Gun battle outside of an LA nightclub in front of which many people await admission, or mill around at closing time, or something. A driver involved in the fight is shot, loses consciousness, and drives straight into the crowd! Zillions hurt, some critically. Wow! Can’t wait to see the footage.

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Update: Still a confused story; police are looking for a bald Hispanic gunman… ?

The crowd dragged the guy who rammed them out of his car and beat the shit out of him and the guy already had a gunshot in him which we can’t say much with certainty about this event but it’s clear this person had a very bad Friday night.

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https://www.facebook.com/boogiethaboogiemonstah/videos/1077821250657534

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So now it sounds as though after they dragged the (drunk?) driver out of his car, some passerby shot him.

This sounds very plausible. Very American.

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The increasingly reliable narrative of the event is one so familiar to UD.

The driver, drunk and disorderly, had been thrown out of the club; enraged, he got in his car and rammed it into people in front of the building.

I’ve seen this a lot of times; angry men who’ve been refused admission to venues, or thrown out, return with deadly weapons.

‘Police reported that a man, acting erratically, used a victim’s firearm to fatally shoot him.

The victim had been exercising his legal right to openly carry the weapon when the suspect, identified as 36-year-old Kyle Capucci, managed to seize it.

Jeff Margetta, an educated gun owner, expressed concerns about open carry practices. “I see people open carry, and they do not watch their surroundings at all,” he said. “And that’s kind of a scary thought, because someone could come up behind them, take their gun, and then they’re liable for what happens.”‘

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Yeah but this guy’s way past liability concerns.

[H]e paid late nearly every month since moving in, missing several months entirely.

His friend Trump has venous insufficiency. Epstein himself had … call it penous insufficiency. He was unable – or the good Lord didn’t grant him enough time – to eternalize his erection, to unbound his boner, to superannuate his stiffy.

Age/death caught up with both men; yet Epstein now enjoys the immortality he so passionately sought!

UD thought his 2019 suicide was the end of his Kafkan run, but she was very very wrong. He’s the talk of the town, the thing the Dems think will bring the prez down, the thing that will turn Trump’s smile to a frown.

Color UD amazed. Everyone knew Trump was a sexual degenerate when they voted for him. UD doesn’t understand why he needs to care about late-entry evidence. I’m watching the whole thing with bafflement.

Jonathan Brown, slavery-apologist extraordinaire, is just Part One.

You can still find Georgetown boasting about hoppin’ Shon Hopwood – sentenced just today for his latest, er, outburst – here. Veteran bad guy Shon was enacting one of those personal redemption stories of which we are so fond until his temper did him in again. Tsk.

Sure, after you expel the violent psycho with the loaded gun from your high school, you could continue his education virtually… But try finding anyone among your teachers willing to risk his getting to know where they live!

His parents (did they give him the gun?) have filed an angry indignant lawsuit; they cannot believe that just because their little one

was found with a loaded handgun near campus on Oct. 28, triggering an increased police presence that day as well as on Oct. 29, when a false report of an active shooter sent the school into a lockdown… Raleigh police detained J.S. and two other students behind Peace Street Market, which is just across from [the school]. They had left campus without permission on Oct. 28 around 10:30 a.m.. According to police, J.S. was in possession of [a] loaded firearm. He tried to run from police … Extra police were at Broughton for two days. Student attendance dropped as some parents kept their children home… In November, a district administrative panel recommended a long-term suspension of 365 days and expulsion. Wake County Superintendent Robert Taylor backed the recommendation... In April, a school board appeal panel upheld the 365-day suspension and expulsion... The student had “a pretty recent history of physically aggressive behaviors on campus” that … was increasing in severity.

… just because of the fights he routinely picked at school, his force backed up by a loaded pistol… just because of these teeny weeny infractions… the school, plus an appeals board, threw his wittle ass out totally! He’s just a child! A child with a loaded gun! Big deal!

… has names, photos, and details of prior threats and assaults against Przemek Jeziorski, the Berkeley professor shot to death on the streets of Athens by his ex-wife and her boyfriend (the bf has confessed; she has not).

The professor had sought a restraining order in San Francisco against his ex-wife in May, saying he feared for his life, before he was killed, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. 

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A much better source, with photos of the killers being led out of court. They include a sixteen year old.

The NYT has a Greek correspondent following the story in Athens. Przemek Jeziorski’s death – after two weeks – is getting the coverage it deserves.

Keep in mind the complexity here. As Jeziorski’s brother writes, “Przemek’s estate is in the U.S., his children are in Greece, and our family is in Poland.” He plans to adopt the children, but this too might be another expensive fight. The mother’s Greek family might think it should hold on to the kids until their father’s murderer gets out of prison.

One, two, three, four… but where’s wifey-poo?

[Photo: Reuters TV/Reuters]

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‘Jeziorski had a win in court hours before the murder.’

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Here she is! Does not look happy.

Out here in nowhere OK, which is all about guns booze divorce no broadband and no people, suicide is all the rage; and when you’re ready for your Beretta to the brain, more and more folks are realizing that nothing beats a gun range — your one-stop-shop for pop pop pop. Or just pop.

They’ll hand you a gun, man, and while fellow shooters might be put out by your suddenly bleeding all over the place, that’s a whole sight better’n leaving a mess at home for your roommate. Here it’s a bunch of strangers who’ll call 911 right away no muss no fuss.

Which is why gun range suicides are a thing; they are a growing subset of gun suicides not yet exploited by the gun ranges, but I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t start advertising as venues. As OK State Sen Nathan Dahm (who personally made sure OK don’t have NO red flag laws) says, “Everyone dies. That’s life.” I mean SHARUGGG. SHRUUUUG. WTF. BFD. We’re cowboys out here.

You charge more cuz there’s more cleanup — not just a crew to sweep up spent casings, but a special contingent ready to try out a bit of CPR before handing the body off to EMTs and then sopping up the blood/brain.

And in the Islamic present, this reviewer notes, citing “ISIS’s and Boko Haram’s recent revival of medieval de jure enslavement practices.” That’s a nice wordy way of saying this.

And who can be surprised that an American professor/defender of slavery was the star of the show the other day, as a congressional committee wondered why Georgetown University rewarded this dude (who also called for Iranian airstrikes on American bases) with the chairmanship of a department? Does Georgetown like lecturers who shut down audience… er… misgivings about slavery with comments like “I don’t think it’s morally evil to own somebody, because we own lots of people all around us and were owned by people, and this obsession about thinking of slavery as property… [Muhammad] had slaves, there is no denying that. Are you more morally mature than the prophet of God? No, you’re not.”

Talk about a scold! Groveling apologies, Professor Brown! Never again will I arrogantly go against the will of the prophet and question slavery!

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Vey, vey. Here are UD‘s uncensored thoughts about slavery-apologists like Georgetown’s own.

UD‘s got nothing against the tens of millions of Americans – and other people around the world – who fantasize about sexually and in other ways enslaving others. Enslavement fantasies always fall somewhere in the top ten sexual fantasies, and fine. But JEEZ. Georgetown is a Jesuit school. You’d think it would be particularly sensitive to the possibility of hiring and promoting people who remonstrate in public against people who don’t think giving in to slavery fantasies is a good idea.

‘Ex-Wife of UC Berkeley Professor Shot in Greece
Arrested on Suspicion of Plotting his Killing‘

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If you followed the shooting death of Professor Dan Markel, you will find virtually all of the details of Przemek Jeziorski’s shooting death familiar. Annoyed that the father of her children wanted to father them, his ex-wife (speculating here, but on pretty solid ground) had some criminal connections, probably through her current boyfriend, and she hired them to blow his brains out right there in the street.

Not everyone has this particular skill – walk up to a stranger, shoot him to death – but both the Adelsons and Nadia Michelidaki seem to have known people who knew people with these abilities.

‘[A]uthorities arrested Michelidaki and accused her of convincing her current partner to kill Jeziorski.

Police also arrested her companion — who has not been identified — and three other men as accomplices.

The three men, two Albanians and a Bulgarian man, were accused of transporting the shooter to the crime scene and giving him the firearm used in the crime.

Another Greek news outlet, iefmerida, reported Michelidaki denied any involvement in the crime when she was arraigned, while her partner and the accused gunman admitted to authorities to shooting Jeziorski, and doing so at Michelidaki’s request.‘

UD, as readers know, likes to follow certain high-profile murders, and she must admit she’s GOBSMACKED by the stupidity of degenerates who think they can contract kill a person they’re known to hate with a passion… and get away with it! In both cases, the conspiracy included gobs of people (I’m counting at least seven in the Markel case, and this one in Greece looks to have involved at least five), and, you know, the more people in on it, the greater your chance of discovery. But beyond that, doesn’t it occur to these idiots that the sudden grotesque gunning down of a perfectly innocent random human being will confidently lead investigators to the only possible people who wanted him dead?

And look what the killers have achieved. They have produced orphans whose mothers killed their fathers. Mothers who will go to prison for life for their crime. Nicely done.

I don’t know what category this is. I just feel compelled to keep you updated on The American Story.

1.) Nantucket. Headline.

Nantucket Man Who Chopped Down Neighbor’s Trees for Ocean View Says He Was Simply ‘Clearing Out Her Crappy Trees’

In preparation for selling his neighboring house, Jonathan Jacoby walked over to Patricia Belford’s place and cut down sixteen trees her family planted fifty years ago. He did this to be able to say in his listing that his house had water views, which allowed him to put a big price on it.

Belford will win her lawsuit against him, but Jacoby doesn’t care. I’m sure he’s done the math. Reparations in this matter will result in a sum far less than what he’ll get for the house; and even if they don’t, he’s astronomically rich, so he doesn’t give a shit about massive outlays.

The important thing, for him, is the opportunity to express earth-core-deep contempt for everyone and for everything.

2.) Hamptons. Headline.

Everyone’s Suing Everyone Out East. Forget golf. The real local pastime is spending millions of dollars to win zoning wars.

The article is a cavalcade of people exactly like Jacoby.

The village government … granted [one owner] permission to clear some phragmites, a type of invasive grass, on the condition that he replace them with native vegetation. Instead, [he] clear-cut much of the land around the house and put in a floating dock and a kayak rack. He built white concrete patios on two sides, enlarging the house’s coverage area by thousands of square feet. He replaced the pool shed with a pergola and outdoor shower... [The same owner decades ago] notoriously demolished four Times Square buildings in the dead of night, to head off a moratorium on tearing down SROs, for which he paid millions in fines...

 [S]ometimes a [local attorney’s] client who wants something that requires a zoning-board approval will ask him, “Why shouldn’t I just do it?” He discourages that path as “very, very, very risky.” You might get away with it, but if you want to sell the place, some East End municipalities have ordinances requiring that you secure a new certificate of occupancy from their buildings department before a deed can be transferred. If an inspection turns up unauthorized alterations, you could find yourself stuck. This is the bind [this owner, who now cannot sell his house,] is in.

But for this person, as for Jacoby, the real point is to leave an empty rotting caught up in litigation house out there in order to convey earth-core-deep contempt for everyone and for everything. Remember that blank look on Bernie Madoff’s face as he explained that he didn’t really know why he stole sixty billion dollars from people? That’s the look on the facades of these houses: I am a monument to motiveless limitless existence-hatred.

Another owner built

 a chicken coop and other animal enclosures without permits. A children’s playhouse popped up near the fruit orchard. And a couple days before Christmas, the neighbors noticed that four alpacas had appeared like fuzzy magi. [They] surreptitiously recorded all these developments in snapshots and video clips… One of the videos showed [the owner’s] children chasing the alpacas around the reserve in an ATV. [One neighbor,] who had paid $4.6 million for a house next to the farm, filed dozens of photos with the town-planning department, scrawled with handwritten notations like “more waste and debris” and “2 years of Porta Potty.” [The owner] complained to the town about the invasion of his privacy, filing affidavits that accused [this neighbor] of harassing his laborers by filming them through her privet hedge. “Why is the manure structure so near my property,” [another neighbor] wrote to the zoning board. “I am very concerned about the odors which most certainly will deny my quiet enjoyment of my home for which I paid millions of dollars.”

This example literalizes the Madoffian I Shit in Your Face, World, and I Don’t Know Why philosophy.

Think, mes petites, how strange it is! Punishment, even with all their money and countersuits, is often immense, yet the death drive, the shit drive, the I’ll destroy you all and I’ll destroy myself drive, is so strong that it doesn’t care.

After breaking rule after rule to get a breakfast nook he wanted, an indignant Carl Icahn sued the town for having the gall to tell him to take it down.

Icahn sued in New York State court, and when he lost, he went on to appeals that have yet to be resolved, all so he could keep his 400-square-foot breakfast nook.

This example highlights the Ubu-infantility at work among the Madoffians. I’m suing! It’s taking many years and I keep losing but again the point as UD has been trying to explain is I’m so rich there’s nothing to be done but to kill everybody.

Maybe we’re all, at our idiest-core, infantile (me play big boy tennis!), vindictive, suicidal, and homicidal, like super-rich King Ubu. What’s special about our country’s Madoffians (the upcoming link is to the NYC residence of one of the Hamptons owners described in this post) is that they get to stage their psychoses.

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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… 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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Poetic Addenda:

each jolt of meanness replaces the one before it

and pretty soon you get to like those jolts,

you and millions of other dolts who like to be electrocuted

by their own feelings

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I want to date-rape life

Butte City Mayor Kevin “Have Gun will Gavel” Turner got pissed at some people during a city council meeting and pulled out his loaded Hi-Point 45 ACP model JHP. He seems to have started banging it loudly on the table (hence the “gavel” part of the name I just gave him) and to have screamed a lot. UD‘s favorite scream, with its keen sense of checks and balances, features in this post’s headline.

Good news is he did not proceed to rip open his camo shirt to reveal a swastika beneath. By Idaho standards, this makes him a moderate.

Rep Cory Mills (FL) certainly spreads it around: He lives in a super-luxury DC apartment with spectacular views, his rent an astonishing $20,000 plus a month.

And this is fine, fine: Dems like Schumer can boast they rent a room in a sorry little Capitol Hill townhouse, but mega-rich MAGAs like Mills are under no such populist compulsion. Go for it.

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But… is he, like his role model, mega-rich?

D.C. Landlord Seeks to Evict Congressman, Alleging $85,000 in Unpaid Rent headlines the Washington Post, which never makes its articles free, but made this one free.

‘Mills suggested that he was unable to pay rent because of a technical problem with a processing platform.‘

Cory seems unaware that he could get a check, which he could fill out, and send in the mail… Or, given the amenity-rich building in which he lives rent-free, he could probably just hand his rent to one of the toadies in the lobby.

But UD‘s thinking the problem isn’t technical – a review of Cory’s rather fucked up life suggests he’s low on cash, plus way-distracted by personal and political problems, so that he, amazingly, didn’t notice that yet another part of his existence was going down the tubes.

In an opinion piece about whether what Israel’s doing in Gaza constitutes genocide, the writer duly notes Israel’s penchant for calling its enemies Nazis. What he doesn’t mention, but what intrigues UD, is the now routine tendency of Israelis to call other Israelis Nazis.

It’s gotten so bad that multiple efforts have been made to pass laws that would make it a crime to call someone a Nazi.

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Most of the Nazi name-calling comes from Israel’s adorable primitifs, the ultra-orthodox.

Holocaust imagery has been an especially evocative tactic used by ultra-Orthodox Jews, particularly when they’ve felt their traditional way of life is under attack from Israeli society. Two years ago, ultra-Orthodox protesters wore striped prison uniforms and yellow Stars of David mimicking Jewish concentration camp prisoners.

Yoelish Kraus, who belongs to a fringe religious group that rejects the secular Jewish state, collects protest posters that the Ultra-Orthodox community has used. One, from the early 1980s, features a swastika, in protest of an Israeli archaeological dig of Jewish graves. Another compares a police chief to Hitler for his gruff handling of ultra-Orthodox street protesters.

(It’s much less routine for politicians to accuse other politicians of being Nazis, but it happens enough to worry people.)

With their prodigious fucking, Israel’s ultraorthodox are well on their way to demographic dominance, while the country’s educated are leaving in droves.

The sort of people who think it’s peachy to scream NAZI at the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors are gradually taking over.

Had to take it down but GUILT.