Up in my ever-expanding pantheon of Rogues and Reprobates I reserve a podium for those of Lesser-Though-Still-Extraordinarily-Annoying Vices … like Gross Self-Absorbedness, Negligible Ethics and First-in-Class Twittery. So it comes as no surprise that Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is stepping up and taking a place alongside the usual suspects … The Former Guy, Valdimir Putin, Mexican cartel leaders, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan and so on.

As others before me have already said, Sinema deciding to go “Independent” and leave-but-not-really-leave the Democrats is so “on-brand” for her it’s amazing no one saw this one coming. I mean, there were several actual days there after Herschel Walker got tackled just short of the goal line that Sinema was both out of the headlines and written off as anything of consequence in a 51-49 Senate.

Her fun was over!

So … she had to do something to make all those dull, serious people in dull-colored clothing look at her again.

Early punditry sees Sinema’s move as a hedge to stop any other Democrat from running against her in the 2024 primaries, (central Phoenix-area) Cong. Ruben Gallego being the most likely challenger. By re-branding herself as an Independent, she is putting Arizona Democrats in the position of either continuing to put up with her constant antics or nominate someone else … which would very much risk splitting the (oh-so) thin Arizona majority Democrats have down there and handing an easy win to pretty much any Republican lunatic who wants the job.

Can you say “Kari Lake 2024”?

The thing is, that same scenario means Sinema also loses, since she’s at the point where she has few if any friends among committed Democrats and only a few among Republicans. Given her voting record — the most conservative of any Democrat — the truly honest thing for her to have done was flip entirely over to the Republicans.

But it’s possible abject batshit, Arizona-style Republicanism may be a fashion even the gaudy Ms.. Sinema can’t stomach.

But my interest at the moment is the move allegedly sinister, Deep State, Soros-funded national Democrats make to render Sen Non-Binary I/Me/Mine Sinema irrelevant. I mean, if that cabal really exists I expect them to gather in their latter-day Bohemian Grove and skulldug a plot to … well … destroy her.

Is that too harsh?

We’re not talking physical harm here. Not even something so traumatic as setting fire to her wardrobe. Just a humiliating departure from all future news cycles. Ok … it doesn’t even have to be humiliating (ruin my fun), just … you know … conclusive.

Because I so love twisted, cynical thrillers soaked in the mendacity of the 1%-ers, I’m letting my imagination run all possible storylines involving the (figurative!) knee-capping of a U.S. Senator. So far I’ve got nothing, or “nil” as soccer fans always say.

This will take some creativity. It’s tough to rid ourselves of louses.

We truly have reached a depth where no scandal, no vice or perversity is ugly or hypocritical enough to preclude the nomination of any Republican. We know that. I mean if Herschel Walker’s punch card of three abortions (that we know of) meant … nothing … to white evangelicals what is that crowd ever going to get upset about?

Sinema could walk out in Old Town Scottsdale, shoot a flour-sack white tourist from Minneapolis, and Republicans at least would still vote for her.

But from what I know from following AZ politics, committed policy-focused Democrats despise the woman. And what “independents” really think of her is a true curiosity, since pretty much everyone knows her blitherings about “everyday Arizonans” is eye-rolling bullshit.

No one who cares has forgotten the shameless, naked way she stood up for … hedge fund/private equity tax advantages … while jacking around with Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act, a stunt that earned her well over $1 million in Wall Street contributions.

The Republicans have a Mormon Choir-sized pantheon of frauds and embarrassments. The Democrats’ is quite a bit smaller. But largely-unproductive Sinema is basically daring her “colleagues” to punish her for what by 2024 will be six years of narcissistic theatrics.

Don’t tell me people crueller and more dastardly than me aren’t thinking about how to do it.