Yeah, in one of the first meetings he did when he "came back" (he stopped doing the daily meetings sometime in June but started them up again when Florida and Texas started blowing up) Cuomo had this giant mountain thing meant to represent the "mountain" that New York's climbed over from the start of the COVID outbreak to its peak to now.
The mountain roughly represents a line graph of new COVID cases over that time, hence why it's all lopsided.
And Cuomo's loved the shit out of this mountain imagery ever since. He still has the fucking thing behind him.
And he has the chutzpah to appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote said poster. I'm picturing how smug he's going to look talking about it. And Fallon is going to schmooze him. The day Cuomo and De Blasio leave office is going to be glorious.
Still wouldn't want anyone else in charge during the height of this mess.Hopefully now the rest of this forum will understand how much of a dumbass Cuomo is.
I love history. I love poster art. Poster art is something they did in the early 1900s, late 1800s, when they had to communicate their whole platform on one piece of paper. Over the past few years I've done my own posters that capture that feeling. I did a new one for what we went through with COVID and I think the general shape is familiar to you. We went up the mountain, we curved the mountain, we came down the other side and these are little telltale signs that, to me, represent what was going on.
- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
Lol this is the definition of public servant art projectI mean I guess it shows he's in the same boat as his constituents. "I have also been going a bit stir-crazy, and taken up art to pass the time! As you can see, I'm not very good at it yet, either. Hang in there!"
Covid rates in nys beg to differ with your terribly wrong opinion.
Covid rates in nys beg to differ with your terribly wrong opinion.
That thing is going to age so poorly if New York ever sees another spike (I mean, it already will in general, but even more quickly).
I mean, just because they're among the least shitty in the US, doesn't mean their response was timely.... like at all.Covid rates in nys beg to differ with your terribly wrong opinion.
Covid rates in NY would be even better if Cuomo and De Blasio had reacted swiftly to the virus. Instead, they drug their feet and thousands of people in the state died. Now he wants to commission this bizarre, self-aggrandizing poster that fear-mongers about Europeans (majority of European countries ended up handling the virus better than NY state alone, not to mention the rest of the US) and touts "making hand sanitizer" that was just repackaging hand sanitizer with state branding using inmate slave labor? No, he can fuck straight off, and so can any of his defenders here. Wrong opinion my fucking ass.Covid rates in nys beg to differ with your terribly wrong opinion.
Covid rates in NY would be even better if Cuomo and De Blasio had reacted swiftly to the virus. Instead, they drug their feet and thousands of people in the state died. Now he wants to commission this bizarre, self-aggrandizing poster that fear-mongers about Europeans (majority of European countries ended up handling the virus better than NY state alone, not to mention the rest of the US) and touts "making hand sanitizer" that was just repackaging hand sanitizer with state branding using inmate slave labor? No, he can fuck straight off, and so can any of his defenders here. Wrong opinion my fucking ass.
Will definitely cop. You can order it here for the low, low price of $14.50:
New York Tough Poster | Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
I don't know why I'd want a keepsake from my time being trapped inside two rooms for 140 days. Cuomo is just such a fucking bizarre dude but his briefings helped keep me and my fiancee sane throughout.
Artist's statement:
I can't believe "Jesse" doesn't make an appearance in the poster.
Hopefully now the rest of this forum will understand how much of a dumbass Cuomo is.
That doesn't make the sentiment expressed in the image any less garbage. Any governor in the US inviting comparisons between the US and Europe, in an attempt to toot their own horn, is a fool. Yes, it was travel between the US and Europe that brought the virus here (which was inevitable), and Trump's China fearmongering was baseless. But to throw that out there like "we knew it was from Europe unlike the Whitehouse" meanwhile thousands of people in the state died because while the outbreak was in full swing Cuomo still had his fucking head in the sand, telling people to go out and shit. That is infuriating.Thats not what it's doing.
The European thing is because the WH kept saying "China" meanwhile the virus came to NY not from China but from Europe. Many times Cuomo mentioned it because Trump WH kept talking everyday about "we stopped flights from China" when China was only part of the issues of it coming in.
It's basically a timeline of what we saw and heard during the daily briefings over the last 110+ days.
In our house we watched them daily. One, because we live in NY and two because my wife is a nurse and was mandated to watch them to keep informed.
Hopefully now the rest of this forum will understand how much of a dumbass Cuomo is.
That doesn't make the sentiment expressed in the image any less garbage. Any governor in the US inviting comparisons between the US and Europe, in an attempt to toot their own horn, is a fool. Yes, it was travel between the US and Europe that brought the virus here (which was inevitable), and Trump's China fearmongering was baseless. But to throw that out there like "we knew it was from Europe unlike the Whitehouse" meanwhile thousands of people in the state died because while the outbreak was in full swing Cuomo still had his fucking head in the sand, telling people to go out and shit. That is infuriating.
What a fast and effective message to let us know how imbecile the government is.
I have no interest in downplaying Cuomo's failures in handling this pandemic, right.Your wrong. Dont downplay how NY and Cuomo are handling this pandemic.
Doing a good job compared to the rest of the country isn't really doing a good job given how poorly the US is doing overall. They really didn't do a good job.Nobody is making comparisons between US and Europe. Yeah he mentions where it came from because that's important when the WH is just flat out lying to the entire nation day in and day out.
It was never supposed to be a "Europe = Bad", "US = Good" thing.
By chance are you from NY and have been following the daily briefings here? It's literally just a timeline of events with some weird stuff added in like his daughters, one of their boyfriends which came up a few times and even his dog Captain.
Now yes we can go back and say some things at the start weren't handled how we now see they should have, but overall NY has and continues to do a very good job compared to the rest of the country. Not going to sit around and dwell on that forever.
People still fall over themselves to defend him, look at this thread. Cuomo is gonna run for president sometime in the next decade and I'm dreading it. He had a group of legislators in Albany, directly under his leadership and directives, whose goal was to kneecap progressive policy legislation in the state. He's the epitome of corrupt machine politics.
Doing a good job compared to the rest of the country isn't really doing a good job given how poorly the US is doing overall. They really didn't do a good job.
This self-aggrandizement is shameless and tone deaf considering how many people have died in New York, and those deaths can be tied directly to the poor leadership of Cuomo and De Blasio. That's not even getting into the way both of them handled the protests, recent budget cuts, etc.