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Arthur and Jalen clash over Andrew Cuomo's appearance on Honestly with Bari Weiss (5/20/2025).

🔥 Topics we cover:

• Cuomo's Shakespearean justification: hearing his dead father's voice telling him to resign

• How he's leading mayoral polls by 20 points despite the harassment scandals

• His ice-cold dismissal of Eric Adams as "tragic" for cutting deals with Trump

• The nursing home scandal reframed: "We were number 38" as a badge of honor

• Socialist challenger Zohran Mamdani's grassroots army vs. Cuomo's institutional power

• Why he can't give a straight answer about going to Mass anymore

• His "I was always progressive" revisionism while bragging about adding cops

• The generational warfare: boomer pragmatism vs. millennial idealism

• Cuomo's greatest hits: LaGuardia, Second Avenue subway, and governing through crisis

• His stunning praise for Governor Abbott's migrant shipping tactics

• The $30 minimum wage debate and "Yankees vs. Red Sox" socialism

• Whether his comeback represents strength or sociopathy

• Why fear-based politics still wins in New York

• The eternal question: competence vs. conscience in Democratic politics

• Building coalitions vs. purity spirals in the age of Twitter activism