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The Student Park has been transformed some years ago into a rich man’s club, this is where they have made some deals, one of them may have been the crime of the century in these parts – the Microsoft Case, wherein some ‘wise guys’ concocted a scheme of getting software licenses in huge numbers from the Gates’ company and thus had a major discount, only they would make the state pay through the nose and hundreds of millions of dollars were involved, maybe north of a billion, given that you had all state institutions, their millions of employees using computers and having to pay for the rights…so many went to jail, except the owner of the strand and a couple of other ‘goodfellas’ , who would ‘rat’ on the team of knaves, scoundrels that had taken baksheesh and got rich…

 

But this was the same place where we would go in the eighties to have a bath in the disgusting, dirty waters of one of the lakes, at times we would swim across, where there was a small pajiste, where sometimes there would be nudists (a form of protest in those times we could argue), sped time in the sun, pretend to study in the ‘session’ and in the evening, dance at the disco, sometimes enjoy a show…

There was the Poezia Muzicii Tinere aka Poetry of Young Music, a one man show with Florian Pittis, who read from the magic Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, using Beatles songs http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/06/song-of-myself-by-walt-whitman-dazzling.html Norocel, for some years my best friend, maybe the only one – there is nobody left, ergo these notes written for all and nobody in particular – knew the whole spectacle by heart, but then he had such an incredible memory that he had assimilated poems by Paunescu and so many more, we could spend days on end listening to him…

 

The Studentesc was also the place for shagging, this is where I met Diana – if that was her name – and used a strategy that was responsible for between sixty and ninety percent of the around two thousand or more lays that are the subject of this incipient book – send a message to preorder and get an autographed copy of the upcoming bestseller – and which we could summarize in ‘can we talk and assuming the answer was yes (which was only in a fraction of situations, let us not fall into statistics again) we would proceed to stage two in the scenario which would have me proposing a test…

To see if we are supposed to keep talking, perhaps see that we have something – here there would be some jokes, maybe along the lines of ‘we could be meant to stay together…forever’ or mention the Plato story of the separated spheres (we will not get into the details of that, unless you, the client requires and if we make this interactive, for some surcharge, you could have me write the whole thing to you, in my own interpretation, unique, abstract, resplendent style, or you could just see it on the Wikipedia page) with all of us looking for the perfect half, or whatever got the attention at the moment, it could be some inspiration, ‘I am a river to my people’, those familiar with my prose know that I jump from one subject to another ad nauseam and therefore, that would be how the talking, Young Rhea would work

 

‘The Test’ was supposed to have been elaborated by top scientists and shown to work, although it was also potentially just a personal sort of scam (we could look at it as a brilliant innovation, it depends one where you sit) and it involved something like ‘you are on a cruise ship, and then there is a shipwreck and like Robinson Crusoe, you end up on this exotique island in the Caribbean or Pacific where there are no natives…

I am the only companion you have, for I have also been on the cruise ship and we are the only survivors, or just the tow of us landed on the isolated place anyway – if I were to give the speech today, I would introduce the idea of Hedonic Adaptation and the myth of the Pacific, Caribbean Island, explained in the magnificent Stumbling On Happiness by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/06/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html - and there were fewer words, or more, depending on the mood of the ‘target’, which would be using The thin Slicing Theory…

 

This is explained in another classic of psychology, Blink – The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html and then we would move on towards the climax of the narrative, for one day or night, I would come about, kiss the only living person on the deserted, isolated island and then continue and cover her all with pupici…

What would she say to that, what the reaction would be was the question, but of course, much, if not all would have been inferred by her gestures, expression of the face, the attitude of hostility – most often, probably (way) north of ninety percent – and then the final would bring us in a limited number of situation to the place where that imagined tropical paradise allows us to move it to where…we were.

 

When there was no rejection and the picture seemed from Gauguin http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-way-to-paradise-by-mario-vargas.html I would insist that the kisses would also be ‘between the legs’ or used some other euphemism – this was an Age of Innocence, and girls would clearly covet this act, but nobody was there to offer it…well, few were, and I have the proof in the stunning numbers of women that would say yes and then consequently have sex with me, so that they could enjoy, or at least experience cunnilingus, to see how it is…let me mention this situation in Mamaia, at the Rex Hotel, where we had the AT&T week of meetings and training, and I met this woman, went through the motions of the ‘Two of Us on The Island’ tale and she says no, going to her room from mine, only for her roommate to show up at my door, just minutes later…

The friend had told her about my test and the other was clearly more than eager and curious, so she said ‘if you do not want this, then I do’ came to the fellow offering it (again, proof that there was not much in the offer and demand balance there and then) and said she is here, undressed, showed the underwear with the Rolling Stone tongue on it (now that I look back, she must have taken it for the special occasion, as a joke, but it could have indicated that the girl had thought about this, maybe had expected it for a long, long time) and then I obliged and made the Pacific Land situation real, at least for a while…

 

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In a Hideous Kinky Situation

 

In a Hideous Kinky Situation

 

 

Perhaps the most beautiful girl that I have been lucky (?) enough to meet and befriend was Nicky and she has marked a low point in my bond with Danny O, who would pay in time the ‘virtual slap’ received – we were both doing the Jordanian Beano (the one where we take them out for a trip we had organized outside the official framework and then we shared the profit – 60/40 to the chagrin of The Apprentice – not far from the Ceausescu residence at Neptune, madness, but then such a safe place to deal with cash, you would not have any hoodlum right there) when we came across this Stunning Beauty, having her own initiation into the hospitality business at the Otopeni Airport and then a rare chance offered itself…

 

As it sometimes happens, you have all the mirth, luck, thrown at you compacted and limited to just those few days, and at that particular time, I had already met the second most gorgeous – there could be a retrospective, virtual, with Artificial Intelligence help Beauty Pageant to see who is there in the big final…Nicky, Nicole, Miss Romania and who else – Fatal attraction and that was Nicole, her name being another outré coincidence, first and second place both named Nicoleta, one going for Nicky and the other for Nicole – the latter had been with her mother at the baths in Caciulata, where I was doing my stint as guide for old, under treatment visitors from Israel and we hit it off, in spite of her previous attachment to a large, tall, mustachioed fellow who would take her to Germany, extracting her from the country wide commie jail, so this was a known fact and there was no way around it…

Therefore in some way, what I did was not the apogee of the knave, for Nicole would abandon me at some stage and free herself in West Germany, the awkward situation where I just left the train a little ahead of the station could be labeled in various ways – rude, showing disrespect to a woman, disconsidering the possibility that she may just dump the heavy moustache and opt for yours truly – but the fact is that I was disloyal, vicious, maybe even Machiavellian (only I do not think I have put much thought into it, on the contrary, it might have been the cliché ‘the other head was doing the analysis’) towards ‘poor and now one of the richest’ Danny O, who asked for a date, then got one and we all went to the…Baneasa Forest.

 

The Nightingales was a ‘posh’ place – if that was the name and evidently, we are talking bleak, Animal Farm days – and this were we came with two stunning beauties, Nicole and Nicky, and somehow I would leave with them both, not for a ménage a trois (it tickles the old skin to think of that nonetheless), with Nicole in the car, but with Nicky metaphorically, for I do not know how it had happened, but while we were all four sitting together, we would change alliances – it could be that Danny was not (still isn’t we could propose) exactly the best looking male you could imagine, then there is the Proustian adage that ‘we want what we do not have’ and probably Nicky felt an impulse to test her powers and snatch me from Nicole…she would call me at my next destination – the ONT would send me to another back water, the dead resort of Covasna (on the sexual side however, in the ten days or two weeks, there have been three ‘conquests’ and the coitus was nice, in that selfish, bastardly manner and I still think of that town as a possible destination for some vacation, to be taken soon Insha’Allah) and Nicky’s father was a big shot in Telecom and she could call without limit (back in the day, one would pay for these feasts or ‘interurban’ calls) and we started an interesting, tumultuous relationship…

 

Nicky was a virgin and let me say right here, upfront, that about one year into our ‘romance’ I would take off, and she would still be Virgo intacta, in spite of the ‘abnormal’ sex we would have, which would mean sixty nine a few times, but mostly it would be fellatio, starting from the first of 1988, after we had spent the New Year’s Eve mostly on a corridor, I had been assigned to take a bus of Brits to Poiana – and let me repeat, without the connections and deprived of the nepotistic connections that ruled the roost, I had to alternate between obnoxious offers and more attractive prospects, the latter would not be on the table without the former – and had been hoping that we would have a place at the table, enjoy the ‘revelion’ and then spend time tougher, only they had not remembered that there would be a poor donkey coming to do this menial job and he has to eat someplace and it was rather lamentable.

Unless of course we would remember that we were ‘in love ‘and that was Total, Absolute Bliss and we have to look at the definition that Charlie Partana aka Jack Nicholson gives in the memorable Prizzi’s Honor, where he says ‘in love is temporary, he has read it in a magazine’ –this is when he wears a canary yellow jacket, somewhere in California, where he meets with Kathleen Turner, who plays a killer, they are both professional hit persons, man and woman - http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/02/note-on-prizzis-honor-directed-by-john.html

 

There is also the monumental The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-leopard-by-giuseppe-tomasi-di.html which I am finishing one of these days – a clever note will be posted on the blog afterwards, so check out, subscribe, like, share – in which the marvelous author speaks about Angelica and her state of being ‘in love’, anticipating some cracks, a potential cooling or even breakdown in their future marriage, which I may have to read about in the next couple of days…

On the way back from Poiana, we stopped in Busteni, at the only major, important, probably reasonable place there, and we argued quite a bit, the frustration of being ‘together’ for some weeks or months now without intercourse leading to the same, old reproach that you do not care, love me enough and this is not going anywhere – her father was very strict and intransigent, or so he thought, his limits and rules would have a restrictive effect for some time, until the dam would break that is and then, he would clearly have had a heart attack to know that his pure daughter would suck a penis

 

It is hazy and I can only hope there was no slap (and to think I complained so much after the Will Smith Oscar incident) just some pushing there, but the result is that she started having sex with me, in the only form that would keep it going – without compromising the virginity, which would be there to be inspected, if the tyrannical parent would decide to check the state of the nation – and when she would trade me for Marius, she was ‘still intact’…come to think of it, she did have a habit of going from one fellow to his ‘alleged friend’ and even if it would be Realini who would say ‘look, I am marrying this English girl and escape from this Hades’ the choice of a friend aka foe looked degoulasse then…I heard from Marius that she lives in a villa on the French Riviera, in St. Tropez…

The Idiot's Guide to the Pandemic

It is sometimes tempting to say that calamity may do some good in that there will be so many cavemen dead- fewer women have gone- women are smarter so that fewer will perish and if you look around I look around and I see that first of all they don't respect the rules and with that they don't care about anybody else but themselves.
William Golding when asked about his Magnum opus Lord of the Flies said there is one main thing in there -these are not in those exact words -but he said if you don't have rules you have nothing that's the key message we get from the chaos that takes place on that island where we have teenagers on a rampage...but but if we look at the world now, we see so many teenagers real and just with an undeveloped mind, Trump comes to mind, as always in those last disastrous 3 years, they fool around,actually it's not foolishly but catastrophically, they walk around here like thereisno lockdown- this is a gated community with people who think they are on top of the world and they just walk around in this neighbourhood  which looks like a heavily crowded mall, quite open. Care free about the place and the restrictions are nothing to them and this has been going on forever... close to 50% out of 400 houses have dogs, but these are quadrupeds that mostly live on two to one square metre of space, chained and barking... there's one close by and barks all the time, all the time I'm it's not the animal... it's the idiot monster master to blame, indeed another story is this: these are people who own the business that was proved to be deadly, in that they were providing hospitals, clinics, Medics with what was  supposed to be disinfectant. only when tested, the disinfectant proved to be water with some drops of alcohol, something useful in a proportion of one part to 2000 what it should be... though the guy supposedly in charge paid the ultimate, supreme price for it, the connections, inheritors or whatever are here, around the corner and they don't give a damn about the rest... this is where one of those dogs is going nuts, Barking and Barking and barking, f*** the rest of the people, the message Is we don't give a s*** let him bark, the dog is suffering in the Orchard Farm and  whatever the rest are enduring, going crazy with this continuous attack on the mind and wellbeing and equanimity...f*** that 

Funny games at home

The pandemic that is now weighing heavily on the world makes the undersigned think of communism…is this worse than that period – if we die, it is, but otherwise, we may take solace from the fact that this looks like a piece of cake, when compared with that ultimate catastrophe – though many would disagree, since they entertain ‘socialist’ ideas, like the supporters of and silly old Bernie himself, who has spent his holyday in Moscow, in the soviet union days no less, and seems to have learned nothing from the experience, except to vote recently against punitive measures against Putin, initiated after a lawyer died in a Russian jail, just because he has sounded the alarm on corruption, which is the substance of the present and the soviet regimes…

The Soviets have killed more people than the loathsome Nazis and if we add the Chinese, especially during their Mao days, even if they are not nice at all to dissidents, whom they kidnap and send to prison in a flash, they take them from Hong Kong as well, then the figures would pass anything this Covid 19 might do, although it is early to say and it is clearly deadly for 2, maybe 3 percent of those who catch it and much worse for the old age group and those who already have some other, pre-existing condition that accelerate the advance of the virus…

Then there is also the question of the extent of the calamity, given that this would pass in a matter of months – some say in July or August…the cretin in the White House has said the other day that he has asked his experts and that is what they answered…but then this is a creature that has lost all credibility, given his pathological lying and the fact that on this very catastrophic subject he had dismissed it, called it a hoax created by the Democrats and that it will miraculously pass and get to zero, only two weeks ago, maybe as recently as ten days before belatedly coming to realize this is not just a ‘flu’

However, august or sometime after that, the pandemonium is likely to last much less than the more deadly communism, with its more than seventy years in the Soviet Union – some would argue that they still have something very similar now, when the Supreme Leader has been given another fourteen years to stay at the helm, more that Ivan the Terrible, if I remember correctly – and around forty four here, in our land, where we still pay the price and have some leaders that pay tribute to that awful past, they have quite the same ideas and where they have changed, they still respect the principle from Animal Farm – ‘all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’…this does not apply to the impressive Klaus Johannis, an admirable, calm, restrained, serious figure for me and to a lesser extent to the liberal party

Yes, the PNL has many problems, though I am still loyal to them, I can see that there is much to be changed there…nevertheless, the furious attacks from the spouse seem more than over the top, exaggerated and they are simply wrong…these insults are clearly less destined for the flawed liberals and more for the stupid, lazy, ignominious, terrible, vicious, fucked up husband, who should leave, contract the Corona virus and get lost in one way or another…

Yesterday I was sent packing form one of the most idiotic movies imaginable, Murder Mystery, with Adam Sandler – quite good in Uncut Gems, but silly as ever in the Mystery – and some quite good artists – one of them, David Walliams was glorious in Little Britain, one of the most hilarious series ever, but has little to work with in such a stupid set up.

Given that this is as brain damaging as a film can be, the insistence on seeing this could only make me part and find something else to do…the effort I made to have on the now seriously big screen at home – a Samsung with 189 cm diagonal is there – features included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list has not been paid with gratefulness, but on the contrary, with disdain…yes, I tend to interrupt them and have them screened in two installments, but then the likes of The High and the Mighty are two and a half hours

Besides, most of the time, the spouse is actually watching the phone and yesterday claimed these are stupid pictures I select…though even the most controversial one could not conceivably be compared with Murder Mystery…

Which brings about questions about goals, Meaning, Achievement…is this what I struggled for…well, criticism that would be more than pertinent would emphasize that struggle means some agitated, full years in communism, but more or less leisure for the past maybe fifteen years or more, depending on how we take the efforts made for this house, the one before in Rosenau and this continuous tension, the infamous cat and mouse game with get out, this is the end, it cannot go on like this…with me expected to just vacate the premises, probably continue to pay in whatever sums are required and increase the down payments, perhaps exponentially…

There has always been a continuous pressure on the subject of money…a few days ago, a trip to the supermarket for the dog’s meat was in the cards and when I protested that with that trip, other supplies would have to be bought – it is a crisis and then this is not around the corner and the gas and the money spent for the journey will be better used if spread over more than the food for the precious pet…infinitely more valuable that the goddamn, idiotic me…

Coronavirus and optimism

Coronavirus and optimism

There could be nothing promising about a virus that kills people, is set to become a pandemic and has already crossed the borders and ocean to infect people in perhaps more than fifty countries as of now, and to belittle it could be as stupid as Trump is – which in fact means minimum minimorum…now that is something which would be interesting to hear coming out of the mouth of Fat Donnie – the commander in chief who is only interested in getting reelected and not even that, for he does not care if the population actually selects him, if the Russians somehow steal the votes for him or he just keeps the power anyway by refusing the results, that would suit him just as well…

On another level though, the coronavirus does have some advantages, though it takes a sardonic cynic perhaps to look at the prospect of having less people on a planet that they have anyway brought close to Apocalypse – at the present for a multitude of species and billions of animals killed directly or as a consequence of the Climate change brought about by mankind…it is estimated that in the recent Australian massive wild fires, a billion (!) beings have died – in such a careless, “Inhumane” – think of the mirthful paradox here – manner, with total lack of respect and consideration for other inhabitants of the planet.

Some of the leaders of this ‘advanced’ age epitomize the thinking – although here we would need a strong antonym for thinking – the attitude, the egotism, superficiality, ignorance and catastrophic lack of EQ of billions that choose to select the likes of Trump, Putin, Bolsanaro, Duterte, Xi – although here there is the problem of the absence of choice, as in the case of Putin and so many others, though so many love this kind of ‘leader’ anyway and opt freely for vicious, murdering, monstrous thugs that millions love, not just opt for – Maduro and so many others that have not gained power in absolute form, but still won so many ballots…Salvini, Le Pen and so many others make the list, as well as some thugs and thieves from my own land…

Then there is the ‘crisis ‘that is threatening all of us economically and though I hate to think about the consequences – hence the idea of writing for my ‘pleasure ‘to let some steam off and find some other logic, sense and redemption…writing is supposed to help  your mind in the effort of making sense of a crazy world (think of the previous list of ‘elected officials) and put some distance between the worse aspects of your life and the same mind…though here there is some controversy I would say, in the sense that there is a happiness exercise called ‘count your blessings’ through which one is invited to list every day the three or five things that happened during the day and which are wonderful or anyway positive and there is also the practice of writing about negative events with the idea that they would grow distant, as I said…but then which is it…write about good or bad things?

Sonja Lyubomirsky, a sensational expert on positive psychology, author of The How of Happiness, indicates that the ‘count your blessings exercise’ is better practiced once a week, in something of an opposition to what Tal Ben-Shahar and others argue, suggesting a daily ‘Gratitude Exercise’, which might end up with far fewer blissful moments if repeated daily…

Be that as it may, there is less pollution now that activity has slowed down, with places in Wuhan and elsewhere in China isolated by the infamous virus sending shock waves through economies everywhere, given that cars, iPhones and everything else depends on what they make in china, and the stock market has plunged, oil prices have fallen, because there is so much diminished demand for it…which surely translates into fewer polluting emissions into the atmosphere…though if we all die because of the covid 19, the only gain would be for the rest of the planet, the animals that would breathe in exultation, given that their worst enemy is now gone…well, dogs, cats and my parrots would have to go feral and fend for themselves and many would not manage and abide by the rule of the survival of the fittest rule

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in The Greatest Show on Earth

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in The Greatest Show on Earth

The Senate trial of the most loathsome conman on Earth has been a mockery, in spite of the fact that here and elsewhere in the world, we looked at America for the Greatest show on Earth, not just in terms of Avengers, Hollywood super productions that might be responsible in part for the rise of Trump and the dumbing down of his base – seeing as they concentrate on the money and any intelligent notion in many, perhaps most of these productions appears to disappear – but also for the democracy which had been such a role model for our countries, in what used to be The Third World, but now it is ages ahead of the US, at least politically, for you have to long hard for countries that have such an idiot in the driver’s seat, never mind if we make ‘price per parity’ comparisons, look at the centuries they had had that now compromised constitution, the levels of comfort and other such compounding factors…

Senators from states like Alabama, Texas – with that absolute creep, Ted Cruz, the one insulted by the Monster in the White House, when they were competing for the republican nomination, on the matter of his father, who according to the Biggest Liar ever had been involved in the killing of Kennedy, then he made viral a photo of the wife in which she looks like the inside of the head of that fool that they call the first lady – Alaska and the list is long have demonstrated an abhorrent, disgusting disregard for the rule of law, American traditions, values they used to stand for – well, wait, maybe they never really stood for them, or indeed anything expect their own benefits and aggrandizement, just like the Leader of their New Cult, one in which Russia is the new name of their country – after all, their supporters wear proudly shirts with ‘I would rather be a Russian than a Democrat’.

To see what this scoundrel has done, selling his country and its security to whoever would promote his interests and that immensely sick ego, supporting Putin over the FBI, CIA and all the other agencies – which he does not believe, unless of course they promote some idea that he likes – peddling idiotic, catastrophic conspiracy theories cooked in the Kremlin and the new KGB headquarters, in what the splendid Adam Schiff called brilliantly ‘the biggest security coup in the history of Russia’,  for never before, not even in the cold War period have they managed to make an American leader, never mind the top dog, advance whatever they invented, to divert the attention from their real attack on American and other elections, from Madagascar to Britain, and make stupid and contemptible individuals believe that it was not them, but the Ukraine.

This absolute Crook has after all addressed the Russians directly, when he asked them to ‘find the 30,000 Clinton emails that are missing…you would be rewarded for it…’and he never stopped after that, confirming in televised interviews that he would take information from a foreign country if offered, asking the president of the Ukraine to investigate his rival, holding about four hundred million dollars that had been approved by Congress in order to extort that man and then boasting that this was ‘perfect’, manifesting the behavior of a mafia godfather, and insisting at the same time that he ‘has the right to do whatever he wants’, presumably thinking that he is a monarch or dictator…he loves tyrants, from Putin to the one he loves in north Korea, from Erdogan to Duterte…

Just as we can see on the latest Real Time show with Bill Maher and on other media segments where specialists are invited, this lunatic is unable to talk properly, he mumbles words, as at the latest at one of his crazy rallies – where multitudes show that this phenomenon, gruesome and nauseating as it is represent tens of millions of mentally challenged people, mostly in southern, God fearing states…which is another inexplicable, hallucinating notion, that millions of believers, many of them hard core conservatives stand for the epitome of Sin, if there is a devil, then this is his representative, no matter how they boast him as the Chosen, just because he puts in place judges for their anti-abortion ideals.

So the Senators that disgracefully voted not just against conviction – well, not yet, but on Wednesday – but also against hearing any witnesses – the first time in history in a trial of this kind – are a shame for democracy in general, not just the Southern Belt kind, and here and in other places, we can be proud that first of all, we would not accept someone like Trump to lead us – they make such a fuss about his supposed acumen for business, when this man ruined other businesses by cheating, bankrupted casinos, cheated in his fake charity – think about that, this is a monstrous thief – created a phony University and the list is too long and sickening to continue – and second of all, we would not elect senators like Cruz, Rubio or even the lousy one from Alaska, who stood on the fence to the end, only to reject witnesses…

Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves have found another eleven in the ‘greatest legislative body of the world’…yeah, right, perhaps Putin’s world…

Memories Bring Back Memories

Memories Bring Back Memories

A song by Maroon 5 with these words seems to be popular these days, for if I heard about it, that means they must be everywhere on the internet and sound waves, and I could start with this morning and see where that takes it – another stop might be in the mountains, where for some reason the mind wondered a little bit earlier – when there was a mirthful conversation at the club, where one man was speaking about the next weekend and a possible sortie into town, where he has seen an opera recently, the classic Aida, with a good performance apparently, albeit when asked who was in it, the man did not know, which can only mean he is not an aficionado, though with that he is many levels above me, who would be bored stiff during a whole, long Don Giovanni, say – indeed, when much younger, Aida proved to be a torment and not an entertainment for this flimsy, superficial, musically ignorant dude…

The musical man went on to express disgust at a previous soiree, during which he had gone to enjoy something else – was it Il Barbiere di Siviglia or was it another magnum opus? – only to be tremendously disappointed when the new mise en scene would have characters dressed with anti- terrorist outfits and apparently the stage, some other costumes, maybe everything lacked decorum and our art lover left the House at entr’acte, furious with this Lèse-majesté, which would be fine, only the way he put it was almost hilarious…’ce pula mea’, which is something like ‘what the penis…or maybe what the fuck’, which contrasts with the high bar placed on the new production is such a stark manner…

I mean, on the one hand, the new director was so appalling in choosing modern costumes and a transfer to the modern age of some classic, older story and Our Man in Havana is allowed to say fuck, cock quite a few times, on top of the fact that he had already proved he is not a ‘purist’, an old timer, specialist in the opera – in which he had no idea who stars, not a soprano, not a single name – and he never mentioned some other change that could have troubled his delicate sense of Music, like a false note there, a difference in the libretto that would hurt those familiar with the works…

Which of course reminds one of the joke with ‘I am a gentlemen, what the fuck’, though to be fair, the man does try to get above his level, which is higher than mine, so this is not to make fun of him, for he is the one going to watch not just one opera, but may be a regular and even if I said he is not, maybe he is a real aficionado, while I am just hearing one aria on Mezzo, once in a while, and not even stop to absorb, exult, luxuriate in apocalyptic tunes, but only put it as background when reading, never mind going to the trouble of ennobling myself in the reverence of a performance hall, where I would most likely – what am I saying, definitely – be bored stiff…

Indeed, Memories ‘bring back memories’ as Maroon 5 has it and I remember now the manner in which we attended a concert of classical music, some thirty, maybe thirty five years ago, where we went, my sister and I, in the company of our cousin and then very good friend, Adi, who was in a mood to joke, and like us presumably, not very keen to levitate on the notes from the bassoon, the viola, the trombones or all combined and thus he kept changing places, which I think started happening after he made us laugh – well, almost, we made every effort not to break down - and we tried to avoid an embarrassing situation where we would collapse in a roar and would be evicted, or worse, maybe jailed…who knows what the punishment is for such an assault to the decency, the refined taste, the serenity of the ‘pula mea crowd’

21st of January

21^st of January

Though the Trump impeachment trial starts in the Senate today, there is a zero chance that the lunatic will be sent on his way, and this means that the clown does represent a massive sixty million crowd of idiots, that have elected another bunch of fools, beside the cretin that sits in the White House and watches Fox News all day, except for when he has the raging breakdowns on twitter, that are sure to acquit an individual that is clearly not just guilty, but shows no shade of remorse…

At least Bill Clinton was meek and penitent, once they caught him lying about the oral sex in the Oval Office, and that was such a minor offence when compared to the machinations of a demented man, whose only goal in life has been to serve his interests, doing most of the time what he accuses others of doing – he plays golf to nausea, and he had condemned Obama for playing much less golf – loves, in his own words dictators like Kim of North Korea, Putin, whom he believes over his own country’s intelligence services, wanted the leader of Ukraine to announce – he was not interested and never will be in corruption per se…as comedians have highlighted, he wants a piece of the action, he is not against illegal acts, as shown by the sentence against his fake charity, abusive, false University and so much more.

If we look at the men around him, The Godfather seems to have had a better entourage – at least those we have seen there were somewhat more coherent – than the leader of the free world, who has an incredible number of associates and close aids in jail, for various enraging crimes, that seem natural if we look at the pattern of illegality that has always been the mark of an obnoxious, obvious con man, known for his excesses, the notorious bankruptcies, the fact that he does not show his tax returns – and he would be the first to flaunt it, if one, it would prove the amount of money he most likely falsely claims he has, and two, he has been honest and diligent in paying whatever he was supposed to…

America was such a shining star and role model for people in this and so many parts of the world – a close friend used to dream and imagine that one day, he would wake up to see a flag that states we have become the fifty first state or something along these lines, maybe a territory, but probably not like Puerto Rico, where the same buffoon went after the hurricane to throw paper at people and then started, as he always does, a dispute with officials from the island…

Now we are in a position where we can be proud that we do not have such a creature as leader, instead, our very own Johannis (for all the criticism and dubious jokes they make on his supposed muteness and passivity, which is imposed by the constitution and the critics are just exaggerating and do not see the difference) is like Zeus or Einstein when compared with baby Trump, we have a deity for leader, or a genius if we are to look at the two and put in perspective the behavior, manners, restraint, modesty, appearance, wisdom and everything else of our president and then in the opposite corner, we place an orange orangutan that is an insult to that noble animal, which acts with more composure, decorum that a cretin that keeps shouting I am the best…the call was perfect

Even the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the other disabilities are not enough to make people, not me anyway, feel some compassion and pity for the one who had climbed on top of the world, only to moan, bitch, whine about it all the time, instead of enjoying the power with serenity, showing magnanimous grace, being a role model of modesty, courage, kindness, social intelligence, respect, gratitude, this human error is there to exemplify all the ill traits that people – his fans anyway – seem to possess even at such an advanced stage in our progress, he serves as an example that proves money and power are not the secret of happiness, for this is the archetype, the paradigm of paranoia and eternal dissatisfaction…

It is therefore evident that he should be convicted and made to leave his high office, but he is not just an accident of history, the republican senators, maybe with the exception of Mitt Romney and a few others, Insha’Allah, will absolve this criminal and continue to sustain and promote ideas that had been opposed by them, just some years back, when quite a few, that senator with a troubled personality and surely a sexual orientation he disagrees with – so the world has come so far – Lindsey Graham had said the opposite during the Clinton trial to what he maintains today, but this just proves that they are two-faced, dishonest people, who, during the 2016 campaign said that Trump should be told to go to the devil and many other such things and they are lining up to kiss his arse today, no matter what calamitous consequences will have derived from his catastrophic behavior, sick and irrecoverable personality…

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Late night show

Late night show

The days seem to pile up ever more insults and in the famous words of the lunatic from The Network – ‘I am mad as hell and I can’t take this anymore’, although I probably would take it, for there is a way to vent and find revenge for the multiple demeaning, awful names that the spouse is calling me, from something like old fart – although that is contradicted because I am supposed to be sexually active (for five minutes she says) with all sorts of whores, which is not exactly the usual occupation of those who are passé and unworthy – to goddamn stupid, such as about one hour ago.

Yesterday there was a new zenith, or is it a nadir, for when I got home, I found that the kitchen has been cleaned and very little, if anything from my stuff – which granted, tended to clutter and occupy all available space – has been left in the open, prompting the question and fear, what will I do in the morning, if I am trying to find something, or perhaps worse, leave essential things home,  old fart that I would become – psychology studies have underlined time and again that if we are primed, conditioned, we tend to become influenced and project this new self…one study comes to mind, in which participants have been divided into two groups, in one, they addressed them with words that are related to old age, such as grey and Florida, and they found that this ‘old age related team’ took twice as long to return to the exit as the others who have heard no words connected with senectitude.

I protested yesterday and then took it further, after the usual you are no good, you do nothing, look at so many others, instead of making some money you are just a lazy fool or the equivalent, I took the opportunity, when there was a crisis with the Ocean fish tank, to come out and look at the immense mess and say something like ‘hey, but what about this nice calamity here?’ and that was like the straw that broke the camel’s back, for the echoes of that earthquake have been felt even today, when indeed, I rubbed some salt into the wound, reminding the aggressive alpha female about the catastrophe of the other day and this triggered yet a new explosion of damn you stupid, instead of supporting someone and showing consideration when they are down, you just go on with your own obsessions and etc.

Perhaps I should see now why writing is supposed to be good for describing crisis, and one reason is that writing uses another side of the brain and a different logic and therefore we tend to see some sense where otherwise there looks to be none, when engaged in a quarrel with the wife, for instance and yes, she may have a few points there, because she was really distressed and under the pressure of the moment, for it looked like the pump would give up – it would eventually, but she was smart and my bank account was even smarter, old useless fart that I am, and another pump was somewhere in the garage.

In the heat of the moment, she did something almost tragic, for she used some four (?) bottles of mineral water, to prevent the system from collapsing – we could smell burned plastic or rubber, albeit for a while it was hard to say from where, for at the same time, I was trying to start the fire in the fireplace and as this consort keeps stating, I use it as a sort of garbage dump, with paper, plasticized paper and all sorts in there, ready to kindle the fire for the logs, which I collected from the neighborhood, making the wife ashamed again and then the vicious circle of more labels – you fool, the garbage man, old people collect garbage, you are a disgrace and on and on.

Nevertheless, the mineral water added to that complicated mixture, which needs to have a fixed percent of salinity and whatever – that fucking dodo bird costs me a fortune there, for these damn fish – seemed to be killing the fish, for first the yellow tang, then the black and the stripped ones started gyrating, upside down and ready to meet their maker, for they presumably lacked oxygen and the carbonated water has added enough CO2 to make them helpless and the spouse agitated and saying ‘chi, chi, chi’, every other three minutes, for what seemed to be hours on end, until finally, after bumping their nose – the black one – into the corals or something else, they looked like their making sense again…

So today, when I returned, my favorites, the macaws – who can be as obnoxious as hell, that would be Balzac, who is shouting like crazy, even now, as I write in the ‘office’ and he is with Puccini in the living room, with their dear ‘mother’, who kicked the ‘blue one’ in the head, leaving an injury that looked quite dangerous, when the vile bird tried to take her eye out, apparently – in the past and the present when he fucks my brains out with his screaming, that can be heard like in the Amazonian jungle, for tens of miles, I run away after him with the broom and knock him down…

Anyway, when I referred to the superstitions that some people believe in, including the spouse who keeps exposing my rotten heritage – my mother had warned her that I am no good, philandering, useless, baseless and what not – and then quotes from the zodiac, which again proves what a rotten, devilish, idiotic, grumpy, low life, selfish, cheap bastard  I am and have always been, never done anything in my whole life, only got some money with the business partner who has provided the cash for ever and so there is nothing favorable to say about the ultimate loser.

If I generally avoid a full blown face off, with war on all levels, today I have been rather outraged of the series of insults and replied in kind, saying that she has never placed $ 1,000, 000 on the table to prove how fucking glorious she is and multiple times better than I am and she really jumps over the line when all she basically does is throw all the dirt in my face and if I am indeed the old fart in her story, perhaps she should stop and show some pity and give the guy a break and not step on him and spit in his face every goddamn day there is…

Trudeau, Macron, Boris Johnson laugh at Trump

Trudeau, Macron, Boris Johnson laugh at Trump

If you look on the internet, you would find a very short video –volées, as Macron said, when refusing to talk about recordings that have been stolen – in which Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Boris Johnson and perhaps Princess Anne laugh at the intempestive, ludicrous, indefatigable American leader, who has made everyone late – this seems to be the starting point of the jocular moment: ‘you were late? Yes, because the man has forty-five minutes off the chart news conferences (when he was supposed to talk for three minutes) and you should see how his staff had their jaws drop.

The rude, oppressive Orange Fatso keeps doing it and then he is offended when others call his bluff and eventually respond in kind, for to keep others waiting, endless, fatiguing hours, while you ramble about how perfect your bribery calls are, how you are better than Lincoln and anybody else for that matter, how you love dictators – the latest love affair involves the ‘strongman’, who is actually just another nut case, Erdogan – is just reprehensive, more than impolite, against the rules and norms in society…but hey, this is an orangutan for all practical purposes, interested in ‘grabbing pussy’ and getting everything for himself, acting like a mindless animal, always ready to get in front of the pack.

This video is relevant and extremely interesting because we already knew how unpopular this idiot is outside the American Bible Belt, Deep South, Red neck states, but we could not be sure how defiant, abhorred, amused the other world leaders are, until we saw them sharing their opinions of the fool, for while Trudeau is heard explaining the length of the rambling, unscheduled conferences and the reaction of the clown’s own staff, Boris Johnson – an alleged ally of the buffoon – is bending over with laughter…

Granted, Boris Johnson, guilty as he is for his contemptible stand on Brexit, his lies and ridiculous positions, is still one hundred times smarter than his American buddy – although the question is, who is not? – and one of the proofs of his superiority over the soon to be impeached SOB was this very recording and the natural reaction to what Trudeau was saying in front of the small group that clearly had the same contempt for the bizarre, foolish man, who does so much on daily basis to offend, stun, amaze the world – expect for his fans, who had been hit by a disease long before their cult leader has been Chosen…they say he is the Chosen One – that we forget that he talked about raking the forests, just like they do in Finland – where hilarious postings emerged with people vacuuming the wild, ridiculing the vicious, pathological liar.

He used to call in at radio programs, before getting to the White house, pretending to be John Baron, claiming he knows about Donald, the close bond he has with his father, revealing for psychologists a sad story of a man who has not had enough affection and is needy, complaining all the time – although before becoming the leader, he accuse the others of something he does all the time, showing a paranoia only equaled by his Narcissistic Personality Disorder…

What a shame this is!

Happy birthday Madi!

Happy birthday Madi!

Very often I think that we could not be any different, my sister and I, given that she has been so resilient, serious, helping people get better as a doctor of medicine, while her brother wastes his time – as his spouse keeps highlighting – with bogus activities such as scribbling for no good purpose, on a daily basis, without any impact whatsoever – granted, instead of arguing with the spouse, it is probably better to vent frustrations, envy and whatever here…

Speaking of envy…this might have been a feeling directed at the sister that has done so much better, as a resident of Chicago, mother of a boy that loves and agrees with her – mostly, I guess – in a marriage that cannot be as conflictual as the one we have –still? – here, in a job that by definition offers meaning, a sense of fulfilment and achievement, even when surely there are patients that make one lose temper, patience and so much more…probably…no, surely.

This has been the case until recently, envy being a strong word and not appropriate for apart from the aforementioned, we can and do envisage how difficult it is to answer calls in the middle of the night, be on duty on holidays, nights when the undersigned is sleeping with the phone shut down.

Indeed, the history of Coming to America is the story of such a difficult quest and journey as to make it seem like Dante’s Purgatory, with that goddamn scoundrel who had stolen money from her and Johnny – together with a few other doctors – when he made them work for months – was it a whole year? – And at the end just said that he would not pay anything!

If we look at that saga and the years of learning, hardship, the envy that one could feel – ‘I want to live in America! Everything’s fine in America’ just like in the West Side Story – turns into empathy, because it was so damn hard, that I am thinking I would have never been able to come anywhere close to that effort…

In fact, I have tried to get my own ticket to the Land of the Free (and the Orange Idiot today), through the company I have worked with in 1996, at the time of the Olympics and some years before that, AT&T, but I just asked a few people and when the answer was no, I said fine…

True, now that the bible belt, Deep South, many tens of millions of cretins have voted with a clown and a crook, the United States do not seem all that attractive anymore, although Madi lives in a blue state, Alhamdulillah, and she is not a supporter, on the contrary, she is also upset by the leader they have…

On that level, this country here is many times better, although considerably poorer and decades behind America in so many ways, we have a president, Johannis that is worth more than 100 trumps…

This was not exactly the gratitude letter intended in the opening, but that is how this brain tends to work – or to quote the spouse, the way it malfunctions permanently – and digressing from one to the other, trump has to be touched in passing at least, because he seems to be the most abhorrent mystery of the age – how is it possible for the Modern World to have such a creature in charge…

Happy birthday Madi and I hope you survive another four years, if the fans of the buffoon reelect him next year…

National Day

National Day

We are celebrating our National Day today- hooray! – and people do seem to enjoy it, although we have had a rather gloomy, unfriendly weather, with some snowflakes, few and without effect on the ground, and I was quite pleased with my decision to take the bike and brave it out anyway, against the indications that suggested this is a day to use the subway – last night, as I switched channels, they were postponing a soccer game because the field was so bad, covered with water from the rain, that the ball would not travel in the grass…or water.

The ten kilometers from home to the health club have been enjoyable nevertheless, and the flakes, rare as they were, added to the atmosphere and the pleasure of cycling with very little traffic, albeit, even when there are just a few drivers, they can be obnoxious or outright dangerous, when they come within millimeters from the cyclist, just because this is their idea of fun, they do not care, sometimes they are just incompetent and in some cases, as the other day, they do not see the bikes, claim not to anyway and it could well be, because they feel mighty powerful in their steel shells and look out for dangers to themselves and ignore whatever is not threatening, like a man or rarely a woman on top of two wheels…

Some are even ferocious in their approach, such as the one who was using the horn a couple of hours ago, because he felt like the road belongs to him and cars in general – this is a feeling which is widely shared among motorists – what the fuck do these bikers want on our streets, how dare they? – which is not accompanied by some humility, modesty or sense of inappropriateness when they park their goddamn vehicles on the sidewalks and leave no room for pedestrians or us, cyclists to pass…I mean, if we can’t use the alternative, we must then chance it on the roads, right?

I was arguing with an old lady at the health club, when she was all upset and against cyclists – and she is right in saying that many act like madmen and I often see them coming on the wrong side, when using the few (maybe fifteen in all) kilometers of lanes for bikes –and telling her that we cannot use many areas that rightfully belong to the rest of the population, because drivers just abandon their cars anywhere, with the argument that there are so few legal places for their vehicles, which would lose traction with time, for the tendency is to eliminate many of them anyway and let people walk, use public transport, electric scooters and other means for the centers of towns initially and then for the whole cities in the future…

Dictators

The Russians are coming – they came yesterday…at the pool downtown, as a part of a ballet ensemble and even in this form, they can send some shivers down the spine of those around, given that their predecessors, perhaps their ancestors have done a lot to change things in these parts of the world, the latest calamity being the communism they have imposed in a land where members of that dreadful, awful outfit were scares and that ideology had no appeal here and it became official policy only after the infamous divide of the Iron Curtain – Greece had many more times communist partisans than we did, but luckily for them, it fell in the Western sphere of influence, when judged on tendency and leftist supporters, they should have been in the Warsaw Pact (well, if anyone deserved that terrible fate) and we should have been left out…

If these dancers show up in the Jacuzzi at the club tomorrow, to take thousands of selfies like today, perhaps I should try and see what they think of Putin, albeit on past experience, I have asked a rather intelligent, adroit, well-travelled, distinguished woman and she was, if not very fond of their horse riding, bare chested, judo specialist president, anyway she was quite satisfied with what he has done and I do not remember if Crimea had been already in the bag at the time of the discussion, but surely, a vast majority there feel that and other large territories belong to Mother Russia and they presumably see the good in the adventures the dictator embarks on in the Ukraine, Syria, some years ago in Georgia, playing games with Ossetia and the other small place that they encourage to detach from their enemy, just to create division, confusion, conflict and benefit from the famous ‘divide et impera’.

If Russia has the divine writers, creators, scientists and even now, the opposition surely has outstanding intellectuals, there is still a feeling of something close to hatred, for after they changed the political system here, everything was lost and in decades of tyranny, the economy, mentality, civilization, culture and everything else have all suffered such a blow that it would take other decades, maybe a century, to recover completely from the disaster and move in line with the west, bringing democratic principles, voting literacy to the countryside – we have had elections only three days ago and although the emeritus Klaus Johannis has won with over 66%, it is still outrageous that about 3,000,000 have still opted for the Red Plague party, a group of Mafiosi, bandits that have stolen huge amounts from the state, in organized crime groups, exhausting the resources of the country, with illegal land grabs, embezzlement, onerous, corrupt contracts assigned to their accomplices, in exchange for a share of the spoils…

This was such a massive, huge scale operation that it has become clear that a supporter of this party could be nothing but either stupid or perverse and so immoral, abject as to be ready to steal and keep so many in poverty, only because he wants to spend money and acquire property in the still poor country and in places like Brazil, where it seems that the former leader of this local Mafia (now Alhamdulillah in jail and there for a long time, Insha’Allah!) has parked a lot of his extreme wealth, unjustified in terms of his official income and considering he has always been an official, a politician on a public sector income, generous, seeing as parliamentarians have gifted themselves with very large paychecks and pensions, but still not enough for mansions and properties that have access on three streets and defy the very voters that keep them in power (well, they did, but hopefully they have stopped).

Voting – five more years – we are better than America on this score and we should be buoyant

Voting – five more years – we are better than America on this score and we should be buoyant

Today, we may as well get rid of the Red Plague, the party of crooks, scoundrels, bandits and idiots, maybe for good, Insha’Allah, and send their ludicrous, half educated leader into retirement, to rest in her huge pink villa, with her 20,000 euros watch and all the benefits that being a partisan of the local mafia brings, or is it has brought, for we hopefully enter a new age, now that the president Werner would be able to cooperate with a government that sees things the same way, unlike the goodfellas that have been evicted recently, led until spring by the ultimate gangster, the mustachio thief that is now jailed at Rahova, wherefrom he tries to have the party extinguished legally.

Before and from today, we have and will be led by a man that is infinitely better than what America has and this is reason enough to rejoice, for if we place Trump against our own Johannis, we become the superpower and if we were to fight in the manner of those legends wherein the two commanders faced each other – think the Iliad and the fight between Achilles and Hector – we would be winning, in spite of that vain, preposterous – one among so many – promise made by the Orange Fool that his voters would be tired of winning, indeed, ‘so much winning their head would spin’.

We have a serious, calm, restrained, dignified, polite, smart if not boisterous, charming, often amusing leader that is the very opposite of the criminal from the White House, with his 14,000 lies, bankrupt businesses – even when he opened casinos, where ‘the House always wins’, this impostor managed to lose so much money that this is where he does have a real record and not the false ones he keeps boasting about, for he is the one who has lost one billion dollars over about ten years, becoming thus the one who had lost most money.

In at least one documentary, his favorite daughter, Ivanka, the one who seems to be associated with some perverse ideas by this old lunatic, who said on camera that ‘he would date her if she was not his child’ and then he had promoted her to a key position in the administration, against the fact that she is only qualified as a ‘purse designer ‘as comics label it, has mentioned that her daddy told her once, as they passed a beggar on the street that the poor man was richer than they were and when asked, the one who keeps pretending he is a billionaire – although it is almost certain he is worth only some hundreds of millions and ergo he does not show his taxes and he has been analyzed and banks have estimated his real, much lower worth and he has sued for the record sum of four billion dollars (!), the writer of a book where the Orange Joke was estimated at less than four hundred million dollar –said

-          ‘this beggar has more, because we owe a few billion dollars’

The suggestion that those testifying before Congress make it on the cover of TIME Magazine as Men and Women of the Year is therefore more than appropriate and they show that America is indeed great, only it is evident when we see them talking, taking the stand and not when the Loudest, Best Known Buffoon in the world makes a fool of democracy, values, national security and well, everything else, although not for his fans…

‘It was a perfect call’

‘It was a perfect call’

This short sentence, repeated as nauseam by the ‘stable genius’ sitting at the top of the hierarchy of the free world is in itself sufficient to demonstrate for those able to cogitate that ‘Something is rotten, but not in the state of Denmark – from which the ‘greatest president ever’ has demanded to buy Greenland, and when they refused, he cancelled a visit and entered what he always does, tantrums, insults and rudeness – remember that?  It was one of the hundreds of embarrassing, obnoxious, and intolerable for a child, never mind the choice of tens of millions of Americans to be commander in chief episodes in the Saga of the Cretin – in the United States of America…

How can you keep talking about a ‘perfect call’ and repeat the mantra ‘read the transcript’ – which is now moving on to the t-shirts of the Trump fans, like so many other stupid paraphernalia, such as ‘we would rather be Russians aka enemies of the state than Democrats(!)’- unless you have escaped from a mental institution or, which seems to be the case here you are completely corrupt, an idiot or both – it is clear for the genuine, innocent man or woman that in the call itself, Donald J. was asking the new president of a country attacked by Putin’s Russia to provide him with personal benefits, in exchange for tax payers money and another ‘official act’, a White House visit, which is bribery, something a vicious bandit as our former de facto leader here, Dragnea, would do and what the US officials used to press Eastern Europeans to avoid.

More than twenty years ago, I used to work with American Embassy, USAID, American travelers, business people and this is how I have made the capital invested in the firm which provides today the income of the family and therefore I have always been an admirer of (most) things American, the democratic system, many opportunities – even after a professional connection with AT&T proved disappointing in that they would not pay a lot of money they owed for a very long time, because they have closed offices in Europe, once long distance calling became unprofitable and in the process they lost track of many things, including the many thousands they owed me and I in turn had to pay service providers and local marketing partners, etc.

It is thus a monumental shock to see that people in the most advanced country in the history of the world put at their top not just a man with mental disabilities – we could perhaps see that as an effort to promote in high office those who are less blessed, in an attempt to level the playing field, eliminate discrimination, help those in need and other such noble initiatives – but also an individual who is ‘bad to the bone’, only looking for his own interest, to the exclusion of anything else, not able to read intel info – unless they insert his name in it – supporting the Putin narrative over the material from the American intelligences in what is a horrible hit against his country’s national security and that of countries like my own, where we depend so much on the Russians knowing that if they move to attack, be that on the battle field or in cyber sphere, allies would help.

As Macron said last week, it is no longer sure that America, with its idiot commander in chief – albeit the French president evidently made no reference to him – would honor the provision of the treaty – under  number five, I think – and come to the defense of a small country – months ago, maybe last year, the Narcissistic in Chief talked about Montenegro and the fact that they may provoke Russia and why would America intervene – he did, when he just physically pushed at a meeting, the Prime Minister of that country aside.

As for the Kurds, Trump has just abandoned them, after more than ten thousand of them had died in the war against the IS, preventing Americans from losing their lives there and leaving the field open for the Russians, demonstrating again the veracity of what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said frequently and justly ‘all the roads lead to Russia in the case of Trump’, just like in the most recent case of the scandal wherein he asks a foreign state to help him win the elections, for if they do not, he would not meet in his official capacity with the president and the aid that helps them fight the same Russians would be stopped, after it had been already withheld…

The Orange Disaster Artist

The Orange Disaster Artist

In the motion picture The Disaster Artist, James Franco portrays one of the most outrageous, calamitous film makers ever known – well, in the company of Ed Wood, who is in turn fabulously interpreted by Johnny Depp – who has been so bad at his trade that, paradoxically, he has become a cult figure and there you are, he has made history in one of the best films of 2017, in a way, just like Donald J. now has a cult following and as Bill Maher and others have argued, he has transformed the Republican party into a machine wherein they all kiss the ass of the Big Shark, prostrate in front of the idol, the one who is the best, has ‘perfect calls’ even when he talks bribery and extortion, the One who can abandon Kurds and anyone else, give everything to Russia – indeed, his supporters have taken to wearing shirts which state that ‘they would rather be Russians than Democrats’ – so much for the old stance against adversaries, support for a strong defense…

The latest role model to emerge at and from the Impeachment Hearings is Doctor Fiona Hill, a sage, formidable, calm, brave woman who has talked about the stupidity of the Trump supporters – not directly though, but everything she has said indicates a ghastly IQ and abysmal lack of virtue and morals on that side of the aisle – that perpetrate, diffuse and spread Russian lies and conspiracy theories that serve them in dividing allies, creating a wedge between the US and its (former?) friends that would be so hard to fix- in an article in The Economist (the latest issue out at stands today) they describe the decades that would take for America to re-establish a damaged reputation in the Eastern part of Europe and everywhere, after this administration – the idiot at the very top and his henchmen – has been engaged in exactly the kinds of activities they used to advise others to stay away from – investigating political opponents, bribery and corruption…there was a ‘quid pro quo’!

Even my own country is affected by all this, for according to the same article in the Europe section, under the Dirty Mop heading, they mention that prosecutors investigating corruption – under the auspices of the acclaimed honored DNA, whose boss has been recently anointed as the Head of the European Prosecutor’s Agency or whatever the official name of the outfit would be – would have problems in cooperating with American agencies, given that from 2017, the policy of the US has moved away from targeting corruption…officials here have learned it seems to stay clear from statements about ‘the rule of law’ and instead insist on the new Transactional approach that is the new mark of the Trump administration, and they say that they need information and support from the US institutions to help American businesses enjoy a good business climate…

Doctor Fiona Hill was so tough even as a young girl that when a boy set her pigtails on fire, she used her hands to extinguish the fire and then continued with the test she had to take and she came across yesterday as fantastically more qualified, talented, impressive, articulate, concerned about the security of the US, wise and sensible than any of the donkeys asking her questions, from the republican side, who promote Putin’s version – first launched as he met with Orban, another weirdo, but not our own PM, who happens to have the same name and they are not related, it would be hard to be across the borders, especially when those two lands are not too fond of each other.

After all this tragic comedy, we can only look forward to the contemporary version of All the President’s Men, which for the movie version of the Travails of Rudy, Gordon, The three Amigos and the Ship of Fools they would have material for hundreds and hundreds and hours, ergo, a series with multiple episodes is more indicated…

Quid pro quo

Quid pro quo

The fascinating saga of the impeachment continues in the American Congress and yesterday Sondland testified, specifically stating that yes, there was a quid pro quo, blowing the republican defense and terrifying them. At least until they caught on and came with their same silly cliché that the commander in chief has not said specifically ‘you get on to the Ukraine, force that damn comedian down to the floor and extract from him the promise that he would announce an investigation into the Bidens’, even if everything else, witnesses, documents, even the republican ambassador to the EU have all indicated that this bribery was in the works, although they were caught trying this extortion and eventually released the military aid.

Chairman Adam Schiff was splendid in leading the inquiry and summarized wondrously some of the facts, including the one about the bribery, which does not need to be completed in order to have the guilty party accused and eventually convicted if all the evidence is gathered and in the case of the Lying Narcissist, is making a clear case for the intention to press the new leader of the country which is fighting Russia – also an enemy of the US, albeit Putin is a role model of Trump, who looks like he has won the election with crucial meddling from the admired dictator – and force him to investigate Biden, an idea that came only once the latter has become the front runner in the Democratic race and thus the potential rival for the 2020 elections.

Trump is only interested in himself, as has been made clear by this process, but also by all his vicious history of bankruptcies, phony deals, scams that include a failed university, stealing from the charity which he used to buy huge portraits of himself, and in the case of the Ukraine scandal, the phone call demonstrates that he wanted to attack his political opponent – he had not raised corruption with any other country and even in calls with the Ukraine, he never says the word once(!), indeed, as comedians – was it Bill Maher? – have said, Trump is only upset by corruption only when he is not in on it.

This is not just about this incredibly incompetent, absurd, pathetic, sick individual, but it is about much more, for the office he now holds and incredibly looks like he may occupy for another five years(!) represents an immense authority and power – usually, for in this case it is to be analyzed what happened to the image, how much influence can still be associated with it – and the effect that a deranged lunatic could have on the geopolitics, the future of the world can be calamitous and we can already see Russia advance in Syria – where American allies have been betrayed by the idiot – Erdogan Act like a tyrant with impunity – no, that is wrong, he in reality encouraged and helped by the American leader who talks about the strongman with what looks like envy, for he would also like to be a monarch and an absolute one at that…

The story that unfolds in Washington is a battle between good and evil and Trump is the ultimate demon – for one who does not believe in angels, God or supernatural beings of any kind – a paradigm of selfishness, corruption, incompetence, stupidity, pathological lying – he debased himself to the point of saying his father was born in Germany, when the truth is different, modifying an official weather map and the list is surreal in its length and the outrageous, frequent acts of vileness he kept committing.

That such a creature exists is no extraordinary thing, but to find it raised to this level is mind blowing and raises questions about democracy – if one of the most advanced, if not the most glorified indeed, democracy in the world produces something like this, what can we expect elsewhere? – given that there are tens of millions of people that identify with this fool and furthermore, they are ready to accept anything he does, distorting values, merits, the meaning of good in the process…

‘Zelensky loves your ass’

‘Zelensky loves your ass’

In just a couple of hours, I would be glued to the television set, where CNN and BBC would broadcast one of the most addictive, intriguing, absurd, comical and outrageous courtroom dramas – although it is taking place in Congress and it is political, not a legalistic debate and elected officials, first the representatives would decide if they impeach Trump, then the senators would probably let the despicable clown go away free and flaunting, ready to engage in bribery, quid pro quo, extortion and more, given that the republicans have the majority and have clearly forgotten their usual stance against Russia, concern for national security and they are now solely concerned with the fat ass of the man with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Thankfully, this unfolding drama has many humorous, if offensive aspects, such as the ‘outlandish’ phone call – not the infamous one with the ‘do us a favor’- between Sondland, ambassador to the EU, because he had donated $ 1,000,000 to the trump inauguration party, and involved against the rules into Ukraine policy – ambassador Taylor was also extremely humorous when he was pressed by the rather bizarre council for the minority on the ‘parallel channel and the fact that it was not so outlandish as it could be’, in the words of Seth Meyers, he looked like someone on the subway, asked to touch a lizard – and the Absurd leader of the free world.

Sondland says to Trump that ‘Zelensky loves your ass’ and then when questioned by the political man at the Kiev embassy, the contributor to the inauguration states that he ‘only cares about the big stuff, the investigations into the Bidens and does not give a shit about Ukraine’ – this is at the same time scandalous, catastrophic, but it is also salacious, funny – I mean, we used to feel inferior and so far behind the gracious, sublime, superior Americans and now look at them and what they praise and admire – granted, this is the Bible belt, rednecks and men and women with mental challenges – my sister, now in Chicago is ashamed of all this.

CNN had some reporting in Florida, and in some swing states, where apparently normal women would insist that they would vote for this crazy crook no matter what and when the now infamous issue of him shooting someone in daylight came up, one of these fans went on to ask why did he shoot that victim and emphasize that the president has great powers and has the right to…well, do almost anything, as the lunatic himself repeats to nausea, that he has the second amendment on his side, he can pardon himself, ask China, not just Ukraine to look at his rivals…

Recently, a court of law established that the Trump foundation has been misappropriating funds, for the money donated by individuals to this Mafioso outfit were used to…buy huge portraits of Trump and it seems the children of the Godfather have to attend to charity lessons, where they would eventually, hopefully learn that it is not nice or legal to steal from others  -even worse when it is from an organization that is supposed to help those who need it and not be used to make some rich – but not as s=rich as they claim – fatcats with such an extraordinarily low IQ and especially EQ.

This is an American affair, but given that what they do affects everyone, it is also one of the most pressing issues elsewhere, perhaps especially for those of us who live at the Russian frontier – by the way, here’s a joke on the matter: at the border, a customs officer is asking a traveler who walks in –

-          Name?

-          Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

-          Occupation?

-          Not now, this time just visiting…

The scandal of the extortion and bribery of the rather lame, somewhat ridiculous and ready to do an investigation – too eager and somewhat corrupt for one who had promised change, pretending to bring in a fresh start and face – Zelensky has repercussions all over the world and the Russians, Putin would register the signals and push with heir already aggressive policy in their neighborhood and far away – look at their implication, admittedly small, in Venezuela, where they want to prop up the local tyrant, Maduro – occupying for now the Crimea – which candidate Donald saw as part of Russia and the now president does not give a shit about – and later on, maybe Moldova, the Baltic states and then why stop there, if the ‘greatest president in history, the stable genius’ has recently abandoned other allies, the Kurds that have fought the Islamic State, only to find that in this new age, loyalty is nothing, unless it is for the Great Supreme Leader.

Trump is envious of tyrants like Xi – he wrote about the fact that Xi is president for life and they should try that in the US, although now that he has had to go to the hospital, perhaps – Insha’Allah! – that would not be a long domination – Kim of north Korea, one of the most abhorrent, perhaps the most regimes in the world and nevertheless, the cretin – there is no other word to describe him – declares that they have met and ‘they fell in love’, the same tune with Erdogan and others, while allies are always scolded, even insulted and dismissed, because they are not dictators after all…

The decline of America is imminent, if this does not prove a catastrophic, one time accident and they return to normal, be that Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden or even Elizabeth Warren, the latter being rather extreme and for the moment rather dangerous in her extreme left views, which she shares with the other radical, Sanders…