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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday [1]
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Date: 2025-05-28
Words of Wisdom for 2025 Grads
[I]n this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak—in America! If our government is, in Lincoln’s phrase, ‘of the people, by the people, for the people,’ then why are we afraid to speak? The Wake Forest class of 1861, they did not choose their time of calling. The class of 1941 did not choose. The class of 1968 did not choose. History chose. And now history is calling you, the class of 2025.” —60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley, Wake Forest University Does a cap need a caption? "When you find the thing that you want to do, I really want to highly recommend, just friggin' go for it. You really have to psych yourself up into believing absurd possibilities, and you have to believe that they are not absurd." —Jennifer Coolidge, Emerson College "Adversity is like the gym for your soul. It hurts. It’s heavy, but it builds you up.” —Snoop Dogg, USC Business School ”Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." —Al Roker, Siena College “What is unique about you should always be shared. That’s why I hang out with a bear, a pig, a penguin, a prawn and whatever Gonzo is. My whole life I have tried to accept people for who they are." —Kermit the Frog, University of Maryland "I am proud of how you got yourself into these chairs. And I cannot wait to see who you become. This world is yours now. And this world needs fixing. And I pray to the heavens that you are the fixers. I say to you now: Go!" —Henry Winkler, Georgetown University
Congrats, grads, and happy world changing.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Note: Happy Wednesday to all, including the scum that spent the last four months trying to destroy our country through warped radical MAGA minds.
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By the Numbers:
4 days!!!
Days 'til National Doughnut Day: 9
Days 'til Delaware's Greater Wilmington Pizza Week: 4
Years, as of last Sunday, since George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police: 5
Number of diaries posted by Daily Kos community members in the last year: 40,600
Number of comments posted in the last year: 1.9 million
Minimum number of viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest: 160 million
Date and time of Rachel Maddow's first-ever on-air sneeze: 5/28/15 9:20pm ET
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Mid-week Rapture Index: 181 (including 5 Marks of the Beast and 1 proof of God's existence…now with Vitamin C). Soul Protection Factor 8 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.
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Puppy Pic of the Day: A basset hound…
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CHEERS to Billeh's Big Beautiful Wednesday Morning Tariffs Update. To keep things entertaining for you, my loyal reader, today's update is in story form. Once upon a time, after privately signaling to his wealthy minions that they should sell their stock while prices were high, the King threatened to impose tariffs on the entire European Union. The world gasped and stock prices dropped like a stone. The King's wealthy minions then bought a bunch of new stock at the lower bargain prices. And what happened next will shock you:
President Donald Trump backed down from his threat to impose a 50% tariff on the European Union on June 1, delaying the duties to July so he and European leaders can “work something out,” the latest shift in his tariffs as the Trump administration has frequently flip-flopped on its sweeping trade policy in the weeks since “Liberation Day.”
Oh, how the stock prices shot up on the good news, and all the King's wealthy minions then waited for word of his next tariff threat so they could repeat the cycle all over again. And, boy oh boy, did they live happily ever after. The End.
JEERS to First Amendment hypocrisy. Here's how it works: if you're a right-wing Christian business, you can complain to the Supreme Court about how dastardly birth control services in your company health insurance plan are encroaching on your sacred religious values…and the high court will protect your retail land from the ungodly heathen. But if you're a Native American tribe complaining to the Supreme Court about how dastardly miners are encroaching on your sacred tribal lands, well…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a last-minute plea from Native Americans seeking to challenge a massive copper mining project in Arizona that would destroy a sacred site used for tribal ceremonies, a weighty dispute that pitted religious rights against business interests. If only the land was owned by a conservative evangelical mega church. The court turned away an appeal brought by the nonprofit group Apache Stronghold asserting that its members' religious rights will be violated if the Resolution Copper mine goes forward because it would obliterate Oak Flat, the site in question.
Ironically, the Apache Nation will need those birth control services denied to Hobby Lobby employees. Because thanks to the Supreme Court, they just got fucked.
CHEERS to the end of an era. A quick reminder that tomorrow is a holiday. Yup…it's "End of the Middle Ages Day." To mark the occasion, despondent Republicans will lower their flag pins to half-lapel.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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JEERS to petty stooges. In a proud moment for the Republican party, 53 years ago today, in 1972, the White House "plumbers" hit the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, setting in motion a series of events that would lead to Nixon's resignation in disgrace. The first clue that the plumbers were fake: their bill was reasonable.
JEERS to weather woes. Not meaning to be Debbie Downer or anything, but the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season starts in four days. Forecasters at NOAA, who seem to be fairly accurate about these things, say we'll likely have to deal with 13 to 19 named storms, with 6 to 10 hurricanes, up to five of them “major” between June and November. And in other news, Franklin Graham's latest conversation with God about the gays, feminists and pagans reveals that we can expect 1-3 meteors, 6-8 frog showers and another season of The Masked Singer. Oh, the humanity.
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Ten years ago in C&J: May 28, 2015
JEERS to knowing that this guy could become president of the United States if all the other GOP candidates drop out. Yesterday Rick Santorum announced his candidacy, making him the seventh Republican in the race. Here are some fun facts:
Age: 57
Billionaire benefactor: Investment manager Foster Friess, best known for saying, "Back in my day, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives—the gals put it between their knees."
Central campaign theme: "Libertine men and scarlet women and ragtime, shameless music that'll drag your son and your daughter into the arms of the jungle animal instinct! Mass'teria!!!"
Debate persona: Wally Cleaver meets Father Coughlin
Fun fact: His use of sweater vests in 2012 caused a national non-spike in the use of sweater vests.
His campaign slogan: SANTORUM 2016—PLEASE DON'T GOOGLE ME.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to letters from the C&J mailbag. Sent today via Pesky Pest Post:
Dear Cicadas of North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Shut up. Sincerely, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
And the way they leave their little cicada Viagra bottles all over the yard is just rude.
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 Engagement with Cheers and Jeers is associated with a 58 percent reduced risk of cognitive impairment in people middle-aged and older, according to a study in the journal Nature Human Behavior. —The Washington Post
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