Georgy Boy

Hey there, Georgy boy
Swingin’ down the street so fancy-free
Nobody you meet could ever see
What is really there …
Hey there, Georgy boy
There’s another Georgy deep inside
Bring out all the love you hide
And, oh, what a change there’d be
The world would see
A new Georgy boy!

[my apologies to Jim Dale, lyricist]

Attribution: George Santos by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY

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  5. so which poll is the outlier?   that wapo-abc 36% approval or the econ-yougov’s 48% approval?

    could be this is one of those apples to oranges thingys comparing two different types of polled respondent groups

  6. ms petri’s Opinion How to correctly host a town hall with Trump

    On Wednesday night, CNN hosted a town hall for Donald Trump, a man you might remember from his brief stint as president of the United States or the terrifying incident when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election. If the name still doesn’t ring a bell, he used to be on reality TV!

    Well, CNN decided to host a town hall for him, and it is pretty universally agreed that the network did not do a good job. Which raises the question: How would you do it? Simple.
    The first — and biggest — mistake CNN made was allowing Trump to have a microphone that was turned on. That way, when he tried to talk over the moderator, mock E. Jean Carroll and spew wild lies about abortion, people could hear him. This was bad. If they had followed the simple protocol of not letting him have a microphone, everyone would have seen his lips moving but heard nothing. Possibly a long, faint, high-pitched whine, like a mosquito.
    Indeed, this is optimal: a microphone that is not off, but broken in such a way that you hear something, a horrible high whistling noise that you want to shut off at any cost. That way, instead of laughing gruesomely along with him, the audience would have covered their ears and screamed, “No more! No more of whatever this is!” The only downside of this is we would not have learned that he wants to default on the debt for no clear reason, but that is the kind of information he was bound to share in another venue.
    Broadly speaking, any format where you allow him to talk is bad. It is okay if he can nod or point, although you should be vigilant about the kinds of signs that the audience can bring with them so that he cannot put together a nasty sentence by pointing slowly at words in turn.
    […]
    Another mistake was not having the moderator sit at a desk where she could push a button at any point to open a small portcullis, from which the Thing — the true possessor of the cave, something pus-white and slimily dripping with jaws of enormous size — might roll and ooze its way toward the stage, causing all those who saw it to vomit with terror.
    […]
    Another mistake was ending after the time had elapsed instead of when all the lights flickered suddenly and went out, driving the moderator and crew to rush for the only elevator to the surface and leaving Trump alone with — we cannot say what, exactly. It is too familiar to be a nightmare. Something ancient, and alive, and hungry.
    All you have to do is follow those simple instructions and your Trump town hall should be a great success!

  7. I was thinking they could’ve had two moderators, one to ask the questions and a second with a bullhorn to shout the corrected answers. 

  8. When I was a tadpole frolicking around in the surf of the atlantic ocean back in the Fabulous Fifties, (maybe more fabulous for kids than for African Americans or women, eh?) my republican  president was the guy who had won the war in Europe.  I felt totally ok with him even though some complained about his too-frequent golf games.   (I also by chance came within a week of marching in his funeral, which is anothert tale in itself).   But Ike.   That was the last republican president I could look at and think:  “There goes an honorable man”. Maybe Bush Sr was an honorable man, but they culled him out pretty fast. (can’t help but think that Perot had a slew of very interesting behind the scene backers). Ike was a very long time ago as lives go, but a very short time as history goes.   The gop has gone from Ike to Fyce in a steadily and rapidly descending line, even allowing Bush Sr as a speed bump.   Which to me means that given the relentlessly downward trajectory, the guy to come after the gop’s present walking pus-boil is going to be a doozy.

  10. Today’s savory moment is to sit back and think of how sfb is going to be on camera, with a judge explaining to him he cannot say a lot of stuff otherwise the dollars will pay, and, if good enough he could enjoy some solitude in a small room with bars.  Oh to be a court aide for that little show.  It will also be one of the times someone like a judge will actually be in conversation with an idiot who has the smarts of a third grade miscreant.

  11. Sturge, something like that with more menacing lurking from behind. Taste of his own medicine. 

  12. BB, thanks for alerting us about that

    Trump criminal trial judge set hearing on use of evidence rules (nbcnews.com)

    NEW YORK — Donald Trump was ordered Thursday to appear by video at a May 23 hearing in his Manhattan criminal case after a judge this week set rules barring him from using evidence in the case to attack witnesses.
    Judge Juan Manuel Merchan scheduled the hybrid hearing — the former president on a TV screen, his lawyers and prosecutors in court — to go over the restrictions with Trump and to make clear that he risks being held in contempt if he violates them.
    The case is continuing in state court even as Trump’s lawyers seek to have it moved to federal court. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who is considering the transfer request, issued an order this week setting paperwork deadlines and a hearing for late June.
    Merchan, still in charge while that drama plays out, agreed to instruct Trump on the rules by video, rather than in person, after a prosecutor reminded him last week that bringing Trump to court would present mammoth security and logistical challenges.
    […]
    Merchan issued what’s known as a protective order on Monday, days after a hearing where he urged Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office to reach a compromise regarding the Republican’s access to and use of evidence turned over by prosecutors prior to trial. That kind of evidence sharing, called discovery, is routine in criminal cases, and is intended to help ensure a fair trial.
    Prosecutors sought the order soon after Trump’s arrest, citing what they say is his history of making “harassing, embarrassing, and threatening statements” about people he’s tangled with in legal disputes.
    […]
    Merchan’s protective order bars Trump and his lawyers from disseminating evidence to third parties or posting it to social media, and it requires that certain, sensitive material shared by prosecutors be kept only by Trump’s lawyers, not Trump himself. Trump can review that material with his lawyers, but can’t copy or photograph it, the order said.
    […]
    Absent a move to federal court, Merchan expects the case to go to trial next February or March, meaning Trump could be stuck in court during next year’s primaries.

  13. you know what they say about a fool and his money… sfb selling this…
     
     
     

  16. Daughter called with the latest CA shake, rattle and roll.  5.5 is a pretty fair Richter number.  Needs to be a little higher to convince a whole slew of people to move out so I can consider returning home.

     

  17. This is an old story of a long ago world.  I was on the phone with a reporter who was in SanFran.  We were talking and then he was rolling around and it was hard talking.  For some reason I had the earthquake monitor (no links) up and saw the quake happening in realtime.  To his credit he tried to continue the interview.  I suggested he find cover and we could talk again in the future. 

  18. My earthquake story is being a telephone operator in West Covina at the time of the big Alaskan earthquake in 1964.  As it happened the Lt. Governor was in town for some sort of conference, and I was the operator who picked up the call to the Governor.  This meant using military lines to connect them and regulations stated that I had to stay on an open line in case I was needed. I was on the call for several hours.

    The next day the Lt. Governor sent a five pound box of Sees and a really nice bouquet of flowers.

     

  19. Well, Miami sealed their fate in the next round and the Lakers are looking very good early.. and fading…

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