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| Subject: Funny: Crowd chants directed at President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff: ''Hey Dilma, go fuck yourself'' Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:30 am | |
| During the shocking meltdown of Brazil’s football team during the semi-final of the World Cup, the crowd broke into a crude and sustained chant directed at shell-shocked President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff. The chant, roughly translated, was ''Hey Dilma, go f--- yourself'', plus another suggestion which I’ll omit. The President is on a first-name basis with her country. Her website is Dilma.com.
That was as close to a demonstration as there was within the confines of the cup, given that the Brazilian government spent, officially, $1 billion on security. This did nothing to protect the emotional security of the nation, which was shattered by the end of the tournament. Rousseff, who enjoyed tremendous popularity in the polls after her election in 2010, is now struggling to avoid defeat in the October presidential election. It would have completed the nightmare for Brazil had its great rival Argentina won the cup, which it almost did.
Brazilians are in a mood for revenge. The government spent more than $10 billion on the World Cup, including six brand new stadiums, while failing to curb structural corruption, persistent inflation and wealth inequality. Rousseff may become a symbolic scapegoat.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/brazils-own-goals-stand-out-in-scorestarved-world-cup-20140716-ztox7.html |
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