why would the state department ask the president's personal attorney to do diplomatic work?
― treeship., Wednesday, 25 September 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
because giuliani doesn't want to say that trump asked him to do it and the state department was simply told to cooperate with him.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
the funny part is Twitter ppl acting like he wasn't always a giant piece of shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
how dare u, this hero of america is the reason there was no 9/12
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
The best part of that clip is even though its Fox, the anchor is all "hang on no pls stop talking u are digging a big hole here k thanks shut up"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link
(or perhaps BECAUSE its Fox, who kno)
maybe, someday
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 05:37 (four years ago) link
“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
― j., Wednesday, 25 September 2019 05:53 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 October 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/jboel9/our_wonderful_exmayor_rudy_giuliani_accidentally/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
uh, def not clicking a link from reddit that warns me of 18+ content
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
it's a video of Rudy mimicking an Asian accent not sure why the 18+ warning
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
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.
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
He seems how people are often depicted in pop culture as being on speed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3e1F1a0Hg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
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
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
https://y.yarn.co/f65fe056-1d4a-4a0a-bd19-a6b28ff9825e_text_hi.gif
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 October 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
Hmmm…
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/21/rudy-giuliani-faces-questions-after-compromising-scene-in-new-borat-film
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
holy shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
loooool yikes
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
ew
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Incredible. Total scumbag for years but increasingly dumb and reckless behavior tends to make me think the stories about his drinking are accurate.
― He was very mean to Mr. Chamillionaire (PBKR), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
haha wow
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
oh boy
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
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
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
Hey, everyone, that's America's Mayor you're disparaging. Let's show him some respect.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Looking forward to QAnon's response.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
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.
― He was very mean to Mr. Chamillionaire (PBKR), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
idk seems to me like he doesn't let a single ounce go to waste
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
xpost You say 'wasted', I say 'set on fire like a homeless person's possessions', let's call the whole thing off.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
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.”
“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.
― logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
Here's a still from Borat's Giuliani scene. You can thank me later. pic.twitter.com/0gJvLeSrds
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
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
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
this has been a good week for gross dick
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
I wish I had the Blade Runner photo zoomer to look around the room a little.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
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"
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
Oh look, we're already into excusing the idea of Giuliani sexually harassing a woman phase of the thread, for fuck's sake.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/28/0e/2d280e161ce20f0122656c797127f0e4.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
i'm sorry, i didn't parse every detail of this story yet, man.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
jeez get on it
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
a huge insult to the many people who die broke, homeless and alone every day.
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:53 (four months ago) link
There are very few, if any, of those people on whom I would wish that fate.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:55 (four months ago) link
Relistening to Blowback S1, was reminded that he was one of the finalists under consideration for "Viceroy" of Iraq after the invasion. What a shit show.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 21 December 2023 20:08 (four months ago) link
he is thinking "Jesus take the wheel"
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 22 December 2023 16:58 (four months ago) link
does this mean the women who sued him get nothing?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 December 2023 17:09 (four months ago) link
I think they'll be first in line for a bankruptcy court-determined chunk of his current assets, and maybe a piece of whatever he makes on his continuing grifts while he's under Ch.11 reorg?
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Friday, 22 December 2023 17:25 (four months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sq4srjwg5noukbywa5stn6ar/bafkreict6524unynkaelo5d7pbpytwahfti4giyvt765s24ld4bk5qjfsq@jpeg
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Friday, 5 January 2024 19:28 (three months ago) link
DENIED
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:37 (three months ago) link
you can tell the judge really enjoyed writing that one
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 5 January 2024 19:37 (three months ago) link
A genius at work:
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreic2du64voypyykfkzr3ytjkadfgnu7jl2nv3qjh6vyc76yzpe5wbu@jpeg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 January 2024 22:35 (three months ago) link
I don't why Ted Bundy didn't try that genius defense strategy
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 12 January 2024 22:40 (three months ago) link
I don't imagine Rudy can afford competent counsel anymore
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 January 2024 22:44 (three months ago) link
Saul Goodman
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 January 2024 23:59 (three months ago) link
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/rudy-giuliani-ordered-to-testify-under-oath-in-bankruptcy-proceedings/
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:17 (two months ago) link
oh well this thread title is disappointing
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:18 (two months ago) link
But think of the fun we'd have missed if he'd actually died in 2019.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:21 (two months ago) link
Sigh
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:27 (two months ago) link
"fun"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:42 (two months ago) link
Oh come on
FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING
Have you forgotten?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:01 (two months ago) link
Not to mention his sexual harassment lawsuit quotes
Borat scene
Bankruptcy
Dripping hair gunk
Shaving in dining area
Farting in court
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:06 (two months ago) link
ok it's fun. not the fun we want, but the fun we deserve
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:10 (two months ago) link
It's really hard to believe how hard he's fallen since his halcyon days in the 80s
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:10 (two months ago) link
He was always a shameless attention-seeker, he just crashed and burned when he came within Trump's orbit.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:12 (two months ago) link
forget the 80s, the 2000s americas mayor, he was mayor of the whole country, because of terrorism
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:28 (two months ago) link
yeah all he had to do once he was done as mayor was chill out and shut up and he'd have been set for life, but trump tempted him to his own self-destruction.
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:43 (two months ago) link
not that he wasn't an absolute piece of shit through and through the entire time obv
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:44 (two months ago) link
Booze and age have clearly taken a toll, also.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:47 (two months ago) link
judgment, competence, reputation—one of the greatest, most hilarious, and most notable crashes everHunt3r’s American HistoryTM
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:21 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2f0jr00.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:29 (two months ago) link
he lived long enough to see himself become the villain its like Shakespeare
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:30 (two months ago) link
i didnt know shakespeare became the villain
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:31 (two months ago) link
watch one movie bro cmon
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:33 (two months ago) link
i might
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:34 (two months ago) link
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:49 (two months ago) link
the guy announced a separation from his wife in a press conference, before telling her. he was always nuts.https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/11/nyregion/mayor-s-separation-overview-giuliani-his-wife-16-years-are-separating.html
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:53 (two months ago) link
i didnt know shakespeare became the villainso good fwiwand bur yeah, so many things demand re-inspectation really, amirite
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:06 (two months ago) link
That's Giuliani's voodoo: he turns Shakespeare into a villain
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:10 (two months ago) link
Astonished by that Time cover. Did they really superimpose him atop a tower post-9/11? Sometimes I forget how insane and on-the-nose everything was back then.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:10 (two months ago) link
Yeah I think anyone who wouldn't know Rudy Giuliani pre-trump just has no idea how people responded to him at the time of 9/11, he had it all for a minute
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:13 (two months ago) link
Four Seasons Total Divorce
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:16 (two months ago) link
lol
JUST IN: Judge Howell upholds the jury's defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani in a 48-page opinion.https://t.co/dso7cRM1wM pic.twitter.com/I5ZHr00HXL— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 15, 2024
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 15 April 2024 21:05 (one week ago) link