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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday [1]
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Date: 2022-07-13
"With the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the House, the Senate is officially the only thing standing in the way of protecting our democracy. We must pass voting rights."
—Sen. Raphael Warnock "Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."
—Nelson Mandela "It’s 105 here at the ranch. If you live in Texas, be sure to stay indoors and keep cool between 11:00 AM and November."
—Ruth Buzzi "America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
—Hunter S. Thompson "It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men."
—Henry David Thoreau "Fool me once, shame on…shame on me. [Long pause.] Fool me can't get fooled again!"
—George W. Bush
To the above and those in our Daily Kos community who completed another trip around the sun this month, in person or in spirit: happy birthday and many blessings on your camels.
And now, our feature presentation…
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Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Note: Full moon tonight. Get yer butt out in the back yard, look up, think of Neil Armstrong and all our gone-but-not-forgotten space pioneers, and give it a wink. I checked, and the Supreme Court says it's okay. —Mgt.
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By the Numbers:
7 days!!!
Days 'til Labor Day: 54
Days 'til the 42nd Virginia Cantaloupe Festival in South Boston: 7
The last year that the National Governors Association had their annual meeting in Portland, Maine, as they are this week: 1983
Estimated legal marijuana sales nationally in 2021: $26.5 billion
Estimated underground marijuana sales: $70 billion
Crypto assets managed by Three Arrows Capital in March and today, respectively: $10 billion / $0
Percent chance that Rage Against The Machine flashed ABORT THE SUPREME COURT during their first concert in 11 years: 100%
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Mid-week Rapture Index: 188 (including 5 "liberalisms" and 1 vague prediction you may feel free to ignore). Soul Protection Factor 24 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.
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Puppy Pic of the Day: This is a tail…
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CHEERS to Day 7. More remarkable testimony yesterday at the House Jan. 6 Subcommittee hearings. A lot of Trump's inner and outer circle should spend many years rotting in jail for plotting to overthrow the government and install a permanent Republican dictatorship. But the one guy who deserves to spend the rest of his life inside a dungeon is one Donald J. Trump. He planned it, he executed it, he laughed as he watched people get injured and killed on TV, he did nothing about it for hours, and after the smoke cleared he amped-up his Big Lie and took shelter among his rich sycophants at his Florida pleasure palace, a scene populated by sickos that not even Fellini could've dreamed up. Then he took a swing at witness tampering and whiffed. Among the hot messes who helped him with the plot:
x 10 GOP members who met with Trump in Dec 2020 to discuss plans of overturning election on 1/6
Brian Babin
Andy Biggs
Matt Gaetz
Louie Gohmert
Paul Gosar
Andy Harris
Jody Hice
Jim Jordan
Scott Perry
Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene — Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) July 12, 2022
Said committee member Jamie Raskin as he was wrapping up his closing statement: "Our next hearing will be a profound moment of reckoning for America." Great. Just make sure You-Know-Who is at the front of the reckoning line.
CHEERS to putting NASA on notice. Now see here, you government science nerds down there in Florida and Texas and wherever else you're doing your spacey stuff. I've had just about enough of all this foot-dragging. I demand to see new photos from the James Webb space telescope that I helped pay for with my tax dollars or I'm calling the proper authorities. I'll give you to the count to three: one…two…thr
x ✋🏼 Galactic high five!
In Webb’s image of Stephan’s Quintet, we see 5 galaxies, 4 of which interact. (The left galaxy is in the foreground!) Webb will revolutionize our knowledge of star formation & gas interactions in these galaxies:
https://t.co/tlougFWg8B #UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/b2kH1tSyMs — NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) July 12, 2022
Ooh. Pretty. Okay, thanks, you can go back to whatever you were doing. We’ll take over the analysis from here. So far I see twelve nickels, a can of hair spray and a box of Fig Newtons. I knew it—we are not alone.
JEERS to petty politicians. (Sorry, is that redundant?) Fifty years ago today, the late George McGovern became the Democratic presidential nominee at the convention in Miami Beach. A while back some secret Nixon tapes were released, revealing #37 as that rare breed of paranoid—the sore winner:
Several hours after the election, after 1:00 am, when vote totals are known, Henry Kissinger calls Nixon to congratulate him on the landslide victory: "It's an extraordinary tribute," he said. [...] Then they go after the loser, George McGovern: Heckuva job, American voters. You idiots. Nixon: "You know this fellow, to the last, was a prick. Did you see his concession statement?" [...] Nixon says speechwriter Ray Price urged him to send McGovern a message that he looks forward to working with him and his supporters for peace in the years ahead. Nixon: "And I just said hell no, I'm not gonna send him that sort of wire.
I'll say this. Dick sure knew how to live up to his name.
P.S. They say only the good die young. Henry Kissinger is currently 329.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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x Particles of salt and pepper under the microscope pic.twitter.com/MSF8oaPbiS — Microscopic Pictures (@MicroscopePicsx) June 27, 2022
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to portable suds. On this most important date in 1568, a sudserrific scientific breakthrough was made:
Dr. Alexander Nowell, Dean of St Paul's is reputed to have discovered the benefits of bottled beer by accident. According the History of the Pint, the Dean had decanted some beer into a bottle for a fishing expedition in 1568. He lost a bottle in the grass and, "when he came upon it again quite by chance a few days later, found it was still perfectly drinkable."
The news of bottled beer was hailed as a major breakthrough among the clergy. Try stashing a keg under your robe during morning prayers sometime and you'll see why.
CHEERS to taking matters into your own hands. Here's today's lesson in red states vs. blue states. Red state leaders want their citizens to suffer under a hard-right Christian thugocracy, where Jesus is your vaccine and if you're poor and you get sick your best option is to die quickly. Blue state leaders want their citizens to have long, healthy lives with access to affordable health care, and if they occasionally have to go around the calcified federal government to get it done, so be it. Good on ya, California and your whippersnapper in the governor's mansion:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state would once again be "taking matters into our own hands" with a plan to manufacture its own insulin. Blu state power YEAH!!! The $100 million investment announced last week includes contracting with a California-based manufacturer and making low-cost insulin products. […] The new endeavor mirrors an effort by non-profit group Civica Rx, which announced it would produce three different insulin products by 2024 and for no more than $30 per vial and and a maximum of $55 for a box of five pre-filled pen cartridges. […]On average, diabetics use two to three vials per month, and there are different types of insulin shots available.
Refusing to be outdone, when he heard the news, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis immediately vowed to help the diabetics in Florida with low-cost bone saws and white canes. Plus, of course, a free Bible.
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 13, 2012
JEERS to gubernatorial malfeasance. Last Saturday Maine Governor Paul LePage embarrassed our state by calling the IRS "the new Gestapo." Instead of apologizing, yesterday he doubled down by telling a reporter that, yes, he believes that the IRS is headed in the direction of killing people. So, being a somewhat concerned citizen, I called our local IRS office this morning and got this recording:
"Hello! It's a great day at the Internal Revenue Service. For tax form assistance, press 1. For payment or refund information, press 2. For general questions, press 3. Or stay on the line and the next available representative will kill you…er, assist you, assist you!"
See? Nothing to worry about. Stupid governor.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to echoes of the sweet sound of defeat. I imagine that the moment Mitt Romney decided it would be a good idea to warble through "America the Beautiful" at a 2012 campaign stop was the same moment the Obama team knew they'd be using it to create a killer TV ad juxtaposing his patriotism with his record as a job killer. When they released it ten years ago this week, it was guaranteed to be talked about for decades. In fact, it's the only campaign ad of 2012 that generated a rare public display of affection for its technical merits, especially the audio mix. For old time's sake, crank up your speakers and annoy your neighbors:
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Also for old time's sake: Obama 332, Romney 206. Oh, beautiful.
Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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