TWO BECOMES THREE

We started out with two options:

If the Senate confirms all of Donald Trump's cabinet nominees, an event made possible only with the support of Republicans who are slavishly loyal to the president, elected representatives who are forced to proclaim to the nation that the reason they voted for these nominees is because they are without doubt the best qualified for the job, we would have to conclude that these Republican Senators are too stupid to hold a position in government.

Similarly, if Republican Senators cause these nominees to go forward and candidly give the very practical excuse that to do otherwise would be accounted by Trump as disloyalty, requiring him to put into action his threat to "primary" them during their next election, thereby destroying their political careers, we would be forced to conclude these Senators literally value their careers in government over the welfare of this country, and we would be right to castigate them for engaging in outright corruption.

But what if Democrats provided a new and exciting job for every Republican Senator so they would be free of Trump's threats, thus allowing them to fulfill their oaths of office and do the right thing? What if we gave those poor bastards something to look forward to should the president work his magic on their lives?

Well, it might be too late for that.

Because now we have the spectacle of Donald Trump pardoning all the Jan 6 "hostages." He says that day was a love-fest: patriotic citizens peacefully protesting the theft of their hero's second term in office.

(This is a pair of outright lies stuffed up each other's butts. One would expect Trump's usual capper ["and everybody knows it"] slapped onto the end, but it's missing. WTF, is he getting lazy?)

Trump's blanket action adds a third excuse for the soon-to-be-seen actions of Republican Senators (and already seen in the case of Pete Hegseth).

If Republican Senators were to let it be known that if they showed any sign of disloyalty to Donald Trump he would send his newly released Brownshirts to the Senators' houses to kill them and their families, we would probably have to exonerate the Senators of stupidity or corruption and display only sympathy for them.

Then act to obviate this illegal threat by removing Trump from office and jailing his army of thugs. Actions performed in that order, because if Trump remained in office he could simply pardon his militia of lawbreakers and send them out to do more mischief.

Stupid, corrupt, or under duress, those are our options here in BizzaroLand.

And all because some reality-challenged Americans needed to punish Biden for screwing up the price of breakfast.

Democracy is clearly too fragile to live in a world manned by defective humans.

What a shame.