Imagine that. A pro-abort Catholic governor treats women like pieces of meat. Go figure. One of the most obnoxious figures in American politics is pushed off the political stage. That he is the son of Saint Mario the Pious, patron saint of all personally opposed Catholic pro-aborts, adds icing on the cake. Granny killer and baby killer, Cuomo is the end product of the politics of spilling innocent blood.
I’m glad to see him gone, but I’m not going to kid myself that this necessary act of excretion happened because our political ‘betters’ have a sense of shame. Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, et. al. are proof of that. I’m guessing the long knives came out for Cuomo because his political career posed a threat to others within his party. He could have been a major inconvenience to Kamala when she runs for president, for example. However, I’m sure his party will make sure he’s taken care of, as long as he stays bought.
So even though this didn’t happen because our political elites are accountable, at least that horrible man is out of power. And that’s a win for all of us.
If ever there was a reason to light up the WTC in pink NOW is the time!
[A true victory for women v. a disgraceful abortion law.]
I’m glad the boar is toast.
How quickly and hard they fall. His evil brother, Fredo, is next.
Clinton:
Kamala is an inconvenience for Kamala when (if?) she runs for president. Bad temper, adolescent persona, not smart and few accomplishments. Even liberal Californians didn’t like her, except that she fit the diversity suit and TRUMP!
We are against Lots if snakes or one snake with many heads – nested everywhere – at the Church, in the Statehouse-in hospital conglomerates, schools, everywhere –
Lots of litle potentates in charge of their little domains.
So the stepping aside of one governor is only part if the fight
Say a 16 yo healthy boy wants to visit grandpa in nursing home And he has been visiting – until yesterday- but now…. Other people can visit but grandpa is told boy can’t come cause he is not vaxxed. Grandpa watches tv at nursing home; “why doesn’t boy come?” encourages boy to get vax.
He does
Even if school doesn’t require masking but leaves it to family discretion, peer pressure can require masks if people are misinformed
Forcing masking and forcing getting the vaccine can be accomplished not by law but but emotional pressure
The knives were out for the Emmy award winner, for making:
– Creepy Joe Biden look great, in asking for his resignation.
– The “D” AG of NY can now run for gov. No “R” contender here.
– Kamala has no real competition for a future run for President.
– The D murder of 10’s of thousands of seniors now essentially down the media black hole.
– General “D” virtue signaling be heralded, when his behavior had been known for decades.
Is there any D downside? NO.
Tom, I agree that Kamala is a hard sell to most voters, but then Hillary also had a checkered past, an unlikable persona and few accomplishments to point to. But like Hillary, Kamala is backed by powerful people in DC. I suspect it’s precisely because without her puppet masters she’d be nothing, and she knows how to be useful to the real powers in DC.
My take is that Cuomo was perceived as a threat to a Kamala nomination in ‘24, and that’s why these accusations were allowed to derail his career. Kamala might have the viciousness to approve of his ouster, but nowhere near the pull to make it happen. But the bigger fish behind this fraudulent administration? Oh yes, they certainly have both the ruthlessness and the power to topple a Governor that could inconvenience their continued control of the White House.
He’s an awful man. One thing you have to remember is that the only non-awful man to have occupied a statewide elected office in New York since 1990 was David Patterson, who was there by accident. He elected to retire for a menu of reasons, in part because he had an approval rating of 17%. Being non-awful offends over 80% of the public in New York. New York’s residents are suffering under the weight of their own stupidites and self-deceptions, and they haven’t a clue.
The state is now stuck with Kathy Hochul for a year and change. Presumably the sachems who have persuaded Andrew Cuomo to leave town will also tell her to take Patterson’s path in favor of someone they actually want. Hochul is free of personal scandals. She’s a common type among Democratic pols these days. She quit practicing law about 35 years ago and landed a job as a legislative aide, after which she held a series of elective positions in Erie County (and proved to be not the best of administrators). Her expressed viewpoints are absolutely standard-issue except for an antagonism to big box retailers.
Jack Posobiec as an observation worth considering
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1363846731952238595
The Spanish language has a word for such homo sapiens garbage, “sinverguenza” = literally, shameless. It means much more to a Latin than to the typical honor/integrity-challenged American doofus.
His NY governor/father Mario (RIP) was a less bad man and was roundly criticized by NYC talk radio personality, Bob Grant, in his day.
“Well, he’s done a hell of a job. He’s done a hell of a job. And I mean, both on — everything from access to voting to infrastructure to a whole range of things. That’s why it’s so sad,” Biden said.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/10/cuomo-did-hell-of-a-job-as-gov-biden-says-after-resignation/
Let this be a lesson to those considering working with the left to avoid the firing line. Once you are no longer useful, no matter how much you’ve helped them or how much they’ve praised you in the past, you’re done.
Not that I’m sorry to see Cuomo go, but in a just world he would have been on the street years ago. He’s only out now because his usefulness expired.
With that being said, it’s not entirely clear why he is no longer useful. All that we can be certain about is that it is not the allegations of abuse; both Bill Clinton and Joe Biden have been accused of worse for years and it was hardly a bump in their careers. The allegations only matter because the media decided to play them up recently, when they did not during the year before. So it raises the question: why use this against Cuomo now?
Some possibilities:
-His treatment of nursing home patients w.r.t. COVID is orders of magnitude worse than we imagined. The powers that know that the information is going to break and cause people to question the morality of lockdowns. But if Cuomo is out of office they can dismiss it as old news.
-Since this happened after the vaccine mandate and vaccine pass in New York, maybe it has to do with that. Not that I think the establishment has a problem with these things in theory, but it might have been a timing issue where they were supposed to roll these things out all at the same time and in a way that made it impossible to resist effectively. By doing it now it shows too much of their hand. Alternatively, they know that the measures are unpopular and are hoping to appease the public by sacrificing Cuomo, while slyly keeping his measures in place.
-There could be something they wanted to happen that was too abhorrent even for Cuomo to consider. This will be the easiest to judge, because if so his replacement will hit the ground running.
-Maybe it is some type of back door thing. The big man didn’t get his cut or he insulted Hilary, but not enough to get Arkancided.
And NYS voters will vote for another Eliot Spitzer, another Andy Cuomo. Ultimately, the voters are to blame.
Not this voter. Unfortunately the downstate democrats effectively run NYS politics. Upstate NY doesn’t count.
@T Shaw:
Sinverguenza comes from the Latin “sine verecundia” meaning “without shame, respect, modesty.” It denotes the concept knowing and seeing one’s place in life, having humility, and is regarded as a virtue. It is the noun form of the verb “vereor, vereri, veritus sum” meaning: “revere, respect; fear; dread.” I did some additional research on vereor and discovered that it derives from Proto-Italic *werēōr, which is from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, heed, notice”). It is cognate with Ancient Greek ὁράω (horáō, “see”) < ϝοράω (woráō), and English aware and wary, and this gives a unique perspective on the Spanish word’s meaning: sinverguenza.
Therefore, you are correct: sadly we Americans currently lack this concept, hence we elect Governors like Eliot Spitzer and Andy Cuomo. We have zero awareness, zero humility.
“You get the government you deserve – good and hard.” H. L. Mencken
In the late 1990’s, Cuomo contributed to the subprime crisis/great recession in his role as HUD Secretary under Clinton.
Eliot Spitter used his NYS AG office to gain a rep and ‘kick a$$ and take names.’
I worked with two NY banks that then-AG Spitter judiciously raked over the coals. His office imposed on both banks [unjust] six and seven figure civil money penalties. Both banks submitted [‘stipulated to’ is the legalese] to pay the fines to avoid scandalous court circuses – I thought they would have prevailed – the infractions arguably were inadvertent and there was no proof of intentional wrong-doing or criminal acts] for technical, not-material civil violations of anti-money. I had to assist [it was four weeks after 9/11/2001] at a meeting with both sides’ lawyers. When the bank’s lawyers asked how the state came up with the $$$ numbers for the penalties, the state AG and NYS banking Dept. personnel could not give a reasonable answer. It was apparent the bank’s lawyers were instructed not to ‘resist.’
Footnote. Spitter’s criminal investigators supposedly were working up charges on one branch manager; which never happened.
Spitter’s prostitute mindset worked out on several levels.
“Spitter’s prostitute mindset worked out on several levels.”
How appropriate the Spitter – Spitzer change.
Unlike Cuomo, at least he paid the women from whom he received sexual favors. But yes, a whore monger in one thing, a whore monger in all things. Signed, a former submarine sailor alcoholic whore monger daily saved from my worst nature by God’s grace.
These politicians are loathsome & disgusting because they ARE sine verecundia. As you said, T. Shaw, the English is inadequate.
I think it was Richard Lee: “Politics is the science of fraud.”
I tried to google it to verify Lee said it. But, your elites’ slanted search engine ran over to science and China virus.
The truth is out there. It’s just not on google.
Not this voter. Unfortunately the downstate democrats effectively run NYS politics. Upstate NY doesn’t count.
New York, like Illinois, is properly reconstituted as a confederation. Upstate and Downstate are just too different. (Upstate voters have their own brand of systematic foolishness, especially around Rochester).
Not just Rochester, but Buffalo, Syracuse / Liverpool, and Albany too. Especially Albany.
I hope Art that someday Illinois and New York will be divided into two states. The city rule over urban areas is going to end sooner or later.
You’re on to something, Rudolph Harrier. I have said from the beginning that the fact that these women were ALLOWED by the democrat party in NY and their media allies to come forward was meant to distract from Cuomo’s murdering thousands of seniors. This AFTER he was the media’s (including some conservative media–I’m looking at you Peggy Noonan) hero-darling-Jesus figure last year at the beginning of covid.
“In my mind, I have never crossed the line with anyone,” he said. “But I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn.”
Ummm…groping a female that isn’t your wife is a pretty known line by most people who know the difference. Most people except him.
The city rule over urban areas is going to end sooner or later.
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The problem is you have a permanent majority where one part is the tributary of the other. Ohio, which is multi-focal and has strata of 2d, 3d, and 4th tier cities and no class of settlement or single center dominates strikes me as a more salutary assemblage. Texas and Florida, while regrettably behemothic, are also multi-focal. Even Michigan is better, as the urban blob at the core has 40% of the state’s population and not 65%.
“In my mind, I have never crossed the line with anyone,” he said. “But I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn.”
He was admitted to the bar in 1983. His father, who as late as 1974 had been a rank-and-file lawyer in Queens, was inaugurated as governor that year. I’m going to wager that his sense of where the ‘line was drawn’ was not that of an ordinary office employee, but of an aggressive and unscrupulous scion of a New York influential. Droite de Seigneur and all that.
The city rule over urban areas is going to end sooner or later.
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This is as a result of the US Supreme Court meddling with the apportionment of state legislatures in the Sixties. Ev Dirksen of Illinois called it:
[T]he forces of our national life are not brought to bear on public questions solely in proportion to the weight of numbers. If they were, the 6 million citizens of the Chicago area would hold sway in the Illinois Legislature without consideration of the problems of their 4 million fellows who are scattered in 100 other counties. Under the Court’s new decree, California could be dominated by Los Angeles and San Francisco; Michigan by Detroit.
Yep that figures Art. One rule for him and another for everyone else.
Droite de Seigneur exactly – Kennedys, Clinton, Cuomo, Biden and a great many others in public life. Too early, but waiting to see how Cuomo reinvents himself.
I despise Como, but Greg Kelly (no liberal) and Alan Dershowitz (a liberal, but a constitutionalist) say this sets a dangerous precedent when only accusations, not proof of bad behavior can be used. For example, against impeaching Kavanaugh. See here:
https://newsmagazineblog.com/alan-dershowitz-reacts-to-the-resignation-of-governor-andrew-cuomo/
I despise Como, but Greg Kelly (no liberal) and Alan Dershowitz (a liberal, but a constitutionalist) say this sets a dangerous precedent when only accusations, not proof of bad behavior can be used. For example, against impeaching Kavanaugh. See here:
I don’t think there’s any doubt that the women accusing him were people with whom he was acquainted and with whom he had office contact. The accusations against Messrs. Kavanaugh and Judge were made 35 years after the fact, every person she named as present or a source of corroboration undermined her account, and neither she nor her minions could produce evidence that she ever met either of the men she accused.
This is as a result of the US Supreme Court meddling with the apportionment of state legislatures in the Sixties. Ev Dirksen of Illinois called it:
I think you could complain that the courts have been hideously an intrusive without warrant and have promoted the worst sort of gerrymandering with their interventions. You could also complain that their insistence that all chambers of a legislature be apportioned according to population is nonsense (as did Robert Bork). There isn’t much point in have two chambers apportioned the same way. I’m not seeing how you contrive a principal of apportionment which accomplishes what Dirksen professes to want. Arizona gets dominated by greater Phoenix because that’s where the people are. The problem is how the legislature is apportioned, the problem is what’s included in the political unit itself.
The problem isn’t how the legislature is apportioned.
1.) They already have tried to do worse to conservatives on the basis of far more flimsy accusations. That set the precedent, not this.
2.) Since Cuomo resigned, there is no legal precedent at all here. All conservatives have to do to is to not resign in similar situations. Maybe we’ll hit a day where prominent conservatives will be forced out of office or thrown in jail on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations, but if so it won’t be because Cuomo resigned.
3.) The conservative impulse to try to find a way that every enemy loss is secretly bad for us is extremely unhealthy.
It most certainly is in many states. Some states used to have their senates have one member per county, mimicking the representation of states in the Federal Senate. This of course was done to make sure that the more populous states would not dominate the Congress and the country. Illinois has 102 counties. I would love to see an Illinois Senate where
CrookCook County had one vote out of 102.Ultimately the solution will be to carve new states from the states currently existing.
Per locals, not only is there way more than the women who were allowed to come forward to accuse Cuomo, but he was flat-out notorious in his public abuse of random women and there was abuse of power to shield him, on top of that.