El Pijoaparte in Parliament

2023-04-16T22:31:15.374Z

Rufián is a charnego who has succeeded in his aspiration to charm the Catalan elite of nationalism I am writing these lines three days after the unsuccessful motion of censure that Vox presented against the Government in Congress (and almost three weeks before you read them), but everything seems to have been said on the matter and it even gives the impression that For once, all of us except Vox agree that it was a monstrosity that contributed to degrading the institutions (it is not said, on t

I am writing these lines three days after the unsuccessful motion of censure that Vox presented against the Government in Congress (and almost three weeks before you read them), but everything seems to have been said on the matter and it even gives the impression that For once, all of us except Vox agree that it was a monstrosity that contributed to degrading the institutions (it is not said, on the other hand, that the degradation comes from afar and that, some more and others less, all the parties have contributed to her, which is a disaster: the quality of a democracy is measured by the quality of its institutions).

For the rest, Lucía Méndez was right in

El Mundo

: after listening to Ramón Tamames —outlandish Vox candidate—, it will be more difficult to fall back into the manifest brother-in-law according to which all the politicians of the Transition were very good and all the current ones very bad.

But has everything really been said about the motion of no confidence?

One of the fundamental reasons why Vox presented it was that in the preceding months the right applied itself to spreading by land, sea and air the message that Spain is hardly a democracy anymore, that it is an "absorbent autocracy" ( to quote the candidate's original speech), that the rule of law is threatened in our country and that Pedro Sánchez aspires to be Nicolás Maduro and to turn Spain into a Bolivarian republic.

The curious thing —what I have not heard anyone say— is that, if you change Sánchez for Rajoy, Maduro for Erdogan and the Bolivarian Republic for the Turkish one, that delusion is an almost perfect replica of the one that took over secessionist Catalonia of 2017. So, when Rajoy was in power,

The right replied truthfully to the secessionists and to that part of the left that, in order to oust the government, supported the secessionists: according to all reliable studies of democratic quality, Spain is a democracy (imperfect, like all, but a democracy). ;

On the other hand, now that it is not in power and it is she who seeks to oust the Government, the right spreads that same bullshit, or contributes to spreading it, or tolerates it.

It is a monumental mistake.

The second thing that I have not heard anyone say is that the stellar moment of the motion was not carried out by Tamames, but by Gabriel Rufián.

now that it is not in power and it is she who seeks to oust the government, the right spreads that same bullshit, or contributes to spreading it, or tolerates it.

It is a monumental mistake.

The second thing that I have not heard anyone say is that the stellar moment of the motion was not carried out by Tamames, but by Gabriel Rufián.

now that it is not in power and it is she who seeks to oust the government, the right spreads that same bullshit, or contributes to spreading it, or tolerates it.

It is a monumental mistake.

The second thing that I have not heard anyone say is that the stellar moment of the motion was not carried out by Tamames, but by Gabriel Rufián.

Why lie: I feel an irrepressible sympathy for the character.

The reason is that Rufián has achieved what the Pijoaparte de Marsé did not: the Pijoaparte was a charnego who failed in his aspiration to charm the Catalan elite of Francoism, in order to integrate into it, and that, since that elite did not he needed the charnegos for nothing, he had to return to the stream;

On the other hand, Rufián is a prick who has succeeded in his aspiration to charm the Catalan elite of nationalism, who, to try to prove that he is not what he is, needed pricks like May water, and there he is, the guy, turned into a statesman.

Good for Ruffian!

Among the glorious moments that his execution in Congress has given us, the other day was no less.

At one point in the discussion,

Our man reproached Vox for the scam that they have only one solution for everything.

“Is there child poverty?” he asked, rhetorically.

"Spain.

Are there beds in hospitals?

Spain.

Is education impoverished?

Spain.

Are pensions insufficient?

Spain".

Ruffian is right, of course.

He just forgot to say that secessionism also has only one solution for everything.

“Is there child poverty?

Catalonia.

Are there beds in hospitals?

Catalonia.

Is education impoverished?

Catalonia.

Are pensions insufficient?

Catalonia".

Nothing is so similar to nationalism as another nationalism, but doesn't Ruffian know that, he's smarter than hunger?

To another dog with that bone.

Is education impoverished?

Spain.

Are pensions insufficient?

Spain".

Ruffian is right, of course.

He just forgot to say that secessionism also has only one solution for everything.

“Is there child poverty?

Catalonia.

Are there beds in hospitals?

Catalonia.

Is education impoverished?

Catalonia.

Are pensions insufficient?

Catalonia".

Nothing is so similar to nationalism as another nationalism, but doesn't Ruffian know that, that he is smarter than hunger?

To another dog with that bone.

Is education impoverished?

Spain.

Are pensions insufficient?

Spain".

Ruffian is right, of course.

He just forgot to say that secessionism also has only one solution for everything.

“Is there child poverty?

Catalonia.

Are there beds in hospitals?

Catalonia.

Is education impoverished?

Catalonia.

Are pensions insufficient?

Catalonia".

Nothing is so similar to nationalism as another nationalism, but doesn't Ruffian know that, that he is smarter than hunger?

To another dog with that bone.

Nothing is so similar to nationalism as another nationalism, but doesn't Ruffian know that, he's smarter than hunger?

To another dog with that bone.

Nothing is so similar to nationalism as another nationalism, but doesn't Ruffian know that, he's smarter than hunger?

To another dog with that bone.

This is what, as far as I can see, was not said about the motion of censure: that it was not as useless as it seemed, because it once again demonstrated that there are cheating politicians for whom the truth is only true if it benefits them, and rogue politicians with the eye conveniently blinded by the biblical beam.

And that, after all, Pijoaparte wasn't such a big deal.