12-16-2022, 10:35 PM
(12-16-2022, 09:50 AM)David Horn Wrote:(12-16-2022, 01:10 AM)linus Wrote: How about controversial political opinions turned upside down? Roughly twenty years ago, I referred to one Rudolph Giuliani as a suburban brownshirt in these parts, and was excoriated for it. Now, and guess what? He's maybe about to be disbarred. But despite valiantly fighting for delicious non-fat yogurt that tastes like fatty yogurt (hint: it wasn't; in fact, it wasn't even real, of course), he was always the knowing son of a low level mobster.
There is a level of rot in the GOP that attracts miscreants like Rudy. It's sad that it only became blantanly obvious in the lst 20 years or so. It's been that way for a very long time. Scumbaggery will always find a way.
That's right, I'm sure. My opinion of him was informed less by the big ticket stuff he did as mayor, then the stuff you heard from people you knew who lived in the city at the time, owned small businesses there, and so on - lots of allegations of smarmy behavior and abuses of power by his people.