Cuomosexuals and the NYC Mayor Race
Click here for the full interview with Ross https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-is-defund-the?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy
Subscribe at usefulidiots.substack.com
Ross Barkan on the New York Mayoral Race and Cuomosexuals, Plus Whale Mouthwash, Republicans Hit the Pipe, and Jeff Bezos Should Eat the Mona Lisa.
“This is kind of the Holy Grail for the left that can never quite get pulled off,” says Ross Barkan, author of The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, Coronavirus, and the Fall of New York. “It usually gets pulled off by moderates, or Barack Obama.”
We talked to Ross about one of our favorite people — the demented neoliberal monster/werewolf Andrew Cuomo — but also about the upcoming New York City mayoral elections, which will be the large-scale litmus test on the state of the Democratic electorate since the 2020 primaries.
New York City has one of the most rabidly progressive voter bases in the country, but the Democratic Primary next Tuesday has for some time now appeared likely to be dominated by moderates like former NYPD officer and Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams. Friend-ish-of-show Andrew Yang, who snubbed a Useful Idiots interview request during this campaign, has fallen off to fourth place in a recent poll, in the most recent demonstration of the ironclad Law of the Useful Idiots Bump. Will he make it back up in time to replace Bill de Blasio?
Barkan discusses with us some of the factors that may be influencing the quasi-surprising New York results. Three of the four top candidates — Yang, Adams, and former sanitation chief Kathryn Garcia — seemingly go against national type. “All three of these candidates, Yang, Garcia, Adams, are explicitly against de-funding the police,” he says. “Who’s going to win? I don’t know, but I think Adams has the inside track.”
Barkan, who wrote a pleasingly vicious book about Cuomo that depicts him in the garb of Machiavelli on the cover, also explained how the New York governor managed to pull off a surge in popularity last year despite horrific management of the pandemic.
“Journalism… too often takes on the tropes of fiction, and seeks narratives, heroes and villains,” Ross said. “Cuomo filled that void,” giving journalists the tough-talking uncle figure to Donald Trump’s crazy-nitwit act. Reporters ran with that simple storyline for months, ignoring things like Cuomo’s craven manipulation of death toll figures for nursing homes.
From there we basically just said gratuitous things about Cuomo and his doofus brother, but it’s worth a listen, particularly if you’re high.
Also: we plow through the four food groups, stopping to discuss ICE’s sterling wokewash efforts, a dude who maybe got too much credit for being swallowed by a whale, and what “POS” stands for on a U.S. State Department Twitter handle. That and more, on this week’s Useful Idiots.
-
1:06:35
usefulidiots
2 months agoUseful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
12.7K40 -
13:07
Evenout
13 hours agoStealing Jordan 1 OG Then Re-Appearing With a Different Shoes Twin Prank!
60.9K10 -
1:20:26
Winston Marshall
1 day agoUNCOVERED: Legal System Weaponised - Trump, Hunter, Bannon & Biden | The Winston Marshall Show #020
102K160 -
16:09
Chicks in the Office
15 hours agoOur Top 12 Songs On Repeat This Week - Music You Can't Miss
88.9K40 -
2:23:05
Gigi Young
2 days agoLecture: The Mystery of Death
79.5K5 -
1:01:15
The Dan Bongino Show
18 hours agoSUNDAY SPECIAL with Mike Benz, Scott Presler, Julie Kelly and Jim Verdi - 06/23/2024
247K488 -
31:41
Standpoint with Gabe Groisman
18 hours agoEp. 32. Libs of TikTok. Chaya Raichik
95.1K50 -
35:24
Squaring The Circle w/ Randall Carlson
1 day ago#009 Are Sea Levels REALLY Rising? Pt 2 - Squaring the Circle: A Randall Carlson Podcast
120K71 -
14:23
Freakin' Reviews
1 day agoPan Wars! $90 Caraway vs $8 Martha Stewart!
93.5K18 -
4:21
ParisDemers
1 day agoScientific Trick That Increases Your Testosterone 400% In 7 Days!
101K36