A thread for Rudy {Rudy Giuliani}

Politics & Elections
821

Mal lunges to his feet, catching Atherton under the chin with the hilt and throwing him back, face cut.

Atherton is regrouping, ready to move in for the kill again. He brings his sword arm back…

But Mal KICKS HIS BROKEN SWORD POINT OFF THE GROUND and up into his hand. He THROWS the broken sword point at Atherton like a dart!

Atherton takes the sword point in the shoulder. It sticks there, and Atherton, furious, reaches to pull it out.

MAL raises the hilt, still around his right hand, and brings it down like a gun butt, over Atherton’s head. Atherton sprawls on the ground.

GENTLEMAN
He’s down!

MAL scoops up Atherton’s dropped sword off the ground and holds it, point at Atherton’s heart. He freezes there.

HARROW
You have to finish it, lad. For a
man to lie beaten and yet breathing,
it makes him a coward.

INARA
It’s a humiliation.

MAL pulls the sword back a little.

MAL
Sure. It would be humiliating,
having to lie there while the better
man refuses to spill your blood.
Mercy is the mark of a great man.

Very quickly, offhandedly, MAL STABS Atherton!

MAL (cont’d)
Guess I’m just a good man.

He STABS him again!

MAL (cont’d)
Well, I’m all right.

822

I don’t wish for him and people like him any ill will, but I won’t cry if he gets trampled by a rhino either.

823

I know people who are suffering from alcoholism, but I also know alcoholics who are very happy despite/thanks to their alcoholism.

824

But all five species of rhinoceros are endangered, with three species critically endangered. I’d be worried the rhino might suffer consequences of the trampling.

825

I don’t want him injured. But if the courts and his creditors happen to get a hold of all those assets he’s been hiding away, I would greatly enjoy hearing about it.

826

i thought the very same thing.

is anyone even listening to him at this convention? sometimes the days of couth seem soooo very far away.

827

I just hope he lives long enough to die in prison, broke and disgraced.

828

It can be two guys in a rhino costume, I’m not picky.

829

He doesn’t appear to be significantly injured, just humiliated, and I have no problem finding pleasure in that.

830

I think it was Mel Brooks who said:

Tragedy is when I stub my toe, comedy is when you Rudy falls into an open manhole and dies.

831

Would you settle for a guy in a T. rex costume?

832

No, but Barney … ?

833

834

Rudy flies first class to Milwaukee; not paying bills arising from his bankruptcy proceedings; judge getting irritated.

835

Rudy “compared his bleak situation in the court system to the suffering of Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.” Of course he did. A world without consequences must be a lovely place.

836

I don’t think they flew first class very much

837

Rudy has reached an agreement for the payment of approximately $400,000 to the forensic firm that was hired by the creditors’ committee. Paid them $100,000 right away, and gave a lien on his NY and Florida condos, with commitment that they won’t act on the lien for six months while Rudy tries to sell them.

838

Rudy’s attempt to shield himself from his creditors in bankruptcy is now over, and he’s about $350,000 poorer.

Fine legal mind at work.

839

So they kicked him off the boat and now the sharks are closing in? Nice.

840

Better to be electrocuted.