Rudy Giuliani is a stupid, stupid man. Also, he is an egregious liar.

Via Seth Abramson.

As plenty of others in Mr. Abramson's Twitter replies have pointed out, if Rudy already has all this "real" dirt on Biden in his safe like he claims to have, why did he need to try to get Ukraine to manufacture fake dirt against Biden on Trump's behalf?

And as Mr. Abramson says himself, why would something that is supposedly helpful to Trump, such as dirt on Biden, be an effective "insurance policy" against Trump if Trump were to throw him "under the bus"? You'd think that would make Trump want to "disappear" Giuliani all the quicker, right?

Remember when, for a brief time after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani was a respected public figure? Yeah... I barely recall that now. And even back then, he was apparently just as big of a crook and a liar as he is now, it was just that far fewer people knew of it.

Seth Abramson: Dismantling Trump's potential defense before he can make it.

This is one of the Seth Abramson's longer and more important threads of late.

Thread Reader version (though there's still something wonky with the Thread Reader site lately).

The gist: Trump and his defense team are going to try to fling a whole lot of utter horseshit against the wall and hope that just enough of it sticks (and it won't take much at all, given that the Trumpublican-controlled Senate is already highly favorable to Trump), and in doing so, they're going to dig up some old, ostensibly legitimate dirt related to the Democrats from back in 2016 and try to fraudulently conflate that with Trump's own dumbfuck conspiracy theories.

And, yet, despite Seth Abramson's efforts to pre-debunk it all here (which I fully agree with), it's still probably going to be enough to get Trump off the hook. Like I said, his fellow criminals and lickspittles and potential Putin-blackmailees in the Trumpublican-controlled Senate are already predisposed to acquit him, even if Trump were to come in using absolutely nothing but the Bart Simpson defense or the Chewbacca defense. If Trump comes to them with anything even just a smidgen more believable than that, they're going to pounce on it like a cat on a catnip toy. The Trumpublican Senate is going to acquit Trump, that is just all there is to it. Doesn't matter how blatantly obvious it is that Trump is guilty as shit. He is going to be acquitted. That is the sad, disgusting, frustrating, enraging reality of the situation, and there's basically nothing that the rest of us can do about it, except to vote all of the complicit Trumpanzee assholes out of office as soon as possible. (And good luck getting that to actually happen. I've voted against Richard Burr and Thom Tillis every opportunity I've had to do so, and yet, there they are, in the Senate, fucking everything up.)

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Here are a couple of followup threads. (EDIT 3) And a third I didn't see initially. (/EDIT 3)

The above is a big part of why Trump continues getting away with all of his dogshit. The Left is too busy sniping and backbiting at each other over petty, stupid shit and getting their jimmies rustled to offer a coordinated front against Trump.

I hope Mr. Abramson takes up Ms. Chalupa's offer to talk about this directly, so that if he did get something wrong, he can correct it and apologize for it. And if he didn't get anything wrong, which seems consistent with what was said in the CNN article he posted containing direct quotes from Alexandra Chalpua herself, then well... I don't know what her or her sister are on about, honestly.

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However, Abramson's entire point was that if things she is directly quoted as saying in publicly available interviews are there for him to access, they're there for Trump's defense team to access as well (which, as stated in Abramson's original thread [which all the Chalupa-defenders currently dogpiling on Abramson obviously have not actually read], Team Trump is already doing that). It doesn't matter a single flying fuck what sort of "understanding" or "clearing the air" Abramson and Chalupa may come to (or not) behind closed doors speaking to each other privately, if that ever even happens, because Trump's team is already taking her already publicly available quotes and are planning to twist them all out of context and inappropriately apply them to Trump's defense. And Abramson's point is that even if Chalupa thinks she is 100% in the clear and goes into any potential testimony believing that this alone makes her somehow impregnable, she's going to be in for a huge shock when Team Trump (and Team Trump's allies in the Senate) drags her through the mud all over again, if she's not prepared to effectively shut them down. But they (i.e. Chalupa's sister Andrea and whoever this Sarah Kendzior is) just seem to be mostly interested in nothing but calling Abramson a liar and sending Twitter attack dogs after him. I mean, it seems to me like they should be on the same team here, but they're currently at each others throats, which is utterly fucking asinine.

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In any case, one way or the other, the bottom line is that Donald Trump and his defense are still going to use that shit in his "defense," whether it's 100% false or only 98% false (and the less false it is, the better for Trump it is, even if it has fuck all to do with Trump [I mean, you know, outside of Trump's connection to Paul Manafort, since Trump and Manafort were secretly doing crimes together at the time]), so everyone who is opposed to Trump had goddamn well better get their ducks in a fucking row and be prepared to handle it.

(EDIT 2) And shit like the above is why I utterly hate Twitter with the passion of a million suns, because Twitter is where bullshit crosstalk and people talking at each other rather than with each other like that thrives best. If Twitter headquarters and all of its servers and codebase exploded right now, I would not shed a single tear. Everyone who "relies" on Twitter would find other, hopefully better means to communicate. (/EDIT 2)

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"What Game or Game Genre Would You Eliminate?"

"What Game or Game Genre Would You Eliminate?" (Watch on YouTube)

"If you could, what game or video game genre would you eliminate?"

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They took this topic in an unexpected direction, but I still liked their discussion.

That said, I'm not sure if I'd call it a "genre" as such, but what I would absolutely eliminate without the slightest hesitation from the video game industry space-time continuum would be any and every game that has ever used and will ever use the Facebook/mobile style of freemium bullshit timers, pay2win, and in-game microtransaction stores. This transcends mere genre, though, as that dogshit has started to infect everything, from myriad genres.

Oh, and I'd eliminate the entire battle royale genre, just to erase Fortnite and, as a result and more importantly, erase the Epic Games Store, because the Epic Games Store is an insidious lesion across the genitals of the video game industry. I'd have been perfectly fine with Fortnite, albeit completely apathetic about it, if only it hadn't contributed to the creation of the goddamned Epic Games Store, though.