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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-07-01
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Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Note: I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers in Cheers and Jeers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the kiddie pool is open, and people are having a wonderful time.
—Mayor Vaughn
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By the Numbers:
6 days!!!
Days 'til International Plastic Bag-free Day: 2
Days 'til the Ice Cream Social and Pie Baking Contest in Manitou Springs, Colorado: 6
Percent of American adults polled by Quinnipiac who support the MAGA budget bill: 29%
Percent in the same poll who support a path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants, a 14-point upward swing since Mad King TACO re-took office: 64%
Estimated number of voters who turned out for the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, the highest raw total in a city primary since 1989: 993,500
Estimated number of attendees at Budapest's pride parade, which had been forbidden by Prime Minister Viktor Orban: 100,000
Number of states (Oregon and Alaska) boosting their minimum wage in July: 2
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Puppy Pic of the Day: The great escape…
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CHEERS to July! Welcome to the month that starts Act II of 2025 after an intermission lasting exactly zero seconds. America turns 249 Friday (thanks to the history of conservatives botching everything, we don’t look a day under 500). And Canada turns 158 today. (Don’t forget to expense your Molson on Prime Minister Carney’s tab.)
July 20 marks the 56th anniversary of the 1st moon landing. Thankfully Buzz Aldrin is still with us. But be sure to wink at the full moon on the 10th in memory of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and all of our departed space pioneers.
July is also National Baked Beans Month and National Ice Cream Month. On the 11th we'll celebrate something called Feest van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Translation: "The takeover of the planet by horny gerbils with grenade launchers"). The full moon—aka a “buck moon”—appears on the 10th. (Speaking of full moons, the second week of July is Nude Recreation Week.)
The summer movie box office is open, though nothing looks terribly exciting. (Do we really need more Fantastic 4, Superman, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Jurassic Park sequels?)
But the only thing we can all truly count on this month, especially thanks to last week’s anger-inducing Supreme Court decisions and record-setting heat waves: a whole lotta steaming goin' on and I ain't talkin' about cherry pies on window sills although those, too. Which reminds me: what does Stephen Miller do when citizens band together to kick his ICE-stapo agents out of their neighborhood? Shake 'n bake, baby.
CHEERS to slicing and dicing your way to oblivion. Did you hear? The story everyone's talking about—the baloney the muckety mucks were expecting us "little people" to swallow is no more. That rancid, fetid pile of crap that was supposed to be OK'd with no problem by the 4th of July, only to immediately affect the American economy in ways that would've led to a strain on our health care system, legal system, GDP…my god, that giant pile of baloney was a bomb just waiting to explode. Thank god they realized their folly, pulled it all back, and now we can all breathe a sigh of relief as they start from scratch again. The federal government actually did something sensible! But enough about the 150,000 pounds of baloney getting recalled. Anyone hear what's up with the Senate shit sandwich bill?
JEERS to dry heat, wet heat, heat, heat, heat. If you think the heat wave we had last week was bad, you should thank your lucky baguettes, kidney pudding, and wienerschnitzels that you’re not in Europe at the moment. The record-setting heat over much of the country is so awful that it briefly distracted the right-wingers from writing their latest columns warning about the dangers of global cooling. The only thing that can help the situation at this point is the presence of something so ice-cold that it radiates a frozen aura and brings a chill to the region just by existing in the middle of it. Unfortunately, the European Weather Centre Forecasters say Marine Le Pen isn't returning their calls.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to the turning point. 162 years ago today, on July 1, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg began, marking the high-water mark of the nasty old slavery advocates. (For the record, Maine won the war for the Union, although we hate to brag because we're modest.) In a show of magnanimity—because, hey, what's a little tyranny between friends—I bought the South a gift today, on account of I thought it was fitting for the occasion. It's an actual “Hour of Glory” Robert E. Lee cuckoo clock:
A “Top Christmas Gift.” Gee...thanks, Santa???
Instead of a cuckoo, a little toy cannon goes off every hour. Who knew treason could be so whimsical?
CHEERS and JEERS to gettin' outta Dodge. Triple-A (Motto: “Three times more A’s than the leading A") is out with its July 4th week holiday traffic prediction. A record 72 million people will be driving, flying, and riding the rails to get to their vacation destination at exactly the same time and at exactly the same place as you. That's...
..an increase of 1.7 million travelers compared to last year and 7 million more than in 2019. AAA’s Independence Day forecast includes two weekends instead of one to better reflect the flow of holiday travelers. Caution: Pete Hegseth will be drunk-bombing random SUVs all week, just in case they’re hauling Iranian uranium. AAA projects 61.6 million people will travel by car, a 2.2% increase over last year, and the highest volume on record. This Independence Day holiday period is expected to see an additional 1.3 million road travelers compared to 2024. Drivers are seeing some increases at the pump, but summer gas prices are still the lowest they’ve been since 2021. This year, the price of crude oil has kept gas prices on the lower side. The number of people traveling by air is also projected to set a new record. AAA expects 5.84 million travelers will fly to their destinations; that’s 8% of all Independence Day travelers. INRIX, a provider of transportation data and insights, expects Wednesday, July 2 and Sunday, July 6 to be the busiest days on the road.
Triple-A also predicts that it will rescue a couple hundred thousand motorists during the holiday period. For reasons that will eventually be traced back to blind devotion to their GPS instructions, half of them will be rescued from lakes, trees, and quicksand.
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 1, 2015
CHEERS to our new digs. Obamamentum rolled merrily along yesterday as the president announced July 20 as the date on which our embassy will open in Cuba:
"The progress we make today is another demonstration we don't have to be imprisoned by the past," Obama said. Obama emphasized that the U.S. and Cuba have some shared interests, such as strong anti-terror policies and disaster response. But he acknowledged that the two nations still have "very serious differences" on issues like free speech. "We won't hesitate to speak out when we see contradiction to those values," the president said.
Obama wants Congress to formally end the embargo against Cuba, and urged the Republican leadership to get right on it. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell replied jointly that they'd love to, but they seem to have misplaced their only copy of The Compete Idiot's Guide to Getting Right On It.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to our favorite constitutional monarchy! Happy Birthday, Canada! As America prepares to celebrate the violent upheaval and protracted war with Britain that led to our own "Brexit," today our neighbors to the north commemorate the cool, calm, and civilized "union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada [on] July1st."
Okay, whoever decided to post this pic in C&J is just rude.
Awesome! Whoooo!!! We luv ya Canada! (Disclaimer: But not your tar sands or your wildfires.) Don't get too crazy today—you could tear a rotator cuff politely waving at your neighbors.
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 In an attempt to develop a tourist economy, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrated the impending launch of Wonsan Kalma, a beachside resort with attractions including a Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool —People
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