Crane's Corner: 8-25-21 Favorites Run Out of the Money

It was in the spring of 2020 as Covid 19 began hitting America and the world with a vengeance. It soon became clear that the virus--with no vaccine available, was spreading fast, potentially deadly to the elderly, the sick and those with underlying conditions. It also became clear that this was a very unique situation. For one thing, no one could or would agree on the source of human infection for a virus that would soon morph into a pandemic. China, and those it bought off at The World Health Organization ran with the story of bats being sold at a wet market and dismissed with disdain any possibility that Co Vid began it’s world tour be leaking from a government lab in Wuhan China,

Also unique, an inability of the Trump administration to offer reassurances or real leadership; partly because President Trump dismissed Co Vid 19 as your basic asian flu, derisively calling it the  “China virus” and partly because the national media hated Donald Trump, under reporting his positives and over reporting, with snickering commentary anything that didn’t fit the media agenda, which usually had a calendar item called attack Trump.

Quick to make a pandemic political, two loud voices--one on each coast. As democrats Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom were de facto media darlings, with strong party bloodlines. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the son of the great political orator Mario Cuomo, who was once married to a Kennedy, and in California that liberal stalwart Gavin Newsom, nephew of America’s ten most powerful Democrat Nancy Pelosi Speaker of The House,

Scared and starved for leadership==from any party...constituents on each coast and lots of folks in the middle mistook the pathological need for ego gratification for real leadership. 

Hypnotized by these two elected charlatans, my former radio colleague who predicted on air on morning  that the 2024 Presidential election was all but oliver--either Cuomo or Newsom would top the ticket, the runner up would be the slotted VP---resulting in a runaway win for the Democrats. Day after day, night after night, there was Cuomo sitting at an expensive desk in Albany clad in either a polo shirt or a nylon golf jacket, both embroidered with the state seal and the name Governor Andrew Cuomo. Like some tinhorn dictator Cuomo would read out daily stats, number of infections, hospitalizations and the all important new rules for coping with a pandemic, like destroying the economy or mixing freshly released covid infected patients into nursing homes contributing directly to the deaths of at least 15 thousand residents. Then there were the draconian shutdowns of bars, restaurants and many businesses state wide, triggering bankruptcy’s vast unemployment and costly migration of New York City residents.

Amazingly Cuomo has been more or less acquitted of this political genocide, instead forced to resign because several women in and out of his administration either didn’t get or refused to agree to an unwritten rule that their bodies were property of the Governor.

But even with his bloodlines, Cuomo’s political career is just like many 2020 NY nursing home patients. Dead.

Here in California, Newsom spared us the stupid momgrammed governor gear, but used what should have been a short emergency declaration as a license to to whatever the hell he wanted. Shutting down an economy, lecturing people to stay home from church, basically treating the bill of rights like a hungry baby treats a diaper.

While we mere peasants were told what to do and when, a maskless non distancing Newsom was wining and dining in close quarters--while a lobbyist picked up the tab at one of the priciest restaurants in the state. Blessed by a boatload of federal dollars, Newsom managed to not just balance the budget but amass a honey of a surplus...more at www.edcranescorner.com/blog-page/