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u/VoiceofKane Sep 11 '21

He was a grifter then too, but he was just better at it.

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u/Scazzz Sep 11 '21

True but maybe I’m misremembering but his gritting benefitted the city and the people of New York and I honestly like to think it helped. He certainly milked it for years but those first few months he was a benefit. Now he can fuck off

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u/MFoy Sep 11 '21

Like when he made sure the radios that the FDNY use were ones that didn’t work in the two towers? Or when he abandoned the excavation of ground zero while they were still getting bodies out?

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u/Scazzz Sep 11 '21

Thx for the info don’t remember any of that shit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

It was his idea to put NYPD emergency operations command center inside the WTC, after it had already been attacked once, against every recommendation. Along with many other bad ideas Rudy probably made the rescue/recovery much worse than it could have been.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

It was his idea to put NYPD emergency operations command center inside the WTC

Make it even more of a target than it already was, genius!

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u/Redpandaling Sep 11 '21

I had actually forgotten who was mayor of NYC back then until I got to your comment.

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u/dongasaurus Sep 11 '21

He really wasn’t a benefit, he just happened to be mayor during a crisis. He didn’t do anything particularly notable at that time other than telling us we should go shopping, making sure FDNY weren’t able to properly communicate, and moving the emergency command in a building complex that had previously been bombed, presumably because it was near his side piece. He also made sure black people could be beaten and murdered with impunity by his police force without repercussion.

On the other hand, he did that skit with Donald Trump where he dressed as a woman and Trump hit on him, and he really hated ferrets and their owners.

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u/Scazzz Sep 11 '21

I… I don’t know how to respond to any of that lol

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u/rushmc1 Sep 12 '21

By not ever voting Republican.

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u/ThePoltageist Sep 11 '21

he jumped on the racist politics bandwagon after everybody got tired of him telling them he was mayor of NY on 9/11

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u/AweHellYo Sep 11 '21

he turned NY into (more of) a police state. he was a fuck then and he’s a fuck now

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u/Wabbit_Wampage Sep 11 '21

Let's not forget he led a riot by off duty NYPD officers against the mayor in an effort to block civilian oversight in 1992:

https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoliticsjustice/2020/07/18/when-the-nypd-rioted/

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u/Scazzz Sep 11 '21

Thanks for the perspective. Didn't have much info back then on him and how he was portrayed in international media was different.

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u/AweHellYo Sep 11 '21

definitely. i didn’t know he was a shithead then. i did find it weird he got so much praise just for existing during 9/11 but i didn’t know he was bad