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In reply to the discussion: Brazil's Dilma Rousseff's Popularity Ratings Down To 20-Year Low [View all]That's why they went to the streets last Friday to support Dilma.
Just because a paid shill wrote some nonsense in an American newspaper with a doubtful reputation it doesn't mean it's true.
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Why don't you write to the author of the article and get those names and report back?
MADem
Mar 2015
#2
yeah, they are the dozens that showed up for the feeble Friday pro-corruption march nt
Bacchus4.0
Mar 2015
#4
I've given you several articles with names in them. If you want to pretend there's nothing to see
MADem
Mar 2015
#15
You're the one who misread the article in the first place--and now you're yelling at everyone
MADem
Mar 2015
#45
See? You just proved my point. "The author of the thread" said NOTHING of the sort.
MADem
Mar 2015
#56
So I'm guessing you consider The Guardian to be an unreliable right-wing source? N/t
Marksman_91
Mar 2015
#8
You need to go back and do some reading. CAREFUL reading. One. Word. at. a. time.
MADem
Mar 2015
#29
Prove it. Name them, and their political affiliations. If you can't do that, we'll know what
MADem
Mar 2015
#36
I know more about it than someone who can't tell a charge from an investigation. nt
MADem
Mar 2015
#31
No--you need to post those details in THIS thread, and not spam the board with multiple threads
MADem
Mar 2015
#48
You're having trouble reading the article, apparently. Go back and read it slowly.
MADem
Mar 2015
#23
Do prosecutors release the names of people who are under "INVESTIGATION" before they've
MADem
Mar 2015
#26
Our friend is playing games, he is the one asserting that the politicians are NOT
Bacchus4.0
Mar 2015
#37
The poor little " new ... DUer" attacked the thread starter with a false assertion.
MADem
Mar 2015
#59
If you don't post them here, I will have to assume that you are here at DU to disrupt.
MADem
Mar 2015
#40
It's not a question of what I like--when you post multiple threads on the same topic, you are
MADem
Mar 2015
#49
Why do you keep calling me "Honey?" Does that make you feel tough or superior, or something?
MADem
Mar 2015
#64
Dilma Rousseff did not fight against the right-wing military dictatorship, suffer horrific torture
Judi Lynn
Mar 2015
#46
It truly is, isn't it? Progressive people support Dilma Rousseff and her entire life's work. n/t
Judi Lynn
Mar 2015
#57
Attacks seem to be concentrated on the same battlefield by the same platoon with the same dud ammo.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#69
Rousseff is now under attack by the same folks attacking Maduro, Morales, anyone not kowtowing to
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#55
They don't conceal their real political leanings at all. No one is fooled. n/t
Judi Lynn
Mar 2015
#58
Just have to make sure they get it that they are not fooling any onlookers either.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#63
Truly, no one on DU is being fooled into demonizing entire emergent socialist Latin America. People Power is here to stay.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#61
She has reached a Maduro level approval rating. Her scandal and the economic
Bacchus4.0
Mar 2015
#85
Had forgotten about their training manuals. They've been doing the same things a LONG time.
Judi Lynn
Mar 2015
#74
I rather doubt that the people who voted for her, and now are saying she needs to go, are fascists.
MADem
Mar 2015
#62
No, looks like that is YOUR error: "Brazil's mounting job losses turn Rousseff bedrock to quicksand"
MADem
Mar 2015
#87
Not that many people consider financial magazines as true guides to the inner workings
Judi Lynn
Mar 2015
#90
Rousseff is the like the Latin American Warren and the Aztec Amazons wrapped into one real life super hero.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#66
Elizabeth Warren would have not allowed all of that corruption over the course of a decade.
MADem
Mar 2015
#70
Good one! Some have been known to simply turn in articles based on tv news in their hotel rooms.
Judi Lynn
Mar 2015
#91
I guess they've got paid shills over at GUARDIAN UK, too, then? They're saying they didn't turn out.
MADem
Mar 2015
#93
Apparently you've not paid close attention to the Guardian over the last years.
Judi Lynn
Mar 2015
#96