Down here at the Salon we’re popping popcorn and making lemonade.  We’ll have plenty for Michael Cohen’s  I Fall on Trump’s Sword show watch party today.  We’ll even rent you a lawn chair for a very small sum.  In the meantime, we’ve noted that North Carolina election fraudster, Republican Mark Harris, has withdrawn from the revote after his very own son confirmed that he had warned his dad not to hire “Mr. Dowless”, a shady convicted felon who acted as an operative stealing absentee ballots from elderly and infirm voters.  Harris won the election by 905 votes, but only by winning a heavily Democratic county; the skewed vote attracted the attention of voter officials prompting the now well-known investigation.

Withdrawing from the race, Harris has cited “health” issues.  Clearly, it’s unhealthy to commit blatant election fraud.  I’m now wondering if the NC attorney general is going to show up next.  Not likely, is my guess.

I’ve got my coffee, my iPad, and enough wine and chocolate to get me through the day.

Please feel free to share your preparations and what you enjoy when the big show begins.

NBC News was invited in for an exclusive look at a western themed party at Mara Lago this weekend.  The party cost from $500 per ticket to $20,000 for a big girl table.  The charity for which they were raising money?  Themselves, silly.  This was about the Trumpettes worshipping the Demigod Donnie at his Church of Perpetual Narcissism.  The whole sordid event was one of those that you can’t unsee.

Matt Gaetz is a 36 year old second term congressvarmint from Florida who is determined to lower this whole Presidential term to the lowest common denominator.  He’s a slug with a Twitter account..

He sends a heads up to Michael Cohen.

And if that doesn’t work, we have Pantageli’s brother from Sicily accompanying me to your hearing.

Good Lord, Cohen is going to prison for the rest of his life. Do you really think you can intimidate a guy like Cohen with some indiscretions? And the irony that it’s coming from a Trump supporter is all glittery with silly.

So, Trump, this is your idea of draining the swamp?

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Y’all Okay, so I learned that they celebrate Black History Month in East Texas.  They held it at a planation.

No, I’m not kidding.

I guess Dr Ben Carson was booked so they got the only other Black Republican they know – Allen West – to come speak.

The newspaper article says that West read Booker T Washington’s “Cast Down Your Bucket” speech, “a speech that became known as the Atlantic Compromise speech.”

I think they mean Atlanta Compromise, but West is the one with the Ph.D. so what do I know.  If you’re not familiar with the Atlanta Compromise it was the worst damn deal ever made.  It said blacks would not ask for the right to vote, they would not retaliate against racist behavior, they would tolerate segregation and discrimination, that they would receive free basic education, education would be limited to vocational or industrial training, liberal arts education would be prohibited.

Hold on, West said he picked that speech because “it’s about triumph of the individual spirit.”

Forehead, meet tabletop.

I accidentally deleted a mess of emails and then I forgot who sent me this story so whoever sent it remind me.

This morning over at the Twitter farm, a Republican congressthingy from California was protesting the rush of getting Trump’s emergency off the face of the planet —

You got amendments or something, Honey?  You want to add a farm bill to it? A few more adjectives?

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.