The Rude Pundit: Andrew Cuomo Finally Gets Rid of His Last Fuck

[babylonsister]

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4/18/2020
Andrew Cuomo Finally Gets Rid of His Last Fuck


(Note: Before I get all slobbery on Andrew Cuomo's knob, lemme preface this by saying I agree with all the things you dislike about him. I've got lots of grievances, too, since I fuckin' work for the state of New York. This ain't about any of that. Are we good? Yeah, shut up. I don't really care. Here we go.)

You gotta give New York Governor Andrew Cuomo credit. For weeks now, he has pretty much held his fire when it came to the vast amounts of fuckery being done during this COVID-19 pandemic by Donald Trump and the federal government he has deformed to fit his grotesque image. For the most part, he has thanked the president for various kinds of assistance, and he has avoided going after Trump by name or even office. Indeed, the few times that he has criticized the federal government's response to the crisis, they have been mild reproaches about Trump palming things off on the states that DC should be taking care of. Still, even those exceedingly light comments would draw the typically snide tweets or comments from Trump. But Cuomo insisted he was staying above the fray.

Until yesterday, that is.

See, in the middle of his daily press briefing, a reporter informed Cuomo that Trump had tweeted an attack on the governor, accusing Cuomo of not doing enough, insisting that he had been extra generous with New York, and saying that Cuomo needs to thank people more.

That was the moment you could actually see Andrew Cuomo toss his last fuck in the garbage. Without missing a beat, he said, "Good. Good. Let’s respond to the president." And then he went for over 9 minutes with a calm, fact-filled, skillful, coherent answer that was the equivalent of ripping out Trump's spine and beating him with it as the orange blob sank to the ground.

In answer to Trump accusing Cuomo and other governors of asking for too much, Cuomo stated plainly that they were using the estimates of deaths and hospitalizations given to them by the "CDC, Coronavirus White House Task Force," adding, "that’s you. White House. That’s you. We relied on your projections." Then he eviscerated Trump on his refusal to help the states with testing like a skilled murderer with a razor-sharp stiletto. That was followed by Cuomo giving Trump a lesson in history and the Constitution when it comes to the powers that rest with the states:

"'Well, it’s up to the states to do reopen.' By the way, it was always up to the states. What, are you going to grant me what the Constitution gave me before you were born? It’s called the 10th Amendment. [Note: I love how Cuomo phrased that in a way that mocks Trump saying, "It's called Article II"] I didn’t need the President of the United States to tell me that I’m governor. I didn’t need the President of the United States to tell me the powers of a state...People did that. Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison. They are the ones who gave me the power and I don’t need the President of the United States to read the constitution for me. Maybe he should have read the constitution before he said he had the power to open the states."

Then Cuomo mocked Trump on not even listening to his own projections when it came to the national stockpile before my favorite moment. It was when he went right at Trump's hoggish vanity: "So, thank you again Mr. President for the Javits. Thank you for the US Navy ship Comfort, which by the way, it’s just doing your job as president. It’s not really thank you like you wrote a check yourself, but thank you for that." Goddamn, that was pretty much the moment that I jizzed my jeans because Cuomo is dead-on right there. Trump always wants to be thanked for doing shit that's just his fuckin' job. He's like the student who asks if he can get extra credit because he showed up in class. No, motherfucker, you did the bare fuckin' minimum.

Cuomo was asked if he had talked to Trump about the president's desire to "reopen" the country on May 1st, and that led Cuomo to another 6 minute calm, direct tirade about how much of a bullshit fake leader Trump is. Before restating that what the states need from the government is help with testing and personal protection equipment for hospitals, the governor went again for Trump's narcissistic jugular, saying, "All he’s doing is walking in front of the parade, but he has nothing to do with the timing of the parade, right? The governors are going to open when they think they should open."

And just read this part of Cuomo's purging of everything he's obviously been wanting to say to our bloated garbage bag of a president: "How many times do you want me to say thank you? But I’m saying thank you for doing your job. This was your role as president, okay? So that’s the honest statement of fact, without politics, I’m not running for anything, I have no agenda but delivering for the people of this state and without ego. You want me to say thank you. Thank you for doing your job in helping build Javits and sending the US Navy Ship Comfort. Thank you for participating in a modicum of federal responsibility in a national crisis. Which you know is a national crisis because he declared a federal emergency. So, thank you for having the federal government participate in a federal emergency."

Holy shit, that's beautiful. Lemme say that again: Holy shit, that's so fuckin' beautiful. Because, believe it or not, a virus doesn't give a shit about state lines. So maybe you need a federal government to fuckin' coordinate a response and resources to stop it all over the country.

Read the whole thing. It starts at around the one-hour mark in the transcript. And keep reading. Read how he says Trump should fire his own people if he thinks they got things so wrong. Read him saying that the states desperately need funding. And read this:

"Our only mistake was then believing your numbers and believing your projections. If that was a mistake, then I’m guilty. But, I thought New York State, relying on what you said would have been a safe assumption. I won’t make that mistake again."

This was the cathartic moment some of us have been waiting for from Cuomo, the moment when the lie of comity was cast aside and the complete and utter contempt and disgust real leaders have with this feckless fuck of a president was finally articulated.

Cuomo is acting like there are lives at stake. Trump is acting like this whole thing is an inconvenience to holding another rally before going golfing.

[dalton99a]

1. Cuomo's rebuttal was outstanding.

[wnylib]

50. Yes it was. I listened on my radio

while busy with other things and was so awestruck by what I was hearing that I stood still to catch it and then started summarizing it in a NY thread at DU. Cuomo was scathing and I loved every minute, even as I knew Trump would retaliate.

[Blue Owl]

2. Double K&R

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I love The Rude Pundit!

This essay is so right on.

Cuomo is holding tRump's feet to the fire and it's done with class.

Bravo!

[yellowdogintexas]

38. so do I!

I enjoy his call in to Stephanie on Mondays. Thanks to him for sharing this with us

[FarPoint]

4. Well said...

I love having a second opinion of what I believe was great!

[Docreed2003]

5. Trump has truly never acted as if lives are at stake...not once

In every press conference, he seems to react as if lives are just the cost of business. Excellent piece from RP!

[OMGWTF]

10. Shitler DGAF about anyone but himself and Daughter-Wife

[ancianita]

6. Cuomo's stand was 9 minutes of beauty. Hope they're in Biden's campaign ads. Go, Bloomberg team!

[smirkymonkey]

7. Bravo!

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Here's the quote I love............

"All he’s doing is walking in front of the parade, but he has nothing to do with the timing of the parade, right?"

THAT is ABSOLUTELY it! It's all about "being seen" - its all about "ME!"

But, as the Governor so clearly points out, the EMPEROR in front of the parade has no clothes!

BRAVO, GOVERNOR!

[dhol82]

9. Yes, that would make an excellent sound clip in a campaign ad.

[ooky]

13. Agree. That was my first thought when I heard it. nt

[RVN VET71]

22. That image is hard to get rid of.

Trump strutting naked in front of the parade behind him. I pity the poor marching band that has to look at that grotesquerie.

But maybe one of the flag bearers can, no, I better not. It would be too borderline to say the kid holding the flag might lower it, point its staff between those huge and sagging orange suet-cheeks and charge. So I won't.

[Hekate]

11. KnR for Governor Cuomo!

[onecent]

12. Thank you,,,,Babylonsister....hope that's right you have MADE MY DAY!!!!

[PennyK]

14. I watch MY Governor every day

Okay, okay, I live in Florida now, but Andrew Cuomo is the one leader anywhere I believe.
(Met his dad briefly once)

[yellowdogintexas]

39. I know one more you can believe: Andy Beshear, Gov of the Commonwealth of KY

He has been doing afternoon pressers from the time things started to get scary and in no time he had a hot line, a commission, doctors and scientists and others lined up to help and them appear in everyone of these conferences, much like Cuomo. He is calm and soothing.

He started stronger shelter in place much earlier than the surrounding states - my sister told me that Kentuckians down there were asked to not go to Tennessee unless for medical, legal or essential needs, because it was riskier there.

His father was the governor who accepted the Medicaid expansion and set up the poster child for the ACA done right.

I am so proud of all these governors who are working so hard to keep their citizens safe.

[not_the_one]

15. No, the motherfucking turd hasn't even done the bare mother fuckin' minimum.

The turd, who LOST the office of the president to Hillary Clinton by almost 3,000,000 votes (COUNT THOSE ZEROES, DONNIE), but STOLE the EC with the funding from the Kochs, Adelsons, Mercers, et al, and PUTIN, along with the fascist FOX network, Breitbart, et al, thinks the presidency is his by some sort of legacy entitlement. 'Cause he wants to be KING.

I'd loan Cuomo one of my fucks, but sadly, they too are gone.

REVENGE is going to be SOOOOO sweet. And as far as I am concerned, at this point, it is ALL about revenge. I no longer have a single, forgiving bone in my body.

Donnie two scoops thinks HE can hold a grudge? He has no idea what is coming.

[patphil]

16. I saw Cuomo's news conference. It was just about f**king time he unloaded on Trump.

I really do believe one of the biggest reasons Trump wants the country opened again IS so he can go golfing and hold rallies.

As Cuomo said, stop tweeting and get back to work. But then being a leader is just too much work for him.

Trump is much more well suited to sniping, character assassination, pandering to his base, and basking in the glory of his worshipful followers.

Actually leading a country through a major pandemic is way out of Trump's league.

[Goodheart]

17. I'm going to have to give Cuomo 4 out of 5 stars for that....

I deducted one for calling trump "president" .

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. They're already planning Fat Donnie's next rally because, you know, social distancing is for wimps.

What's sad is that a certain percentage of people who attend a rally to chant, "U-S-A! U-S-A!" will get infected. They will then infect their children, their elderly parents, and anyone else they come into contact with who insists on breaking quarantine because, "It's my Constitutional right!" The latter category I could give shit about, but children and grandparents shouldn't suffer because their parents/adult children are so stupid.

[greymattermom]

48. They should give out wrist badges at the rallies

with MAGA or Trump 2020 printed on them, and tell folks to keep them on until November. Then everyone will recognize the carriers without testing.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

49. They should also give each person a toe tag for their corpse.

And while they're at it, give them enough tags for every member of their family and their parents and in-laws. Saves the coroner time and money later.

[Pepsidog]

19. Absolutely fantastic observations. I listened to Cuomo's remarks.

Just like Gen. Mathis’s resignation letter, bumble-fuck Trump will probably use Cuomo’s comments in tweets to show what a great job he is doing by tweeting “look at Gov. Cuomo thanking me profusely “. I know this sounds ridiculous but I think Biden at some point should call out Trump. I mean get in his face nose to nose and call him the coward he is. And why aren’t Dems calling for Trump to resign? He won’t but why aren’t they calling for his resignation? That’s why I love AOC and other Dems who fight back. Literally the best attacks on Trump and Republicans come from Never Trumpers. Schmidt, Rick Wilson, George Conway etc. Nicole Wallace is great and I couldn’t stand her during the Bush years. Joy Reid pushes back hard and Maddow and Laurence are terrific but I want more elected officials to stand up and scream “Where are the fricking millions of tests you promised”, askTrump “wouldn’t the country be better off if you resign”. My Lord Rs criticized Obama for wearing a tan suit, denied his citizenship, his patriotism, his education etc. I am so tired of being a doormat.

[turbinetree]

20. Well the Pundit, did it again..................

and since the orange one likes to go on twitter, maybe millions of us should copy and paste these comments to the orange blob without a spine ..............and then if some of us want to watch, we can really see his head explode.............

When he will be again asked: What about the testing equipment and PPE's, where are they...........your talking about having fucking assholes show up at state capitals doing your chickenshit dirty work for you, why aren't you standing at the front of the chickenshit line in front of the capitals, with same asshole's that should be charged with reckless endangerment...............................

I can imagine the Rude Pundit being a President...................

[MissMillie]

21. I actually heard it live on NPR

I literally applauded him.

[RVN VET71]

23. Should anything happen to Biden -- and I hope it doesn't

-- but it did once before, in '88 when he was laid low by a brain aneurysm -- Cuomo must be drafted to replace him, whether he likes it or not.

[Lonestarblue]

24. I think we should all encourage Trump to hold many, many rallies right now.

Don’t wait to reopen things. Schedule a rally next week, or maybe two. Get out there and spew the nonsense and talk to “your” people. Spread the virus, and see how your supporters like it.

[crickets]

25. It's about time somebody let trump have it. Good for Cuomo. nt

[Woodwizard]

26. Myu Wife and I were eating lunch

Listening when the reporter asked that question about the tweet and he said maybe the president should be doing something besides watching TV, we both started laughing, then said about time. Take the gloves off and push the narcissistic Orange Menace over the edge.

[avebury]

27. I really like Joe Biden but I have to admit

that I would love to see Andrew Cuomo run for President against Trump. He would eat Trump alive. Cuomo has handled the pandemic in a very presidential manner.

[yellowdogintexas]

40. he is going to be a magnificent surrogate for Biden though

he has taken the gloves off and switched to brass knuckles. Once you do that you can't go back.
I am stocking up on popcorn

[Evolve Dammit]

28. Gov. Cuomo is providing rational, calm, directed and compassionate leadership and filling a void

left by Drumpf and the Gravedigger

[Lock him up.]

30. K&R

Oh and BTW, where are the toddler-in-chief's tax returns he promised to release FOUR F YEARS ago?

[BootinUp]

29. righteous. nt

[Karadeniz]

31. Rats! I've been listening to Cuomo, but missed this one...thanks for filling the gap!

[Pinkflamingo]

32. It's worth watching the video on YouTube

[tblue37]

33. K&R for visibility. nt

[scarletwoman]

34. I love RP's closing line:

"Trump is acting like this whole thing is an inconvenience to holding another rally before going golfing."

[localroger]

35. Had Cuomo been from the South

He would have said something like "Why sure we need to thank Mr. Trump more, in fact we have to thank him so much that all we can say is just bless his heart."

I'm not quite sure what John Bel Edwards would do in a similar situation. His state doesn't have his back to the extent that New York has Cuomo's. But he's taken good care of Louisiana, and a lot of us have noticed.

[hughee99]

36. If when to shut down and when to open up was always up to the states, then doesn't that mean

it's the states faults for not shutting down sooner?

[Cha]

37. And, Clusterfuck Invited Gov Cuomo to do it!

Perfect!

[DeSmet]

41. MAGA

SDNY

[Kitchari]

42. K&R

Most righteous

[Demovictory9]

43. k&r

[Joinfortmill]

44. Thank you

[napi21]

45. Thanls Gov. Cuomo! Glad to see somebody call this AH out for all he's NOT doing! It must have

hit home too because DT is now talking about testing! About damn time! I doubt the message actually got to DT, but to his WH advisors. Simeone told him it's in HIS interest to get with the program.

[Girl powers]

46. Andrew Cuomo

When you’re in deep sh&t (and we are) you need a George Patton. And we have one in Andrew Cuomo. New York is lucky to have him.

[Aussie105]

47. Words spoken in white hot anger

cut deep. Down to the bone. Many times. Hope Trump bleeds.

New York is fighting two evils. The virus, and Trump's stupidity.

[paleotn]

51. My better half has been tuning into Cuomo's press conferences daily....

Because that is what competent and inspired leadership looks like. Textbook on how to lead in a crises. NY is fortunate to have such leadership. So are virtually all states in the NE. I pity the red states. I really do. Can you imagine Greg Abbott tackling NY's crises? It would be a disaster of biblical proportions and a massive reservoir of viral infection affecting the rest of the country. And that's exactly what TX is head for. Mark my words.

[dchill]

52. K&R.