# Giuliani's hilarious self-own
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 25, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500 "2019-05-25T13:40:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/1 "2019-05-25T13:40:03Z")
This would be sidesplittingly funny even if it didn’t come from a political bete noire like Rudy.
> **[Rudy Giuliani posts garbled tweet accusing Nancy Pelosi of ‘garbled speech’](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-rudy-giuliani-tweet-nancy-pelosi-20190524-4biwzmuhwjaw5deldfgxfajvca-story.html)**
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> Rudy Giuliani tweeted a garbled message Friday morning apparently intended to double down on President Trump’s claim that Nancy Pelosi has “lost it."
ETA: The random detail of the basketball video is **everything.**
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/2 "2019-05-25T16:37:25Z")
While Rudy’s behavior is, typically, humorous, his desire to follow his fearless leader into incomprehensive texting is, by itself, not really an Elections discussion.
Off to The BBQ Pit.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/3 "2019-05-25T16:52:55Z")
He has some money, why doesn’t he hire a publicist to vet his utterances?
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/4 "2019-05-25T17:00:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> He has some money, why doesn’t he hire a publicist to vet his utterances?
For the same reason Trump doesn’t.
Vanity.
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### Author:  [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/5 "2019-05-25T17:09:15Z")
Hey now, are we sure this is Rudy? The man is a cybersecurity expert (or not):
[Rudy Giuliani, a Trump cybersecurity adviser, doesn’t understand the internet](https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/rudy-giuliani-doesnt-understand-the-internet/)
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> Welcome back to the latest edition of politicians don’t get technology! Our latest guest is Rudy Giuliani, former New York mayor and current cybersecurity adviser to President Trump.
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> Rudy Giuliani doesn’t understand Twitter or the internet.
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> It’s embarrassing enough that Giuliani inadvertently tweeted a link to a website criticizing Trump, but now he is doubling down on cyberstupidity by claiming that “Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message.”
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> Ignorant as to what had happened, he latched on to apparent anti-Republican bias within Twitter, a theme that Trump and other Republicans have pushed despite no evidence.
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> “Don’t tell me they are not committed cardcarrying anti-Trumpers,” added Giuliani, who — we repeat — is a cybersecurity adviser to the White House .
Rudy is learning well from Trump–it’s always someone else’s fault.
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/6 "2019-05-25T20:37:44Z")
So after posting a garbled message complaining about Pelosi’s garbled speech, he then posts a correction which includes the quote “People who live in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones.” And is apparently completely oblivious to its applicability to what he had just done.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/7 "2019-05-25T20:44:58Z")
> [@markn\_1](#):
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> So after posting a garbled message complaining about Pelosi’s garbled speech, he then posts a correction which includes the quote “People who live in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones.” And is apparently completely oblivious to its applicability to what he had just done.
Self awareness is not one of Rudy’s strong suits.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/8 "2019-05-25T20:47:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> He has some money, why doesn’t he hire a publicist to vet his utterances?
Because a publicist of even average competence would insist that they cannot post 95% of it because it makes them sound like fucking morons.
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/9 "2019-05-25T21:02:43Z")
doesn’t Guiliani own part of that life lock rip off you see on tv? or did he just work for them
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/10 "2019-05-25T21:43:34Z")
> [@nightshadea](#):
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> doesn’t Guiliani own part of that life lock rip off you see on tv? or did he just work for them
[He was a late-night pitchman for Lifelock](https://mfi-miami.com/2016/09/rudy-giuliani/).
You know, the same company that got fined [100 million by the FTC](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/12/lifelock-pay-100-million-consumers-settle-ftc-charges-it-violated) for not securing its customer’s sensitive data.
Obviously, this gig qualified Rudy for his current position as Trump’s cyber security adviser.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/11 "2019-05-25T21:51:02Z")
Rudy feels more comfortable and “together” when he’s dressed as a lady. He should just own it.
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8)
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/12 "2019-05-25T22:02:51Z")
Is this in the elections thread?
Er wait, I meant the pit.
Got it mixed up - sorry, ivesssapology.
ok maybe that was a little tenuous, that one.
At least I tried.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/13 "2019-05-25T22:06:51Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Rudy feels more comfortable and “together” when he’s dressed as a lady. He should just own it.
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> [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8)
That’s his evil(er) twin, Judy Ruliani.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/14 "2019-05-25T22:15:06Z")
Can someone get Kanye to interrupt a press conference? And get him to grab the mic and yell “ivesssapology, but the Third Reich did this stuff better!”
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/15 "2019-05-25T22:53:50Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#):
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> Is this in the elections thread?
> Er wait, I meant the pit.
> Got it mixed up - sorry, ivesssapology.
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> ok maybe that was a little tenuous, that one.
> At least I tried.
LOL, I enjoyed it. (This is why I want “likes”.)
Seriously, though: how the actual fuck did a _basketball video_ get into this tweet? That goes beyond “garbled”. :smack:
ETA: Even Rudy’s corrected tweet still messes up the quote marks.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/16 "2019-05-25T22:55:33Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> LOL, I enjoyed it. (This is why I want “likes”.)
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> Seriously, though: how the actual fuck did a _basketball video_ get into this tweet? That goes beyond “garbled”. :smack:
He thought the tweet would be a slam-dunk.
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### Author:  [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/17 "2019-05-25T23:30:07Z")
I have a feeling **ivesssapology** will be the next great harbinger of the Dope.
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giulianis-hilarious-self-own/834500/18 "2019-05-25T23:41:43Z")
Perhaps even inspiring someone’s screen name! 😉