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Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York
Thanks to the policies of Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, the glory days of the Empire State and the Big Apple are long behind them.
In America’s early days, most immigrants entered America through New York. For many, New York was synonymous with America and the American dream itself - a beacon of hope for the rest of the world. Now, for the first time ever, people are fleeing New York by the millions. Plagued by high taxes, big government, excessive regulations, and other obstacles to liberty, there are few reasons for one to want to remain in the state under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s leadership. And in New York City, which houses nearly half of the state’s population, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been doing everything in his power to accelerate the decline and bring the city back to its pre-Rudy-Giuliani days.
In America’s early days, most immigrants entered America through New York. For many, New York was synonymous with America and the American dream itself - a beacon of hope for the rest of the world. Now, for the first time ever, people are fleeing New York by the millions. Plagued by high taxes, big government, excessive regulations, and other obstacles to liberty, there are few reasons for one to want to remain in the state under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s leadership. And in New York City, which houses nearly half of the state’s population, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been doing everything in his power to accelerate the decline and bring the city back to its pre-Rudy-Giuliani days.
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August 17, 2021
Very fitting to finish this book nearly a week later after Andrew Cuomo resigned. The is basically a compilation of every bad policy enacted by both Cuomo and de Blasio and the consequences of them. The author contrasts this with the policies of Giuliani and Bloomberg and, despite what one may think of either of them, didn’t led to catastrophic failures that resulted in people being killed. Read Palumbo’s other book if you enjoyed this one
February 7, 2021
The story of the epic failures of two of the worst leaders in America. Excellent!
March 10, 2021
This was a great book. Andrew Cuomo reminds me of Michael Avenatti; an American attorney, best known for his representation of adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, and for his felony extortion conviction involving sports apparel company Nike. Avennatti was CNN and MSNBC's pretty boy. He was The Chosen One and there was talks about him running for the big seat. Of course we learned later on and frankly, just in time that he was a piece of crap, criminal with little to no moral compass. De Blasio is just a communist activist posing as a mayor. Under De Blasio's control, New York City has devolved into a cesspool. Anyone with the means have performed a mass exodus from New York. De Blasio is actually worse for New York City than Cuomo is to New York the state.
Make no mistake, Andrew Cuomo should be in prison today. If only for the COVID response. The irony is that Cuomo himself is responsible for the lack of ventilators and PPE for HIS state. He made comments about how the Federal Government, or better yet, The Trump administration for not being prepared. That was mighty rich of him. Then when the Floyd riots are in full swing and Cuomo and De Blasio refused to act, Trump threatened to bring in troops to quell the violence. This is where Cuomo says that "Trump has not authority". So authority to step in with hospital ships and centers, PPE and ventilators, because Cuomo lacked the leadership, but not to control the violence and deaths caused by the Democratic's private street army of BLM and ANTIFA.
Now reports of sexual improprieties by Cuomo have been released, over 6 as of this writing. Of course there is no outrage by the MeToo movement since Cuomo is a useful idiot for the Democratic Party. I have not even spoken about the cover up by Cuomo and his people to reduce the number of deaths that he was already responsible for. He should have received an award for being the most prolific serial killer killing more than 7,000 people.
If I have learned one thing during these past 20 years that I have somewhat followed politics, when someone is pointing their finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at them. This is a short book packed with even more reasons to hate Cuomo and De Blasio.
Make no mistake, Andrew Cuomo should be in prison today. If only for the COVID response. The irony is that Cuomo himself is responsible for the lack of ventilators and PPE for HIS state. He made comments about how the Federal Government, or better yet, The Trump administration for not being prepared. That was mighty rich of him. Then when the Floyd riots are in full swing and Cuomo and De Blasio refused to act, Trump threatened to bring in troops to quell the violence. This is where Cuomo says that "Trump has not authority". So authority to step in with hospital ships and centers, PPE and ventilators, because Cuomo lacked the leadership, but not to control the violence and deaths caused by the Democratic's private street army of BLM and ANTIFA.
Now reports of sexual improprieties by Cuomo have been released, over 6 as of this writing. Of course there is no outrage by the MeToo movement since Cuomo is a useful idiot for the Democratic Party. I have not even spoken about the cover up by Cuomo and his people to reduce the number of deaths that he was already responsible for. He should have received an award for being the most prolific serial killer killing more than 7,000 people.
If I have learned one thing during these past 20 years that I have somewhat followed politics, when someone is pointing their finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at them. This is a short book packed with even more reasons to hate Cuomo and De Blasio.
January 31, 2021
Excellent research into the downfall of state. I have never been impressed with what I referred to is the cesspool called NYC. This further solidified for me that we do not need this state and it should be annexed to whatever socialist country wants to lay claim to it. Well done Matt Palumbo!!
February 23, 2021
No surprise NY Public library does not have this book.
There is so much more that can be said, but it hits many of the issues I see, and expands on them.
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finis
There is so much more that can be said, but it hits many of the issues I see, and expands on them.
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finis
June 28, 2025
Start spreadin' the news, I'm leavin' today...
A deceptively short book that is long on content. Just one damning fact after another building a compelling case of incompetency at best and criminal neglect at worst. Matt Palumbo lays out so clearly how quickly Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio took the wheel from their predecessors George Pataki, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg and drove the state and city right off a cliff.
The case against these men was effectively closed after the opening section contrasting New York's foot-dragging response to the Covid pandemic versus the rapid response in other major cities. The abyss these men plummeted New York State and NYC into only got deeper and darker when Palumbo shifted the spotlight onto economics and crime.
The book is only a little dated as both Cuomo and de Blasio continue to be in the news. Writing this in late June 2025 in the wake of NYC's Democratic mayoralty primary in which the fork was plunged into Andrew Cuomo's political career by a man half his age, Rohran Mamdani. How humbling an end for Mario Cuomo's political protege and heir to go from serving as governor to losing a lousy run for mayor. More than Cuomo's sexual peccadillos, his cramming Covid-positive patients into nursing homes proved his ultimate undoing. I did not realize the magnitude of Cuomo's mass murderous act until Palumbo's book put the tragic facts and figures in front of me.
And while they share the ignominy of the book's title, there is neither love nor loyalty between Cuomo and de Blasio. Bill had been on the stump for Mamdani, always taking time of course to trumpet his own mediocre accomplishments as mayor in a pathetic attempt to salvage his sullied political reputation and perhaps land a plum position in a Mamdani administration, serving as the elder statesman and mentor to the utopian naif. (That is unless Curtis Sliwa can prove himself the adult in the room and win the day come November.)
I am one of the statistics Palumbo wrote about. I was a Long Islander through college when in 1994 I had little choice but to commute into Manhattan from Suffolk County on the strike-happy LIRR for a crummy job or seek greener pastures elsewhere. I took the latter option and haven't looked back. Palumbo's book galvanized me in my then-difficult decision. Many good memories of New York in the 1970s and '80s and a great place to grow up, but nowadays I wouldn't even want to visit let alone live there. The apple's gone rotten.
A deceptively short book that is long on content. Just one damning fact after another building a compelling case of incompetency at best and criminal neglect at worst. Matt Palumbo lays out so clearly how quickly Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio took the wheel from their predecessors George Pataki, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg and drove the state and city right off a cliff.
The case against these men was effectively closed after the opening section contrasting New York's foot-dragging response to the Covid pandemic versus the rapid response in other major cities. The abyss these men plummeted New York State and NYC into only got deeper and darker when Palumbo shifted the spotlight onto economics and crime.
The book is only a little dated as both Cuomo and de Blasio continue to be in the news. Writing this in late June 2025 in the wake of NYC's Democratic mayoralty primary in which the fork was plunged into Andrew Cuomo's political career by a man half his age, Rohran Mamdani. How humbling an end for Mario Cuomo's political protege and heir to go from serving as governor to losing a lousy run for mayor. More than Cuomo's sexual peccadillos, his cramming Covid-positive patients into nursing homes proved his ultimate undoing. I did not realize the magnitude of Cuomo's mass murderous act until Palumbo's book put the tragic facts and figures in front of me.
And while they share the ignominy of the book's title, there is neither love nor loyalty between Cuomo and de Blasio. Bill had been on the stump for Mamdani, always taking time of course to trumpet his own mediocre accomplishments as mayor in a pathetic attempt to salvage his sullied political reputation and perhaps land a plum position in a Mamdani administration, serving as the elder statesman and mentor to the utopian naif. (That is unless Curtis Sliwa can prove himself the adult in the room and win the day come November.)
I am one of the statistics Palumbo wrote about. I was a Long Islander through college when in 1994 I had little choice but to commute into Manhattan from Suffolk County on the strike-happy LIRR for a crummy job or seek greener pastures elsewhere. I took the latter option and haven't looked back. Palumbo's book galvanized me in my then-difficult decision. Many good memories of New York in the 1970s and '80s and a great place to grow up, but nowadays I wouldn't even want to visit let alone live there. The apple's gone rotten.
March 29, 2023
A review of NYC during early Covid as it was treated by its Mayor and Governor.
Starts off well with typical Democrat flip flopping as nobody seemed to know what Covid was about and weather lockdowns, distancing or masking were effective.
Then just when they decided to shut everything down it all reopened briefly for BLM rallies thus exacerbating the spread of the virus.
NYC suffered from a much higher Covid death rate than the rest of the country at the early stage and it's leaders are to blame.
2nd half of the book is a lot of statistics and lost my interest.
Starts off well with typical Democrat flip flopping as nobody seemed to know what Covid was about and weather lockdowns, distancing or masking were effective.
Then just when they decided to shut everything down it all reopened briefly for BLM rallies thus exacerbating the spread of the virus.
NYC suffered from a much higher Covid death rate than the rest of the country at the early stage and it's leaders are to blame.
2nd half of the book is a lot of statistics and lost my interest.
June 18, 2021
Hmm
It was a entertaining read,informative to. Also, I can think of anything else to say. Here in 20 words. Tada
It was a entertaining read,informative to. Also, I can think of anything else to say. Here in 20 words. Tada
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