“AMERICA WAS NEVER GREAT,” says our next President!” Special Opinion to the Mirror by Paul Plante
Section 8 of the Article I of the New York State Constitution, the Bill of Rights, states that “§8. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press,” and given that the autocratic Democratic Socialist governor of the corrupt “Empire” state, as corrupt New York state is known in the governor’s chambers on the 2d floor of the state capitol in Albany, New York, Young Andy Cuomo, son of former governor Mario, is a citizen of the state, he too may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible, as are the rest of us, for the abuse of that right, even if his exercise of his liberty of speech, as in The Hill article “Cuomo: America ‘was never that great'” by Emily Birnbaum on 15 August 2018, makes Young Andy sound ignorant, petulant, spiteful, hateful, and just plain stupid, as we see from the opening sentence of that article, as follows
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said at an event on Wednesday that America “was never that great,” drawing groans and boos from the crowd.
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For greater clarity as to the “event” where Young Andy was exercising his liberty of press, we have the Albany, New York Times Union article “Cuomo claims America was ‘never that great’ by David Lombardo, @poozer87, for anyone interested, published Wednesday, August 15, 2018, we have:
Speaking on Wednesday at an event in New York City promoting his equality agenda, the governor took a shot at President Donald J. Trump’s campaign slogan and outlined the issues that the country needs to address to achieve greatness.
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And there we have the setting, folks, an event in heavily Democratic and Democratic Socialist New York City promoting Young Andy Cuomo’s “equality agenda,” which is how Young Andy Cuomo intends to really make America great when he becomes the American president in 2020:
“We’re not going to make America great again,” Cuomo said.
“It was never that great.”
“We have not reached greatness yet.”
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Now, before anyone gets upset here, people, let me once again stress the fact that just because he is governor of New York state thanks to New York City, which put him there despite the wishes of the rest of the state, who lack the votes to counter huge New York City, Young Andy Cuomo should not be deprived of the opportunity to show the world just how ignorant he really is of who Americans really are, and what America has already been.
He has the same God-given right as everyone else in America to open his mouth and use the media to show the candid world just how big a fool he really while at the same demonstrating how small a person he really is, by diminishing and disparaging the contributions of ordinary Americans, regardless of gender or sexual orientation or skin color or ethnicity, who make America great each and every day by getting up in the morning yo take care of their families, and educate themselves and go to work to keep this country running, despite hack politicians like Andy Cuomo who can only run it down.
And here, let me define “great” as “of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above the normal or average.”
So what then, is the normal, or average?
In New York State under Young Andy Cuomo, it is endemic public corruption.
It is children in Hoosick Falls, New York drinking water contaminated with the carcinogen PFOA, thanks to the corrupt New York State Department of Environmental Conservation doing the “right thing” by looking in the other direction.
Consider the New York Daily News article “Ex-Cuomo aide surrenders to face federal corruption charges” by Victoria Bekiempis, Kenneth Lovett, and Greg B. Smith from September 22, 2016, for example:
One of Gov. Cuomo’s closest friends and ex-aides shook down upstate companies seeking lucrative state contracts right under the governor’s nose, prosecutors charged Thursday.
Joseph Percoco, Cuomo’s former executive secretary and campaign manager, was charged in a detailed 80-page complaint unsealed by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Seven others were also charged, including the head of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, a top executive of an upstate energy firm, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) and five execs of major upstate firms.
The two firms, COR Development of Syracuse and LPCiminelli of Buffalo, have been major donors to Cuomo for years, records show.
Prosecutors also revealed a former top Cuomo aide-turned- lobbyist, Todd Howe, 56, secretly pleaded guilty to corruption charges Tuesday and has been cooperating with the feds since June.
Bharara — whose crusade against Albany misdeeds has already resulted in the conviction of two of the state‘s top legislative leaders — made clear the actions described in the complaint portray “systemic” problems in New York state government.
“I really do hope that there’s a trial in this case so that all New Yorkers can see — in gory detail — what their state government has been up to,” he said.
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In New York State under Young Andy Cuomo, people, that is the average, or normal, so certainly it can truthfully be said that under Young Andy Cuomo, New York State is far from great, and in fact is pretty pathetic, as well as the nation’s highest taxed state, but the fact that New York State isn’t great and hasn’t been for some long time now does not mean that America itself has never been great, defined as “of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above the normal or average.”
What about during WWII, for example?
Using that definition of what “great” is, can anyone rationally argue that during WWII, America was not truly great, both on the homefront, where every woman’s full potential was being realized and unleashed and every woman including folk heroine “Rosie the Riveter,” was making her full contribution, even as military pilots shuttling planes around, and on the battlefield, where American youth were taking on the might of Hitler’s war machine in Europe, and Tojo’s war machine in the Pacific?
So what is up with Young Andy Cuomo of New York who is going to be our next president running down America’s accomplishments during WWII?
And the truth of the matter is that Young Andy Cuomo, who is nothing but a hack politician, knows absolutely nothing about that period of American history, or those people, nor does he care.
Young Andy was never in service, nor does he care for those who were.
So that is part of the reason Young Andy says America was never great – he is ignorant of our history as a people and as a nation.
But more importantly, for Young Andy, America will not be great until he is president, and all of America is following his agenda, which point was made in the Times Union article by Cuomo spokeswoman Dani Lever, who issued a statement attempting to clarify the meaning of the governor’s remarks, to wit:
While the governor believed America “has not yet reached its maximum potential,” she said the governor “believes America is great.”
“The governor believes that when everyone is fully included and everyone is contributing to their maximum potential, that is when America will achieve maximum greatness.”
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And of course, until the autocratic Young Andy Cuomo becomes president, that is simply not going to happen, because no one besides Democratic Socialist Young Andy Cuomo has the right stuff to make America truly great, which is to say, “of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above the normal or average.”
And there is how that story of how America is not yet great but will become so when Young Andy Cuomo is president begins.
As to where it is going, all I can say is stay tuned, and don’t touch that dial!
Not surprisingly, after accomplishing that Houdini-like trick of stuffing not one, but both of his feet into his mouth at the same time with his patently stupid comment in The Hill article “Cuomo: America ‘was never that great’” by Emily Birnbaum on 15 August 2018 that America “was never that great,” New York’s progressive Democrat governor and prospective Democrat presidential front-runner in 2020 Young Andy Cuomo, son of Mario is now out there on the world stage, doing “THE WALK BACK,” like Michael Jackson doing the Moonwalk, as we see in The Hill article “Cuomo reverses ‘inartful’ comments: ‘Of course America has always been great'” by John Bowden on 17 AUGUST 2018, to wit:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) reversed remarks he made earlier this week about American greatness, calling his language “inartful.”
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For those like myself who are for exactness in language, “inartful” is defined as “awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.”
So we have a contradiction in terms there, do we not, people?
If “inartful” means “awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue,” then has Young Andy, known in New York as “The Honker” for the honking noises that emanate from him (being from New York City, he talks through his nose) when he gets to yelling as he so often does, then has Young Andy really “reversed” remarks he made earlier this week about American greatness?
And that answer is clearly no, he has not reversed anything.
Instead, he is trying to gull us, with him doing the old “Shuck and Jive” here, as if everyone of us was as totally stupid as are his followers in his power base of New York City and environs.
Getting back to The Hill article:
Cuomo told reporters on a conference call Friday that he believes the country “has always been great,” the Democrat and Chronicle reported.
“The expression I used the other day was inartful, so I want to be very clear,” Cuomo said Friday.
“Of course America is great and of course America has always been great.”
“No one questions that.”
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But that is not really true that no one questions that, if we go back to 2010, when Young Andy was announcing his candidacy for governor of New York as was reported by the Syracuse Post Standard in an article entitled “It’s official: Andrew Cuomo announces candidacy for governor of New York state” by The Associated Press on May 22, 2010, as well as the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/1247467900607/andrew-m-cuomo-s-announcement.html to wit:
“I’m Andrew Cuomo, and I work for you.”
“Together, we can make New York great again.”
“Let’s get to work.”
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So, what is up with that, people?
If in 2010, Young Andy was telling us that “(T)ogether, we can make New York great again,” was he really acknowledging that in 2010, when he incidentally had been the elected Attorney General of New York since 2006, that New York state, allegedly a part of the United States of America, was in fact a corrupt third-world ****hole like some banana republic with a caudillo as tin-pot dictator?
And if in 2010, we needed to “work” with Young Andy to make New York great again, then how can he truthfully say “Of course America is great and of course America has always been great?”
Shouldn’t that really be “Of course America is great, if you leave out the corrupt New York state under governor Young Andy Cuomo, and of course America has always been great, if again you leave out the corrupt New York state?”
Seems so to me, anyway.
So, in one breath out of one side of his mouth, we have Democrat presidential front-runner Young Andy Cuomo telling us “We’re not going to make America great again, it was never that great,” and in the next, out of another side of his mouth, we have the same Young Andy telling us “Of course America is great and of course America has always been great, no one questions that,” even though Young Andy and his multitude of followers and acolytes do, and then we have the same Young Andy in 2010 telling us out of a third or fourth side of his highly-mobile mouth that “I’m Andrew Cuomo, and I work for you, together, we can make New York great again, let’s get to work.”
So what on earth is up with all of that?
Does Young Andy have any clues whatsoever as to what he is on about, or is it all just spontaneous babble dictated by the phases of the moon?
As to the corrupt New York state not being great in 2010, despite what the rest of America might have been, we have this endorsement of Young Andy by the New York Times to consider as to why New York state was not great in 2010, despite Young Andy Cuomo having been the state attorney general, which gives us guidance as to why New York state is not great today, because Young Andy has been governor, to wit:
“Cuomo for Governor”
OCT. 22, 2010
It has been many years since New York State had a governor with the vision, judgment and authority that it needs now to turn Albany’s budget from obesity, to resist powerful interests, to plot a course out of an ethical netherworld in which state the government has become a national embarrassment.
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Right there is a succinct statement as to why New York state was not great in 2010, and it is dead on the money.
Getting back to the NY Time’s opinion piece:
For the state’s fed-up voters, the choices are Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic state attorney general, and Carl Paladino, the Republican businessman from Buffalo.
Despite several position books, Mr. Cuomos candidacy has been more skeletal than it should have been, and there have been times when he failed to stand up forcefully for his stated principles.
But he has a strong record in office over the last four years and has proposed serious solutions for some of the state’s problems.
We endorse him with the hope that he would be a bolder and more forthright governor than he has been a candidate.
New York cannot afford anything like the scandal, gamesmanship and weakness that have marked the governor’s office in the past four years.
Our endorsement is not merely a process of elimination.
Mr. Cuomo has proposed serious ethics and redistricting reform.
His blueprints for reasserting fiscal control lack many important details but generally seem to set a proper course.
He knows about the sinkholes and mudslides of Albany from the experience of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.
As the state’s chief lawyer, he successfully prosecuted Democrats and kept pressure on Wall Street while actively defending consumers.
He needs to be no less assertive if he becomes governor.
Mr. Cuomo acknowledges that his foremost task is restoring trust and transparency to Albany, and the sections on ethics reform are the most impressive in his briefing books.
To outlaw the pay-to-play nature of state contracting, he proposes low campaign contribution limits for contractors and lobbyists.
He would limit soft money in campaigns, tighten disclosure and prohibit personal use of campaign funds.
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And when we look at what happened since Young Andy took office as governor, the corruption has become even worse.
So regardless of what the rest of America might be doing, New York State is definitely not great today, which reminds us older folks up here of Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury (1661-1723), who was a governor of New York before Young Andy, and who could well serve as the template for the Young Andy Cuomo administration today, to wit:
Viscount Cornbury was the son of Henry Hyde, the second Earl of Clarendon.
He came from a long line of reputable descendents including; his important father, a king as his uncle, a profitable marriage to Katherine, daughter of Lord O’Brien, and perhaps most beneficially, his cousin was Queen Anne.
These connections provided him with a good education in Geneva and a seat in Parliament in 1685.
His prospects sparkled, yet his reputation did not.
Cornbury was noted as being “a spendthrift, a grafter, a bigoted oppressor and a drunken vain fool.”
He encountered many problems while in England, including a scuffle with James II.
As an Anglican, Hyde became one of the first army officers to desert James II, integrating himself with the victorious William and Mary.
Many of his burdens were financial, and were eventually the reason he made his move to the American colonies.
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Like Young Andy, Lord Cornbury was a consummate political opportunist.
Getting back to the narrative:
Because Cornbury often overindulged in his lavish tastes, he overspent a considerable amount of his income and found himself being pursued by numerous creditors.
In an attempt to escape from his problems, Cornbury fled to the colonies with Queen Anne’s blessing.
Immediately upon his arrival in New York in 1701, Anne appointed Cornbury as governor of New York.
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There, people, is the beginning of the political process in New York state that has resulted in Young Andy Cuomo being the governor today – the cultivation of important political connections.
And back again to the narrative:
Only one year later, in 1702, the Queen added the title of governor of New Jersey to Cornbury’s list of duties.
The populace of both New York and New Jersey would learn that Cornbury was not a fit governor, as he was unruly and for the most part indifferent to the needs of the people.
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Today, the people of this state who do not live in the New York City area, which is Young Andy’s power base think Young Andy is not a fit governor, as he too is indifferent to the needs of the people of New York outside of New York City, but so what says Young Andy, because there are not enough to matter in his political calculus.
And back to the Lord Cornbury story:
When he first arrived in New Jersey in 1703 the colony was rife with factional and political tension.
In what had earlier been a proprietorship of East and West Jersey, a group of political parties sought Hyde’s favor as they fought with each other over such things as land, money, power and religion.
Cornbury was indifferent to these issues, but he saw the possibility for personal gain, hence his poor reputation began.
Hyde gathered a group of politicians who shared his political sentiments, and they called themselves the “Cornbury Ring.”
Instead of simply allying himself with an existing faction, he created the Cornbury Ring.
It engaged in such corrupt activities as grabbing land and looting public funds.
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Today, we have the Cuomo Ring, and as the New York Daily News article “Ex-Cuomo aide surrenders to face federal corruption charges” by Victoria Bekiempis, Kenneth Lovett, and Greg B. Smith from September 22, 2016, the Cuom,o Ring makes the Cornbury Ring seem like rank amateurs when it comes to public corruption:
One of Gov. Cuomo’s closest friends and ex-aides shook down upstate companies seeking lucrative state contracts right under the governor’s nose, prosecutors charged Thursday.
Joseph Percoco, Cuomo’s former executive secretary and campaign manager, was charged in a detailed 80-page complaint unsealed by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Seven others were also charged, including the head of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, a top executive of an upstate energy firm, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) and five execs of major upstate firms.
The two firms, COR Development of Syracuse and LPCiminelli of Buffalo, have been major donors to Cuomo for years, records show.
Prosecutors also revealed a former top Cuomo aide-turned- lobbyist, Todd Howe, 56, secretly pleaded guilty to corruption charges Tuesday and has been cooperating with the feds since June.
Bharara — whose crusade against Albany misdeeds has already resulted in the conviction of two of the state‘s top legislative leaders — made clear the actions described in the complaint portray “systemic” problems in New York state government.
“I really do hope that there’s a trial in this case so that all New Yorkers can see — in gory detail — what their state government has been up to,” he said.
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What was that saying – the more things change, the more they stay the same?
Works for us in New York state, anyway.
And here is yet another news story, this one from CBS News entitled “Cuomo to help families sue Trump over Hurricane Maria response” by Peter Martinez on 3 September 2018, about a ridiculous, loud-mouthed bully of a hack politician named Young Andy Cuomo, aka “THE HONKER,” the Democratic Socialist governor of corrupt New York state, the most corrupt state in the nation, who is the prospective Democrat party presidential contender in 2020, the same hack politician who said America was never great, and won’t be until he is put in charge of it as our emperor, using state taxpayer dollars to file frivolous lawsuits against the Trump administration to buy his way in to the White House in 2020, to wit:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a congregation Sunday that he would help families sue President Trump and his administration for failing to provide adequate assistance to those affected by Hurricane Maria.
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Now, frankly, that claim is as ridiculous as is the one making it, as we see from the following from that same article to wit:
Cuomo said the Trump administration violated Puerto Ricans’ Constitutional rights of equal protection under the law.
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HUH?
Say what?
How so, Young Andy?
And this is the same Young Andy Cuomo whose own thuggish policies routinely violate the Constitutional rights of equal protection under the law of those of us who are American citizens residing in upstate New York, outside of Young Andy’s power base of New York City, whose Democrat and Democratic Socialist population far outstrips that of the rest of the state, which is why Young Andy, the thug, can routinely violate our rights and get away with it with impunity, since he is the one who also appoints the state’s judges.
Getting back to the CBS News story:
“President Trump never tried to help Puerto Rico.”
“Florida got attention, Texas got attention, and Puerto Rico got the short end of the stick.”
“That is not just wrong and unethical and despicable, it is also illegal,” Cuomo said Sunday at the Heavenly Vision Christian Center in the Bronx, New York.
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Yeah, right, Young Andy, in your dreams!
But it gets better yet, as we see from the following:
“We’re going to hold ‘King’ Trump to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution said equal protection under the law.”
“Puerto Rico did not receive equal protection under the law,” Cuomo said.
“New York is standing with Puerto Rico the way we said we would.”
“We are going to fight back and we’re going to show this president that the law is the law.”
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That, people, is what political pandering looks like in real life, right there before our eyes.
For those unfamiliar with the term, Wikipedia tells us that “pandering” is the act of expressing one’s views in accordance with the likes of a group to which one is attempting to appeal, and the term is most notably associated with politics.
In pandering, the views one is expressing are merely for the purpose of drawing support up to and including votes and do not necessarily reflect one’s personal values, as is obvious in the case of Young Andy here, to wit:
There were no immediate details released about Cuomo’s plan nor did he take any questions at Sunday’s event.
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Which brings us right back to 2010, when Young Andy, then the attorney-general, was running for the office of governor, and this editorial from the NY Times entitled “Cuomo for Governor” on Oct. 22, 2010, as follows:
Despite several position books, Mr. Cuomo’s candidacy has been more skeletal than it should have been, and there have been times when he failed to stand up forcefully for his stated principles.
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Young Andy always has a press release full of praise for himself, but never any substance,
And speaking of press releases touting his greatness, we have one from Young Andy on September 24, 2017, entitled “Governor Cuomo Launches Statewide Empire State Relief & Recovery Effort for Puerto Rico” as follows:
Following his visit to Puerto Rico to deliver emergency supplies and see firsthand the widespread damage and devastation from Hurricane Maria, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today launched the Empire State Relief and Recovery Effort for Puerto Rico.
“After seeing the breathtaking devastation and unfathomable need for help firsthand in Puerto Rico, I am launching this effort to put the full weight of New York’s resources behind the Puerto Rican people,” Governor Cuomo said.
“New York has a long and proud history of standing up to help those in need, and with millions of Puerto Ricans suffering, we must do everything we can to help our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters recover.”
“Puerto Ricans have helped make New York great — and we will not leave our family alone in its time of need.”
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So America was never great, but New York was great, and that because of people from Puerto Rico, not Americans.
What horsecrap, but that is what political pandering is all about.
Getting back to Young Andy’s latest pandering, we have:
“Somebody has to stand up to this president.”
“He is a bully,” Cuomo said.
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Now, given the facts here, that last line is a real doozy, because Young Andy, who is calling Trump a bully, is himself a thug and bully, which makes him calling Trump a bully a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, but such is presidential politics in America today, so what else can we expect, beyond yet more of this horsecrap from Young Andy to come between now and 2020, so America, stay tuned to this same station for breaking news as it happens on this same story of Young Andy Cuomo’s quest for the Washington White House.
And since we are actually looking at the start of a presidential campaign here, whether we realize it or not, as Progressive Democrat and Democratic Socialist Young Andy Cuomo, the thuggish governor of corrupt New York state, the most corrupt state in the nation, amps up his rhetoric as the opposition to U.S. president Donald Trump in anticipation of his 2020 run for the Washington White House, let’s take a quick review of things here for the moment as regards the many positions Young Andy has taken with respect to the question of America being “great,” or not.
First off, we have Young Andy in The Hill article “Cuomo: America ‘was never that great’” by Emily Birnbaum on 15 August 2018 telling us American citizens as follows:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said at an event on Wednesday that America “was never that great,” drawing groans and boos from the crowd.
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Then we have the “walk-back” by Young Andy in The Hill article “Cuomo reverses ‘inartful’ comments: ‘Of course America has always been great’” by John Bowden on 17 AUGUST 2018, to wit:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) reversed remarks he made earlier this week about American greatness, calling his language “inartful.”
Cuomo told reporters on a conference call Friday that he believes the country “has always been great,” the Democrat and Chronicle reported.
“The expression I used the other day was inartful, so I want to be very clear,” Cuomo said Friday.
“Of course America is great and of course America has always been great.”
“No one questions that.”
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But at the same time, if we go back to 2010, when Young Andy was announcing his candidacy for governor of New York as was reported by the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/1247467900607/andrew-m-cuomo-s-announcement.html we have him saying, to wit:
“I’m Andrew Cuomo, and I work for you.”
“Together, we can make New York great again.”
“Let’s get to work.”
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And then on September 24, 2017, in one of his plethora of press releases touting his own greatness, this one entitled “Governor Cuomo Launches Statewide Empire State Relief & Recovery Effort for Puerto Rico,” we have the same Young Andy saying as follows:
“Puerto Ricans have helped make New York great — and we will not leave our family alone in its time of need.”
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So what is it really, people, besides a pandering hack politician with a mouth so agile and mobile that Young Andy can speak out of many different sides of it, all at the same time, depending on who is in front of him right then?
And with respect to prospective Democrat presidential contender and front-runner Young Andy Cuomo’s highly mobile mouth, which makes him the demagogue’s demagogue, back in 2010, when Young Andy was telling us in New York state something we already knew, that not only was the state not great, notwithstanding what the rest of the nation might have been back then under the bootheel of Democrat Barack Hussein Obama, who wanted Young Andy to be governor of New York to give Obama political support for his Obama agenda, it was in fact a corrupt ****hole, as we see from the wording of this press release Young Andy put out back then, telling us why the state was a corrupt ****hole, to wit:
Hello. I’m Andrew Cuomo.
I have the great honor to serve you, the people of our State, as your lawyer, your advocate, your Attorney General.
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Now, when it comes to putting out gobs of political horse****, there is a prime example of it, because as attorney general, Young Andy Cuomo was never “our lawyer,” nor was he “our advocate.”
As attorney general, Young Andy was in fact the state’s lawyer, and as the state’s lawyer, Young Andy defended the corruption.
According to New York Executive Law § 60, as attorney general, Young Andy was the head of the Department of Law in NYS, as follows:
There shall continue to be in the state government a department of law.
The head of the department of law shall be the attorney-general who shall receive an annual salary of one hundred fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
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In NYS, the Department of Law, which Young Andy was head of as attorney general, does not serve as our lawyer.
It serves as our adversary.
As to Young Andy’s duties as attorney general, those are defined by New York Executive Law § 63, General duties, as follows:
The attorney-general shall:
1. Prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings in which the state is interested, and have charge and control of all the legal business of the departments and bureaus of the state, or of any office thereof which requires the services of attorney or counsel, in order to protect the interest of the state.
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The phrase “protect the interest of the state” makes it pretty clear exactly what Young Andy’s job was as attorney general, and it certainly was not to be our lawyer or our advocate, unless, of course, we were a part of the pay-to-play culture, having bribed the state for special favors, and then, yes, as attorney general, Young Andy would have had our back, which takes us back to his 2010 press release, as follows:
Every single day for the past three years, I have gone to work with one mission: to represent the people – Period.
To fight for you, no matter how powerful the foe, no matter how long the odds.
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That is pure horse**** leavened by a dollop of pig ****, because it is patently false, and that, people, is what a demagogue looks like in action in real life, where demagogue is defined as a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
And that is just the start of the spew of horse****, which Young Andy is reviving as he positions himself for his 2020 presidential run against Trump, as we see from the following from that same press release, to wit:
You have welcomed me into your homes.
I have met your families.
I have learned about your problems and your challenges.
I understand that we are in a difficult time, even a frightening time.
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And people, I am not making any of that up.
Those are Young Andy’s own words from a real press release he put out to gull the people of New York back in 2010.
And consider, when he says “I understand that we are in a difficult time, even a frightening time,” that he is referring to Barack Hussein Obama being president and Hillary Clinton being secretary of state, which certainly did make those times frightening for many people, not only in America, but in the world, as well.
And getting back to Young Andy very revealing 2010 press release, we have as follows:
The economic collapse has wrecked havoc in too many lives.
Life savings have been lost, jobs are shaky, home values have plummeted, and with it dreams for retirement, college tuitions, and a nest egg to rely on.
Reckless bankers exploit the economy and working families are paying the price.
Now Wall Street gets bonuses and taxpayers get the bill.
It’s not right and it’s not fair.
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And Wall Street was getting those bonuses and working families were paying the price, because that is how Democrat president Barack Hussein Obama decreed that it was the right thing to do, as did Young Andy himself, in real life, as we see from the Politico article “The governor of Wall Street” by Jimmy Vielkind on 10/28/2014, to wit:
Some Democrats have done well for themselves by attacking Wall Street.
Elizabeth Warren and Eric Schneiderman, who called for stricter regulation and prosecution of of executives involved in the housing bubble; Bill de Blasio, who won a mayor’s race by attacking income inequality and promising to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund social programs.
And then there is Andrew Cuomo, who has done well for himself over the past four years by doing the opposite.
The son of a liberal icon who has cast himself as a centrist, Cuomo has treated New York’s financial services sector with kid gloves, quietly pushing through favorable policies and, a bit more loudly, holding the line against others’ calls for tax increases.
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As a hack politician who is a consummate demagogue, Young Andy knows which side the bread is buttered on when it comes to Wall Street, as we see from this following from that same article:
Overall, Cuomo has done little to rock an industry that, according to recent estimates, accounts for a fifth of the state’s tax revenues and employs 162,400 workers with an average salary of nearly $360,000.
If Wall Street executives had any concerns about the governor before—as a vestige, perhaps, of the rather more adversarial pose he struck following the financial collapse, which took place when he was attorney general—they seem to have disappeared with de Blasio’s election, and the mayor’s immediate push for a tax hike and limits on the proliferation of charter schools.
Cuomo made a public point of blocking de Blasio on both fronts, making an unprecedented appearance at a pro-charter rally at the Capitol and declaring the tax hike dead.
If anything, Cuomo seems likely to deepen his engagement with the financial sector in a second term.
Cuomo has raised nearly $45 million over his four years in office, according to an analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group, with top sums coming from real estate magnates.
But while S.E.C. regulations make it difficult for investment banks to contribute, Cuomo has received over $50,000 each from KPMG and Ernst & Young; employee PACs from Citigroup, Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase, as well as hedge fund titans and investors like Stanley Druckenmiller, Daniel Loeb, Blair Effron, James Simons, Carl Icahn, Ron Perelman and Ken Langone.
The other end of the stick is taxes, where Cuomo has treated Wall Street quite well.
He has not only resisted calls to raise taxes, he has cut the overall corporate tax rate and eliminated the state’s dedicated bank tax, saying it relied on an outdated formula that offered a disincentive to keep jobs in New York.
The governor talked about the changes in the context of manufacturing and small business, but dollar for dollar, banks will see the biggest impact.
They boosted Cuomo, too: The governor has touted them in advertisements and won adulation from business groups.
“Certainly there is great appreciation that he understood the need for corporate tax reform, and the importance of that to the financial industry,” said Wylde.
“We love corporate tax reform.”
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If that looks like Young Andy Cuomo pandering to Wall Street, it is because Young Andy is indeed pandering to Wall Street, as again we see from that Politico article, to wit:
But these very same policies came at a political cost to Cuomo within his own party, angering public sector labor unions and progressives who labeled him “Governor One Percent” and protested him during the 2011 Occupy demonstrations in New York City and Albany.
“His economic policies certainly favor the wealthiest New Yorkers over regular New Yorkers,” said Ron Deutsch, executive director of the labor-backed New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness.
“Ultimately, he’s a trickle-down, supply-side subscriber, basically.”
“I think he really does believe that you have to cut taxes for the job creators.”
“He buys into and promotes many of these Republican tax policies.”
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Which is going to make this a very interesting presidential race between Young Andy Cuomo and Donald Trump, since Young Andy, who bills himself as the opposition to Trump, in fact has many of the same policies as trump, except that Young Andy had them first.
As we consider all the various positions taken by prospective Democrat party presidential frontrunner Young Andy Cuomo on the greatness of America, or lack thereof, depending on which day of the week it is that Young Andy is speaking, back in 1838, in a work entitled “The American Democrat,” in the chapter “On Demagogues,” American author James Fenimore Cooper, stated as follows with respect to the breed, which most definitely includes prospective Democrat presidential front-runner Young Andy Cuomo of corrupt New York State, to wit:
Men properly derive their designation from their acts, and not from their professions.
The peculiar office of a demogogue is to advance his own interests, by affecting a deep devotion to the interests of the people.
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That description fits Young Andy Cuomo to a tee, which again takes us back to 2010, and the press release of Young Andy telling us why he should be the governor of the state of New York, which office was but a stepping stone on his path to the presidency of the United States of America in 2020, to wit:
To make matters worse, Manhattan’s Wall Street debacle is matched only by Albany’s State Street debacle.
Our state government in Albany is disreputable and discredited.
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.
The New York State government was at one time a national model.
Now, unfortunately, it’s a national disgrace.
Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
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Indeed, it does, right on up to today, and as we read those words from the man likely to be our next president, we have to consider that Young Andy’s father Mario, known as the “Hamlet on the Hudson, ” served as the 52nd Governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1994, and Young Andy began his political career working as the campaign manager for his father, so Young Andy has a political insider’s view of the corruption, which was rampant when his father was governor, and when Young Andy was attorney general.
That is why he can speak so authoritatively about it.
From there, our Young Andy then continued as follows with his demagoguery:
In my option (sic.), politicians of both parties, Democrats and Republicans, share the blame.
Both are guilty of playing partisan politics and bringing New York State to the brink.
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WOW, people, who’d a thought it!
Democrats, which party includes Young Andy himself, and Republicans playing partisan politics!
The things we are learning in here thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror.
And the interesting thing about all of this is that despite what I am quoting being an actual press release, not once was Young Andy called out on any of these statements he made, as I am doing in here.
Why?
Is it because the mainstream media has no memory?
Is it because the main stream media is cowardly?
Or is it because the main stream media itself plays politics?
You would think that the main stream media would have come right back when Young Andy made his claim about politicians of both parties, Democrats and Republicans, sharing the blame, by asking him why that indictment did not include him, as well, and why that indictment should preclude him from holding either state or national office, but not a peep.
Go along to get along is all I can think.
And whoa, wait a minute here, stop the presses, because we have just had a gauntlet thrown down here by President Donald Trump, who Young Andy Cuomo intends to de-throne or de-fenestrate in 2020 in the Marketwatch article “New York Times publishes anti-Trump op-ed from what it says is senior administration official” by Steve Goldstein published Sept. 5, 2018, as follows:
“Nobody is going to come close to beating me in 2020,” he (Trump) said.
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Now, people, is that a challenge to Young Andy, or not?
Talk about disrespecting Young Andy, that statement fairly drips with it, and why not?
Which brings us back to Young Andy’s 2010 press release, which he seems to be reviving as we head into the next presidential election cycle, which has actually already begun, as we can see from those challenging g words from Trump right above here where he tells us “Nobody is going to come close to beating me in 2020,” to wit:
Because I believe so deeply in the mission of government, I am so troubled by its failure.
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Now, people, is that a primo presidential-sounding soundbite, or what?
And think what a TWEET on TWITTER that revived soundbite from 2010 would make, as well.
But, hey, the presidential-sounding rhetoric from prospective Democrat party front-runner Young Andy Cuomo does not stop there, as we see from the following:
The Declaration of Independence says that when government fails, the people have the right to replace it.
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Now, talk about a counter-challenge to Trump’s challenge, there we have it, right in front of us, which has people wondering if that infamous anonymous op-ed knocking Trump in the NY Times wasn’t written by Young Andy himself posing as a Trump administration insider, which is not outside the realm of possibilities given that the NY Times did endorse Young Andy for governor in 2010.
And that endorsement of Young Andy by the NY Times back in 2010 brings us back to the 2010 press release of Young Andy which earned him that endorsement from the NY Times, as follows:
Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the obligation, to act.
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And you know what, there he is 100% right – under Young Andy Cuomo as New York State Attorney General, the state’s top lawyer with a duty pursuant to New York Executive Law § 63(1), General duties, to prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings in which the state is interested, and have charge and control of all the legal business of the departments and bureaus of the state, or of any office thereof which requires the services of attorney or counsel, in order to protect the interest of the state, New York State government had failed and yes, we, the people in upstate New York outside of Young Andy’s political power base of New York City most affected and adversely impacted by that failure did have the right, indeed, the obligation, to act, but sadly, we simply did not have the population numbers to make our actions count, so now we are stuck with Young Andy as governor and all the corruption which swirls around his administration.
So is Trump’s boast in the Marketwatch article “New York Times publishes anti-Trump op-ed from what it says is senior administration official” by Steve Goldstein published Sept. 5, 2018 that “(N)obody is going to come close to beating me in 2020,” realistic?
Or is Trump merely dreaming?
Stay tuned, more on that is yet to come.
Well, people, last night, that being 13 September 2018, some serious political history was made in corrupt New York State, and if fellow New Yorker Donald Trump has a lick of sense, something his many detractors seriously doubt, he is going to rethink his boast in the Marketwatch article “New York Times publishes anti-Trump op-ed from what it says is senior administration official” by Steve Goldstein published Sept. 5, 2018 where Trump was stated as saying, “(N)obody is going to come close to beating me in 2020.”
Just four weeks after an article appeared in The Hill entitled “Cuomo: America ‘was never that great’” by Emily Birnbaum on 15 August 2018, wherein we were informed that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said at an event on that same date that America “was never that great,” drawing groans and boos from the crowd, Progressive Democrat/Democratic Socialist Young Andy Cuomo, the governor of the corrupt “Empire” state cleaned the clock of Democrat primary challenger Cynthia Nixon, who early in the campaign, a Cuomo surrogate called an “unqualified lesbian,” beating her into the ground and trouncing her with roughly 65 percent of the vote to her 35 percent.
By way of review, we have the following from the Albany, New York Times Union article “Cuomo claims America was ‘never that great’ by David Lombardo, @poozer87, for anyone interested, published Wednesday, August 15, 2018, to wit:
Speaking on Wednesday at an event in New York City promoting his equality agenda, the governor took a shot at President Donald J. Trump’s campaign slogan and outlined the issues that the country needs to address to achieve greatness.
“We’re not going to make America great again,” Cuomo said.
“It was never that great.”
“We have not reached greatness yet.”
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Quite obviously, from the fact that Young Andy posted a huge win just four weeks after telling America and the candid world that America never was that great, and won’t be great until he is president to make it that way, his message of America’s lack of greatness resonated with a huge majority of the voters in this state, and that spells out trouble for Donald Trump in 2020, as we can clearly see from the POLITICO article “Cuomo sails to primary victory, with eyes to the White House” by Laura Nahmias on 09/13/2018, where we are informed as follows concerning the threat Young Andy Cuomo of New York poses to Trump in 2020, to wit:
Now as Cuomo positions himself for a possible 2020 presidential run, he’ll do so as the head of New York’s sizable Democratic majority in a state that fashions itself as a leader in challenging Trump’s actions to push the country to the right.
“It’s a great night for the governor, and we’re all proud of that because we believe he’s got a great record as governor,” said Bill Mulrow, a former top Cuomo aide.
“He’s obviously willing to fight back against what’s going on in Washington.”
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There is Young Andy building the momentum now that he will need two years from now, when the presidential season comes on us in 2020, and potential candidates for the high office begin jockeying for position in the race.
As the POLITICO article makes incandescently clear, with 88 percent of districts in New York reporting, Young Andy posted big numbers, beating Nixon roughly 65 to 35 percent, so he has some momentum, and that had George McDonald, a Cuomo ally and founder of the Doe Fund, saying he was holding out hope for a Cuomo run against Trump in 2020, as follows:.
“He’s by far the best candidate the Dems” could run and “I’m going to try to convince him of that, even though he said he’s going to serve four more years,” he said.
And as a sign of exactly how powerful Young Andy’s star power in New York is, he could get away with dismissing challenger Cynthia Nixon as an “unqualified lesbian,” whereas if Trump dismissed a female like that, he would be excoriated from one end of the country to the other as anti-LGBT, an insensitive brute and misogynist.
And that alone should have Trump quaking in his boots, the fact that the Democrats are willing to overlook anti-gay rhetoric from Young Andy that they would crucify Trump for, so they can win control of the Washington White House and the spoils that go with it.
As to Young Andy positioning himself as not only a Progressive Democrat but also as a Democratic Socialist in 2020, according to the Politico article, unlike some Democrats, the primary showed Cuomo’s willingness to move where the party is going.
“Even though he’s been a centrist moderate Clintonista he has shown that he can be pushed to the progressive wing of the party rather swiftly and easily,” Fordham political science professor Christina Greer told POLITICO.
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And when it comes to money, that essential quantity in American politics today, where offices are bought, not attained by merit, POLITICO tells us that Young Andy’s victory was buoyed by a $30 million war chest and the endorsements of virtually all of New York’s labor unions, its highest-profile elected officials and newspapers.
In the run-up to the primary, Young Andy blanketed cable television with ads touting his record on gun control and women’s rights and attacking Trump, spending $16 million over a period of six weeks between mid-July and late August, more than 25 times what Nixon was spending.
In the waning days of the campaign, Cuomo spent roughly $400,000 a day.
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In fact, Young Andy Cuomo is such a prodigious fundraiser that he even had $64,000 from Trump in his political warchest.
As to the teflon overcoat the Democrats in New York state have given their hero and champion Young Andy Cuomo to wear on his way to the Washington White House, the POLITICO article concludes as follows:
Thursday’s win also came after a series of late mistakes in the final weekend of Cuomo’s campaign.
He opened a new span of the Tappan Zee Bridge the Friday before the primary only to be forced to close it down hours later, because of structural problems with the old bridge.
And his campaign spent days defending its involvement in the distribution of a mailer that implied without evidence that Nixon was anti-semitic, before admitting that one of the governor’s former senior aides had signed off on it and another senior aide had drafted it.
For much of the day before the primary, Cuomo effectively went into hiding, keeping his whereabouts a secret from the press in an apparent effort to evade further questions about the mailer.
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HO HUM, say the Democrats, that is what politics in America look like today, so no big thing, really.
And as to Young Andy stealing Trump’s Republican poli5tical base away from him, the POLITICO article gives us this:
Although socially liberal, the governor pursued moderate economic policies and seemed to prefer Republican control of the state Senate in an overwhelmingly blue state, an arrangement he helped ensure by allowing Republicans to redraw election districts in their favor.
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Meet the new boos, will he be the same as the old boss?
All I can say, is stay tuned, and don’t touch that dial!
Breaking news as it happens on this same station, and now a break for station identification.
And for a little irony in here, with respect Progressive Democrat New York State governor and prospective Democratic Socialist presidential front-runner Young Andy Cuomo being quoted in the Albany, New York Times Union article “Cuomo claims America was ‘never that great’ by David Lombardo, @poozer87, published August 15, 2018 as saying “We’re not going to make America great again, it was never that great, we have not reached greatness yet,” in the January 21, 2009 Inaugural Address of Young Andy’s political mentor Barack Hussein Obama, Hussein was quoted as follows:
“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation we understand that greatness is never a given.”
“It must be earned.”
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Sounds like Young Andy and Barack Obama are not on the same page there.
If, as Young Andy says, America was never that great, then how in January of 2009 could Hussein Obama expect us to reaffirm it, where “reaffirm” means “confirm the validity or correctness of something previously established?”
And if Obama was correct in January of 2009, that we were going to reaffirm America’s greatness, then what on earth is Young Andy Cuomo on about in 2018 telling us that America was never great?
Is he calling out Obama as a liar?