And, there is another way of looking at it, too. Which doesn't involve ignoring anybody's vote.

Translation: "Weigantia: I have a shovel."

To illustrate, let's say that in California the votes were divided up a little more evenly, like the situation in Texas or Florida, with similar numbers of votes for each candidate.

Remember your context being the prior 8 presidential elections, and recognize the fact that Texas hasn't always been "divided up a little more evenly"... and far, far from it.

okay, i'll rise to the snark challenge.

You needn't bother... ALL the snark is attributed to you and you alone.

if not for california, biden would have only won the popular vote by 2 million.

Would we call that a "wide margin"?

and if not for having balls, my uncle would be my aunt.

Heh. :)

Sorry but, I was trying to make that the snarkiest comment ever. Heh.

You missed the "snark" mark and landed squarely on "clueless."

Your "snark" doesn't count anyway since Weigantia's well-known "wide margin" of snark can be attributed to only one single person: nypoet22. ;)

Let's look at the four most populous states, shall we, and at the vote totals for Biden and Trump.

Why bother even looking at those other states if you're hellbent on discounting their voters' contribution to the margins of victory in the popular vote total over the most recent elections in America's history? You do understand the definition of "total"? Also: Your context was the popular vote total and margins of victory in the most recent elections. Context:

Democrats have won the popular vote by wide margins in 7 out of the last 8, and in the last 4 consecutive presidential elections in a row. That hasn't happened since FDR was president in the 1930's.

~ John M.

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You're talking popular vote totals and trying to discount 49 states and the District of Columbia and their role in contributing to the popular vote totals in 7 out of the last 8 elections, which was the point John M had made.

Your claim is that California alone produces those wide margins of victory in that context. As if.

This ain't rocket science, Canada. The State of California alone did not produce wide margin popular vote totals in 7 out of the last 8 elections.

Let's stipulate that Texas and Florida don't really make a hill of beans of difference in the overall vote count margin for Biden over Trump - those states were pretty close in terms of number of votes separating the two candidates.

Remember your context, Canada. Also, you're easily proving my point rather than your own. While Florida has been a so-called swing state for the time period John M. was discussing, Texas most definitely has not. It wasn't that long ago when Texas was being lost by huge double digits to Republican presidential candidates. Fast forward to now and it's a swing state where you're determined to discount the gains in Democratic votes to the popular vote margin of victory. California alone isn't producing the gains in the margins of victory in context to the elections you were discussing.

In New York and California you see the biggest margin in percentage of votes in favour of Biden - 61% to 38% and 64% to 34%, respectively.

Incorrect. Try DC and Vermont... 92% and 66%.

Now, let's take a closer look at the big blue state of California. It has the largest population of any state, by a lot! Twice as populous as New York, even.

Nice try, Canada... but context... and not twice as populous as Texas with approximately 30 million in 2020.

Want to know why you're proving my point in context?

California
2020: 39,368,078
2010: 37,253,956
Increase of 5.7%

Texas
2020: 29,360,759
2010: 25,145,561
Increase of 16.8%

The population of Texas is increasing exponentially versus that of California... and that's just over the last 2 elections where your context... John M's, of course... is over the last 8 elections.

I'll let you in on another little (not a) secret. A whole bunch of registered voters have moved from California to Texas, and they're still voting for Democratic candidates. Just because they live in Texas now doesn't mean they're not still contributing to the so-called wide margin vote totals. Quite the contrary, in fact. They're just contributing to the popular vote total while residing in a whole other state.

Still not rocket science.

So to recap: If you can't understand this, like I already said, I'm willing to let it slide... but if you're going to keep insisting that California alone produced the wide margins of victory in the context y'all were speaking about, then you are free to own that nonsensical spew. :)

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Let's look at the four most populous states, shall we, and at the vote totals for Biden and Trump.

Why bother looking at those others states if you're hell-bent on discounting their voters' contribution to the margins of victory in the popular vote total? Yin the last

Let's stipulate that Texas and Florida don't really make a hill of beans of difference in the overall vote count margin for Biden over Trump - those states were pretty close in terms of number of votes separating the two candidates.

Now here is where it gets interesting ...

In New York and California you see the biggest margin in percentage of votes in favour of Biden - 61% to 38% and 64% to 34%, respectively.

Are ya following me, so far?

Excellent!

Now, let's take a closer look at the big blue state of California. It has the largest population of any state, by a lot! Twice as populous as New York, even.

Consequently, the difference between each candidate's vote total in one state called Golden is, in a word, humongous. Or, ginormous, to put it another way.

In California, Biden got in excess of 5 million more votes than Trump. That represents the widest vote margin between the candidates in ANY state or territory or the District of Columbia.

Now, let us look at the whole country and see how many more votes were cast in Biden's favour than in Trump's ... Biden got about 7 million more votes than Trump.

What was the vote difference in California, again?

So, to recap, never mind. Sigh.

Also, Joe won California's popular vote eleven million to six.

Naw, that'd never happen. There's way too many of us Loud and Proud Libtards in all the settled real estate and too few farmers and rednecks out in the deserts and mountains.

...and subtracting California's 55 Electoral votes would still leave Joe beating Trump 251-232.

This despite the preponderance of Red versus Blue states remaining.

To illustrate, let's say that in California the votes were divided up a little more evenly, like the situation in Texas or Florida, with similar numbers of votes for each candidate.

If that were the case, then we wouldn't be having this discussion, now would we? But, it's not, so we are. Heh.

if not for california, biden would have only won the popular vote by 2 million. and if not for having balls, my uncle would be my aunt.

JL

Let's look at the four most populous states, shall we, and at the vote totals for Biden and Trump.

Let's stipulate that Texas and Florida don't really make a hill of beans of difference in the overall vote count margin for Biden over Trump - those states were pretty close in terms of number of votes separating the two candidates.

Now here is where it gets interesting ...

In New York and California you see the biggest margin in percentage of votes in favour of Biden - 61% to 38% and 64% to 34%, respectively.

Are ya following me, so far?

Excellent!

Now, let's take a closer look at the big blue state of California. It has the largest population of any state, by a lot! Twice as populous as New York, even.

Consequently, the difference between each candidate's vote total in one state called Golden is, in a word, humongous. Or, ginormous, to put it another way.

In California, Biden got in excess of 5 million more votes than Trump. That represents the widest vote margin between the candidates in ANY state or territory or the District of Columbia.

Now, let us look at the whole country and see how many more votes were cast in Biden's favour than in Trump's ... Biden got about 7 million more votes than Trump.

What was the vote difference in California, again?

So, to recap, never mind. Sigh.

Oh, and, GO CHIEFS!!!

Oh, the Chiefs' offensive line was horrendous today. Still proud of our Patrick, though; he did about as good as he could under the circumstances of getting his ass kicked by Tampa. Win some, lose some.

Do I have a song for that?

Sweet Seasons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJfrsYOp9Kk

You just know Carole King was referring to football seasons, right? ;) *heh*

Also off of their phenomenal debut album, have a listen to Vladivostok... turn it up loud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87g5Rckyruk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7796-au8U

Duh.

What I said was that, and I quote, "Democrats win the popular vote by wide margins because of just one state." It's right up there at the top of your post! Heh.

Yes, Elizabeth, you've absolutely and definitely fallen for that right-wing ruse. You still cannot win the "popular vote by wide margins" without including the voters from the other 49 states and the District of Columbia. It's simply nonsensical rhetoric that you fell hard for, and it's also simple math.

If you discount/subtract the Democratic candidates' votes made by a million voters from multiple of the other states plus DC, you quite obviously lose your so-called rhetorical ruse "wide-margin win" because of "one state."

Allow me to demonstrate via science... math to be specific:

FL.... 5,297,045 Democratic votes becomes 4,297,045
OH... 2,684,292 Democratic votes becomes 1,684,292
TX.... 5,259,126 Democratic votes becomes 4,259,126
IL..... 3,471,915 Democratic votes becomes 2,471,915
NY.... 5,241,957 Democratic votes becomes 4,241,957
MA... 2,382,202 Democratic votes becomes 1,382,202
MD... 1,985,023 Democratic votes becomes 985,023

As an added bonus, not a single one of these existing voters that I'm excluding/discounting in the above states changes the outcome of the Electoral College count in any way whatsoever because Florida, Ohio and Texas were won by the Republican candidates Trump/Pence, while Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and Maryland were won by Biden/Harris with 1,000,000+ voters in excess of the Trump/Pence voters.

If the wide-margin win existed "because of just one state," there would be nothing I could do in the other states/DC to create a small margin... but I just did. I subtracted 7 million votes for Biden/Harris without changing the outcome of the Electoral College.

I can also further erode that so called "wide-margin win" "because of just one state" by excluding/subtracting half million chunks of Biden/Harris voters from the District of Columbia, Virginia, etc. and still without changing a single outcome in the Electoral College count... but there's no need.

Now let's do percentages:

Biden/Harris..... 81,281,502... 51.3%
Trump/Pence.... 74,222,593... 46.9%
All Others............ 2,890,510... 1.8%

There's your "wide margin" of victory.

So, to recap: Not rocket science ----> simple math. Your so-called "wide margins" don't come from a single state. Exclude the voters from multiple other states that do not affect the Electoral College totals in any way, and that theory is exposed for the bullshit that it's always been.

A single state in America does not produce a wide-margin win without including the votes of the other states you're excluding as if they don't matter. The other votes combine to produce it.

Science... go figure. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixx-bTxtWdE

This video is his last public performance in the United Kingdom ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZpM_nTzugE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M9zUQT1QYE&t=0s

I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvwbtILwNis

Gone but never forgotten, RIP Gary Moore,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0c6IfMkac&list=RD4O_YMLDvvnw&index=18

... the next few tunes are for you, Chris (CW) and, most especially, for Mrs. Chris Weigant. I hope you will both love these tunes as much as I do!

I could listen to Gary Moore and his guitar all day and night. Before heading into his solo career, he played with Skid Row (the Irish band) and Thin Lizzy...

But, here is a live performance of Still Got The Blues...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw

Recently, I discovered a great music program on Pacific Northwest Radio that I'd like to share with everyone here.

It's called Green Beans, Mushroom Soup and Strawberry Ice Cream (GBMS&SIC, for short ... heh), a podcast hosted by Marc Gladstone, who is currently PRiSM's keyboardist!

Marc plays some great classic tunes and new music from new and classic artists along with some great commentary. It's just a lot of great fun!

Here is a link to his latest show with new music released during the Fall of 2020 from Saga, AC/DC, Paul McCartney and others. He plays two new songs from Taylor Swift, incredibly ... and, like he said, it's surprisingly awesome!

Enjoy,
https://gbms-and-sic.captivate.fm/episode/the-cutting-edge-fall-2020?fbclid=IwAR2mx7JGmU6iMSARS5DFeagibTrYjf2yWAmJOYrFM0lxFRIPSrBpqIO7LCo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93mz_eZ5N4

First off, here is PRiSM with Ron Tabak and Open Soul Surgery from their first and self-titled studio album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BYoQiI71jc

Sadly, we lost the soaring voice of Tabak on Christmas Day, 1984 way too soon and unnecessarily. More about that another time.

But, when bandmate Lindsay Mitchell first heard Axl Rose singing Sweet Child 'O Mine he thought Ron had risen from the grave. It really is wierd watching Rose sing this song but hearing Ron's voice coming out of his mouth!

Will you be coming to the party tonight - after the game, of course?

If that's your version of let it slide then I have been wise to never piss off Kick nosiree.

And with that nugget, you've disclosed that you've fallen for one of the biggest and utterly nonsensical right-wing rhetorical ruses that it's merely one state that gives Democrats a popular vote advantage.

Actually, no.

What I said was that, and I quote, "Democrats win the popular vote by wide margins because of just one state." It's right up there at the top of your post! Heh.

So, to recap:

Actually, no.

What I said was that, and I quote, "Democrats win the popular vote by wide margins because of just one state." It's right up there at the top of your post! Heh.

Yes, sir... all this!

There are multiple injuries that have been suffered by approximately 140 additional police officers whom many will now live with these injuries for the remainder of their lives... injuries inflicted by the Trump Terrorists. The most common injuries sustained were concussions and traumatic brain injuries, an officer who has lost an eye, officers with broken ribs, smashed spinal discs, stab wounds from metal fence stakes, and multiple injuries sustained from beatings by the flagpoles from the myriad of Trump Cult flags carried by the American domestic terrorists.

The Pence angle along with the president's multiple phone calls to Georgia officials illegally seeking to interfere in the 2020 presidential election are the (as yet) most underreported aspects of this entire saga. What Trump asked Mike Pence to do was criminal. The brief by the House of Representatives contains a section regarding Trump explicitly asking Mike Pence to unilaterally discount certain electoral votes:

C. Vice President Pence Refuses to Overturn the Election Results

By the time the rally began, President Trump had nearly run out of options. He had only one card left to play: his Vice President. But in an act that President Trump saw as an unforgivable betrayal, Vice President Pence refused to violate his oath and constitutional duty—and, just hours later, had to be rushed from the Senate chamber to escape an armed mob seeking vengeance.

In the weeks leading up to the rally, President Trump had furiously lobbied Vice President Pence to refuse to count electoral votes for President Biden from any of the swing states.68 These demands ignored the reality that the Vice President has no constitutional or statutory authority to take that step. Over and over again, President Trump publicly declared that if Vice President Pence refused to block the Joint Session from finalizing President Biden’s victory, then the election, the party, and the country would be lost. “I hope Mike Pence comes through for us, I have to tell you,” President Trump said in Georgia on January 4.69 The next day, he tweeted: “If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency.”70 President Trump reiterated this demand just hours before the rally: “States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”71 On the morning of January 6, President Trump reportedly told Vice President Pence, “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”72

Later that day, while President Trump was speaking at his rally, Vice President Pence issued a public letter rejecting President Trump’s threats. “It is my considered judgment,” he wrote, “that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.”73

This letter sounded the death knell to any peaceful methods of overturning the election outcome. It was well known that the House and Senate were going to count the lawfully certified electoral votes they had received. President Trump’s efforts to coerce election officials, state legislatures, the DOJ, Members of Congress, and his own Vice President had all failed. But he had long made it clear that he would never accept defeat. He would fight until the bitter end. And all that remained for President Trump was the seething crowd before him—known to be poised for violence at his instigation—and the Capitol building just a short march away, where Vice President Pence presided over the final, definitive accounting of President Trump’s electoral loss.

https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/house_trial_brief_final.pdf

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The public has yet to learn the extent to which Trump individually and the Trump campaign and its regular criminal lineup of felons like Flynn, Stone, etc. were directly involved in the insurrection... but this is far from over.

I’ve seen people still using “GOP”, but calling it “Greene’s Own Party” or “Greene Owned Party”.

Russ! I know, right! Also can't wait to see what this guy has to say about it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8ldD9wKmY

Heh.

Democrats win the popular vote by wide margins because of just one state. So, it's not that big a deal.

And with that nugget, you've disclosed that you've fallen for one of the biggest and utterly nonsensical right-wing rhetorical ruses that it's merely one state that gives Democrats a popular vote advantage. Righties generally claim that it's the State of California and then deduct the Democratic candidates' vote totals from that state as proof of their point... as if the other 49 states plus the District of Columbia don't figure into said totals in any way. They do.

Using an equally nonsensical calculation, Democrats could claim in similar fashion that "it's not that big a deal" they didn't win a majority of the Electoral College votes "because of just one state"... Texas. Of course, when you do that, you're also discounting the other 49 states and the District of Columbia that absolutely do factor into the Electoral College totals.

Trump's losing gambit/con in the 2020 presidential election was to lie and attempt to exclude the votes of certain voters in multiple states wherein he definitely lost the popular vote and thereby lost the Electoral College votes of those states to Biden. Since Poor Donald won 232 Electoral College votes, why didn't Trump simply use that California exclusion technique that Righties are famous for and claim that he won the presidency because he won the majority of votes in California and therefore their 55 Electoral College votes? Heck, why stop at 287? Why didn't Trump claim he won in a "landslide" because he also won his (up until recently) home State of New York and a total of 316 ECVs? I mean, if you're going to spew lying rhetoric that you "won in a landslide" and "fraud," why not go for the really big states with lots of people and the corresponding ECVs?

So to recap: "Democrats win the popular vote by wide margins because of just one state" is as equally ridiculous and nonsensical as Donald Trump's bullshit that he won in a landslide because there was a whole lot of fraud in the states he happened to have lost. Trump might as well claim he won the presidency by conning the Righties and their ilk that he won the presidency because he won California.

The presidential "popular vote" total is a statistical total only that does not decide the presidency and is determined by a totality of votes including all recorded valid votes regardless of the residential location of the voters. One's vote isn't diminished or discounted as "no big deal" simply because they live in one state versus another.

You're too smart to fall for that right-wing rhetorical bullshit, EM, but I'll let it slide this time. :)

As alternatives, if I may, I would like to submit:

the Peanut Butter Pie Party PBPP

Mmmmmm... peanut butter pie.

the Mississippi Mud Pie Party MMPP

Mmmmmm... chocolate pie.

the patriotic Boston Cream Pie Party BCPP

Mmmmmm... oh, wait! Blasphemy! That ain't pie; it's cake! :p

GQP is better. It has a better ring, and it makes the point that QAnon is their middle name.

Oh, I like this! andygaus is right on target here. JL is dead on accurate too with his point about the "Q" being a lot like the "O"... one need only add a tail, and there you have it.

The episode was titled Killer Airbags. That's a perfect name for not only the Republikillers and Deathocrats, but for all those in the media that spew their moosepoop for one "side" or the other of the Deathocrat/Republikiller partnership.

Yeah. You know what? That does make some degree of sense, especially that last bit about the media.

Excellent comment - extremely well said!

Why would you want it seem unintentional? Why change the acronym at all, then?

In Southern Sarcasm, every “unintentional” slight is intentional. It is why we smile kindly at you when we say it to your face. Not nearly as effective online.

I think that we should have to hear former Vice President Pence’s personal account of what he and his family experienced that day... something that I have yet to hear anyone report on. His wife and daughter were in the Capitol with him, running from the crowds chanting “Hang Pence!” Maybe Pence should be asked why he believes the crowd was after him? Why did Pence — who technically was not authorized to order the National Guard into DC — have to order the National Guard into DC? Why didn’t former President Trump do it...as was his job??? Pence is a goldmine of information that has yet to be tapped. Maybe he can be convinced that this is last opportunity he has to be standing up for America instead of bending over for Trump!

AOC’s video describing how terrified she was running from the crowd, trying to find someplace to hide, and then what it was like hiding behind a restroom door as the office she had sought shelter in was overrun by terrorists made clear the horror that January 6 was for so many involved. AOC should not be called to testify, however, as she is too polarizing of a figure to the Republican base.

I wish Democrats would start raising the point that they are shocked that Junior isn’t wanting to testify. If Daddy is innocent and you know that to be the truth, wouldn’t a son who truly loves his father do ANYTHING it would take to prove Daddy is innocent? It just seems like either Junior knows Trump isn’t so innocent of the charges, or that Junior does not love the sperm donor that forced him upon the world as much as we thought!

My crew has taken to calling them the "Greene Party."

I’ve seen people still using “GOP”, but calling it “Greene’s Own Party” or “Greene Owned Party”.

QOP just alters the first letter, so it is easier for it to almost seem unintentional.

Let me re-phrase that.

The label 'proto-fascist party' is what fits the GOP these days the best.

I miss Tim Geithner. No one exposed the Republican cult of economic failure better than him!

Democrats win the popular vote by wide margins because of just one state. So, it's not that big a deal.

"i'd propose creating the Pecan Pie Party, but the acronym PPP is already taken by some polling organization. *hmph*"

As alternatives, if I may, I would like to submit:

the Peanut Butter Pie Party PBPP

the Mississippi Mud Pie Party MMPP

the patriotic Boston Cream Pie Party BCPP

"I wish they would rather spend their time painting the entire Republican party as the Republican cult of economic failure.

They should start pointing out what should be obvious by now. That there is a decades long record of Republican administrations leaving 'Augean Stables-esque' economic messes for Democratic administrations to clean up."

The broad American public is getting there. It just hasn't reached critical mass enough yet to overcome the inherent unfairness of the electoral college.

Democrats have won the popular vote by wide margins in 7 out of the last 8, and in the last 4 consecutive presidential elections in a row. That hasn't happened since FDR was president in the 1930's.

The Democrats in both the Senate and the House of Representatives are actually governing, not obsessing on the Republicans.

A huge facet of governing in America involves "obsessing on" your political opponent. Did you miss the Trump impeachment 2.0 where the entire legislative body in the House of Representatives was required to focus on the actions of the POTUS and make an informed decision therefrom?

Sadly, you wouldn't know it from reading any of the FTPs columns since 6 November, 2020.

There will be an impeachment trial next week where multiple members of the House of Representatives who've spent weeks and weeks "obsessing on the Republicans" -- with definite and particular emphasis on their deranged former president/now citizen -- where every member of the Senate without exception has sworn to judge the actions of the Republican.

You might want to avert your eyes if it'll be too upsetting for you. :)

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/04/gop-stimulus-minimum-wage-immigration-465981

It's a simple concept: If Republicans aren't going to take out their own trash, Democrats must do it for them. Clean House.

My crew has taken to calling them the "Greene Party."

Republican voters support him still. The party is his; it doesn’t belong to anybody else.

~ Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Like I said: OWNED

And when they are cowards, they let you do it. You can do anything… grab 'em by the... Party.

QOP: Quivering * Owned * Pussies

Not fair to kittens, I know... apologies.

I like this title... but two-point penalty for reusing it so soon:

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/07/23/republicans-in-disarray/
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What? Did you think no one noticed these kind of things? ;)
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Fortunately, you can remedy this unfortunate turn of events with a tiny edit:

"Friday Talking Points -- Republiqans In Disarray"

Crisis averted. ;)

Moving right along... so far, Democrats are doing an admirable job of painting the entire Republican Party with the crazy QAnon brush...

I wish they would rather spend their time painting the entire Republican party as the Republican cult of economic failure.

They should start pointing out what should be obvious by now. That there is a decades long record of Republican administrations leaving 'Augean Stables-esque' economic messes for Democratic administrations to clean up.

This shouldn't be hard to communicate. But, we are talking about Democrats, after all. Sigh.

I sure do hope that sort of juvenile language doesn't find any currency around here.

Also, the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party can be found here on these Friday Talking Points columns ... every Sunday evening, of course, when we push all political commentary to the wayside for a few glorious hours each week and focus on the music, political or otherwise. And, there is even a link on the main page to all of the FTP columns for easy reference!

Then Byrne chimed in: "There are guys with big guns and badges who can get these things." Herschmann couldn't believe it. "What are you, three years old?" he asked.

As for the Talking Points, I really don't get [5]. To start with, a vanishingly small fraction of Americans know what the historical term Radical Republicans refers to. So if you're going to call today's Republicans by the same name, don't try to gussy it up with absurd historicisms. Just call them the Radical Republicans and see if it flies.

And think it through. In the 1860s, the Radical Republicans advocated black emancipation, black citizenship, black voting, and black landownership at the expense of the treasonous Southern white elite landowning and slaveholding class. They achieved three of the four, and their failure to get the fourth led directly to Jim Crow and another century of fatal oppression and enserfdom of southern blacks. In other words, the Radical Republicans were civil rights white liberals a century (or two) before their time.

Now, which of these positions are we mocking today, as opposed to how politically impractical they were back then? Do we really want to say, even if almost no one understands the reference, that today's neo-Confederate Republicans are in any way akin to the heroically liberal and woke Radical Republicans of the Civil War and Reconstruction era?

For [6], I read today another commentator proposing the acronym MAGA-Qs for the evolving Trumpublican Party. It's pronounced "Maggots".

Very good choice for MDDOTW, too!

And, that is very good advice, just generally speaking ... for ALL of us. Heh.

I predict that, when all is said and done, Biden will be right up there with president Obama in having the highest number of these awards!

Democrats should really resurrect a political label from the nineteenth century, and start calling pretty much everyone in the entire party "Radical Republicans." That shoe now undeniably fits, so make them wear it, every chance you get.

You don't think there needs to be a slightly more powerful label from the last century that cuts closer to the truth?

How about the Proto-Fascist Party?

I feel the need to explain that I am not saying that the GOP is a fascist party. I am saying that they sure do appear to be heading in that particular direction, hence 'proto'.

Maybe if everybody who recognizes these malevolent leanings would start calling a spade a spade it might spark some change for the better.

What is up with that!?

Why would they want to keep giving him intel briefings? Do they not see the sheer idiocy inherent in that?