While you're waiting... (Updated!)

We are still waiting for the memo to drop. Latest word is that it will hit at ">4:30 EST.

UPDATE: Sunvabitch! It came out a little after noon! Obviously, I'll have more to say about it soon. If I were a true paranoid, I would suspect that the GOP was waiting until I finally broke down and wrote a post...

Let's get back to the post I originally uploaded shortly before noon...

In the meantime, I've spent this morning reading about the Bloody Benders of Kansas, a notable German immigrant family of the mid-19th century. Why hasn't anyone made a horror/western film about them? Lovely Kate reminds me of Ivanka.

Not long after the Benders disappeared into glory (leaving behind a collection of fine hammers, which you can see today in a museum in Kansas), the Drumpf family showed up in America and got into the business of running whorehouses. Back then, Germany was not sending us their best. They were murderers. Con artists. Pimps. And some, I assume, were good people.

(Come to think of it, I have some German blood on my Dad's side. Maybe it's a good thing I can never find my damned hammer.)

About the video embedded above: I swore off Randi Rhodes after the horrible things she said about Hillary in 2008. Forgive and forget? Not me. Not my style.

That said, this clip really does offer a superb one-stop shopping resource if you are looking for proof that the current Trumpist propaganda line is malarky. The idea that the FBI has ever been pro-Democratic is just laughable.

Remember when we heard, during the election, that "The FBI is Trumplandia"? I had forgotten that! Thanks, Randi, for reminding us.

From a PR standpoint, maybe the smarter Democratic strategy would have been to attack Mueller on the grounds that he is a Republican and therefore biased in Trump's favor. If the Dems had mounted at least a half-hearted attempt to demand a Democratic-led investigation, Trump's current propaganda barrage might have less purchase.

(The propaganda is working, by the way. Trump's numbers have been going up, and the generic D-v-R congressional poll numbers have been heading in the wrong direction.)

We now live in a nation in which investigations of Democratic presidents MUST be led by Republicans while investigations of Republican presidents MUST be led...by Republicans. And yet nothing stops the Republican president from claiming that he is being treated unfairly.

Yeah, yeah, I know: Something something deep state blah blah blah It's Trump versus the Illuminati space lizards yada yada...

Can anything get through to the Trumpists? They are right wing conspiracy buffs. The right wing conspiracy buff subculture exists to replace the reality that is with the reality one prefers. Or, in this case, with the reality that Big Orange Brother prefers.