Crackdown Complaint

This is how socialist dictators behave (part two:)

Lula has been harping on Musk’s personal wealth a great deal lately, attempting to paint himself as the underdog in his feud with the Tesla CEO, even though Lula commands a vast state treasury and the machinery of a repressive state. At a press conference in August, Lula snarled that “just because the guy [Musk] has a lot of money doesn’t mean he can disrespect” the Brazilian state. “He is a citizen of America, he is not a citizen of the world. He cannot keep offending the presidents, the deputies, the senate, the Supreme Court,” Lula fumed, completely missing the point that being a citizen of the United States does indeed mean Musk has the freedom to offend any government officials he pleases, American or otherwise, and Musk’s lowest-paid American employee has exactly the same right. Lula did jail time for corruption before getting a surprise annulment from the Brazilian Supreme Court in 2019 so he could run for president, so he might not be the best person to sit in judgment over other people’s fortunes.

Dictator, arrest thyself...