If a lawyer elevated to minister of the TSE by Flávio Dino and Lula can decide how far Globo can place an empty chair, it has already been a dictatorship of the Judiciary for a long time. It is the kind of petty order that serves precisely to rub one's own power in the faces of the subjects of the regime. Petty orders to display power are a hallmark of tyrants: In 2002, Saparmurat Niyazov, dictator of Turkmenistan, ordered the names of the months and days of the week to be changed. January became "Turkmenbashi," his own title; April was named after his mother; September was called "Rukhnama," the book he had written. In the 1st century AD, according to Suetonius, the Roman emperor Caligula forced former consuls and other high-ranking men to run alongside his chariot dressed in the senatorial toga and, at banquets, to remain standing next to him holding napkins, as if they were servants. (translated)
