It’s Rudy! The Melting Mayor Beats Cunningham To Become TPM’s 2020 Duke Of Dukes | Talking Points Memo

The votes are in! And, overwhelmingly, you’ve decided: The duke of dukes goes to Rudy Giuliani, once dubbed America’s mayor and of late America’s sinister buffoon.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1351559

I guess I am more conservative that I thought I was as I voted for The Duke Himself.

Also I may be nursing a wan hope that we can forget Rudy at some point in the near future…

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Too bad the pandemic is keeping us from holding a big ceremony with Rudy in attendance.

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Offer him $20,000 for the day and he’ll show up to get his trophy and his check.

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I can’t help but think that Rudy’s recent antics overshadowed the achievements of the dark lord of compromised government, Dick Cheney.

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There may be some recency bias in favor of Rudy but I think it also reflects a sense that even gonzo over-the-top venal corruption can do real damage in addition to being gobsmackingly outrageous.

ETA: Duke was mainly just his own ineluctably venal self, Rudy was that but also a feature and symbol of a system awry.

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May this become an exhibit in the petitions to disbar Rudy in every jurisdiction that has admitted him to practice.

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The Mayor should also be awarded a lifetime supply of hair dye from one of these premium retailers: https://www.menshealth.com/grooming/g32520397/best-hair-dye-for-men/

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Rudy is Forrest Gump prevailing over Pulp Fiction. An entertainingly incompetent Zelig flitting in and out of history, who the uneducated masses found more surface-level appealing than a master of corruption playing the game at the highest levels, and doing it all on a party boat that he obtained as part of the grift. Mark my words, the Academy will regret this vote.

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overwhelmingly, you’ve decided: The duke of dukes goes to Rudy Giuliani

Recency bias

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I haven’t forgotten James Watt

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Rudy has always disgusted me and a lot of New Yorkers. When he was branded “America’s Mayor” after 911 I was afraid my eyes might lock in the rolled position. America’s Mayor, you might as well call me Hawaii’s Pole Vaulter. It’s just as random and makes about as much sense.

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Nor his colleague in poisoning the environment, Rapey McBeerface’s mom.

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:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Are we gonna have to create a new award called the Jewel in his honor?

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A no brainer. The odds were always 9/11 in Rudy’s favor.

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Dukes are so passe. Think we should move on to generals, and propose that for 2021 they be renamed Flynn’s.

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How about a Brass Flynn for Biggest Traitor of the Year as a subset of the Golden Dukes?

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Wrong frat boy. That’s Gorsuch’s mom Anne. Apparently when Neil was a lad he was quite upset at how she was treated. His law school for kids book must of had something about contempt of court being a bad thing and superfund sites aren’t comic book heroes.

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Really think wholesale renaming. Duke merely accepted bribes from American defense contractors, he didn’t actively collude with enemy nations to undermine our government, try to kidnap people and betray his country.

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