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Cheers and Jeers: Monday [1]
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Date: 2025-02-24
Monday Morning Calisthenics
Ready for some upper-face strength training? Via Google News, here’s a list of what and who the headlines say are currently "raising eyebrows”...
Trump's anti-Christian bias initiative…Warren Buffet's new beverage stock pick…Thailand's economic growth forecast…J.D. Vance's Munich speech...the mysterious bank account deposit in Pepper Pike, Ohio...Choreographer Jani Masters' attire…Trump-Putin talks…a Missoula driver’s DUI arrest...former special prosecutor Jack Smith's recently-disclosed $140,000 gift…Center Point, Alabama's new traffic camera fines…Disney’s DEI policy rollback...Lauren Boebert and Kid Rock sharing the same taxi at 2am…Princess Kate's off-the-shoulder BAFTAs dress…Meghan Markle’s “mystery” stopover in Seattle...Indianapolis's new snow plowing plan…Cardi B's interaction with an NFL star…Hawaiian immigration agreements…and the 12-meter phallic sculpture in Naples.
Feel the burn? Just wait ‘til tomorrow when we trot out the latest list of what and who are "pointing fingers."
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Monday, February 24, 2025
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By the Numbers:
4 days!!!
Days 'til Learn What Your Name Means Day: 8
Days 'til the start of Maryland Vegan Restaurant Month: 4
The last time consumer prices rose as fast as they did in January: August 2023
Percent drop in consumer optimism during February, according to the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, a direct result of the realization that Trump and Musk are fucking us over: 10%
Percent of Americans polled By CNN who know for a damn fact that Trump isn’t doing what's necessary to keep the economy healthy: 62%
Percent chance our allies, if we have any left, can count on the United States of America for anything: 0%
Current number of measles cases in Texas, which the head of the Immunization Partnership in Houston calls "the tip of the iceberg": 100
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Every neighborhood has that nosy couple...
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CHEERS to serving up a tasty knuckle sandwich (without ketchup). Oh, boy! Did you hear what my Democratic, freedom-loving governor did in a White House room full of MAGA governors to The Incontinent Man Who Would Be King? It was on Channel 6 and Channel 8 and Channel 13 and in The Portland Press Herald and The Bangor Daily News and this morning all the local radio hosts' tongues are a' waggin'. She done gave it to him good, and after she drew blood he couldn’t even look her in the eye with his sad, low-energy retort…
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“See you in court.”
By the power vested in me by the universe, I now dub thee, Maine Governor Janet Mills, Speaker Of Truth To Power: Dark Brandonette. Please use your powers for good, not evil. And if it's not too much trouble, next time kick him in the junk.
ACH DU SIEBRHIMMEL GOTTERUNTERDAMMERANGENKEITELSMITTLE VERVORHEICHT ENSEICHTEN to shitting in your country’s own lederhosen. Elections were held in Germany yesterday to determine whether one of the last decent countries on Earth would remain a parliamentary republic or decide that a Fourth Reich is necessary because ZOMG immigrants exist and have you seen the price of schnitzel??? As of this morning the mood among the sane is…
The “good” news is, the Nazis only came in second place. Now breathing easier: Poland.
JEERS to really crappy odds. During this week in 1836, three thousand Mexicans attacked 182 Texans at The Alamo. By this account, it was intense:
Brandishing his assault rifle, Six-star General Ronald Reagan and his second-in-command, Colonel Donald Trump, took turns picking off the attackers as Dan Crenshaw and Ted Cruz loaded and fired the two functional cannons. Only known photo of Reagan saving the Alamo. After Democrats fled in panic, Jim Jordan and members of the House Freedom Caucus arrived in the nick of time to save the day. The surrender ceremony was conducted on a battleship, followed by a ticker tape parade featuring all the tanks and missile launchers in the glorious American freedom arsenal. That's why today San Antonio is the capitol of the United States and God hates libturd moonbats.
Um, Texas school board social studies textbook committee? I think we need to have a little chat.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to memorable moments in shutterbugging. 80 years ago this week, in 1945 during one of humanity’s countless wars, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they attached an American flag to a section of pipe and raised it like a middle finger to the Japanese troops hiding in the caves below them. The Pulitzer-winning photo taken by Joe Rosenthal actually shows the second flag-raising. Here's the first.
This morning C&J raised the stars & stripes in honor of the 80th anniversary of the event. Tomorrow we'll go back to flying it the only way it should be displayed for the next four years: upside down.
JEERS to Comedy Central's evil twin. The annual knee-slappin' hootenanny that is the CPAC Convention ended yesterday. What we saw: anger, rage, crazy, tried-and-failed ideas, madness, pretzel-twisted logic, a car salesman wielding a chainsaw, xenophobia, homophobia, immigrant-o-phobia, Islamophobia, isolationism, birtherism, secession and denial, denial, denial. Plus exciting discussions about the groundbreaking new Republican agenda of tax cuts, annexation of both Canada and the vagina, and...um...did we mention tax cuts? Oh well. At least some people will benefit from it: D.C.'s sex workers. (Yes, even the straight ones.)
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Ten years ago in C&J: February 24, 2015
JEERS to the embarrassment from Wisconsin. Badger State Governor and 2016 White House contender Scott Walker, climbing on the Rudy Giuliani crazy bus, says he has no way of knowing whether or not President Obama is a Christian. Great. Just what we need. The first president of the 21st century to not know how Google works.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to rendering Rachel Maddow speechless. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it's a wonder to behold. Sixteen years ago yesterday, despised Louisiana governor, failed presidential nominee and creepy exorcism advocate Bobby Jindal loped into a southern foyer scented with jasmine and gave his famous "Welcome to Mayberry" response to President Obama's address to Congress. The ensuing rhetorical disaster, during which, among other things, he invoked the government response to Katrina as an example of why Republicans should be trusted more than Democrats, provided an unforgettable moment in mass pundit shock…
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Some years back Jindal had a brief moment of lucidity when he called the GOP "The stupid party." Little did we know back then that he apparently meant it as a compliment.
Have a tolerable Monday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial "We're going to follow Bill in Portland Maine, sir. We'll see you in the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool." —Maine Governor Janet Mills, to Donald Trump's face
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