One of the few positive achievements of the corona pandemic is definitely the new opportunity to attend all the clowning that people perform in the home office free of charge. If online conferencing hadn’t taken off, one would never have enjoyed the felicitous performance of a Texas attorney who had to argue a case briefing with a judge because of a filter glitch as a talking kitten (“I’m live here, I’m not Cat!”). Republican Congressman Tom Emmer’s stunt, whose head floated upside down and bodyless like a balloon across the screen at a Zoom meeting, also caused a few laughs, but primarily just truthfully visualized the state of his party.
Recently this incident at a legislative assembly in the US state of Minnesota, live on Youtube: The vote is on, Senator Calvin Bahr is called. A confident “Yes” is heard, then fills his zoom tile suddenly the screen offBahr shirtless in a lying position, he tries to slide down to avoid the merciless eye of his camera, but too late: the picture is out in the world.
The fact that mockers now put this man in the circle of the above-mentioned zoom conference acrobats is not entirely fair. Because others have already shown how to politicize from the bed: Louis XIV or Winston Churchill, for example. There are also pictures of Cleopatra (source: Asterix and Obelix). So Bahr is actually a revolutionary: power only really reaches the people when they can vote on laws naked from their beds.
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