Womp womp
Not Biden-related, but I didn’t want to start a new thread for this, so…
Is Gov. Cuomo really going to go through all the stages of descent to resignation, before finally resigning? We’ve just had the “apology” that was all about himself and now we’re into the phase where his assholiness forces more women to come forward to provide testimony - and, in one case, a photograph. It’s re-abusing his abuse victims, and it’s disgusting.
Meanwhile, because he fucked up so horribly how he managed the COVID outbreaks in nursing homes, and tried to cover it up, the state Congress has stripped him of his executive powers regarding the pandemic.
The whole time he was grandstanding on TV about how great he was doing, he was sending COVID-positive patients into nursing homes. To hide the increased death toll as a direct result of his bungling, he parsed the definition of nursing home deaths such that anyone contracting the virus in a nursing home but dying later in hospital were not counted as nursing home deaths.
Either of these scandals is enough to warrant his resignation. He should just fucking go.
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Don’t forget that he released a borderline-masturbatory COVID memoir last fall.
Oof.
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That’s not even spiking the ball before the end zone; that’s declaring victory at halftime.
I understand it’s just a money grab, but I’ve always questioned why people write books - an inherently static medium - about an event while that event is still current. Same goes for the books about the Trump administration that were published by “Anonymous”, Woodward, Comey, etc.
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Woodward’s books are great and will withstand the test of time, I think.
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Woodward’s job is to write about stuff. The others are just opportunists.
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Cuomo must have figured that the boar-feltching Elliot Spitzer had set the bar for stupid behavior by a governor so low, he had a lot of wiggle room. But that bar has been raised in the past few years. #MeToo.
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Exactly right! Woodward is a legitimate historian. Y’all might like opportunist Bolton’s book, but I did not.
Woodward’s book took exactly the right approach. The near entirety of the book lays out the facts and conversations with little editorial comment. Only the epilogue contains Woodward’s opinions/conclusions.
Apparently Cuomo’s list of accusers is now up to 5.
I guess some people can forgive him for how many elderly patients he indirectly shuffled off this mortal coil but being a womanizer is beyond the pale.
I don’t have any experience womanizing, and haven’t been a woman so it’s hard for me to judge, but don’t Cuomo’s efforts seem peculiarly clumsy and inept, like a parody of womanizing? Is it all just boorishness?
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Both scandals hit at about the same time. The nursing home scandal is a slower burn because it’s more about a cover than overt actions.
The harassment scandal is faster 0-60, and has frequent doses of nitrous with every denial and new revelation / accusation.
I have no data in this, but I imagine that one might be more likely to be successful as a womanizer by not being creepy or rapey.
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Roy Blunt (MO) adds his name to the lengthening list of Republicans not running for re-election in 2022. He joins Sens Toomey (PA), Burr (NC) and Portman (OH) who, in the face an impending hard fight, decided to quit. Sen. Shelby (AL), 86, is also retiring.
This complicates the QOP’s efforts to retake the Senate. Toomey, Burr and Portman were likely in trouble in their swingyish states, but you would not think deep red Missouri would be a concern. Yet Blunt won with only a narrow margin in 2016, so he too likely would have been in trouble this go around.
The conventional wisdom is that the incumbent president’s party loses seats in a mid-term, and the House is in real jeopardy if for no other reason than redistricting. But more Senate Republicans are up in 2022 than Democrats, and the expectation that the replacements emerging from the primary process are likely to be Trumpian, QAnon types means that they’re going to be working hard just to stand still.
A retirement watch is also on for Sens Grassley (IO), 87, while even McConnell has made noises about stepping down despite having only just been re-elected. Just like all other schoolyard bullies, they have no stomach for a fight when someone finally pushes back.
I think you’re maybe being too optimistic. You’re right that those guys are likely pulling up stakes because they don’t want to wallow in the mud with their QOP opponents, but I’m not ready to believe that the R voters won’t carry the QOP clown to victory anyway.
To be fair, Shelby is 86 and Grassley is 87, both long past normal retirement age. Toomey announced a long time ago he was not going to seek another term. I’m not sure I’d classify those as “running from a fight”. Even so, Most of these folks are part of the “not-quite-so-crazy” wing of the GOP. So not only are the Dems in danger of losing the Senate, they’re in danger of losing it to the absolute batshit crazy crowd of Tommy Tubervilles.
Exactly. This is a frighteningly likely possibility.
I’m sure they’re going to put up a basket of deplorables, but Tuberville is a unique situation because he was running in a deep red state to unseat a Democrat who won the seat previously only because he was running against a paedophile.
However, without the name recognition that goes with incumbency, the Republican candidates to replace Toomey and Burr - at least - will lose moderate conservatives and independents if they run on the batshit, fever dream of the QOP.
And this is for seats that they have to retain, the defense of which just got much more expensive. They don’t benefit from gerrymandering either.
Meanwhile, Biden retains a 68% national approval rating, driven almost entirely by the COVID effort. Every single Republican in Congress voted against the ARP, which will be a weight to tie around their necks, and anyone running in their place.