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DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT
boblonsberry.com ^ | 08/11/21 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 08/11/2021 5:47:11 AM PDT by shortstop

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you dictatorial son of a bitch.

You have been at war with your state's residents since the day you swore in, and the only downside of your departure is that it comes a decade too late. You have destroyed one of the greatest states in the nation, and presided over and been the cause of some of New York's darkest days.

You don't love anybody but yourself, and you have served nothing but your own self-interest.

You leave our state more divided, embittered and impoverished than it has ever been. You have gutted the Southern Tier, depopulated upstate, endangered the streets and enfeebled the laws. You have turned people against one another at every turn, and you never showed the slightest ability to or interest in understanding the lives and priorities of the people over whom you ruled.

And you have bastardized and castrated the democratic process. Each of your signature policy advances came by short circuiting normal procedure and shutting citizens and even legislators from the process.

You boast of advancing gay marriage, but forget that you had to cheat the system to do it. You boast of the Safe Act and your war against guns, but likewise forget that you had to cheat to get it passed.

As an entire region of your state faced the starkest poverty in the nation, and looked to hydrofracking to save it, you dragged out a process for years on end, giving satisfaction to neither side and ultimately deciding by not deciding, by taking one side when it was the only side left.

You said that rural, upstate Republicans – “extreme conservatives” you called them -- had no place in New York, and you set about pushing them out, through taxes and regulations and antagonistic policies, until you changed the demographic of entire regions and drove more than a million New Yorkers away from the homes and into other states. No governor in any state in any era has so depopulated his state – in hard numbers or percentages – or so brazenly driven out those who disagreed with him. You conducted a cultural cleansing of upstate people, dispossessing hundreds of thousands of them from a state that had been their home for generations.

And it wasn’t just Republicans.

You sold out your own party to promote an alliance with Senate Republicans and breakaway Democrats to thwart the rank-and-file progressives who put you in office year after year. When local officials crossed you – Republican or Democrat – you punished them by penalizing their constituents, denying them aid or access to state programs.

You were an equal-opportunity bastard, cruel and vindictive at every turn, a Caesar for sure, but a later, besotted, incompetent one, somewhere between a Caligula and a Nero.

You named a bridge after your father, but shamed his name with your conduct and attitude, a spoiled rich boy who lived off the power of others until he got big enough to claim and misuse it on his own.

You gave proof to the Biblical assertion that, “When the wicked rule, the people mourn,” and mourn they did, through debts and deficits and downturns and dictates. Until as their parents died behind doors you barred, some doomed by policies you ordered and concealed, the agony of a worst-in-the-nation pandemic raged in your streets while you preened for the cameras and sent lackeys to negotiate a multi-million dollar deal for a book you would neither truly write nor believe.

You raged across the state, in spectacles of self-pleasure, followed by sycophants and courted by the obsequious, the great enabling army of scrap feeders, condescendingly warning others not to “get ahead of the governor.”

And so you preened, the naked emperor before a people too terrified and oppressed to tell you the truth.

Until a woman stood up.

And another, and another.

Women of talent and potential and drive who came to government to serve and grow and lead, but whom you treated as playthings, as baubles, as adornments and decorations, as objects of your crude and caddish advances, and worse.

Women who told the truth, in the face of your torrent of lies. They were Davids to your Goliath. They were Lindseys to your Cuomo. They were doers of right in a culture of wrong.

And they prevailed, and the truth prevailed, and the system prevailed, and the right thing was done.

They got Capone on tax evasion, and they Cuomo on sexual harassment, and sometimes that’s how it is with monsters.

They rage and they roar, and people suffer and cower.

But the good guys win in the end.

And this, Andy, is your end.

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.


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To: shortstop

Why I no longer live in New Yawk!


41 posted on 08/11/2021 8:28:18 AM PDT by sauropod (Amateurs built the ark; Professionals built the Titanic. Anon)
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To: bigfootbob

“I am just as guilty. I voted for GHWB, (twice) GWB, (twice) and, may God forgive me, Mittens and McCainiac. How messed up is that? Problem was…that was the lesser of many evils or I thought at the time. Perhaps it was, but no more.”

Me too, but they were all that was on the RINO Menu, after the RINO Conventions. What were the other choices? Not vote? Not a choice for me.

We have to find BETTER candidates: CONSERVATIVES! You’re right.


42 posted on 08/11/2021 8:29:46 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: woodbutcher1963

It’s called “The Curley Effect”, after James Curley, a mayor of Boston in the early half of the 20th Century.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shleifer/files/curley_effect.pdf

The essence of it is: you can wreck the place you govern, and still get elected again and again, if your policies result in the people who won’t vote for you moving away, while the people who do vote for you stay for the goodies you shower them with.


43 posted on 08/11/2021 8:42:48 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
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To: 1Old Pro
....After one year Pataki got cold feet and became an assistant democrat.

"an assistant democrat"

What a perfect phrase!

May assistant democrat become a common descriptor.

44 posted on 08/11/2021 8:59:13 AM PDT by jigsaw (God Bless Our Wonderful Troops.)
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To: jigsaw
"an assistant democrat" What a perfect phrase! May assistant democrat become a common descriptor.

I adapted it from another poster, feel free to borrow as well :)

45 posted on 08/11/2021 9:53:36 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: joe fonebone

Oh yes, what a great plan. Let’s put in even more democrats!
That will fix the system. You are a genius !!! well by half.


46 posted on 08/11/2021 4:09:05 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

So your plan is to keep electing republiCANT’S, who lie to our faces, work against us behind the scenes ( until recently, now they are shoving their treachery down our throats)...
Your plan has been a failure since 1988...
Are you a conservative, or a republiCANT?
State it out loud and own it!!!
I already have....

In the meantime, Mr. republican... What is your plan?


47 posted on 08/11/2021 4:39:14 PM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: shortstop

Bttt.

5.56mm


48 posted on 08/11/2021 4:43:44 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: joe fonebone

Plan is to ignore democrat shills like you !

Electing more democrats is the surest way to disaster.


49 posted on 08/12/2021 8:48:47 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

75 percent of the elected republiCANT’S are democommies in pub clothing...

Wake up..
We see you


50 posted on 08/12/2021 1:25:34 PM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: joe fonebone

So your solution is to installed 200% democrats.

Stupid democrat shill !


51 posted on 08/13/2021 6:08:01 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

We see you..
Thank you President Trump!!!
You have opened our eyes to the enemy among us!!!
And you have shown us that the enemy is bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCANT’S...
They are now self identifying...
Just like you..

We see you


52 posted on 08/13/2021 12:52:08 PM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: joe fonebone

President Trump is a Republican.

Please stop insulting him !


53 posted on 08/13/2021 8:11:25 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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