Assholes

I tried to watch a little bit of the MSNBC piece tonight on the January 6th insurrection, and I just couldn’t do it. It just enrages me still. What were these people thinking.

And it drives me nuts that so many of those guys are the same age and the same group I served with in the Army. How did they go so wrong?

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Whenever I have to go out in public, I have one main goal (other than the reason I am in public), and that is to make it safely home without going viral or being today’s twitter star. That’s it.

And I almost blew it today, when three jackasses age 50-70 were behind me in line at the deli, one with a Donald Trump mask, two without masks, and they started yammering about how awesome Trump was, how he got cheated, etc. I kept my cool and said nothing and was doing fine until one of them referred to Obama as “the Kenyan” and asserted he is actually running the show and calling Biden every morning, and I just fucking lost it, turned around, looked at them, and bellowed “FUCK DONALD TRUMP AND WHERE ARE YOUR GOD DAMNED MASKS?”

It was quiet from that point on and I managed to escape without becoming a youtube star.

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This big article at the NYT raises some questions for me:

Anna Ruch had never met Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo before encountering him at a crowded New York City wedding reception in September 2019. Her first impression was positive enough.

The governor was working the room after toasting the newlyweds, and when he came upon Ms. Ruch, now 33, she thanked him for his kind words about her friends. But what happened next instantly unsettled her: Mr. Cuomo put his hand on Ms. Ruch’s bare lower back, she said in an interview on Monday.

When she removed his hand with her own, Ms. Ruch recalled, the governor remarked that she seemed “aggressive” and placed his hands on her cheeks. He asked if he could kiss her, loudly enough for a friend standing nearby to hear. Ms. Ruch was bewildered by the entreaty, she said, and pulled away as the governor drew closer.

“I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed,” said Ms. Ruch, whose recollection was corroborated by the friend, contemporaneous text messages and photographs from the event. “I turned my head away and didn’t have words in that moment.”

Before we get into the article, let me state first and foremost that I have said for years, and continue to believe, that it is a national priority to keep Andrew Cuomo out of the White House. He is, in my opinion, an authoritarian and a bully, and like Bloomberg, that means sometimes his more liberal positions makes me find common cause with him, but he is still a fucking fascist. That was particularly clear during the covid early days, when his authoritarianism was appreciated in the leadership vacuum created by the White House. Second, there is ZERO doubt in my mind about the accuracy of the two previously reported allegations of sexual harassment, and I have no doubt there will be many more of them coming out in the next weeks and months.

Having said all that, I don’t know why this story is being pushed other than add to the narrative. Ruch was not his subordinate, he was not in a position of power, and he asked her if he could kiss her. That’s asking for consent. That’s what you want men to do. Obviously it made her feel uncomfortable and awkward, and he’s a cad for doing so, but asking someone if you can kiss them and then not doing anything when they say no strikes me as EXACTLY what you want men to do these days.

Am I out in left field on this?

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