The question as to why Donald Trump has been having the clearly decayed and decadent Rudy Giuliani as his personal lawyer has been best answered by the observation that he is the As Seen On TV legal genius of the As Seen On TV despot that Donald Trump is. Trump is a 100% As Seen On TV creation, he is, even more than Ronald Reagan a product of the free "press" in the idiotically free-to-lie-with-impunity regime that the Supreme Court has set up. It started out with the master criminal mind of Richard Nixon and it has spiraled down to where, one hopes, it is circling the drain in the Donald Trump regime.
If there is a future that gets to satirize what the irresponsibility of our judicial system has produced, in a, hopefully, smarter time when people learn lessons from history, as not seen on TV and in the movies, Rudy's butt dialing of an investigative journalist could serve as the quintessence of what you get from that kind of As Seen On TV governance, what democracy turns into when people who watch TV eight hours a day, for whom it replaces schools, churches, civic engagement, talking with neighbors, etc. vote for who TV tells them to and, lest it be forgotten, in the media telling them to have a vague, undefined sense of suspicion around the opponent of the corporate media. That isn't only an As Seen On TV thing, as I pointed out the other day the New York Times, the Washington Post and other ink on paper outlets of such "free press" "free speech" had as big a hand in it as CNN, FOX, ABC and CBS.
Ironically, it was on TV that I heard the most important question asked in the Rudy Buttgate incident, asked, not by a journalist but by Frank Figliuzzi, who had not been a journalist but an Assistant Director for National Intelligence, who else has Rudy butt dialed and what did the people he's got on redial learn about things from it. It's a good question because anyone stupid enough to have done it twice in one month can be believed to have done it many times. * Considering who our idiotic system has allowed Giuliani to get away with being in contact with, what sensitive intelligence he's certainly been given by Trump and, I have no doubt at all, William Barr, his talking out of his butt could have serious consequences BY ACCIDENT that the friggin' founders couldn't have imagined possible. The closest they might have imagined was some "honorable man" who had a tendency to get drunk, and a good number of the friggin' founders were drunks, would spout when drunk. With our As Seen On TV idiots, they can do worse sober than what the founders could have imagined, yet their useless 18th century wisdom is not updated by the serious members of the Supreme Court to rescue us from the results of their neo-scholastic "originalism".
* Someone I laughed about this with wondered where the practice of putting your cell phone in the back pocket came from (leading to many a broken screen - duh!). I speculate that the idotic practice of people keeping their cell phones in their butt pocket is a hold over from the idiotic practice of stuffing a wallet back there. I believe that's a product of Hollywood movies where I seem to recall first seeing it as a sign of some tough guy in tight pants showing how kewel they were, and for the director to emphasize the ass of the actor in tight pants. Hollywood being all about selling sex and selling violence through selling sex. Rudy's in my age cohort, more or less, and would have seen the same movies I did. I realized it was stupid when I was a teenager and tried tight pants (I was so skinny that tight pants were definitely not an asset.) only to realize it was stupid so I didn't do it. I love the idea that Rudy might have been given away by his stupid old ass making an ass of him.
Update: OK, I confess, I added that * just to get Simps in a lather. It worked. I know how to push his buttons. He doesn't have many but one of the big ones are dissing Hollywood and TV. I wonder when keeping a wallet in the back pocket started. It's a pretty stupid place to keep a wallet, as Rudy proves, it's an even stupider place to keep your phone. Try a web search, you'll read about the stupid things that are caused by keeping your phone in your back pocket. Including at least two teens whose i-phones caught fire back there.
It's pretty pathetic, figuring that you've got to do something as dumb as putting your wallet in your back pocket to look kewel. Apparently poeple who do that are more likely to cause back pain by throwing themselves off balance, especially if they sit a lot, which Simps definitely does.
If the idea a cell phone can easily be a microphone is true, I assume Rudy's phone is "on" all the time.
ReplyDeleteLook at all the clueless runes who stormed the SCIF then tweeted from there. Later they said they only tweeted to staff, so it was "okay." Even I know better than that.
"Buttgate" only reveals how clueless Rudy is. How badly he's been hacked (and Trump's Twitter phone?) is anybody's guess.
It is insane that we haven't gotten rid of Trump and his posse of the insane and the mentally deficient yet.
DeleteMy greatest fear is that the same anti-democratic gangsters who had such success in installing Trump and his gang of idiot gangsters will learn from what they've done AND DO IT BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVELY IN THE FUTURE. They seem to learn, the Supreme Court, the Constitutionalists don't seem to ever learn a damned thing no matter how disastrous the consequences of their pretending to be powerless to do something get.
That 18th century cult of science is going to get us all enslaved, certainly, killed, very likely. We really need to get past it and just accept that things don't just work themselves out, that we are left with the responsibility to make imperfect judgements and choose among things as imperfect and which we will not understand fully and which require constant observation and change. It is an irony that the "englightened" Constitution, as interpreted with a fundamentalism that is not practiced by any "fundamentalists" of religion has saddled us with a series of terrible presidents and congresses that can rival if not out do the corruption of the 19th century. You see that happening for half a century, you start thinking it's responsible for the results. It's so ironic that attitude fails to look at the results of the experiments of legal decisions and laws to see if they work, such is the fraudulence of the claims of scientific thinking among them.