Mariano Rajoy served as prime minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, and his press conferences produced several lines that were clipped and parodied across Spanish social media. This fragment, built around cuanto peor mejor, became one of the best known because it seemed to reverse its own meaning as he repeated it. Shared on messaging apps, soundboards and meme edits alongside other Rajoy speech moments, it survived as shorthand for circular political language, brought out whenever a public answer sounds confident but leaves listeners more confused than before.