The hat makes the man
I want to listen to what Enrique Mendoza has to say. I want to take him seriously.
I really do, but I can’t.
The sight of an overweight, middle-aged, gray-haired man with his cap on backwards … is just wrong. The worst part about it – he’s putting the cap on his billboards.
The preposterous demands, the hand-made signs, the negotiating-by-microphone, the faux sense of entitlement, the constant playing-the-victim… I mean, really?! "Mirandinos a la carga" – that’s the best you can come up with?
As a high-ranking member of the MUD texted me earlier today: "Mendoza se ha vuelto una ladilla."
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