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“Jewish men have small cocks because they can’t use them after they get married,” Giuliani said, according to the transcript. “Whereas the Italian use them all their lives so they get bigger.”

Giuliani railed against how Jewish people “want to go through that freaking Passover all the time” and how they should “get over the Passover” because it was 3,000 years ago. “OK, the Red Sea parted,” the transcript reads. “Big deal. Not the first time that happened.”

Giuliani doesn’t elaborate on other instances when the Red Sea was parted.

The transcripts also feature Giuliani discussing which celebrities are Republican. Giuliani is trying to think of someone in particular and Dunphy volunteers that Matt Damon is “very liberal.”

“Matt Damon is a fag,” Giuliani replies. “Matt Damon is also 5’2″, eyes are blue. Coochi-coochie-coochie-coo.”

Various websites list Damon as around 5’10”. It’s unclear why Giuliani invoked the 1920s song “Has Anybody Seen My Girl? (Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue)” or what it has to do with the actor.

Then there are the lewd comments directed toward Dunphy. “Come here, big tits,” Giuliani says on one occasion, according to the transcript. “Come here, big tits. Your tits belong to me. Give them to me [indiscernable]. I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. These are my tits.”

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[–] [email protected] 202 points 1 year ago (4 children)

People here calling him psycho and demented, when really he's just a run of the mill old bigot with a massive platform and an even bigger mouth.
Lets stop pretending like people need Alzheimer's or some mental illness to become more vocal about their hate, it is our society and its rapid decline back in to fascism that is allowing it, blame that.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is exactly what "locker room talk" was code for, and why Trump's voters weren't phased by it, this is the toxic culture they have and want to defend.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, unfortunately it also seeps through in to the rest of society, where it becomes the norm to make excuses for such behaviour, partly because people can't fathom other people being able to genuinely believe such hateful thigs and act on them, but they do, and it isn't "something wrong with them" it's an active and deep rooted part of our society.

All this kind of scapegoating business is just othering because it hits far too close to home to admit that bigots are everyday people like the rest of us, and that our society not only enables but encourages them.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is much more than just hate, though. He's saying nonsensical things, making random logical jumps, and more. He can be a bigot and have dementia, they aren't mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He’s saying nonsensical things, making random logical jumps

That's literally antisemitism (all bigotry, really) for you. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

And you're right, he can be both, but bringing it up is irrelevant, especially since he's got a long and public record of this kind of behaviour, and all people are doing is armchair diagnosing (and seemingly with little understanding of what bigotry even is. And a lack of logic does not dementia make). Bringing potential dementia/mental illness up doesn't only come across (and actively serve) as an excuse, but it's also ableist in that it places a stigma on to people with whatever condition is being used as a scapegoat (and any that might, in a layperson's mind, relate, however loosely), instead of focusing on what's wrong with what he's saying.

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[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What a very oddly specific and suspicious thing to have anything at all to say about.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Giuliani micro penis confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Every accusation is a confession

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Almost exposed in the Borat moviefilm.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I'm starting to wonder how many of these aged politicians start to have dementia but manage to continue.

It's really starting to make me pretty ageist when I consider voting.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should not be ashamed for being ageist when we are talking about politicians. The system has always been ageist with its limits directed toward young people, so I see no reason why there shouldn’t be an upper limit for old people.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Young people have more to loose when they are making decisions on climate change etc. Dudes in their 80s don't give a shit if their policy decisions mess stuff up as in the short term their dead soon.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Guiliani doesn't elaborate on other times the red sea was parted

Made me laugh

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Same. And then that Matt Damon bit made me howl.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude is an obvious psycho, and I hope he goes to prison for his coup attempt involvement

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago

Giuliani doesn’t elaborate on other instances when the Red Sea was parted.

This actually made me lol in the middle of this otherwise inhuman font of garbage, so well done there I suppose

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seeing a lot of comments about dementia here, but I honestly think he's just a drunk. Seen plenty of drunks in my life speak like this. Random, almost non-nonsensical comments. Random bits of songs. Screams drunkard to me.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

The only part that sounded like dementia to me was the reference to the old song. The part about, "I want to claim my tits," sounded waaay more like alcohol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"These are my tits" is definitely drunk talk.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“Come here, big tits. Your tits belong to me. Give them to me [indiscernable]. I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. These are my tits.”

Pure poetry from a modern day Shakespeare.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

I thought I was reading The Onion for a minute....

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“oh your son of god died on a cross and now you gotta wear it on your chest and plaster your car? it was 2000 years ago get over it!”

that’s a spicy take rudy.

also my favorite part of the entire article is “guliani doesn’t elaborate on other instances when the red sea was parted”

like, obviously, but this felt so needlessly hilarious to add in as a detail in the article

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Jewish men have small cocks because they can’t use them after they get married,” Giuliani said, according to the transcript. “Whereas the Italian use them all their lives so they get bigger.”

…I REALLY don’t think that’s how penises work, mister

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn’t dementia, Rudy’s just a dinosaur. A lot of big shots were sleazeballs behind closed doors when he came up half a century ago but most had the good sense to retire, die or at least stop saying their vilest thoughts out loud by now.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This man seems to think about Jew dick a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Giuliani doesn’t elaborate on other instances when the Red Sea was parted.

I don't know why but this was so funny reading it.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why didn’t this asshat just shut the fuck up after 9/11? He would’ve been fondly remembered, and we wouldn’t have known he’s an butthole blowing antisemite.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer to know that he is a raging asshat,

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He seems like the kind of person that would enjoy a comedian makes jokes like "italian leople be like.... but jewish people be like...."

Im quite surprised he survived after that scene in borat. That did not look good for him.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These people are absolutely toxic. No wonder he got along with Trump so well.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Truly one of the American legal minds of all time

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, that America’s Mayor!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Sasha Baron Cohen got it right the second time

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have such a low opinion of this taint sucking parasite that nothing he says will surprise me. Just go away you hair color sweating dipshit

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Trump-supporting lawyer and right-wing freak talks like a right-wing freak.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This sounds like irritable dementia.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Except he's been this way for years. Giuliani is just a scummy, despicable man.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was revolted by the "America's Mayor" shit in 2001, as if we were supposed to be amazed about him personally, that a disaster happened in his city and he did an adequate job responding to it. He was a shitbag before that, with things like 'stop and frisk' and 'broken window policing' (which were essentially authoritarian ways to harass poor people) and obviously continues to be one to this day.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

America's Mayor, everyone.

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