorate and the way fear, the way fear can be galvanized to elect anyone,

even the most disgusting people who belong in the dregs of our society.

I'm not going to speak on that as any sort of expert.

I probably will reach out to my friend Mitt Wendy,

Wendy Muse and bring her on to discuss it in detail whenever I get a chance to

reach out to her and whenever her schedule is, her schedule permits. But that was yesterday and that was the straw that broke the

camels back of last week because on Saturday

11 people were killed and there is obviously a very clear reason to connect all of these things and I'll get to that in a minute

for anyone who doesn't understand me connecting the election in Brazil with the

murders in Pittsburgh on Saturday where 11 people were killed in a synagogue shooting mostly

elderly people several people who survived several individuals who

literally survived the Holocaust.

A 97 year old woman who survived the Holocaust only to be killed by a man who was screaming,

...