ShivaX
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I don’t know what thread this even goes in anymore, but Cuomo was pretty popular with the left for a month or two, so fuck it.
He should do the right thing and resign.
And if he’s unwilling to do that, he should be impeached.
RayRayK
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Hopefully Biden will stick to his guns and ask Cuomo to resign publicly.
I don’t see Cuomo resigning. I suspect he will “decide” not to run for a 4th term, but his ego is too big to resign.
I also don’t think the legislature will try to impeach. They will just let it be known they don’t need any more input from him.
RayRayK
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Full denial of inappropriate touching by Cuomo.
The two Democratic senators from New York (Schumer and Gillibrand) have both renewed their calls for Cuomo to resign. Their joint statement notes the results of a fair, thorough, and professional investigation’s findings, as well as noting that they’d previously called for him to resign prior to the investigation anyway.
Biden will give a statement later today after his Covid briefing. From the tone of Jen Psaki’s heads-up on this, I doubt it will be of the “Let’s let past indiscretions pass” nature, but who knows?
Here we go again, having actual principles and applying them consistently regardless of political affiliation.
Thrag
4666
If Biden goes in favor of resignation the ring wing smear machine is going to make a renewed effort to stick some sort of accusation on Biden. Fox might even trot out some Clinton accusers for commentary in the next few days.
I doubt they push on it that hard, but I’ve been wrong before. They may try, but even when Biden made his earlier comments that Cuomo should resign if the investigation showed he’d done these things the opposition response was pretty quiet.
And that dog, as they say, won’t hunt.
Thrag
4669
Can she be press secretary forever?
We’ll see how much longer this particular center can hold.
Sharpe
4672
Time for Cuomo to walk the earth, contemplate his lack of wisdom, beg the Pope for forgiveness, perhaps consult the Dalai Llama, write some memoirs, “spend time with his family”, etc.
Politically, IMO, put a fork in him.
Or he can take the Trump route and deny he did anything and attack the women as lying opportunists, and perhaps threaten lawsuits. So far he seems to be following the Trump playbook
Make Andrew Great Again, he probably should make the hats in blue though.
Pretty hard to beat Alexandra Petri take on Cuomo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/03/stabbing-people-is-just-how-ive-always-greeted-them-by-jack-ripper/
“I do it with everyone. Black and white, young and old, straight and LGBTQ, powerful people, friends, strangers, people who I meet on the street.” — New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) introducing a montage of him kissing and grabbing people by the face in an unwanted manner, somehow thinking this was an appropriate response to allegations that he created a “hostile work environment” that was “rife with fear and intimidation.“
Many of the women of London have complained about my stabbing behavior, or would have, if they were still alive to do so. But I have put together a series of daguerreotype slides that shows me stabbing people in other settings, just to demonstrate how utterly blameless I am in all of this. In the sense that — I have always stabbed people. I’m a stabby guy. It’s what I do, and it’s not personal.
To me, stabbing is a mark of respect. Stabbing is a behavior I learned from my mother and father, who would often greet people by stabbing them with a blade or blades they had concealed on their persons. Just a polite, small stab, as someone testing the thickness of a pig’s hide! To me, this is as much about family, about heritage, as it is about anything else, and it’s something I won’t compromise on. I’m not ashamed of who I am: a stabber who comes from a long line of stabbers.
He’s off to hike the Appalachian trail no wait that’s not it.
