RIP Rudy Giuliani

maybe, someday

“Shut up, moron. Shut up. Shut up. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” pic.twitter.com/RHVoG0w7vl

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) September 25, 2019

Rarely am I in the course of a day convinced someone will go to jail. The last time was Cohen, I guess.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 11, 2019

I would never say, for example, that it’s well-known everywhere above 59th St. on the East Side that he’s a fall-down lush. That would be irresponsible. https://t.co/iMsIQ1g4VA

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 24, 2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/jboel9/our_wonderful_exmayor_rudy_giuliani_accidentally/

uh, def not clicking a link from reddit that warns me of 18+ content

it's a video of Rudy mimicking an Asian accent not sure why the 18+ warning

It's fairly impressive that he's able to slip some semi-coherent racism in while recursively babbling like a toddler that's just beginning to experiment with spoken language.

he seems out of his mind in that video. he's surrounded by helpers who are trying to get him to do anything useful. he spends 30 seconds muttering the same things to himself, just basically talking to himself, rapid-fire.

He seems how people are often depicted in pop culture as being on speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3e1F1a0Hg

remember that movie Spun, which was trying to be the meth version of requiem for a dream? haven't seen it in forever, but i think giuliani reminds me of that

https://y.yarn.co/f65fe056-1d4a-4a0a-bd19-a6b28ff9825e_text_hi.gif

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-biden-ukraine-russian-disinformation/2020/10/15/43158900-0ef5-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html

U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with the matter.

The warnings were based on multiple sources, including intercepted communications, that showed Giuliani was interacting with people tied to Russian intelligence during a December 2019 trip to Ukraine, where he was gathering information that he thought would expose corrupt acts by former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

The intelligence raised concerns that Giuliani was being used to feed Russian misinformation to the president, the former officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information and conversations.

The warnings to the White House, which have not been previously reported, led national security adviser Robert O’Brien to caution Trump in a private conversation that any information Giuliani brought back from Ukraine should be considered contaminated by Russia, one of the former officials said.

The message was, “Do what you want to do, but your friend Rudy has been worked by Russian assets in Ukraine,” this person said. Officials wanted “to protect the president from coming out and saying something stupid,” particularly since he was facing impeachment over his own efforts to strong-arm Ukraine’s president into investigating the Bidens.

But O’Brien emerged from the meeting uncertain whether he had gotten through to the president. Trump had “shrugged his shoulders” at O’Brien’s warning, the former official said, and dismissed concern about his lawyer’s activities by saying, “That’s Rudy.”

Hmmm…

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/21/rudy-giuliani-faces-questions-after-compromising-scene-in-new-borat-film

In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist.

Following an obsequious interview for a fake conservative news programme, the pair retreat at her suggestion for a drink to the bedroom of a hotel suite, which is rigged with concealed cameras.

After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: “She’s 15. She’s too old for you.”

holy shit

loooool yikes

ew

Incredible. Total scumbag for years but increasingly dumb and reckless behavior tends to make me think the stories about his drinking are accurate.

haha wow

oh boy

but he definitely keeps all of trump's secrets when he travels to eastern europe and meets with people in real life to try to dig up dirt on the bidens

Hey, everyone, that's America's Mayor you're disparaging. Let's show him some respect.

Looking forward to QAnon's response.

My wife saw Giuliani speak at least 10 years ago at an industry/organization luncheon. It was your pretty typical speech until he started talking about how he "solved" the NY homeless problem. He went on to brag without any self-awareness of how they would tell a homeless person to move on and if they came back the next night and the homeless person was still there they would light all of the homeless person's belongings on fire. My wife said the luncheon pretty much went silent with everyone kind of looking uncomfortably at each other.

It's almost amazing when you think about how much unearned goodwill he had thrown at him after 9/11 and just how thoroughly and completely he's wasted every single ounce of it.

idk seems to me like he doesn't let a single ounce go to waste

xpost You say 'wasted', I say 'set on fire like a homeless person's possessions', let's call the whole thing off.

Every paragraph in that article is overflowing with gold!

“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Giuliani told the New York Post. “It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.

“This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shakedown, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away,” Giuliani said. The police found no crime had been committed.

Giuliani continued: “I only later realised it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.”

He also agrees – in theory at least – to eat a bat with his interviewer.

Bakalova, 24, is highly plausible in the sting, despite also having to pretend, for the benefit of viewers, to be a feral child posing as a far-right journalist.

Ah, the perfect voice for the moment.

I’ve seen the Giuliani moment in Borat 2. It’s even wilder than it sounds. Beyond cringe.

— Maureen Dowd (@maureendowd) October 21, 2020

Oh dear.

rudy will see your zoom dick and raise you a gloom dick pic.twitter.com/IXFMJWmxB5

— kilgore trout, a crushed algorithm (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 21, 2020

Here's a still from Borat's Giuliani scene. You can thank me later. pic.twitter.com/0gJvLeSrds

— Nikora (@MoaVideos) October 21, 2020

so did the "journalist" say she was underage or was presenting herself in such a way as to make her seem blatantly underage? i'm confused by that bit. obviously if Rudy had very good reason to believe she was underage then that adds a whole thick layer of fucked-up to this story

dowd trailed what i assume is this incident in her interview with cohen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/style/sacha-baron-cohen-maureen-dowd-interview.html

There’s a scene with a top Trump adviser in “Borat Subsequent Movie Film: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (premiering on Oct. 23 on Amazon) that will leave you gobsmacked.

this has been a good week for gross dick

xxp I was confused by that, too. From the Guardian article: "Bakalova, 24, is highly plausible in the sting, despite also having to pretend, for the benefit of viewers, to be a feral child posing as a far-right journalist."

If she was posing as a journalist, I don't see why Giuliani would have reason to assume she was underage. But I don't get the feral child part.

I wish I had the Blade Runner photo zoomer to look around the room a little.

right, there's a definite gap between "married (?) guy trying to bang journalist" and "married guy trying to bang what he thinks is an underage girl"

Oh look, we're already into excusing the idea of Giuliani sexually harassing a woman phase of the thread, for fuck's sake.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/28/0e/2d280e161ce20f0122656c797127f0e4.jpg

It's not excusing, is it? It's just acknowledging just a sliding scale of wrong. All murder is wrong but we still classify it by degrees.

i'm sorry, i didn't parse every detail of this story yet, man.

jeez get on it

It's not excusing, is it? It's just acknowledging just a sliding scale of wrong. All murder is wrong but we still classify it by degrees.

Sure, but imo it's fucking gross to write this off as "old guy trying to bang journalist". Ffs he's not awkwardly propositioning her via email or at a bar, he's groping himself in a private room, which is way more intimidating, gross and awful.

Fair enough.

Basically I just want to make sure no one excuses this steaming pile for any reason at all and I hope he gets every ounce of fallout from this he deserves.

my understanding was that there was some implied consent, she was elaborately removing his microphone in a private room they went to, the issue was less about harassment and more about giuliani being a complete sleazebag but i guess we'll all just have to see the film! (i will never see the film and am already getting kinda bored with this story tbh)

I’m intrigued by the “feral child” part. Sure sounds like she was presenting herself as a kid!

the impression i got was that she was coming on to him but maybe that's just me wrongly assuming this was some kind of classic honeypot operation and not something way more shitty

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t46sqvutibvsmjgwn6r6izve/bafkreiekfdlycp2w3pvf2xpamh35tykmwmbntbi73uthyfl454v6spjyh4@jpeg

sweet

Congratulations (disgraced) Mayor Giuliani on your distinguished (now disgraced) medal. You are truly "A Man for All (Four) Seasons".

Lol... a reminder:

Rudy Giuliani has sought a $2 million payment from Donald Trump "any number of times," the former New York mayor told a bankruptcy deposition.

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this feels like a math problem: if rudy was traveling southbound on the highway and flagged down by a domestic violence victim, why was he traveling northbound when he was rear-ended by a teenager?

What’s up with the “thank you for your attention to this matter” in trump’s tweet above? He really is so out to lunch.

This guy is a Coen Brothers character slowly going down the toilet. Meanwhile the dude who admitted to leaving a dead bear in central park and decapitating a whale is cutting off vaccines to a good part of the world.

Really strange times.

today’s the day he truly became america’s mayor

(turns out that the third brush-with-death required by formal comedy patterning is glinner)

(arrested for being a contemptible red-faced transphobic prick, hospitalised by apoplexy as a result)

(apologies to any red-faced nice ppl)

I thought you were exaggerating but no, dude literally got so mad he hospitalized himself

amazing

“The arrest was made by officers from the MPS aviation unit. It is routine for officers policing airports to carry firearms. These were not drawn or used at any point during the arrest.”

lol, just imagining how this added to Glinner's already advanced sense of victimhood

at this point unironically my favorite thing about being trans is watching graham linehan lose his shit. it's not even about him personally. periodically he'll do something tremendously stupid and whenever he does i get reminded of all the bigots who are behaving in ways exactly as stupid and self-destructive as glinner... they're just not getting on the news for it.

https://theonion.com/rudy-giuliani-awarded-presidential-medal-of-incest/

Try again?

soon

too little & too late. he should have stopped with his successful mafia convictions and left public life while he was still admired. everything was downhill from there.

i’m genuinely surprised he’s only 81

i take solace in knowing that he sold his soul out to Trump and the GOP only to get stiffed and ending his life in bankruptcy.

quite the wasted life

in more ways than one

Will he have a funeral at 4 seasons total landscaping

he’s the fertilizer

god that was incredible

the four seasons total landscaping press conference. what was he even promoting that day?

jfc there’s a whole wiki about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping_press_conference

The event was held at the company's garage door and parking lot to discuss the status of the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the ballot-counting process in the state, where the president's apparent lead over Joe Biden in the first ballots counted had shifted to a shortfall as mail-in ballots were counted for Philadelphia, historically a heavily Democratic city.

'the event was held at the company’s garage door and parking lot’ is just incredible writing and reality

next to a porn shop. and remember, Trump announced a press conference “at the Four Seasons” implying it was the hotel

and then acted like that’s what he meant all along. my conspiracy theory was the campaign tried to book the hotel and the hotel refused

oh, i remember, but honestly it was hilarious because of how self-evident it was, it’s at four seasons total landscaping, it’s like “giuliani to announce really big gamechanging news about vote stealing at hilton luxury auto repair”. to have trump announce it was at the four seasons was just the icing on the cake

at the garage door haha that’s awesome. when he dies everyone should hold press conferences at some business' garage door or a nearby parking lot to remember what a racist horrible fraud he is

anyway my favorite Rudy moment was the Trump campaign rally on the White House lawn where he blew his nose into a hanky, mopped his brow with the snotty hanky, and then patted the leg if his rented arm-candy with the same hand he did all that with

“of his rented arm-candy…”

oh his snotty hanky was a classic, he was on a roll back then, unstoppable

Don't forget the streaking hair dye

No, Mr Giuliani, I expect you to die!!

so, wait, did he ever die?

only his soul

he never had one to begin with

https://i.ibb.co/sJtF941q/IMG-5664.jpg