‘The law references an intent either to harm the national security of the U.S. or benefit a foreign power. No one is suggesting that harm actually occurred or that Trump intended to cause such harm.’

Huh? UD‘s colleague Jonathan Turley (who, you recall, “wants one boy to have many girlies,”) says a funny thing.

Plenty of people, including Mike Pence, are now openly worrying that harm may indeed have occurred; and as to motive: Scads of responsible onlookers have no trouble wondering out loud whether an established anti-democrat with a striking fondness for dictators and a real bad sore spot over losing an election might be tempted to share valuable secrets.

And not to pile on, but: Trump’s mother was not only born in the Outer Hebrides but grew up speaking only Gaelic! A lot of people are saying that Trump himself is actually Scottish and holds no allegiance to the United States. Birth certificates can be faked, just the way the FBI planted hundreds of boxes of fake documents in Trump’s bathroom.

I’m not necessarily saying his not even holding American citizenship is true; it’s only that a lot of people are saying it is true but the deep state won’t look into it because of the power of the Scots lobby.

Even without influence peddling, there’s a lot of troubling evidence (“It’s great to be home”?) here.

Sing it.

How Are Things in Mar-a-Lago?

Thirty loos in Mar-a-Lago
Or is the number thirty-three?
It's a security farrago
Where our guests are wont to pee.

So we ask each crapping MAGA
While you're crapping, look away
For the boxes by your caca
Vital secrets could betray.


‘”This is an Islamic dictatorship, one of its main pillars is the oppression and control of women, that is why the fight against mandatory hijab is something that really shakes the core of this system,” a woman from Tehran told the BBC.’

A feminist activist, who has been arrested since the protests began but is out on bail, told the BBC: “From what I have seen in the past few months, women will not surrender. Women seem to be unfazed by these new threats.”

A New Thing in UD’s Garden.

So far the cat wants only to watch as UD gardens; so far it has managed to stay clear of UD‘s dog. Eventually it will creep up and push its face against my leg. But so far it’s only about watching.

Disquisition Upon The Commode

This is the nature of bathrooms: They are inherently intimate and embarrassing places. I have always regarded the human acts that occur behind their doors to be the great equalizer, a moment of parity for our species. There, every king and queen, every president, every rock star, every billionaire who has been to space and the rest of us mere mortals behave in the exact same, unspeakably disgusting human way. They are one of the places we are most vulnerable; this is why so many of them have locks. The chandelier hanging in [Donald] Trump’s toilet was his dynasty in a microcosm: something opulent and gaudy, a caricature of wealth that screamed for our attention, while hoping we would not notice any potentially dirty deeds happening below.

Wow – You’re raising a shooter AND a liar.

Deja Taylor admitted to lying on a federal form about her drug use, which would have barred her from owning a firearm, when she purchased the gun [her six year old son] used [to shoot his teacher]. Documents filed with the plea also appeared to undercut Taylor’s claim that the gun was safely stored, asserting that investigators found no lockbox or trigger lock while searching homes where she stayed. She is still facing state charges of child neglect and recklessly storing a firearm so a child could gain access to it.

Wonder why your kid’s so fucked up he’s shooting people with your gun at the age of six. Wonder why his public school system kept accommodating you and the shooter. Wonder why you didn’t give a shit when drugs messed you up so badly you left your gun lying around. Wonder why you still have custody of the shooter. He’s young enough that with other people raising him he might not, at the age of eighteen, spend his life in prison after killing a bunch of people.

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With one thing and another, she’ll get, maybe, one year in jail. During which, with luck, her son will benefit from being in the care of a non-negligent non-liar.

‘A Donald Trump passo la fiaccola…’

His last words.

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The tributes start pouring in.

Dave Almy, who has lived in Garrett Park even longer than UD…

… leads us, at the end of this year’s GP Musicale, in a Take Me Out to the Ballgame singalong.

That’s the organizer/piano accompanist, Sue Petito, in the foreground.

UD sang You’ve Got a Friend in Me with the Garrett Park Singers.

UD is a Randy Newman fanatic, but doesn’t like that particular song. Oh well. You do things for the good of the group.

The nicknames alone are worth the price of admission.

Prosecutors identified the suspects as… the chapter president; Eddie “Stash” Latson, 43, the vice president; Lee “Trench” Mole, 58, the chapter secretary; Donovan “Sockit” Scott, 35, the sergeant-at-arms; Joseph “Axel” Leeks, 44, a captain; Labarron “Bootleg” Pollock, 48, a former vice president; [and] Michael “Chop” Randolph, 43…

UD will totally admit she’s enjoying slumming it among America’s naughty bikers.

The Cultural Contradictions of Cathocracy

The Order of Deneen calls for a crackdown on pornography.

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The Order is also pantingly natalist, proposing incentives/coercions to get fertile heteros humping.

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Millions of people around the world lean on porn to get them going.

Thus even as our new Catholic masters force-feed frequent fucking, they take away one of the main assistive technologies.

Does their leader Donald Trump use porn?

NO. He uses porn STARS.

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Hey, but that’s nothing. From Review #3 (earlier posts):

Succumbing to the dangerous delusions of comprehensive theorizing against which [Deneen] solemnly warned in 2018, he expounds in his new book “a new and better political theory” to guide the construction of a “postliberal order.” And notwithstanding his earnest counsel five years ago against unleashing the turmoil of revolution, he advances a new regime of sentiments, morals, and purposes…

How Deneen’s new ruling class will handle production, commerce, finance, diplomacy, and defense is anyone’s guess. He also leaves mysterious the extent to which his elite vanguard will protect liberty under the law while implementing its elevated conception of the common good. It would have been clarifying for the would-be revolutionary to examine why previous Marx-inspired efforts by self-appointed elites to manipulate popular resentments and reconstruct society based on comprehensive visions of the good—Mao’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution come to mind—have produced cruelty and death on an epic scale…

Deneen gives scant attention, moreover, to institutional guardrails to prevent his aristocrats from exploiting the sweeping power with which his theory entrusts them and to restrain the people from going overboard in the “powerful political resistance” his aristopopulism commends. His ominous endorsement of “pressure from the people” and of “the application of Machiavellian means to achieve Aristotelian ends” (emphasis in the original) reinforces the suspicion that Deneen’s ambitious political project authorizes subterfuge, lawlessness, and brutality.

Jack Smith is Wallis Simpson.

They even look alike.

They are both very important historical actors. Both rid of us vile kings that most people want to see gone.

Bathroom Reading, Mar a Lago.

Boxes of the following were stored in one of the guest bathrooms. See photo below.

Prosecutors charged Mr. Trump with 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act. The indictment details 31 highly classified documents that Trump has kept at his resort. They included information about the military and nuclear capabilities of foreign countries, White House intelligence briefings, a country’s support of terrorist attacks against the U.S., and U.S. military contingency planning.

Via Justice Dept.

“We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.”

A Streetcar Named Indictment.

Sing it.

Indicted again
My tears have been falling
A small, lonely cell
The future portends


A bracelet of gold
A monitor band
I’ll wear on my ankle
Cuz I’m indicted again

‘In the neighboring province of Ryanggang, another official told Radio Free Asia that suicide was impacting the community more than starvation.’

More even than starvation!

The Dear Leader has now declared suicide illegal.

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