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Warning: NSFW language

“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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[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This sounds like irritable dementia.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guarantee you someone more competent would have done a much better job on 9/11.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

What he did most effectively on 9/11 was polish his personal brand with it. He took every opportunity to be on camera, and mentioned it in every interview for years afterwards. It's less clear that he was much of an asset to the efforts.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s extremely unclear to me what he did that was so special. Walked around the WTC site? Amazing

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, though if he retired after 9/11 nobody would have questioned whether his "America's Mayor" label was earned or not. He'd have gone down in the history books as a great man (totally unearned but that's what the history books would have said).

He just had to keep opening his mouth, though.

[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the “not the first time it’s happened/coochie coochie” bit that has me thinking that he’s expressing a freer association than most.

It’s still vulgar, but there’s an element of the words not really linking up to the topic while still maintaining the flow of a sentence or conversation.

[–] Bruisedback@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

So that's what the "G" in GPT stands for!

[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Comey was in love with the guy

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sarcasm, right? Comey had nothing good to say about him in his book.

[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did we read the same book? In the first chapter he describes fawning over Giuliani early in his career

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My recollection is that he admired the man by reputation before he actually got to interact with him, but once he saw what Giuliani was like, he thought he was horrible.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Or a bit too much vodka