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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-05-29
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And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, May 29, 2025
Note: Y'know, there's just something about you that rubs me the wrong way. I think it's your Coracoclavicular ligaments.
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By the Numbers:
7 days!!!
Days 'til the nationwide June 14 No Kings Protests: 16
Days 'til the 69th Vermont Dairy Festival in Enosburg Falls: 7
April-to-April drop in European Tesla registrations: 53%
Drop in Tesla's net income during the first quarter of 2025: 71%
Age of former Congressman and Congressional Black caucus co-founder Charlie Rangel (D-NY) when he died over the weekend: 94
Years Rangel served in the House: 46
Number of vehicles that used the Maine Turnpike over the holiday weekend, a bit more than expected: 1,008,400
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
Meanwhile, further proof that the entire party is cuckoo comes to us with the passage of another $70 billion tax cut for the rich. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says the average middle-income household will get a $20 tax cut, while those making more than $1 million a year will get nearly $42,000. … Both President Bush and Veep Cheney are still going around claiming if you cut taxes, your tax revenues increase. No, they don't. Now we're just in whackoville. It's not true. Their own economists tell them it's not true, but they go about claiming it is with the same desperate tenacity they clung to false tales of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. How pathetic. —May, 2006
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Puppy Pic of the Day: "You alive…???"
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CHEERS and JEERS to making cents (and also losing them). Being a world-renowned fauxconomist, I know that my opinion can have an overly-influential effect on the fiduciary proceedings of the global markets and non-fungible token futures. So I'll simply stay neutral and recap the recent news in economics and horse tradin' with some traditional-media headlines we carved off of the internet. See if you can spot a common thread subtly woven through the narrative:
$ Trump imposes new tariffs on EU $ More than a dozen U.S. officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs sent the market plunging $ Trump delays new tariffs on EU until July $ Dow jumps after Trump tariffs reversal $ Trump’s tariffs drive a rise in trade crime $ Tourists from countries badly hit by Trump’s tariffs staying away from U.S. Also: Piles of free money remain popular with the public. $ With fewer overseas tourists visiting the U.S., economic losses may be ‘staggering,’ research finds $ Japan sees President Trump’s tariffs as a “National Crisis” $ Volvo to cut 3,000 jobs as Trump tariffs rattle auto market $ Some small businesses are swearing off tariff price hikes. It’s costing them. $ A Vermont startup was close to becoming profitable. Then the tariffs hit. $ 7 million new jobs will evaporate this year because of trade war, UN projects $ Macy’s slashes profit forecast, blames tariffs $ Planning a wedding is stressful. Couples and vendors now have to factor in tariffs. $ Maine maple syrup industry under threat from climate change
Tonight on our dinner table: waffles and stress eating.
P.S. You can toss this headline on the pile:
x "Nice tariffs you got there. Be a shame If somethin' happened to 'em..." abcnews.go.com/Politics/fed... — Bill in Portland Maine (@billinportland.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T01:02:10.167Z
I think I like that one best of all.
JEERS to undeserved Get Out of Jail Free cards. Nothing will match the tone-deaf madness of Trump's pardoning of the January 6, 2021 traitors who stormed the Capitol. (Many of them have been re-arrested for other crimes since their release from prison, big surprise.) But a pair of Very Bad Man's (VBM’s) recent pardons are the work of someone who can only be described as a corrupt partisan dope:
♨ Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were serving prison sentences for fraud and tax evasion. … conspired to defraud Atlanta-area banks out of $30 million in fraudulent loans. ♨ Culpeper County, Virginia sheriff Scott Jenkins, convicted of federal bribery charges (one count of conspiracy, four counts of honest services fraud and seven counts of bribery concerning federally funded programs) and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
"Ahem…ahem…[nudge nudge]…ahem…What does a renowned gangster gotta do to get noticed around here?" said the ghost of Al Capone.
CHEERS to the other star-spangled banner. On May 29, 1916, the official flag of the President of the United States was adopted by executive order. And while we’re currently in the middle of a nasty right-side-up vs. upside-down kerfuffle with our national flag, the presidential one once had a bit of a left-right issue back in the day. Via historian David McCullough:
One morning, standing at his desk, [President Truman] presented to the press a new presidential flag … “This new flag faces the eagle toward the staff,” Truman explained, “which is looking to the front all the time when you are on the march, and also has him looking at the olive branch for peace, instead of the arrows for war …” To me it looks like the eagle flew into a window. Both the flag and presidential seal had been redesigned for the first time since the Wilson years, and Truman meant the shift in the eagle’s gaze to be seen as symbolic of a nation both on the march and dedicated to peace.
Astonishingly, Trump hasn’t changed it back.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to fresh ink. It was during this week in 1783 when the Pennsylvania Evening Post was published by Benjamin Towne in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the first daily paper in the U.S. Coincidentally, it's also the 242nd anniversary of the first "hint" from Heloise. (To this day we still rely on sprigs of lavender to deodorize ye olde chamberpot.)
CHEERS to today's edition of Headlines You Don’t Want To Wake Up To If You Work For Tesla. Courtesy of ABC News:
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This has been today's edition of Headlines You Don’t Want To Wake Up To If You Work For Tesla.
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Ten years ago in C&J: May 29, 2015
JEERS to a jerk I hoped I'd heard the last of. The banksters and the war criminals may go free, but at least the Justice Department bagged a former Republican House speaker yesterday. Dennis Hastert is charged with covering up regular $100,000 payments to a mystery "Person A," apparently to keep something hushed-up. So to recap: in the last 20 years we've had three Republican House Speakers: Newt Gingrich, a serial adulterer who resigned after being reprimanded and fined by his House colleagues…Hastert, a federally-indicted creep who said New Orleans was crazy for wanting to rebuild after hurricane Katrina and tried to hush up the 2006 Mark Foley congressional page sexting scandal…and John Boehner, the chain-smoking tanaholic who is so ineffective he can't even control the chamber's thermostat without help from Democrats.
Memo to Nancy Pelosi: would you like your future statue on the National Mall to be bronze or marble?
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And just one more…
CHEERS to wheelie gouda shows. Have you heard about the Gloucestershire Cheese Roll? It’s this crazy annual event in Britain, during which "the world's bravest cheese chasers sprint down a ridiculously steep hill in a very bouncy race." (Some crazy German won the championship for the second year in a row.) Last year Gav and Dan—aka The Slow Mo Guys—decided to stop by the Cheese Roll at Cooper’s Hill and shoot some footage. When captured in super-slo-mo and set to the musical strains of Handel, it becomes a thing of bonkers beauty…
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They went as fast as their legs curd carry them.
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 “It is a source of great pride that Bill in Portland Maine has continued to set an example to the world in his conduct and values, as a force for good.” —King Charles III
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