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Cheers and Jeers: Monday [1]
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Date: 2025-02-10
God Morgen
With Denmark and its territory Greenland in the spotlight lately, we thought we’d start the week with this throwback—released on the same day as Trump’s infamous February 2017 Muslim ban—from Denmark’s TV 2. Its message of e pluribus unum, which is to the USA’s current co-dictators what garlic is to vampires, might just cool the current MAGA obsession with stealing Greenland. In short, we don’t deserve them...
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Meanwhile, the majority leadership of our country promises to fight for and protect everyone in all our boxes, too. As long as all the boxes are labeled “white,” “male,” “straight,” “conservative,” “rich” and “Trump.”
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Monday, February 10, 2025
Note: I'm told that today is "Clean Out Your Computer Day." So far I've picked enough crumbs out of my keyboard to re-assemble a chocolate chip cookie and six Cheetos. Mmmm...the breakfast of blogger champions.
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By the Numbers:
5 days!!!
Days 'til Library Lovers Day: 4
Days 'til the Louisiana King Cake Festival in Thibodaux: 5
Amount that went to U.S. farmers in 2020 for international food aid via USAID, equal to over 40% of the food the agency sends out: $2.1 billion
Emperor Musk's favorable/unfavorable rating, according to Civiqs polling: 39% / 52%
Date on which Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnected themselves from Russia's power grid to switch over to the Continental Europe Synchronous Area: 2/8/25
Weight of the 14-foot shark found off the north coast of Florida, the largest male shark ever tagged: 1,653 lbs
Amount of cocaine unloaded by authorities from Colombia's first "narco submarine" raid of the year: 5,000 lbs
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Puppy Pic of the Day: If you like Star Wars you'll love Paw Wars…
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CHEERS to optimism from the kiddie pool. When I logged on Saturday morning to read the late comments from Friday's C&J, there was a pair you may have missed that are perfect for the start of the new week. We'll file these under How Things Are Going At The Moment:
So let’s keep score of the battle here in the beginning weeks of the Trump Presidency: ACTION RESPONSE Freeze all federal aid. → Knee in the balls Tariffs on Canada and Mexico → Slap in the face End Birthright citizenship → Punch in the gut Federal employee buyout → Kick in the shins USAID Shutdown → Whopped his ass DOGE takeover of Treasury payment system → Poke in the eye Outing Jan 6 FBI agents → Slug to the kidneys With lawsuits, actions by judges, and public outrage, we are trading body blows with the Project 2025 agenda. Let’s keep pinning them against the ropes! —KGProphet
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Cheers to resisting by using my age and experience. During meetings all this week and last week I reminded anxious office members that 1) fear and confusion is precisely the point of what they’re doing, 2) the type of grandiose blather and attempts to rush people into buying out found in the “Fork” emails is normally a trademark of a scam (The government has sent offers of early retirement in prior decades—but those offers gave the employees months to make a decision not hours), and 3) The current WH occupant is notorious for not paying promised wages to people. I personally reassured one nervous new employee whose probation period just finished that I’d wave a buttload of paperwork at anyone trying to remove him. —gardnerhill
What more can we say? Vive la Résistance.
CHEERS to a Very Barry Weekend (or...My, How Time Flies). Barack Obama officially announced his candidacy 18 years ago today in front of the old state capitol in Springfield, Illinois:
"As Lincoln organized the forces arrayed against slavery, he was heard to say this: "Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought to battle through." That is our purpose here today. That is why I'm in this race. Not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation. I want to win that next battle—for justice and opportunity. I want to win that next battle—for better schools, and better jobs, and better health care for all. I want us to take up the unfinished business of perfecting our union, and building a better America."
And here we are, looking at the improbable two-term Obama presidency in our rear-view mirror. We'll always be frustrated by the unfinished business that was left on the table, but we'll never forget why: petty, lockstep GOP obstruction (aided by Senate Democrats' failure to deal with it sooner despite knowing exactly what was going on), and a conservative movement that took leave of its senses by displaying a willingness to burn the country down before it would ever let that "foreign" and "lawless" black guy succeed. And yet, to the right-wing's tooth-grinding chagrin, big Black badass Barack Hussein Obama—with many major accomplishments and zero scandals in his plus column—left America stronger and better, and he’ll end up higher on historians' Best Presidents lists than their patron saint Ronald Reagan or The Thing From Mar-A-Lago. That's gonna hurt their delicate snowflake fee-fees. A lot, I hope.
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CHEERS to the most important day in U.S. history. On February 10, 1945, the Andrews Sisters hit the top of the charts with 'Rum & Coca Cola.' Why we didn't get today off as a national holiday remains an infuriating mystery.
MEH to monochromatism. Maine looks really, really, really, really, really, really white today. But enough about our demographics. Did you hear we got more snow yesterday?
CHEERS to pigskin fever! Wow—that Super Bowl was awesome! Did you see how [quarterback] executed that awesome [pass play] [running play] in the [first] [second] [third] [fourth] quarter??? Holy cow! And when [player] took the ball and [ran] [threw] [kicked] for that [touchdown] [field goal] [extra point], that was...well, it was just [amazing] [unbelievable] [bullshit]. At least [half-time entertainer(s)] did a reasonably good job of [singing] [dancing] [eating fire] [exposing his/her/their titties]. And the commercial with the talking [baby] [dog] [horse] [monkey] [drag queen] [Jesus freak] was clearly the [best] [worst]. I'll never [forget] [remember] it!!!
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Ten years ago in C&J: February 10, 2015
CHEERS to a very bad day for bigots. Gay couples in Alabama—or as we call 'em, homosexyalls—started getting marriage licenses yesterday morning after the Supreme Court ruled (7-2) that it wouldn't stand athwart history yelling, "Stop!" Newly-betrothed couples will now get down to the business of destroying the institution of marriage by working for a living, raising kids, going to church, volunteering, supporting their local economy, watching TV, eating too much chocolate, paying bills and pursuing happiness. I hope it can withstand the assault.
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And just one more…
JEERS to missing an important member of our national peanut gallery. I was reminded last week that beloved Michigan Congressman John Dingell left us six years ago last Friday after serving from the 84th Congress (1955) to the 113th (2015). This morning we remember some of the classic post-retirement Twitter taunts John rained down on the 45th president to the delight of, well, everyone:
☺ The American people wait with bated breath as their idiot president announces something he could have done 35 days ago to avoid this national disgrace of a shutdown. The Art of the Deal. ☺ Crooks like Trump will steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke. ☺ Never before in history of organized government can anyone recall so much stupidity accomplished by so few in so short amount of time. ☺ Is this clown going to cry and yell at us again? ☺ What an absolute embarrassment of a human. x Ho ho ho! Look at our president. Too dumb to know he has toilet paper on his shoe and the world is watching. God save America from a man as foolish as this. pic.twitter.com/7CzehSpR5B — John Dingell (@JohnDingell) October 6, 2018 - ☺ We’ve had presidents of almost every stripe, but this one will be remembered as the smallest and most vile. A petty man with no interest in a greater good for us all. ☺ Big Macs. Small hands. A nation’s embarrassment. ☺ Though it is massive and stands as one of the greatest threats to our existence, your fragile ego is not a national security asset in need of protection, Mr. President. ☺ Burn this entire administration down.
Brother, you said a mouthful.
Have a tolerable Monday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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