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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2022-12-20
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Note: News anchor with cold insists on coming in to work and doing telecast as scheduled. Phlegm at 11.
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By the Numbers:
11 days!!!
Days 'til people on Medicare will have their insulin prescriptions capped at just $35 per month per subscription: 12
Days 'til the New Year's Eve Great Sardine & Maple Leaf Drop up in Eastport, Maine (in the neighborhood of FDR’s Campobello Island summer house): 11
Percent drop in Tesla stock last week alone: -16%
Date Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit sub-Saharan Africa, the first of several high-profile administration officials traveling there next year: 1/17/23
Number of years Ross Steinman, professor of consumer behavior at Widener University, has been studying holiday shopping seasons and hasn't “seen discounting so dramatic [as this year's]”: 20
Seasons Cecily Strong was on SNL before leaving the cast Saturday night: 11
Rank of “problems with the Christmas trees,” “food disasters” and “pet antics” among Americans’ funniest Christmas memories, according to research firm Voccii: #1, #2, #3
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Fluffy friendmaker…
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CHEERS to a grand finale. Working hand in hand, with our very way of life at stake, Democrats and Republicans on the House Jan. 6 Committee dedicated over a year of blood, sweat, tears, and shoe leather to get to the bottom of whose bright idea it was to try and snuff out the Founding Fathers' daring vision of a more perfect union following the 2020 election. They presented their evidence and made their case through public hearings that provided a minute-by-minute account of, to put it succinctly, what the actual f*ck. And yesterday, with just days to spare before the MAGAts take control of the House, they dropped the hammer on the most corrupt and un-American American president in history. Their message to the Department of Justice: "LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!"
[C]ommittee member Rep. Jamie Raskin said the panel believes that "the evidence described ... today and assembled throughout our hearings warrants" criminal referrals on at least four charges. The Cliffs Notes version of the committee’s conclusion. The charges include obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement, and insurrection. […] "That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him," the summary said.
This is the part where I mention that the decision to indict now rests in the hands of Merrick Garland. But we'll do that tomorrow. I don’t want to spoil the moment.
CHEERS and JEERS to green shoots and brown leaves. Some holly jolly economic headlines I rounded up today to hang from the tree…
Fed announces slower pace of interest rate hikes as inflation cools
21 states have average gas prices at $2.99 or lower
U.S. economy poised for strong end to 2022
The FTX disaster has set back crypto by “years”
Workers and consumers say they're likely to favor pro-LGBTQ businesses, study finds
Insulin prices set to drop for Medicare recipients
U.S. makes record $4 billion profit on federal oil reserve buy-back
The U.S. is banning the sale of shark fins
Elon Musk polled Twitter on whether he should step down as CEO. Most voters said yes
And some lumps of coal for the stockings…
Small businesses struggling to repay COVID-19 disaster loans
NAHB: Builder confidence decreased further in December
Federal Reserve announces 7th interest rate hike of the year
Millions of U.S. taxpayers still waiting for their refunds
World on track to consume a record amount of coal in 2022
And under the tree, topped with a bright red bow: a glass of champagne, a bottle of Maalox, and another year of whiplash insurance.
CHEERS to territorial irony. On this date 219 years ago, the Louisiana Purchase was completed (though the formal transfer happened 10 days later) in a New Orleans ceremony with representatives of Napoleon's administration. Basically what happened was...
Napoleon's plans to re-establish France in the New World were unraveling. My favorite Louisiana purchase. The French army sent to suppress a rebellion by slaves and free blacks in the sugar-rich colony of Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) had been decimated by yellow fever, and a new war with Britain seemed inevitable. France's minister of finance, François de Barbé-Marbois, who had always doubted Louisiana's worth, counseled Napoleon that Louisiana would be less valuable without Saint Domingue and, in the event of war, the territory would likely be taken by the British from Canada. France could not afford to send forces to occupy the entire Mississippi Valley, so why not abandon the idea of empire in America and sell the territory to the United States?
Why not, indeed. The land mass encompasses parts of Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Wyoming, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Nebraska. Imagine that—all "red" states who owe their existence to the kindness of…socialist France. Sacre bleu, pard'ner.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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x Happy Holidays 🖖🏾🎉 pic.twitter.com/rEWSkC97m6 — Jonathan Frakes (@jonathansfrakes) December 18, 2022
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to the Meeting of the Titans. 81 years ago today—two weeks after America was attacked at Pearl Harbor—President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Washington, D.C. (the Arcadia Conference) to plot their strategy against Germany and Japan. They came up with the following nine-point plan:
1. Declare war on Canada. 2. Send too few troops to the field of battle. 3. Let out-of-control private mercenaries do much of the heavy lifting. Roosevelt and Churchill light the 1941 Christmas tree. 4. Allow companies formerly run by the vice president to win no-bid contracts and rake in obscene profits while providing shitty services. 5. Ask for no sacrifice from the people and tell them to go shopping instead. 6. Don't give the troops the equipment they need to win battles and protect themselves, and then tell them that “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want or wish to have.” 7. Botch the reconstruction. 8. Cut taxes at the same time—twice! 9. Leave office in disgrace six years later having failed to finish the job, and leave it to your successors to clean up the mess.
Thank god they both sobered up and started over. No one could be that dumb.
JEERS to rearranging more deck chairs on the Titanic. Oh goody goody—another climate summit, another framework that'll get shattered by greed, and another target goal that'll be missed. Golly, how lucky we are to have such amazing overlords working on our behalf:
Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world. […] The most significant part of the agreement is a commitment to protect 30% of land and water considered important for biodiversity by 2030. Currently, 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas are protected.
Hooray! Only 70 percent of the Earth's land and waters will be allowed to continue being cesspools of garbage and toxic waste instead of the current 73 percent. And funding will come sliding down a rainbow into all the environmentalists' accounts and save us all from climate destruction of our own making. Join us next time when we discover to our shock and horror that none of this really happens…but exciting new goals are set for 2040. And Merry Christmas, goddammit!!!!
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Ten years ago in C&J: December 20, 2012
CHEERS to getting a fair hearing in front of the Ultimate Judge at the Pearly Gates. Judge Robert Bork, who had a real talent for saying things that made liberals' eyes bug out in horror, has died:
Bork had recently served as a senior legal adviser to Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. He was a solicitor general during the Nixon administration and first gained notoriety for carrying out the president's order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal in 1973, an episode known as the Saturday Night Massacre.
I'm happy that he was able to enjoy 85 years on the planet. I'm even happier that he wasn't able to spend a single one of them on the Supreme Court.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to the Pale Yellow Goddess. This is just a quick reminder that, as awesome as the Daily Kos’s intrepid bloggers are, there are amazing bloggers on other sites who help fuel the liberal netroots, and they deserve our support, too.
Indispensable truth teller Digby.
For example: how cool is it that Digby—aka Heather Parton—is on our team? She is one of the sharpest, most observant writers you'll find on the lefty tubes, and when you combine that with her Molly Ivins-like wit it's easy to see why "What Digby said..." has become the equivalent of the netroots bat signal—you see, you click. Digby's in the middle of her annual fundraiser now so she can keep chasing after the bad guys. If you feel so inclined to send a little holiday cheer in her direction, here’s the linky dinky. (The donation buttons and snail mail address are on the upper left side of her page.) You won’t get much in return, though. Just the equivalent of a Ph.D. and…more Digby!
Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial “Nancy Pelosi instinctively knows how to handle Bill in Portland Maine because for her first 35, 40 years of life, she raised five children and she knew how to deal with children." —Chuck Schumer
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