Governor Andrew Cuomo plays for keeps when it comes to Moscow Mitch

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

[DBoon]

1. quote

NY has given $116 billion more to the federal government than we received since 2015.

Kentucky *took* $148 billion more from the federal government than it gave.

Just give NY our money back, Senator McConnell.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I hold Governor Cuomo in very high regard.

It's just the opposite of how I feel about MoscowMitch.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. And right now, Gov. Cuomo has an international audience!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. And he deserves to have that audience!

[wnylib]

15. International? Who else besides

Canada, which is on our border, and part of the TV and radio viewing and listening audience for NY?

[dsc]

22. I would imagine how this country is responding is news in Europe and Asia

and that Cuomo would be included in that.

[Scarsdale]

25. My neice lives in the UK.

She sees Andrew Cuomo on TV and admires him greatly. tRump well,. THAT'S another story.

[roamer65]

41. CNN broadcasts worldwide.

[wnylib]

42. OK. Are they carrying his briefings every day?

I've been following him daily on local media in NY state, so I don't know how much covetage the national media are giving him.

[roamer65]

43. He's on CNN, MSNBC and I do believe C-SPAN.

I have no idea what Faux News does. I don’t have it in my Dish package, thank god.

Dish put Faux in free preview mode and I immediately blocked it.

[wnylib]

44. Are those stations covering him every

day? His briefings usually run for 45 to 60 minutes starting around 11:30 am every day, including Sat and Sun. I guess it's not surprising that CNN covers him.

Cuomo's briefings are honest and factual. Entertaining, too, when he takes on Trump and his enablers.

[roamer65]

45. Yes.

They are covering all of it.

COVID-45 I’m sure watches it as well.

[Woodwizard]

46. NPR covers him

We don't watch TV we listen on NPR, stopped listening to the Orange Menace after a few briefings. Not watching cable news I highly recommend.

[wnylib]

47. The NPR station at Buffalo

is my source. That's why I was asking about international coverage of Cuomo's conferences, since my source is a local station. Part of southern Ontario is in our listening area here, and it's probably true that Canada is included in other border listening and viewing areas, too. But I did not realize until this thread that national TV was still carrying Cuomo daily, and internationally, too.

I don't listen to or watch the genocide creep in the WH. Irritates me immensely that NPR carries his 2 hour political rally daily. At least now that he is pouting about the well-deserved and long overdue criticism for his stupid comments on disinfecting covid patients, we don't have to hear his BS - for now anyway. He will probably be back on the air in some other capacity.

But I still have not excused NPR for their daily coverage of the full 2 hours of the Bloviating Buffoon-in-chief. They could have - and should have - aired a summary of his BS. Cuomo, on the other hand provides factual information that is newsworthy.

[Woodwizard]

48. We listen to WAMC out of Albany

They stopped putting the Orange Menace on. They have a online feed for anyone that wants to listen.

I cant fault NPR for broadcasting him as repulsive as he is, it is news, the Orange Menace is harming himself more than helping spouting his mouth off.

[wnylib]

49. I listen to WBFO out of Buffalo.

I do fault them for carrying the full 2 hours. Most of it is rambling BS. He focuses on himself, the economy, and political views he wants to promote for his election. And says incredibly stupid and harmful things that mislead the public. NPR does a disservice to listeners by covering his campaign speeches that he pretends are pressers.

It's a circus sideshow, not news. They ae promoting his election campaign by airing this phony show every night for 2 hours. It takes up all of the time for All Things Considered and half of the time for Fresh Air. They do not need to cover the whole 2 hours. Many media don't cover it at all. I get all I need to know from the summaries in the news and excerpts played, in a few seconds of playback. That's all that's necessary to cover whatever newsworthy information of value that might accidentally slip into one of those pressers.

[Woodwizard]

50. Switch to WAMC

You can listen over the internet https://www.wamc.org/ they have a lot of original content, my favorite public radio station.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Now, more than ever before, he reminds me of his father

[DFW]

8. My dad used to work a lot with his dad

They held each other in very high regard.

[onetexan]

29. Hear! hear!

[dewsgirl]

4. Yikes.😳

[BComplex]

27. It's high time that the fact that blue states support red states went viral.

It needs to be drummed into the rightwing that their policies DO NOT CREATE WEALTH.

[dewsgirl]

36. Indeed.

[Cha]

7. In your face Stupid Mean-spirited Moscowmitch.

[poli-junkie]

9. Love the push back! Awesome!

I wonder what the stats are for other states, like California?

[Buckeyeblue]

10. That is awesome! This needs to be played and played.

I would like a listing state by state. Let's show who is paying for this country.

[MyOwnPeace]

14. Remember, its a "numbers game"........

and I'm sure Moscow Mitch McTurtle can conjure up some that will make him look like a saint walking into his local evangelical "money rally!"
However, here's an interesting chart - take it for what its worth and continue your research from there!

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/

[Nature Man]

11. Backbone

spine, that's the "tell it like it is" spirit this country needs. You can't make a republican your friend, they're not going to approve of you. You have to fight back against bullies, it's the only language they will understand.

He needs to run for president one day.

[sarge43]

12. No surprise. Gov Cuomo is a The West Wing fan

The burn starts @3:10

[crickets]

13. Oh, it's a thing of beauty listening to that. *applause* nt

[Pepsidog]

16. Come on Cuomo you just did an election ad for Mitch. Kentucky residents must feel pretty good about

Mitch based on Cuomo’s statement.

[wnylib]

18. ??? How does this help Moscow Mitch?

[Pepsidog]

21. He is bringing home to Kentucky lots of money, lots more than they pay to the Fed. Mitch brings home

the bacon.

[wnylib]

24. So that makes Moscow Mitch look

mighty stupid for suggesting that NY go bankrupt. It amounts to killing the goose lhat lays the golden eggs. Something that Amy McGrath can use in her ads.

Bailing out NY and other donor states now would help KY and other recipient states in the long run. To use another cliche, Moscow Mitch is shooting himself in the foot.

I heard Schumer in an interview today say that Republican governors, Senators, and House members do not agree with MM, which puts MM on the fringes when he wants to in control in the center of things.

BTW, MM does not "bring home the bacon" for KY on the issue of donor vs. recipient states. That's got nothing to do with MM or with Cuomo, either. It's just the way the US fiscal sharing system is set up. It was that way before MM and will be that way after him. Except that if MM has his way about bankrupting NY, there will be no more gravy train from NY to KY

[sandensea]

17. The pork barrel states

I lived in Mississippi for some years.

In some places, there's hardly anyone who doesn't depend on federal gummint largesse in one way or another - or hardly any new building built (that's bigger than an outhouse), that isn't built with federal dollars.

But Southern Republicans daydream non-stop with the Confederacy.

[roamer65]

30. Time to pull the money.

Make these states raise their taxes.

[sandensea]

31. "Well, hell. That'd be downright un-American!"

[roamer65]

32. Blue state secession NOW!

Time to talk with PM Trudeau about entry into the Canadian confederation.

[sandensea]

33. But of course, then we'd have another big banana republic on our southern border

The Confederate Dollar would crash due to corruption and mismanagement, and the Cincinnati crossing would be swamped with economic refugees.

Better to keep'em, as annoying as some of them are.

[roamer65]

37. Build the wall!

We could also let Mexico have TX.

[sandensea]

39. Ha!

"And who's gonna pay for it?"

"Mississippi!"

[roamer65]

40. ..

[Grokenstein]

19. This bears reposting.

Link to tweet

Putin's Little Mitch may be the greater evil.

[tosh]

23. Damn, that's a good one!

😳. Straight to the point!

[treestar]

35. Well done by the cartoonist.

Republicans are not patriotic. They are never about the nation.

[Ligyron]

20. Weren't we all wondering when somebody would mention that little factoid?

Hopefully someone whose voice might carry?

I get the feeling that certain folks in certain areas of the country are unaware of this for some reason...

[FakeNoose]

26. Yep this should be the tune of ALL Democratic Governors

I'm in Pennsylvania and I want to hear our Governor Tom Wolf talking the same way to Moscow Mitch and Chump. That's what they deserve, give it to them.

[roamer65]

28. Also CA should get it's money back.

[treestar]

34. That's been the case for a long time

Conservatives somehow manage to maintain that they are the financial successes.

[roamer65]

38. Just take the money back, Gov Cuomo.

Garnish federal tax revenues sent to DC from NY.