(Adnkronos) – Tommaso Cerno debuts with his ‘2 of Spades’, the new daily strip airing from today at 2 PM on Rai 2, and after having ‘explained’ to viewers the meaning of the program’s title (“We feel like the ‘2 of Spades’ because citizens think they no longer count for anything in the game of power. We have many aces of hearts, many queens of clubs that win all the tables and make us feel useless.” But “the 2 of Spades, if played at the right moment, can change things”) he begins with the current events of the war in Iran.
Starting with a question: “why does Donald Trump, who is disliked by three-quarters of the world, because he seems crazy, because it’s never clear whose interests he serves” “wage war on Iran? What is Iran? The seat of the head of world terrorism – he answers -. The man who economically, culturally, and by transforming an extraordinary religion, which is the Muslim religion, into a political action against the freedom of the West, was trying to make an atomic bomb and put us back into a Cold War where, however, the balance was unstable. Well, what are we doing? – continues the director of ‘Il Giornale’ – We are dividing ourselves, we are saying that Iran can be better than Trump’s America”.
From Trump “who may not be the best possible president of the United States” to the “theocracy that, by raising a finger, kills 40,000 students, women, men, homosexuals, prostitutes, people who remove their veils and clothes in front of the regime to say we, the two of spades, are the true aces of hearts,” Cerno then proceeds to ‘scratch’ Europe “if we are still the Europe of freedoms, we should stand with America, and instead, bills are increasing because our problem is oil, because our problem is how much air conditioning will cost this summer in the beach house,” and if the price of materials increases “to fix our dining room. We are the democracy of comfort – he insists – always making grand proclamations about the caste because it costs too much, because we have to cut Parliament, because fixing the elevators of Montecitorio is a waste, and instead – he concludes – fighting for someone’s freedom and losing a few euros on gas, that can be done. Well, better the two of spades than all these aces of hearts.”
