He was the primary person who incited the insurrection on the day of January 6. He told a mob of angry Trump supporters that they had to fight or they wouldn't have a country anymore.
But he's gotten no real punishment for his actual crimes. His suffering now is of the sort that could happen to anybody, even if they lived the most virtuous life.
I know he'll never face actual justice, but I'm personally not happy with this as a substitute.
January 6th was the only principled thing MAGA ever did.
Literally the only time they appeared to genuinely believe their own bullshit. Of course, they ran away with their tails between their legs as soon as shit got real…
But I’m sick of hearing American liberals clutch their pearls about how terrible it is to do a January 6th. Doing a January 6th isn’t immoral- doing it FOR THE REASONS IT WAS DONE is immoral. And you’re going to have to do a lot worse than a January 6th if you want any hope at all of getting your country back.
The only place I disagree with you is the idea that MAGA can be described as having this singular united motive at the time.
You have the grifters at the top who know it's bullshit, but who have found a huge pool of the world's easiest marks. You have a lot of genuine believers. You have a lot of people who don't have any beliefs but who simply do as they're told. You have a lot of people who are just trying to fit in. And you have a bunch of little Nazi wannabes who know everybody else is being grifted, but who either simply like hurting other groups of people, or they believe that they'll eventually become the grifters.
With MAGA, like with most political groups, if you want a crowd of specific types, you just have to pick who is in the crowd.
I find it funny that, for better or worse, history would have remembered Rudy as the mayor who had to deal with the chaos of 9/11. Not an endorsement of him, but that would have been the defining moment in our collective memory of him. Now all we’re going to picture is a sweaty dude rambling in front of a landscaping shop. What a fucking tool.
tbf, this is a net positive for the right. That creep was a liability. A shame he got fired by Cheeto Benito too, his fuckups as a lawyer were classic.
74 Comments
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 94 pts · 103d
The world is healing
Rothe@piefed.social · 13 pts · 102d
Nah, he is just a minor and inconsequential stooge in all of this. He has already long since been abandonded by the masters he served.
When the masters begin keeling over then we will see real healing.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 102d
Gotta start somewhere
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 103d
0ndead@infosec.pub · 73 pts · 103d
I have thoughts and prayers about this
pentastarm@piefed.ca · 71 pts · 102d
Buffalox@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 102d
WTF is that supposed to mean?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 102d
About the same as the normal "thoughts and prayers" statement I think, just with a funny visual.
Kraiden@piefed.social · 67 pts · 102d
I heard he was rushed straight to John Hopkins Landscaping
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 102d
Is that the place between the dildo store and the crematorium?
realitista@lemmus.org · 54 pts · 103d
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 102d
Literally exactly what I was gonna say...
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 103d
Who's ready for the pearl-clutching over people replicating trump's tweet about Mueller, reshaped to be about this fucking ghoul?
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 41 pts · 103d
Good. Hope he’s suffering.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 24 pts · 102d
He was the primary person who incited the insurrection on the day of January 6. He told a mob of angry Trump supporters that they had to fight or they wouldn't have a country anymore.
But he's gotten no real punishment for his actual crimes. His suffering now is of the sort that could happen to anybody, even if they lived the most virtuous life.
I know he'll never face actual justice, but I'm personally not happy with this as a substitute.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 102d
January 6th was the only principled thing MAGA ever did.
Literally the only time they appeared to genuinely believe their own bullshit. Of course, they ran away with their tails between their legs as soon as shit got real…
But I’m sick of hearing American liberals clutch their pearls about how terrible it is to do a January 6th. Doing a January 6th isn’t immoral- doing it FOR THE REASONS IT WAS DONE is immoral. And you’re going to have to do a lot worse than a January 6th if you want any hope at all of getting your country back.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 6 pts · 102d
The only place I disagree with you is the idea that MAGA can be described as having this singular united motive at the time.
You have the grifters at the top who know it's bullshit, but who have found a huge pool of the world's easiest marks. You have a lot of genuine believers. You have a lot of people who don't have any beliefs but who simply do as they're told. You have a lot of people who are just trying to fit in. And you have a bunch of little Nazi wannabes who know everybody else is being grifted, but who either simply like hurting other groups of people, or they believe that they'll eventually become the grifters.
With MAGA, like with most political groups, if you want a crowd of specific types, you just have to pick who is in the crowd.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 102d
Well yeah, this is what accounts for them scattering like cowards as soon as that garbage woman took a very entertaining bullet to the neck.
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 103d
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 102d
May his death be painful and undignified.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 103d
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 31 pts · 102d
I find it funny that, for better or worse, history would have remembered Rudy as the mayor who had to deal with the chaos of 9/11. Not an endorsement of him, but that would have been the defining moment in our collective memory of him. Now all we’re going to picture is a sweaty dude rambling in front of a landscaping shop. What a fucking tool.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 102d
Can't wait for the BTB episodes.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 102d
Robert's gonna take 5 episodes to even mention his name, I can feel it
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 102d
These bozos are so into making a legacy to be remembered that when one lands in their lap, they try to make another.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 102d
Do Trump next!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 102d
Trump deserves even worse.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 7 pts · 102d
I will pay all the money I have if trump is next. It’s not much, but I will do my part.
veroxii@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 102d
Twenty bucks is twenty bucks!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 103d
I wish him a long, painful, and unsuccessful recovery.
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 102d
Finally some good news.
knotRyder@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 102d
Sittin' here, sippin' on cold truth
Sabin10@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 102d
Stable condition doesn't sound great but I haven't given up hope yet
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 102d
Hoefully "stable condition" is knee-deep in horse shit.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 102d
"Dead" is the most stable of conditions.
dizzle18@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 103d
You’re snatching up the wrong asshole, Death. I mean, take this prick too. But…come on. You know the one we really want shuffled off to hell.
mr_account@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 103d
What a tragedy! Why, god? WHY‽
Why couldn't this have happened sooner‽
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 103d
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 102d
Oh no, anyway
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 102d
May he suffer horribly, then rot eternally in hell.
CodandChips@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 102d
Rudy Giuliani taken ill and rushed to Mount Sinai landscaping
DigitalPirate@lemmus.org · 16 pts · 102d
Praise be to Allah.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 102d
The nice thing about getting old is that you get to watch the assholes you despise die off... without even having to lift a finger.
0ops@piefed.zip · 15 pts · 102d
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 103d
Let me guess: he’s due to report to jail or something…
Zier@fedia.io · 13 pts · 103d
Bye bitch!
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 12 pts · 102d
Wait, that guy is still alive?
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 102d
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 102d
Not sure, but him melting at the four seasons landscaping will be living in my head for years.
gdog05@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 102d
I love this for him
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 102d
Trump will send someone to hold a pillow over his face so he doesn't have any death bed confessions.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 102d
Finally, the Mike Lindell redemption arc
santa@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 103d
Side effects of leaky brain…?
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 102d
Just one of many obituaries, that I am looking forward to.
aldhissla@piefed.world · 11 pts · 102d
tbf, this is a net positive for the right. That creep was a liability. A shame he got fired by Cheeto Benito too, his fuckups as a lawyer were classic.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 103d
Hoping for a speedy demise.
ulkesh@piefed.social · 9 pts · 103d
Couldn't happen to a better person. Well maybe one other.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 102d
That poor hospital.
breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 102d
Now do the next one
oakey66@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 102d
Ran to the comments.
Mantzy81@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 102d
Here's to hoping. If only this was about a fair few other "people" too.
logicslayer@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 102d
Thank you, next.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 102d
Oh no how unfortunate.
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 102d
Reaper, don't forget his past and present clients.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 102d
He has no clients. He was disbarred.
Pistcow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 103d
Good
Akh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 103d
Good
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 102d
Don't even care...
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 5 pts · 102d
Why do we have to hear ANYTHING about this jackass again?
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 102d
Nice memes.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 102d
Cool. Next!
devolution@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 102d
He's not dead yet? A shame.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 4 pts · 102d
One less asshole in the mix.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 102d
I shed no tears.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 102d
Awww. Poor guy. Anyway I’m hungry again. What should I eat?
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 102d