Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday August 11th 2021

and unless something really really awful happens this we are only going to do one podcast today as opposed to yesterday

what we did to because we did a morning one in which we discussed Andrew Cuomo's fate and then his fate was revealed to us about two hours after we recorded.

The other thing I want to tell you guys is that the problems with the Apple podcast feed are apparently over and solved and so everything should be going smoothly.

We had a little bit of a panic there but things have been the ship has been set a right with me as always associate editor Norothman Hi Noah.

Hi John.

See you right or Christine Rosen.

Hi Christine.

Hi John.

An executive editor a Greenwald hi Abe.

Hi John.

So I don't know that there's much to say about the second day of Andrew Cuomo's resignation.

I mean he's going into effect in 13 days I guess and now the coverage has moved on to you know what his successor Kathy Hoechul will be like and all of that sort of well I don't know if you see it but pre-Barrara.

Is that how you pronounce his last name I only read these people's name so I never know.

But yeah so if you put out this statement I guess like an Instagram thing where it's just an image of a statement where he was like why 14 days.

The government doesn't need 14 days to resign is not like you're a manager at a while was you don't need to submit two weeks resignation and train your successor just get the heck out of there.

Maggie Haberman picked up on that and said she's hearing a lot of that from the people who have fallen from from the or a bit of inter Cuomo they want him out yesterday not in two weeks because a lot of mischief can be done in the two week period very you know not being not elaborating on what that could entail but very ominous and sort of leading that we should all be terrified of the next 13 days of Cuomo's administration.

And this pre-Barrara that tower of Jell-O that towering figure of rectitude the man who we learned yesterday morning in the release by the New Yorker of Ronan Farrow's piece on Andrew Cuomo's monkey around with the commission that he appointed to investigate corruption in New York state that when he disbanded that commission because it was getting too close to his office.

And the pre-Barrara then the US attorney said publicly that the people who had been investigated and the people on the staff should have should maintain their papers and hold on to them and not destroy them that Andrew Cuomo called the White House the Obama White House and yelled and screamed at Valerie Jarrett Obama's consulieri saying who is this guy get him off my back this is your guy.

Pre-Barrara knew this this was 2013 G it's eight years later how come we're only hearing about this with Andrew Cuomo on the down slide because he's a wimp because he's a whoose because he's a because he's a a factitious political figure who was trying to make his living now having been nobly fired by Donald Trump as US attorney in 2017 and he's got a pod cad he wasn't going to go crosswise in Andrew Cuomo.

Now you can then say this is part of the story of Andrew Cuomo is you know you don't want to make Andrew Cuomo an enemy but then you don't get to walk around strutting around saying how dare he like okay so go back into your little hole you coward go back into your little hole and don't give people lectures thank you very much for being part of the world that made that made people like me who have been writing for years about Andrew Cuomo's psychopathy and the danger that he poses.

As an elected official twisting in the wind looking like we are you know.

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