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On October 22 2020 03:31 Shingi11 wrote:
Does anyone else think Trump is acting strange. All his rally have just been so odd. Like instead of the 2016 type rallies where he big and bombastic we are getting wining and complaining Trump. Like his last couple have been he is leaving if Biden wins and nobody likes him. Like I thought his whole thing was that he was this big alpha man.

On October 22 2020 01:23 Doodsmack wrote:


A distinction without a difference if I ever saw one. You have no reason (other than partisanship/Trump hatred) to assume that merely having a bank account in China is evidence that signs of corruption will be coming out. You're just trying to criminalize everything about Trump.

On October 22 2020 03:31 Shingi11 wrote:
Does anyone else think Trump is acting strange. All his rally have just been so odd. Like instead of the 2016 type rallies where he big and bombastic we are getting wining and complaining Trump. Like his last couple have been he is leaving if Biden wins and nobody likes him. Like I thought his whole thing was that he was this big alpha man.

On October 22 2020 03:47 iamthedave wrote:


Why are you even pretending that you'll care?

After all, it's DOJ policy that the President is above the law, so everything Trump does is going to be 'not illegal' under your schema and therefore not worth talking about.

On October 22 2020 04:31 JimmiC wrote:

Wait are we now requiring proof before we start claiming something is nefarious. I thought all that was needed was some loose facts and a bunch of presumptions?

On October 22 2020 04:17 Lmui wrote:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/aocs-twitch-streaming-debut-attracts-over-435000-among-us-viewers/

AOC is definitely reaching the younger demographic and making an impact. 400+k watching her stream rivals or exceeds a lot of esports tournaments

On October 22 2020 04:41 Doodsmack wrote:


Well you'd certainly need something beyond "he has a bank account in China."

BTW the story has still not been verified by any other outlets. And I presume you apply your "verification" standard regardless of whether the story is about trump.

A lawyer for the Trump Organization told the Times that the company had opened the account to pay local taxes related to efforts to do business in China.

The reputation of Rudy Giuliani could be set for a further blow with the release of highly embarrassing footage in Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat.

In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm review – cinema's top troll goes baiting in Trump's US

Following an obsequious interview for a fake conservative news programme, the pair retreat at her suggestion for a drink to the bedroom of a hotel suite, which is rigged with concealed cameras.

After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: “She’s 15. She’s too old for you.”

On October 22 2020 05:19 Doodsmack wrote:
Certainly a very 2020 story but id hold off on the "initiating sex" part. This from mother jones:

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1319001450597396480

On October 22 2020 04:48 Nevuk wrote:

Also, the latest Borat/Giuliani thing is uh, something. (Giuliani appears to be trying to initiate sex with a woman who he thought was 15 after she got him to agree to eat a bat with her. She was 25, but ew.).

On October 22 2020 05:29 EnDeR_ wrote:


Wait, did giuliani think the girl was 15? I did not get that from the guardian article.

It's still very creepy that a 70 something year old is hitting on someone who looks like a teenager anyway.

Posing as a conservative journalist in the mold of Tomi Lahren—albeit with a strong eastern European accent—Tutar sits down with Giuliani in a Manhattan hotel suite for an “interview” in which she mostly flatters him into creepily flirting with her. “I’ll relax you, you want me to ask you a question?” Giuliani says as she giggles in response. After blaming China for the coronavirus, he agrees to “eat a bat” with his interviewer, who repeatedly touches his knee to egg him on.

Baron Cohen first interrupts the interview dressed as a sound engineer with a large boom mic, but leaves before it’s over. At that point, Tutar offers to “have a drink in the bedroom” with Giuliani, who happily obliges.

On what appear to be hidden cameras, we see Giuliani remove her microphone and ask for her phone number and address as he sits down on the bed. He starts patting her backside as she removes the microphone from his pants. Giuliani then lies down on the bed and starts sticking his hands down his pants in a seemingly suggestive manner.

But before anything more can happen, Borat bursts into the room and shouts, “Put down your chram!”—his preferred word for penis. “She’s 15! She’s too old for you!”

The startled Giuliani, who had no reason to believe his interviewer was underage, sits up abruptly and gets out of there as fast as he can. “Rudy, Trump will be disappoint! You are leaving hotel without golden shower!” Borat yells after him.

After that, the film concludes with one more big and hilarious reveal that we won’t be spoiling here.

On October 22 2020 04:12 Doodsmack wrote:


How on earth is it nefarious to have a bank account in China?

On October 22 2020 06:03 iamthedave wrote:


I mean in general. Don't care about the bank account in China as it stands. I imagine business people have lots of bank accounts in lots of countries.