RIP Rudy Giuliani

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

I knew that show was all about rehabilitation.

All of these celebrity reality shows are PR fluff to either remind the general public that a start is still alive or, more damagingly, to launder the reputation of damaged goods. I can almost guarantee that one (or both!) Cuomos will be on upcoming Dancing with the Stars seasons.

They survived Sarah Palin but Rudy is the bridge too far. Ok.

Well, to be fair, Sarah Palin is your garden variety GOP dipshit, Giuliani was actively involved in the coup attempt so I think there is a defensible difference.

Rudy is an abject lesson in the dangers of sucking up to sociopaths.

honestly you could have just stopped after "abject"

From federal prosecutor who prosecuted the heads of the Five Families, to "America's Mayor," to playing Renfield to Trump's Dracula. It would be tragic if he weren't such an asshole.

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Might as well be dead after the first few posts of this thread here:

HAPPENING NOW: Rudy Giuliani is back in federal court (on time today) for the second day of his defamation damages trial. We’re likely to see testimony today from Ruby Freeman and/or Shaye Moss as well as their expert who will advocate for a multimillion award.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 12, 2023

The testimony from Shaye Moss was heartbreaking.

He repeated the baseless slanders towards Moss and Freeman outside the court in front of cameras.

HOWELL is incredulous: How could Giuliani's lawyer say Freeman/Moss are "good people" who didn't deserve what happened to them when Rudy is outside the courthouse saying they are criminals. "I’m not sure how it’s reconcilable," Giuliani's lawyer Joe Sibley admits.

I hope he dies broke, homeless and alone.

SIBLEY BEGINS: "My client, as you saw last night, likes to talk a lot unfortunately."

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 12, 2023

had he shut his piehole and played the game, he could just be wandering around Times Square doing selfies with tourists and talking about the morning of September 11th for the rest of his life

he blew it

"While drooling Johnny Walker Black."

As career choices flash before his eyes...

SIBLEY: Why don’t you have enough money to repair your reputation?

MOSS: Because your client is still lying on me and ruining my reputation further ... How could you work in law if everyone is saying you’re a horrible lawyer?

SIBLEY: You’d be surprised actually.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 12, 2023

"The testimony from Shaye Moss was heartbreaking."

it's such a compelling testimony, and it's so enraging to see such vulnerable people put in such physical danger by Giuliani and Trump's words. Another horrible villain is that Black Voices For Trump guy who was still doing an intimidation campaign against them on social media until I think he was locked up for it.

So the joy here is that this is Rudy's OWN lawyer saying this as part of closing arguments.

MORE: Sibley repeatedly criticizing Giuliani, comparing him to flat-earthers who will never stop believing election lies, saying he committed an 'injustice' against Moss/Freeman, noting he's almost 80.

"Rudy Giuliani shouldn’t be defined by what’s happened in recent times."

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 14, 2023

"My client is a senile old idiot. Pity him?"

Unfrozen caveman lawyer as defendant.

Pity the child who has ambition
Knows what he wants to do
Knows that he'll never fit the system
Others expect him to

Lots of 80 year olds don't have a megaphone to ruin other people's lives.

Even if the damages judgement is fairly modest - say $4 million - Rudy doesn't have any money. And nobody's gonna come bail him out by selling Rudy NFT's

What if they sold actual pieces of Rudy?

take another little piece of his heart now baby

This is my body

his flesh is 90% bourbon

The part of his brain that craves attention seems to be the last part still functioning more or less normally.

He's going to have to live off of the Borat 2 residuals I'm afraid.

all time own goal lol he shouldve been sitting on corporate boards, collecting speaking fees and so forth, even the more normal things he did like have a law firm, weird cyber security company were beneath his station

couldve been doing a pretend job at blackrock

I was thinking about his situation this morning (the local NPR affiliate was covering his case). As a New Yorker, he surely knows that Donald Trump is an utter piece of shit. I think he thought he could leverage proximity to Trump to his own advantage, to continue to get what he obviously needs, which is attention. What he failed to consider is that everyone who comes within the Trump orbit is eventually destroyed.

Of course, it's obvious that he is in mental and physical decline, probably a combination of age and alcohol.

I would feel sorry for him if he weren't such a self-serving asshole.

honestly his post-mayoral arc is almost poetically tragic, culminating not in living a chill life in Manhattan but roaming the hinterlands of the U.S. trying to embarrassingly fight for an extraordinarily dumb and bad guy who probably secretly hates him

i say "almost" because he was obviously always a POS

its still tragic in the classic sense

xpost I watched a little bit of some video testimony last year or so, and honestly he did not seem to be in particular mental decline. I think he is just a huge asshole.

Eh. He appeared in court the other day with his belt undone. More significantly, a lot of his public statements seem confused. He's certainly not as sharp as he was even ten years ago.

He definitely *looks* terrible!

But he is indeed a huge asshole. Always has been. I remember when he announced his candidate for mayor. I was living in New York at the time, and one of my co-workers, who was deeply involved in and passionate about city politics, was outraged. He said Giuliani had nothing to offer the city, he was doing it for his own self-aggrandizement. He wasn't wrong.