"The American Credo" by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan ‘is a profound exploration of the national mind of America. The authors dissect the social aspirations that drive American behavior, revealing a complex interplay of ambition and fear’ that is a quote, and I agree with it, this is why I have it here, albeit there are caveats, for I feel very strongly that America is not what Mencken knew, it has changed since my youth, never mind more than fifty years ago…now for my inefficient self-promotion: you have more than five thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, plus about as many notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe…

 

"The American Credo" by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan ‘is a profound exploration of the national mind of America. The authors dissect the social aspirations that drive American behavior, revealing a complex interplay of ambition and fear’ that is a quote, and I agree with it, this is why I have it here, albeit there are caveats, for I feel very strongly that America is not what Mencken knew, it has changed since my youth, never mind more than fifty years ago…now for my inefficient self-promotion: you have more than five thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, plus about as many notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe…

 

 

H.L. Mencken is one of my favorite luminaries, his quotes on democracy- ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard" – wealth, which ‘is any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband’ , historians or politicians – ‘The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth’ are accurate and amusing!

 

H.L. Mencken was prescient, think of the last quote and the psychopath who is demolishing the White House, while at the same time making it look like the palace of a monarch, what with all that tacky gold, the signs he has put up, inserting himself under the portraits of former presidents, insulting some of them…

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/notes-on-democracy-by-hl-mencken.html these people ‘did get it good and hard’ after the last elections, albeit the MAGA crowd does not seem to get it, indeed, this horrible creature still has about 42% approval rating, lowest in history, but still, unimaginable for such a monster

 

spoiler alert – I don’t know if I return to American Credo – what is left of that anyway? For the 42%, maybe a majority will vote for Vance in 2028, a gruesome zombi in my view, so again: there is no god damn credo left for those creeps – so I am going to rant here, and you are better off leaving this space, which most likely nobody visited anyway, and if they did look at the first couple of lines, then they are gone now

I was having this ‘conversation’ with a fella (he acts like a made guy from Goodfellas  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/goodfellas-based-on-book-by-nicholas.html in some ways) at the club downtown, about the Orange Demon and the infamous Zelensky disaster, which took place back in spring

 

We call him Ammoniac – from ammonia – at least that is between me and the Governor, a couple of other mates at the club, I have found an ad for ‘massage services’, where this woman advertised her special squirting abilities, and I was thrilled, but then soured, as this guy insisted it is just ammonia she will release, so the fun is killed near the man

So, anyway, a few hours back he talked about this video on YouTube, which apparently exposes Zelensky, at least for that MAGA crowd and conspiracy theorists, one of the points being that the Ukrainian hero (as I see him) was rude to his hosts, and I tried to emphasize that whatever this damn video ‘demonstrates’, he was not harsh enough, Zelensky could have said: ‘you are a fucking moron, demented, and more in this vein’ and he would not have been sincere enough for my taste, ditto for heinous Vance

 

The thing with Ammoniac is that he is so pretentious, pompous, he was going on on how they had all these people for Zelensky and he had ‘more than anybody else in diplomatic terms’, to which I said ‘are you fucking kidding me’, if not in those words, but look at the fighter jets flying for the despots from Russia and Saudi Arabia, they have had not only much more in decorum, attitude, good will, but the whole disgusting parade of admiration for such rich, cruel devils was on display for all to see, except these MAGA fools

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.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 benefits 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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