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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-03-27
“The most entertaining gathering of the resistance ever"
Those the words of David Letterman, one of the guests at the now-under-fascist-management Kennedy Center Sunday night as the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to Conan O’Brien.
The attendees made it clear they were acutely aware that they were on hallowed ground recently invaded and occupied by King Trumpolini. And when it was Conan’s turn to accept his award, he seamlessly bridged the gap between Twain’s era and ours:
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Perhaps the money quote: "First and foremost, Twain hated bullies. He punched up, not down. And he deeply, deeply empathized with the weak."
May those words echo through the place when the orange shitface enters it to attend the inevitable Ted Nugent/Kid Rock double bill.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, March 27, 2025
Note: Sugar caffeine sugar caffeine sugar caffeine sugar caffeine. Our motto: keep it simple.
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By the Numbers:
7 days!!!
Days 'til the Wisconsin Supreme Court election with liberal Judge Susan Crawford facing MAGA cultist and Elon Musk fanboy Brad Schimel: 5
Days 'til the Eastern Alpaca Jamboree in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: 7
Current consumer confidence rating, down 7 points from February and the lowest in 12 years according to the Conference Board: 92.9
Confidence score for future economic expectations, down 10 points from last month and a 12-year low: 65.2
2024 sales of electric cars made by China's BYD, and that bloated Nazi's Tesla company, respectively: $107 billion / $97.7 billion
Driving distance in a BYD with a "Super e-Platform" battery, which requires only 5 minutes to charge, according to the company: 250 miles
Last week's gross of the new George Clooney production of Good Night, and Good Luck on Broadway, a record: $3.3 million
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
Admit it, you're wallowing in Enron. Aside from the fact that it wrecked a bunch of people's lives, it is a beautiful scandal. Naturally, there is a special Texas element of looniness. Our governor, Rick (Goodhair) Perry, appointed an Enron executive to the state's Public Utilities Commission last summer, the better to regulate energy companies. The very next day, Perry got a $25,000 contribution from Ken Lay, which would have raised questions except Gov. Perry cleared up the whole matter by explaining the contribution was "totally coincidental." This news relieved everybody and gave the governor a new nickname, Old Coincidence. […] Like all historic events, the Enron scandal has already started to affect the language. The stick-up artist goes into the Jiffy Mart to pull a heist. He whips out his rod and says, "Put 'em up, this is an aggressive accounting practice." I love the Enron scandal. Did you know that Enron's board of directors twice voted to suspend its own ethics code in order to create private partnerships? Wasn't that thoughtful of them? If they hadn't voted to suspend the ethics code, they would have been in violation of it. Why didn't we think of that? —March 2002
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Office romance…?
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CHEERS to a changing of the colors. Did you hear the big news out of Pennsylvania? Not only did Democrats keep control of the state House by winning one special election, but a state Senate seat flipped from red to blue in another. Elections poohbahs Jeff Singer and David Nir at The Downballot add meat to this tasty bone:
East Petersburg Mayor James Andrew Malone defeated Republican Josh Parsons by a 50-49 margin to flip a district Donald Trump carried by 15 points last year. Those toplines, however, don't tell the complete story of just how ancestrally Republican Pennsylvania's 36th District is. Since taking its present form in Lancaster County 40 years ago, the district has always been held by the GOP, and the county as a whole has gone for a Democrat at the presidential level just once since 1856 (Lyndon Johnson just barely won it in 1964). Malone focused his message heavily on education and cuts to the federal government that he's had to deal with as mayor of a small town, specifically calling out Musk for slashing “benefits for veterans, retirees, and students." He also did not shy away from popular positions on reproductive rights and touted an endorsement from Planned Parenthood. And he specifically urged voters to back him as "an extra Democratic voice" who would bring greater balance to the GOP-controlled Senate.
There was a libertarian (aka someone who wants the government to stay out of their lives right up until the moment they want something from it, at which point they'll become more persistent and annoying than a mosquito buzzing around your head in the middle of the night) in the race. If Zachary Moore's 480 votes had gone to the Republican instead, Democrat Malone would've only won by a whopping…two votes. So next time someone scoffs when you tell 'em every vote matters, feel free to grab the hand of the nearest libertarian and give 'em a good smack.
JEERS to Signalgate, Day 4. On Monday all hell broke loose when America learned that the vice president, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others from the highest echelons of the Trump administration coordinated a military operation by bellowing orders through bullhorns from Moscow's Red Square, and unwittingly invited a journalist from The Atlantic to join them. Then on Tuesday the U.S. Senate held hearings during which Democrats vented their spleens over the betrayal of national security protocols while Republicans quietly rolled their eyes and went back to listening to their Russian-made-easy Rosetta Stone lessons. Yesterday the fallout continued, with fingers pointing in every direction as everyone involved blamed everyone else while the media feasted on the tasty scandal. But this morning all of MAGA Land settled on the lone individual who would take the fall:
Yes. J.D. Vance's dog Atlas did it, according to J.D. Vance. As punishment, he'll face impoochment hearings. If convicted, he’ll be fed to the Haitians.
CHEERS to the Ikey we likey. We're surprised that Dwight Eisenhower hasn't been branded a traitor yet by the right-wingers because he had the audacity to expand Social Security and raise the minimum wage. Plus, on the eve of his exit from the White House he warned America of the dangers of expanding the “military-industrial complex” that loose cannons like Trump could exploit. In short, his crap crapped bigger ones than the current crop of GOPretenders. But his heart, which attacked him several times throughout his life, finally gave out and he died this week in 1969. Among Ike’s famous quotes chiseled into stone at his grave site is this hippie libturd pabulum:
Pay your respects here. And extra credit for winning the last U.S. war that actually deserved to be fought.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to famous firsts in the land of Ringy Dingies. On March 27, 1884, the first telephone line connecting Boston and New York went live. It was soon followed by the first introduction of telephone "poles" connecting Boston and New York, mainly because people's horses kept tripping over the damn thing.
CHEERS to today's C&J trivia question! This is a tough one: Who was treated better by the United States government's deportation system under the Alien Enemies Act—Nazis during World War II, or the Venezuelans last week during no war of any kind? Here with the answer is our special guest, a fed-up federal judge:
The United States treated alleged Nazis better during World War II than the Trump administration treated Venezuelan migrants last week, a federal appeals judge told a Justice Department lawyer during a court hearing Monday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments Monday afternoon over the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act last week to deport more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador with no due process. "There were plane loads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people," Judge Patricia Millett said. "Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act." Judge Millett noted that alleged Nazis were given hearing boards and were subject to established regulations, while the alleged members of Tren De Aragua were given no such rights.
If you answered correctly, please enjoy this coupon for an extra helping of wienerschnitzel and a “Get Out Of Trump’s Gulag Free” card.
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Ten years ago in C&J: March 27, 2015
CHEERS to new adventures in gravity-defiance. In a picture-perfect liftoff, EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY (and russian cosmonauts mikhail kornienko and gennady padalka) were launched into space this afternoon. Kelly and Kormenko will be part of a one-year endurance experiment that will test the limits of the human body and mind in zero gravity:
This knowledge is critical as NASA looks toward human journeys deeper into the solar system, including to and from Mars, which could last 500 days or longer. It also carries potential benefits for humans here on earth, from helping patients recover from long periods of bed rest to improving monitoring for people whose bodies are unable to fight infections. While Scott Kelly is in space, his identical twin brother, retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, will participate in a number of comparative genetic studies. Some of these experiments will include the collection of blood samples as well as psychological and physical tests. Kelly and will spend 342 days off the planet resulting in a total of 522 days in space, allowing him to surpass current U.S. record holder Mike Fincke’s mark of 382 days.
I'm doing a similar experiment. It's called the effects of a lifetime of round-trips to the liquor store. So far…inconclshive. More shtudy is nedred.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to a picture saying a thousand words. A reminder that we recently were led by a president who was intelligent, empathetic, hardworking, and focused on preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution of the United States. From Joe Biden’s Poland swing this week in 2022...
Okay. That's worth three-thousand words. Keep the change.
Have a nice Thursday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial "Whether it's gratitude journaling, meditation or simply taking time to splash in the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool, the development of a mental health routine can be transformative. They are more than just feel-good routines—they are scientifically proven to improve our quality of life." —Dr. John Whyte
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