Start learning German while you maintain social distancing this winter...

...so that you can enjoy the best COVID-19 videos; both of these new videos are from the German government: 

You can understand the story of these exceptional heroes of the winter of 2020 without English subtitles, can't you?

Who Should Headline President Biden's First White House Correspondents' Dinner?

 

POLL:
When the White House Correspondents' Dinner reconvenes next year with a president who has a sense of humor, who should provide the comedy entertainment, @RandyRainbow, @sarahcpr, or someone else?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) August 17, 2020

Here are the latest videos from both Randy and Sarah:

Happy Birthday to Philip Seymour Hoffman

Brandt left us much too soon.

Why type "Donald Trump" when you can simply type "Idiot"?

With shades of "Santorum," savvy internet users now know that if they are looking for images of or webpages about President Donald J. Trump on Google, they can save carpal-tunnel-inducing keystrokes by simply typing i-d-i-o-t. You would think another idiot or two would show up; they do, but you have to scroll down past images of Donald Trump to find them.

New Poll. Which psychiatric disorder is behind the President's compulsion to build the #GreatWallOfTrump?

POLL: You too can be an amateur presidential psychiatrist!

The unchanging and unevolving compulsion of @realDonaldTrump to build an ineffective but VERY VERY VERY GREAT #GreatWallOfTrump could best be diagnosed as symptomatic of which of the following?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) January 19, 2018

A True Blue Liberal POTUS & SCOTUS Poll

Here's a poll that will be up on the @TrueBlueLiberal Twitter page this week about President Trump and two of his favorite judges:

POLL:
Due to his very, very GREAT respect for the American justice system, the next judge whom @realDonaldTrump plans to elevate to a seat on the Supreme Court, if he gets the opportunity, is...

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) November 14, 2017

The "Best" Trump Poll

Here's a week-long Twitter poll about Donald Trump's "best" words and "best" people that doesn't seem to have an obvious answer.

Vote:

Which is @realDonaldTrump's best and funniest joke?
'I have the best words'
or
'I surround myself with the best people'

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) November 2, 2017

Intentional and Unintentional Humor in the White House

Happy Birthday to 1968's joke presidential candidate, Pat Paulsen (7/6/1927).


And to 2000's joke president, George W. Bush (7/6/1946).

Happy Birthday to Cleavon Little (1939-1992)

"What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump?"

The headline about the new Quinnipiac Poll that was released yesterday was about the percentages of Americans who support (36%) or don't support (58%) Donald Trump. However, scrolling down below the demographic percentage breakdowns (which were all moving dramatically out of the president's favor even before his firing of James Comey), reveals this gem of a question that appeals more to those of us who love language more than numbers: "What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump?"

The only thing that surprises me is that 'asshole' only came in at eleventh place, but otherwise this is a list that you could hand to any American and they would know exactly who were describing.

This could be the most effective healthcare speech in the current Trumpcare 2.0 debate

Normally I'm not a fan of the American television and celebrity culture that has given us our current resident of the White House, but maybe that culture is also the best weapon to help bring him down too, or at least help neutralize his power to take away health insurance from those who finally gained it under President Obama.



Although if I ever watched late night television, it might be hard to decide between Kimmel and Colbert.

So which decade is Melania Trump living in?

 According to an article in the French edition of Le Huffington Post, many are reminded of 1980s soap operas when they see the First Lady's new official portrait, but according to Germany's Der Spiegel, it's the 1990s (and PhotoShop) that are evoked by this bland glamour shot.

So, which is it?

Click Here for the Der Spiegel article.

Click here for the Le Huffington Post article.

I thought it was the 1970s.

Video Evidence Behind the Reasons for Donald Trump's Proposed Defunding of PBS

Here's real-estate developer Ronald Grump building Grump Tower on Sesame Street episode 2399:



Here's Donald Grump of The Apprentice, whose "name is on every piece of trash in town" and his song from episode 4104:

The Big Lebowski explains in 30 seconds why you can't argue with Steve Bannon.

"Nihilists? Fuck me."

Making Saturday Night Live Great Again!

I never believed in the summer of 2015 that Donald Trump was actually serious about running for president, and the fact that his kids couldn't figure out how to register as Republicans in the New York primary will always stand in my mind as proof of that. Some say it was just another attempt to increase the TRUMP brand's visibility, some say it was just an ego trip, some say it was part of a negotiating strategy with NBC over his Celebrity Apprentice contract, but I'm going to suggest another possibility: Maybe Trump was working with his employers at NBC to increase the appeal of a floundering Saturday Night Live franchise by giving it a joke presidential candidate to spice up an election year that was threatening to be a Bush vs. Clinton snoozefest.

The Alec Baldwin performances as Donald Trump gave SNL new life and high ratings as NBC employee Trump pretended to be offended, but the show reached a new height last night when the accidental president's press secretary Sean Spicer was portrayed by Melissa McCarthy. I've been watching SNL on and off since it began in 1975 and at the moment I can't think of anything funnier than this. I can't stop watching it.


Sorry Sean Spicer, but this is one of those defining performances. Just as no one can see Sarah Palin speak without thinking of Tina Fey's "I can see Russia from my house" imitation, no future press conference of yours will ever be seen without Melissa McCarthy's impression in the back of every viewer's mind.

Thanks SNL.


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Update 2/5/2017 at 8pm:
The Trump/NBC conspiracy to Make SNL Great Again has officially succeeded.  According to Variety today, the show has its best ratings in 22 years thanks to Donald Trump's antics and attacks.

WARNING: Never Play This Song For Donald Trump!

There's a real danger that when someone has demonstrated no understanding of any of the basic concepts of humor (including, but not limited to, irony, satire, sarcasm, deadpan, self-deprecating, and knock-knock jokes), that person is in danger of taking everything literally.

So please, we can't emphasize enough that no one should ever ever (or at least until he's out of office and far from the nuclear button) let President Trump hear 'Political Science' by Randy Newman.





Randy Newman perfectly understood the world view of Donald and His Deplorables in 1972.

A Surprise for the Next Sean Spicer Press Briefing?

In his first two appearances, Donald Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer has shown himself to be an aficionado  of "alternative facts" and a master practitioner of the Fine White Whine of blaming the press, but the press shouldn't get too comfortable with the routine verbal back and forth.

They should remember that Richard Nixon built the Press Briefing Room over FDR's indoor pool and Sean might be saving his trump card for just the right moment.

Maybe the Trump Inauguration Committee can get these singers

It's no secret that the Trump Presidential Inauguration Committee is having trouble finding performers to play at their January 20th festivities, but maybe -- if they make up for the fact that the campaign stiffed them back in January -- they can still get the USA Freedom Kids to perform.

Donald Trump's 5-hour-long Christmas (NOT HOLIDAY!) Yule Log Video

Via Comedy Central's The Daily Show.

The TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/17/2016

The TrueBlueLiberal.org tweet of the day comes from @JohnFugelsang, who distilled the new word of the day, 'unpresidented,' to its dual meaning in a gem of a tweet.

Nixon was evil but he wasn't ignorant.
W was ignorant but he wasn't evil.
The incoming combo is #unpresidented

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 17, 2016