The Tar Pit

Ok, so it looks like I've decided to write an article about the recent developments in the Romanian space after all. Sure, I may be wrong -- and if I am, please, do feel free to correct me -- but that's the only result that my two-plus-two arrived at so far, and here it is, in more paragraphs than I'd have wanted.

The developments in the last week are, like in any respectable reality TV show, as respectable as a reality show could be, the results of a longer arc that's started a while ago. And wow, you wouldn't believe it, but it hasn't even started in this reality show, since whaddaya know, this one is just a spin-off of the main series, the one that's been under development for some years now at the centre of this lame-ass empire.

I dare even say that the developments there had started before the 6th of November, the signs were quite clear since maybe even before the summer, but in any case -- as early as the 6th of November, someone in Washington DC sneezed. And when that someone sneezed, a whole lot of folks over here in Bucharest got a cold and they panicked, just like we heard a few years ago, at the beginning of the electoral cycle which is just about to end, that that's the proper response to a cold. So then they started developing a vaccine, and lo, this vaccine came out under the name of Călin Georgescu. Except unlike Pfizer et al., the Romanian vaccine companies couldn't even properly PR this new vaccine through the usual propaganda channels. I don't know how they fucking did it to be honest, my suspicion is that they actually gamed the elections, but I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't even heard of this Călin Georgescu dude until Sunday. I mean sure, I'd seen him on some small electoral panels over downtown, but I'd discarded him as yet another nobody who somehow managed to get into the race. Meanwhile I realized that this doesn't say anything about me, it only says things about the bubbles I'm trapped in and the general state of cluelessness that my bubbles and I live in.

So anyway, this vaccine seems to have had some serious side effects, since as a result, the so-called "civil society" -- yes, the very same bitches and their stupid sons who almost five years ago told us to stay indoors lest covid would come and eat us all alive -- along with the so-called mainstream yet increasingly irrelevant media, immediately activated themselves and started protesting, by throwing the usual words, i.e. thieves who cry thief and all that, most likely with the very same effect that this word-throwing had o'er the ocean. By the looks of it, it would seem that absolutely nobody likes Călin Georgescu, despite the fact that most of the folks who voted this Sunday decided he'd be the one to make it into the second round; not the Chuk and certainly not the Cholak, the two dudes who've spent by far the most money on PR, but the whacko mystical Freemason who's got a problem with those who sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Meanwhile the Constitutional Court has been called for a recount of the votes, the propaganda is going strong and this Sunday is on for the Parliamentaries. Călin Georgescu entered the race as an independent and so he claims that "the people are his party" -- which might well be a point of strategic advantage for him, seeing as how up until now (!!) nobody in the mainstream or offstream communication channels has had any serious discussion regarding the parliamentary elections. Spoiler alert! most of the party subsidies are based on parliamentary structure, not on who wins the presidency.

So... in case you're wondering who Călin Georgescu is, well, he's not, like all the idiots were claiming on day one after hearing his name, Putin's guy. He's a dude schooled in the art of diplomacy by one Mircea Malița, whom you've proably haven't heard of either, but who was, I hear, somewhat of an erudite. His pupil is clearly not an erudite, he seems well below the intellectual level of say, an Iliescu, yet most likely he's above KWJ. But more importantly, he seems well-connected: rumor has it that RFK Jr. himself will come all the way down to the periphery of the empire to support him, and meanwhile he seems to be in good relations with the current regime in Israel, which... kinda makes a lot of sense, much to the distress of those who called Georgescu a fascist and an antisemite.

Now, I don't know what you think, but this looks to me like a rerun of S1E25, or of the more recent events on the 10th of August 2018, or even fucking covid to some degree. I bet some of you folks are even enjoying this, due to the fact that something's finally happening over here in the provinces and hey, you've been given the opportunity to live a little. But let me tell you, the whole thing leaves me with quite a bitter taste, and not because of Georgescu or Ciolacu or that imbecile with the pretty smile, but because a hefty chunk of you are yet again acting like such a bunch of idiots. Useful idiots, yet idiots nevertheless.

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