The Decliner

The purple ticket holders that were trapped in a tunnel for, like, ten days, or something like that, unable to attend the most important and significant moment of all space/time, will not be denied satisfaction. As TNR reports:

Meyer suggested that, as a joke, he and McNee start a Facebook group called “Survivors of the Purple Tunnel of Doom.” They sent out invitations to only a handful of their friends–fellow activists and political consultants who, they knew, had held purple tickets. When McNee and Meyer checked the Facebook group that evening, however, its membership had ballooned to more than 1,000 people.

And as we all know by now, Facebook initiatives are the cornerstone of the modern activist movement. Who could forget the epic struggle of the “Bring back old facebook ya’ll!!1!” and “I bet I can get 1,000,000 people to hate Marianna DeAngelo forever” FB groups?

And that’s when Meyer and McNee–or, as she is now known by one of her fellow survivors, the “Purple Angel of Hope”–decided to turn their joke into a cause.

… the pair steered reporters toward, as McNee calls them, the “normal people … people who traveled all the way from California and spent thousands of dollars and didn’t get in”…

No one knows how this ordeal will end. The one thing we do know is that it is already very, very irritating.