No one will take the smoking gun

Starting with good news of inclusion: Scotland is known for its tartans, patterns in plaid that signify clans and frequently worn for special occasions. They are officially regulated. Laura Morlock, who tweets about religious dress and human rights, wrote that to be inclusive and to honor its Muslim citizens Scotland has an official Muslim tartan.

Morlock says that happened in 2012. It was only when she recently tweeted about it that it became a big story. She explains more in her blog. That post includes a time in history when England tried to restrict the highland dress.



Michael Harriot tweeted a thread of the history of Bahamas and about the island of Abaco, flattened by hurricane Dorian. In the early 19th Century, when Britain abolished the slave trade. The Bahamas became a haven for freed slaves.

That became a problem for American slave traders because Bahama courts said if you dock at our ports your cargo is automatically freed. That situation included a ship that was wrecked on Abaco.

Harriot tells the story in a humorous way. He also reminds us the USA was “one of the last countries in North America” to abolish slavery. (Hold on a minute… There are only three countries in North America and I know Mexico abolished slavery before the USA did – it is why Texas broke away from Mexico. And I just looked up that Britain officially abolished slavery in Canada in 1834 and it was unenforceable long before then, which made the Underground Railroad possible. So we weren’t “one of the last.” Perhaps Harriot meant in all of the Americas?)



There have been recent reports that the nasty guy is showing noticeable mental deterioration – smaller vocabulary, slurred words, hesitancy when speaking. However, Azteclady says be careful reading (white male) political analysts. They want to make the issue about mental health and not about their own actions that made the nasty guy possible.



Christopher Duva tweets a quote from Sarah Kendzior:

Lying in an easily disprovable manner is a method that autocrats use to show that there is no point in speaking truth to power when power is the only truth.

When there is someone as corrupt as the nasty guy there is always talk of a smoking gun, either finding it or looking for it. Kendzior tweeted:

You should be less shocked by the smoking gun than by the fact that the gun is still in POTUS's hand.

It's smoking because he's shooting our country to death.

It's smoking because no one will take the gun.

It's smoking because the people tasked with protecting you reload it.

In response to another tweet, she added:

They don't see the future in a conventional way -- ie, that most people have a future. Pompeo and Pence invoke the rapture; Trump and Bolton want to use nukes; all are aware of climate change but don't seek to stop it. They act like an end-times cult and they want one-party rule.

The nickname Moscow Mitch has caught on. Perhaps another nickname is ready to launch: Putin’s Pelosi. Skydweller tweeted a thread about the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has received donations from a Russian Oligarch – the same one who donated to Moscow Mitch. Of course, there are questions. How does that affects public hearings on the nasty guy and Russian collusion? Is that the reason why Pelosi refuses to hold impeachment hearings? Why are certain candidates prevented from running primary challenges?



We also need a similar name for the nasty guy. We’ve known all along about the Russian collusion. It’s right out in the open as Melisssa McEwan frequently said. Jan Forney tweeted a bit of the reason:

Laurence O’Donnell just said that he has ONE source at Deutsche Bank who said ... the reason DB was willing to lend to a Donald Trump when NO one else would was that... The loan application was CO-SIGNED BY RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS close to Putin Wow! And DB has Tax returns!