" You wanna blame W and Co. for more than half of our current debt situation? Fine. I agree with you.

No, dumfuq. Not just more than half. They're the ones who reset the sights, then blocked every attempt to raise taxes. W wrote back to back tax codes chock-full of tax cuts for the wealthy, and Trump wrote two more, both costing trillions, mostly going to the world's wealthiest.

They're the authors and the architects of our 14-digit debt.

To (slightly) bastardize the saying ... Give credit cards where credit cards are due!

"What is the path forward?"

Rescind the Trump tax giveaways.
Fix the tax code.
Become realistic about foreign workers.
Repeal laws disfavoring workers.
Limit corporate monopolies on housing.

" your beloved and worshipped Democrat Party "

What a riot.

I've never been a Democrat. I came of age between the Vietnam War, which taught me never to trust Democrats, and Watergate, which taught me never to trust Republicans. I trusted the fourth estate for a while, until I was a victim of fake news.

Now, I'm a bit curmudgeonly toward all of them. But the Republicans have turned putrid since the days when I voted for Jack Danforth.

"I guess David Dorn got what he deserved just like Ashli Babbitt, right?"

Are you sick?

Ashli Babbitt got what she deserved. Stephan Cannon deserved the death penalty, but only got life without parole.

HOW ON EARTH are you equating those two???

"it's all statistical manipulation with you."

Then tell us two things:

What percentage of participants on J6 were violent? Include (of course) those aiding and abetting violence.

Using THOSE metrics, what's the new percentage for the 2020 protests? Since 7% represents ALL non-violent protesters at EVERY event with violence.

"it's all statistical manipulation with you."

You're the one trying to compare 11,000 instances with ONE. I merely pointed out the intellectual dishonesty.

Never mind the fact you can't discern between protests based on an unjust truth, and an insurrection based on purposeful lies.

"Both parties get equal blame"

Math and History think you're an idiot.

"Even DeflectionDans precious Clinton surplus, came at the behest of a Republican congress"

Fine by me.

Tell us: what happened to that surplus?

See if you can be honest, and use Actual Math.

"You don't have to downplay it."

You had to move the goalposts as soon as J6 was measured by the same metrics: ANY violence puts the entire incident into the VIOLENT column.

If not...that 7% violent probably rounds down to 1%, doesn't it?

I mean: same metrics, or fungible depending on your talking points?

Oh, wait...I just described Republican Math!

"Let's do some math, shall we?"

A couple of dozen people killed.
Over 10,000 police officers injured
Countless livelihoods destroyed
Over $2 billion in property damage

You inow the salient part that you left out."

Yeah... per capita.

Republican Math stikes again!

" 100% violent?"

Using the same metric, yes.

In those 2020 BLM protests, ANY violence sent that incident onto the VIOLENT column.

"All days, except for summer 2020 for you and Justagirl Idaho."

Are you back to comparing 11,000 incidents, 93% of them peaceful, with ONE incident, 100% violent?

"Danforth tries to vote shame me over the debt"

Only when you clutch your pearls at the deficit you helped enable.

You were dead silent when Trump wanted to borrow this most recent $5 Trillion.

Feigning distress now is a bit disingenuous, wouldn't you say?