OK. I'm a sorry I referred to the whoremonger Cuomo as a "greaseball" when "subhuman piece of shit" would do as well and is perhaps truer. The gaunt and glaring Cuomo is certainly not greasy and could in fact use a bit more grease. I like Meeropol an awful lot and Ginsberg maybe and don't want to upset them, though I can live with anybody being offended if they really want to be.
As to the gangster charge: 1) Cuomo represents a family dynasty in politics which is presumptive evidence of a gang in any line of endeavor. What were the Kennedys but white-tie gangsters? At all events, the Cuomo family is certainly as much a gang as the Drumpfs. It would be surprising if they were not. 2)The Cuomo family have long been rumored to have Mob ties, to the point where Mario Cuomo was obliged to put forward a major "information" campaign to deny it. A lengthy and equivocal article in the New York Magazine/Intelligencer discusses the rumors, many originating with the police and various anti-mob official investigating bodies and cannot finally dismiss them. No successful lawsuit for slander or libel has to my knowledge ever been filed on behalf of the family ( https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/12/mario-cuomo-and-those-mob-rumors.html ) It's worth noting that nobody in history has ever been more active in the cause of denying the existence of the Mafia as a slur on Italians than Joe Colombo, whose reputation speaks for itself. Nobody, on the other hand, has ever mistaken Arturo Toscanini, Giuseppe Verdi, Dante Alighieri, Enrico Fermi, or Joe DiMaggio for Tony Soprano--whom we all know to be perfectly fictitious. 3) After demonstrations against the rich in the Hamptons and other manifestations of popular concern over social inequality in the state, Governor Cuomo stated that he spent one whole day talking to his friends there and asserted without qualification that no proposal to raise taxes on these parasites would be acceptable to him. This is gangster behavior with or without a mafia. "A little talk with the boys." ...." Really! ( https://gothamist.com/news/after-talking-all-day-long-rich-new-yorkers-hamptons-cuomo-says-he-cant-raise-their-taxes ) 4)I've seen a number of accusations against Andrew for improper behavior in the array of offices lavished on him during his cursus honorum by his father and his father's associates but it would take too much time to go through every possibly goofy accusation and separate the Internet dreck from the real stuff. (See https://www.dunwalke.com/sidebars/andrew_cuomo.htm for a typical example.) Cuomo is a corrupt thug. Biden is also a corrupt thug--as well as a hands-on kind of guy where women are concerned, just like Trump. The whole Burisma thing stinks of improper influence and the Reade accusations are generally considered plausible. This merely goes to illustrate what ought to be axiomatic: all Democratic or Republican politicians are presumed to be criminals unless proven otherwise. I won't quote Balzac on fortunes and crimes, as I'm not sure he actually wrote the line so often attributed to him, but certainly it can be said that every political dynasty rests on a foundation of corruption. As for the other complaints, I fail to see how "bastard" is unacceptable if "son of a bitch" is not. In recognition of having gone a little too far in denouncing the thug Cuomo, however, I have thought of a more constructive approach: I suggest a petition or open letter to Senator Sanders requesting that, since Biden has denounced socialism in any sense, and Sanders himself in particular, Sanders withdraw his support for Biden and request his followers either not to vote or to vote for some credible socialist, for example Howie Hawkins. Then we won't have to use fighting words, even to people who deserve a fate no worse than death. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2265): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2265 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77335002/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
