The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon is so relevant now, that the Manchurian Candidate is in…The White House – the book is on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read and The Crime Writers Association Top 100 Mystery of All Time compilation – hundreds of those books are reviewed on my blog, where the best beano is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon is so relevant now, that the Manchurian Candidate is in…The White House – the book is on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read and The Crime Writers Association Top 100 Mystery of All Time compilation – hundreds of those books are reviewed on my blog, where the best beano is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

 

9 out of 10

 

The Manchurian Candidate is now in The White House and it is there, on all the airwaves and internet news for all to see, unless, of course, they belong to the MAGA cult, and then they are in denial – ‘oh, it is so great to attack allies, and what about the price of eggs?’ which they were so obsessed about under Biden

 

In the Richard Condon novel, we have prisoners of war that have been used by the Soviets – this is the Korean War – to become sleeper agents, through hypnosis and other means, they would trigger a reaction, when a game of solitaire is suggested, and the queen of spades is present, then they would become assassins

-          What does this have to do with Orange Jesus?

 

Well, he has not been trained by the Russians, not literally anyway, though he has swallowed their propaganda and he shows so much gusto in regurgitating it, especially in the tragic case of Ukraine, he accused their war hero of being a dictator, and he does what Putin wants, as if he were a paid employee

In my mind, there is no question this Orange Bastard is a Russian asset, if not a paid, groomed one, not in Moscow of the czar, but in those tacky towers, the free world is now controlled to some extent by this Absolute Moron, who acts like one of those despots, reined in only by the system that he is dismantling these days

 

This is a leit motif, perhaps an obsession, but then it is the great danger we are facing, albeit he is not the only threat, these days, I am worried by the fact that our small company is facing bankruptcy, however difficult it is to make head or tail of this, something my associate told me yesterday, to my horror

He has told me that the company has lost more than one hundred thousand euros in the first months of this year, and he will try to find solutions, did not tell me what will be left, in the worst-case scenario, insisting that he has the most to lose, indeed, he has 60% and I only hold 14%, but it is still scary, and optimism is needed

 

To cap it all, the spouse is not willing to comprehend all this, and then we have this Manchurian Candidate, willing to give the game away to Putin, Eastern Europe is not interesting for him, he wants Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza and then we will see what gets the attention of this stupid narcissistic monster

Stoicism may be the name of the game https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/11/moral-essays-de-providentia-de.html and there is a need to remember wise words from Seneca and the other luminaries, even when not facing turbulence – ‘be happy with what you have, it is not what happens, but what you make of what happens that matters’

 

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.” So why worry, when we could be Panglossian and besides, we need to have a Strategy as explained in the classic

The How of Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html has ‘Happiness Activity No 6: Developing Strategies for Coping-practicing ways to endure or surmount hardship or trauma’ so we have ways

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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