RIP Rudy Giuliani

I was more referring to the fact that borat is a racist caricature to begin with, not that the caricature happens to be antisemitic

Eastern Europeans are a race now?

Not sure Kazakhstan counts as Eastern Europe tbf.

in that its in Central Asia? and Kazakhs are a turkic people originating in asia?

Kazakhstan is not in Eastern Europe, not that SBC cares, they're all just interchangeable funny foreigners to him.

Pretty much. Then again, part of the point with Borat is that he’s ultimately a composite of Western prejudices about the ex-USSR.

The 'Kazakh' scenes are shot in Romania I think!

Indeed, in a Roma village, to boot.

I think he's more a composite of SBC's prejudices about the ex-USSR.

Ehhh, I don’t know about that.

The TV Borat character was probably a collection of "lol foreigners" micro-tropes that picked his country for the amusing K and Z sounds; the new film uses its fictional version of Kazakhstan as a way to reflect the narrow worldview of Trumpist America.

I guess I'm a little sensitive about all the lies and the gullibility, and by default I want to believe that "they" are always the liars and the gullible and I'm disappointed when that's not the case. I just can't be bothered to ever get invested if almost everything is just some degree of partial truths and fiction but either way you're meant to gobble it up completely if it validates your "side" or puts the other in a bad light. It's exhausting to me.

many xps

Eh, it's exercise for yr critical thinking skills. One of the few 'both sides!'-isms I'll indulge is that people on both sides can definitely be overly-credulous and also engage in bad faith, baseless arguments. It can be exhausting but it also isn't safe in general to assume that people on your side are going to be wholly beholden to the facts.

Rudy’s biographer/lickspittle (and, briefly, a bandmate of mine in the early ‘90s):

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/nyregion/ken-kurson-arrest-cyberstalking.html

Yeah, I think I knew that dude from my college days.

Mr. Kurson was also a longtime associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, and helped manage his short-lived 2008 presidential campaign. He now runs a media company and works in the cryptocurrency industry.

This sounds like the post-credits update about the villain in a college geeks v. jocks comedy (a la Animal House).

pic.twitter.com/8TgCl39vwT

— Poorly Aged Things (@PoorlyAgedStuff) October 24, 2020

oh my god I missed this pic.twitter.com/OGFzvC80Fy

— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) November 19, 2020

He'd be better off dead imo

undead though inne?
or is he just channelling Max Schreck

blooming daywalker, used to be quite prestigious i thought.

it's hard to comprehend the abject self-abasement he's engaged in this year, just staggering to see a human being do this to themselves

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lol, cosign

threesign

Everyone in the vortex of Trump seems to be a seriously failed huan being in their last inglorious act on this Earth, and none moreso than Rudy.

The manner in which it was announced is notable in its own right:

.@RudyGiuliani, by far the greatest mayor in the history of NYC, and who has been working tirelessly exposing the most corrupt election (by far!) in the history of the USA, has tested positive for the China Virus. Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2020

Inglorious Vast Turds

did he infect the drunk lady?

Rudy’s fall from grace has been precipitous and unexpected
Also fuck these premature rip threads

sure, start more bar etiquette threads then

(this one was started over a year ago)

I bumped it in tribute to shakey

oh it was totes a good bumpin'

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LOL

(to the tune of 'Dude Looks Like a Lady')

RUUUUDY GOT THE RONA

Also fuck these premature rip threads

Since Trump and Miller recovered, this would be the most satisfying death

A few weeks ago I told a friend what I would like for a birthday present is for Rudy to get it.

Dreams can come true!

happy birthday!

the Borat thing was only SIX WEEKS AGO

Stop your fooling around,
Time to straighten right out.
Better think of your future
Else you'll wind up in jail.

https://news.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-ridiculed-publicly-shaving-234601452.html

so you've been publicly shaved

Disbeared

four seasons total manscaping

bothers me that Outic seems to be gone forever

The nation's Nair

I *just*

https://deadline.com/2022/02/rudy-giuliani-the-masked-singer-contestant-judge-ken-jeong-robin-thicke-walk-off-in-protest-1234925291/

I bet Robin would have stayed in his seat if it was Jeffery Epstein. haha such a superficial joke these celebrities are...

— Safety Man Bill (@safetymanbill) February 3, 2022

this would be an incredible tv moment tbf