Say what you will about our incoming convicted felon ambassador to France…

but you cannot deny that he will fit right in. He clearly speaks the very same language as the French political establishment.

‘The move would transfer 1,500 [FBI] employees to various locations across the country.’

Okay well, based on what I’m reading, most of them – a thousand? – should go, sans délai, to Louisiana, by far America’s most dangerous state.

You’re just thinking Nawlins, but Alexandria, Monroe, Baton Rouge, and tons of others are really really dangerous. UD has often wondered aloud on this blog why anyone would send their kid there to college.

‘[I]nvestigators seized operational improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a partially constructed trip-wire IED, two loaded AR-15 style ghost guns, 9mm ghost gun pistols, 9mm 3D-printed ghost gun pistols, more than 600 rounds of ammunition for each of the firearms, body armor, high-capacity ammunition feeding devices, metal knuckles, a radio set to the frequency of the 114th Precinct in Astoria, nine pyrotechnic smoke bombs, a 3D printer and numerous notebooks containing instruction on the manufacture of explosive devices and anarchist related propaganda. A “hit list” with “cops, judges, politicians, celebrities” and “banker scum” scrawled on it was also found in their apartment.’

Banker scum. LOL.

“The Grand Valley community is saddened by Connor’s tragic death.”

And for the umpteenth time I ask you: Tragic? The dean at Grand Valley State says tragic?

Some drunk asshole shot multiple bullets from an upper floor down to a lower floor during a party. The kid killed was at the lower floor and got one of the bullets in his brain.

Note to dean: The proper language for stupid drunken gun deaths is this: “The Grand Valley community is appalled by this senseless death, the sort of death you get when drunk teenagers have easy access to firearms. We’re ashamed to be the school where this happened.”

Find the hidden Pole worrying about the results of the last…

election.

Finally! A gun that fires without your pulling the trigger!

Take a bow, SIG Sauer.

‘[Elie] Schwartz agreed to vacate his Manhattan penthouse that he bought for $18M in 2018… While it ha[s] been listed for $19M, Schwartz and his family have refused to leave. The bankruptcy judge overseeing the settlement on Wednesday ordered the Schwartzes to leave the premises by May 21 or pay $10K a day in contempt fines.’

Taking a page from Diddy’s book, this bigtime thief announces he’s now all about “intense religious study, community service and therapy,” so he should only suffer a touch of probation rather than the heavy jail time he richly deserves.

“Schwartz’s greed was boundless.” US District Attorney, Georgia.

And as to whether, day after tomorrow, he’ll actually get his ass out of his 19 million dollar penthouse, what do you think? A liar who has reneged on every promise he ever made… Leave? Not leave? Cough up those daily contempt fines? Hm… hm… “Even though it was put on the market last year for $19M, attorneys … wrote in bankruptcy court filings that Schwartz, his wife and children continued to live there, preventing any genuine attempts at a sale. It has since been taken off the market.”

“He never closed on [promised business] deals and instead drained roughly $54M from [clients] to spend on personal expenses, luxury watches.” One of the watches was a $120K Grönefeld 1941 Remontoire.

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UPDATE: Schwartz, the Brooklyn-born real estate investor, had more than a dozen supporters in the courtroom, who let out a gasp when [the judge] issued [a] seven-year, three-month sentence.

GASP — A person who stole 54 million dollars GETS PRISON TIME???

The Guncase Bar is what you get when you don’t have any zoning.

A typical American abattoir, Showcase (UD came up with a better name) is of course noisy and gunny all night long. AND it seems to sit right in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Does Garfield Heights have any zoning ordinances?

Jeep Sweep

Trashy Galveston has enough problems without a yearly plague of plastered Trumpers in Wagoneers. All gunned up and ready to rev, they get in fights, puke and piss on the sand, and crash their Gladiators into other Gladiators.

After the killings, etc., last year, locals have fled, leaving their houses to the hundreds and hundreds of police gathered from all over the region (they’re also looking at the National Guard option). America doesn’t have many (any?) truly ‘police state’ locations, but Galveston during Jeep Weekend really does fit the bill — the very population of the place is wall to wall police. The town has imposed new insanely restrictive rules, is confiscating guns, and has basically promised the revelers that they’re going to try every ruse they can think of to arrest them.

B-but it’s an unsanctioned event, UD!

Yes, Dear Reader, but even if, next year, Galveston officials greet each arriving Jeep owner with a prophylactic spray of tear gas, nothing will deter these patriots. They don’t give a shit about sanctions.

All this, and gunfights on the boardwalk!

Bikers compete in the burn out pit at Suck Bang Blow bar in Murrells Inlet, S.C. during the 2024 Myrtle Beach Spring Rally. Their spinning tires burn rubber often shredding tires and filling the air with smoke, the roar of engines and the cheers from the crowd.

Elie Learns a Lesson.

The disgraced CEO of Nightingale Properties says he “learned a valuable lesson” about how he shouldn’t be trusted with other people’s money after admitting to a $63M fraud scheme. 

Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz is hoping to avoid jail time after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud in February, which carries a maximum 20-year sentence.

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Good boy, Elie! You learned a lesson.

And now you may go.

Anesthetizing the Speed Cameras

Thomas Hubert Parker Jr., of Bainbridge, was arrested on May 15, 2025, for allegedly shooting parts of the school zone speed cameras on Shotwell Street, according to investigators with Bainbridge Public Safety.

… Parker is facing 3 counts of “Possession of Tools for the Commission of a Crime” and “Interference with Government Property.”

Parker is a Doctor of Anesthesiology…

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Shotwell Street LOL.

Here’s the new offending technology. The school district has pushed too far on this one — if you really make people in Georgia slow down, you can expect them to shoot out the school zone system.

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UD thought it might have, er, implications for his employment. I forgot it’s the southland. He’s been named Employee of the Month.

Last day, Rehoboth.

Les UDs will return in the fall, when excess heat and excess crowds go away.

BAMBAMBAMBAM Bama!!

Trial coming up for one of the University of Alabama’s many gun-mad basketball players. Couple years ago a whole bunch of players went out for some fun and ended up shooting a woman to death. I mean, one of them, a friend of the players’, actually shot her, but one of the players provided the gun blahblah.

So the guy who actually shot her just got sentenced to life without parole, and things don’t look too good for the player who handed him the gun. Trial coming up.

Another player out with his teammates that night had already established a “pat-down” entrance whenever introduced before a game (this was a precursor to the much higher profile Ja Morant bit), and he kept it going even after he began to be investigated in connection with the murder. Straightlaced Deadspin considered the fact that the pat-down guy was allowed to play at all “quite shocking,” but c’mon. It’s ALABAMA.

Anyway, here’s a local opinion writer gettin all boohoo bout bloody Bama but really baby nobody gives a shit.

All through his vicious-sadist years, Diddy was typically photographed with a HUMONGOUS cross dangling from his chest.

Now that he’s on trial, he’s hunched over a big bible during testimony.

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I guess it could work…

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