President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has been admitted to a São Paulo hospital after a bad (and we mean bad) case of the hiccups has remained steady for over ten days, reports Globo.
The ultra-conservative and self-described antigay leader was first taken to an army hospital in the capital city of Brasilia before being transferred to the civilian facility to be tested for an obstructed intestine.
If the hiccups don’t stop on their own he could be looking at emergency surgery soon.
Bolsonaro has faced widespread criticism for his mishandling of the Coronavirus pandemic, underplaying the threat to such a degree that makes Trump’s response seem almost measured. Almost. In the past, he’s urged Brazilians to forget about the virus and stop acting like a “country of f*gs.”
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The president, who also boasts he is a “proud homophobe,” was photographed in his hospital bed, a priest touching his shoulder and praying.
Bolsonaro addressed the hiccup attack last week, telling listeners of a July 7 radio interview: “I apologize to everyone who is listening to me, because I’ve been hiccuping for five days now.”
On social media, he complained: “I have the hiccups 24 hours a day.”
He also blamed the hiccups and intestinal issues on an injury he sustained during a 2018 assassination attempt in which a woman stabbed him in the stomach.
“One more challenge, a consequence of the assassination attempt promoted by a former member of the [left-wing party] PSOL, the left arm of the PT, to prevent the victory of millions of Brazilians who wanted changes for Brazil,” he posted to social media.
He added: “A cruel attack not only against me, but against our democracy.”
The president’s approval has fallen sharply during his time in office, in large part due to his failure to secure Covid vaccine supply to ease the nation’s suffering.
Chrisk
If she succeeded in ridding the country of this tin pot dictator it’s possible many more thousands of people would still be living.
Aranos
What a grotesque ending for this grotesque clown. Good riddance!
Fahd
Gee, that’s too bad about his hospitalisation. I hope he’s not suffering a hiccup for every tree he has allowed to be felled in the precious global resource that is the Amazon.
Kangol2
Bolsonaro’s popularity has also fallen because he’s presided over a debacle of right-wing “free market” approaches and severe economic stagnation, environmental destruction (Fahd’s comment about the Amazon is on point), failed or inadequate social policies that have led to Brazilians sliding into poverty, and of course, linked to all of these, his horribly incompetent and murderous approach to the Covid-19 pandemic, just like his idol, Don the Con. Those hiccups just might be tallying all the people who’ve died from Covid-19 because of Bolsonaro’s screw ups and anti-science policies. Sadly, that number just keeps growing.
tomamundo
Exacto!
Max
just cut him open. why wait?
maddog
I hope he gets a trans anesthesiologist who tells him that fact as he is going under.
Vag Dentata
No sympathy for this man. On a lighter note my husband had 24/7 hiccups about 10 years ago. After a week his doctor prescribed Thorazine to knock him out in order to get rid of them. Freaked me out……
tomamundo
Thorazine works in minutes even on this ahole.
paul dorian lord fredine
even relatively minor surgeries can have unexpected consequences. just sayin’.
bodie425
Just saying or just hoping.
WSnyder
It would be a fitting epitaph that this A-Hole die of hiccups.
SDR94103
bye botch.
Mack
God’s punishment for you being an asshole.
humble charlie
That’s his soul trying to get out of his body.
Consider This
Much suffering to Jair from all his “friends” in the US!
LumpyPillows
Bolsonaro is a horrible person. Simply terrible. Much like Donny.
PerhapsYesNoMaybe
Hitler was democratically elected. Being elected doesn’t excuse a person from the consequences of harming other people – if anything it means a person has a greater responsibility not to harm others to avoid the payback of millions of people simply getting revenge against everything you care about.
joeboyle49
WELL THAT MUST BE HIS PUNISHMENT FOR BEING SUCH A HOMOPHOBE AND FOR NOT GETTING THE VACCINE TO HIS PEOPLE TO STOP THE VIRUS!!! YES JUST CUT HIM OPEN AND EXPLOIRE IF YOU CAN FIND OUT WHY HES SO MEAN TO HIS PEOPLE!!!
QueerLib
Bullshitnaro’s hiccups are nothing a few hundred electro shocks couldn’t cure.
rbernard
Personally, Bolsonaro has proven he isn’t cut out for the job, I hope he doesn’t make it through his term, and that a more science accepting president is chosen.