You'll need brain bleach after this

All you have to do to know what Trump et al. are doing is to listen to what they accuse others of doing. Every. Damn. Time.

For the bulk of his career, [Sacha Baron] Cohen’s preoccupation has been using his elaborate personas—Ali G, Bruno, and of course, Borat Sagdiyev, the star of catchphrase-spawning Borat and its sequel debuting Friday on Amazon Prime, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm—to catch the wild American in their natural habitat, subjecting them to absurdity and catching their response on camera.

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In most ways, the sequel follows the path of the original: Borat, misogynist boor, inflicts himself on the unsuspecting, goading them into admitting their own racism, sexism, or sheer stupidity. [...] But this time, Borat has a companion: his daughter Tutar (Maria Bakalova), a feral 15-year-old whose chief desire is to acquire a glorious “wife cage” like her idol, “Queen Melania.” Bakalova has the same nerves of steel as Cohen, seemingly incapable of embarrassment or shame. Together the duo attempt to find Pence and/or other members of the Trump administration, even as the coronavirus pandemic begins to sweep across America.

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It’s that 2020 so rapidly outpaced its jokes. [...] [Y]ou can almost feel the bits and gags left on the table as the production scrambled to reorient the film around the pandemic. They do a good job tying up the loose ends of the narrative to make the story work, but it’s only at the very end that Borat discovers QAnon and interfaces with anti-maskers, who exceed expectations for the depraved sentiments you might expect them to espouse.

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But as the world gets dumber and dumber, there seems to be a greater need for Cohen’s sneaky way of finding the funny—which has itself gotten more pointedly political over the last few years. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is his first project after the Showtime docuseries Who Is America?, where his team managed to get former vice president Dick Cheney to autograph a “waterboarding kit.”

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The most outrageous moment in the film is a clip already released in advance of premiere, in which Tutar accidentally ingests the plastic baby on top of a cupcake—then takes her woes to the Carolina Pregnancy Center, where a pastor named Jonathan Bright counsels that the baby is “living and breathing” inside her. Cohen intervenes, saying that he is her father, and he’s the one that put the baby there—oh, you see the excruciating place this is going. Later the pair go to a debutante ball, where one of the other fathers says Tutar is easily worth $500, and to a plastic surgeon, where they request that Tutar get augmentation to make her worthy of a “sex attack.” Together they are a cunningly well-laid trap for the worst sort of sexualized paternalism, and repeatedly, they find creeps ready to take the bait.

This comes to an astonishing head in the final escapade of the film. [...] Tutar sets up an interview with Rudy Giuliani. She meets the former mayor of New York and current adviser to the president in a hotel room, where he holds her hands, compliments her appearance, and follows her to the bedroom. She spends some time elaborately taking off their microphones; briefly, he lies down on the bed. His hand is in his pants. Watching it, your brain turns into an exclamation point. They are strategically interrupted before more transpires, but you cannot help wondering exactly what Giuliani may have done next. (Shortly after the event, which took place in July, Giuliani called the cops on Cohen.)

  Vanity Fair

This movie is coming out Friday. Which may be why Rudy went to the Post with his laptop photos of Hunter Biden in a rush. 

In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist.

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After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: “She’s 15. She’s too old for you.”

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Word of the incident first emerged on 7 July, when Giuliani called New York police to report the intrusion of an unusually-dressed man.

“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Giuliani told the New York Post. “It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.

“This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shakedown, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away,” Giuliani said. The police found no crime had been committed.

  Guardian

LOL

Giuliani continued: “I only later realised it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.”

I'm dying.

Even before he reaches into his trousers, Giuliani does not appear to acquit himself especially impressively during the encounter. Flattered and flirtatious, he drinks scotch, coughs, fails to socially distance and claims Trump’s speedy actions in the spring saved a million Americans from dying of Covid. He also agrees – in theory at least – to eat a bat with his interviewer.

Dear god.

Although unfortunate, the circumstances of the setup appear consensual, with Giuliani led to believe he was being courted. Bakalova, 24, is highly plausible in the sting, despite also having to pretend, for the benefit of viewers, to be a feral child posing as a far-right journalist.

But they didn't "get" Rudy.

LOLOLOLOLOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zDqzGbb2yQ

Jeffrey Toobin is counting his lucky star.  (Not a typo.)

UPDATE:

Speaking to WABC radio that same month, Giuliani admitted that Baron Cohen was trying to capture him in a “compromising” situation. But when he was asked if he did anything that he might be “regretful” about, he replied, “I don’t think so, I’m trying to remember.”

  The Daily Beast

LOLOLOLOLOL

What number of divorce is coming up for Rudy?

UPDATE:

Sure, Rudy, everybody lies down on the bed to tuck in their shirt. I've seen women lie down to zip up tight jeans, but his pants look pretty loose.

Dumps is right.

Rudy is a laughingstock.  He needs an intervention.