Well put. To be very vulnerably candid, when the movement first started gaining traction one of my first emotional responses was this upswell of anger. Not at the activists or what they were doing, but that I’d spent my whole childhood and young adulthood believing that I couldn’t or shouldn’t speak up against this kind of behavior. That it was just “how things are.”
I think back on the treatment I endured and still am so angry at the grown ups and employers who explained it away.
But I think of the women and allies driving this movement now and I am so, so proud of their strength and bravery!
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What? No mouth-eye shoop? Or is that only reserved for GQP?
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It wasn’t “his” Attorney General. The NY Attorney General is elected separately… which allows the AG to be independent enough to investigate the governor.
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I wonder if we will ever see a Republican resign over shit they did like this?
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I know, I just love the “betrayal” whining from Camp Cuomo over it.
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Teachout also ran against Letitia James, the AG who orchestrated this case against Cuomo. During that election Teachout supporters argued that James was a centrist machine candidate and Cuomo puppet.
Cuomo’s problem isn’t that he’s not a socialist. His problem is that he’s a sexual harasser.
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The schadenfreude is real…
*lolz
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The latter.
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Chris Lee was a Republican congressman with a one and done scandal, and his office went to a then obscure democrat named Kathy Hochul who’s been in the news for reasons. But, generally, yeah, they have an underdeveloped sense of shame.
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All Trumps sexual episodes (storming Miss Universe dressing rooms, Stormy Daniels, the Stormy Daniels payoffs, Access Hollywood tape/“grab them by the pussy”) were in the past and not ongoing. And his supporters could just say: “Hey, we’re Christians, we forgive.”
It would have an interesting thought experiment to see Trump successfully defend a current and ongoing sexual scandal of the likes of Hart/Edwards where reporters actually catch him with a girl. Because his base would let him get away with it. I can see the interview of the MAGA-hat guy, American flag draped on his shoulders, saying “Hell, I want to be getting with affairs on the side” as his wife (who is also still fine with Trump) affectionately pokes his husband “Oh, you…”
If he’d been a Democrat then I don’t think Republicans would have trouble classifying “his third and current wife is a nude model who turned a blind eye to banging porn stars!” as a current and ongoing scandal.
Also the Stormy Daniels payoff happened during the campaign even if the sex didn’t.
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My anger is directed at those in Cuomo’s office. And the media that covered him. Men and women both, who had to know what was going on. For years. And did nothing, out of cowardice. And because it wasn’t happening to them. They should have been allies, not silent enemies, of the victims.
Same applies for Weinstein, and McCarrick, and Cosby, and all the others.
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There are a few:
Rep. Blake Farenthold of Texas
Rep. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania
Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona
Rep. Joe Barton of Texas
Rep. Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania
I’m most angry at Cuomo, and glad to see him at the end of his grope.
But yes, more people should be allies of victims like those subjected to his unwelcome attention, and more to my point, we should also appreciate the collective activism that no doubt contributed to, and likely even resulted in, this asshole’s downfall. Part of what that work has done is encourage a lot of people to act as effective allies.
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Trump got away with it for the same reason Bill Clinton got away with it, being a big swaggering dick was part of the brand, and no one expected anything different.
When you repeatedly and sanctimoniously proclaim your MeToo credentials to the world and then the list of abused women hits the news, it’s a lot tougher. As in Cuomo, A.
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