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Giuliani Clarifies "Trial By Combat" Comments. Says It Was Not A Call To Violence, But A Reference To "Very Famous Documentary" Game Of Thrones
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If you hired this person as an attorney wouldn't you realize what a terrible mistake you made in hiring them after hearing this statement? Trump is stiffing him anyway so I guess he probably doesn't care what Giuliani says anymore.
Even overlooking the documentary comment (Which is hard to do)
The trial by combat didn't even go all that well for Tyrion either.
This can't be real. So he's basically Hugh Grant's character from Death to 2020??
Oh god. Why didn't I make this connection? Reality trumps satire. Every time.
Considering he was making $20k a day, does he still need to be?
I dont have a qualified enough of a vocabulary to comment on this.
Pretty much this.
Pretty much this.
I'd like to take a moment and remind everyone that at one point - long before the melting hair dye, the calls for duels, stuffing his hands down his pants in Borat, holding a press conference at a landscaping company between a sex shop and a crematorium, etc. - Rudy was once one of the most respected and admired men in the nation.
Now, hindsight is 20/20, but, whew, what a fall.
Now, hindsight is 20/20, but, whew, what a fall.
Was he actually? Or was it just due to him being mayor of NY during 9/11 and being a proponent of "showing strength" by destabilizing the ME?I'd like to take a moment and remind everyone that at one point - long before the melting hair dye, the calls for duels, stuffing his hands down his pants in Borat, holding a press conference at a landscaping company between a sex shop and a crematorium, etc. - Rudy was once one of the most respected and admired men in the nation.
Now, hindsight is 20/20, but, whew, what a fall.
At first I only knew him as a "Genial Uncle" type that appeared on David Letterman from time to time in the 90s. It was all news to me when the other stuff started coming out.
He was insanely popular immediately following 9/11. He was America's Mayor. Lots of calls for him to run for president, etc. Over the years people figured out he was nuts. Before 9/11 he wasn't really on the national RADAR as much, but well know in New York. Even Bush was really popular following 9/11.
His downfall started when he threw all 9/11 first responders under the bus. Everyone was like WTF?
Yeah I think the truth was people in NY (specifically black people/poc) knew he was a nutty racist, but everyone else just saw him as "America's uncle/grandpa" whatever. People from NY back then tried to warn us, but 9/11 clouded most people's judgement in the early 2000's (remember "Freedom Fries" because America was mad at the French for joining us in destroying Iraq?) so we had no clue he was who he really was.
So... Ghouliani believes that dragons were real and the undead came alive to invade the land of the living in Medieval England? How has he not been disbarred yet?
He's also got the incest angle, being a cousin fucker and all that.
Yup. The irony of this is that his political career started off as aligning himself with white grievance against the incumbent black Mayor
Guliani political career was built on dogwhistle racism and the Black mayor was a perfect foil (who funny enough was rapidly expanding the NYPD but just wanted ya know, accountability) and positioned himself as 'tough on crime' by implementing racist policies and giving NYPD carte blanche.
He took credit for a declining crime rate that was already happening nationwide (plus remember it was the black mayor that expanded NYPD) and rapidly started gentrifying the city. While he did abhorrent with POC voters, every time he ran he just basically doubled down on the racism ("Do you want to go back to the 80's where those hoodlums ruled the streets!?!") and white voters kept him in.
He was just smart enough to
1)Do his job during a tragedy
2)Read the room to tone down the rhetoric
Something his now boss is incapable of doing. But the Guiliani you see at the national level is the same guy that New Yorkers always knew.
Was he always a dirtbag piece of shit or did he transform into one? All I remember was after 9/11 the guy was loved.
Always was, became mayor on a platform of racism(and secretly working with the mob I think)
Haha first thing I thought of, one would've thought Giuliani's explanation would've come first though 😂This can't be real. So he's basically Hugh Grant's character from Death to 2020??
There's so much to unpack in this second sentence, even besides the obvious points like "documentary". From solving legal disputes with a fight to the death being such a fantastic idea, to the fact that Tyrion actually loses his second trial by combat even though he was innocent (almost as if to underscore that the result of a fight to the death had little correlation with the merits of each side's arguments).
This whole circus keeps exposing the ease with which white, affluent, well-connected men dramatically fall upwards in the politicolegal network.
Because when you read the Onion, you may actually be reading real news.
The President's emotional support dummy Rudy Giuliani is free and able to allocate word-sense in any manner he chooses.
He could have just retired 11 years ago at 65 and this america's mayor period would probably have remained the main highlight of his life, overshadowing the various stains that didnt get as much public attention.I'd like to take a moment and remind everyone that at one point - long before the melting hair dye, the calls for duels, stuffing his hands down his pants in Borat, holding a press conference at a landscaping company between a sex shop and a crematorium, etc. - Rudy was once one of the most respected and admired men in the nation.
Now, hindsight is 20/20, but, whew, what a fall.
but at 76 years old he just had to make sure the world knew who he really was, and to shine a black light on his life in front of the nation.
now images of him melting, screaming in parking lots and putting his hands down his pants will be the capstones of his life.
dude really played himself
The most surprising thing to me about this was seeing a clip of a much younger Carlson and him being on MSNBC lol
Yeah I was joking about the whole "a dothraki wedding without deaths is considered boring and drunken fighting part", not the well, other part. My bad.