Maybe Rudy Giuliani thought all along that he could bluster his way out of defending the Big Lie and all of his machinations to smear Joe Biden and meddle with policy in Ukraine. He gave a short interview Friday and he’s still embracing his achievements of decades ago and presenting them as though they happened yesterday. There is no talk of his recent foibles, which have taken him from his identity as America’s Mayor to America’s punchline of a joke. Maybe that’s the only way he can live with himself, who knows?

This comment, though, I thought was priceless. “I am more than willing to go to jail if they want to put me in jail. And if they do, they’re going to suffer the consequences in heaven. I’m not, I didn’t do anything wrong.”

That’s to be interpreted as he’s another martyr of Trump world, I guess.

To thine own self be true is still good advice.

You don’t need to be Freud to figure out that if Rudy is this agitated over the probe that he’s plenty worried about it. And well he should be. Apparently he thought his previous good deeds rendered himself bullet proof from all his bad ones. Wrong.

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  1. With the latest on the former guy’s phone calls, Rudy is now in very deep sh1t: he was involved and there’s evidence to be found.

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  2. Rudy has gone through a stage by stage, slippage of mental acuity, he, like Trump himself, had been the holder of a degree in BS, empty language that let them speak with animation and a confident position of knowledge of audience needs … truly, the skillset of the old used car salesman, able to sell any old junk heap to the buyer, with just-right, statements of semi-truth mixed in to confuse the less than full brightness, MAGA crowd …

    Although, Rudy started with a lead over Trump’s lack of reality, a few years ago, and actually knew some stuff, as a Mayor, that could keep his inflated importance in office, his current position of the deflated hot-air balloon, shows that his personal hell is fomenting and could lead to a total mental collapse …

    Everyone and everything that is touched by Trump falls apart …

  3. What in the name of all that’s holy is Rudy even trying to say there?

    Part of the concept of Heaven is that THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES. You done good and you’re being rewarded for all your good behavior and good deeds.

    Of course, Giuliani’s one of those Catholics who obviously believes he can lie and cheat and steal his ass off while he’s alive and then, on his deathbed, just make a confession that he’s sorry and repents for all his evil actions and he’s going to get absolved of all his sins and will go straight to Heaven. (That’s one of the biggest arguments about why Catholicism is so bogus–that you get to Heaven no matter how much evil you do on Earth with little more than an “I’m sowwy.” Apologies to any Catholics who were offended but please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong about the issue.) But I don’t really understand why he thinks his opponents will get to Heaven if they’re as “evil” as he thinks they are. I mean, if any of them are as Catholic as he is and they get to Heaven in the same (only) way that Rudy will, then there won’t be any “consequences” for anyone. The act of forgiveness means just that: There’s no retribution, no condemnation, no retaliation. All of that comes from NOT being forgiven (or, more accurately, absolved) and not being forgiven/absolved generally leads to a one-way ticket to the “other place” (at least, if you’re a Christian and maybe a Muslim; Jews don’t believe in that “other place” and some other faiths simply believe you come back to Earth in a different–generally, lesser–form as a “punishment”).

    • Actually a confession, even a deathbed one isn’t valid (nor is the absolution) unless it is really contrite. A ‘fingers crossed, hope for the best but in my heart I’m not really sorry’ just doesn’t cut it when you try to use it as a gate pass.

    • Actually no, the doctrine of heaven supposedly comes from the Bible. What the bible emphatically says is that you cannot earn your way to heaven. It is a gift of grace for all who will accept it. The bible also says that your good deeds are your grateful response to the gift of grace.

      Anybody, whether Catholic or Protestant, who thinks that a deathbed confession is a ticket to heaven believes a heresy. As the Apostle Paul began his explanation of the doctrine in his letter to the church at Rome, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”

        • I’m terribly sorry, but I downvoted you accidentally while scrolling on my phone. If somebody could tell me how you rescind a downvote, I’d be happy to do it. I keep poking the icon & it’s not getting me anywhere. Truly sorry about this.

          • On the other hand, he didn’t really add anything to the discussion. The comment suffers from an evidently too broad a brush. Christians who do not understand how grace works are not really christians because the whole foundation of Christianity is supposed to be god’s gift of grace and the implications of accepting that gift. A person cannot call themselves a christian if they have a faulty understanding of that foundation. Jesus said the road is narrow and very few find. The logical and mathematical conclusion is that most people who call themselves christian are not christian. There simply is not enough room on that narrow road for the hoards that call themselves christians. Like all their other backward ideas, they only think they are on the narrow road, but they are on the wide road. So no wonder they get so much wrong.

        • Not much TO add to the discussion when it comes to Christianity. I was raised around the Southern Baptist/Church of God variety. All I ever saw “grace” used for was pushing people around and/or using it as an excuse to justify hating people. I’ve met far too few genuine Christians who seemed to get the actual message. Far as I’m concerned, not enough to either turn around what’s become of the public face of tye faith or change my mind.

          • Fair enough. The problem is very old. the Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Rome, “You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? As it is written: “ God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.” Of course he was addressing Jewish Christians so the comment is framed in Jewish terms. To give the same comment a Christian frame. “You who boast about being Christians, do you dishonor God by behaving in unchristlike ways. As it is written [in the Old Testament, the Scripture of Paul’s day]: “ God’s name is blasphemed among nonnchristians because of you.” Your Christianity has value if you walk the talk, but if you do not, your Christianity has become null and void.

    • We Jews do believe in the next world and having a share in it. There really is no other reason for our Yom Kippur (beside making up for the golden calf incident), choosing good over evil, performing mitzvah, etc. I suppose all societies develop something of this sort though…point is observant Jews believe in a “hereafter”.

  4. This just begs to be said. Of course Rudy you wont be suffering the consequences of this like those prosecuters will be, you’ll be suffering the consequences elsewhere, \and where might that be?

  5. First, never write off a faith based on followers’ misguided concepts, beliefs, behavior, etc. Religious ideas & faiths are the oldest attempts to explain the unexplainable. Get it straight, the Bible from the 1st page to the last represents thousands of years of individuals’ attempts to record their experiences, ideas, explanations, predictions, & so on. It’s just as simplistic to abandon a complex mystery as a faith or religious text, as it is to think u are an expert, especially after it’s shown there’s no such thing as anyone who knows everything about anything, no matter the field of human endeavor. Rudy just represents how money & power intoxicates & errodes morality. Jesus preached against it constantly.

    • If your religious institution is full of this many bullies over this many centuries, then it stops looking like a few bad apples and more like an institutional problem. Better to just probe the damn mysteries yourself, I say, and the hell with the road markers everyone else put up. Anyone raised around the Southern Baptists I did that started thinking for themselves can’t really conclude anything else.

  6. Colludy’s already on THE LIST. Pre-approved to be torn asunder by the ugliest, angriest demons on his way to his own personal hell, made to suffer over and over the consequences of the greatest fears in his mind’s personal belief system in an endless loop. There’s already no getting out of it, it’s written in stone. Man is Giuliani going to be in for a rude shock of an awakening if he truly believes otherwise! Somehow I think not. His words are just his way of attempting to convince himself otherwise, when deep down inside he knows he’ll not be going anywhere he desires after he passes.

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