Andrew Cuomo Resignation Megathread

[Progressive Pessimist]

I see the Time's Up leader is out of a job, has the me2crew spoken up about this yet?

Pretty overwhelmingly, yes. Nice attempt at a checkmate.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I'm actually surprised he finally saw the light and is resigning. Good f***ing riddance to our Trump.

It should also be said that another benefit to this occurrence is that we no longer need to hear wild speculation about what a 2022 gubernatorial election with a scandal-plagued Cuomo looks like. We're probably going to get a nice, peaceful, safe D election with Hochul instead now that will lack any suspense whatsoever.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I'm actually surprised he finally saw the light and is resigning. Good f***ing riddance to our Trump.

It should also be said that another benefit to this occurrence is that we no longer need to hear wild speculation about what a 2022 gubernatorial election with a scandal-plagued Cuomo looks like. We're probably going to get a nice, peaceful, safe D election with Hochul instead now that will lack any suspense whatsoever.

Will unions support her? She is married to the vice-president of a notorious union-busting corporation.

I actually didn't know that. Maybe not. But if she really wants to win a full term as Governor, and is aware of this as a weakness, I expect that she will try to compensate for it while campaigning and governing.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Just wondering, why does no one seem to care about Cuomo's nursing home decision? That really should be considered the much worse offense.

It's funny, because that was an issue for awhile when it was first revealed, but very soon after came the sexual misconduct accusations, possibly even because of the nursing home scandal. And obviously sexual misconduct allegations are a bigger media draw, so it sort of overwhelmed the nursing home scandal. I don't think it really makes a difference though because it's clear, in general, that Cuomo was simply unable to govern in general with anyone having any confidence in him.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I always at certain level liked Cuomo and I am sad to see him go.  It seems to me that if he were to go it should be over the nursery home coverup and not this bunch of unproven one-sided accusations which I agree could be true but is not proven to be true.  I guess in the end he just made too many enemies that when he needed friends to help him he had none he could count on.   

They kind of go hand-in-hand in the sense of him not being able to govern when his brand is this tarnished. I personally believe that the nursing home revelations were in fact the catalyst for women coming forward. It proved that Cuomo was not the man he presented himself for his entire term, and especially during the pandemic with the allegations reinforcing his corrupt narcissism.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Here we go:

https://twitter.com/NickReisman/status/1427738159836708867

Blizzard Entertainment didn't decide to make him their new CEO?

[Progressive Pessimist]

Hopefully Kathy Hochul will adopt the dog and serve as a metaphor for what New York could be under her leadership instead, ideally.

[Progressive Pessimist]

jfern, unable to make quips about this anymore, in shambles:

https://twitter.com/JonCampbellGAN/status/1430209292553101313

"Stripped" might be a bad word choice though.