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Edi Rama with 2 satellites: Matters of Stupidity

Politiko 2022-10-01 14:53:23
Edi Rama with 2 satellites: Matters of Stupidity

Marcel Lela

In his work, The Confessions, the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions the case of a princess who, after being told that the peasants have no bread to eat, replied, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" (let them eat croissant). Edi Rama said the same thing to the Albanians yesterday, only in a much more grotesque way. 

In short, the Albanians who suffer the staggering increase in the prices of the basket, unemployment, small salaries that are often not even paid for insurance, the emptying of the country by carrying the burden of the refugee worse than in the early 90s, the media terror of government to save electricity, otherwise they will face quadrupling the price - their prime minister tells them: "let them eat the satellites".

The situation becomes even more grotesque when we remember how much the two satellites expected to be launched by Edi Rama will cost the Albanians. That's six million dollars to be paid over three years, joining another nearly four million dollars for the construction of the 'Hanging Gardens of Edomania' in the inner courtyard of the Prime Minister's Office. 

A full ten million dollars from the taxpayers' pockets for, not projects, but the whims of a man out of power and the imaginary valley of the successful politician where Rama sees himself every day. And all at a time when he is watching the TV screen for hours, ordering the Albanians to 'tighten their belts, remove mobile phone chargers, rarely open the refrigerator door, or wash collectively in the shower.

It doesn't end there. The grotesque becomes absurd when the prime minister talks about the benefits that will come to our country from these two satellites. According to him, they will make it possible to identify illegal constructions, which Rama, like a Jon Snow from the Rilindja series, says he has no idea who gave them. What is the use of such an investment, when the inspectors and patron-Nazis do not even escape the "illegal" windows of the artist Bojken Lako, for which they put him in prison, or the street corners where the villagers sell a few handfuls of spinach? Meanwhile, in his demagoguery about the usefulness of these satellites, Rama does not know why he does not mention the hashish fields that flourish in the Albanian territory.

It seems as if the prime minister, neither on earth nor in heaven, does not see, or pretends not to see, the same Albania that Albanians see and live every day. Like Rousseau's French princess, Rama wonders why his subjects don't eat with gold spoons when they don't even have spoons!

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