take another little piece of his heart now baby
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:30 (four months ago) link
This is my body
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:31 (four months ago) link
his flesh is 90% bourbon
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:33 (four months ago) link
The part of his brain that craves attention seems to be the last part still functioning more or less normally.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:36 (four months ago) link
He's going to have to live off of the Borat 2 residuals I'm afraid.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:45 (four months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:39 (four months ago) link
couldve been doing a pretend job at blackrock
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:41 (four months ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:42 (four months ago) link
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
― omar little, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:45 (four months ago) link
i say "almost" because he was obviously always a POS
its still tragic in the classic sense
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:46 (four months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:47 (four months ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:52 (four months ago) link
He definitely *looks* terrible!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:53 (four months ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:53 (four months ago) link
*candidacy
was it a....cardboard belt?
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:54 (four months ago) link
I've seen it suggested that his antics yesterday was him making the mistake of thinking that he can get away with acting like Trump outside a courtroom, which of course nobody else in the US can. Also seen it suggested that it was possibly tactical, a rather pathetic attempt to play towards a mistrial.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:54 (four months ago) link
As for public statements, "confused" is generally the GOP default. That's what happens when most of the stuff you say is bullshit. Like, what would a lucid Trump even sound like? Confusing bluster is his defining trait.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:55 (four months ago) link
It's too late for that.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:55 (four months ago) link
(xp)
every day I open this hoping he has died
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:57 (four months ago) link
xpI figured that would be the case, but you could be forgiven for thinking this guy has never actually practised law before!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:59 (four months ago) link
https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/TaHsniOMN__bOex4qFITPEXQM2o=/0x0:2312x1540/800x533/filters:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/pmn/LKRYR43WEJE3VOP6ZJDWAE5EF4.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 December 2023 01:41 (four months ago) link
The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center, but the Giuliani administration overrode those objections. The command center later collapsed from damage in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
til the racist bald fuckwit aka "America's Mayor" managed to make the 9/11 emergency response more ineffectual and chaotic, by ignoring good advice.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 15 December 2023 09:47 (four months ago) link
the title of this thread is finally appropriate
https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1735771145993953713
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:20 (four months ago) link
THE DECISION:
DefamationMoss awarded: $16,998,000Freeman awarded: $16,171,000
Emotional distressMoss awarded: $20 millionFreeman awarded: $20 million
Punitive damagesTotal: $75 million
wow!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:24 (four months ago) link
Here's how it hurts Joe Biden.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:27 (four months ago) link
Very cut and dry case, well deserved.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:28 (four months ago) link
das alotta cash bb
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:29 (four months ago) link
What is Rudy worth these days?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:30 (four months ago) link
not seventy five million dollars
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:31 (four months ago) link
$75
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:31 (four months ago) link
You can't even go on tv and tell lies that put private citizens in danger these days without the woke mob coming for your loot
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:34 (four months ago) link
Is he really gonna have to pay any of this out though? Or Alex Jones, for that matter? I'd bet that the Goldmans have seen about 400 bucks from OJ after all these years.
― henry s, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:34 (four months ago) link
he's not cooperated with discovery on his earnings so I guess it's time to take his real estate off him to cover it, then work the rest out in monthly instalments, forever until he dies - love this shit!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:34 (four months ago) link
he's on TV now still lying
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:34 (four months ago) link
Total damages is $150 million according to CNN.
Maybe he can get a million or two shaved off on appeal.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:35 (four months ago) link
his lawyers basically wanna yank him off the mike with a cane
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:36 (four months ago) link
OMIGOD he's SHUSHING the press
bringing his pinky rings to the pawnshop
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:39 (four months ago) link
RIP
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:41 (four months ago) link
awesome lawyer talk
“I have no doubt that Mr. Giuiani’s statements caused harm; no question about it,” Sibley said in his closing remarks. “But just because these things happened, it doesn’t make my client responsible for them.”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:43 (four months ago) link
Hopefully he got paid upfront
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:44 (four months ago) link
gonna have to think that one over
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:45 (four months ago) link
I'm sure there was at least a small part of Rudy that thought the damages number might be $2, or whatever the amount that Trump was awarded in his NFL suit was.
― henry s, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:48 (four months ago) link
Maybe he forgot that you can't get a pardon for civil suits damages.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 15 December 2023 21:52 (four months ago) link
he should have done the bravado Sting thing from Quadrophenia.. pull out his checkbook right there in the courtroom
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 December 2023 22:10 (four months ago) link
Lawyers will just keep delaying everything and Rudy will probably keep living his lifestyle somewhat until he croaks, but if the world were just the mf'er should have to hand over his house and car keys right there and now. Got to wonder how much of his assets have been moved into other hands in prep for this all happening.
― earlnash, Friday, 15 December 2023 22:23 (four months ago) link