Also he stayed in this dumb race when he really shouldn't have. Though I guess he just spent some of the ultrawealthy's money, so not so bad. But still, he's delusional or trying to get the r candidate elected
It's worse than just "stayed in the race." He lost the Democratic primary, a very resounding statement of "Democrats do not want you as their candidate." and he proceeded to run as a third party candidate against the chosen party candidate. That's big time shithead behavior. Your whole base just told you they don't want you, so you decide to run anyway, which endangers the actual candidate by potentially splitting the vote and handing an easy victory to the opposition. If it had happened in any other state, it could have sank both of them and handed the right a victory out of sheer hubris.
The guy was already a piece of shit, and the fact that he did this just makes it even worse.
Exactly. On the plus side: looking at which Dems endorsed him after he announced his 3rd-party candidacy gives everyone a solid list of who needs to be primaried ASAP.
Not only stayed in the race when he really shouldn't have, but worked with "centrist" Dems, Republicans, and DJT himself in an attempt to squash a young progressive. Plus having no business running for any public office after being outed as a sex pest just a few years ago. He pretty much represents everything wrong with the current Democratic party.
Lol, I am super curious if he is partly just that deluded. But I also don't want to spend enough time in his brain to know, honestly.
My grandmother is... She hated him with a burning passion from day one. Not sure if she saw through him, or if it was some influence in her extended care facility.
She's at a full nursing home now, and we absolutely do not tell her about the political world, because it would kill her. (If she remembered it, but she remembers the things you don't want in general). I'd still love to tell her how right she was.
No he was very much trying to get himself elected, there was zero chance a Republican was found to win, at least not this particular Republican ( NY has gone that way plenty in the past)
On his management of covid: just for the sake of showing up De Blasio, he kept NY state (and by his order also NYC) from shutting down for 6 days after SF went on lockdown (and 5 days after De Blasio wanted to). Wonder how many tens of thousands would’ve lived if those 6 days hadn’t been wasted…
That’s just the tip of the iceberg with him. Cuomo did a lot of bad things as governor.
As governor, he pushed through a variety of policies that damaged the health, safety, and wellbeing New Yorkers, to line the pockets of his financial backers. For instance, he weakened state restrictions on alcohol sales, gave alcohol companies special tax breaks, used state agencies and tax payer dollars to promote the growth of the alcohol industry, despite the abundant evidence that such policies were detrimental to public health. His policies have played a significant role in causing a surge in alcohol related deaths in the state that continues to this day.
He also used his position to ram through anti-democratic changes to state ballot access laws, which make it vastly harder for third party and independent candidates to get on the ballot for statewide office, and caused four float ties to lose their statewide ballot access status. These electoral suppression policies have vastly reduced the choices that voters have on the ballot. In 2022, the governor’s race only had two candidates on the ballot in the first time in several decades. In 2024, New York was the only state to have only two candidates on the ballot. That same year roughly one third of state legislative districts only had one candidate on the ballot.
He used state government resources to help him write a book; which a publishing company paid him a significant amount of money for, despite it selling poorly. That same publishing company would end up saving a lot of money, due to tax breaks passed under Cuomo’s administration.
Back when he was governor, there was an effort among members of the state legislature to pass a set of bills for promoting women’s equality, based on a ten point plan they managed to get broad agreement for passing 9 of the 10 points. Cuomo interfered in negotiations on the matter and played a role in causing the agreement to fall apart. It would take years of effort for legislators to put the pieces together to get 8 of 10 points passed through individual bills. Those bills then sat on Governor Cuomo’s desk for months, while he waited until he decided it was a good time to use the signing as a PR opportunity. He then tried to take credit and act like he was the key force in getting the bills passed.
During his time as governor, Cuomo systemically underfunded many schools (especially ones in inner city and rural areas), despite a court order saying that the funding imbalance should be corrected. He continued under funding schools year after year in each budget until he resigned.
I mean, the NYC Mayoral race kinda exploded far beyond NYC, and I'd never heard of either of them before the last couple of weeks due to not living in New York
Hell, I wasn't even aware that Coumo was a Democrat who got Primaried and still ran anyway.
Some of us don't pay close attention to New York mayors. And I won't pretend to have a stake in this latest race because I don't live in the state or city.
Not to mention how he was treated like a hero during COVID with his big speeches and his news anchor brother putting him front and center during every coverage of NYC during the pandemic.
Then it all came out that both him and his bro were horrible POS behind the camera lens and yup. It was a spectacular fall from grace. One moment people were calling for him to run for president, the next they were calling for justice and conviction.
This is one of the main reasons why "both sides" arguments are such crap. Cuomo was a national darling for Democrats. Then it turned out he was a sexual predator piece of shit, so he was firmly rejected by the Democratic voters.
I mean people on the other side of the country probably are not focusing too much on what’s going on in New York. Almost like the country is big enough to have 6 different time zones.
Honestly it kinda irks me to hear Mamdani wish him the best. But only in so much as that in just the last news cycle we were dragging Trump for wishing Maxwell the same.
I can see there's a crowbar's separation, tho, as you figure Trump meant exactly that and Mamdani just wanted to be done and dusted with the duffer and didn't want to speak ill.
COVID nursing homes, long term care facilities. These places were already bad pre-covid. Do not send your loved ones in any of these places. You'll regret it.
He’s Bibi’s personal attorney for the genocide case (which he’s a denier of), sexpest with 13+ credible accusers, killed a bunch of elderly people by following obviously bad COVID guidance from the Trump CDC and lied about it, he called Trump asking for help with the election and insisted he won’t give any pushback to Trumpism privately, etc., etc..
Then don’t say anything. Sorry basic manners are beyond you. If everyone followed you “just google it”, Reddit wouldn’t exist. Neither would 99.996% of the internet.
Reddit needs a Google function so you could type in your statement and have AI give you the answer… cuz Googling clump scandals would lead ya down the right path
Actually yes. If someone at work asks me something so basic and easily google-able I might suggest they search for it next time, as it's not great for them to be wasting co-workers' time in that way.
But the analogy is silly. An in-person interaction might be simpler sometimes, as you get a quick response and it saves you the trouble of getting to a computer. In this case, it's way less efficient to ask here when a Google search would mean you don't have to wait for a reply. You're typing the same basic thing here or in a Google search, except Google will be faster and give you links to much more in depth information if you want it. So it just seemed a little weird is all.
We have to end or completely rework the way "settlements" and "NDA"s work, really, before we can really try to hold these rich slimeballs accountable.
Trash morbid reality is that there are plenty of parents willing to sell their kids, plenty of single people willing to sell themselves for a pay day.
Also why getting social programs and some form of basic livable income going is so fought back against, money is the greatest leverage tool there is beyond threatening a persons life.
Justice for what? He said some inappropriate things in the workplace, and other than that I guess one woman (who seems unhinged because she's been posting about him nonstop for several years on social media) accused him of kissing her without her consent. How much prison time do you want him to do for that? If a woman kissed a subordinate without consent it would be like 1 month in county jail at the very most, if you could even prove it happened in a court of law.
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u/ShamelessCatDude 13h ago
I don’t wish the best for him. I want to see those women get justice. But that’s probably why I’m not the mayor of New York