Rudy Giuliani is an asshole
Feb. 19th, 2015 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreEx-NYC Mayor and alleged human being Rudy Giuliani went on Sean Hannity's radio show and said "President Obama Didn't Live Through September 11, I Did"
Fuck him. I was living in San Francisco and spent that morning holding my sobbing, New York City native, roommate. She had a partner who worked for BofA in the towers. He made it to the Plaza before the North Tower collapsed.
9/11 was all of us. Nobody can forget where they were when they heard the news, nobody can forget the feeling as we watched the towers fall, nobody can forget the fear of not knowing what was happening. I'm a stroke survivor with memory issues. But I will never forget my roommate bursting into my room in tears (I had just gotten home from a graveyard shift.) I will never forget my disbelief when the first tower fell. I will never forget the look on everyone's face in the next few days. The entire world stopped in shock.
I remember in the days following the attack, newspapers and leaders around the world announced "Today, we are all Americans." I remember the outpouring of support, the aid coming in, Turkish search dogs, Canadians taking people on diverted flights into their homes. I remember the thousands of pictures on walls. The dying hope as days wore on. So fuck you, Rudy. This was an American tragedy, and a world tragedy.
A few years after the attack I was honored to be invited to the marriage of a friend who had lost her husband in the attack. She graciously let me use her home as a base as I explored NYC. I found myself at Ground Zero. There I found the name of her husband, the man who had been my roommate's partner. A man who, had we met, would have probably been a great friend. I stood there in broad daylight and cried, like I'm crying now. So how dare you try to claim that anyone alive on September 11, 2001, didn't "live through it." We may not have been there, but it touched everyone. No one was immune.
Fuck you, Rudy. I'm an atheist, but I wish that when you die you get judged by everyone who died in New York City that day. Explain to them how you turned their deaths into a political joke.
Fuck, and I'd been having a good day up until now.
http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html
Fuck him. I was living in San Francisco and spent that morning holding my sobbing, New York City native, roommate. She had a partner who worked for BofA in the towers. He made it to the Plaza before the North Tower collapsed.
9/11 was all of us. Nobody can forget where they were when they heard the news, nobody can forget the feeling as we watched the towers fall, nobody can forget the fear of not knowing what was happening. I'm a stroke survivor with memory issues. But I will never forget my roommate bursting into my room in tears (I had just gotten home from a graveyard shift.) I will never forget my disbelief when the first tower fell. I will never forget the look on everyone's face in the next few days. The entire world stopped in shock.
I remember in the days following the attack, newspapers and leaders around the world announced "Today, we are all Americans." I remember the outpouring of support, the aid coming in, Turkish search dogs, Canadians taking people on diverted flights into their homes. I remember the thousands of pictures on walls. The dying hope as days wore on. So fuck you, Rudy. This was an American tragedy, and a world tragedy.
A few years after the attack I was honored to be invited to the marriage of a friend who had lost her husband in the attack. She graciously let me use her home as a base as I explored NYC. I found myself at Ground Zero. There I found the name of her husband, the man who had been my roommate's partner. A man who, had we met, would have probably been a great friend. I stood there in broad daylight and cried, like I'm crying now. So how dare you try to claim that anyone alive on September 11, 2001, didn't "live through it." We may not have been there, but it touched everyone. No one was immune.
Fuck you, Rudy. I'm an atheist, but I wish that when you die you get judged by everyone who died in New York City that day. Explain to them how you turned their deaths into a political joke.
Fuck, and I'd been having a good day up until now.
http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html
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Date: 20 Feb 2015 12:52 (UTC)My only reservation here -
Date: 20 Feb 2015 22:06 (UTC)