Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-mayor of New York City and a former adviser to Donald Trump, is in critical but stable condition at a hospital, his spokesman said Sunday.
Spokesman Ted Goodman didn’t say what sent the 81-year-old to the hospital or how long he’s been there.
Giuliani was dubbed “America’s mayor” in light of his leadership in New York after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
He later became Trump’s personal attorney for a time and a vocal proponent of Trump’s allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, won by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits claiming fraud, and numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error.
At a certain point existence because torture…
Like 81 is old, but it’s really fucking old for an alcoholic. His brain is mush and his life is filled with confusion, fear, and resulting anger lashing out at anyone who is forced to be around him.
Any brief moments of lucidity is even worse because while you can’t remember everything, you know the lucidity is a fleeting grasp and any one could be your last. It instills an existential type of horror I can’t even begin to think I understand.
So yeah, I hope he recovers and keeps living. I like the idea of 91 year old Rudy on some sort of house arrest or elderly prisoner facility.
You’re not wrong, I’ve watched my mother die from alcoholism and would’ve ended up there too had I not finally dried out a year beforehand. If anyone should go through it, it would be him.
But im a Buddhist and I think the calculus for a minimum of suffering for him and the rest of us would be for him to just… move on, you know?
Stupid moral compass getting in the way of my thirst for justice…
You’re thinking of him getting rich people care…
Whatever money he has left won’t last much longer.
I’m not Buddhist, but I know a good amount about religion.
So genuinely asking:
Isn’t even decades more of the worst suffering absolutely nothing on a cosmic scale and could only give his soul time to improve?
Like, that would literally be the purpose of his cycle, to realize behavior so far doesn’t equal a reward. A death may be merciful for this incarnation, but long term what’s merciful is to give him as much time as possible to try and reach enlightenment, I don’t think you can just “write off” a cycle. It’s not the same as being ok with you’re own death because you’re enlightened
Yes that would be correct, I was being flippant. Continued life would be ideal for him (although he is in no way on the Path), but his existence has directly increased suffering for those affected by him.
I was trying to say it would be more merciful to the rest of us. Im not a very good Buddhist.