Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

actually you know what i just repeated both to myself in a long island accent and just saying the letters was better

tbf people in new york dont talk about the el eye are are that much but sometimes they do it stopped close to my place i took it at least once

Is this the right thread to ask about how a person might pronounce “LIRR”?

― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Wednesday, August 2, 2023 6:08 AM

I lived in NYC for ~10 years and honestly think I've only ever hear it pronounced as "the train"

Sorry to derail back to the indictment but VG that was a good Twitter thread.

The indictment itself is damning and sickening in how brainwashed and culty the inner circle was. For example, Co-Conspirator 4, a DOJ official who tried to "fire" his supervisor for not permitting a letter to go out to "contested states" on DOJ letterhead etc.

Sadlol at Paragraph 26, quoting one 45 campaign emailing another:

26. . . . As early as mid-November, for instance, the Senior Campaign Advisor had informed the Defendant that his claims of a large number of dead voters in Georgia were untrue. With respect to the persistent false claim regarding State Farm Arena, on December 8, the Senior Campaign Advisor wrote in an email, When our research and campaign legal team can't back up any of the claims made by our Elite Strike Force Legal Team, you can see why we're 0-32 on our cases. I'll obviously hustle to help on all fronts, but it's tough to own any of this when it's all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

this can only be settled by 30 year old long island rap (2:58)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6phI8IlAqw

Alright, folks. Let's settle this once and for all.

What are we called?

— LIRR (@LIRR) January 11, 2023

some people say lur i guess

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/a/ab/Lrrr.png

Anyway at least co-conspirator 1 won't have any other distractions as he prepares to uh wait hold on

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-racist-sexist-remarks-lawsuit-1234799473/

it's "the train" or "long island railroad" irl ime. i just watched some local news videos and those people (freaks) say "el eye double ar".

l i r r literally won the poll

Just say the letters, jeez; you are never in such a hurry that you can't say four syllables. We are not Australians who need to give everything a cute abbreviated nickname.

Hm. Anyway. Re: indictment There's no way Donald Trump can wriggle out of this, right?

We have finally got him, right?

Right?

Eh, we'll see.

feel like i double r is obvs power user talk, normal people say l i r r, and sure yeah the train but thats just the mode of transport not the name, no one has time to say long island rail road you will miss the train if you do that, lur is what you say in kennedy fried chicken at 3am

Anyway at least co-conspirator 1 won't have any other distractions as he prepares to uh wait hold on

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-racist-sexist-remarks-lawsuit-1234799473/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, August 2, 2023 1:38 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

guys just trying to work on his tight five give him a break jeez

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2izlmPXIAATrEk?format=png&name=900x900

Personally I often use my cellular telephone to decide whether I will take an omnibus or a taximeter cabriolet to get to my chosen destination.

Perhaps I might deign to employ the servces of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority? One never knows.

no one has time to say long island rail road you will miss the train

1. long island railroad is one syllable longer than l i r r.

2. if you are in danger of missing the train you say "the train".

"excuse me good sir is this perchance where one catches the long island rail road montauk bound" everyone on the platform thinks youre a nerd now great job

Can we go back to the Rolling Stone article for a second because oh my GOD

if you ask where is the lirr in atlantic terminal you're a nerd.

xp yes let's leave this at joe is a nerd.

xxxp that Giuliani quote has come up before and it's still just as funny. like he's trying to do a bit and failing terribly

What about “I claim these tits. These tits are mine,” though?

ok I clicked through the actual article and, as usual, he's even worse than expected

I didn't realize it was the Dunphy lawsuit and that article barely touches upon the many, many, many terrible things that went on

I don't have the prior articles handy, but the jist is that Giuliani met this woman who was going through a rough time and strung her along as a not-quite-assistant that he would share all kinds of confidential info with her, refuse to actually put her on payroll, and just slipped her cash occasionally while treating her terribly (and likely highly illegally) as a not-quite-assistant not-quite-girlfriend

She has my sympathies although "I really need to move forward in life, Rudy Giuliani seems like he's moving up in the world" is not exactly the best starting point

One wonders what didn’t make the article

When I lived in NYC, we tried to avoid going to Long Island.

There is some chatter as to why that Jeffrey Clark asshole has been walking free for the last few years, despite so many eyewitnesses to his reported crimes, criminality or general assholery.

iirc Rudy promised Dunphy a $1 million-a-year job, right? And basically made her his sex slave while never actually giving her $1 million.

xxxp here's more of it, if you want to feel grossed out https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/rudy-giuliani-noelle-dunphy-lawsuit

xp It reminds me of the grouchy judge I was in front of this morning who asked another lawyer, "Are you familiar with due process?"

damn, grouchy judge otm

Not a question you want to get from a judge.

little judgy

Thanks, Google search.

People also ask
What is the Noelle Dunphy complaint?
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xxp real "is your law degree printed on toilet paper?" moment

Guiliani also became Dunphy's lawyer for her domestic violence case and then inflicted his BSDM fantasies on her.

Really bizarre and gross conduct, all completely credible, given this drunk idiot loaded his 23,000 emails onto her computer and she recorded many of their conversations and has all the texts

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=ayMPHcCh5eCKqo1g4gB42A==

lots of competition but, is Rudy the most loathsome US public figure of the 21st c? like on a base level of abject, visceral repugnance not proper moral accounting

He's certainly had one of the steepest falls from grace. However, I don't see how he tops his master. He's Renfield to Trump's Dracula.

Well what makes his fall so much more crazy is that he was actually elevated on this huge pedestal after 9/11, he was being lionized left and right in the few months afterwards. Setting aside whether he even deserved any of that or not, he could have just so easily had stayed quiet and slinked off into the night with a golden boy halo at the end.

if you ask where is the lirr in atlantic terminal you're a nerd.

xp yes let's leave this at joe is a nerd.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, August 2, 2023 2:20 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

youre the one doing it, and youre dressed like paddington bear mate

xp
see for me that analogy is otm in terms of how much more loathsome Rudy is! like Dracula is a villain and compelling in his own way, Renfield is pathetic & disgusting

you're both right about the fall, though I was a big Rudy hater pre-9/11

coincidence or was someone mad about daddy Trump's indictment?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/us-capitol-police-searching-senate-office-buildings-report-active-shoo-rcna97814

to Ned's original point, the evidence in the Dunphy case is a distraction for him, and it's also conceivable the evidence in that case could converge with the indictment.

There is an allegation Giuliani admitted he did not actually believe they could prove the election had been stolen:

"Around this time, Giuliani stated, “When I walked out of the White House on the night before he was going to leave, I could feel pain” and thought, “Well, not gonna be back here for four years. That’s for sure.” Ms. Dunphy understood these comments as an acknowledgment by Giuliani that Donald Trump would be unable to prove that the election had been “stolen,” despite what Giuliani and Trump had been claiming publicly."

Lol ok

Mike Pence on Trump effort to overturn election results: "Sadly, the president was surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear. ... The president ultimately continued to demand that I choose him over the Constitution." pic.twitter.com/wLhw0mA78Q

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 2, 2023

trump famously does whatever lawyers tell him

I mean, Rudy was known, fairly or not, as the prosecutor who took on the heads of the Five Families.

seriously, he should know from wiretaps. What a disgrace.

suspect trumps primary opponents will soon find their way to the sadly hes too damaged by the deep state to win the general election weasel rationale

Never thought I would even start to think "Mike Pence otm," but here we are.

Also? Love that the Pence video takes place in front of both tractors and golf carts, the two iconic vehicles of the Republican dialectic.

A little late to the LIRR discussion as I was driving back all day to actual LI. IIRC the announcements at LIRR stations and on LIRR trains refer to it as LI double-R. I am not a native LI-er and refer to it by the four letters.