Why Are You Voting for Democrats on November 8? A True Blue Liberal Twitter Poll.

There are so many reasons, of course, but what's your number one reason to #VoteBlueIn2022?

Do you want to protect democracy and the rule of law by defeating election deniers and #TrumpCoupAttempt co-conspirators and apologists? Protect a woman's right to choose by electing Democrats who will codify the protections of Roe v. Wade legislatively and defeating Republicans, some of whom would outlaw abortion nationally? Protect Social Security and Medicare from Republicans under Rick Scott who promise to end these "entitlement" programs that so many of us depend upon (and have paid dedicated taxes to support throughout our working lives)? Or is it some other issue that rises to the top for you this November (if so, add in the comments here and on Twitter)? 

 This poll will be open for a week.

POLL:

There are so many reasons, but what's your number one reason to #VoteBlueIn2022?

Protect Democracy and the Rule of Law? Protect a Woman's Right to Choose? Protect Social Security and Medicare? Or Something Else (add in the comments)?

— True Blue Liberal ☮️ (@TrueBlueLiberal) October 18, 2022

"Remember January 6th" should become as important as "Remember Pearl Harbor" in our national fight against fascism

 

The actions of the trumpists at the U.S. Capitol one year ago should never be whitewashed.

Twitter Poll: Which member of the #TrumpCrimeFamily will fly the coop first?

The slow drip of Trump investigation news continued today with the report that New York Attorney General Letitia James has subpoenaed Donald Junior and Ivanka as part of the fraud investigation into the Trump Organization. That led me to post a poll on Twitter that I've asked earlier.

POLL: Who will be the first member of the #TrumpCrimeFamily to fly to a nation without a U.S. extradition treaty?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) January 3, 2022

Because we all know that the cowardly crime family members would rather live on a Trump-branded golf course in Dubai than in a jail cell in upstate New York, don't we?

"The World Is Too Much With Us..." Happy 251st Birthday to William Wordsworth

 The World Is Too Much With Us

William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

And if you're looking for books to read (and who isn't), I'd wholeheartedly recommend a book from Jonathan Bate that published in time for Wordsworth's 250th birthday last year, Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World. Or, even better, the beautiful illustrated and annotated edition of Wordsworth's masterpiece, The Prelude, published by David R. Godine in 2016.

POLL: Who was the G. Gordon Liddy of #StupidWatergate?

Yesterday the news broke that G. Gordon Liddy died at the age of 90. Liddy was one of the organizers of the original Watergate burglary that eventually led to the downfall of Richard Nixon and he remained totally unrepentant about his actions.

Liddy's return to the news brings up the obvious question. Who was the G. Gordon Liddy for the #StupidWatergate(s) of the twice-impeached ex-president now hiding out at Mar-a-Lago? 

POLL:
Who was the G. Gordon Liddy of #StupidWatergate?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) March 31, 2021

 

Today's True Blue Liberal Bible Lesson for the "Christians" Gathered in Orlando This Weekend

It's been too long since we posted a True Blue Liberal bible verse here on this blog, but the golden T***p statue displayed in Orlando this weekend at #CPAC2021 demands a reference to Exodus chapter 32.

 

Exodus Chapter 32

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him, Up, make us gods which shall go before us : for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 

  2   And Aaron saide unto them, Breake off the golden earerings which are in the eares of your wives, of your sonnes, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

  3   So all the people brake off the golden earerings, which were in their eares and brought them unto Aaron.

  4   And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving toole, and he had made it a golden calfe : and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!

  5  And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.

  6  And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings : and the people sate downe to eate and drinke and rose up to play.

This is taken, of course, from the 1611 King James Version, known here at trueblueliberal.org as "The Real Bible For Real Christians."

More video of the overstuffed golden calfe of 2021:

POLL: What's the Official Name of Orlando's QAnon Convention This Weekend?

 

POLL:
Should the meeting of #Cult45 zealots taking place in Orlando this weekend be officially known as #CPAQ or #QPAC?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) February 27, 2021

Here's your reminder that the object of abject veneration at #QPAC 2021 (or maybe it's #CPAQ) refused their invitation in 2016 and held his own rally because he was mad at #CPAC 2016's star and favorite presidential candidate, "L-Y-E-N" Ted Cruz.

"You have lyin' Ted Cruz.
I call him.
I nicknamed him -- lyin'.
I say ly - in'.
How would you spell that?
L - Y - E - N.
Lyin'.
With a big [making double airquotes with stubby fingers while pausing to search for the big word] apostrophe."
-Donald J. T***p, Wichita, Kansas, 5 March 2016

This concludes your T***p University spelling lesson for the day.

"Our Long National Nightmare is [Almost] Over"

 I hope President Joe Biden's first remarks as President of the United States [in an hour from now] nod toward the speech of President Gerald Ford delivered on August 9, 1974:

"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule."

 

POLL: Which Trump Crime Family Member Will Flee from the Country First?

POLL:
Which #TrumpCrimeFamily member is most likely to be the first to leave the United States and seek shelter in a nation that doesn't have an extradition treaty with us?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) January 13, 2021

POLL: Where Will the Evicted White House Resident Be on January 20th?

POLL:
Where will the evicted @WhiteHouse resident be at 12 noon on January 20th?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) January 8, 2021

 

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UPDATE:

Within forty minutes of posting my poll, the #SoreLoserInChief emerged from a temporary Twitter timeout and eliminated the first choice, which was, of course, no surprise:

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....and another UPDATE, at 7:45pm on January 8th:

The @realDonaldTrump Twitter account has finally been suspended:

...so, he's talking about starting his own social-media platform, which leads to one more poll question for the day:

POLL:
Twitter exile Tr*mp is looking "at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED!"

What will he name it?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) January 9, 2021