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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-06-03
Energize An Ally Tuesday Just a quick reminder above the fold that this...
..is now only 11 days away. As the dumbest dictator-wannabe in history is watching his birthday tanks fall through the pavement in front of him, we’ll be in the streets all over country letting him and his stooges know that democracy ain’t dead yet. More on the event here.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Note: Today is Give A Canadian A Dirty Look Day. No one knows anything about this holiday, but we're not about to argue with the special events committee. Prepare to glare, eh.
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By the Numbers:
3 days!!!
Days 'til the next full "strawberry" moon: 8
Days 'til Connecticut's Hartford Taste: 3
Consecutive months of contraction in the manufacturing sector, according to the ISM manufacturing index: 3
Percent chance that the government response to Americans who are about to lose their Medicaid support, according to Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, is "Well, we're all gonna die.": 100%
Season record of the LSU Shreveport Pilots baseball team after winning the NAIA championship, the first college team to have a perfect season: 59-0
Number of previous titles the school had won in any sport: 0
Age of M*A*S*H* star Loretta Swit when she died Friday: 87
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Puppy Pic of the Day: I'm sensing a theme here…
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CHEERS to a pleasant drive through Mother Russia. Traffic jams have broken out all around Vladimir Putin's shithole country as his drunken security teams inspect every truck coming and going from anywhere and everywhere. Why? Because Ukraine smuggled an army of drones in the back of some big rigs, and sent them aloft to destroy a large chunk of Russia's strategic bombers. It took a year and a half of planning and, boy oh boy, did it pan out:
Ukraine managed to smuggle 117 aerial drones on the backs of trucks that deposited them at the perimeter of four Russian air bases—one of them deep inside Siberia some 2,500 miles from Ukraine's borders, according to Ukrainian officials. Is now doorstop. While there are differing accounts on the extent of the ensuing damage of Sunday’s “Spiderweb” operation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 40 Russian aircraft—34% of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers—were hit. Ukraine's security service, the SBU, put the estimated cost to the Kremlin at $7 billion. […] “At a time when Putin seems to think that he is winning on the battlefield, this demonstrates that his forces are in fact very vulnerable,” said Sven Biscop, a director at the Egmont Institute, a think tank in Brussels.
Putin is vowing to find out exactly how things could’ve gone so wrong for his glorious military. "Excellent," said the owner of Moscow's Upper Floor Window Repair Company.
CHEERS to stealing the spotlight. First, to be clear: Pope Leo the XIV Kickass American isn't flying over to our (and his) shithole country on the same day as King TACO's glorious tanks-falling-through-the-pavement parade. Instead he'll appear via Zoom on a Jumbotron in a Chicago stadium. But it'll be the first message delivered specifically to his birthplace, and along with the nationwide June 14th "No Kings" protests he'll help grab the narrative from the world's loneliest birthday baby in DC:
In response to the announcement, social media users jokingly suggested that the pope is attempting to "upstage" Trump. Pope Leo's opposition to several of Trump's policies is well-documented. […] Oh, you merry prankster. "The pope is upstaging Trump On June 14, while DJT's Soviet-style military parade is going on for his birthday, Leo XIV will speak directly to the global youth population in a video broadcast at a Mass in his honor at the White Sox ballpark in Chicago," wrote a user. "So…. Pope Leo XIV is going to have his first event on June 14th in Chicago. The same day as Trump’ stupid military parade. Pope Leo Divine Trolling?" said another user on BlueSky.
That breeze you feel is God winking.
CHEERS to moments worth remembering. Seventeen years ago today, when he was but a 46-year-old lad, this happened...
"Our primary season has finally come to an end...Because of you, I can say that I will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America.” Terrorist fist jab? (Hey, I’m just asking.) “America, this is our moment! This is our time!" —Barack Obama, June 3, 2008
Fast forward. In two months the popular two-term president turns 64, when his slogan will change to, “This is my moment, this is my time. To get up and pee. For the third time tonight!” Welcome to our world, pal.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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x brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back — Uncle Duke (@uncleduke1969.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T12:30:57.662Z
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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JEERS to the Big Whiffer. On June 3, 1888, "Casey at the Bat" was first published in The San Francisco Examiner. Who can forget those immortal final words…
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has gotten overrun by Imperial storm troopers and the forces of Kylo Ren and tossed into the Sarlacc pit, thus securing the victory of the Empire because, funny coincidence, it turns out that Casey was really the last Jedi.
Oops, I almost forgot: Spoiler Alert.
JEERS to Billeh's Grand Old Tuesday Tariffs Update. Since our last update (thanks for all the Pulitzers, Pulitzer committee), consumers have started documenting the price-hiking atrocities beset upon us by King TACO which, lest we forget, stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out." Also:
» China says our shithole country has not only violated our tariffs truce, but has "severely" violated it. You know what this means? For the foreseeable future General Tso is only going to send us his highest-gristle chicken with half the sauce. » The EU is preparing countermeasures in case we renege on whatever deal we made with them the last time King TACO chickened out. And since all we do is renege on deals, I'd say that's a wise move on the EU's part.
That's today's update. Join us tomorrow when Trump imposes a 5,000 percent tariff on the sun for photosynthesis. (To be fair: it's Eric's idea.)
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Ten years ago in C&J: June 3, 2015
JEERS to the walking, talking human trigger alert. Ugh. Senator and America's most eligible bachelor Lindsey Graham announced his candidacy for president, making him the ninth Republican in the race. (Just ten more GOP announcements and we all get a free fracking well in our back yard). Here are some fun facts:
Age: 59
Home state: South Carolina
Billionaire benefactor: None, but he says the ghost of General George "Blood and Guts" Patton tossed him a twenty.
Central campaign theme: "We must bomb everything to save everything, especially our precious bodily fluids."
Voter base: Off-the-grid bunker dwellers.
Lindsey Graham fun fact: There is nothing fun about Lindsey Graham.
Campaign slogan: "Lindsey 2016: Have Nukes, Will Travel."
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And just one more…
CHEERS to blowing this popsicle stand. As you all know by now, whenever the shit gets too deep here on the bluish-brown marble, I call NASA to see if Newt Gingrich has fulfilled his promise to colonize the moon yet. Sorry to say the answer is no, so we'll just have to spend our days and nights gazing yonward and dreaming. Here’s a peek, courtesy of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at June’s galactic highlights, including planets playing footsies with the moon and a heavenly view of the Milky Way’s core:
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Also: on the 23rd you’ll get a brief glimpse of a Romulan vessel in the split second between the time it de-cloaks to vaporize your neighbor's tool shed and then re-cloaks. Have that smart-cam ready and prepare to go viral.
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 was talking to Kos the other day who said that Bill in Portland Maine had a sell-by date, but he was not a head of cabbage. He's more like expired, ultra-pasteurized milk. At some point, you gotta throw that stuff out.” —Jim Acosta
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