A big day. Plus: Gorka (unintentionally) says that TRUMP should face the electric chair

Y'know, I wanted to write about the JFK assassination this morning, because a really weird story came out in those new documents.

But I can't. We got walloped by a whole buncha news last night, and I suspect that we'll be hit even harder tomorrow. Prepare yourself for what may be the biggest news day since the "shock and awe" attack on Iraq.

CNN says that Mueller has filed his first charges. We don't yet know who the target is, but Manafort seems like a good bet. (Or Roger Stone? He seems to have gone off his nut.)

Just as important -- and hardly unrelated -- are the many signs that Trump is readying himself to fire Mueller. His big excuse: The latest ginned-up "scandals" involving Hillary Clinton. The WSJ has called for Mueller to resign, citing the Uraniaum One pseudoscandal.

This situation is insane, in at least four ways.

First: I suppose I shall have to reiterate, briefly, some facts outlined in the preceding post. Hillary had nothing to do with the Uranium One decision, which was made by an inter-agency group called CFUIZ and approved by President Obama. A lower-level State Department functionary named Jose Fernandez signed off on it, as did other civil servants working for many other agencies -- including the Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence community. They gave their approval after the Nuclear Regulatory Agency okayed the deal.

That agency gave a thumbs up because the Wyoming subsidiaries of Uranium One are American-run companies which do not produce weapons-grade uranium and which do not have export licenses. (People associate uranium with bombs, but the stuff is mined for other purposes.) In other words: no American uranium was sold to Russia!

The claim that Uranium One made a massive donation to the Clinton Foundation is another lie. The WSJ and Breitbart and Fox are telling the most flagrant, most absurd lies they've ever told. And that's going some.

Second: The Mueller investigation has no connection to Hillary Clinton! The propagandists and the conspiratards are trying to create the impression that anyone Trump dislikes has a bad case of "Clinton cooties." But there's nothing there.

Third: Republican propagandists -- and Trump himself -- have pushed a nutball storyline which portrays Hillary Clinton and Putin as partners. Apparently, it was Hillary's idea to have Russia hack the DNC and to flood Facebook and Twitter with anti-Hillary propaganda and even (we recently learned) to create a fake sex video starring a Hillary lookalike.

This theory is so wacky, it brought to my mind the paranoid stylings of the divinely-named Dr. Peter Beter, who was the Alex Jones of his day. Beter made America laugh when he announced that Jimmy Carter and Kissinger were robots. That idea almost seems reasonable when compared to some of the paranoid scenarios we're seeing right now.

What "proof" do the Trumpists offer for this inane "Hillary-wuvs-Vladimir" storyline? They point to the revelation that Hillary's lawyer funded Fusion GPS, which funded MI6 man Christopher Steele, who investigated Trump's ties to Russia and was so horrified that he took his information straight to the FBI.

I'm serious. That's it.

In the twisted minds of the Trumpists, that is the "proof" that Hillary and Putin were working together. Any sane person would see evidence of the opposite scenario.

Here's a recent Trump tweet: “It is now commonly agreed, after many months of COSTLY looking, that there was NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Was collusion with HC!”

"Collusion with HC." If you believe that, then you're the sort of Advanced Thinker who could be convinced that Stalin and Hitler colluded to create the Battle of Leningrad.

The horrifying thing is that there are many "Advanced Thinkers" among us. Thanks to our rampaging paranoia-addiction -- far more dangerous than the opiod epidemic -- we have become a nation of nutcases and rage junkies. Madness reigns throughout our land.

Never forget that, within just a few weeks in 2015, Hillary went from being the most admired woman in America to being our Number One Demon. That's the power of propaganda.

Fox News is power-blasting this "Hillary-wuvs-Vladimir" craziness with all the subtlety of an H-Bomb. The current barrage of insanity, inanity and mind-wrenching mendacity is obviously meant to give Trump enough cover to fire Mueller. Frankly, I think that the trick will work. If Trump had said "Mueller, you're fired" even a week ago, the Republicans in Congress might have revolted. The sitch is different now.

GOP congressfolk are being inundated with messages demanding Hillary's head on a lance. On Sam Seder's show yesterday, Heather Digby Parton noted that in focus group after focus group, the one issue that drives Republican voters is "Lock her up." That's what they care about. Not policy. They don't care about policy. All they want is the death of the demon-queen.

Such is the power of propaganda.

Fourth: Despite the many claims to the contrary, the Mueller probe has no discernible relationship with the dossier, which is not the foundation of the Russia scandal.

The chief attorney for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has reiterated a point which many others have made: The intel community did not rely on the dossier when it concluded that Russia interfered with the election.

Yet Trump, Fox and Breitbart keep repeating the Big Lie that everything comes down to the dossier. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Even if Chris Steele had never been born, we'd still have one hell of a scandal here.

Latest example: Just today, we learned that Rebekah Mercer offered to help Wikileaks use and publish the material stolen by Russian hackers. We also learned that the lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. and Manafort in Trump Tower was coordinating with Putin every step of the way.

The Trump/Russia connection has been proven beyond reasonable debate, yet the Trumpists keep chanting that Russiagate is a fantasy based entirely on one allegedly-"dodgy" dossier. That false message will win the day through sheer repetition.

Did you catch Sebastian Gorka on Fox yesterday? Even by Gorka's standards, his performance was astounding. After delivering a ludicrously false version of the Uranium One non-scandal, he said this:

"If this had happened in the 1950s, there would be people up on treason charges right now. The Rosenbergs, okay? This is equivalent to what the Rosenbergs did, and those people got the chair. Think about it. Giving away nuclear capability to our enemies, that's what we're talking about," Gorka told Fox News's Sean Hannity.

Gorka obviously did not comprehend the full implications of what he was saying. By his own reasoning, he has -- in essence -- called for the execution of Donald Trump.

Why do I say that? Because there is a very important aspect of the Uranium One antiscandal that nobody other than Yours Truly has been talking about.

If Donald Trump really does think that those American-run Uranium One subsidiaries in Wyoming are so damned dangerous and treasonous, why hasn't the Trump administration forced Uranium One to divest?

He has that power. I looked it up.

At any time, the president can instruct CFUIS to force any foreign company to divest itself from any American business, if the president believes that national security is at risk.

Here are a few more details: Since America doesn't produce very much uranium, the operations in Wyoming are actually rather small. Uranium One owns (but does not run) a couple of mines, the primary one being called Willow Creek. It's a pretty modest operation compared with the uranium mines in Kazakhstan.

Has Trump done anything to force Uranium One (now owned fully by the Russians) to give up Willow Creek? No, he has not.

Trump used the Uranium One deal as a cudgel against Hillary during the election, so he cannot claim ignorance. He has been in power since January, yet he has done nothing -- nothing, nothing, nothing -- to rectify a situation which he says is criminal.

Hillary Clinton never had the power to force divestiture. Trump has had the power to kick out the Russians for the better part of a year. And he has done NOTHING.

Gorka and his fellow propagandists have whipped up hysteria around a conspiracy theory without telling their gullible viewers that Trump is the chief conspirator.

If we follow Gorka's statement to its logical conclusion, Gorka must want to see Donald Trump meet a fate similar to the Rosenbergs. And who am I to disagree with the esteemed Mr. Gorka?