#Giulianni

[24annarino]

FIGHTING WORDS

Photo by Necip Duman on Pexels.com Poetry has fled. Art hides in plain sight behind clouds of flame, beyond winds of change, before plutocrats take the stage, no longer waiting behind the scenes which hide their rage. Words have lost all meaning when facts go unchecked flung too fast to sustain truth  and belief in its power to right wrongs for the weak and the poor,  tossed aside by…

[santa--mozzarella]

Giulia was on hre way from home, which meant that she was extremely tired and not making the most sense from talking almost non-stop for eight hours but still she stopped, almost tripping over herself. "Oh, ah-- sure! What kind of initiative?"

@ugly-anastasia

Let It Grow | Open

[davidpwilson2564]

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Monday, August 14, 2023

In Atlanta lots of police barricades around the courthouse as a grand jury hears cases regarding Trump and his criminal associates. Late in the day we learn that two witnesses testified. (One of which, we gather, was warned by Trump, through his social media, not to do so. Witness tampering? We just won't shut up.) Odd how so many of those who called upon to testify (Giulianni, Eastman, Powell et al) are lawyers. Lawyers close ranks when breaking the law. We shall have to see how the week goes.

More dirt. T has accused the judge, Fani Willis, a Black woman, of being a racist (!), of having an affair with a gang member (long story here)...more of this sort of thing to come out this week, we can be sure.

to be continued

[fabiochampioraro]

“Giulio bada tu a tuo cugino” IO STO IMMAGINANDO COSE AIUT

[zoevaldes]

Giuliani Reveals Damning Evidence Gathered on Trip to Ukraine, Hungary; If Allegations Are True, It Will End Biden’s Candidacy "This is bribery at the highest level of government." Origen: Giuliani Reveals Damning Evidence Gathered on Trip to Ukraine, Hungary; If Allegations Are True, It Will End Biden's Candidacy

[akajamesbarnes]

what fucking timeline are we in that rudy giuliani is on the masked singer????? RUDY GIULIANNI?!?!?!? THE MASKED SINGER?!?!??!?

[prudencepaccard]

Rando effin' 'loves' Giulianni, Mr. 'I singlehandedly cleaned up NY', going straight from rallies at the landscaping parking lot to fapping in Borat 2 to playing Lord Humungus at the effin' capitol. Sorta wishing someone had used him for battering ram purposes already. Also: *why* does nobody question these Mouths of Sauron and their right to shriek on a podium while never, ever joining the front? Aspirations toward their Special Someday Turn on the shit-chucking pulpit?

Don’t forget Donald Jr.’s exhortation to « fight to the death »

although I think my favorite thing is when he tweeted his pleasure at having everybody at the rally sing « Happy Birthday » to him, that was a real tin-pot dictator moment

[austennerdita2533]

Last night’s SNL was a trip! I don’t know what made me laugh more: Dave Chapell dragging white people and personifying the All State, Waiting to Exhale Guy, Jim Carrey resurrecting his Ace Ventura “looooser” as Biden, Alec Baldwin singing a despondent “macho, macho man” on the piano as Trump, or Kate McKinnon getting idiot-lettuced as Giulianni.

HILARIOUS.

[mandaloriangf]

Weird that Giulianni with his hand down his pants in a Borat film was obliterated as cray 2020 news in one 36-hour blitz of pure unfiltered batshit insanity.

omg the past few weeks have been a whirlwind that i totally forgot about that already

[sugarmountainspring]

Rudy Giulianni has had one HELL of a month

[julandran]

Some days I don't know if I should be offended that [the Trump administration] are spending this much time talking about these investigations and making up "spygate" and all of these things, or if I should be deeply thankful that they don't have time to do more governing, because the governing they do sucks.

Brittany Packnett Pod Save America live from Radio City Music Hall, “Trump’s super lawyers Michael Cohen & Rudy Giulianni”, 31 May 2018

[adribosch-fan]

El comienzo del fin

El comienzo del fin

Me desconsuela ver como los días siguen pasando y aún no sucede nada con los reclamos de fraude electoral.  Como de costumbre, todo se queda en puro bla bla: Que si Giulianni tiene las pruebas, que si Powell ya los tiene cogidos por donde les duele, que si patatín, que si patatán… al final no pasa nada y el tiempo se agota.

Por

Eduardo Montalvo

Así pasó con las investigaciones de Barr y Durhan,…

[breakdownexe]

Moth Joke 2020

Got a joke for y’all:

It’s a beautiful fall evening. September 17th, 1992 to be exact. A moth flutters into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?”

The moth holds his hands up in exasperation and says, “What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man?”

The moth takes a seat across from the podiatrist’s desk. “Well as you know doc, today is September 18th, and I work for the NYPD. I’ve been working for the NYPD for 15 years now. 15 years today, in fact!” the moth says. “I go to work for the NYPD, and all day long I work.”

“Well then, what brings you in today?” The podiatrist asks.

“Well doc, I’ll be honest, I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I don’t even know if the NYPD knows. Sometimes I wonder if the head of our Union, The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association knows, but the only answer that comes to my mind is that he knows that he has power over me, and that power seems to bring him happiness.”

“Well, doc, yesterday I got a call from the head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association on my day off, and they told me we were going to protest the mayor of New York, David N. Dinkins.”

“Now why did he do that, moth?” asked the podiatrist.

“Well you see doc, Mayor Dinkins proposed to create an independent civilian agency that would look into police misconduct, and the Union boss didn’t like that one bit. No sir!” Says the moth.

“Anyway, I thought it was going to be a small thing, but apparently the Union boss thought otherwise. He rallied a mob of protesters, about 10,000 of us; 6,000 of us from the force, straight to the mayor's office, and boy did he ever stir us up into a fever pitch along the way.

“How did the Union boss get that many protesters?” mused the podiatrist.

Well here’s the thing, doc. Remember those riots in July, the Washington Heights riots that happened after police killed an unarmed suspect on the street? Hoo boy, two months after the Rodney King riots in LA no less. Anyway, the mayor refused to let the NYPD use semi-automatic weapons and shoot to kill if people resisted during the riots.”

“I see.” Says the podiatrist. “Wouldn’t semi-automatic weapons lead to a deadly escalation of force between the police and the protestors, like adding gasoline to a bonfire?”

“Absolutely, but the Boss said it was to keep us safe, so we thought it was justified at the time.” says the moth. “Anyway, We get there, and there was a police barricade “guarding” the mayor’s office, but they let us past, and thousands of us got all up in the mayor’s office to protest. Well doc, my partner Jim was the first one in, and he starts off by getting in the mayor’s face, and I thought, oh boy, the mayor is going to hear it now!”

“Now Jim and I have been partners for 13 years, doc. I’m his kid’s godfather, I spend every Thanksgiving at his place. His wife Karen makes the best stuffing, you know. He’s on my bowling team. We’re thick as thieves, Jim and I. He’s a great partner - always has my back. Anyway, Jim marches up to the mayor, and you know what Jim says to the mayor, doc?” The moth asks, intensely locking eyes with the podiatrist.

“What does he say, moth?” The podiatrist asked.

“He says ‘Now we got a n****r right inside city hall. How do you boys like that, huh? A n****r mayor.’”

“Now at this point I’m shocked, doc” Says the moth. “It’s one thing to not believe in a man’s political views, doc, and things were heated, but what Jim said was completely uncalled for. It was classless, and it was tasteless, and it was unbefitting of the uniform. It sounded like something out of that Blazing Saddles movie. I was shocked doc. I didn’t think anyone talked that way anymore.”

“So what happened next?” The podiatrist asked.

“Well, at this point, I got close to Jim and I was going to start de-escalating things, but… well, what stuck with me the most was how everyone else started to join in, doc. Next thing I knew, the rest of the boys started yelling things like that at just about everyone in city hall. Jimmy Breskin, you know Jimmy; the columnist for Newsday, was there and one of the boys from the 13th got up in face and started yelling ‘How’d you like the n****r beating you up in Crown Heights, Jimmy?’”

“Anyway, things got out of control, and I’ll be honest doc, I feel like a coward for not speaking up then, but so many of the other boys around me were chanting it that I didn’t feel safe trying to stop them. Some of them had been drinking, all of them were angry, and in the panic and confusion of it all I just…walked away.”

“Where did you go, moth?” asked the podiatrist

“Well, I got home, and I felt sick to my stomach after that. I could barely sleep thinking about how disgusted I was with the Union’s actions. I dreaded seeing my face up there on the front page today, standing in solidarity with such disgusting hatred. Doc I swear, I looked at my uniform last night, pressed and hanging in my closet, and I swear I could feel it judging me for my cowardice. I don’t know if I’m even worthy of it anymore.”

The podiatrist is shocked at the moth’s admission, and quietly asks “so, what did the papers say this morning, moth?”

Well this morning, I woke up and read the paper, to see what got picked up by the news. I thought they were going to rip us a new one, you see. But you know what I saw? I looked at that front page, and there was Rudy Giulianni, the Republican mayoral candidate and mayor Dinkins’ opponent in November, standing next to the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president, touting the “protest” as a victory. Doc, I swear I looked through every page of the paper, and looked at the spin they’d put on the whole thing, and I started doubting my own sanity. Nobody mentioned the ugliness. Nobody mentioned the misconduct. Nobody mentioned the hate. Everything was neatly swept under the rug.”

“I tell you doc, it broke my heart to see that, how the politicians and the media covered that up. I was so depressed about it that I went back to sleep without even eating breakfast. This evening, I woke up in a malaise, and I fluttered about here and there… doc l woke up and I turned to look at my badge as it sat next to my revolver on my bedside table, and I wondered to myself... if that is what the NYPD stands for... A badge that I once loved! Doc, I just don’t know where to turn to.”

A tear streams from the moth’s eye as he breaks down, sobbing.

“My badge… my boy… my pride… I... no longer love it. As much as it pains me to say, when I look into its shiny brass, all I see is the same cowardice that I… that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror, on my darker days. If only I wasn’t such a coward, then perhaps… perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all…”

“Oh doc!” the moth wails, “Sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I’m a moth, just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me. I feel awful.”

And so the podiatrist says, “Moth... man, you’re troubled. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come to my office?”

And the moth says, “Well, because the light was on.”

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Credits:

What happens when someone tells the police that they might be held accountable: https://imgur.com/gallery/WSCkJeE

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/07/nyregion/angered-by-police-killing-a-neighborhood-erupts.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/27/nyregion/rally-puts-police-under-new-scrutiny.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/30/opinion/strong-words-for-a-police-riot.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/17/nyregion/officers-rally-and-dinkins-is-their-target.html

Norm McDonald - The Moth Joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUjIM-GFWhk&t=5s

PS. originally, I chose to include the N-word unedited. I did so with the intent to offend, as the word is incredibly offense, with the intent to shock and challenge the readers of this piece.

[fabiochampioraro]

e dopo questo sguardo super tenero e complice io sto shippando Giovanni e Giulio ancora di più, addio dignità.

[megacircuit9universe]

Hand Basket

TUE OCT 29 2019

So, over the weekend, Trump had something of a win, announcing that special forces had cornered the leader of ISIS, who then killed himself. 

that announcement came on Sunday, and then later the same day, he decided to attend a home game of the World Series in DC, hanging out in a skybox with his entourage.  But when Trump and Co. appeared on the Jumbotron... there came enormous boos from the spectators in the stands.

Those boos lead eventually to a prolonged chant of, “Lock him up!” from the crowd.

Granted, this was DC, which has a very liberal voting base, but this was also the World Series, which draws fans from all over the country.  Also, being the World Series... this was a globally televised event... making the boos and chants of the crowd all the more bold, because they knew the world was watching.

While some, even on the left, have condemned the actions of the World Series crowd for stooping to a level as low as that of the average Trump rally... it should be noted that there was no demagogue present to lead them on. 

This was a spontaneous reaction from ordinary people who had come to see a baseball game, and did not know beforehand that Trump would be in their midst.  Yet when they saw his face on the Jumbotron... even despite his big win earlier in the day... all they could think do was boo and call for his imprisonment in front of the world.

Needless to say, this is what might be called... a bad sign, for Trump.

When polls of random citizens are reporting fifty to fifty-five percent approval for both his impeachment, and his removal... and then you have this “poll” of a crowd of random sports fans, all of whom have enough money to have purchased world series tickets and traveled to DC for the game... and more than half of them also boo and chant, “lock him up,” it suggests that the GOP in both the House and Senate, are in for a very bad day come November 2020... and that they are still in deep denial about it.

In the last entry I talked about the strange phenomenon in which GOP power players have been tending to accidentally incriminate themselves in front of reporters, from Trump himself, to his Chief of Staff, to even Rudy Giulianni who accidentally butt-dialed not one, but two reporters late last week, allowing them to listen in on mysterious conversations in which he trashed Joe biden, and talked about the need for huge sums of money.

I speculated that perhaps pro-humanitarian bots might have subliminally manipulated these players into playing themselves... because it’s not really that hard to do when you’re dealing with individuals who already self delude daily about their own intelligence, and the justifiability of their actions.

And we’re talking about a group of men in the White House and Congress who, as I’ve pointed out before, already fought a two year campaign against Special Council Mueller... trotting out every play they had in their play book... until, in the end, they felt they had won.

Lying, distraction, confusion, and illegal power plays (such as firing Comey, McCabe, and even Sessions... and replacing the latter with a crony, Barr, to be the new AG, as fast tracked through confirmation by the Senate, and who quickly killed the Mueller probe) had won the day!

So now they had the green light to start throwing the 2020 election by extorting Zelenski into investigating Biden... on pain of no Javelins to defend his country against Russian invasion... a move made the very day after Mueller’s public testimony, dazed and doddering, had landed like a dud... in July of this year.

But only two months later... that call to Zelenski was exposed... and has lead to this impeachment juggernaut we are witnessing right now.

And since the whistleblower’s complaint first hit the news, the GOP has been thumbing through that same playbook that they convinced themselves had defeated the Special Council... and every single play has fallen flat.

So... it’s becoming painfully more clear by the day that the GOP does not have any idea what they’re up against this time around, in this new battle that came out of nowhere after they were kicking up their heels and celebrating the winning of the war.

It’s not just Trump and Mulvaney admitting to a quid pro quo and saying, “get over it” or Rudy butt dialing reporters, or idiot House Republicans storming the closed hearings to demand open hearings... that will definitely destroy them... it’s Trump thinking he can kill the leader of ISIS on his way out of Syria, and then go to a baseball game and think all will be forgiven.

And it’s GOP leaders saying for weeks that the whistleblower’s information was just third hand hearsay... confident that no first hand account could ever come to light... as it did today, in explosive fashion on the hill, when Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, of the NSC, decorated with a purple heart, came to testify as a first hand “earwitness” to the Zelenski call as it went down.

He not only corroborated everything the whistleblower said in that original complaint, but also every other line of testimony so far saying that this was not just one phone call, but a large scale, long term orchestration to force Z into publically announcing an investigation against the Bidens before he would ever see military aid, or meet with Trump in person, or get any other help or validation by the U.S.

In other words, this playbook... is worse than useless!  It’s working against them with every play.  Distractions don’t distract.  Deflections don’t deflect. Lies are immediately exposed. And that’s not when they’re just outright confessing their guilt in front of reporters by accident.

So how does a playbook that worked so well through 2017 and 2018... even through to July of 2019... suddenly become so toxic and worthless?

The short answer is Nancy Pelosi.

But the longer answer is the 2018 mid term elections.

There was a huge push to make sure Democrats got out the vote last November, with many online, and even in the mainstream warning that it could be the most consequential election of our lifetimes... because it could decide the fate of American Democracy itself.  It could be... many warned... the LAST time a free and fair election might ever be held.

And on election night, when the returns started to come in... even the left leaning news outlets were playing it like it was a big disappointment.  

It was only in the weeks to follow that the real implications of that election were fully grasped by the media... with several close races still contested, but leaning Democratic... that the House had been given a bigger mandate than any since Nixon was in office... the Senate had taken damage, even though it was supposed to be a safe year for them... and state Governorships and Legislatures across the board had turned blue.

The GOP continued to play this down through December, but by January, Trump knew he’d been slapped in the face by the electorate, and as a fuck-you, he fired Sessions and nominated Barr to replace him as AG.

Then as a second fuck-you, he refused to sign the new budget... shutting down the government for over a month... demanding money for his border wall, and then declaring a national emergency in order to steal funding for the border wall from the military.

But in that first face off... Speaker Pelosi won the shut down.  She forced Trump to capitulate, even though many were fearful she was being too inflexible.  And his national emergency declaration has also been over ruled by the courts all these months later.

I’m going to take a second to echo back here, the words of that Pronunciation Book Video from 2013, “I have been trying to tell you something for five years.”

Five years later was September 2018... a few months before this critical mid-term election.

I’m arguing now, that this election, handing the house back to the Democrats, and the Speakership back to Pelosi, was the decisive moment in which Trump’s playbook... along with his aspirations to dictatorship by decommissioning the Constitution... turned from shiny gold to poisonous lead, for the GOP.

They didn’t see it that way, because it seemed to have helped them defeat Mueller in SPITE of the elections. 

It confirmed a delusion... first created by a fluke electoral upset in 2016, that they were destined... and they were invincible.

Sometimes that shit flies.  Sometimes that shit does bring down democracies and turn them into dictatorships.  

But sometimes... that kind of thinking is exactly what leads would be cult leaders and their brainwashed flocks... straight down to Hell in a hand basket.

Trump... well known by this point for projecting... told us Baghdadi died screaming, crying, and wimpering.

A crowd of baseball fans, later that day, chanted, “Lock him up.”

It seems only a matter of time before we see this other, equally dangerous leader, acting out his descriptions about the former.

[jvdbooks]

Perfect example of conflict within families due to current political situation. Deep Stave vs Awakened Patriots