NYT | Rudy Giuliani Was Always Like This

That shithead could have rode off into the sunset and had an amazing retirement. Decided to hitch himself to a criminal moron instead. Enjoy your destruction Rudy.

Decided to hitch himself
to enrich himself, he was a fool, thought Trump was a billionaire.
- The thing is, with even the slightest bit of research, he'd have known that Trump always stiffs people who work for him.

Seriously, January 6 wasn't even the first time he was involved in a violent racist mob attacking a government building

Also, it's not just Rudy, it's the whole Republican party that's like this

I'd add the Civil War but then some sea lion would start harping about "nuh uh that was the demoncrats!"
- I always ask people like that which party's rallies welcome people waving around the traitor flag.
- That's why you say Conservatives, the North was Liberal, the South was Conservative.
I'll add the Wikipedia link since the NYMag link is pay walled.
I'll say this, it's amazing what you miss as a kid, I lived there through those years and my pops was a Riker's guard and the NYPD and DoC are very close, I'd bet my father was there with the rioters that day.
My take on it is these guys were a bunch of pieces of shit, they were rioting to protect themselves from accountability. They attacked journalists and specifically targeting a black cameraman to attack while calling him the n-word and other horrible things. It really shows you what the real motivations were here, they didn't want to be held accountable by a black mayor, and then they started making up rumors of drug addiction about Mayor Dinkens, and probably pulled their whole "quiet quitting" bullshit where they choose not to do their jobs as law enforcement officers, just like we saw them do under Mayor DiBlasio when they didn't like his reaction to what happened to George Floyd.
New York City will never be as good as we want it to be until the Police union, NYPD, and DoC are cleaned up, they're corrupt, bigoted, and their propagation and support of the Nazi-like "blue line" bullshit and Trump makes them borderline treasonous, NYC has to do better, it's time to clean up the police, unfortunately Mayor Adams is absolutely not the guy for that job, since cops just protect cops, and all that he's done since he's been mayor has been kissing the asses of his fellow officers.
- As a former NYer, it's not just the politicians that are rotten anymore. There's a LOT of extremely ugly souls in NY anymore. So glad I moved away. It's unrecognizable anymore, there's so much me and mine.

Remember when we thought he was Americas mayor during 9/11?

I recall others thinking it.
Speaking out against him was in line with being against the Iraq war.
The country had a psychotic episode.
Those caught up in it were enjoying the ride.
The rest were vilified for pointing out the obvious.
Rudy being "America's Mayor" was never about Rudy.
George W. Bush went into 9-11 being absolutely despised by half the country. He was an idiot. The election was stolen for him by Republican supreme Court justices.
These terrorist attacks happened on Bush's watch, and we saw him sit there for 7 minutes or so, doing absolutely nothing after he found out the nation was under attack.
Much the same way that the left was happy about the NY governor during Covid. They were happy to embrace any leader other than the moron in chief.
But people who were paying attention understood that Rudy's primary contribution to 9-11 is that he had moved the disaster response HQ INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER (before 9-11 obviously, BUT AFTER THAT BUILDING WAS ALREADY THE TARGET OF A TERRORIST ATTACK LESS THAN 10 YEARS PRIOR).

John Oliver has a great examination

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