Ballast. Cartoon of 10/11/2024 in CTXT
Translation of the cartoon:
"Do we let Mazón (President of the Valencian Community) go now"?
"No, wait, we're still coming back".
According to figures from the Government Delegation, some 130,000 people demonstrated on Saturday 9 November in Valencia to demand the resignation of Carlos Mazón, president of the Valencian Generalitat.
And the response of the Popular Party was nothing more than to throw new shit in the mud, demonstrating an absolute lack of respect and sensitivity.
"Politicised demonstration'. What's next, wet water? This discourse is very much in line with the"corruption is all of us" bullshit that the PP trots out every time they are caught up to their eyebrows in corruption. The people in the abstract will always be there to blame for all ills.
We have allowed a dangerous message of contempt and criminalisation of citizen participation in politics to take hold, and there seems to be no turning back. Even so, we will have to state the obvious again to these ghoulish peeps. Social mobilisations, protests, etc. are just one of the many ways of doing politics, something that is not reserved for Borja Mari and his colleagues.
These bastards have so devalued politics that they have managed to make saying that something is "politicised" a pejorative, an insult. Practising anti-politics from within politics is one of the worst insults to democracy that is all too reminiscent of various trappings of the past.
They say that the dictator Franco, the one with the white ass, uttered this phrase:"You do as I do and stay out of politics". It is said that he uttered it to the editor of the newspaper "Arriba", Sabino Alonso Fueyo, when he complained that he was being pressured by various prominent figures in the National Movement. Other versions of the story say that he uttered it during a conversation with José María Pemán and in others with one of his ministers.
This message is the one that is most in line with what the peperos want to normalise (again). They want aseptic, controlled, grey, depoliticised, dead, public spaces. Do the political thing in privacy, the streets are ours. We are those "all of us". And shut up with all this talk of plurality and dissent. That's what they want to tell us.
Now, we read that Feijóo has already anticipated, without giving details, that the Valencians will feel "comforted" by what Mazón is supposed to announce today in an appearance.
Following this move by the party to let go of some ballast in a final attempt to put out the fire that is scorching the president of the Valencian Community, there is speculation that Mazón could offer the heads of some of the councillors as a sacrifice to try to save his own. Few are betting on his resignation. For the moment, everything suggests that the singer in the red waistcoat will remain in limpet mode.
In some media it is taken for granted that the head of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, and the head of Industry and Tourism, Nuria Montes, will leave the Consell, and that it is possible that a new vice-presidency will be appointed for the management of the DANA, but for the moment no one knows exactly which way the wind will blow. We will know by the smell.
