Rudy Giuliani: Young people struggling economically are “privileged little shits” who need “somebody like my father to kick the shit out of them”Recalling the Great Depression, one Bluesky poster responded:
TED GOODMAN (PRODUCER): Look, some folks in this country of the younger generations are feeling the squeeze a little bit economically.
RUDY GIULIANI (HOST): Well who cares if they’re squeezing? Their grandparents felt the Depression and were pro-American.
GOODMAN: Yep, right.
GIULIANI: They don’t have anything like the Depression. They’re a bunch of privileged little shits.
GOODMAN: You’re right.
GIULIANI: What they really need is somebody like my father to kick the shit out of them.
I think I heard something about some sort of deal that put people to work on, like, public works or something. I don't know. Maybe I dreamed it.In the clip, Giuliani goes on to speculate about the parents of disgruntled young people: "A lot of the parents of these kids, they’re a bunch of ex-hippies, they were smoking their marijuana and these assholes are smoking even stronger marijuana."
He doesn't go into detail about his own father. I think I know why.
ABC News reported this in 2000:
... a new book now claims that Giuliani’s father served time for armed robbery and had ties to organized crime.More, from The Washington Post:
The book, Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, by Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett, contains a string of claims about Gotham’s controversial mayor and his family.
According to Barrett, Harold Giuliani served a one-and-a-half year term in Sing Sing prison after robbing a milkman at gunpoint in 1934, a decade before his son, the mayor-to-be, was born.
Rudy also alleges that Harold Giuliani served as the “muscle” for a loan-sharking outfit....
It seems that the mayor's dad, Harold Giuliani, was a 5-foot-11, big-knuckled man who wore Coke-bottle glasses and made a living as "muscle." Which, in Brooklyn at that time, meant working as a debt collector for a loan-sharking operation. He swung a mean baseball bat and was a most skilled craftsman.The New Yorker added:
According to the book, Harold Giuliani "shoved people against walls, broke legs, smashed kneecaps, crunched noses. He gave nearby Kings County Hospital a lot of business. 'People in the neighborhood were terrified of him,' said a frequent customer at Vincents," the Giuliani bar.
Giuliani's father enjoyed signing his love letters to his future wife "Your Savage."
During his mayoralty, Giuliani often invoked his father. He liked to say that he had adapted his principles for running the city from the formula his father used for running the family: it is better to be respected than loved. When, in April, the Mayor was diagnosed with prostate cancer, the same disease that killed Harold Giuliani, in 1981, he said, “I miss my father every day of my life. And he’s a very, very important reason for why I am standing here as the mayor of New York City”Harold Giuliani tried to go legit.
It is unclear whether the Mayor himself was aware of his father’s robbery conviction. He was not born until ten years after the crime, but he grew up among many people who must have known about it, including his mother, née Helen D’Avanzo, who had been dating Harold for several years at the time of the robbery....
He took a job as a groundskeeper at a Long Island high school but lost it because of absenteeism and drifted back to his post at the bar. His travails included ulcers, heart trouble, and some sort of nervous breakdown. All in all, he comes across in Barrett’s account as an irascible and pathetic figure, who, one presumes, would have been at least as hard for a son to respect as to love.For instance:
Rather than risk having to serve in the Second World War, Harold Giuliani appears to have tipped off the local draft board to his own arrest record.This is Rudy Giuliani's main role model. This is the kind of father he thinks today's young people needed.
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