This is what there is, and this is what we have told you

In our popular culture there are many phrases, jokes, stories and sayings that we use every day at any time of the day. Muphy's Law is well known, and is attributed to Captain Edward 'Ed' Murphy Jr., a United States Air Force aerospace engineer who became famous in the late 1940s for his phrase "if something can go wrong, it will.

This famous law has served as a catch-all for all the clever and other phrases that have emerged since then, and these phrases are applicable to almost any situation or event in any field, including politics.

Moral tales also have their role in popular culture, which have always accompanied children and not so children, before going to sleep. To cite one example: Once upon a time there was 'le petit Pierre' (I say this in a vehicular language, for the record) a little shepherd boy who had repeatedly announced and convinced the citizens that he had seen the wolf and that he was going to eat them all, after time had passed and people had realised that it was nothing more than a mockery and a lie, It happened that when the wolf 'le petit Pierre' really appeared, he could not stop it (he was very committed to it, to get where he was) and ate all the sheep, that is, the cultural wealth, the values and the well-being of the citizens. "Moral: making fun of others, lying and acting unscrupulously can have consequences".

As a result of certain stories and morals (because almost always "everything is related" and "coincidences do not exist"), expressions of the first phase arise, such as "I can and do promise", "make a pact with the devil" and "promise to the point of getting in and once you get in, it's all over".

Also, and in opposition, it is worth the example of expressions like "if something works, don't touch it" or its synonymous denial "if something doesn't work, don't spoil it anymore" and, of course, our punishment "Manolete if you don't know how to bullfight (pa- que- te) meter", so applicable today in certain spheres. 

As a consequence of these expressions, we immediately jump to another phase where others appear such as "where I said, I said, I said", "if I have seen you I don't remember", and the no less famous "do what I say, but don't do what I do", also applicable to almost any situation or fact and in any field, including politics.

In the same way, when the time comes (as history shows us that it always comes in the end) and "they paint coarse", you have to grab "the hot potato" or "take the bull by the horns", the situation leads to the next phase of the cycle and new expressions, "let them record that I didn't do it", "throw the baby out with the bathwater" "let them all give it to me" and the tandem "I have nothing to do with it, it's not my business" and from here the cycle begins again from the beginning.

Last but not least, there is the joke, so ingrained in our culture and also so popular. Here's an example: there's a philosopher, an astronaut and a judge. The philosopher says: "Vaccine". The astronaut replies: "Veal?". And the judge says: "He's in Paris, but he'll soon be home."

Ladies and gentlemen, "this is what there is, and this is what we have told you".