Two who were also left hanging by their feet were Mark Renton, from Trainspotting, and Tyrone Slothrop, the American soldier from Gravity's Rainbow, a novel by Thomas Pynchon. Both, momentarily, while they put their heads in the toilet. The first – the Renton of the movie; The one in the book only inserts his arm a little beyond the elbow, to retrieve two opium suppositories after evacuating his soul; the second, also in the toilet, to find the harmonica again. Abascal is the third to put his head in and end up diving beyond the pipes. With differences: he is not fictional and has not lost anything in the latrine. He only digs through the filth to get noticed.
Not since they listened to you and made you say 33 has this number been so unhelpful. The far-right deputies do not count and their leader goes from nonsense to nonsense. You have to go on TV.
He stated in Clarín that “the people will want to hang Sánchez by his feet.” The problem is that no one pays attention to Abascal anymore, since he lives in hyperbole. Nobody believes him anymore. In X there were comments, many, true, as Fernando H. Valls noted yesterday in this space. But more comments do not mean more noise, and the uproar it caused in the Twitter community was rather limited.
The media are obliged to echo his words – for general and click interest – as well as the PSOE, but the network is governed by other incentives. Users were more busy criticizing Xavi for his team's "under construction" (?) match against Girona, or distracted by compiling the countless goal assists wasted by the one that even the Madrid press called Benzemal. Only the voxera parish added sauce. “They would have to hang him from another place…” was the most widespread occurrence. Very original.
Compare with what Pablo Casado said in October 2017: “Let history not repeat itself because they might end up like Companys!” There was revelry here.
Abascal tried to justify on Tuesday, in Congress, that “hanging by his feet” does not refer to the end of Mussolini. It's a “colloquial expression,” he said. Hard to believe when you've been talking about the “Sanchez dictatorship” for weeks or comparing him to Hitler. Or when your own secretary general assures beforehand that the reference is historical.
Slothrop, from Gravity's Rainbow, has a superpower: every time he flies a Nazi V2 rocket he gets an erection, unwanted, but as a warning. Abascal also throws verbal bombs at him, but it no longer excites anyone.
