Whatever our feelings on the Democratic ticket, I think we can all agree that Rudy Giuliani getting thrown out of bankruptcy court is worth a laugh or two:
A New York judge dismissed Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case on Friday, clearing the way for two Georgia election workers to try and recover nearly $150m Giuliani was ordered to pay them for defaming them after the 2020 election.
The ruling by US bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane comes after lawyers for the two women, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, as well as other creditors accused Giuliani of concealing information about his finances. The judge also prevented Giuliani from refiling for bankruptcy within one year.
I hope Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss bleed him so bad that he ends up making his martinis from plastic bottle vodka and smoking Swisher Sweets.
Omnes Omnibus
I did not need to see that picture.
RepubAnon
Perhaps a pay-per-view channel of Rudy living under a bridge and scavenging for aluminum cans…. Could be a money-maker!
Keith P.
He’d make a good butler
dmsilev
@Keith P.: I kind of doubt it. He’d always be sneaking drinks from the liquor cabinet, definitely lacks the proper attitude, and I’d really hesitate to put him in charge of household management.
zhena gogolia
Haha, Swisher Sweets, forgot about them! They are nasty!
Captain C
@Keith P.: No, he’d just drink up all the high-end booze in the house and try to fuck every female person under 35 or so in the house.
Damien
Fuck Rudy Giuliani for real, but also can we just appreciate how wide, deep, and thorough the damage is that Trump has done to some of the worst people in the world? Yeah, he’s a garbage fascist who looks like a lumpy yam two months after Thanksgiving, but boy oh boy he’s really putting in work revealing and ruining bad peoples’ lives.
Not enough, but there is that.
JKC
I’d be happy to see him and Alex Jones living in adjoining cardboard boxes under a freeway overpass, fighting over prime panhandling spots.
Josie
I know I’m an evil person for this, but this makes me so happy. I hope they get everything they want from him.
Suzanne
@Damien:
Damn, this is absolutely true, and also one of the most difficult pills to swallow in this whole nightmare. Like, TFG is of course just [insert every word for terrible here]…. But, like, so many other people are equally rotten and bad, they just haven’t been as lucky in life to fail upward so far. And every MAGAt douchebag is equally as sycophantic and awful…..again, circumstance is the only separator.
Dagaetch
For once I find myself wishing debtor’s prisons still existed.
Suzanne
Oh, and I don’t want Rudy to have Swisher Sweets money. No! Fuck that!
Ruckus
I hope he ends up without enough left to buy a Big Mac.
Keith P.
No, he wouldn’t. He wouldn’t make a good anything.
RandomMonster
That just makes you human, not evil. He deserves everything he gets for his part in inflicting Trump on this nation.
West of the Rockies
I’m surprised he hasn’t stroked out or been ravaged by gastrointestinal disease, what with the amount of stress the homely slob is under.
Also, too, I hope Peter Navarro is enjoying incarceration. Oh, and lumpy Steve Bannon.
Ruckus
@JKC:
Think of all the down on their luck humans that would have 2 less cardboard boxes to live in. They should just have to live without boxes, and not using an underpass. No shade, no protection from the rain. Most of those people that live under an overpass never had what those 2 had by screwing so many others. If they are going to lose everything they should have to live without shelter of any kind, from the cold, the sun, the rain.
I’ve lived in Los Angles County for most of my life, I worked and then owned a business within the city of Los Angeles. I’ve seen people living on the street, barely having the minimum of clothing on their backs because most of humanity turned their backs upon them. And these 2 pompous, greedy assholes had far more than enough and their greedy asses shouldn’t get any more.
jonas
@Keith P.: Wasn’t that the pitch for Jerry and George’s NBC pilot in Seinfeld? Jerry is struck by a guy in a car who can’t pay damages, so he’s sentenced to be Jerry’s butler?
Having to work off his debt by serving Freeman and Moss poolside drinks for the rest of his life would be excellent!
Jay
Banished to an ice flow would be good,…..
Dan B
OT but current: The Gay Furry Hackers found that many of the IP’s used by the Heritage Foundation were Chinese.
Chinese!
I thought it was primarily Putin and company who were focused on installing a dictatorship in the US and in Europe. Then again the plot to assassinate the head of Rheinmetal, Germany’s largest arms manufacturer and supplier of armaments to Ukraine, is plenty scary.
But China pulling strings at the Heritage Foundation scares me.
Raven
We’ve had a financial advisor for 20 years. A few years back we visited his office and had two pictures of Rudy on his desk! We’ve since taken a bath on an investment!!
Damien
BTW, just for all of us here, I’ve started referring to Project Trumpy-Trumpy5. Seems to get through to people.
p.a.
Think Rudy might want to get hold of a chain saw and wrangle a private meeting w tRump?
Dan B
@Jay: Those of us residing in the “used to be Frozen North” regard ice flows as truly horrifying but this last week of high heat in the PNW is a reminder that hot 🔥 is also punishing.
Layer8Problem
Martinis mean gin. Please correct this immediately.
P.S. I am not a crackpot.
Dan B
@Damien: One of the prime architects of Project 2025 has declared that he will incarcerate the Gay Furry Hackers who exposed Heritage, and they will be raped in prison. The way these fuckers minds instantly go to gay rape suggests they’ve got something on their minds
They’ve made the decision that power over others is the ultimate and that love is weakness, to be punished brutally.
West of the Rockies
I think we should send Rudy back to where found him… “Unemployed… in Greenland!”
West of the Rockies
@Dan B:
Recall a few years ago how they were all obsessed about various things being crammed down their throats…
Ken
I don’t think there’s enough demand for oakum any more. I suppose they could be put to some other useful work, though I’m having trouble coming up with a way Giuliani could be useful.
Mike in Pasadena
Awww, poor little rudy lewdy. Now Ruby and Shaye will be able to pay lawyers to pursue more of their cases against other Rethuglicans who accused them of stuffing ballots into suitcases.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Toss-up which is the more nasty, Swisher Sweets or Hav-A-Tampas.
;)
NotMax
How’s that latest grifting scheme working out?
zhena gogolia
@Damien: That’s good!
Mike in Pasadena
@Damien: Do you mean Project trumpy trumpy 5 sounds like project 2025? Otherwise i dont get it.
scav
@Ken: Busting rocks is a classic. Gravel is still used in lots of places. Busting up old toilets, aren’t they now being used in some roadways? Taking apart batteries, sorting plastics for recycling if you go for more psychic torment . . .
Mike in Pasadena
@Dan B: It’s not gay rape, its male on male rape. But I get your drift.
Damien
@Mike in Pasadena: Yes, it’s a play on the name intended to connect Trump and Project 2025. I grant that it probably doesn’t play very well over text, but I’ll tell ya, it works.
cmorenc
It was as recently as 2008 that Guiliani was for awhile early on a leading contender for the GOP Presidential nomination as supposedly somewhat moderate (for the GOP) on issues other than law n’order, flaming out relatively early once actual primary voting started. That was in the era before the GOP developed a preference for utter flaming assholes over only sorta sometimes assholes. A man whose timing was 8 to 16 years wrong to match his personality.
Jay
@Dan B:
funny thing, AGW has made Arctic shipping conditions even worse in the North American Arctic. Because of changing currents and wind, pack ice movement has become unpredictable and irratic. A channel that was navigatable yesterday, could be blocked today. Same for ports. Most of the supplies that arrive in the North, go by shipping, barges mostly, and barges , ships can’t plow their way through pack ice, sometimes even icebreakers have a hard time of it.
Basically, real time, detailed satellite imagery is needed.
It’s 27C here today, but we got a bit of a break last night as night time temps dropped to 16C,
But, we also have an inversion so the entire Lower Rainland is under air quality alerts. It’s not great here, but it really sucks further out in the valley where all our air pollution stacks up.
West of the Rockies
@cmorenc:
Honestly, I blame McCain for selecting Palin. She was such a gleefully ignorant, nasty-ass mean girl right out of jr. high
I think Palin paved the way for Trump, MTG, Boebert, etc.
caphilldcne
@Damien: I love that!
Geminid
@NotMax: I heard the Costa RICO blend was pretty good.
Jay
@Geminid:
It’s never RICO.//
Peke Daddy
Swisher Sweets soaked in plastic bottle vodka.
Dan B
@Mike in Pasadena: You are correct but most people don’t understand that one is rape ad the other is lovemaking 99% of the time. This monster from Heritage believes that being the perp will protect him from being abused and from being abused, or ridiculed, for his latent, and suppressed, homosexual fantasies*.
*With the GOP Convention there will be a great deal of acting out those fantasies. It’s no wonder that 25% of young people identify as not-straight. Hypocrisy has little appeal.
Jay
@Peke Daddy:
Dan B
@Jay: Its much cooler here in Seattle but the air quality is worse. My brother lives near the front range. I hope he’s okay. We’ve got onshore flow which should be pushing the pollution towards the mountains.
I’d wondered about the “Ice Free Inside Passage” fantasy since it could be persistent ice every winter pushed around by erratic Jet Stream winds for the next century. Permanently ice free would likely cause massive turbulence in the atmosphere and at sea
VFX Lurker
At the time, a (male) Republican co-worker thought Palin was a smart pick, because she appealed to “the base.”
I blame Republican voters who want to put people like Palin, MTG, Boebert, and Trump in charge.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@VFX Lurker:
I blame Republican voters who want to put people like Palin, MTG, Boebert, and Trump in charge.
Yup. People like Driftglass have been pointing this out for years, clowns like that aren’t the problem, they’re the symptom and all part of the post-Dubya landscape within the GQP. As he put it 11 years ago waaay before these clowns became playuhs at the Federal level:
And here we are…
Jay
@Dan B:
the whole myth of the NorthWest passage/AGW is good, BS, is that the Canadian Arctic is littered with reefs, rocks, Islands, shallows, narrow channels, wild weather.
The NorthEast passage on the other hand is mostly island free deepwater and is the shortest route from Asia to Europe.
The people who pumped it were paid to do so by the Usual suspects, and of course, have never navigated a boat in their life, not even a SUP.
Jay
@Dan B:
On the bright side, I think Canada can still spare an ice floe or two for Tutti Fruti Rudy Colludie,
trollhattan
Clash lyric FTW.
Also, Rudie Can
‘tFail.Ken
@cmorenc: I don’t recall him running on his moderate positions — maybe that was the press’s characterization? His own campaign efforts became mockingly famous as “a noun, a verb, and 9-11”.
SiubhanDuinne
Rudy … Navarro … Steve Bannon … Alex Jones.
When do we get to go after the My Pillow Guy?
SiubhanDuinne
@VFX Lurker:
The very base. The basest.
Jay
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s in progress,………..
Ken
Hasn’t he been punished enough, simply by being the My Pillow Guy?
Jay
@Ken:
In Feb, a Court ruled he owed the MAGA computer guy 5$ million for disproving his claims, but you know, collecting takes time.
Dominion lawsuit is crawling along.
Smartmatic lawsuit is crawling along and some Billionaire gave them a big cash infusion in early July to take Lindell down,…..
OzarkHillbilly
I want that useless csucker living under a bridge, cooking a sparrow on a coat hanger. Anything else is not justice.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Which useless cocksucker?
All of them, Katie?
zhena gogolia
@Jay: Giuliani.
Scout211
Speaking of court cases, Alec Baldwin’s trial was dismissed with prejudice. The prosecution hid evidence.
So he’s now free to weigh in on whether Biden should step down.
/s
zhena gogolia
@Scout211: I’m hoping he doesn’t. I’m sure he’s an asshole, but I’m glad he was acquitted.
bbleh
@Dan B: @West of the Rockies: I admit to occasional moments of joy thinking of the RNC / Felon 2024 staffers who routinely have cursing fits about those fkn legacy eggheads at the fkn Heritage Foundation going and opening their mouths like that.
Politics always surprises. I had no idea Project Trumpy-2025 would get the kind of traction it has. But no reason not to exploit it to the hilt, and then more!
Jay
@zhena gogolia:
Lindell has been also mentioned,……..
Jay
@bbleh:
You might remember that the “eggheads” at the PNAC also hit publish on their keyboards, but few paid attention.
At least now, some people are paying attention.
bbleh
@Scout211: @zhena gogolia: aw he’s just another egotist. I have no idea what kinds of pathologies that rarefied level of fame and wealth can create. And the whole Clooney thing would have been at most a blip, or ignored completely, if the MSM weren’t just frantically desperate for something, anything, to keep their precious Narrative alive.
I will say one thing about this election: it really is revealing things clearly about both people and institutions.
Geminid
@Scout211: Bob Menendez is still on the hook. His 9 week-long bribery prosecution went to the jury this afternoon. They went home an hour or so ago and will resume deliberations Monday.
MisterForkbeard
@bbleh: This strikes me as the right approach. Most of this stuff would’ve been pretty minor, but the media really wants a hit of Biden Must Go right now. Attention will be paid to anyone on the left who will publicly request Biden step down For Reasons
Ruckus
@RepubAnon:
Who in their right mind would pay to see rudy, an ugly, worse than useless, waste of air, inhumanbeing.
Ruckus
@Ken:
Hasn’t he been punished enough, simply by being the My Pillow Guy?
No. Not even close to enough.
The Lodger
I
The Lodge
I would make Rudy’s drinks with Sterno.
The Lodger v
@Layer8Problem: OK with me if Rudy uses Sterno instead of gin.
OlFroth
He needs to be reduced to the level of the people he despises. Cold water walk-up studio in Hunt’s Point. Thin mattress on the floor. Bare bulbs in the lighting fixtures. No A/C. Taking public transportation to do his laundry. Keeping the laundry in cardboard boxes or trash bags. Ramen noodles and canned beans three meals a day. A two burner stove with an oven so small you can’t fit a ham in it.