Ábalos in a T-shirt and the revolution of the village idiots

Ábalos appears in a T-shirt and Spain smiles. A guy who once again brings corruption , dandruff, and distrust to a government becomes an idol and icon on social media: the new Chenoa, Mr. José Luis Ábalos Parera, one of us and other stupid things from 13-year-olds who succeed in that great reformatory for adolescents with cognitive and adjustment problems that is Twitter (it will always be Twitter). Adolescents, of course, from 0 to 99 years old, like the Educa games.

Obviously, not even the most imbecile incel would admire Santos Cerdán : too sad, too ugly, too shady, too evil. Ábalos is something else because he has the grace, culture, and intelligence to manage people, and he knows how to hide it behind his appearance as an actor from 'Los Bingueros'. He was born to end up in a few months declaring that everything is a grand conspiracy, to applause, in what Iker Jiménez perpetrates. They will simultaneously demand a statue for him and a perpetual one for Perro Sanxe . In a sector of the population that understood Torrente as a hero and not a parody, Ábalos reigns supreme.

The WhatsApp dumping grounds (work, fantasy league, alumni, lots of guys, superficial communication, zero common sense, endless memes, and too many cringeworthy comments) are boiling over, sharing conversations between johns amidst emojis of tears of laughter, applause, and the occasional eggplant. Another day we'll talk about what this means for the number of men who pay to fuck, but today's topic isn't it.

The point is that we're scandalized by corruption, but if it's done with (damn good) grace, it's whitewashed by a large group of citizens (to say the least) who understand Spanishness as roguery, sex (on both sides), and parties. And all of this has found a highly harmful outlet on social media. Except on Instagram , where they haven't yet realized there's a major corruption scandal because they're trying to make a pretty face.

Every time we think something's going to make us better, we should flee like the plague. It happened to us with the pandemic, it happens to us with social media, and it's going to happen to us again with the Ozempic . We thought Twitter was there to connect us and encourage certain elites, journalists and politicians mainly, to step down from the pulpit and listen to the people, but the people are smarter and stayed in the real world. We only gave voice to those who were so obviously idiots that, until then, no one paid attention to them. It's the revolution of the village idiot. And it's winning. Remember that when you see Ábalos touring the studios after he gets out of prison. In a T-shirt.