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muddypolitics · 5 months
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Today marks the 3rd anniversary of the funniest thing to happen in US politics ever 😂
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mudwerks · 7 months
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(via Rudy Giuliani surrenders in Georgia 2020 election interference case)
another criminal mug
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randyite · 8 months
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thehalfwaypost · 10 months
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A brief reflection on Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
December 16, 2023
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
As we begin a mid-December weekend, I offer this brief reflection on Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
Jury Awards Ruby Freemen and Shaye Moss $148 million in damages against Rudy Giuliani for defamation.
The damages award of $148 million against Rudy Giuliani encapsulates the madness, frustration, and perseverance that define the lives of millions of activists during the American era of The Big Lie. It is tempting to characterize Giuliani’s defamation of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss and their hard-won victory as a metaphor for Trump's political arc over the last seven years.
But what happened to Freeman and Moss is not a metaphor. It is the cold, hard reality that slaps each of us in the face every day as we are assaulted by lies heaped upon lies. Not everyone is a direct victim of the lies like Freeman and Moss, but we are all victims, nonetheless.
The point of the lies is not (only) to injure Trump's enemies, it is to erode trust in the system until there are no guardrails left—hoping to create chaos in which the most depraved believe they have an advantage over those still ruled by conscience, decency, and fealty to the rule of law.
Trump and his enablers tell outlandish lies because they know that media outlets will dutifully repeat the lies in headlines and news alerts, reserving tepid skepticism for paragraphs buried deep in their coverage.
Direct victims like Freeman and Moss are viewed as expendable collateral damage. Their names and addresses are shared in dark corners of the web so Trump's followers can make threats even he dares not voice (in public).
The full weight of Trump's malevolent organization was directed at Freeman and Moss. But they did not buckle. Two women who were motivated to help fellow Georgians vote in a free and fair election stood their ground.
Their reputations were smeared by the sitting President of the United States, the Georgia legislature, Fox News, One America Network, Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, and millions of users on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms.
A preacher and a rap star’s publicist teamed up to urge them to falsely confess to non-existent crimes—saying it was the only way to stop the ugly death threats. The FBI’s unhelpful response was to advise them to “Move out of your homes.”
Despite tens of thousands of vile threats, no one was arrested, investigated, charged with crimes, or sued for defamation.
At least not at first.
But the guardrails held. Because Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss stood their ground.
Because they stood their ground, Democrats on the January 6 Committee allowed them to tell their story to the nation.
Because they stood their ground, the rap star’s publicist and the preacher were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia for “solicitation of false statements and influencing witnesses.”
Because they stood their ground, the former president was indicted for lying about the 2020 election. The indictment specifically alleged that the former president was responsible for the campaign to smear Freeman and Moss—lies that were part of his conspiracy to defraud the United States. (See indictment, ¶ 26.)
Then, Freeman and Moss sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation. He did his best to derail and delegitimize the civil claim for damages. But he failed. The guardrails held. All because Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss stood their ground.
Two women who wanted to help people vote in Georgia stood their ground against fancy lawyers and paid liars, a depraved president and corrupt legislators, and a news ecosystem determined to sell as much soap for as long as possible by repeating the baseless claims about Freeman and Moss.
Two women who stood their ground. That is all it took for the guardrails to hold.
It was not easy. Their stance took courage and faith. They suffered mightily. But they persevered. They are heroes of American democracy.
There can be nothing more hopeful than their example—and their victory—to remind us of the power within each of us to maintain the guardrails of democracy. Those who sow chaos in the hope that the most depraved among us will win by brute force are wrong.
People are drawn to those who promote conscience, decency, and fealty to the rule of law—especially during times of turbulence and distress.
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss prevailed over Giuliani (and Trump) the moment they reported for work on November 3, 2020—because they joined tens of thousands of other Americans in becoming the guardrails of democracy that ensured a free and fair election.
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ivovynckier · 3 months
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So disappointed that Giuliani's name isn't on the Epstein list. Am I to believe Rudy just melted down... for nothing?
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smartasshat · 7 months
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From @IAmHappyToast on Mastadon.
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blahahala · 5 months
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Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Anniversary
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taiwantalk · 8 months
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I salute this guy. I’ll just add, that any traceable work that giuliani did or anyone similarly performed for russia is merely smokes screen to make things look like legitimate professional services.
giuliani & trump are not naive fools. they knew they have to legitimize any large payments from their clients without looking obviously like money laundering.
giuliani’s job and any other ones who charged fees from russians or russian operatives are entirely bullshit because you all know there’s nothing they can tangibly sell without going to jail. And so giuliani and others were pimping trump.
and trump in exchange can make random foreign policies or take domestic actions on the fly to give proof of work to drive more payments to the pimps.
I would guess for example that firing of comey could be one & then meet with lavrov immediately to impress upon lavrov that he, trump, had made good on the job and therefore lavrov needs to see thru the payments be laundered accordingly without delay.
another one was probably shaking down zelenskyy for dirt on biden. however, trump didn’t need any dirt on biden. the reason is that trump was already doing really well at smearing biden. what trump was doing was actually extorting zelenskyy for putin to see if zelenskyy will get the message and reciprocate.
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mooretoons · 7 months
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Mug's Game
I enjoyed the mug shots and related memes. But I’m not convinced we’ll get the judicial conclusion we want or need. I’m not saying we shouldn’t try. But the wealthy and powerful have a vested interest in protecting their class privileges. Trump, et al might be exceptions, outliers, aberrations that require correction, in the eyes of the system’s elite classes. The GOP might recognize it’s in its…
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Comunque Laura Giuliani >>> Gianluigi Donnarumma
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harvestheart · 1 year
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randyite · 8 months
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thehalfwaypost · 8 months
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Another page from Rudy Giuliani's sexual harassment trial leaked.
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Bill Bramhall | Copyright 2021 Tribune Content Agency: "The Big Lie"
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Rudy recants the Big Lie.
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
JUL 27, 2023
On Wednesday, a small measure of accountability was achieved when Rudy Giuliani retracted a heinous lie promoted to overturn the 2020 election. The truth prevailed, as it always does (over time). The retraction provides vindication and validation to those who believe in the truth. That hard-won victory was achieved because of the courage and determination of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two women who volunteered to count ballots in Georgia’s 2020 election. Their victory spotlights one of the most maddening aspects of the MAGA era: Watching politicians lie with impunity.
It is not just that MAGA politicians lie with impunity. It is the fact that they know they are lying, and they know you know they are lying. But they don’t care. The lie is the point. Once spoken, it is impossible to completely undo the damage caused by a lie. And the damage caused always exceeds the narrow point of the lie. In a culture where leading members of a major political party do not condemn lies but celebrate them, lies become a solvent that dissolves the sinew of truth that binds our nation.
Who benefits from a culture of lies? A party that believes it cannot fairly compete for control of a government grounded in principles, truth, and decency. A party that knows it has no future and nothing to lose by debasing itself in a cesspool of deceit. A party that has expelled its principled members to make way for grifters, narcissists, and criminals. The Republican Party.
In the GOP’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, Trump and his co-conspirators falsely accused two civic-minded election volunteers of being “vote scammers” who delivered “suitcases” of fraudulent votes for Biden into a Georgia election center. The lie was so transparently false that no one truly believed it. But the lie was the point.
The Georgia Secretary of State immediately disproved the lie with a careful explication of the video on which the lie was based. But the truth did not stop Trump or Rudy Giuliani from repeating the lie about Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. The lie, once uttered, took flight and gave permission to 80% of Republicans to claim that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election. And it destroyed the lives of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
They had to flee their homes, disconnect their phones, and stop using their names because of death threats. Two private citizens were repeatedly and falsely attacked—by name—by the President of the United States and his mob lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. And leading Republicans did not merely stand by in silence. They supported the baseless lie by voting against the Congressional count of electoral ballots, demanding that the ballots be returned to the states for sham “investigations” of non-existent fraud to create an excuse for overriding the will of the people.
In the GOP culture of lies, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were acceptable collateral damage, innocent victims whose lives did not matter to the Republican Party.
But Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss fought back. They sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation. They demanded that Giuliana turn over his phone so they could examine his text messages about the 2020 election to prove that Giuliani knew he was lying about Freeman and Moss.
Giuliani resisted their efforts to secure his phone, but they persisted. In desperation, Giuliani finally admitted that he lied about Freeman and Moss. He made the admission as part of a legal strategy to argue that the contents of his phone are no longer relevant to proving that he lied about Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. See CNN, Rudy Giuliani concedes he made defamatory statements about Georgia election workers.
In the stipulation, Giuliani says he “does not contest” the following:
That his statements about Freeman and Moss were “defamatory per se” [a concession that the statements were false and injured the reputation of Freeman and Moss].
That his statements about Freeman and Moss were false.
Freeman and Moss suffered damages because of Giuliani’s intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Those admissions gut the claims of Trump, Giuliani, and others that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election in Georgia. The admissions are a HUGE deal that are orders of magnitude more significant than the stories about Hunter Biden that are headlining every news source known to man. A key conspirator in the attempted coup has admitted that one of the central lies animating the coup is false.
That is big news, not merely because the truth prevailed. It is big news because, on the day the news broke, the GOP was unfazed that its “stolen election narrative” was gutted. It is big news because it demonstrates that Trump had no reasonable basis to believe his lies about Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
And it is big news because finally, for once, there is blazing clarity in exposing the falsity of the Big Lie. Those occasions are rare. But when they occur, we should catch our breath and savor the moment of truth. And thank the two women who brought us to this point: Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
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ivovynckier · 11 months
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Rudy is a hands-on guy. Subpoena actress Maria Bakalova!
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