65 thoughts on “Uncle Joe Tosses Cuomo”

  1. more importantly, biden also said to steph:

     “But there should be an investigation to determine whether what she says is true. That’s what’s going on now.”

     

  3. back to guilty-before-proven-innocent topic

    op ed in wapo tuesday had a different twist to it:

    So many New York state politicians are stepping forward to plunge the knife into Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that the state’s political scene feels like “Murder on the Orient Express.” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) say he should quit because of the sexual harassment allegations lodged against him. The head of the New York State Senate says the same. So does a majority of the state’s congressional delegation.
    There’s just one thing: New York voters don’t agree. According to a poll released Monday by the Siena College Research Institute, half do not believe he should resign at this time. A plurality say they still have not decided whether the governor is guilty of sexual harassment.
    New York’s Democratic leadership needs to pause and take a deep breath. Otherwise, it risks turning Cuomo into 2021’s version of Al Franken, the former Minnesota senator who became a martyr to supposedly unhinged “political correctness.” And this is the exact wrong thing to do.
    Reminder: Cuomo’s problems — unlike Franken’s — did not begin with the some half-dozen sexual harassment allegations. They started with the state’s coverup of the thousands of nursing home deaths from covid-19, something quite possibly connected to a Cuomo administration order from last year ordering the institutions to accept patients diagnosed with the disease.
    This, in turn, seemed to break open a dam of more than a decade’s worth of insider dissatisfaction with Cuomo, a singularly unpleasant political figure who dominated the state by brute force of personality and threats. It was only then that the sexual harassment allegations began surfacing.
    […]
    So let the full investigations and inquiries play out. They are likely to range beyond the sexual harassment allegations and nursing home woes, and take on Cuomo’s decade at the top of New York politics. That’s how the process should work.
    Because this is what everyone needs to remember: Politicians are tried not just in legal settings but in the court of public opinion. If you want Cuomo gone for good, you need to get the voters on your side first.

  4. the best part of the interview IMO was about the filibuster.  

    from vanity fair article:

    JOE BIDEN MAY FINALLY BE READY TO NUKE MITCH MCCONNELL

     
    […]

    But in a promising shift, Biden indicated in an interview Tuesday that while he remains set against eliminating the filibuster entirely, he will support efforts to reform it, making the procedure what he says it was originally “supposed to be.” “I don’t think that you have to eliminate the filibuster. You have to do it what it used to be when I first got to the Senate back in the old days,” Biden told George Stephanopoulos in an ABC News interview. “You had to stand up and command the floor. You had to keep talking.”
    […]
    A reform might also stand a better chance of being enacted. To succeed here, Democrats will need to present a unified front. And one of its members, conservative West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, has already made plain that he views abolishing the filibuster as a non-starter. But even Manchin has expressed openness to moving back to a “talking filibuster” that would be more “painful” to use. If Biden throws the weight of the White House behind this more moderate proposal, it’s possible he really could make the Senate function more as it did in the early 1970s when he was first elected to the chamber and the filibuster was used far less frequently than it is now.

  5. Yes, let the investigations proceed. Either Cuomo or the voters, or prosecutors will decide if it’s time for Cuomo to go. Not sure what to make of the nursing home death accounting issue, but it doesn’t seem like an issue that takes him down. As to the harassment allegations, only 2 of the accounts sound like they would cross the line into workplace harassment, but he denies those 2 and the facts aren’t clear on the others. Time may tell. 
    I’m more interested in seeing how the Biden admin gets a handle on the immigration problem at the border. Seems like it’s going in a good direction but the options aren’t good due mainly to the numbers of kids crossing. I thought that big beautiful wall Mexico paid for was going to prevent this problem. Guess not, huh?

  6. And that’s WHY they are going after Cuomo now.  He’s too popular with voters. The timing is very suspicious.

    I would like to see all of SFB’s victims go after him. Maybe Mickey C can shed more light on that ad he continues to talk to the Feds.

  9. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/17/texas-greg-abbott-border-minors/

    The power grid failed, so Greg Abbott lifted the mask mandate so folks would talk about something else.

    It was not a popular decision and Greg got backlash from businesses for lifting the mask mandate, so he started harping about migrants bringing in covid.

    That didn’t fly because they were being tested, so now Greg has decided he wants to focus on human trafficking.

    Greg, If you keep changing direction, it just means you’re going in circles.

  11. Well, when it comes to Covid-19, bad news just keeps coming.

    Most people who have contracted the coronavirus are protected against reinfection for at least six months — but that immunity diminishes significantly with age, according to a new studypublished in the Lancet medical journal.
     

    The study by Danish researchers has highlighted the importance of vaccinating elderly populations, as well as previously infected individuals, as the pandemic wears on, according to the authors. Researchers found that natural infection reduced the chances of getting the virus again by about 80 percent, but offered just 47 percent protection against repeat infection among those over 65.
     

    Two British immunologists commenting on the results also in the Lancet called the protective immunity from natural infection “poor” relative to the immune response elicited by current coronavirus vaccines. “The hope of protective immunity through natural infections might not be within our reach, and a global vaccination program with high efficacy vaccines is the enduring solution,” they said in an article linked to the study.
    (…)

    So last night I see a spot on some dipshit Wyoming town where basically no one trusts the vaccine or the government or Biden so they aren’t playing.  Tell it to granny at her funeral, assholes.

  13. another reason for the current diversion maybe?  this cartoon indicates it didn’t work.

     there are other things, folks, more important (or glittery or salacious or scary) for media ratings than that ny guy.

  14. wonder if putie pulled his ambassador aka top envoy more because of the recent ODI declassified report than about his wittle feewings getting hurt cause joe called him names.

    might see some more go back to mother to get them out of harms way

  15. We are at the national enquirer level again, I see. 
    New York, that is one of those states on the East coast isn’t it?
    what ever went on or will happen is as important to the rest of us as the question, “Will the queen ever talk to young Harry again?”. 
    Craig you live to deep in the east coast news media.
    Jack 

  16. To my mind all these harassment attacks on Cuomo have to do with the Nursing Home events that didn’t work to bring him down and as retribution apparently for him being an obnoxious jerk for decades.

    Unfortunately, at least so far, none of the harassment charges really measure up.  At worst an unwanted hug with obvious physical attraction noticed.  In all cases, over many years while all cropping up at once, he took no for an answer, never embarrassed anyone in public, and no one lost a job.  It may be a generational difference, but I faced a lot more than any of that constantly throughout a work career.  If you can’t handle a man’s hand on the small of your back by simply stepping back to put a well placed heel through his instep, a class action suit won’t help.

     

  17. Yeah… this is the shiny new thing to keep us distracted from anything meaningful.  Let the process play out and what will be… will be.
     
    I missed this interview.  Did the Irish thing of watching a Celtics game.

    ps… Craig… I am aware the it must be hard to come up with daily subjects for this blog to discuss. It’s ok with me that some are meaty… and others… not so much.

  18. Craig

    I’m with RR.  Something pertinent to kick off the conversation is just fine.  We all read and surf enough to bring other things to the table, not to mention all the connected music and arts that get thrown in for fun.

     

  20. i had criticisms of Cuomo months and months, ago, but i held my tongue, because the priority was getting Donny Death out.
     
     #teamplayer

    (To be fair, a discussion of gubernatorial COVID mismanagement should include others like Noem, Desantis, Abbot…)

  24. Bad day.  Dumbfugg sheriff says…

    The backlash began with the sheriff spokesman’s statement to reporters that the mass shooting suspect was having a “bad day.”
     

    “He was pretty much fed up and kind of at the end of his rope. Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Cherokee County sheriff’s office Capt. Jay Baker said Wednesday. He was describing the 21-year-old man accused of killing eight people, mostly Asian and almost all women, in a rampage across three Atlanta-area spas.
     

    Then — as the violence stirred fears in an Asian-American community that already felt under attack — Internet sleuths and journalists found Baker’s Facebook posts promoting shirts that called the novel coronavirus an “IMPORTED VIRUS FROM CHY-NA.”
     

    One person’s reaction on Twitter: “I think Capt Jay Baker is going to have a really bad day.”

    […]

    If I were the prosecutor I would be on this idiot’s ass like stink on shit.  If I were the mayor I’d demand his letter of resignation.  Bad day Capt. Baker?  Think the families of the 8 people he murdered would agree with you on that?  So is the logo on the cop cars in your department “To Protect and Serve”, “In God we Trust”, or is it “Kill them all; God will sort them out”?  

  25. “(To be fair, a discussion of gubernatorial COVID mismanagement should include others like Noem, Desantis, Abbot…)”

    bink, yeah but they aren’t democrats and we only like to eat our own.

  26. the guardian:

    A dozen Republicans voted against a resolution honoring US Capitol police for their efforts to protect members of Congress during the insurrection on 6 January.

    The House voted 413-12 on Wednesday to award congressional gold medals, Congress’s “highest expression of national appreciation”, to all members of the Capitol police force.

    The Republicans who opposed this honor included Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Matt Gaetz of Florida and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. They and other opposing members said they had problems with the text of the legislation.

    Massie told reporters he disagreed with the terms “insurrection” and “temple” in the legislation.

    […]

    Louie Gohmert, a congressman from Texas, said in a statement that the text “does not honor anyone, but rather seeks to drive a narrative that isn’t substantiated by known facts”.

    Gohmert separately circulated a competing bill to honor Capitol police that did not mention the 6 January attack, according to a copy obtained by Politico. His text also named the officers who died after the insurrection but did not specify the circumstances of their deaths, writing instead that they: “All passed in January 2021.”

    The other Republicans who voted against the legislation were Andy Biggs of Arizona, Andy Harris of Maryland, Lance Gooden of Texas, Michael Cloud of Texas, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Greg Steube of Florida, Bob Good of Virginia and John Rose of Tennessee.

    All of the bill’s opponents, except for Massie, voted to object to state’s electoral votes in the presidential election in the hours after the insurrection.

  27. a skunk by any other name would still smell.   any suggestions for a GOP euphemism for the insurrection?

  31. A sign that things are getting back to “Normal”,  white guys are once again shooting up the innocent with guns , you know the “America Way’ of mass dying.  

  33. One of my first memories was dreading the coming of summer . Summer  was “Polio Season”.  I wasn’t afraid of dying at the age of five , but living in one of those “Iron Lungs” scared the $hit outa me .
    And that Smallpox vax was the most scary , getting a scab on your arm the size of a dime that was a “good” sign. 

  34. What kind did you get?
    My doctor’s office was denied a request for vaccine.  It’s a huge practice with clinics in many cities, so I don’t get it.  And, I don’t get it.  

  37. I forgot to ask , and all the paperwork  didn’t mention what type it was , I’ll dig that up. 
    Got a lot swag going out the door. 
    A sucker . ( Grape)
    A sticker .
    A button . 
    A refrigerator  magnet to remind you of your second shot.  

  38. The punks  are yelping louder   –
    Watch: Anthony Fauci clashes with Rand Paul over masks during Senate committee hearing
     

    The United States is now facing dominance of the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first detected in the United Kingdom, but there are others that remain concerning, too, he explained to the committee.
    “We’re not dealing with a static situation of the same virus,” Fauci said.

     
    https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2021/03/18/anthony-fauci-rand-paul-mask-theater
     
     

  39. Rand Paul is up for re-election in 2022.  The more he opens his mouth and shows the world he is both a jerk and a moron, the more the opposition will have to use in ads to vote him out.

  40. What if God is a complex carbon molecule ?
     

    Found in space: Complex carbon-based molecules

     
    Much of the carbon in space is believed to exist in the form of large molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Since the 1980s, circumstantial evidence has indicated that these molecules are abundant in space, but they have not been directly observed.

    Now, a team of researchers led by MIT Assistant Professor Brett McGuire has identified two distinctive PAHs in a patch of space called the Taurus Molecular Cloud (TMC-1). PAHs were believed to form efficiently only at high temperatures—on Earth, they occur as byproducts of burning fossil fuels, and they’re also found in char marks on grilled food. But the interstellar cloud where the research team observed them has not yet started forming stars, and the temperature is about 10 degrees above absolute zero.
     
    https://phys.org/news/2021-03-space-complex-carbon-based-molecules.html
     
     

  41. Let the investigation proceed. Did people not learn anything from the Franken witch hunt

  42. Two Cat 5 cyclones  slam Central America  10 days apart, and the American news media is stumped by this new wave  of refugees . 
    Really ?
    Not one word about climate change driving  all this  misery  in the background. 
    This all reminds me of the “Fall of Saigon”, as the North swept south .  Those horrible scenes  of beating people off the stairs of the jets as they rolled down the runway . 
    10 year old boys  from Honduras do not arrive on the Mexican border alone , because they want to rape white women, or rob 7-11’s. 
    They are the last card a family has to play with a losing hand. 
    Better to spend the money on  helping them to stay home than any amount on a wall .   Because if we don’t , they are still going to try to escape   the unlivable . 
    “When you ain’t got nothin’, you got nothing to lose”
    B Daylan 

  43. OM – Those hurricanes in November, 2020?  They were long forgotten by anyone not feeling the direct impact, especially with cofeve and the orange circus drawing attention.  Folks forget about the ripples until those ripples are in their own bathwater.  

    Ken Paxton and company, those who are hell-bent on keeping fossil fuel money pumping, are also responsible for the influx of migrants. 

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Biden administration demanding reinstatement of Keystone XL Pipeline permit

  44. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/18/greg-abbott-dan-patrick-puc-ercot/
     

    “The governor of Texas is a very powerful person,” Patrick said at a Capitol news conference, ramping up his dayslong campaign to get Abbott to intervene. “He can do anything he wants.”

    It may benefit Texans, but it’s really scary language.

    “Patrick on Thursday said Abbott could, using his emergency powers, order the commission to tell ERCOT to either correct the charges or that such charges were under investigation, which the lieutenant governor said would extend the deadline.“

    “Despite Patrick’s pleas, Abbott had still not clearly taken sides in the debate as of Thursday evening.“

    Meanwhile, Greg sticks his finger in his mouth and then in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.

  46. I wish Mario  would tuck Harry and Megan  under his wings , and strap little Archie to his back , and fly down to  that new iceberg  A-74 . 
    There they could all live with the rest of those English pinwheels that flood our attention with bull$hit.  All the while , TMZ runs around the berg in a Zodiac,  giving us all  “baby bump reports’ . 
    One does not whine about racism sitting in Santa Barbara with Oprah . 
    Remember this , these are the people that poured  thousands  tons of opium into China the pay for their tea habit. 
    They set up the triangle trade.  Guns and Glass beads to Africa for slaves ,
    Slaves  to the Americas for sugar and  molasses .
    Up to Boston  for furs, rum,  and wood. 
    Back to Liverpool .
    At every step  the Brits made money . 
    Wood?
    The trees that were in Nelson’s  ships  at Trafalgar in 1805 , all were cut down in America.  The British Navy had “Mast Ships”  that sailed to Maine .
    They would back their stren into the shore  and open the ship  like a “hatchback”.
    Then they loaded huge mast trees like pencils in a pocket protector.  
    One more thing about all this web of the ‘Triangle’ .
    Why were British sailors called “Tars”  ?
    Why is North Carolina  called the “Tar Heel State” ? 
    All those ships of the “Queen’s Navy” needed tar to seal their  hulls .  And pine trees are not a part of the British woods . 
    Long before moonshine , distilling  tar from pine trees was their thing. 
    In fact ,  our oak trees  made up the hulls , and frames of this great navy . 
    Along with  the hemp for ropes, and the flax for sails. 
    And we all love watching those inbred twits in their great country houses on PBS.  On TV all that great wealth flopped out of the sky . 
    They did not all get rich by selling sheep wool.
    And they did not lift a finger when  the Irish   system they were running , flopped because of a fungus. 
    So you see , I have very little regard  for all that myth of the whole British  Empire. 
     

  52. Old man, loved 

    The best thing the British Empire ever did  was give us Stevie Winwood. 

    Hard to rank the best Brit moojicians of the 60s, but Stevie is certainly among ‘em. 

  55. So I was dodging the draft in in 69′  in Austin , and I got a gig  in the Light Show at the Vulcan Gas Company. I was 19. I had a draft number of 38. 
    I saw Jimmy Reed  too drunk to go on stage .
    I met the woman  that wrote  , “Hound Dog ” at 3AM .  ( Big Mamma Thronton)
    I saw Muddy Waters  drive into the ally in a purple  Pontiac  station wagon  towing a very small teardrop trailer. 
     
    I was in the show , when the A&R man picked Johnny  Winter . 
    I sold pot to his bass man , in Flying Dutch Man tins .  
    I was friends with James Franklin , the guy who drew a cartoon of an Armadillo humping the Dome of the Texas State Capital.

    Before there was the Armadillo World Headquarters , there was
    The Vulcan Gas Company.
    I was doing leather art then , then I realized I needed to go to Colorado.

  57. Pogo –
    Once someone builds a campfire.  The crackers , marsh mellows , and  Hersey’s  show up. 
    After we chew  all that,  we tell stories. 

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