Grand Old Party, give me a fucking break.  What remains of the alternative voice to an admittedly often hard-to-understand Democratic one, is a mob of angry, gleefully uneducated, unkind, cartoonishly attired, truth-be-damned traitors.  Joe Biden said, “Let’s do better at taking care of one another,” and Ted Cruz bristled like his wife double washed his shorts in Borax and forgot the rinse cycle.  “Let’s insist that the wealthiest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes”, said Joe.  “Socialist scumbag!”, shouted Rick Scott.  “Good evening”, greeted the President.  “Liar!”, sputtered Marjorie Taylor Greene.  With very, very few exceptions, Republicans are just sucky people who even abandon their once lauded presidential candidate for telling that shit stain, George Santos, to get the fuck out, or queen conservative Liz Cheney for daring to tell the truth or the memory of their once, do-no-wrong prophet, Ronnie Reagan, who has turned over so many times in his grave, he is being blamed, by some, for triggering the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.  Under the spineless direction of an idea-free Kevin McCarthy, the Republican controlled House has become the laughingstock of world governments, large and small, many of whom have had no reason to laugh for a long, long time.  This is all made possible, of course, by stupid things like the Electoral College, or the notion that the 73 citizens of the two Dakotas get four Senators, or that states can carve districts into elaborate jigsaw puzzles to insure the misrepresentation of voter will, or that the Supreme Court can’t be held accountable for tolerating politically biased members, or that an unapologetic, criminal, ex-President has yet to be perp-walked, live on cable TV, or that the First Amendment does mean that you can yell “FIRE!” in a crowded theater, (see, ‘criminal, ex-President’, above).