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Gov. Cuomo Resigns

G-Fafif Aug 10 2021 10:10 AM

Takes effect in 14 days.

Fman99 Aug 10 2021 10:20 AM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Just two weeks left in the gropatoruim, I guess. Good luck, ya pervo.

Lefty Specialist Aug 10 2021 11:18 AM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Thought he'd tough it out for longer, but he had no allies left. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

seawolf17 Aug 10 2021 11:26 AM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Lefty Specialist wrote: Thought he'd tough it out for longer, but he had no allies left. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Yup. Once Heastie and Schumer and the rest started abandoning him, it was just a matter of time. It's the right call.

kcmets Aug 10 2021 11:41 AM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Wasn't a big fan but, ya know, he did do a lot of good for a lot of folks. Good luck to him in his post public-service life.

Frayed Knot Aug 10 2021 12:58 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

The arrogance of power.

Willets Point Aug 10 2021 01:36 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Took him long enough.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 10 2021 02:05 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Great. But why didn't Trump resign? He was like a zillion times worse. Or maybe it's not the bad acts that these pols do but whether or not their party supports them. Then maybe Cuomo should've switched to the GOP. The GOP would've defended him. Scumbags support scumbags. The GOP would've said "what are youse all talking about? Nobody abused youse. Nobody raped youse. It was Jewish laser beams from outer space operated by Jews that penetrated your pussies. Not Cuomo."

Willets Point Aug 10 2021 02:12 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

You've been making the argument for months that if Trump does something evil then it should be acceptable for Democrats. This is wrong. Women don't find sexual violence and rape acceptable just because it's Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Al Franken, or Andrew Cuomo are the one doing it. None of these men should be in politics nor should any other sexual assaulters regardless of party.

Ceetar Aug 10 2021 02:21 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

yes but democrats resigning and republicans not makes it MUCH MORE LIKELY to continue happening. It's a continuing and worrying trend where only republican opponents face accountability.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 10 2021 02:26 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Willets Point wrote: You've been making the argument for months that if Trump does something evil then it should be acceptable for Democrats. Me? Where? I don't think so.

Edgy MD Aug 10 2021 02:29 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

If I am being raped, it does me no favors to tell me that my rapist is entitled to me because Trump. That's simply not how justice works.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 10 2021 02:37 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 10 2021 02:40 PM

Edgy MD wrote: If I am being raped, it does me no favors to tell me that my rapist is entitled to me because Trump. That's simply not how justice works. If you're talking about me, that was all sarcasm. I'm responding to the Trump supporting snake-oil salesman who kept on posting that Cuomo should've resigned. When I asked him why he thought that, he posted that Cuomo should resign because he no longer had the support of his peers and same party-pols. I thought it was a vile explanation - totally ignoring the horribleness of the acts in question and basing the desired resignation on the fact that Dems - because they have a moral center and a sense of ethics that the GOP no longer has - had abandoned Cuomo. Then I went off in my own way. Plus the fact that a rabid Trump supporter who won't even concede that Trump's a racist would call for Cuomo's resignation -- well, the fucking audacity of that alone ....

Edgy MD Aug 10 2021 02:40 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

I'm not sure who or what you're referring to, but my ass is glad to know you aren't serious.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 10 2021 02:40 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not sure who or what you're talking about. Maybe I'm not sure what you're talking about. Did you address your other post to me?

Edgy MD Aug 10 2021 03:05 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

In this case, more to Ceetar.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 10 2021 03:25 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Edgy MD wrote: In this case, more to Ceetar. Never mind.

Ceetar Aug 10 2021 04:45 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Republicans think and govern as if women are to be controlled, second class citizens, so every time a Republican abuser doesn't resign and a Democrat does, the balance of power moves towards the misogynistic party. Maybe not specific to Cuomo, but in general. This was in defense of batmag's pointing out the hypocrisy. It extends further than simply abuse though, to thinks where Democrats have to figure out how to pay for every public good they want to push forward, and republicans never have to justify expenditures. It's a trend that is continuing to allow them to destroy our democracy.

Frayed Knot Aug 10 2021 05:13 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

The simple answer to why Cuomo 'had to' resign but not Trump is that his crimes -- however that winds up being defined -- were committed while in office including against those who worked for him in said office and possibly in his physical office itself. None of Trump's reprehensible treatment of women occurred, at least to our knowledge, during his time in the White House. There's more to it than that of course. NYS Democrats know that, even with AC out of the picture, they get his successor from their side and stand a better than decent chance of being on the winning side of the next open election to decide the one after that too so the risk of lining up against him were low. Also doesn't help that Andy boy seemed to have bullied and/or pissed off numerous members of his own party to the point where there was a line of folks who smelled blood in the water and were only too eager to stomp on the carcass.

seawolf17 Aug 10 2021 06:15 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Al Franken's infraction happened well before he held office, and he resigned. It is *always* Democrats who actually pay the piper for this stuff, and Repubs just shrug and say "fuck you" and move on. Ceetar and batmags are absolutely, 100% right on. I agree that Cuomo had to go. There's no question. But that doesn't mean that I can't be angry that these GOP fuckwads get off every fuckin' time.

Frayed Knot Aug 10 2021 06:31 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Franken did, but others haven't -- Teddy once drove one off a bridge and spent the next half day figuring out how to cover his own ass because his career was more important than her life -- and both sides have a lengthy history of rationalizing that as long as the guy in question votes the way we want him to then we're going to look past his foibles. Like college football fans of their coach overseeing a scandal- ridden program, he might be a scoundrel but he's our scoundrel.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 10 2021 06:32 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

I'm not bothered in the least that Cuomo had to resign. I'm annoyed that the Trump worshiping Republican snake-oil salesman here wrote that Cuomo had to resign (as if that alone isn't enough to drive you nuts -- oh, the chutzpah!) not because of what Cuomo did, but because his same party peers were calling for Cuomo's resignation. It's like if you belong to the Nazis, it's OK to commit genocide because your colleagues will support you.

Edgy MD Aug 10 2021 07:09 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

=Ceetar post_id=74061 time=1628635501 user_id=102] Republicans think and govern as if women are to be controlled, second class citizens, so every time a Republican abuser doesn't resign and a Democrat does, the balance of power moves towards the misogynistic party.

The notion that mistreatment of women should be more tolerated and it's perpetrators held less accountable in order to make things truly better for women is not an argument you're going to find a lot of folks to join you in, and I would encourage you to reconsider it.

Willets Point Aug 10 2021 08:04 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Cuomo's resignation, just like Franken's, literally puts a Democratic party woman in a position of great power and influence. I still see Democrats online whining about how they lost a great Democratic leader when Franken resigned, who don't even acknowledge the great job that Tina Smith has done and continues to do as Senator from Minnesota. THAT is misogynistic. Let's not pull the same bullshit with Kathy Hochul. She's a Democrat and a woman and soon to be governor of one of the nation's most populous states and has a chance to do a great job at that without ever sexual assaulting anyone else.

Edgy MD Aug 10 2021 08:16 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Indeed. Senator Franken was a celebrity. We can and do confuse that with excellence far too often. Not only is Senator Smith getting a backhanded insult when supporters lament the resignation of Senator Franken, if one thinks the guy who stepped down is the only person who can possibly carry one's banner, one isn't showing a whole lot of faith in one's party and what they allegedly stand for. I can't tell you three things about Lieutenant Governor Hochul, but she's already having shit thrown at her on FOX, so onward we go.

nymr83 Aug 12 2021 05:48 PM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Frayed Knot wrote: The simple answer to why Cuomo 'had to' resign but not Trump is that his crimes -- however that winds up being defined -- were committed while in office including against those who worked for him in said office and possibly in his physical office itself. None of Trump's reprehensible treatment of women occurred, at least to our knowledge, during his time in the White House. There's more to it than that of course. NYS Democrats know that, even with AC out of the picture, they get his successor from their side and stand a better than decent chance of being on the winning side of the next open election to decide the one after that too so the risk of lining up against him were low. Also doesn't help that Andy boy seemed to have bullied and/or pissed off numerous members of his own party to the point where there was a line of folks who smelled blood in the water and were only too eager to stomp on the carcass. Its totally the second part. Members of both parties are a lot more likely to find their moral outrage against a fellow party member when the office he holds is one they are likely to retain in the next election.

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 13 2021 05:02 AM Re: Gov. Cuomo Resigns

Trump is simply held to a lower standard by his supporters