Publican is old Latin for tax collector.

is to refer to them in writing and when speaking as 'repubs.' It's quicker to write and hopefully irritates the repubs just a bit.

Love the video.

and they are also authoritarians. You can't ever allow these scumbags to change your name. And the tools working for M$Greedia rarely correct them.

However, I pretty much ignore all Republicans so it would only stand to reason that I would ignore what they blather about.

becoming acceptable to editors and the general public.

it really is disgusting seeing this grammatically incorrect, pejorative way to Democrats

becoming acceptable to editors and the general public.

silence will not help.

(Could have sworn I typed 'refer to Democrats', looks like it got clipped - oops)

I'm hearing and seeing more Democrats using it. I corrected one person who should know better and was told I was being petty.

Hope they don't find it petty when Don the Con tries to lock up Democratic Party members.

Democrats should call them ReTHUGs on television and wait from a response from said M$Greedia.
And they are thugs.

He's a pinhead about most issues, being a righty and all, but he did 100% honestly think it was the name, as he'd heard it said (pejoratively) so early and often by like-minded friends.

It took the Wikipedia entry (and some perusing through the revision history of the article on the Democratic Party to make sure "some vandal didn't just change it a minute ago&quot to convince him.

Silence is consent - now the ReTHUGs want to disappear the entire party

People, including solid democrats, have been making this mistake for decades. I grew up with a lot of proud democrats who use the term incorrectly. No disrespect intended - it's just how they speak. Since most of them are now in their 80s or older, they are not likely to change just because Republicans have discovered they can get a rise out of us by using it.

Simply put - it is pretty much the least of my worries about Republicans these days. And if somehow all of the other worries disappeared - I'd count my blessing that the evils of the Republicans was limited to schoolyard bully taunts.

pointing out grammatical errors is elitist - in the same way pointing out worn clothing, out of date clothing, manners, or other indicia of class or education are elitist.

As for petty - really?

We have a president who ivites foreign governments to interfere with our elections, fires people for daring to honor subpoenas, orders the assasination of foreign leaders, uses the US treasury as his personal piggy bank, the vast majorty of elected republican leaders who think that is just fine. Against that backdrop, it is petty (of secondary or lesser importance, rank, or scale; minor.) to harp on a grammatical error.

between stupid rethug trolls and good people.

matters

... ID them for me early in any exchange.

I'm a Democrat who supports the Democratic Party.


But yeah, I get what they're doing - the idiots just do it to annoy.

So I call them 'RussiaPublicans' - just to chap their asses.

The ir leadership does it to disrespect and their base do it because they're just plain stupid.
It is not merely a grammatical error at the leadership level - it is deliberate