4696

The thing that’s nuts, is that… Hunter Biden already has a freaking ton of money, doesn’t he?

This kind of thing just seems so pointless.

4697

Yep, it’s baffling to me too. A hovel, an ethernet connection, a Steam library, what more does a man need?

And now reading about Hunter he appears to have made a few tens of millions of dollars, and also blown a few tens of millions of dollars, and is now at just about dead-even (minus the monthly alimony to his ex-wife). Again: lock him in the vault where they’re keeping the national treasure from Nicholas Cage’s National Treasure. Only let him out once we have this whole fascism thing under control.

4698

More Cuomo shit. He probably needs a thread, but also he’s not worth it.

Also there was a press conference which seems to have been a shitshow.

4699

I’m not sure how anyone expects Chris Cuomo to not talk to his brother about this stuff, or why having him talk to his brother is bad for CNN.

I mean, if CNN put him in charge of coverage of his brother, that’d be a thing, but I don’t think that’s the case.

4700

Chris seemed to think it was a bad thing and promised not to do it any more.

So he kind of brought that on himself.

4701

Well, I guess it wont matter as much?

Edit:

4702
4703

Spitzer and now Cuomo. Choose better, NY.

4704
4705

I know we don’t live in a good enough world for this to be the answer, but it’d be nice if he watched his attorney up there and thought “Jesus, WTF am I doing”.

4706

Fuck Glenn Greenwald. He has only one mission: tear the US down so that Russia may rise.

4707

Ya know, all of his faults aside, Cuomo did a decent job dealing with one of the worst pandemic horror shows I remember. Even with the flaws in handling covid itself, at the time Cuomo was a rare pillar of structure and normalcy when seemingly everything was melting down and the federal government was failing to an unprecedented degree to provide leadership.

When shit was going down and deaths were skyrocketing, and hospitals were overflowing and we were using refridgerated trucks as temporary morgues, I know that I was watching Cuomo every night, and the fact that he actually seemed like he had a plan, and was executing it, was… important.

That doesn’t excuse his crimes of course, but I’m not gonna forget the good he did.

4708

I would agree with this. Too often our media coverage and our public discourse tends to want to simplify discussion of public figures into “bad” or “good” when in fact it’s possible to be good in a lot of ways and horrendous in others. It seems like Cuomo was quite good at an executive in terms of handling a crisis. That doesn’t excuse any of his harassing behavior, and his resignation is expected and also probably not enough.

4709

I don’t have the data to hand to back this up, but I thought the general understanding was that NYC generally did significantly worse than the other early US hotspots (Seattle, Bay Area)? Having someone go on TV every night with a steady demeanor and an apparent plan was important, to be sure (especially given the buffoon in DC at the time), but I though his actual policy execution was subpar. (I could be wrong though.)

4710

I have this same recollection. What Cuomo did well was bluster on television every night, which gave the impression that he was acting effectively.

4711

I think that we need to consider that NYC also had some disadvantages in terms of how things played out. They had received a lot of the early infections from europe, and the way NYC is set up, it was kind of a perfect petri dish, and by the time the country realized what was happening, the genie was already out of the bottle in NYC.

Also, bear in mind that Cuomo isn’t the mayor of NYC.

That being said, I think you are undervaluing cuomo’s daily updates while the pandemic was raging. That’s something that people need, and we were absolutely not getting it from the federal government.

I wouldn’t say he was the BEST governor at the time… I’d probably give that honor to Jay Insley, but I think that Cuomo provided some important leadership in a region of the country where things had gotten REAL bad.

4712

He’s like a high schooler now. The cool kids didn’t let him into the club after Citizen Four (no major paper or network deals), so he just takes potshots.

4713

Cuomo was kind of the foil to Trump in the early days although I won’t argue that he probably was on TV much more than he needed to be for his own benefit. But NYC went dark well before much of California did.

4714

Erm, there might be one more New Yorker you want to cast aspersions at in recent memory . . .

4715

Rudy?