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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! [1]

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Date: 2025-07-11

Late Night Snark: Oh What A Lovely Mess Edition

“The problem in our country isn’t the sliver of able-bodied people who are somehow coasting on the medical coverage they may or may not use, but the millions and millions of people in this country who work f*cking hard at full-time jobs and still need food and medical assistance. That’s the system that’s broken." —Jon Stewart, on the Republican "Screw the poor" law “The measles are back. There have been over 1,200 cases of measles in the U.S. this year alone. But RFK Jr. is hoping to get that number way up.” —Jimmy Kimmel Live guest host Anthony Anderson The Amazing Racist

Friday Night Whites

Third Reich from the Sun

Illegal Alien vs. Predator

Dog the Bounty Hunter’s Roadkill Kitchen

Dumbf*ck Dynasty

White-ish —Shows on Trump's new Truth+ streaming service, via Jimmy Kimmel Live x See, this is why you always read the app update notes — The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) 2025-07-09T17:16:31.529Z - “[Attorney General] Pam Bondi was supposed to release the [Epstein] pedophile list. If we wanted an attorney general to cover up sex crimes, we would have stuck with Matt Gaetz.” —The Daily Show's Ronny Chieng “At the White House today, President Trump met with leaders of five West African countries. Things got off to a rough start when he congratulated them on winning the NBA Finals.” —Anthony Anderson

And now, our feature presentation...

Cheers and Jeers for Friday, July 11, 2025

Note: To get your point across effectively, I recommend an advanced form of linguistic programming that works well in most situations. It's called scream and scream and scream. If that doesn't work, turn red and projectile vomit your creamed corn all over the place. Read my abstract in JAMA for more info. —The Baby

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By the Numbers:

Starts today!!!

Days 'til Ice Cream Day: 9

Days 'til the California State Fair & Food Festival in Sacramento: 0

Percent of white evangelicals polled by PRRI who oppose allowing churches and places of worship to endorse political candidates while retaining their tax-exempt status: 62%

Percent of Catholics and Jews, respectively, who oppose it: 79%, 77%

Value of goods imported to Maine from Japan that will be affected by Trump's 25% tariff (tax) on us: $65 million

Number of the 200 trade deals Trump promised would be completed by now that are actually completed, according to CNN: 3

Minimum number of mushroom species that glow in the dark: 70

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Puppy Pic of the Day: Officer Jager on the beat…

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CHEERS to tonight’s roll call. Here’s a quick roundup of how the some of the world's major functioning democracies are doing as we head into another fine summer weekend:

France: Doing fine, merci. Britain: Can't complain. Scandinavia: Lovin' life, man. Germany: Sehr gut, ja. Spain: Hola! The United States : Australia/New Zealand: Every day's a g'day, mate. Canada: Calm and polite as usual. Japan: Like a well-oiled karaoke machine. Switzerland: Neutral, but happy. Luxembourg: One of our street lamps is out, but we'll get right on it.

And they all lived happily ever after.

JEERS to today's minor change. Just a quick heads-up that the job duties of our Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy have changed a bit. His boss, Mad King TACO, has decided that running ruining our airports, seaports, highwayports, and railwayports isn't enough to keep him working a full 20-hour week, so…

Donald Trump has appointed his transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, as interim administrator of NASA, six weeks after withdrawing the nomination of the Elon Musk ally and billionaire Jared Isaacman for the permanent role. Duffy, a former Republican congressman from Wisconsin who starred on MTV’s The Real World in 1997, brings no space background to the role.

Meanwhile, we've just been informed that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem will be changing, too. From her ICE costume to her cowgirl costume. (The chaps are covered with spangles!)

CHEERS to "#6." On July 11, 1767, John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. His presidency was, oh, let's call it a mixed bag. But intellectually he was one of the sharpest pencils in the box, and he followed his White House stint with a remarkable tenure in the U.S. House.

True fact: he’s got Bette Davis eyes.

Adams was also fanatical about that socialist Marxist concept known as "physical fitness," although it once got him in hot (read: cold) water. From Cormac O'Brien's book Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents:

While president, he set time aside virtually every day for a swim in the Potomac—a preoccupation that nearly killed him when, upon rowing with a servant to the far shore with the intent of swimming back, a storm brewed. After their flimsy canoe filled with water and sank, the two only barely made it to the far shore. The servant set off in search of clothing, and JQA waited patiently, sitting naked on the riverbank.

Pay your respects here. But not too loud—his dad's resting three feet away and he gets cranky when you darn kids show up with your hippie hair and boom-boom music.

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BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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CHEERS to Great Moments in Sports. On this date in 1914, Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. We include this bit of trivia to shamelessly remind the world that the Sox are only six games behind the Blue Jays in the AL East on their way to claiming their fifth World Series in 21 years. Anyone who disagrees is guilty of promoting negative energy. You...don’t...want to promote negative energy...do you?

CHEERS to home vegetation. A quick roundup of some of the eyestuff that may end upon your TV this weekend. Chris Hayes and the gang lead things off with live coverage of What The Hell Happened Today on MSNBC. And, as usual, I’ll be live-skeeting a classic episode of Star Trek (the one where the Enterprise crew has to figure out how to prevent an alien bundt cake from destroying the universe) at 8 via hashtag #allstartrek while watching it on the H&I network. And that's it, really, for tonight, so you might want to dive into something streaming via whatever looks good at Rotten Tomatoes.

My favorite show.

Sports: MLB schedule is here, WNBA is here, and if you’re a tennis fan, Wimbledon is underway and the action continues tomorrow and Sunday afternoon on ABC. Also on ABC tomorrow night: a $100,000 Pyramid marathon. (I checked, and it is indeed a sport.)

Sunday on 60 Minutes: encore reports on the Lowriders of New Mexico, and a miscarriage of justice. And other than more America’s Got Talent auditions on NBC, the weekend closes with a whimper.

Now here's your Sunday morning lineup:

This Week: Director of the White House National Council of Economic Destruction Kevin Hassett; former FEMA administrators Deanne Criswell and Pete Gaynor. Also Sunday: these discarded lamps get into a heated debate over interest rates. Meet the Press: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Sparklepony; Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY); Senator John Barrasso (Fascist-WY). Face the Nation: Rep. French Hill (Fascist-AR). CNN's State of the Union: Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Tony Gonzales (Fascist-TX); Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA); U.S. Gestapo Uberfuhrer and Guy Whose Funeral No One Will Go To Tom Homan. Fox Fascism Sunday: Secretary Sparklepony; Rep. Chip Roy (Fascist-TX); Senator Tom Cotton (Fascist-AR).

Happy viewing!

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Ten years ago in C&J: July 11, 2015

CHEERS to scaly discoveries. Imagine how cool it would be to have a dinosaur named after you. That's what happened to fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda upon the discovery of a new relative of the triceratops which was promptly named—wait for it—the Wendiceratops:

“Moo.”

The beast was 20 feet long, weighed more than a ton, and creationists say it was the dinosaur Jesus rode to work when his other dinosaur was in the shop.

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And just one more…

JEERS to "Second Amendment remedies." 221 years ago Sunday, Treasury Secretary, Founding Father and Boy Wonder Alexander Hamilton died after dueling in Weehawken, New Jersey, directly across from Manhattan. With Hamilton mania a seemingly perpetual thing, you're probably expecting me to post some video clip from the 300-Tony-Award-winning Broadway smash. Ha ha, fooled ya. I never miss a valid excuse to opt instead for Michael Bay’s smash hit Advertising-Hall-of-Fame commercial with the killer setup one more time:

x YouTube Video

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Bwahvo.

Have a great weekend. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?

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