This reminded me of something - over the weekend Trump had a tweet that referred to “these” United States and I jumped for joy at it.
The Republic of these United States is typically how it was referred to pre-civil war.
Nothing gets me more fired up than when someone calls the U.S. a democracy. When someone does it in a conversation I always correct them. We're a Republic not a Democracy and there is a BIG difference.
Couldn't give cr@p if they're embarrassed or not. My attitude is, if your going open your pie-hole to virtue signal about our political system, you'd better make sure you know what you're talking about.