Andrew Cuomo and Bill Clinton both have a lengthy list of sexual misconduct allegations against them. But as long as they’re politically useful, top Democrats don’t seem to care.

Andrew Cuomo and Bill Clinton both have a lengthy list of sexual misconduct allegations against them. But as long as they’re politically useful, top Democrats don’t seem to care.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    80·
    3 days ago

    Or look at Al Franken who got pushed out over nothing. Your examples are cherry picked. Plus, wasn’t Cuomo forced out?

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 hours ago

      And the Clinton case is ambiguous. Quite a few of the allegations were low-effort Republican fabrications that got laughed out of court. Cuomo, on the other hand, total scumbag. No ambiguity there.

    • grumps@lemmy.i.secretponi.esEnglish
      32·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, it seems like there’s one party actually holding greater than 60% of their bad actors accountable and another one rewarding bad behavior… But, sure, let’s complain about how 60% is not enough instead of dealing with the reality we find ourselves in.

      • Wilco@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        New Yorkers are fucking stupid when it comes to elections. I think it is in their city guidelines that their mayoral elects had to have been busted with either meth, or a prostitute.

          • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I didn’t hear the media calling Adams getting in a bellweather. Everyone knows NYC is basically the most Democratic place in the country.

            And Joe in South Carolina has already made up his mind about New York and Democrats and anywhere else with a sizable population of people who aren’t White or straight.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      Yes, Cuomo was forced out, but he is attempting a comeback by running for Mayor of NYC against Eric Adams. Aren’t there any non-shitty Democrats in the city who want that job?

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Non-shitty people see what happens when they go up against shitty people.

        The party protects the shitty.

      • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        3 days ago

        If someone wants to be a politician that’s a disqualifying factor to being a politician. So yes he’s a fucking shitbag. People who want to improve our lives would rather do anything than politics because that’s just theatre for self absorbed sociopaths

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          7·
          3 days ago

          it’s also theater some of us have to start doing. not me though. i’m far too corruptible and my soul too tainted already. i’d turn into one of the shitbags, i’m sure