As the Sun Sets on Andrew Cuomo's Political Career

 Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

It's Saturday, March 13, 2021. The sun is shining. Before we go to bed tonight, we'll set the clocks an hour ahead. Spring ahead, Fall back as the saying goes. Tomorrow, the sun will set an hour later than it did today. We're gaining almost 3 minutes of sunlight every day and although this number will go down as we approach the longest sunlight day of the year (June 21, when summer officially arrives) ... we will still gain some daylight until then.

However, there is one person in New York State who may not look forward to great New York State sunsets, and that person is Governor Andrew Cuomo. I use the term Governor loosely now, because while he still is the de-facto Governor of NYS, he's not one that can impose harsh policy on it anymore. He's been defanged; the power he once wielded has abated and now, instead of using his energy to craft and dictate policy, he's using it to merely survive in office.

This is good news.

Andrew Cuomo is on the way out. As I write this, it's not if, it's when. Worst case scenario is, he rides out his term and in November of next year (2022) he will not be re-elected. Somebody else will be sworn in as Governor in January 2023. It's a year and 9 months away, and as I figure it, that's the absolute best he can remain in office.

But I'm hopeful, as more women come forward that his term will be severely abridged. I'm facing east and holding my prayer beads that he will be gone sooner than that. Much sooner.

Let me make one point clear: I do not support vigilante justice, not jumping to conclusions. As I write this, there are now seven women claiming to be sexually harassed by the Luv Guv. One of them claims she was groped under her blouse. Andrew Cuomo deserves a chance to defend himself, both in a legal court and also the court of public opinion. These are allegations, not etched in steel facts. Yet, anyway.

But as the number increases almost daily, one does have to begin to wonder. As the body count climbed in the Bill Cosby case, his good reputation was erased. When he was convicted and jailed, then we knew: He did it.

Nobody has alleged Andy Cuomo dropped a roofie in their drink and took advantage of them - let's get this out there. And asking for dates in a stupid manner isn't illegal either. But groping is, and if the allegation has any evidence tied to it, it should be heard. Also, changing a job position or moving the employee around after being turned down for a date doesn't bode well for the Gov either.

All this is interesting, but without dates, times and some sort of corroborating evidence ... most of it will stay where it is: As allegations.

I'm wondering why people are on the mini-bus when there is a much larger issue to deal with when it comes to Andrew Cuomo, and that's the nursing home death scandal.

We now know the nursing home death number counts were changed ... and lowered. A recount of the numbers tell us it is at least double. His executive order in March of 2020 (rescinded in May 2020) forced Covid into the weakest population sector in the state, and that is nursing homes. When this colossal mistake came to light, he had the unmitigated gall to blame Donald Trump for it.

Why would he fudge the numbers? For personal and monetary gain, say I. If you read his book in which he congratulates himself on every other page, he asserts NY came in fourth out of fifty states in nursing home deaths. With the new numbers, we're number one. Andrew Cuomo's executive order killed tens of thousands of our most vulnerable population. (Look for this book on the Dollar Store shelves in the near future, keeping company with books from Hillary Clinton and the like.)

So, as the heat is turned up, and as it becomes clear that both the NY Senate and Assembly (both in the hands of Democrat control) are abandoning him, he's taking a real gamble: Does he think he can really ride this out for almost 2 years more? Is he that stupid?

Richard Nixon experienced a similar situation: As Watergate unfolded and his lies were exposed, he also lost his Republican protectors in Congress and the Senate. It became clear: If he didn't resign, he would be impeached. He took the easier way out and resigned.

I suggest Andrew Cuomo be put in the same position: Resign or be impeached.

As a resident of New York State, I can only hope.

New York State's motto is Excelsior, which means Ever Upward.

Goodbye, Andrew Cuomo. Thank God your political career is (almost) over. Your plans to move to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 4 years are pretty much extra-crispy now.

As the days lengthen and the sun sets later every day, isn't it kind of ironic that your days in Albany are growing shorter?

So, Who Will Take the Fall for Andrew Cuomo?

 Once in a while, the liberal media cranks out a surprise. The surprise of February 2021 is how they have turned on one of their favorite sons - NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. It took a while, almost the better part of a year for them to gravitate to the position that maybe he did something wrong by sending covid-positive patients into nursing homes ... and then did something worse by trying to cover it up.

After the first shots were fired about nursing home covid deaths being tied to his executive order, Andy tried various ways to deflect the criticism. His first attempt at blaming Trump for it didn't really grow wings and take off, so in his second attempt to deflect being the target of a probe, he had his own state-run health department issue an investigative report. Of course, this report absolved him of all blame.

Duh. When your boss (or any boss) tells you he wants an investigative report, what they mean is they want a report that blames somebody or something else  - -  and it's also handy if it absolves them of any wrongdoing too. That's a well-known part of a political patronage system that doles out jobs and holds the keys to continued employment and advancement.

Is there anybody stupid enough to really believe the felch dispensed by his own Department of Health? Please step forward, I have some dog really good stocks I'd like to sell you.

Of course, the mainstream media (MSM) sat on this story all last year because .. well, there was an election and they couldn't fling mud at one of their own blessed because they needed it to fling at what they view as the reincarnation of Satan ... and it's pretty obvious where the dung they hurled landed.

Then, the NY Attorney General (a close ally of Cuomo) revealed the nursing home deaths were grossly under reported. A newspaper reporter sued under the freedom of information act and noticed a huge discrepancy between nursing home reports of death and NY DOH reports and brought this to the attention of the AG. To her credit, she refused to be part of the cover up and went public.

As this news took off, another bombshell landed squarely in Cuomo's camp. A communication between one of his staff members and the Democrat leadership in Albany surfaced. Melissa DeRosa, a staffer that sits at Andy's right hand revealed that the real numbers were squelched in fear that it would make Cuomo look bad while giving the Republicans ammunition to politically fight with. It's pretty clear now - a  cover up had been going on for the better part of last year.

But I still have faith in Andrew Cuomo to slough it off by coming up with a fall guy (or fall girl) to take the blame for whatever PC term he dubs this scandal now boiling and scalding his administration. The only question is, who will this fall person be? What crony-puppet will they dredge up to sacrifice to redirect the blame from Andrew Cuomo?

Here's a list of possibilities:

• Melissa DeRosa, whose days in Albany are probably already measured on a short stick for blabbing about it anyway...
• Dr. Howard Zucker, the NY Commissioner of Health who heads the DOH that falsified the numbers in the first place... or
• Some relatively-unknown low-level pawn in the administration who will be willing to take the blame ... and who knows what deal will be cut behind closed doors to make this happen, or
• Scooter Libby. He was the fall guy for VP Dick Cheney; he took the blame and was later pardoned. I hear he's tanned, rested and ready. Ok, scratch out Scooter. He's already done one fall-guy tour and in politics, you only get to be a fall guy once in your life.

In any event, the good news is that Andrew Cuomo's pipedream of running for President in 2024  is probably nothing more than that -  a pipedream. This scandal will shadow him for the rest of his life ... and deservedly so. As you can tell, I'm not a big fan of Andy. I already view him as a butchering murderer of fetuses ranging in age from a few weeks to 5 seconds before they take their first breath, and now he's added his own brand of a selective geriatric eugenics program to his resume.

I'm not sure if Cuomo is going to survive this putsch; I hope he's ousted. But I'm not going to bet on it because I view him as a self-indulgent narcissist, and I think he'll fight like hell to finish out his term which is up for re-election in 2022.

If he's stupid enough to run again, I'm hoping he loses the remaining 15 out of 62 NYS counties he managed to win last time. We'll see. A lot can happen between now and then.

But one thing is certain: He's an anathema now, and the likelihood he'll go to DC as anything other than a visitor is rather doubtful now.

And this is good news, period.

Stealing the 2024 Election

The law of contradiction is pretty simple. A can't be the same as B if they are mutually exclusive. And in divided America, there are certainly plenty of A's and B's. Republicans and Democrats are rather far apart. This is not an earth-shattering revelation; the divide has been there for quite a while. It grew exponentially during the Obama years and the scorch-the-earth policy of the left during the Trump Presidency added to it. America is not unified; it is solidly divided and it is not going to heal in the next four years.

I find it paradoxical that Joe Biden in his call for unity has turned a blind eye to what his party is doing. A last minute 3 day kangaroo court impeachment designed to prevent Donald Trump from running in 2024 is not just shameful, it's destructive to the country. Trying to convince the average American that he incited people to riot at the Capital while ignoring the years of violence that elected Democrats publicly advocated for insults the law of contradiction. You can't have Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and other high-ranking Democrat notables urging violence towards Trump supporters and then point the finger of incitement at Trump.

(But they will give you tips on how to overthrow others they don't like)

We can't have nuts like AOC and Michael Moore telling Republicans they need to be reprogrammed (like the re-education camps of South Vietnam circa 1975) or that they favor imprisonment for Trump. You can't have Trump supporters put into a database for selective punishment as some radical nutcases on the left have spoken about. You can't give the Nadlers, Schiffs and FartSwalwells of the world a bully pulpit to keep pouring gas on the fires of division if you truly want unity. You can't hold a Senate trial that will end up in a mostly partisan vote to impeach a President that isn't even in office anymore. It's a circus side-show meant to stick another knife in Trump's back and we know it. Unity? Seriously? Are you shitting us? 

Make a statement now. You can't have your unity while your party is trying to steal the 2024 election, Joe. What are you and your fellow Democrats so scared of that you want to preempt Trump from running again in 2024? With all the claims of election fraud, wouldn't you want the next election to be as clean as it can be?

The law of contradiction also won't let the past be changed; even that power is denied to God. Oh, you can color it a few shades, but you can't change it. After 4 years of watching such things as immediate demands for impeachment (the day after the 2016 election), the massive effort to dissuade Trump electors casting their electoral votes for him (click Here to refresh your memory) and the Meryl Streeps/Alec Baldwins/Robert De Niros of the world trash Trump on the liberal-owned media regularly, why would anybody on the left be so dim-witted as to think the right is going to want to unify with them? Frankly, we don't want to, and we're also scared of your brainwashing machinesre-education camps. It's bad enough liberals run the colleges and universities we stupidly send our children to for what is little more than liberal indoctrination.

You can't have unity while your party wants to burn Trump and his supporters, Joe. Those are mutually exclusive and the law of contradiction won't let you have both. It's one or the other.

You want unity, Joe? Speak out against these wrongs that your party is doing. Speak out against the people in your party that espouse retribution. Speak out against the violence your party tacitly condones. Distance yourself from these radicals if you want true bipartisanship.

Then maybe, just maybe, we'll listen. We'll consider it. Until then, expect a rough ride, sans unity.

Something Extremely Bogus is Going On

 Well, in reality there's a lot bogus going on lately. Where should we start?

First, let's go with the author of that quote - Elon Musk. His twitter feed says it all: He got tested 4 times in one day for Covid-19; 2 tests came back negative and 2 tests came back positive. Apparently, there are different tests and this one ... doesn't seem extremely reliable.

We're told science is the best method of handling Covid-19. Well, when science itself turns out to be bogus, then all bets are off. Now we don't really know if the supposed Covid spike is really as large as claimed; remember - bad data means bad results. FWIW, Musk also took 2 more tests that use another method (PCP, and I don't think they mean angel dust) and the results will take a day or two to come back. Musk says his symptoms are like a mild cold. We'll see.

Next, the really extremely bogus thing going on is happening in the Governor's mansion in Albany, NY. Andrew Cuomo, perhaps one of the worst human beings ever to breathe on planet earth has outdone himself with ... extremely bogus statements lately. This is the guy who murdered the business base in NY State with an extremely bogus executive order shutting down the majority of tax-paying businesses ... which had the sad side effect of some of them gone for good. Instead of locking down NYC and containing it there with a perimeter, he allowed it to travel upstate with such things as prison visits, etc. Making matters worse, he mandated nursing homes and elderly care facilities accept Covid patients, which of course resulted in 10,000+ deaths. Measured another way, his executive order resulted in about 1/3 of all Covid deaths in NYS to date.

Ah, the bogus part. This walking piece of slime, upon hearing President Trump announce a 90% effective vaccine, seized the day by attacking Trump. Somehow, the politics of Trump are bigger than the scientific breakthrough of a vaccine. Oh, but when Andy needed Trump's help last spring, he got it, and praised Trump at the same time. What changed? Only who would get credit for releasing the vaccine. If this had happened January 21, 2021 Cuomo would be praising Biden for it. We have an extremely bogus Governor in NYS, and if he doesn't join the Biden administration in some capacity, he will join NYS Mayor De Blasio on the list of politicians who will never be re-elected in NYS. Remember, this guy only won 15 out of 62 counties last time, and with the economic devastation in his power base (NYC), he couldn't be elected dog catcher right now.

Lastly, let's talk about some extremely bogus things that happened November 3rd - the election. When you see the "I Voted" sticker on gravestones, it's no joke. This election was fraught with fraud, period. Fraud, of course means the results of the election are suspect. Who knows who really got more votes? 4 years ago, roughly 135 million people voted. This time, about 150 million people voted. How many of them were actually the sole ballot of a living person? How many mail-in ballots were real votes, how many did the Biden-endorsing postal workers discard (read the news, it happened) and if you think Joe Biden is not an illegitimate President-elect at the present, may I interest you in a buying a bridge in Brooklyn?

This may get sorted out in the courts, or it may not get sorted out in the courts. The irony is, of course Biden's call for peace and unity ... after 4 years of Democrat-sponsored rioting, burning and looting in the cities.

When Kamala Harris moves in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then perhaps you'll come to realize that Elon Musk is right:

Something extremely bogus went on.

It's a Package Deal. No Ala Cartes.

As the Presidential Election heats up, sides are being chosen. I'm not talking about simple party choices, Republican or Democrat. I'm talking about sides that are quite divided on some issues, but not others. However, when you choose a candidate for one specific reason, you also get everything else the candidate stands for.

For example, I have a friend who is a postal worker. (I don't know if he will still be after he reads this, but I'm not shy about telling people my views and he already knows that.) Anyway, he's a union rep and his union just endorsed Joe Biden because they don't like Donald Trump's goal of balancing the Post Office budget. His union is also pushing the Democrat Congressman over the Republican.

His reasoning is obvious. To him, it's all about who will give the postal workers more. I understand that.

However, he's also a gun guy. He likes to hunt and guns are part and parcel of that sport. He doesn't understand his Democrat Congressman will sell him down the river when he's told how to vote on a (anti) gun bill regardless of what the constituency in his area overwhelmingly wants. So when Joe Biden says he will put Beto Hell yes I'll take your guns O'Rourke in charge of the gun issue, remember - you  voted for it.

We've already seen this Democrat Congressman fail to represent the wishes of the district. In NY-22, Trump won the district by about 16%. That double-digit number is remarkable because it tells you the will of the district - this is clearly Trump country. Fast forward to 2018 and the the 2019 impeachment vote. Yup, you guess it - he voted to impeach.

Oh, he went through the motions and made the I'm soul searching statements, but it's obvious that when you accept money from Babs Streisand, Alec Baldwin and Rosey O'Donnell, you owe them something and that's your vote when their hate reaches the floor in an impeachment vote. The conclusion is obvious: He was bought and paid for, and that same money is coming back into his campaign fund in an effort to keep him in office for the next time they tell him how to vote.

So it's a trade-off. Your union endorses in an effort to get more at work, but you lose in other ways. If the Democrats get their way, eventually there will be no private gun ownership, period.

But wait, there's more!

You are also endorsing abortion, especially late-term abortion when you endorse the guy you think will vote to give you more at work. Oh, I'm sure you don't want that smell tied to you, but it is by proxy. This Congressman repeatedly voted for late-term abortion when he was in NY government. Late-term abortion is, of course, a polite term for infanticide.

You don't get to pick and choose. It's a package deal, all or none. No ala carte. No some of this, but none of that. You're willing to send an eventual gun-grabbing baby murderer back to Washington hoping for a fatter paycheck or better benefits, that's your business.

But don't turn around and tell me you support the second amendment or are against abortion.

You indicated your preferences when you endorsed and voted. You get the whole package, kit and caboodle.

Just like the sign at the Chinese restaurant says.

No substitutions.

Generation U

Maybe it's me. Perhaps Oprah is right; old white people just have to die. (Yes, she actually said that.) Since I'm not raising my hand and volunteering to fulfill Oprah's desire, I guess I'll just keep doing what I'm doing (trying to enjoy life) until God grants her wish.

In the meantime, it has occurred to me that perhaps the wrong generation is being told to fuck die off. As we witness the greatest generation wane to extinction with the baby boomers joining them in spectacular numbers, the thought that life is sometimes unfair has crossed my mind lately. Personally, I think the wrong generations are dying off.

Let's get one thing on the table: The generation labeled the greatest generation is aptly named, because there will never be a generation as great as that one. They are the ones that bled and died so that you wouldn't be goose-stepping while speaking German ... or Japanese, or perhaps both.

Those that came home sired the baby boomers and I happen to be one of those. Lately, somehow I'm being told that I'm guilty of something. It's a color and I'm also told I'm privileged because of it. Never mind that I came from a poor white (broken) family and worked myself out of it, never mind that I made sacrifices and decisions along the way that sometimes hurt me and sometimes helped me. All I wanted was an opportunity, and while there are those that will argue with me that opportunity comes in different flavors, I can say that America does offer opportunity to everybody, but it doesn't tell them it's opportunity. You have to figure that out by yourself.

Then came the Gen-Xers and things began to change. I'm not going to blame the X'ers for the problems of America, but I am going to say they weren't as repulsed as their parents were at the problems liberalism has wreaked on America.

Millennials  came next and they carried America's journey left ever further, but they understood the limits. They understood that America is a capitalist country and that to succeed they had to embrace a work ethic as their parents before them had done.

But now we're dealing with Generation Z and this generation has some rather funny ideas about things. They're the ones with measurable numbers promoting socialism and ... well, I call it free everything. Somehow, the work to be successful (and eat) paradigm has faded away. They don't only want it, they want it now. The idea of working and saving is an insult to many of them.

I think the nickname they have been given is wrong. Gen-Z may have a cool ring to it, but it's inaccurate. A more appropriate name would be Generation-U and in my opinion (which means nothing) it more accurately describes their mantra.

Gen-U is the term I have in mind. The "U" could mean unhappy and I'm certain many of them are. But the more accurate term would be ungrateful and that's what I mean when I say Gen-U. No, not every person born in the late 1990s and on is ungrateful, but as I view the rioters, arsonist destroyers and looters in the major cities (not to mention Antifa, Chazmania and so on), it becomes obvious that these are the worst of the current generation. I'm not sure what will make them happy (other than free everything and/or political power), but then again I don't really care if they're happy or not. I just care that they're not trying to tear down the system that allows opportunity to be seized.

Generation U. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. From my point of view, the glove fits pretty damn good.

Faster Than Drunken Sailors on Shore Leave

Don't spend it. Seriously, don't spend a nickel of it. Put it in the bank and sit on it for now. If the $1200 you previously got from Uncle Sam is already gone, the word on the street in DC is that there's more coming. Uncle Sam is going to fire up the presses and send you another $1200, if the HEALS act currently being negotiated on Capitol Hill gets passed.

Odds are it will be, for a myriad of reasons ... The biggest being, this is an election year and both sides need to show their voters they're bringing home the bacon, so to speak. Both sides will claim victory, but neither will take the beating that should come with this trillion-dollar pork bill. Who will bother to complain about another trillion being added to the national debt when they're too busy enjoying free money?

You'll be sorry if you blow it on trinkets and doodads you really don't need ... Because you're gonna need it real soon now when all the taxing agencies already familiar with you come up short for next years budget... compounded with the fact that they're already far short of this year's anticipated revenue, thanks to Governors all over the US murdering their business base as they brag about saving us from a dismal Covid-19 fate. In reality, they didn't save very many; NYS had over 32,000 deaths as I write this. When my sister points out Florida surpassed us, she doesn't realize that's only in positive test results, not the death count. Florida was hovering just under 6,000 deaths yesterday when I looked, and that's less than 1/5 of what NYS has so far (if you believe the warped data to begin with anyway).

If there wasn't such a blatant and hypocritical approach to it, it might have been better received by the public. The rules were contorted and twisted to begin with; for example in NY State, Andrew Cuomo shut down everything that was non-essential. This included churches, theaters, gyms, barbers/hairdressers, bars, courts, museums, elective medical procedures and indoor dining (just to mention some on the list). Even construction was shut down, unless it was essential. The economy suffered and went into a recession; jobs were lost and as a result, tax dollars on all fronts were negatively impacted.

But liquor stores (!) were deemed essential and stayed open, and via the appeals process, construction of a tourist center (how essential is that) in Utica got a waiver to continue. 3 months later, the cap blew off in national racial rioting, looting and inner-city destruction. Taking it to even more hypocritical heights, when the rioters protesters were congratulated (NY Governor Andrew Cuomo said he stood with them), then even a mongoloid can see how off the wall stupid these life-saving rules are. Mass gatherings are okay one way, but not another? How do these dimbulbs even begin to rationalize this?

All layers of government are going to raise taxes; simple math dictates this. But first, you'll be softened up. Now there's a boogeyman handy to blame and his name is corona virus. This guy is going to be the sock puppet that is held up when the substantial tax increases come. For example, in the county I live in, the county executive says we're 30% off projected revenue and is begging for federal help. Never mind that the real sickness has been tax and spend for years, and that in the 2 preceding years his less than $400 million dollar budget got a $16 and $19 million dollar increase in spending blowing it well past $400 million ... now he's got his excuse: It wasn't him, it's corona virus.

Ditto for your local municipalities (towns, villages and cities) and schools ... and of course, state government. Sales tax revenues are less than 3/4 of projected numbers, unemployment is up since the Governor shuttered his business tax base ... they're being slammed from all sides. Less revenue and more spending. To top it off, the worst and most incompetent governor the state has ever had decided to journey down to Georgia and ... give them advice. The Charlie Daniels Band's song The Devil Went Down to Georgia has taken a whole new meaning lately. As long as Georgia is listening to northern Yankees giving out free advice, my advice to the Georgia governor is to do exactly the opposite of what Cuomo suggests to him because it sure as hell didn't work here.

That free dough Uncle Sam is giving you ... is going back to a government taxing agency quicker than you realize, and if you don't have it to give back, they don't care. They'll just pluck it from you in another fashion. You're going to pay more regardless of whether you have it handy or not.

And of course, what accompanies a large increase in taxes?

Prices, via inflation. Double digit-inflation. Remember when Carter was in office? Those are going to be the good-old days of inflation .... because, as the saying goes ... You ain't seen nothing yet.

Look out, it's coming to a location near you real soon now. As in, your house on your street.

Again, don't blow Uncle Sam's free money ...

Because it's not going to be free at all.