O sole mio!
He was my sun!
Now Leonard Leo
Has come undone
He is a sleazebag
He has b.o.
His brand-new name tag:
STINKBUTT LEO
O porco, o porco Dio!
Disgusting Leo
Sta in front a me
… is pleased to see that Jonathan Chait compares Trumpy America to Hungary throughout this essay.
[T]he parallels to Hungary are striking. Orbán’s economy has suffered a brain drain as the regime’s cronyism drives its great minds to work in freer societies. Trump’s policies have shown early signs of producing a similar outcome, as would-be international students must now consider whether pursuing an American degree is worth risking getting detained by ICE or having their visa revoked abruptly over minor legal infractions.
But the Gryphon said no.
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“Aha,” said Mr UD. “Clearly Justice Roberts must be impeached.”
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As for the judge in question, he is what my Aunt Goldie would have called a fency schmency person — snooty private schools, Yale, etc.
Fun tidbits:
Took a gap year and coached women’s basketball.
Shakespeare freak who “played a crown prosecutor in The Trial of Hamlet that was presented at the Shakespeare Theatre Company.”
Oh, and the dude ruled in Trump’s favor in the case involving whether he could maintain the privacy of his tax returns.
The correct social attitudes, plus a fierce Second Amendment defender.
As one of the last acts of his presidency, Biden has issued preemptive pardons for Fauci and several other national heroes and heroines who pissed off whatzisname by pursuing truth, justice, and the American way.
Er, not exactly. But color UD impressed by the soft-spoken thing Trump did for half of his convention speech.
… Youngstown State’s secretive, Trumpian trustees have named a prominent election denier president! Wow.
… But the dictator who loves me the most is… Orban of Turkey!“
Fox … is the network that proved its commitment to Trump by shelling out $787.5 million as the price of supporting his fantasies about voting machines. And yet, by the end of the interview, Trump was calling Fox a “hostile” network…
One-on-one interviews are hard for Trump, because they require him to focus on individual human beings and engage with them as if he cares about—or even heard—what they just said. [LOL] He always runs the risk that the other person might continue to ask pointed questions even after he has wandered into some incomprehensible reverie... [LOOOL]
“I’m no great fan of Fox,” Trump complained at one point. “You’re sitting here,” Baier responded calmly. “Well, you gotta get your word out somehow, right?” Trump mumbled, with that sullen, childlike affect that is always so disconcerting to see in a man closer to 80 than 8. [This is the moment to visit all of UD’s UBU/TRUMP/TRUBU posts over many years. (Scroll down.)]
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Roger Shattuck on Alfred Jarry’s Ubu:
[Ubu is] the representative of primitive earthy conduct, unrelieved by any insight into his own monstrosity, uncontrollable as an elephant on the rampage… [M]ankind in the shape of Ubu dredges the depths of its nature…
Can we really laugh at Ubu, at his character? It is doubtful, for he lacks the necessary vulnerability, the vestiges of original sin. Not without dread, we mock, rather, his childish innocence and primitive soul and cannot harm him. He remains a threat because he can destroy at will, and the political horrors of the twentieth century make the lesson disturbingly real… Jarry’s humor [in the play] may be regarded as a psychological refusal to repress distasteful images. He laughed and invited us to laugh at Ubu’s most monstrous behavior, not because we are immune – we are, in fact, deathly afraid of the ‘truth’ of Ubu – but because it is a means of domesticating fear and pain… [Humor] demands that we reckon with the realities of human nature and the world without falling into grimness and despair.
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UD thanks Dmitry, a reader, for pointing out that Fox settled 787.5 million, not billion. She has corrected it.
Government lawyers also intend to ask the judge to remove Christine Jorgensen, Kemal Atatürk, Carly Simon, Eric Satie, and Damien Thorn from the list of people Trump is suing.
You probably don’t think it’s worth your while to read, in depth, the self-defense of the rioters, but, for pure amusement, this is a good read.
A policeman brutally beaten by the insurrectionists shares his thoughts on Josh “He’s A Runner” Hawley.
He’s a runner
and he’ll run away
soon there’ll be no Josh
courage ain’t been born
that can make him stay
Hawley get away while you can
He’s a runner
and he’ll run away
with police escort
courage ain’t been born that
can make him stay
come his Proud Boys mob
come the coup
he’s a runner
There’ll come the runnin’
He’ll know he’s got to
don’t ask him not to or why
Oh why oh why did you
run off
and leave Oath Keepers cryin’
now they’re in jail
and you’re not
Well hello Hawley! Yes, hello Hawley!
It’s so nice to see you break out in a run.
You’re looking swell, Hawley. Run like hell, Hawley.
Harmless tourists in the Capitol are so much fun.
You feel the room swayin’
While the mob’s sayin’
“After Pence we hang the others one by one.”
So pump your fist, fella
You’re a Proud Boys Nelson Mandela
Hawley you’ve showed your courage once again!
LOL. Pray that he declares – and fast.