**Headline:** *Senate GOP Ties Itself in Knots Over Trump Nominees: "Do We Vote Now, or Wait for the Pardon?"*

Headline: Senate GOP Ties Itself in Knots Over Trump Nominees: “Do We Vote Now, or Wait for the Pardon?”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a scene that political satirists are calling “the ultimate ouroboros of bureaucracy,” Senate Republicans convened today to vote on President Trump’s cabinet nominees, only to immediately halt proceedings after realizing the Constitution requires them to confirm people before nominating them for a fourth term.

“This is like trying to install a flamingo in a parking spot that keeps moving,” confessed a flustered Senator Lindsey Graham, clutching a copy of Robert’s Rules of Order that had been partially eaten by a dove of peace. The confusion reached a fever pitch when a procedural vote on the “Secretary of the Department of Truth” required a supermajority to affirm that the previous supermajority was, in fact, real. “We can’t agree on whether we’re installing the guardrail around the cliff or paving the road off the cliff,” one anonymous aide whispered.

Meanwhile, the floor was graced by a surprise hologram of former President Trump, who appeared via a call on a Motorola flip phone from the “Interim Supreme Court of Mar-a-Lago.” He instructed the senators to “vote for me, then against yourself, then blame it on the Deep State.” The vote has been postponed indefinitely for “sacred Chicken McNugget meditation.”

Irony Level: The irony so thick, even the filibuster blushed.