JOIN US THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2021 AS WE COUNT DOWN THE "WORDS OF THE YEAR"
​FOR 2021
DECEMBER 31:
MADAM
The US electorate made its biggest mistake ever in our nation's history in 2016 when they gave enough votes to a career criminal to allow him to win the White House due to the requirements of the Electoral College, a "check and balance" our Forefathers put into the Constitution to help preserve slavery.   With help from Russia, a totally incompetent and racist sexual molester was installed as our so-called "president," and a highly qualified world leader was denied the opportunity to lead our nation -- even though she won the election by several million votes.  As a result, the word "MADAM" -- as a contender for "Word of the Year" -- was delayed for four years.
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Fortunately, voters corrected this egregious blunder in 2020 when they ousted Imperial Grand Wizard Trump and voted in the Biden/Harris ticket --and for the first time in our history, we have a MADAM Vice President.

Of course, Imperial Grande Wizard Trump tried to grab the nation by its pussy, so to speak, when he mounted a coup to overthrow our government, but enough courageous people helped defeat his seditious act.  Why the man has not been arrested confounds me.  Still, as we move forward, we do so with a woman as second in command in our legislative branch of the government -- and with "MADAM" as our 2021 WORD OF THE YEAR.

HONORABLE MENTION

SECOND GENTLEMAN:  Doug Emhoff is the first man to be added to the list of Second Ladies and Gentlemen, HERE.   NOTE:  Melania Trump is on a separate list of "THIRD Ladies." 
OTHER WORDS OF THE YEAR

AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY:  TBD on 1/7/22 (Info HERE)

COLLINS DICTIONARY:  NFT (Info HERE)

DICTIONARY.COM:  Allyship (Info HERE)

MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY:  VACCINE (Info HERE)

NANCY FRIEDMAN (Word Guru):  INSURRECTION (Info HERE)

OED:  VAX (Info HERE)
DECEMBER 30:
THE BIG LIE
As Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump watched the results roll in during the night of the 2020 presidential election, a drunken Rudy Giuliani saw the writing on the wall, and he hatched a plan:  "just say we won" -- and with that, Imperial Grand Wizard Trump and the GQP adopted what has become known as "the Big Lie," their signature move in their efforts to undermine and destroy our democracy.

They knew the plan might very well work because they prey upon the feeble-minded and poorly educated -- and the LowIQanon dimwits took in the Big Liie with awe and conviction. 

​ Afterall, had Imperial Grand Wizard Trump ever lied to them?
HONORABLE MENTION

UNITY:  After Joe Biden was inaugurated as our 46th President -- and as he faced a massive clean-up of the unbelievable mess Ieft behind by Imperial Grand Wizard -- Moscow Mitch McConnell and the GQP called for "unity."  But did they rally behind the economic stimulus checks for American families?  NO.  Did they support the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act?  NO.  Do they support the Build Back Better Act?  NO.  Did they even support the bi-partisan committee to get to the bottom of Imperial Grand Wizard Trump's coup attempt?  NO. 

​Those old GQP farts didn't want "unity" -- far from it.  They just wanted to hang on to power to support their radically conservative authoritarianism.  
DECEMBER 29:
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
Remember MS13??  Remember "the Caravan"?  Remember a "taco truck on every corner"?  Those are just some of the GQP's Greatest Hits to scare white folks, and this year they pulled out all the stops with "Critical Race Theory."  Of course, ask any White person what "Critical Race Theory" is, and they won't have any idea -- although they'll be quick to say that the "lib-tards" need to keep it out of our schools.  How DARE we educate our lily-white snowflake children with the truth.  The truth has NO PLACE in our schools.  

​Pictured at the right:  Have you noticed that only White folks protest about "Critical Race Theory -- and that news outlets NEVER interview families of color about their opinions on the matter?  How very privileged.
DECEMBER 28:
GUILTY
GUILTY
​GUILTY
tied with
NOT GUILTY
NOT GUILTY
NOT GUILTY
NOT GUILTY
NOT GUILTY
Last April, a jury found Police Office Derek Chauvin "guilty, guilty, guilty" of all three charges he faced in the murder of George Floyd -- sending a message to police officers around the country to stop killing African Americans (at least in plain sight of the public where the murder could be recorded).  Then, in November, a jury in Wisconsin raised the bar on White privilege by declaring murderer Kyle Rittenhouse "not guilty" on the five charges he faced -- in effect, sending White Supremacists a great big thumbs-up to walk the streets of protest and kill anyone they so desired (all they'd have to do is plead self-defense and cry like a baby on the witness stand).  
All in all, it was a good year for White Privilege.  Not only did the Wisconsin jury give White 2A radicals a license to kill, but the Imperial Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who mounted a coup to over-throw our government last January has not even been arrested.   See "White Privilege Jamboree" below in our post dated December 25th. 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

CONFRONTATION:  Representative Maxine Waters stated that we'd need to see "move confrontation" if the Derek Chauvin verdict was "not the right one," and GQP radicals (the very ones who hailed Kyle Rittenhouse as a hero for murdering innocent people) tried to censure her -- equating her affirmation to stand up for what is right to violence. 

VICTIMS:  The radically conservative judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse case refused to allow the murder victims to be called "victims" during the trial. 
DECEMBER 27:
VACCINATION
Science provided society with an IQ test this past year in the form of a vaccination against the Trump Virus.  If you got "poked" and are "vaxxed" or "double vaxxed" and/or "boosted," then you past the test.  Dimwits did their own "research" and passed on the vaccination, opting instead to gargle iodine and/or suck down livestock de-wormer. 

​Of course, many of the nay-sayers also joined the ranks of the Trump Death Toll.   
HONORABLE MENTIONS

VAX, DOUBLE-VAXXED, ANTI-VAXXERS, BOOSTER, BOOSTED, POKED
DECEMBER 26:
MANDATE
Think about it -- if the RepubliQan dimwits and Low IQanon Trumpanzees had all gotten vaccinated last summer (and/or even just worn masks), we'd be in a much better situation than we are now with the Trump Virus and the ever-climbing Trump Death Toll.   As a result, President Biden has had to mandate vaccinations for those who work for large employers and health care facilities.  Many businesses and school systems have also mandated masks.  And who has protested the loudest?  The very RepubliQan dimwits who gargle iodine and snarf guzzle Ivermectin. 

To be honest, we need the airline industry to step up too and mandate vaccinations for all of those who fly -- and let the dimwits protest from the ground.  They can hold up signs and shake their fists in the air as the rest of fly over them.

Pictured at the right:  RepubliQans are suddenly "pro-choice" -- but you can't mask stupidity and arrogance.
DECEMBER 25:
INSURRECTION
Who would have ever thought that a sitting so-called "president" of the United States would mount a coup to overthrow our government, but that is exactly what happened on January 6, 2021, when Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump called his sheep to Washington, DC, to attack the US Capitol and Congress.

They brought weapons.  They brought bear mace.  They even brought a gallows on which to hang Mike Pence.  They terrorized members of the US Senate and House of Representatives, and they even beat police officers to death with American flag poles.  

I can only imagine that our Founding Fathers and Mothers were rolling over in their graves.  The checks and balances they had built into our Constitution did not prevent the most corrupt and treasonous individual ever to be installed as our so-called "president" -- and then to have him attempt to overthrow our government with an insurrection of dimwits -- our Colonial ancestors all would would have been horrified.  
HONORABLE MENTIONS

1st AMENDMENT PROTEST:  Following Imperial Grand Wizard Trump's teasonous actions, his blind followers -- known as the RepubliQan Party -- tried to cover-up the truth.  Some said that the attack was carried out by ANTIFA and supporters of Joe Biden.  Uh huh -- that's exactly what Biden supporters would have wanted to do -- delay his installation as the 46th president.  Others tried to characterize the terrorists as "tourists" (Remember:  The GQP preys upon the poorly educated).  Even an early report by the US Department of Defense characterized the attack as a "1st Amendment Protest."  Really?  REALLY?

 WHITE PRIVILEGE JAMBOREE:  Brian Williams on MSNBC characterized Imperial Grand Wizard Trump's followers attack on the US Capitol and our government as a "white privilege jamboree."
DECEMBER 24:
FRAUDIT
Just this past week, Imperial Grand Wizard Trump admitted he lost the 2020 election. 

In an interview with Gene Bailey of Flashpoint, a program that purports to help viewers "discover how prophecy and current events are aligning to usher in the greatest awakening the world has ever known," Imperial Grand Wizard Trump was discussing one of his many failures, the border wall between the US and Mexico: 

"We started building and we built almost 500 miles of wall, certain sections we couldn't get rights to and now we have rights. And had they, had we won the election, it would almost be—it would be completed now."
"Had we won the election."

Yep, Imperial Grand Wizard Trump knows he lost.  The GQP knows he lost.  And RepubliQans in Arizona know he lost -- but that did not stop them from completing an audit -- more aptly called a "Fraudit" -- to prove for the third time (since the state had already completed an audit) that Biden carried the state.  However, the Fraudit did advance the GQP's current mission to undermine the integrity of our free and fair elections as they work to destroy our democracy. ​
HONORABLE MENTION

BAMBOO:  Fraudit Officials in the Arizona GQP claimed that 40,000-plus ballots in the 2020 presidential election were flown in from China, and they'd prove it by finding bamboo in the paper stuffed into ballot boxes in Maricopa County.  Of course, no bamboo ballots were found -- and it turns out that the dimwitted "believers" in the GQP shenanigans were nothing but bamboozled. 
DECEMBER 23:
DELTA -- & LAMBA, MU & OMICRON (& the rest of the Greek Alphabet)
A recent Washington Post headline stated, "​With coronavirus variants, the world is learning the Greek alphabet, one grim letter at a time" -- all because the World Health Organization decided to use Greek letters to name the variants to stop the bigoted and racist rhetoric on the part of Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump, the RepubliQan Party, White Supremacists and other racist extremists.  

“Xi was not used, because it is a common surname,” the WHO said in a statement to The Washington Post.
Looking ahead, scientists see one other problem. There are countless variants — and probably more significant ones on the way — but the Greek alphabet has just 24 letters, and only nine remain on the list.
DECEMBER 22:
IVERMECTIN
Just two nights ago, Imperial Grand Wizard Trump revealed that he has, indeed, received a booster shot in the fight against COVID, and the Trumpanzees in attendance booed him -- just more proof that RepubliQan dimwits have turned their backs on science and truth (I even know some RepubliQans who have been vaccinated secretly -- and they are afraid to tell their families).  These people are effing crazy!   So crazy, in fact, that many of them now gargle iodine to protect themselves from "the rona," or better yet -- they take Ivermectin, a medication used to treat certain parasitic roundworm infections in livestock.

Well, at least this is an acknowledgement that they realize they are nothing but GQP sheep.  
HONORABLE MENTION

SWOLLEN TESTICLES:  Many followers of Imperial Grand Wizard Trump did seek out research-based information on COVID vaccinations, and they turned to Nicki Minaj who tweeted that her cousin’s friend in Trinidad was vaccinated and became impotent, -- and “His testicles became swollen."  Now that is some research you can trust!
DECEMBER 21: ​
POLAR VORTEXAS
An entry for "Polar Vortex" made our annual countdown of Words of the Year back in 2014.  Here is some of what we said in December of that year:

"Last April we visited Chicago, and for most of the week, the temperature hovered around a cold 32-degrees Fahrenheit.  We complained a bit -- until some Chicagoans reminded us that they had endured winter temperatures 60-degrees colder (as low as 30-degrees below zero), thanks to a slipped Polar Vortex!"

Check out the complete post HERE -- scroll down to the entry dated December 27.
This year, the Polar Vortex slipped again, and this time it uncovered the failed policies on the part of RepubliQans in Texas who had mismanaged their state's power grid system for years.  Headlines like this ran everywhere:  "Texas grid failure ignites feud over Republican oversight of the energy industry" -- the complete article is HERE. 

As a result, Senator Ted Cruz took the bull by the horns, packed it in a carry-on trolley bag, and fled to Cancun for the weekend (see our entry for our Name of the Year, "Cancun Cruz" below dated December 14). 

The deadly cold snap -- which resulted in over four million customers without power -- paralyzed the region and spawned the hashtag, #PolarVorTexas.

For more information on the Polar Vortex, click HERE. 
DECEMBER 20:
TOURIST
RepubliQan Rep.Andrew Clyde (Ga.) knows full well that the GQP base is nothing more than a bunch of addlepated dimwits, so he knew that none would question his characterization of the January 6th insurrectionists who attacked the US Capitol in support of Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump as "tourists" -- and so he did just that during a House Oversight Committee Meeting last May.

​HIs comments were just one of various attempts by the GQP to alter the truth about the deadly coup attempt planned by Imperial Grand Wizard Trump. 
Pictured above on the left:  Ordinary "tourists" visit -- and attack -- the US Capitol. 
DECEMBER 19:
LET'S GO BRANDON
Last Oct. 2, when NASCAR driver Brandon Brown wone at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, the crowd was chanting something that was, at first, difficult to make out.

A reporter suggested they were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver, but it became increasingly clear they were saying: “Fuck Joe Biden.”  

As a result, "Let's Go Brandon" became code for RepubliQans to insult Biden -- but what they are really saying is "Fuck America," "Fuck COVID relief and recovery," "Fuck true support for our Infrastructure," "Fuck women's and voters' rights," and more as they work to destroy our democracy -- all in support of a treasonous criminal, Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump. 
DECEMBER 18:
PURITY OF THE BALLOT BOX
Klansmen in the Texas GOP drafted a bill last May to punish voter fraud and maintain "purity of the ballot box." Then they feigned ignorance when state Rep. Rafael Anchia (D) schooled them on the history of the term.  Turns out that "purity of the ballot box" is the phrase that fueled all-White primaries during the Jim Crow era and disenfranchised those who were deemed "unfit to vote" (i.e. African Americans).   The Texas GOP did pass the bill, and then they celebrated with some BBQ at the Burning Cross Bar and Grill.

Click on the video below to hear Rachael Maddow's "look back at how the phrase 'purity of the ballot box' in the Texas constitution was used as the basis for excluding Black Americans from all-white primaries, and shares video of Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchía calling out Texas State Rep. Briscoe Cain, Republican chair of the Texas State House Elections Committee, for including that phrase in the new Texas voter suppression bill."
DECEMBER 17:
GERIATRIC MILLENNIALS
An article went viral on Twitter last May, and It started a trending hashtag #geriatricmillennials. Now the term is even used in Twitter profiles.

"Some loved it and some were offended by it," said Erica Dhawan.  Comments on the article and term are here in "Why I Call Myself a 'Geriatric Millennial -- and Why Our Micro-Generation Matters," HERE.

And who are "geriatric millennials"?  

"Kids of the early 80s (who) uniquely bridge the divide between digital natives and digital adapters." 

For more info, check out the original blog post, HERE. 
DECEMBER 16:
JUNETEENTH
As the GQP desperately works to white-wash our history -- for example, denying that the events of 1619 actually helped to shap our history -- President Biden signed legislation this past June to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, enshrining June 19 as the national day to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.

Of course, this made RepubliQan lawmakers white hot, as through most of the second half of the year they kept croaking, "Critical Race Theory!  Critical Race Theory! Critical Race Theory!"   White folks responded by shouting down local School Board members across the country.  
DECEMBER 15:
THE Q'UAD
Imperial Grand Wizard Trump lost the presidency, the Senate, and the HOUSE for the GQP, and when voters turned over the House in 2018, they voted in "the Squad," a group of four Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. They have since been joined by Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri following the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections. 

In 2020, though, RepubliQan voters voted in some cray cray nutjobs and treasonous Low IQAnon dimwits dubbed "the Q'uad."  The face of the GQP is caked in clown makeup.
DECEMBER 14:
CANCUN CRUZ
Our "Name of the Year" belongs to "Cancun Cruz."

What can one say about Ted Cruz?  The man is a clown -- and you know how that old saying goes:  When the going gets tough, the clowns get going -- and in this case, the clown flew down to Cancun while the entire population of the state of Texas was FREEZING following some serious winter storms and -- due to failed GOP policies -- the state's power grid crashed.

Believe it or not, Cancun Cruz then threw his daughter under the bus...er, jet: “With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends,” 
HONORABLE MENTIONS

QANON SHAMAN:  Jake Angeli, who calls himself the "QAnon Shaman," is a treasonous conspiracy theorist who participated in the 2021 attack on the United States Capitol in hopes of overthrowing our government on behalf of Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump -- proving to one and all that the "Q" in "QAnon" is merely shorthand for 'Low IQ."

QEVIN MCQARTHY:  In his heart, the spineless Minority Leader in the House of Representatives knows that Imperial Grand Wizard Trump mounted a coup to overthrow our government, but he is so very, very weak that he could not even stand up for our country  to take action against the treasonous dotard.  As a result, his new moniker reflects more accurately his submissive and weak-willed "leadership."

REPUBLIQAN PARTY / GQP:  The "Grand Old Party" has dropped their "family values" charade as they are now led by wacko subversives who are deep into the QAnon rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.  As a result, the added Qs emphasize the insanity now deep-seated within the party. 
DECEMBER 13:
NFT
It turns out that "NFT," the abbreviation for "non-fungible token," is the "Word of the Year" for 2021 for Collins Dictionary.  

In essence, an NFT is a chunk of digital data which records who a piece of digital artwork or a collectible belongs to. Despite the buzz surrounding NFTs, many say that it's difficult at this stage to predict their future.

Info on "NFT" from Collins Dictionary is HERE. 
HONORABLE MENTION

DEEPFAKES:  From Wikipedia:  Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake") are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness -- and last February, a deepfake of Tom Cruise on TikTok "set off 'terror' in the heart of Washington DC"  Read all about it HERE. 
DECEMBER 12:
CYBERSECURITY
On May 7, the Colonial Pipeline, a pipeline system that originates in Houston, TX, and carries gasoline and jet fuel mainly to the Southeastern US, suffered a ransomware cyberattack that shutdown the pipeline and caused lengthy lines at gas stations as drivers panicked. 

The incident clearly emphasized the critical need for cybersecurity to protect critical systems and sensitive information from digital attacks.

Info about the Colonial Pipeline attack is HERE. 
DECEMBER 11:
META
"Connection is evolving and so are we," announced Facebook this past October when it changed its company name to META:

"The metaverse is the next evolution of social connection. Our company’s vision is to help bring the metaverse to life, so we are changing our name to reflect our commitment to this future." 

​Welcome to the metaverse, HERE.
People who value truth said that the company would still allow the spread of misinformation and that the name was merely an acronym for "Make Everything Trump Again."
HONORABLE MENTION

METAVERSE:   A proposed version of the internet that incorporates three-dimensional virtual environments. 

When Collins Dictionary announced its "word of the year" ("NFT"), "metaverse" was on its short list of contenders, HERE. ta
DECEMBER 10:
GETTR
GETTR is a social media platform and microblogging site targeted to GOP White Supremacists.  The platform experienced early issues beginning shortly after launch, including being flooded with pornography, hacking of some high-profile accounts, and posting of extreme content including racism, antisemitism, and terrorist propaganda.

Imperial Grand Wizard Trump began blogging on the platform to share his extreme brand of hatred, but after poor reception, he closed the blog shortly after its launch.

Pictured below on the left:  The GETTR logo. Hmmm...now where have I seen that image before?  
HONORABLE MENTIONS

QWITTER:  As a result of Imperial Grand Wizard Trump's GETTR blog failure, many dubbed the platform "Qwitter."

DEPLATFORMING:  "Deplatforming" is removing someone from a social media platform used to share information or ideas, or "the action or practice of preventing someone holding views regarded as unacceptable or offensive from contributing to a forum or debate, especially by blocking them on a particular website" (from Wikipedia, HERE).  

Following his planned insurrection to overthrow our government, Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump was deplatformed from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram -- as they realized that he was a dangerous man who posed a threat to our democracy.  
DECEMBER 9:
IMPEACHED
Imperial Grand Wizard Trump made history in January 2021 when he became the first so-called president to be impeached for a second time -- this time for acts of treason.

The GOP also made history when they, for the second time, shamefully and cowardly acquitted their Imperial Grand Wizard for his crimes.
HONORABLE MENTIONS

REINSTATED:  Throughout last summer, that crazy My Pillow dude, Mike Lindell, and many other Q-nuts and RepubliQans began pushing wacko theories that at some point in time Imperial Grand Wizard Trump was to be reinstated as the so-called "president."  From an article I found at MSNBC:  "And while it's certainly tempting to have a good laugh about all of this, let's not overlook the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has warned local police departments nationwide about the prospect of political violence this summer -- because many on the far-right fringe have come to believe that Trump really might be 'reinstated,' and some extremists 'have included calls for violence if desired outcomes are not realized.'"

At one point, many delusional RepubliQans acutally gathered in Dallas because word on the street was that JFK Jr. was going to come back from the dead and then run on a ticket with Imperial Grand Wizard Trump.  I am NOT making this up.   Check out this article HERE. 

#LOOSERPALOOZA:  The "#looserpalooza" hashtag was used throughout the summer and early fall whenever and wherever Q-nuts gathered to witness the latest screwball prognostication about the reinstatement of Imperial Grand Wizard Trump.

Pictured below:  At a #looserpalooza event in Dallas, TX, Low IQ-Anon wackos gathered to see JFK Jr. rise from the dead.  
DECEMBER 8:
CONSEQUENCE CULTURE
The GOP has, for many years, been adept at camouflaging their radically conservative and racist agenda.  Remember when they used to claim a monopoly on "family values"?  What a joke.  Even they have now abandoned that charade.  Now they show their true colors, and they constantly throw out right-wing buzzwords meant to scare white folks -- words and phrases like "critical race theory," staying "woke," and "cancel culture."

Last April, Levar Burton had had enough.  He spoke with Meghan McCain on "The View" and set the record straight on "cancel culture."

“I think it’s misnamed,” Burton said of the term "cancel culture."  

 “That’s a misnomer. I think we have a consequence culture, and that consequences are finally encompassing everybody in this society, whereas they haven’t been ever in this country.”

Below: Megahn McCain gets schooled. Click HERE. 
HONORABLE MENTIONS

ANGLO-SAXON POLITICAL TRADITIONS:  Last April, Georgia RepubliQan Nutjob Marjorie Taylor Greene attempted to set up a caucus for white supremacists in Congress in hopes of preserving "Anglo-Saxon political traditions."  The plan was scrapped once word got out to the public that the GOP was "hooding up" for a K-K-Kaucus in Congress.e planning to launch a group united by a “common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”

BEOWULF CAUCUS: On Twitter, @joshtpm dubbed MTG's "America First K-K-Kaucus" the "Beowulf Caucus."  Info HERE. 
DECEMBER 7:
DEVIOUS LICK
A "lick" is another word for a theft or perhaps even a bit of vandalism, and the "devious" part implies that the culprit got away with the action -- and "devious licks" challenges were all the rage with teenagers on TikTok at middle and high schools this past fall.  Teens were stealing teachers' property, vandalizing restrooms, and more in the hopes of going viral on TikTok.  

For more info on the TikTok "devious likcs" challenges, click HERE.
DECEMBER 6:
YARDI GRAS
From an article at Bloomberg.com:  "Since 1857, Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans have been called off only 14 times, because of war, mob violence, or labor disputes. Not even the last great pandemic could quell the street parades. Mark the history books: This year will be the 15th."

As a result, the city started a fundraiser to help out-of-work artists, and it turned into a movement that swept all of New Orleans:  Yardi Gras!  The complete article is HERE.
Click on the photo above for more info about 2021's Yardi Gras from Fox8Live.com in New Orleans. 
DECEMBER 5:
LOVE
In big ways and small, the Bidens are working to undo the culture of apathy, incompetence and hatred characterized by Imperial Grand Wizard Trump's "administration."  At the G7 Summit last June, Jill Biden wore a jacket with the word "LOVE" emblazoned on its back, and one could not help but think of Third Lady Melanie's crass and insensitive message she wore on her back: "I REALLY DON'T CARE DO U."  Thank the Good Lord those Trump miscreants are OUT of the White House and are now residing in Hell's Waiting Room!  
FYI::  Before the Trump family ushered in an Age of Hate in America, "Love" was once the "Word of the Year."  Check it out HERE.  
DECEMBER 4:
DOUR & SULLEN
Last February, Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump attacked Moscow Mitch McConnell in a released memo after Moscow Mitch said that Trump was “morally and practically responsible” for the attempted coup in January to overthrow our government.  The fuming dotard from Florida wrote that McConnell was a “dour” and “sullen” political hack – and it was instantly obvious that Diaper Don didn’t write the insult because his limited vocabulary does not include words like “dour” and “sullen.”  He’s just too stupid.
DECEMBER 3:
MURRAYA
Murraya is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae -- and 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde won the Scripps National Spelling Bee (the first African American to do so in almost 100 years) by spelling the word "Murraya" correctly. 
HONORABLE MENTION

WELLERMAN:  The history of whaling in New Zealand stretches from the late eighteenth century to 1965. In 1831, the UK-born Weller Brothers Edward, George and Joseph, who had emigrated to Sydney in 1829, founded a whaling station at Otakou near modern Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand, some seventeen years before the first British settlement of Dunedin (more info HERE).  Therefore, anyone under the employ of the Weller Bros. was referred to as a Wellerman, but in the specific context of a sea shanty that went viral this year, "Wellerman" takes on the meaning of a supply ship sent by the company.

Check out the viral shanty HERE.
DECEMBER 2:
SEXUAL ADDICTION
Last March a killer went on a rampage at three spas in the Atlanta area and murdered eight people, six of whom were of Asian descent.  However, he claimed that his murder spree was not racially motivated.  He said that he carried out the string of shootings because of his "sexual addition."

Got to say -- this one tops the "twinkie defense" from the trial of Dan White who, in 1978, assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. 
DECEMBER 1:
THE TWISTIES
The 2020 games of the Summer Olympics were postponed due to the COVID19 pandemic, but they finally did take place in the summer of 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. 

However, shortly after the women's gymnastic events got under way, Simone Biles pulled out of almost all of her competitions stating that she was suffering from "the twisties" -- that on the floor, she literally could not tell up from down.

​For info on "the twisties," click HERE.
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