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Cheers and Jeers: Monday [1]
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Date: 2025-07-14
A Trip in the Wayback Machine
This morning we note that during this week in 1948 President Harry Truman accepted the nomination for another term at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. And, man, talk about sounding like a broken record—his words expressed a frustration at Republican cruelty and obstruction that could've been sounded by any Democratic president in the 77 years since:
“On the Labor Department, the Republican platform of 1944 said, if they were in power, that they would build up a strong Labor Department. They have simply torn it up. Only one bureau is left that is functioning, and they cut the appropriation of that so it can hardly function. I recommended an increase in the minimum wage. What did I get? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Spoiler Alert: He won. I suggested that the schools in this country are crowded, teachers underpaid, and that there is a shortage of teachers. One of our greatest national needs is more and better schools. I urged Congress to provide $300 million to aid the States in the present educational crisis. Congress did nothing about it Time and again I have recommended improvements in the Social Security law, including extending protection to those not now covered, and increasing the amount of benefits, to reduce the eligibility age of women from 65 to 60 years. Congress studied the matter for 2 years, but couldn't find time to extend or increase the benefits. But they did find the time to take Social Security benefits away from 750,000 people, and they passed that over my veto. I have repeatedly asked the Congress to pass a health program. The Nation suffers from lack of medical care. That situation can be remedied any time the Congress wants to act upon it.
The GOP: grand old pricks since forever.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Monday, July 14, 2025
Note: Sorry, I left today’s note at home, so all I got is a 14-year-old Rolaid from the glove compartment of my Honda. Enjoy!
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By the Numbers:
4 days!!!
Days 'til National Urban Beekeeping Day: 5
Days 'til the Jazz and Rib Fest in Columbus, Ohio: 4
Percent of Americans polled by Gallup who approve of Trump's immigration actions: 35%
Percent who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country, an all-time high: 79%
Number of farmworkers employed in California, where a third of America's vegetables and three-fourths of its fruits/nuts are produced: 900,000
Tick bites for every 100,000 visits to E.R.s in the northeast in June, up from 167 in June of 2024: 229
Percent chance that the "shoes off" policy at the Portland, Maine Jetport is officially lifted: 100%
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Wakey, wakey…
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JEERS to the inmates running the asylum. As major disasters and catastrophic economic policies continue chewing their way through our country's psyche, the Trump administration continues dealing with what it believes is its #1 priority: simultaneously releasing and burying the Epstein files, which are packed with damning evidence of sexual abuse of young women and underage girls. And, boy, is the Justice Department flummoxed:
✿ The FBI director, who demanded the Epstein files be released when he was a Fox News talking head because they would expose Democrats on the list, said he'd resign and spill all the beans if the Attorney General didn’t release them, a position he quickly reversed when he woke up Saturday morning in Alligator Alcatraz. ✿ The assistant FBI director, who also demanded they be released when he was a Fox News talking head because they would expose Democrats on the list, also said he'd resign if they stay sealed. Not sure if he’s changed his position yet or not, but we’ll ask him just as soon as we learn which U.S. concentration camp he woke up in this morning. ✿ The Attorney General, who says she has the damning list on her desk and also says she doesn't have the damning list on her desk, won't release the Epstein Files because she knows that the MAGA cult leader, one Donald J. Trump, is all over them. This morning she woke up to find the president gently stroking her hair and cooing, “Good girl. Good girl.”
As they sit there, paralyzed with the knowledge that years of gaslighting their base are now coming back to haunt them, all they can do face each new dawn looking like the backstabbers, bamboozlers, pedophile enablers, and frauds they are. The cult is finally forced to face reality. Fly, piggies, fly.
JEERS to today's edition of He's Building F*cking Concentration Camps and Throwing Millions Off Their Health Care, You F*cking Halfwit. The media fell all over themselves to prop up the reputation of the worst president in history Sunday as they marked the one-year anniversary of the day some idiot took a shot at him during a campaign rally. Disgusting stuff:
“I think it’s always in the back of his mind,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longtime friend and ally who was in close touch with Trump after the shooting and joined him that night in New Jersey after he was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital. “He’s still a rough and tumble guy, you know. He hasn’t become a Zen Buddhist. But I think he is, I’ll say this, more appreciative.
This has been today's edition of He's Building F*cking Concentration Camps and Throwing Millions Off Their HealthCare, You F*cking Halfwit.
JEERS to scaredy cats. Here's a bit of proof demonstrating that American politicians have been prone to delicate fee-fees ever since our humble beginnings. On July 14, 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which made it illegal to say bad stuff about the government. From Joseph Cummins' book, Anything for a Vote:
People weren't even safe in the neighborhood bar—A New Jersey tavern patron was arrested and fined for drunkenly noting that the president had, to put it indelicately, a big ass.
The penalty for sedition was "...a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." If that were the case today, most of us around here would be broke and sharing a prison cell. But just to be sure the law was indeed rescinded in 1802, I'll now conduct my annual test. [Climbs on roof with bullhorn.] "THE PRESIDENT HAS A FAT ASS!" And now...time to pour a tall cold one and wait for the black helicopter.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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JEERS to petty politicians. (Sorry, is that redundant?) 53 years ago this week, the late George McGovern became the Democratic presidential nominee at the convention in Miami Beach. A while back some secret Nixon tapes were released, revealing #37 as that rare breed of paranoid—the sore winner:
Several hours after the election, after 1:00 am, when vote totals are known, Henry Kissinger calls Nixon to congratulate him on the landslide victory: "It's an extraordinary tribute," he said. [...] Then they go after the loser, George McGovern: Heckuva job, American voters. You idiots. Nixon: "You know this fellow, to the last, was a prick. Did you see his concession statement?" [...] Nixon says speechwriter Ray Price urged him to send McGovern a message that he looks forward to working with him and his supporters for peace in the years ahead. Nixon: "And I just said hell no, I'm not gonna send him that sort of wire.
I'll say this. Dick sure knew how to live up to his name.
CHEERS to blowin' this popsicle stand we call the United States. Hooray—it's a great era for coal! And by that I mean it's a great era for coal to finally get out of our lives...
Wind and solar together generated more electricity than coal in the U.S. for the first time last year, and coal’s share of the generation mix fell to an all-time low of under 15%, according to a report from the think tank Ember. “Twirl, baby, twirl.” “2024 saw the largest-ever increase in solar generation in the US (+64 TWh),” said Ember. Wind production grew by 32 TWh, while coal generation dropped by 22 TWh. These solar additions marked “the second largest increase of any country, after China,” according to the report. “Significant capacity additions spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act have begun to feed through to generation increases. Wind generation rose as a result of improved wind conditions from 2023 as well as a moderate increase in wind capacity.”
Extra bonus: no hospital will ever have to treat a single wind miner for "turbine lung."
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 14, 2015
CHEERS to peaceable times. After multiple delays and extensions that were less a sign of diplomatic intransigence and more a sign that they didn’t want to give up their amaaaazing million-dollar-a-night hotel rooms, today the whole world will sit back and say "Day-amn!" to the fact that the United States and Iran have reached an agreement on nukes ‘n stuff. The reaction in Iran and the U.S. will be slightly different. Over there, the people will dance and sing in the streets over what their leadership plans to do. Over here, the Senate hawks will dance and sing in the chamber over what they plan to un-do.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to getting mad as hell and not taking it anymore. Sacre Bleu! Today is Bastille Day, commemorating the important lesson the French learned 236 years ago: it is better for the government to fear the people than it is for the people to fear the government.
Revolutionaries tromping through your bastille and setting it on fire? Call Merry Maids for a free estimate today.
Thus the French get a couple months of vacation, shorter work hours, universal health care, paid sick time, and a fresh beret every three months, and we get to work ourselves to the bone for zero vacation days, zero sick time, and the honor of having to defend meager and perpetually "on the table for cuts" social programs that barely keep us out of poverty—please, please try to contain your enthusiasm.
But anyway. This morning we woke up at the crack of dawn, propped a ladder up on our neighbor's bedroom window sill, stormed in without a word, grabbed a pair of their underwear and sent it up the flagpole. Because this is America, dammit, and we had no intention of breaking our daily routine just because it was Bastille Day in France.
Have a tolerable Monday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial “To be seen as cool, someone usually needs to be somewhat likable or admirable, which makes them similar to Bill in Portland Maine.” —Caleb Warren
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