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
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Fair enough.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
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)
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
I’m intrigued by the “feral child” part. Sure sounds like she was presenting herself as a kid!
― Boring, Maryland, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
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
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
This incident pretty much cements my belief that kompromat exists for a number of these Trumpian fuckos. If someone in that position displayed the lack of judgment to get got by SBC, it stands to reason they probably got got by people who aren't international celebrities.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
yeah i had 0% interest in watching the Borat movie and that number has not moved. to be fair, if the whole movie was shit like this then i probably would be down for it but my impression from the trailer was that at least 80% of it is him going around and making unsophisticated small-town folks look like idiots.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
your sophistication level has little to nothing to do with your capacity to be an idiot
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
thank you that was EXACTLY the point i was trying to make
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
I'm just saying, as someone who ran screaming from a small town I have very little sympathy for anyone flaunting their racism/sexism in what they think is a safe space
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
I got a short clip of that scene:
https://media.giphy.com/media/FqKjtMCOAqEUw/giphy.gif
― He was very mean to Mr. Chamillionaire (PBKR), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
As someone who grew up in several shitty small towns, DJP very very much otm and fuck small town racists forever.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
I mean obvs all of them, everywhere. But especially small town ones that assume everyone thinks like them and that their shitty little towns are exceptional bubbles.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
to be clear, fuck racists/sexists from big cities, too
no one gets special dispensation because of their area code
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
we got chodesin different area codes
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Nothing like the small-town racist who, with a smirk and maybe a little knowing side-eye, slyly drops a racist comment into an otherwise ordinary conversation, never questioning that you might not be a hateful idiot like them. Perhaps with an added 'you know what I mean' or 'you know who I'm talking about'. Nothing like it.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:39 (three years 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