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u/johnsk0513 3h ago edited 2h ago
Discredited and disbarred Rudy Guiliani? Right, we care what he thinks.
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u/EconomySeason2416 2h ago
No no no, the "Sacha Baron Cohen had to personally step in when Rudy was about to engage in sexual congress with a woman that was understood to be underage, during the filming of Borat 2" version
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u/Muted_Quantity5786 2h ago
I’m offended that he exists having grown up with his kids and stepchild.
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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 2h ago
It's surprising to me that Giuliani is a literal ghoul who most would never leave alone in a room with their children, yet he's still fighting for relevancy. It's pathetic how low someone like him can sink.
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Royal Watcher 2h ago
I'm offended at the idea that Rudy Giuliani should be present.
He is a pale imitation of his former self. He mocks what he used to be, or at least, the way people once saw him.
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u/MarzipanLast6502 3h ago
this moron is still alive? ugh he's such a disappointment
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u/Chemical_Bonus_4783 2h ago
Right?! Talk about digging up a corpse to parade around. He’s looking ghoulish but I guess that’s aging when you have no morals.
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u/Mr-MuffinMan 2h ago
Boomers really don't live in the same time as us.
My dad, who lived in NYC when Giuliani was mayor (and we still are here) says he reduced crime and that NYC was much safer than it is now (despite NYPD statistics literally contradicting this).
He still says stuff like "he really did numbers on crime. No other mayor made it as safe!"
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u/smthomaspatel 2h ago edited 2h ago
He saw a drop in crime for a bit. It was consistent with the same drop in crime that happened around the country. But being NY they were able to make a big deal about it and get national attention.
His Police Chief got a lot of credit for it. They put him on the cover of Newsweek. Rudy didn't like that the chief of police got credit for successful policing. So Rudy fired him.
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u/Mr-MuffinMan 2h ago
Not to mention the reduction of crime falls in line with the ending of the crack epidemic.
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u/CharleyNobody 2h ago
And with the legalization of abortion (1973) and easier access to birth control through Planned Parenthood in 1970s.
I worked in a hospital staring g in 1980 and “D&C for bleeding” (abortions) were on the OR schedule every day. At least 6 a day. This was before anti abortion nuts got powerful. Average people were fine with abortions - only a loud tiny minority were agitating against abortion. When Reagan got into office he made anti-abortionism a big deal. (Pat Nixon had been pro-choice).
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u/elebrin 1h ago
And the generally better quality of life that people were experiencing at the time. He was mayor through the late 90s, and everything was steadily getting better for everyone during that time. Yes, there was some bad shit going on, but people were just in general doing better economically during that time.
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u/dsmith422 1h ago
The drop in crime also corresponds to the generation that grew up without leaded gasoline polluting everything with lead. That phase out began in 1975. The US had legalized abortion in 1973, so the effects overlap in the USA. But in other countries with legalized abortion, the phase out of leaded gasoline also corresponds to a decrease in crime in those countries a generation later.
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u/CharleyNobody 2h ago
Crime had started dropping under Dinkins. I lived in NYC at the time. Dinkins stated Take Back the Night and gave us a card that gave us 15% off restaurant prices on either Tuesday or Wednesday night, I can’t remember which. So restaurants ran specials on that night and people would go out. It started a change in the city.
But NYPD’s own statistics show a drop in crime staring under Dinkins.
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u/Miserable-Miser 2h ago
From Mayor of the world to bigoted pervert.
Why is he still being given any airtime.
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u/AfterPaleontologist2 2h ago
He’s only 82…mother fucker already looked like a corpse when I was a kid
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u/Turbulent_Example967 3h ago
Giuliani will ALWAYS remind me of FOUR SEASONS LANDSCAPING!!! Remember the impromptu press conference?? He’s an incompetent fool…AND completely irrelevant at this point- only question I have of him is, “How TF did you NOT end up in prison yet!??”
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u/skin-flick 2h ago
I have been asking the same. What a demented fool he became. That landscaping presser was the epitome of Trump boot licking. I thought he had slunk away. Yet, here he is again.
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u/PayFormer387 2h ago
I bought my mom a t-shirt from that place. Whoever agreed to host the event was a genius.
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u/TheTinyMaus 2h ago
Zohran doesnt attend, conservatives say they are offended the New York Mayor doesnt commemorate the day.
Zohran does attend, conservatives say they are offended a Muslim attended.
So basically, Zohran exists, conservatives say they are offended.
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u/Relevant_Winter_7098 2h ago
Yep, only their bigotry and hatred of anyone left of MAGA is conaiatent.
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u/TheNorthWind-101 3h ago
All Rudy had to do was shut the fuck up after he left office and he could have ridden on the 9/11 coattails forever but he tied himself to Trump and fell into disgrace
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u/CharleyNobody 1h ago
Rudy had a radio program in NYC after he left office where he ranted and raved over his rightwing agenda.
Did you know he forced Fox News onto cable when he was mayor?
Time Warner Cable refused to allow Fox News a spot on their lineup because at least 20 other stations were awaiting approval and TWC already had CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and NY1 on their lineup.
Giuliani threw a fit and took TWC to court. Giuliani lost and we all cheered. NYC knew Rupert Murdoch was a POS. It really seemed like we won at the time.
But there was a job called “Cable Czar” in NYC. A guy who ruled cable tv. Giuliani somehow got the current cable czar to resign (at the time it was said he was blackmailed) and Giuliani got a former law partner in the position of cable czar and the guy immediately overruled TWC and put Fox News on the air.
Giluaini was playing this game of blackmailing people through lawfare and other means to get what he wanted way back in 1990s. We hated him.
When he tried to run for senator from NY his numbers were so low he had to drop out and claim he was dying of cancer.
It’s amazing how people outside of NYC idolized him. We hated his dirty guts for so many things, like putting the Office of Emergency Management in WTC when he was told not to by FBI, NYPD and Secret Service. He also gave Motorola a no-bid contract for radios for FDNY that were never field tested and failed on 9/11.
Giuliani made NYC worse on 9/11. His actions killed firefighters. But since then, FDNY has turned MAGA (NYPD was always a MAGA force, but FDNY was different. Not anymore)
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u/kvckeywest 2h ago
Funny how the people so worried about a Muslim mayor have no problems with the Muslims that gave Trump a plane, the Muslims that the US military will welcome for a fighter training squadron, Mohammed "bone saw" bin Salman and Ahmed al-Sharaa, a past ISIS/Al Qaeda fighter visiting Trump at the White House, or the Muslims that gave his son-in-law $2BN to "invest" for them.
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u/Relevant_Winter_7098 2h ago
Nor do they ever acknowledge that 15 of the 19 terrorists of 9/11 were Saudi nationals
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u/No1CouldHavePredictd 50m ago
"Outraged? I'm barely surprised. This is a country where women aren't allowed to drive a car. They're not allowed to be in the company of any man other than a close relative, they're required to adhere to a dress code that would make the Maryknoll Nun look like Malibu Barbie. They beheaded 121 people last year for robbery, rape, and drug trafficking, they've no free press, no elected government, no political parties, and the royal family allows the religious police to travel in groups of six, carrying nightsticks and they freely and publicly beat women. But "Brutus is an honorable man." Seventeen schoolgirls were forced to burn alive because they weren't wearing the proper clothing. Am I outraged? No, Steve. No Chris. No, Mark. That is Saudi Arabia, our partners in peace." - C.J. Cregg - West Wing Season 3, Episode 18
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u/UncleNoodles85 2h ago
I am blown away the mayor of NYC is younger than me. I was a sophomore in highschool on 9/11. I know I'm getting old but I never considered anyone my age being in charge of such a large city.
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u/Outrageous_Engine_45 2h ago
Nobody cares about what offends Giuliani. He’s shown himself unworthy of respect
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u/Immediate_Song4279 3h ago
It's hard to explain just how racist the 00's were in the US. Not that we weren't racist the other decades, but it really spiked.
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u/Worldliness-Weary 2h ago
It just shifted from mostly black people to anyone who has brown skin.
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u/Miserable-Miser 2h ago
Trump, 1989. Central Park 5 full page ad, basically saying they were guilty because they were black.
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u/wefarrell 2h ago
Idk that it was more racist than we have been the last decade. It takes a lot of racism to elect someone like Trump, twice.
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u/TrulyOutrageous42 1h ago
I think the distinction is that almost everyone in national-stage politics was racist to some degree in 2001. The national hysteria around islamophobia is hard to impart to people who didn't experience it, but it was pervasive. Now we certainly have more virulently unapologetic racists with no national trauma event to fall back on to justify it, but the majority of the liberals (actual leftists are rarely racist, let's be real) aren't on board with racism these days, while conservatives and regressives seem to have made it a policy choice because they think they can get away with it and also see this as their "last chance" before they lose the majority. (read: majority control of Congress, they've literally never been the majority, they're just good at looking like it because they refuse to back down and will lie cheat and steal to win)
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u/TrulyOutrageous42 1h ago
I'm just saying, what if we went ahead and followed this logic. Muslims were involved in 9/11, so no Muslims at the ceremony. Christians were involved in SO many tragedies, let's bar any Christians from showing up such as, you know, the parents of those who died, just like there were muslims who died in 9/11 and their parents might be there to mourn them.
I know we shouldn't stereotype people, but racists sure are deeply fucking stupid as a rule.
oh. OH. It's the hypocrisy as a flex, how could I forget, they know what they're doing because stupid doesn't mean "isn't clever when it benefits themselves".
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u/chinmakes5 2h ago
Oh please, as an old guy the 00s were nothing. We elected a black man as president. Yes it drove the racists crazy and they got louder, but most of us were good. When I was a kid in the 70s, the N word was used casually. I think I was in a pretty liberal area, we told ethnic jokes. Hell there was a sausage company in my town called Polock Johnny's.
Ethnic jokes were everywhere. We were on the East Coast. I kid moved in from Iowa. To tease him all the ethnic jokes became Iowa jokes. We realized that we didn't have to talk about the ethnicity, we all knew. I had a neighbor who proudly said that when a black family moves onto our block (probably 60 houses) he would move, happened not long after and sure enough he moved and he was a younger guy.
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u/Excellent_Carob_3183 1h ago
Right? The 2000s were more racist?
Not by polling data or election results or popular culture.
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u/musical8thnotes 2h ago
I especially love how we are gaslit today about how no one was racist towards Muslims in the wake of 9/11. I remember Bush Jr. getting on TV and hearing the snippet from his press conference telling people to not be Islamophobic to American Muslims.
And every year, there was an annual event of some racists shooting and killing an Indian/Sikh for wearing a turban because apparently only Muslims/Arabs wear turbans.
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u/lostlogin2 where in the world is mitch mcconnell 3h ago
the disbarred lawyer i thought was deceased??? who cares what that guy says lol
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u/Appropriate-Law5963 2h ago
Offended?? Don’t attend. It’s a ceremony not a summons!
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u/xkenn 1h ago
Guy had a good image post NYC mayor... this is probably one of the biggest form of self destruction I've seen from a politician. He coulda stfu and rode off into the sunset.
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u/naughtyshark79 2h ago
Wait....Rudy is alive? I thought he passed away. Damn. Guess I need to wait longer on my Kalshi payout.
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u/Sarabeth68 2h ago
Until Rudy can reist the urges he displayed in Borat 2 he doesn't get to tell anybody a damn thing
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u/throwable__1 2h ago
This donkey-toothed, cousin marrying alcoholic showing up is more of an insult than anything. It beggars belief that not a single Muslim died during those terrible attacks, and the people of New York City have elected their representative and Giuliani has been dining out and drinking Italy dry on the happenstance that he was mayor on that terrible day.
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u/Fancy-Dig1863 2h ago
They’ll spew shit like this 24/7 but then act offended when you criticize the COUNTRY of Isreal and equate that to criticizing a certain religion.
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u/Sufficient_Layer_867 2h ago
If anybody’s appearance at the 9/11 commerce would be dishonoring it would be Guiliani’s.
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u/realfakejames 2h ago
Rudy Giuliani’s whole career was made by 9/11, his disapproval rating was at 57% in 2000, then after the attacks he tried to illegally remain in office past the legal limits because he didn’t want to give up his newfound fame. He’s a scumbag of the highest order
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u/SemVikingr 2h ago edited 2h ago
By that logic, every Christian in the entire world should stay out of...the entire world, except maybe Antarctica.
ETA: the downvotes are confusing, but oh well.
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u/Suspicious-Bid-53 2h ago
Religious people, particularly Christians, suck tish. What’s the confusion?
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u/Humble_Empath 2h ago
As if his wine stained teeth, pants up to his underarms, hair dye running down his face, disbarred and broken ass doesn’t offend anyone. He’s tore back and he’s throwing daggers at Mamdani? What a narcissistic dinosaur 🦕
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u/ChaosKinZ 2h ago
I'm offended that a local bishop comes to a white Christian terrorist attack memorial because he is also Christian. That's how it sounds
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u/Bobbird_elephant 1h ago
At this point, just ignore what he says. He's your drunk uncle at the family reunion yapping about muslims.
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u/ghostoftheradio 1h ago
He makes me laugh because he had the perfect opportunity to ride off into the sunset and forever be thought of as a decent leader during on of our greatest national tragedies. But nope. He chose to completely ruin that image.
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u/Landlord-Allmighty 2h ago
So no muslims should attend? Even the people whose relatives died? I guess he forgot all the Bush speeches.
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u/Busy-Bumblebee5556 2h ago
Giuliani should toddle off into obscurity. Disgusting old man who should just keep his mouth shut.
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u/ivankova 2h ago
Guiliani was the lawyer that defended the producers of OxyContin, which killed over 800,000 Americans
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u/Former_Mobile3101 2h ago
Yeah let's not forget that Rudy was caught trying to have sex with a teen during filming of a movie. That scene stayed in the movie as well completely unscripted and unexpected.
That movie was borat subsequent moviefilm.
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u/chinmakes5 2h ago
That is as logical as saying Christians should stay away from any memorials at the Oklahoma federal building as he was a Christian.
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u/reallitysucks66 2h ago
Rudy, there maybe other Muslims in attendance, if you have a problem with that then don't show up.
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u/CrazyJoeGalli 2h ago
Rudy went from "America's Mayor" to a punchline gradually, it became a tragedy turned into a comedy.
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u/Key-Researcher3884 2h ago
Rudy should stay away . He's not the man he was during 9/11. He's a worthless grifter ..
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u/DeFiBandit 2h ago
The asshole who didn’t give the police and firemen the proper equipment should stay away from the 9/11 memorial. Rudy has as much blood on his hands as the Saudi’s who ran the attack. Somehow Rudy and the Saudis all ended up working for Trump
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u/NYJetliberal 2h ago
As a Jewish person, I feel the need to point out this bigotry. When Nazis did this to my grandparents, people didn't speak up and then they ended up murdering us. Jewish people should be the first people to speak up against this Nazi like rhetoric. Shame on you Guiliani. Mondami will be a million times more American than you that supported the violent criminals that stormed our capital and beat police so they could end democracy in my country.
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u/datagamma 2h ago
Rudy offends America after his attempt to undermine our democracy. Get fucked Rudy
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u/nonyabuissnes_95 2h ago
Why does the guy on the left looks like i imagine a pedophile look at a child..
Nearly as disturbing as the cult guy who got asked why he owns a private jet and snapped
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u/sharkbomb 2h ago
rudy giuliani's ghoulish face would be a perfect illustration on the dictionary entry for bigot.
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u/Tenn_Mike 2h ago
It offends me that Rudy isn’t in prison for all of the crimes he’s committed since falling into Trump’s orbit. Fuck this guy.
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u/KiKiKimbro 2h ago
It’s more offensive for Rudy Giuliani to show up at the 9/11 memorial. The man is a traitor to our entire country.
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u/Ok_Conversation9750 2h ago
If any Muslim person is automatically associated with the 9/11 terrorists merely by being of the same religion, I feel the need to remind them that Timotht McVeigh was Christian. Shall we associate all Christians with terrorism?
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u/Beneficial_Type_8810 2h ago
Hey Rudy theyre having a celebration for you at four seasons landscaping
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u/larkfield2655 1h ago
Giuliani is the traitor. He supported Trumps attempt to overthrow an election.
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u/Captdman92 1h ago
The amount of people who are like "This is X place not New York! We don't want a Mamdani!" really makes me thing they love being rammed with 0 spit by the gubberment and don't understand how socialism works
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u/AdviceNotAskedFor 1h ago
Rudy's just mad that he can no longer make money and brand himself as America's mayor.
Guys a chode.
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u/Academic_Dig_1567 1h ago
Don’t forget what NYPD did to amadou diallo when Giuliani was mayor. It was endemic.
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u/Deepdarkorchid16 1h ago
If we're going by a "sins of the father" mentality, us white people might want to pause and think about the things our ancestors did to Blacks and Native Americans. Just sayin'.
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u/ghostoftheradio 1h ago
Ancestors? Did? Last I checked, a lot of that is still going on.
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u/HombreDelMar247 1h ago
It's just sad to see Giliulani go from "America's mayor" to the slimeball he is today.
25 years ago, almost everyone loved him. He seemed like a stand up guy.
I suppose now we see his true self, and it's even uglier than his hair dye and mug.
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u/ghostoftheradio 1h ago
Yup. He had the golden opportunity to ride off into the sunset as a hero. Now he’s back as a clown.
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u/Solid_Signature_7447 1h ago
Their entire generation is offended we’re not going to maintain the same political ideology there’s did.
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u/Wooden-Hornet2115 1h ago
Why is Rudy smiling like a cartoon villain? Christ, they don't even try to hide it do they?
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u/LordCornwalis 1h ago
Honestly thought Ghouliani died like a year or so ago of pneumonia? Shame...
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u/Glass-Carry-6717 1h ago
What am I missing…
Mayor Mamdani’s parents are of West Asian/Indian descent, so why is he getting blamed for 9/11 again???🥴🥴
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u/Far_Taste6405 1h ago
Every time I think about Anger Management I remember the line at the end when Adam Sandler says “you rule, Mayor Giuliani!” And cringe to the point of imploding and becoming a singularity.
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u/Responsible-Humor985 1h ago
He’s a Muslim of Indian descent born in Uganda. So he’s not even culturally related to those that attacked on 9/11. He’s also Shia Muslim, so he doesn’t share the same beliefs as the hijackers were Sunni.
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u/VicGenesis 1h ago
This the same dude that was trying to get sucked off by a "15yo" in the Borat movie? Cool.
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u/PapaGummy 1h ago
I lived in Manhattan when that guy was mayor. He wanted NYC to host the Olympics, so prior to the visit by the Olympics Committee he had a lot of the homeless rounded up and disappeared. There were regulars in the places I went who had been in the same place for years that I never saw again. I didn’t care much for him before, but from that time on I despised him. His actions since have kept true to that form and I was never surprised at the depths he go.
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u/MrBwnrrific 58m ago
So he’s gonna say the same thing about Donald, who gloated on the day of when he found out about now having the tallest building in Manhattan
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u/LexHanley 50m ago
It offends me that Rudy Guiliani isn't checking the prison menu to confirm what's for lunch instead of tweeting. Guess we all don't get what we want sometimes, Rudes.
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u/fobbybobby323 15m ago
You know what offends me more? Rudy not hesitating to take his pants off in Borat 2
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u/Vsx 9m ago
Wake me up when something doesn't offend conservatives. They're offended he's coming. They'd be offended if he wasn't coming. They'll be offended if he's speaking or not speaking. They are offended that he exists, that he was elected, and that he seems to prioritize solving problems for average New Yorkers.
Conservativism is really just racist/classist/mysoginist/anti-science outrage now. There's nothing else left.
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u/jeppercrock 2h ago
By gulioni's logic no men should be there either because the 911 terrorists were all men....
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u/alchemyDev 2h ago
Why did George Bush (and Rudy) allow 9/11 to happen? If was during their watch, it’s their fault. They never get any blame for it ever because Democrats are unfortunately “above” playing that game. (I’m not actually blaming a mayor, but I will blame the POTUS)
Can you imagine if it had happened until Clinton or Obama? They’d still be running off Dems allowing it to happen. Ever notice how every Republican administration causes some disaster and we all collectively act like it was unavoidable?
9/11 happened on Bush’s watch. He spent most of decade failing to get Bin Laden. It took Obama less than a year to get him
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u/LiveLoveCodeRepeat 2h ago
The ten years were required to push mass surveillance of regular people and other agendas (militarization, cultural conflicts) across the globe.
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u/Wolfkurt1 2h ago
Racist fucker , also we know who did 9/11 majorty of Americans don’t believe anymore their bullshits
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u/Main-Procedure-3613 3h ago
Wow Rudy you just keep opening your mouth. The distant memory of you being a decent human being has faded into the background for sure