Andrew Cuomo was celebrated less than a year ago: “Andrew Cuomo To Receive International Emmy For ‘Masterful’ COVID-19 Briefings” (NPR, November 21, 2020). At the beginning of coronapanic, his stock was especially high among those identifying as “women” (Daily Mail):
Hot for governor! Women confess they are developing ‘MAJOR crushes’ on Andrew Cuomo, 62, as the New York Democrat takes charge during COVID-19 pandemic (and his TV host brother Chris is getting some love, too)
Women are calling the 62-year-old governor ‘sexy af’ because of how well he is handling coronavirus
Twitter users are admitted they’re finding him attractive and in some cases falling in love with him
Fans cite the strength he shows in his calming daily briefings and his humorous interviews with his brother, CNN’s Chris Cuomo
Democrats’ first choice for 2024 is an 82-year-old Joe Biden, but Cuomo was a close second in August 2020: “Cuomo: “Shocking” to See Poll Showing Him Leading 2024 Democratic Field; A Canadian poll shows Cuomo is the top choice of Democrats if Joe Biden is not on the 2024 ballot” (NBC). Cuomo might have won in November 2020: “‘Draft Cuomo 2020’ groundswell emerges amid the New York governor’s coronavirus response” (ABC, March 31, 2020).
(See also states ranked by COVID-19 death rate, in which Cuomo-led New York is #2 in the nation, and countries ranked by COVID-19 death rate, on which New York State would be #5 if it were its own country, just slightly below first-to-mask-up Czech Republic)
It seems that Governor Cuomo may soon be looking for a new job. “These are the women who were sexually harassed by Andrew Cuomo: AG report” (New York Post):
The independent probe into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo found that he sexually harassed multiple women, both in and out of state government.
Investigators focused on the allegations of 11 women, detailed in a blistering 165-page report released Tuesday by the state attorney general’s office.
My question is what does Mr. Cuomo do for his next job? New Yorkers thought that he was one of the most capable people on Planet Earth, presumably, or they wouldn’t have elected him to run their enormous state government (as a percentage of state income, the very largest in the U.S.!). Even if the 11 potential plaintiffs referenced above are able to mine out all of the savings that he has accumulated from 40 years of working, one would think that he could start to earn again somehow.
(One of our shuttle van drivers in Oshkosh was 75 years old. He volunteered that he couldn’t retire because he’d lost all of his savings, a house on the lake, and much of his income going forward to his first divorce plaintiff and then did it all over again, losing all of his second batch of savings and house 2.0 to divorce plaintiff 2.0. “I’ll be working until I die.” (Under Wisconsin family law, which provides for unlimited child support by formula, his plaintiffs could have done better via brief sexual encounters with higher-income defendants rather than long-term marriage to a median earner). At a minimum, Cuomo could drive for Uber, but I’m hoping that readers have more creative ideas.)
One idea: Design a line of clothing celebrating achievements and empowerment by those identifying as “female”. Here’s an example from Oshkosh:
“Jerrie” likely refers to “the Flying Housewife” Jerrie Mock (around the world solo in 1964).
“Jackie” is presumably early jet pilot Jacqueline Cochran. But it is unclear what she had to “fight” to get. Maybe it was fight other women to marry the rich guy whom she successfully married?
[After divorcing a husband with mediocre earnings,] Cochran met Floyd Bostwick Odlum, founder of Atlas Corp. and CEO of RKO in Hollywood. Fourteen years her senior, he was reputed to be one of the 10 wealthiest men in the world. Odlum became enamored of Cochran and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business.[6][7]
After a friend offered her a ride in an aircraft, Cochran began taking flying lessons at Roosevelt Airfield, Long Island in the early 1930s and learned to fly an aircraft in three weeks. She then soloed and within two years obtained her commercial pilot’s license. Odlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the value of publicity for her business. Calling her line of cosmetics Wings to Beauty,[8][9] she flew her own aircraft around the country promoting her products. Years later, Odlum used his Hollywood connections to get Marilyn Monroe to endorse Cochran’s line of lipstick.
“Amelia” is Amelia Earhart, of course, who flew nonstop across the Atlantic in 1932, 13 years after John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown and 5 years after Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight.
“Pancho” is Pancho Barnes, air racer and aerobatic pilot.
“Bessie” is Bessie Coleman.
Since it does indeed appear that neither he nor Caitlyn Jenner are going to be Governor of anything in the near future, they should get together and start a celebrity influencer consulting firm, and begin by becoming Kylie Jenner’s stylists and media consultants. Cuomo can help Kylie get fitted for her next 24 karat gold chain bikini while Caitlyn helps the members of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team with their next career moves. Everyone will go on Oprah and it’ll be a story of redemption.
https://pagesix.com/2021/08/03/kylie-jenner-shimmers-in-24-karat-gold-chain-bikini/
Cuomo is young and he has more than 9 lives; it’s just that nobody wanted him running for President in 2024. But he’ll repent, take some punishment and then the sky’s the limit – as long as he remembers his limitations. The Party Made Him, the Party Can Take Him Away!
Also, depending on the outcome and vigorousness of the prosecution, he should get in touch with Al Franken, who is carefully considering his re-emergence into impolite society. The two of them can commiserate, share old war stories and put their heads together to chart a new course. I wonder what Garrison Keillor’s doing these days? Haven’t heard much from him recently, but I think Cuomo – with all his years of public service – could benefit from some clever jokes from Franken and some laconic, honey-dripping prose from Keillor and the three of them together would be a formidable force, indeed. Never say never again. Quitting is for quitters.
Some suggestions:
Making youtube videos on “How to score with chicks”
Relationship podcast with brother Chris “Courting with the Cuomos”
Replace Anthony Fauci as the nation’s disease expert
Write his side of the story in a memoir “Hey, At Least I Didn’t Hire a Prostitute Like the Last Guy”
Explore the wonderful world of Street Pimping
or just become yet another lobbyist or political commentator
The t-shirt bothers pedantic-me in that it mixes up adjectives and verbs as the start of each line.
Wow. “Sexy af”. Just wow.
This is pecisely the kind of coverage Kim Jong Un gets in his country’s press. Fawning adoration of Dear Leaders is a hallmark of full-blown totalitarian cults. (Even the Soviet Communist Party got to denounce Stalin for “cult of personality” – after he died.)
We had taste of that when Drone Nobel Prize awardee got to be the figurehead. But things have progressed since then. In a sense of progression of a serious mental disease.
One thing that is fascinating about the Cuomo situation is the George Orwell 1984 aspect in which he was celebrated by fellow Democrats for decades, despite the fact that they presumably knew everything relevant about his behavior (including the interactions with people identifying as “women”). Now that a public report is available, these insiders are pretending that they didn’t know anything about Cuomo and, of course, he has flipped to being considered purely bad.
To me, a more interesting turn of events is the DOJ refusal to investigate Cuomo’s handling of covid-19 infected nursing homes counterpointed by Cuomo’s fellow new yorkers getting him on sexual harassment accusations anyway.
https://gothamist.com/news/us-justice-department-declines-open-probe-cuomos-handling-covid-19-nursing-homes
https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/facebook-exec-helped-cuomo-smear-sex-harassment-accuser-ag/
President Cuomo ain’t gonna be going after FB 😉
Well, Bill Clinton did quite well — he and Hill had a reported net worth five years ago of about $200 mil, not bad for a disbarred lawyer and his civil servant wife. And Bill arguably was a worse predator — a younger woman, his subordinate, and oral sex under the desk while he was negotiating with Congress for something that seemed important at the time — See Richard Posner’s excellent “An Affair of State,” available for a few dollars on Amazon. Given that
“data point” I would guess that the Luv Guv has a bright future ahead of him.
I tend to dismiss all that “abuse” as pearl clutching. After all nobody held a knife to get these girls on their knees with mouth wide open or onto the casting coach with legs apart. After all, all they needed to do is to turn around and leave, and no harm would’ve come to them. The reality is, they expected something in return, and thus were just as complicit as the perps.
What jars me in the whole affair is the weaponized hypocrisy of the Dem establishment. Everyone and her dog knew exactly what was going on but pretended that everything is nice and dandy, to keep being “in”. The “in” being a company of truly ugly people. Now, when the ugliness became impossible to hide, they’re all like “we never knew”. Of couse, they knew. And the most psychopathic among this nice collection of people I’d be loath to sit to shit next to are using the knowledge at the opportunate moment to drown the competition in the ugliness contest.
What Cuomo really *should* do is resign and switch his party affiliation. In the minds of his “toothpaste is out of the tube” enemies in Albany, he’s finished. All the unions have piled on – Teacher’s, AFSCME, everything.
All of that despite everything Cuomo has done for them over the years. When the chips are down, Cuomo finds that everyone is behind him with a knife, stabbing him in the back.
When’s he gonna wake up?
Andrew Cuomo, if you’re listening, I have some advice for you, and you should take it: The people you’ve helped create are monsters, and they have absolutely zero respect or loyalty to you. They just want power, as you have, and they’re going to take it from you. You should turn around and fight them to the end.