The short speech (Roccaraso & Rivisondoli)
(… the impression I got from the outside was this: “I wondered what kind of audience the audience was. Lega administrators or guests from other backgrounds? Mostly locals or from other regions? I ask this because, from the video, you couldn't perceive that emotional tension and participation that you usually perceive in the audience listening to you.”… )
…and since they weren't very clear, I'll post the slides here so you can follow along better:
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(… but dear acquaintance! The answer is in the question. And yet, if you notice, it didn't go so badly. There was applause and demonstrations of approval. The rest of the room was obviously not that of a #goofy. The nonexistent people of the nonexistent blog deserve no credit other than their nonexistent silence… even when they are just as numerous or even more numerous! But concentration and emotional tension are, as is natural, significantly influenced by the motivations that drive people to concentrate. We know our own. Those of others are the most varied, and it's not even worth listing them. The important thing is that after this speech, which completely exhausted me—I don't know why!—many approached me to tell me, and others sent word, that I had given them a new and illuminating vision of certain dynamics. One at a time, one at a time, like the drop that wears away the stone… )
(… the next day my deputy federal secretary told me: "The team wins!" – a phrase I've heard many times since I've been in politics, I assume it means that the team wins on the ruler… – "So no protagonism, let's give a voice to the territories!" And I, dutifully, put myself at his service. What was needed wasn't an economist but a musician, someone who could keep time. And, modestly, I kept time: the 30-minute panel lasted 25… )
(… comments welcome …)
(… among the many things the team—which is not the ruler!—can't agree on is the fate of local TV. It's not my dossier, and so I defer to the superior guidelines that will be expressed by the members of the ruler, sorry!, of the team that has the burden of determining them. But honestly, in a region where the public service hasn't let me appear on video for six months—and yes, not even the #goofy, which was attended/attended by CEOs of non-trivial public companies, has had the honors of the public service!—I'd like to understand why I shouldn't do something to help those who make me speak the way the public service should let a representative of the people speak …)
(… and if you also agree that television should be made this way, like the video, comment on it, basically, create engagement on that YouTube channel: we must help those who help us; being right doesn't oblige us to be rude and ungrateful, nor to be self-referential …)
(… and speaking of which, we shouldn't be ungrateful …)
Perhaps some will remember this debate:
I don't have time to listen to it again, but I'm sure it would be entertaining and informative. Those were the good old days when I could "debate." Now I have to make amendments, like this one:
(… given that it won't be easy for it to pass, I don't think the biggest difficulty will be ex ante with the Accounting Office, but ex post with the many who "yougaveyourmoney, communists! 111! 1!". You can put it however you like, but honestly, I'm with communists like this:
I get along much better with certain vegetables – and I'm not referring to the aubergine, which is also a communist, but to the leek… )
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/lorazion-picciola-roccaraso-rivisondoli.html on Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:28:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.