Poll: How will Trump's first speech to Congress go off the rails?

We all know that Donald Trump's first appearance before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday will be a train wreck, and that it will go off the rails early, but we don't yet know exactly how it will leave the tracks.

These seem to be two of the most obvious possibilities:

Poll:
In his Tuesday speech to Congress, which will Donald Trump address first, whining about "Fake News" or bragging about his "Big Win"?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) February 26, 2017

Today's Twitter Poll about Steve Bannon

A quick one-day Twitter poll to go along with yesterday's video insight into Trump's Rasputin via The Big Lebowski:

Poll:
On a sliding scale of political philosophies beginning with 'N', do you feel Steve Bannon feels more at home with Nazism or nihilism?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) February 25, 2017

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

"Nihilists? Fuck me."

Sorry Chuck, but your'e [sic] wrong.

There are certain grammatical tics by which our right-wing brethren reveal themselves on social media, but you have to give @realDonaldTrump's fellow game show host turned conservative twitterer @ChuckWoolery some credit for making an effort to understand the difference between the contraction for "you are" and the second-person possessive adjective. In the slightly incoherent pinned tweet on his Twitter page, which he wrote almost a year ago, he did get all the correct letters of the contraction in the correct order, but he had a little bit of trouble with the placement of the apostrophe.

Screen grabbed on February 15, 2017 at 10:30am EST.

Good try Chuck. It's almost English!

New TrueBlueLiberal Twitter Poll About the Two Steves that Deserves to End in a Tie

I honestly don't know how I'd answer this:

Not saying they're Nazis or anything, but the "Should You Punch A Nazi?" question makes me think about which Steve's face is more punchable:

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) February 15, 2017

The USA is exceptional (and almost 69 years behind the UK) in at least one area.

The National Health Service began on July 5, 1948.

I'm simply retyping the historic text of the page above in order to make it searchable and readable on all devices:

THE NEW

NATIONAL

HEALTH 

SERVICE

*

Your new National Health Service begins on 5th July. What is it? How do you get it?

    It will provide you with all medical, dental, and nursing care. Everyone--rich or poor, man, woman or child--can use it or any part of it. There are no charges, except for a few special items. There are no insurance qualifications. But it is not a " charity ". You are all paying for it, mainly as taxpayers, and it will relieve your money worries in time of illness.

The Quotation of the Day -- and Slang Vocabulary Enrichment -- comes from John Waters

Maybe you knew before today, but until I read this in The Guardian, I had no idea what a 'Hair-Hopper' was.

When John Waters says that he has never watched a reality television show, Rebecca Nicholson asks him if he has really never seen The Apprentice, the show that brought Donald Trump to national prominence among America's couch-potato demographic.

 He answers:

“Never. No! I hated him before. I hate a hopper. A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they’re rich, who really wasn’t brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they’re rich, and they spend too much time on their hair.”

One more April Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Here's one update to the American Spring calendar I posted last week.

I saw a tweet from George Takei with a link to the Twitter page of @FIRE_THE_FOOL promoting their gathering on the National Mall on April Fools' Day (which falls conveniently on a Saturday this year, just like all these other anti-Trump actions).

Click to sign up for at least one or two, either in D.C. or at a local satellite location!

• April 1   Fire The Fool.
• April 15   Tax Day Marches.
• April 22   March for Science.
• April 29   People's Climate March.
• May 6   The Immigrants' March.

The True Blue Liberal Twitter Poll of the Week

Why is the current resident of the White House ignoring the most obvious and deadly group of terrorists in America?

Which of the following seem to you to be a more likely agents of terrorist violence in North America?

— True Blue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) February 8, 2017

Professor Irwin Corey (7/29/1914--2/6/2017) and Thomas Pynchon's National Book Award

I was surprised to hear today that Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost Authority" and an absolutely unique comedian, has just passed away. Most of my surprise springs from the fact that I thought Professor Corey was 80 years old when I first saw him on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1966, more than fifty years ago. So, needless to say, I was more amazed that he had still been alive earlier this week, and only 102 years old, than long gone and 130 years old.

I immediately thought about the Professor's greatest moment (at least for someone whose favorite book is Gravity's Rainbow). The following video (with oddly appropriate German subtitles) even includes the audio of Irwin Corey impersonating Thomas Pynchon, or "Richard Python," at the 1973 National Book Awards ceremony and video of him reading the novel's opening lines.



Rest in Peace Professor.