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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-07-03
“You should be ashamed”
AOC sums up the Big Ugly Rich People Scam in less than 90 seconds...
x AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA." — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-02T15:37:44.212Z
They scammed, stole from, and fucked over 99 percent of us in broad daylight.
Happy birthday, America. Enjoy your cake crumbs.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, July 3, 2025
Note: Tomorrow morning around 8am ET we’ll perform the annual posting of C&J’s first column, written back on July 4, 1776 to celebrate the birth of our baby Republic that would grow up to eventually swallow itself after ingesting a toxic cocktail of greed, power, citizen apathy, and Pop Rocks. No evening C&J, and we'll be back bright and early on Monday morning. In conclusion: God bless Canada. —Mgt.
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7 days!!!
By the Numbers:
Days 'til fall: 81
Days 'til the Elsie Dairy Festival in Elsie, Michigan: 7
Percent of Americans polled by NPR/PBS/Marist who believe that democracy is "under serious threat" here: 76%
Odds that the Fed will hold interest rates steady at its July 29-30 meeting, according to futures activity, compared with a 19% chance of a quarter-point rate cut: 81%
Percent chance that "Extreme heat is no longer a rare event , it has become the new normal, no country is immune," according to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: 100%
Average daytime high temperature in July at Four Corners National Monument: 93F
Year that Independence Day was made a formal federal holiday: 1941
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
Happy birthday, America! Ye Olde Fourth of July rolls around again and finds the Great Nation in, frankly, a somewhat pissy mood. Lots of blame game, name-slinging and general unpleasantness. But there's always an upside. The vice president reports that if you go ahead and let fly with the f-word, it makes you feel better. Anything to get that fun Dick Cheney back to his usual sunny self, I always say. True, we seem to have had more halcyon national natal days, but if we ignore Iraq for the weekend, we should be able to celebrate our national heritage without punching each other in the eye. So let's salute all that makes America special, starting with us, the people. Here's to all the musicians from country to hip-hop to rock to classical to jazz to folk to be-bop to norteno to polka to reggae, and to all the fusion forms thereof. Here's to all the artists who get no respect—the washboard players and lute strummers, harmonica blowers and banjo pickers. Here's to their endless generosity in playing special benefits for retired musicians who are ill and have no health insurance, all over America, every night. And here's to the great Ray Charles, bless his heart. May we all hear his version of "America the Beautiful" this holiday. —July 2004
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Tis the season…
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CHEERS to taking out the trash. Hey, everybody! Here's something that's as rare as a functioning MAGA brain cell: actual good abortion news. We take you now to Wisconsin where, if recent elections for justices on the state's highest court had swung a different way, we wouldn’t be reading this right now. But they didn't, so…we are:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday formally struck down an abortion ban from1849 that had technically retaken effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights. MAGA Wisconsin justice Rebecca Bradley has a sad.
And that gives me a happy. In a 4-3 decision that came down along ideological lines, the court’s liberal majority affirmed a lower court ruling that overturned the 176-year-old ban and left in place a more recent law in Wisconsin allowing most abortions until about the 20th week of pregnancy. […] The ruling is a win for abortion rights activists in the battleground state, where Democrats had put the issue at the forefront of many elections—including two races in 2023 and 2025 that recalibrated the state Supreme Court's ideological balance—in the years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
To celebrate the good news, Wisconsin will now send everyone in the country a large chunk of their delicious cheddar cheese absolutely free. (But you'll have to buy your own crackers and summer sausage. Budget cuts.)
JEERS to idle hands. The dream of our illustrious commerce secretary Crack T. Whip to produce a thriving economy based on an army of middle class Americans screwing tiny screws into tiny screw holes in tiny iPhones 14 hours a day remains a "work" in progress. (See what I did there?) But he might want to step it up if today's employment report from the newly-named Federal Bureau Of Get To Work You Lazy Slackers matches what dropped in our laps yesterday:
Private sector hiring unexpectedly contracted in June, payrolls processing firm ADP said Wednesday, in a possible sign that the economy may not be as sturdy as investors believe. […] The new national seal of the United States. Private payrolls lost 33,000 jobs in June, the ADP report showed, the first decrease since March 2023. Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast an increase of 100,000 for the month. The May job growth figure was revised even lower to just 29,000 jobs added from 37,000. The bulk of job losses came in service roles tied to professional and business services and health and education, according to ADP.
Today's government report drops at 8:30 ET. Fearless prediction: the biggest gains will be in the previously-underperforming "American Concentration Camp Alligator Poop Scooper" sector.
CHEERS to Men and women in Black. The now-hapless Secret Service (America eventually ruins everything) went to work this week in 1865. Its original intent was to prevent the spread of counterfeit currency.
It wasn't until after the McKinley assassination that the service began protecting the president. Which reminds me: if you ever want to intimidate someone, just stare at them while talking into your wrist. (The old lady across the street is now poppin' Prozac like candy...)
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to greenbacks. In a famous first, during this week in 1785 Congress agreed that the dollar would officially become America’s first “unit of U.S. currency.” Also during this week in 1785, the American public agreed that the dollar would, in their households, officially become America’s first "endangered species."
CHEERS to today's edition of Oops, Did We Do Thaaat??? Take a bow, boycotters. You have effectively rocked a very evil man back on his hooves. Via ABC News:
Sales of Tesla electric cars fell 13% in the last three months as boycotts over Elon Musk's political views continue to keep buyers away, a significant development given expectations that anger with the company's billionaire CEO would have faded by now. The plunging sales add to growing signs that Musk's embrace of U.S. President Donald Trump and far-right politicians in Europe has had a deep and enduring hit to the Tesla’s brand appeal.
This has been today's edition of Oops, Did We Do Thaaat???
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 3, 2015
CHEERS to getting a second opinion. The Commerce Department now says that the first-quarter Gross Domestic Product fell far less (0.2% vs. 0.7%) than originally estimated, thanks to stronger numbers on consumer spending and exports. But looking ahead, the financial experts all agree on one thing: the fate of this quarter is completely in your hands, lemonade stand kids.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to blowing this popsicle stand. Every time you go outside on a clear night you’re doing yourself a grave disservice if you don’t look up and gasp as you realize that the universe up there is pretty spectacular. The elves at NASA are also aware of this, so they always let us in on the big celestial events for the month. Here’s a look at July’s skywatching tips, including hot planet-on-planet action and the eagle’s awe-inspiring wingspan:
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And if there are any benevolent societies out there in the cosmos reading this who are good at solving problems on planets inhabited by self-immolating halfwits: Help!
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 "This is just the beginning of our expanding coalition to make the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool swimmable. And we will do it together." —Zohran Mamdani
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