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Wrongo x3. I didn’t discredit the investigation, I simply pointed out a connection on the firm handling the allegations and another investigation that targeted conservatives. I certainly consider an agenda or lack thereof because it makes to do so. You do too, but I understand your need to protect the Dem shield. As for a “Wrestler who is conservative...”, if that’s your standard, why are you unwilling to acknowledge Biden’s history— his VP, who is a democrat, stated emphatically she believed the women who Biden assaulted. These are her beliefs, not mine. Ohio State should investigate, sounds like the institution let many, many students and faculty members down. NCAA, ditto. Sounds like the officiating crew might have screwed the pooch as well—did they continue to send officials to Ohio State duels and tournaments after their official was targeted? Do we know? But seriously—why are you giving Biden a pass on this issue? What’s in it for you? duels

All I can do is respond with the information readily available to all. Imo, the standard should be simple— step away from the court of public opinion and give the accused some measure of a fair hearing. That should apply whether the perpetrator is someone we like, or despise. Frankly, I think it’s more important when you despise someone. Your response seems to be that George Clooney is the standard bearer for that sort of thing, perhaps because of his professionalism as a pretend doctor on ER. To me, he’s another rich guy, with liberal leanings, who’s a pretty obvious hypocrite in some areas of his life. I don’t trust documentaries in general, it’s very easy to manipulate people when you’re an exceptional story teller. As for Jordan, you’ve suggested I’d “back him” when I did nothing of the sort. Investigate as necessary and warranted, keeping in mind the following: What’s the point of the investigation? Is it political, criminal, a part of a civil matter, or just something someone is upset about. Color me skeptical that a paid, professional D1 collegiate wrestling official watched a guy spank the monkey in a post match communal shower and his only response was to tell an assistant wrestling coach and no one else. Didn’t report it to Ohio State, the coach of the opposing team(s), or the NCAA officials association? Or, maybe he did and no one cared. Or, maybe he hates conservatives like Jim Jordan. Hard to say. Then again—maybe Clooney will get to the bottom of it. Nice dodge on your boy Biden.

There was a dem recently who was accused of inappropriate touching by 7 women, he took the Cuomo route and apologized for the woman misunderstanding his intent, and said he would do better moving forward. That same dem was accused by a woman of a violent sexual assault while a United States senator. Members of his own party, including other candidates running for president acknowledged on record that they believed the accusations against this very powerful and influential man from the old guard of American politics. The Dems punished him by nominating him for the Presidency. His opponent, the one who believed his accuser based on his pattern of misconduct over several decades, she took a line in the sand by joining his team and telling all the sexual abuse survivors out there that some stories mattered, some people were throwaways. In a perfect world, Cuomo gets an impartial review of the allegations made against him, not a trial by public flogging because some nitwit like you or me mumbles that something “appears credible” which really means “I could see it happening.”. Alas, the world is imperfect and we get back to the dirty world of politics where people like Brett Kavanaugh are targeted for complete character assasination because “credible” means some person said something happened at some time somewhere somehow, and a guy like Andrew Cuomo apparently receives cover for being quite handsy and using the power of his office until he’s disposable. There are certainly allegations against Donald Trump. Whether they are credible is in the eye of the beholder. As for Jim Jordan, the allegation is that he was a coach during a time when a doctor groped athletes. The investigation is being run by the Perkins Coie law firm, a firm associated with the failed Trump/Russia investigation. Jordan has denied knowledge of any wrongdoing. One would assume there would be records of athletes reporting the abuse, records kept on who said what to whom. At this point—par for the course, we have allegations and outrage. People will see what they want to see. One guy acknowledges wrongdoing and 80m people say “no bigs” and look the other way on an allegation of violent sexual assault. He’s president. One guy says he knows nothing about an allegation of a doc groping someone 30 years ago when he was an assistant coach and someone is going to do Docudrama on the story. The main difference? Political party. Btw—I can’t stand Cuomo and thinks he’s a dbag. That said, he should resign if he’s guilty of the allegations and should demand a full public accounting of the story if he is not. That’s on the sexual assault allegation. I think the standard we should want applied should be the standard we would expect for our best friend, not a different standard because some guy is a dick. Why the nursing home scandal hasn’t lead to his ouster is beyond me, but that’s politics for you.

I’m not sure why you feel that way, other than you believe whatever allegations against Trump that may be out there. Cuomo was part of the woke brigade drawing the line in the sand on how things should play out...for anyone not named Cuomo or those in his camp. The telltale sign he was in trouble was when he started babbling about how his kissing and hugging was just him being him. It worked for Biden, I suppose it’s natural that he might think the rules wouldn’t apply to him and for a decade or more, he was right. These allegations, if true, generally aren’t known only to the parties involved. Highly placed people are aware, they just choose to look the other way. I think when it becomes apparent that there are major issues with the elderly dying in nursing homes....and the entire govt is controlled by Dems....and you’re caught fudging numbers because you can....what was once likely tolerated becomes lethal.

When you’re on, you’re on. All I can really say is that by the standards set by politicians like Cuomo, he resign on the allegations made. Based on nursing home deaths and apparently cooking books to dodge DOJ investigations, perhaps it gets worse than just resigning. I say he can keep the Emmy though.

Define “a few” Chef. And keep in mind President Biden has already explained that he will tell you what you can and cannot do later this year. Don’t make him come over there to Cali....or you’re going to be sorry.

I’m very sorry to hear about your daughter and her experience. I have never understood that sort of hatred toward people, it seems so damn pointless. My only feedback beyond that is it’s impossible to know what anyone else’s life experiences are and why they might have a reaction to a politician leveraging this sort of thing. It’s the ultimate whataboutism, though not in the overused internet sense. A friend’s son was murdered when a young man shot him in the neck many years ago. The murderer was black, the victim white. It would be perfectly normal for someone who has walked in those shoes to say “Well... what about that situation. Where’s the prime time coverage from the president on that? It happens everyday.”. I think Un’s comment and point actually mirrors yours— how about we come together and try and fight for the greater good. He just perhaps saw the message as more political then you did, perhaps quite understandably given your family situation.

Keep in mind that by July 4th——maybe we can gather in small groups—-not large gatherings like inaugurations and whatnot, and by then, he’ll tell you what you can and cannot do. I also enjoyed the May 1 declaration where every adult in the country can be vaccinated! Well, not vaccinated, but in line waiting to be vaccinated—unlike now, when every adult who wants to be vaccinated is waiting in groups. Things are pushing forward regardless. States have made their decisions, people are making theirs as well.

I’m not sure what righties you were chatting up, but much of the excitement for most of us was due to the folks that unemployment was in the rear view for a while. No idea where you live, but the confidence was palpable—building, expansion, hope for people across the board was impressive. That was in spite of Dem leadership screaming Russia/treason/Russia/treason/coup/illegitimate election. But, it’s true, there are always people sitting back and complaining about tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. The sad fact is that they could go and grab 75% of the wealth accumulated by Gates, Buffet, Bezos et al, and the people sitting around complaining are in exactly the same place because they’re often conditioned to see themselves as the victim. The good news is that nothing has changed. A 1970s era politician, long in the tooth and fat in the checkbook from years of selling stale promises, is going to sell victimization again tonight, talk about the crumbs that he’s going to send out, relative to full time employment, most of which seems likely to be going to higher gas prices... and they’ll eat it up again. This time will be different. Stay tuned though— because taxes on the wealthy and penalties for their arrogance are coming soon!! No one knows when—hard to say and for sure the billionaires and millionaires will have no options but to pay! Biden has been a lonely soldier in this war against the rich for 5 decades and just needed a bit... more...time.

Just remember Biden has battled a major stuttering disorder his entire life, the manifestation of which causes him not to have a stutter at all, forcing him to grope women, make up fanciful stories of graduating top of his class and taking fire while abroad, and worst of all, the stutter often knocks key facts, figures and entire federal departments out of his brain.

I may not be vaccinated by then. You f’ers keep your hands to yourself, no jubilant cheering and murmur like you’re in church.

Mark my words— I will never, ever bend the knee to the Red King no matter how much sense he makes. Freeeeeedom!

I know a guy who worked in the facilities management department at the state at a very high level. Last I spoke with him (two years ago +/-), he absolutely despised Cuomo. We never spoke about this type of thing, but an example of Cuomo doucheyness was having a custom boardroom table made for his exec team at a cost of $20k-ish, Cuomo not liking the finished product and demanding a new one be made. State ate the $20k. The guy is an entitled prick. It’s unlikely that key members of his party weren’t aware of rumors of this behavior if true, so it’s fair to wonder what changed. I’m in the nursing home deaths tie back to “party” and someone has to go. Interestingly, it wasn’t the corruption scandal with SUNY a few years back—that’s business as usual at NYS.

There is always that.

Friend, you’re wrong. This bill is a prime example of “bipartisan cooperation” that we’ve seen from people like McCain, Kennedy, Romney, McConnell, Pelosi, Swallowell and the like. The problem is that you think it’s about you, me, and the rest of the merry patriots here. It’s about them. They get rich, power coagulates in Washington, and while your righteous vote for Kasich may have made you feel better in some small way, they’re getting under your britches while you’re Erin Brokoviching in a mail in vote that means nothing. To boot, in spite of decades of this crap happening right in front of your collective eyes, 85 mill vote for exactly this type of thing and blame the guy who was trashed by this insiders you want in charge AND was in Washington for what amounts to a long layover on flight from JFK to Miami.

What goes around always goes around because that’s what politicians do. They have and always will, and your sending Mr Biden to the WH is evidence to them that you’re 100% comfortable with it.

I think Biden has Biden Derangement Syndrome but be that as it may, the vote for Trump was in many (if not most) cases a vote against traditional politics as Dems went full tilt knuckles deep into the politics of the past. The heroes have always been Kennedy’s, Clinton’s, and Biden has assumed his rightful role as keeper of the flame. They represent the soft racism of the passively bigoted class of Dems past among other things. The interesting part to me has been that after the Trump admin and all the cries for change, you promptly did what you alway do—vote for the status quo guy with roots back to the 1970s. Nothing says change like the same old hash. And...here we are. Establishment politicians step on the American taxpayer with laundry lists of entitlements and pork, paying off friends and families, more wealth redistribution and you’re happy as a pig in sh8t. Good stuff.

I met David Paterson and worked with he and his wife for a while (non-govt business). I sat in his living room when he was Lt Gov, talked politics and listened to his views on a few main issues, R v. L, and politics of division. He was an impressive man, and I found him very likable. Before he left office, I had occasion to meet his wife at the governors mansion and she showed me around just a bit. One of the cool things was seeing the indoor pool where FDR would exercise when he was gov. The tile on the floor is original from the days he used it, it was a bit overwhelming to stand in a spot where that towering figure of history once tread.

Ah, now we need to elevate the level of discourse. That’s the equivalent of agreeing that all crimes should be prosecuted after you stole my TV. Biden will be fine. He’s a career politician, a guy with sharp elbows and he can probably kick everyone’s ass in an IQ/push-up contest. He can probably kick anyone’s ass behind the school gym like they did in the early 1930s. He knows who the real black folks are— they are the ones who love him. Or he did, maybe, as recently as 3 or 4 years ago. He is what he is, but certainty not what he was. It’s fair game.

I was chuckling about Morgan Freeman being the voice of reason. He’s the guy who was grabbing the gals, propositioning them and lifting the lady’s skirt in effort to see her underwear—you know, just @&$& guys do, and declared we’re at war with Russia. Great actor though. He makes a great pretend President. I wonder if Biden’s inability to move past the language fashionable when he was a young man in 1975 is due in part to his dementia. Half the time he sounds like Edward G Robinson when allowed to speak.

Correct. Nothing defines progressive politics like voting for a doddering old predator who “owns” his misdeeds and who keeps his racism hidden in plain sight. Still, there is no point in arguing an ‘eye of the beholder’ point, hence “whatevs”. Watching Biden age rapidly in real time as his supporters trip to reassure themselves “all is fine” is a study in human psychology. Why does that bother you? Biden was the king of bare-knuckle politics back before the stutter caused a complete collapse of his mental acuity. Young Biden would have been all over this fool.

Well, to be clear, I’m not suggesting some weren’t extremists, who knows what evil lurks inside a man’s soul? I was just seeking to establish a baseline on the initial post, but sort of forgot about it later on. As for gullible and stupid, whatevs. Plenty of that to go around.

I always thought his reaction after walking back is one of the great moments in commercials. Putting Biden in it was a stroke of genius. Many simply took the guy offering the biggest gift basket. The rest was irrelevant.

That freaking stutter, huh?

I disagree only in the sense that the standards (resignation etc) set were set by people like Cuomo. He was a loud voice on this issue. Believe women, trust without question unless of course the allegations are against them, then the woman are disposable and their stories untrue. He’s the guy who infamously called for Kavanaugh to submit to the furor of the masses and to take a lie detector test. Perhaps he should preemptively submit to one to help us understand that the women are not lying, they’re just overly sensitive to his gifts as a human. We seem to be extremely comfortable with the concept of lofty standards like #believeher, yet uncomfortable with the fallout that naturally follows. Then again, he’s the 3rd former Attorney Gen in our state that is dealing with controversy, corruption and criminal activity. It’s almost a job requirement so it’s understandable that they would think rules don’t apply to them—they usually don’t. Franken actually did the honorable thing, ironically, following his own standard.