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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday [1]
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Date: 2025-02-26
Jon Stewart Schools the Head Dick at DOGE
In eleven seconds...
x Jon whips out his trusty calculator to identify where America’s waste, fraud, and abuse really is — The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) 2025-02-25T19:42:42.929Z
Too easy.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Note: Today is International Would All The Evil Billionaires Just Shut The Hell Up For 24 Hours, Please, Is that Too Much To Ask? Day. Or at least it should be. Who’s got the petition?
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By the Numbers:
3 days!!!
Days 'til the Oscars: 4
Days 'til the start of the Maine Jewish Film Festival: 3
Year-over-year increase in light vehicle sales as of this month: 1.5%
Number of protesters who showed up at the Tesla dealership in Cherry Hill, New Jersey Monday: 300
Percent chance that our new FBI director made money off of selling "vaccine reversal pills" during the pandemic: 100%
Age of Roberta Flack when she died Monday: 88
Number of artists besides Roberta Flack who won back-to-back Record of the Year Grammy Awards, as she did in 1973 for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," and in 1974 for "Killing Me Softly With His Song": 0
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Mid-week Rapture Index: 181 (including 3 date settings and 1 rocker who will die for us all). Soul Protection Factor 12 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Oh look, it's a labranoodle…
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CHEERS to taking the plunge. Elon Musk's cars catch fire more often than the infamous Ford Pinto. His "cybertrucks" are apparently crappily-built junkers that get stuck in a light drizzle. Oh, and strike three: Elon Musk's car company is owned by Elon Musk. Put it all together and it's the perfect storm for a good ass-whuppin':
Shares in Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla tanked on Tuesday after new sales data showed a massive plunge in sales throughout Europe. Per The Guardian, new data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) showed Tesla sales in the United Kingdom and the European Union dropped by 45 percent year over year, and the company's share of the European car market got cut nearly in half over the same period. The sales figures sent Tesla's share prices diving by more than seven percent on trading on Tuesday morning and the company's shares have lost nearly a quarter of their value since the start of the year.
Oh no, that's terrible, said nobody.
CHEERS to botany. I swear to gawd, no matter how hard we humans try to stamp out all the other life on earth, newbies just keep popping up anyway. Thanks to the latest discovery, we’re in for a whole new round of studying and sorting and sniffing and cataloguing and educating people and blah blah blah work work work:
It's the first time a new species of plant has been found at a U.S. national park in nearly 50 years, according to the California Academy of Sciences, which joined Big Bend National Park staff and Sul Ross State University to study the Wooly Devil. The wooly devil originated in the lawn and garden circle of Hell. According to researchers, who published their findings in peer-reviewed botanical journal PhytoKeys, the Wooly Devil is in the daisy family and it is closely related to paperflowers and bitterweed, both of which have yellow flowers. However, DNA analysis showed that the plant is so genetically distinct that it had to be considered a new genus. [...] It was given the formal name Ovicula, meaning tinysheep, and biradiata, a reference to the two ray-like petals in each flower.
And in other news, Elon Musk just announced he's fired all the wooly devils for not submitting their weekly task summaries on time. (It's always the little things that get ya.)
JEERS to boys and their destructive toys. 122 years ago today, in 1903, the inventor of the rapid-fire Gatling gun, Richard Gatling, died. His last words: "Of course it's not loaded. I took the NRA safety course. There’s no way I’d be sitting here cleaning my Gatling gun if it was lo...” Thoughts and prayers.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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x The New Orleans Pelicans held a baby race tonight… — Rex Chapman (@rexchapman.bsky.social) 2025-02-24T04:33:13.831Z
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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JEERS to the 2/26 that was our 9/11 before 9/11 was our 9/11. On February 26, 1993, a bomb went off inside a parking garage under the World Trade Center in New York. Six people died and over a thousand were injured. It was a real test for newly-minted President Bill Clinton who, as I recall, caught the evildoers and threw 'em in jail. And we all lived happily ever after. Right? (I've been pretty busy the last 32 years...)
CHEERS to solved mysteries. Blowing this popsicle stand for a moment, we take you to Mars, where evidence solving an enigma wrapped in a riddle and slathered with conundrum sauce has finally been served and digested:
With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular theory in the process.[…] A picture of Mars, suitable for framing but not eating unless as a last resort. “Mars is still the Red Planet,” said lead study author Adomas Valantinas, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown University, in a statement. “It’s just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been transformed.”
The original theory centered around chemical reactions involving minerals and dust. But scientists now say the reason for Mars' red hue is clearer than ever: embarrassment for being our neighbor.
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Ten years ago in C&J: February 26, 2015
CHEERS to anticipation. In Michigan, it’s the last throes for a 28-foot-tall agave plant. It's an unusual species: the agave plant sits on its ass for decades, demanding special attention from gawkers while accomplishing nothing of value to its world...and then it spits up and dies. So pretty much the Rush Limbaugh of the botany world.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to helping hands. Happy Peace Corps Week! The organization that John F. Kennedy built in ‘61 turns 64 this week, and unless Elon Musk has dissolved it by now, it's still crankin’ out the good works:
Since 1961, at the invitation of foreign governments, more than 240,000 Americans have served the United States and countries around the globe as Peace Corps Volunteers JFK greets Peace Corps volunteers in 1962. There are currently more than 3,000 Volunteers working alongside community members in 60+ countries tackling local development priorities across the Peace Corps’ six work sectors: Agriculture, Community Economic Development, Education, Environment, Health, and Youth in Development. The theme for this year, "Tales of transformation," celebrates the changes that individuals and communities can experience when the power of human connection is shared worldwide. It highlights intercultural exchanges, big and small, that lead to positive growth and sustainable change for all involved.
Sixty-four years later, it's still "the toughest job you'll ever love." Especially if you bring a few cases of Bacardi with you. And limes. Without the limes it's intolerable.
Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial “Splashing in the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool just means you give a damn about other people.” —Jane Fonda
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