Harnessing the judicial wisdom of crowds on the Trump-Russia scandal

Twitter should really provide more than four spaces in their polls, because the following list should have about ten names on it, but I'm starting with Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn, and Rudy Giuliani as my likeliest suspects for the earliest #TrumpRussia indictment. If your choice is Carter Page or Roger Stone or Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump or Jeff Sessions or... , then please reply to the tweet with your favorite Trumpster.

What's your gut feeling about the identity of the first Trumpster to be indicted over #TrumpRussia-related charges?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) April 18, 2017

I'm leaving this up for seven days, so please spread the word to increase the size and wisdom of our crowd.

If this tweet were a chess move, Kasparov's opponent would resign.

This tweet from former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is the undisputed tweet of the week during a week when the White House and their Republican allies in Congress and the media have tried everything to subvert the Trump/Russia investigations with a much smaller, and completely diversionary, investigation of leaks.

The house is on fire, Trump is running around with a box of matches, and the GOP demands to know who called the fire department.

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) March 20, 2017

A New TrueBlueLiberal Twitter Poll

With the latest news from last night about Donald Trump's Russian entanglements, it seems time to ask the following question. I'd love to know how many of my Twitter followers think that our next President is going to make through an entire four-year term (if, in fact, he makes it to his inauguration).

On What Date Will @realDonaldTrump Become #Unpresidented?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) January 11, 2017

The TBL Tweet of the Day is from Garry Kasparov

Nobody gave @Kasparov63 any serious competition today for TrueBlueLiberal.org's tweet of the day:

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 13, 2016

The Last Nation on Earth to Be Lecturing About 21st-Century Invasion Ethics

"You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext." --US Secretary of State John Kerry on Face the Nation, 2 March 2014

To show that this was the official unironic talking point of the US State Department, here was his statement when he moved from CBS's Sunday talking heads show to NBC's.

"You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests.” --US Secretary of State John Kerry on Meet the Press, 2 March 2014

"You" don't.

Only we do.