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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! [1]
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Date: 2025-07-18
Late Night Snark: Rogues Gallery Keeps On Rogueing Edition
“Trump is still facing criticism for his handling of the Epstein files, and apparently some Trump supporters are burning their MAGA hats in protest. … They’re burning their MAGA hats. People in China were like, ‘Oh come on, we worked so hard making them.' ” —Jimmy Fallon "[Trump is] right: the Epstein saga is a total snooze-fest. The most powerful man in the world is blocking information about a cabal of the rich, the famous, and the royal, befriending a con man who regularly flies off on his private plane to his private island to do super-illegal sex stuff. Then the con man is arrested, people are afraid he’s gonna name names, but before he can, he mysteriously dies right after being taken off suicide watch in a federal prison during the administration of the guy who is blocking the release of the information. Boring! Sex cults and murder are famously dull." —Stephen Colbert "This really highlights Trump’s dilemma. He’s desperate to tamp down the drama, but his entire career has only taught him how to heighten the drama. You can’t spend your whole life as the messy b*tch from a reality show and then suddenly say, ‘Can we have some decorum here, please?’ ” —The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper x 🤭🤭🤭 — The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) 2025-07-16T18:00:52.395Z - "America’s [National] parks are now so underfunded that they’re making scientists clean the toilets, like Good Will Hunting but in reverse. This is no way to treat America’s park rangers. … America without its national parks is like McDonald’s without the hamburgers. You can still go there, I guess, but at that point it’s kind of just a bathroom.” —Actor Nick Offerman, in a commentary on Trump's awful treatment of our National Parks, on The Daily Show "Former Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that he'll run for mayor of New York City as an independent in the most awkward video of all time. If he looked any more uncomfortable, he could be one of his interns." —Seth Meyers “Just last week Musk’s AI [chatbot Grok] went rogue on Twitter, going on anti-Semitic rants and referring to itself as ‘Mechahitler.’ Which must have been particularly upsetting to Elon because that was going to be the name of his next kid.” —Stephen Colbert P.S. FUCBS.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Friday, July 18, 2025
Note: Tomorrow is Daiquiri Day. Daiquiris are the brainchild of Jennings Stockton Cox, who invented the drink in the Cuban mining town of—are you sitting down?—Daiquiri. Tonight in the C&J cantina we’ve got beer. Sorry, no daiquiris. We drank ‘em all this morning. Bad planning. Oops. —Mgt.
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By the Numbers:
6 days!!!
Days 'til National Mango Day: 4
Days 'til Michigan’s Munger Potato Festival: 6
Increase in industrial production in the 2nd quarter of 2025: 1.1%
Percent of Americans polled by YouGov who believe the government should release documents related to the Epstein case: 79%
Percent of Americans polled by CNN who are satisfied with the amount of information the government has released on the Jeffrey Epstein case: 3%
Number of moments when Michelle Obama has thought about "quittin' my man": 0
Year Marilyn Monroe was crowned Miss California Artichoke Queen: 1947
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Weekend plans…
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CHEERS to the thrill of victory. Last month Mad King TACO's Justice Department amassed its combined forces and launched a frontal assault against their #1 enemy—with subpoenas, memos, threatening letters, pointed sticks, and flashing badges all over the damn place. Their target: Daily Kos (specifically including, we naturally assume, Cheers and Jeers), which had been rattling their cage and scaring the crap out of them and their anti-American activities so badly that the entire management team at DOJ couldn’t go to work without wearing diapers. So they thought they'd teach the world a lesson in neutering the forces of goodness and decency and pooties. According to our Keyboard Kingpin Markos, what happened next will shock you…
A few weeks ago, I told you that Donald Trump’s Department of Justice had launched an action against Daily Kos. I couldn’t say much then—and I still can’t. As part of the resolution, we’re required to keep the nature of the action confidential for one year. The flag of freedom still flies over humanity. But here’s what I can say now: The DOJ has backed off. They’ve withdrawn. We stood our ground, and we won.[…] A real threat is off our back. And more importantly, it proves something powerful: Even in this darkness, we can fight back and win.
The lesson here: never underestimate the power of digging a deep pit in front of the entrance to Daily Kos HQ, filling it with attack ferrets, covering it with leaves, and waiting patiently.
JEERS to rounding up the wrong bad guys. Mad King TACO's#1 priority when he ran for a second term—besides swaying to Ave Maria—was rolling up all the illegal-immigrant murderers and rapists in our country. Over the last six months he targeted those evildoers with pinpoint precision, using the massive tracking resources of federal law enforcement. And the Nobel Peace Prize-winning results are in:
Only 1.8% or 2,355 of the total convictions against those criminals had to do with sex offenses. Another 1,628, or 1.2%,were for sexual assault. The number of homicide convictions totaled just 729,or 0.58%, and the number of convicted kidnappers were 536, or 0.42%. […] The CBS analysis shows that "most of the documented infractions were traffic or immigration offenses."
Parking tickets, man. They'll get ya every time.
CHEERS to Democrats with the right stuff. Happy 104th birthday to the late John Glenn, one of the most durable human beings who ever lived. Not only was he the first American astronaut to orbit the planet, he later became the oldest person in space when he blasted off in the Shuttle Discovery at the age of 77.
President Obama had the honor of awarding Glenn his Medal of Freedom.
I don’t plan to have a whole lot etched on my Billystone after I die, but one thing you'll definitely read on it will be, "John Glenn Was My Freakin' Senator." Probably with an exclamation point—more if the engraver gives me a volume discount.
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CHEERS to one of South Dakota's biggest moral compasses. Disproving the theory that only the good die young, World War II hero (35 combat missions as a B-24 pilot), former Senator and Democratic presidential contender George McGovern—whose gravestone lists his first accomplishment as humanitarian—made it to 90, and would’ve been 103 tomorrow.
One of the good guys.
If he'd been elected in '72, the Vietnam War would've ended sooner, progressive values would've sunk their roots deeper into the American consciousness, and the integrity of the office of the President would've held fast. Instead we re-elected a corrupt, paranoid, scheming, power-obsessed Republican loon who ended up trashing the office of the presidency. Thank god we learned our lesson from that experience, huh.
CHEERS to home vegetation. Look. It’s the middle of summer, everything’s reruns, and the networks are basically just a weekend banquet of fighting shows, game shows, news shows, dating shows, and cop shows. So take your pick and God bless.
The dreaded Boris Johnson hole at the British Open has dashed many hopes.
The most popular movies and streamers are all reviewed here at Rotten Tomatoes. The Major League Baseball schedule is here. The WNBA All-Star Game is tomorrow night at 8:30 on ABC. And even if you don't give a caddie's p'tootey about golf, chances are you'll take an occasional cursory look at the leader board for the 154th British Open (7am tomorrow and Sunday on NBC), happening at Northern Ireland’s Royal Portrush, home to the dreaded kidney pudding traps and lakes of flaming bangers and mash.
Or, if you simply prefer brain torture, take your pick of these fine Sunday morning lineups, during which the Republican cultists will spout bullshit conspiracy theories unchallenged, while the Democrats will instantly be shut down because their reliance on facts and common sense might offend sensitive viewers:
Now here's your Sunday morning lineup:
If they’re looking at the Sunday shows? Yup. Meet the Press: TBA This Week: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D); Rep. Tim Burchett (Fascist-TN). Face the Nation: Secretary of Destroying the Department of Commerce Howard Lunatic; Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT). CNN's State of the Union: Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); former Rep,. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX); rep. Tim Burchett (Fascist-TN). Fox Fascism Sunday: Reps. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Dave McCormick (Fascist-PA).
Happy viewing!
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 18, 2015
JEERS to knowing you can't spell "No Rational Arguments" without NRA. When a major study comes out of Harvard, it's always worth taking a peek. Their latest is not going to make the gun manufacturers happy:
A new study, however, throws cold water on the idea that a well-armed populace deters criminals or prevents murders. Instead, higher ownership of guns in a state is linked to more firearm robberies, more firearm assaults and more homicide in general. … They found no evidence that states with more households with guns led to timid criminals. In fact, firearm assaults were 6.8 times more common in states with the most guns versus states with the least.
The reaction is pretty much what you'd expect. Gun-control advocates are currently reading the report carefully at their various headquarters. The NRA is currently reading the report through their scopes at the gun range.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to today’s big eggscitement. Happy National Caviar Day! I'm sure you're itching this evening, as I am, to send the butler to the walk-in refrigerator to dip into your resplendent reservoir of roe. But before you do, make sure he's not gonna f*ck it up:
Fine caviar should never be served with or stored in metal because of oxidation which can impart a metal flavour to the berries (yes, that what each little egg is properly called). Serve caviar very cold and nestled inside another bowl or container that holds ice to keep it fresh and cool. Choose your brand wisely. You know the old saying: "Caviar Emptor." Choose servers made of glass, bone, wood or plastic. If you want to go by tradition, try mother-of-pearl or gold. While it’s tempting to overdo it, try not to as eating more than two ounces or two spoons of caviar is considered a social faux pas.
And no matter what, fellow Kossacks, never, ever spill any caviar on your Manolo Blanhiks. They kick people out of country clubs for less.
Have a great weekend. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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