The Inexorable, Inevitable Thing

By Miss Kubelik

President-elect Joe Biden says we'll hear his choice for Treasury Secretary soon. And the tight-lipped Biden team has let slip the following candidates for Attorney General: Merrick Garland, Sally Yates, Deval Patrick and Doug Jones.

This is all swell. Biden should keep it up. In fact, we're pleased to see that Team Joe has decided to accelerate the announcements of his Cabinet picks, because it just makes everything more inevitable. Why not? He's got the support of 80 million Americans and 306 Electoral College votes behind it all.

Meanwhile, Team Traitor Trump is flailing along with its democracy-destroying freak show. It doesn't appear that it's going to work — mainly because people whom Benedict Donald is trying to woo realize that they could be ensnared in legal action (conspiring to commit fraud, don'tcha know, and we assume the laws in DC are pretty strict). And also because the press isn't playing along. There is no "but her emails" both-sides-ism going on here, thank God. Better late than never.

But if the media really wanted to out Trump on his nefarious ruse, they could ask the following questions:

• If he's truly preparing for a second Trump term, as his Secretary of State avers, who is his second-term transition coordinator? Who is his transition spokesperson? Personnel director? Who are his liaisons with every Cabinet-level and executive department?
  

• Why hasn't he asked for the pro forma resignations of his Cabinet? That's traditional during a transition. He doesn't have to accept them. So... 'sup?
  

• Who is chairing the second-term Trump Inaugural Committee? Surely they're planning a maskless, pandemic-busting, Obama-exceeding boffo celebration. So who are the lead corporate sponsors? What fabulous, A-list entertainers will be performing at the pre-Inaugural and Inaugural balls?

You get where we're going here. If none of these things happened or exist, which they haven't and don't, the gig is up. Everything Benedict Donald is doing is for show. At the same time, we shouldn't relax our vigilance on the very real damage he's doing to our democracy and the way the world views us. For that alone, he should be hauled off to the hoosegow at noon on January 20. We cats HISS.