Brazilian mayoral candidate smashes political rival over the head with chair on live TV

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/brazilian-mayoral-candidate-smashes-political-rival-over-the-head-with-chair-on-live-tv-1672378.html

33 Comments

  1. Bored_guy_in_dc on

    >Far-right digital influencer and life coach Marcal

    >Marcal accused his political rival, who like him has never held a political office, of wanting to attack him during a previous TV debate but desisting because he was “not man enough.”

    I guess he *was* after all! lol

  2. Single_Positive533 on

    “You are not man enough to hit me with your hands”

    **Throws a chair**

    “I guess you were right”

  3. Moloko_Drencron on

    Marçal (the chair target) is an internet guru who made news headlines in 2022 for leading a group of 32 people in a mountain hike, as part of a motivational coaching event. Things went very wrong as the group had no proper training or equipment and weather changed during the stint. They had to be saved by a Fire Department Mountain Rescue team. Although the police investigation did not result in a prosecution, the Fire Department head mad several very harsh statements about Marçal risking the lives both of his followers and people involved on the rescue operation.

    Before that, in 2010, he had been convicted as part of a group of hackers that stole money from people – mostly elderly persons – invading their bank accounts; he never went to jail due to statute of limitations.

    He is trying to use the same extreme right strategies B****naro addopted to win the presidential election in 2018: no real government program but lots of fake news and slandering of other contendents with invented, assorted charges. He accused José Luis Datena (the “agressor”) of having molested a girl years ago, although he was completely cleared from the charges. However, during the proccess his mother-in-law had a stroke and passed away, and this was attributed to the stress caused by the whole situation. Therefore, when the guy started to accuse him (falsely) to be a molester and provoked him, he loose all and went for it.

  4. The far left resorts to violence when its ideas are challenged, just like the far right. Both extremes are full of lunatics.

  5. While violence should have no part in politics, the scene itself was hilarious, dude is a swindler who used to trick old people out of their money and somehow got popular because the far right is full of idiots, the fact that he got beaten with a chair by an old man is just karma at work.

  6. I’ll be interested to see if this follows the general trend of “right wing dipshit gets assaulted on camera, immediately loses all credibility from their supporters” that we’ve seen in America.

  7. Marçal is a swindler that has been poisoning the political debate from day one, instigating, falsely accusing and generally just acting like a complete moron. Not many people are sorry for him.

    We have a saying here: “the medicine for a fool is a fool and a half”.

  8. Just to give people outside of Brazil some context, the guy that was hit by the chair is a coach. He has several infamous videos, one of them when he tried to cure a woman in a wheelchair in one of his cults/talks and obviously failed miserably. When asked about it in a podcast, he doubled down and said he truly believes that if you have enough faith, you can do what Jesus did and that he even tried to resurrect two dead people.

    So yeah, I’m against violence and I’m deeply saddened to see our democracies crumbling. But I can’t deny it is satisfactory to see the bully receiving some instant karma.