RIP Rudy Giuliani

Not really

there it is

https://media3.giphy.com/media/3oEjHNjsuPs9F6r6Ks/giphy.gif

What will America do without its mayor, never forget

It's really too bad that rampant shamelessness is robbing us of the Budd Dwyer Mk II this era would have otherwise surely coughed up by now. Rudy seems like a guy who'd do it just to prove a point.

he's been one of the weirdest elements of the whole trump saga. a former mayor of new york should have more self-respect than this.

Someone tell that to John Lindsay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDBEtyQaj8

Wow. Here's Rudy Giuliani throwing the State Department under the bus and saying State officials called him and asked him to get involved in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/HIhQDmhzjh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 25, 2019

it's really weird

why would the state department ask the president's personal attorney to do diplomatic work?

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.

the funny part is Twitter ppl acting like he wasn't always a giant piece of shit

how dare u, this hero of america is the reason there was no 9/12

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"

(or perhaps BECAUSE its Fox, who kno)

maybe, someday

“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

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

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/jboel9/our_wonderful_exmayor_rudy_giuliani_accidentally/

uh, def not clicking a link from reddit that warns me of 18+ content

it's a video of Rudy mimicking an Asian accent not sure why the 18+ warning

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.

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.

He seems how people are often depicted in pop culture as being on speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3e1F1a0Hg

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

https://y.yarn.co/f65fe056-1d4a-4a0a-bd19-a6b28ff9825e_text_hi.gif

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.”

Hmmm…

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/21/rudy-giuliani-faces-questions-after-compromising-scene-in-new-borat-film

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.”

holy shit

loooool yikes

ew

Incredible. Total scumbag for years but increasingly dumb and reckless behavior tends to make me think the stories about his drinking are accurate.

haha wow

oh boy

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

Hey, everyone, that's America's Mayor you're disparaging. Let's show him some respect.

Looking forward to QAnon's response.

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.

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.

idk seems to me like he doesn't let a single ounce go to waste

xpost You say 'wasted', I say 'set on fire like a homeless person's possessions', let's call the whole thing off.

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.”

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.

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

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

Here's a still from Borat's Giuliani scene. You can thank me later. pic.twitter.com/0gJvLeSrds

— Nikora (@MoaVideos) October 21, 2020

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

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.

just saying do you get the mayor title for life?

You do in your own press releases.

(None of the news reports on this are using that title.)

marion barry held that title (if jokingly) in DC

They should use his official title, “Disbarred Lawyer”

Dis bar, dat bar, any bar.

Why mention that 911 rescue bit at all? Are they *trying* to stir conspiracy theories?

I read it as trying to get ahead of a bad story, but who knows?

The occams razor version would be:
- he helps, gets the cops/ambos to show up
- if this was a DV thing, the angry bf/husband has chased and rammed him?

agreed

seems important that the official statement refuses to mention whether or not rudy was actually driving a vehicle

Any interpretation of this has to take into account that a statement from Rudy Giuliani is, by definition, going to be largely bullshit.

The police said Mr. Giuliani’s vehicle was northbound on the highway, on the opposite side of the road from where the domestic violence incident was reported, when it was rear-ended by a Honda HR-V driven by Lauren Kemp, 19, of Concord, N.H. Both vehicles hit the median and were heavily damaged, the police said. Mr. Ragusa said the car that hit Mr. Giuliani’s was traveling at high speed.

Troopers and fire officials responding to the domestic violence report witnessed the collision and crossed the interstate to help at the accident scene, the state police said.

just saying do you get the mayor title for life?

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, August 31, 2025 1:41 PM

the only New York mayor who got the title for life was Dave van Ronk

Divided highway? Or did he do a U-turn on a high speed road?

Sounds like a divided highway if there was a median.

Ah, missed that (or Rudy was really out of control).

At the very least, there are some key details left out here.

‪Eli Lee, Exiled Poster‬
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Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️

Yeah reddit threads have been suggesting he was with a hooker and he's trying to get in front of a mess.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t46sqvutibvsmjgwn6r6izve/bafkreiekfdlycp2w3pvf2xpamh35tykmwmbntbi73uthyfl454v6spjyh4@jpeg

sweet

Congratulations (disgraced) Mayor Giuliani on your distinguished (now disgraced) medal. You are truly "A Man for All (Four) Seasons".

Lol... a reminder:

Rudy Giuliani has sought a $2 million payment from Donald Trump "any number of times," the former New York mayor told a bankruptcy deposition.

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this feels like a math problem: if rudy was traveling southbound on the highway and flagged down by a domestic violence victim, why was he traveling northbound when he was rear-ended by a teenager?

What’s up with the “thank you for your attention to this matter” in trump’s tweet above? He really is so out to lunch.

This guy is a Coen Brothers character slowly going down the toilet. Meanwhile the dude who admitted to leaving a dead bear in central park and decapitating a whale is cutting off vaccines to a good part of the world.

Really strange times.

today’s the day he truly became america’s mayor

(turns out that the third brush-with-death required by formal comedy patterning is glinner)

(arrested for being a contemptible red-faced transphobic prick, hospitalised by apoplexy as a result)

(apologies to any red-faced nice ppl)

I thought you were exaggerating but no, dude literally got so mad he hospitalized himself

amazing

“The arrest was made by officers from the MPS aviation unit. It is routine for officers policing airports to carry firearms. These were not drawn or used at any point during the arrest.”

lol, just imagining how this added to Glinner's already advanced sense of victimhood

at this point unironically my favorite thing about being trans is watching graham linehan lose his shit. it's not even about him personally. periodically he'll do something tremendously stupid and whenever he does i get reminded of all the bigots who are behaving in ways exactly as stupid and self-destructive as glinner... they're just not getting on the news for it.

https://theonion.com/rudy-giuliani-awarded-presidential-medal-of-incest/

Try again?

soon

too little & too late. he should have stopped with his successful mafia convictions and left public life while he was still admired. everything was downhill from there.

i’m genuinely surprised he’s only 81

i take solace in knowing that he sold his soul out to Trump and the GOP only to get stiffed and ending his life in bankruptcy.

quite the wasted life

in more ways than one

Will he have a funeral at 4 seasons total landscaping

he’s the fertilizer

god that was incredible

the four seasons total landscaping press conference. what was he even promoting that day?

jfc there’s a whole wiki about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping_press_conference

The event was held at the company's garage door and parking lot to discuss the status of the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the ballot-counting process in the state, where the president's apparent lead over Joe Biden in the first ballots counted had shifted to a shortfall as mail-in ballots were counted for Philadelphia, historically a heavily Democratic city.

'the event was held at the company’s garage door and parking lot’ is just incredible writing and reality

next to a porn shop. and remember, Trump announced a press conference “at the Four Seasons” implying it was the hotel

and then acted like that’s what he meant all along. my conspiracy theory was the campaign tried to book the hotel and the hotel refused

oh, i remember, but honestly it was hilarious because of how self-evident it was, it’s at four seasons total landscaping, it’s like “giuliani to announce really big gamechanging news about vote stealing at hilton luxury auto repair”. to have trump announce it was at the four seasons was just the icing on the cake

at the garage door haha that’s awesome. when he dies everyone should hold press conferences at some business' garage door or a nearby parking lot to remember what a racist horrible fraud he is

anyway my favorite Rudy moment was the Trump campaign rally on the White House lawn where he blew his nose into a hanky, mopped his brow with the snotty hanky, and then patted the leg if his rented arm-candy with the same hand he did all that with

“of his rented arm-candy…”

oh his snotty hanky was a classic, he was on a roll back then, unstoppable

Don't forget the streaking hair dye

No, Mr Giuliani, I expect you to die!!