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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-05-27
And We’re Back I had an exceptional above-the-fold intro planned for this morning—[crosses fingers] really I did [uncrosses fingers]—but my neighbors said because yesterday was Memorial Day and I was being so helpful to everyone, in that Eagle Scout model-of-selflessness way of mine for which I am famous kinda like Colonel Sanders and his chicken, that an intro would not be necessary and we could just hop down below to the meat of the thing.
Suffice it to say the world remains a mixed bag, and so far the inhabitants of the Goldilocks planets NASA keeps discovering aren’t answering the doorbell. But at least we can wear white again. Let us proceed.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Note: We hope you had a nice Memorial Day weekend. As promised, here are my fresh wounds from the first Jarts tournament of 2025: here….here…here, here and here…oh, and these sixteen here that form a heart shape. Final score, as usual: 0-0.
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By the Numbers:
18 days!!!
Days 'til the nationwide June 14 No Kings Protests: 18
Days 'til the Virginia Herb Festival in Middletown: 4
Estimated number of measles cases reported in 30 states on RFK Jr.’s watch: 1,046
Number of measles cases reported in Maine: 0
Monthly cost of Trump's Gestapo Uberfuhrer (aka "border czar") Tom Homan's security detail: $1 million
Cost of minting a nickel: $13.8 cents
Percent chance that our nation’s last order for pennies was placed this month: 100%
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Puppy Pic of the Day: "Quack." "Woof."
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JEERS to Billeh's Big Tuesday Tariff Update. Good morning! I'm sure you ran over here as fast as you could because you know that I, Billeh von Billehstern, am the #1 authority on tariffs, which have been in the news lately. Today I invoke the immortal words of esteemed hedge fund manager Princess Leia, who famously told failed businessman Grand Moff Trumpkin: "The tighter you squeeze, the more the business community will slip through your fingers." And here we are:
Businesses are finding a workaround to minimize the most significant hit from tariffs, using a decades-old piece of legislation known as the “first sale rule.” […] “What the rules allow you todo is use that initial sales price from the factory to the vendor to determine the final duty price,” Brian Gleicher, senior lawyer and member at Miller &Chevalier Chartered, told CNBC over the phone. […] Use of the first sale rule, while perfectly legal, nevertheless could undermine the Trump administration’s efforts to boost tariff revenue and boost onshoring of manufacturing.
If it ends up working, we'll have government regulation to thank for protecting us from government regulation. Deep state, you sneaky bastard.
CHEERS to the end of the end. It was all over for Tricky Dick 51 years ago today, thanks to a 27-11 vote by the House Judiciary Committee to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Nixon who, said ABC News's Tom Jarrell at the time, was "presumably still in his swim trunks" while on vacation in California when he heard the news. Meanwhile, then-VP Gerald Ford just couldn’t help but play a little game of up-is-downism:
Ford: It's interesting that every Democrat on the committee—north and south—voted for the article. ... It tends to make it a partisan issue. Oh knock it off and get the f*ck outta here, crook. Reporter: Even if one-third of Republicans voted for it? Ford: Well, the fact that every one of the Democrats voted for it, I think, uh, lends credence that it's a partisan issue, even though some Republicans have deviated.
..said the Republican who later unilaterally exonerated the Republican crook. But, hey, what's a little hypocrisy among friends?
CHEERS to earplugs for Satan. Hell got a lot noisier over the holiday weekend as yuppie-cosplaying-as-a-mountain-man Phil Robertson died at 79. He was one of those faux-eccentrics—a duck hunter, in his case—who finagled his way into a TV show, where he gained some popularity for him and his family, then turned his fame into a weapon against diversity and decency:
Over the years, Robertson became a known figure in politics. Robertson endorsed Ted Cruz during his 2016 White House run before backing Donald Trump. A&E briefly suspended Robertson, and ratings declined after he told GQ magazine in 2013 that gays are sinners and Black people were happy living under Jim Crow laws.
He was a regular speaker at all the CPAC conventions and NRA hootenannies, spouting his Fox News-approved bullshit against minorities and anyone who wasn't perpetually living in the 1950s. So don’t expect any liberals at his funeral. Also not likely to send any condolences: ducks.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to masking tape. It was invented on this date In 1930. It has a-million-and-one uses, but to shut up a Republican blowhard only duct tape will do.
CHEERS to clapping Adolf in irons. Two words: Got him...
The alleged leader of a neo-Nazi cult based overseas has been extradited to the United States and accused of "multiple senseless killings" around the world, including the shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville earlier this year that left one student dead and another injured, according to the Justice Department. Michail Chkhikvishvili…was indicted last year on several federal charges, including two counts of soliciting hate crimes and other violent attacks. According to the DOJ, he was a leader of the "Maniac Murder Cult," a Russian and Ukrainian-based extremist group also known as "MKY" that promotes violence against racial minorities, the Jewish community, and others it deems "undesirables."
As soon as he heard the news, President Trump leapt into action and called on Kristi Noem to take the steps necessary to treat this matter appropriately. So congratulations, new Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Michail Chkhikvishvili.
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Ten years ago in C&J: May 27, 2015
CHEERS to the underdog with sharp teeth. Under blue skies and fluffy clouds, and backed by sailboats lazily tacking hither and yon across Lake Champlain, Bernie Sanders ambled grandfatherly to the lectern and, looking out over the sea of 5,000 optimistic faces, proceeded to lay out a smart progressive agenda for this stupid-ass country of ours while tearing the banksters and billionaires a new one as he announced his candidacy for president:
"As a result of the disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, the American political system has been totally corrupted, and the foundations of American democracy are being undermined. What the Supreme Court essentially said was that it was not good enough for the billionaire class to own much of our economy. They could now own the U.S. government as well. And that is precisely what they are trying to do."
For the moment, that makes two Democrats in the race versus four Republicans. But Bernie and Hillary will tie one brain lobe behind their backs to make it a fair fight.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to the mighty Great Orange Satan. Happy 23rd blogiversary (technically yesterday) to the persnicketiest band of muckrakers and misfits in Blogger Land. It all started when a dirty effing hippie named Markos Hemp Flower Rainbow Moonbat Moulitsas emerged from his deep-state law school cocoon, flapped his tie-dye wings on May 26, 2002, and proclaimed: “I am progressive. I am liberal. I make no apologies.” It's been all high-quality blah blah blah ever since.
And unlike the MAGA cult, we know how to fly the flag correctly.
"The" Daily Kos percolated for several months before I discovered it (via the Dean for America blog) and got addicted to the weekly 2004 primary “cattle calls.” After that, all hell broke loose and it's been a sprint for world domination ever since. Among our registered members: Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Stacey Abrams, Howard Dean, and Stephen Colbert.
Despite the meta wars, sigh-inducing GBCWs, and the sheer crazy volume of information that gets posted every day, The 'The' "The" Daily Kos is still a vital national source of netroots-level analysis, opinion, issue-vetting, fundraising, snarking, storytelling and flying furniture, and only a fool would try to herd our breed of cats. So from all of me to all of you—especially our mighty Keyboard Kingpin and his “squadrons of rabid lambs”—Happy #23 from user ID #2574.
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 “I think Bill in Portland Maine is, frankly, not the type of leader that we’re really looking to support.” —David Hogg
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