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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday [1]
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Date: 2025-07-23
“None of that stuff is gonna be touched.”
A quick above-the-fold reminder from The Lincoln Project as the Epstein scandal consumes the oxygen in the room. Trump and his MAGA stooges just broke their big, beautiful promise—which they made over and over and over, growing increasingly hostile whenever even a hint of skepticism pierced their cult’s bubble. Medicare and Medicaid have, indeed, been touched...
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May they reap the whirlwind in 2026.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Note: [Place cursor here to reveal an exclusive secret life-altering message of a sensitive nature. If no message pops up, it means someone beat you to it.]
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By the Numbers:
7 days!!!
Days 'til World Nature Conservation Day: 5
Days 'til the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland: 7
Percent of U.S. adults polled by CBS News who disapprove of the job Mad King TACO is doing to bring down inflation: 64%
Percent in the same poll who disapprove of his tariffs: 60%
Percent who disapprove of his immigration actions: 56%
Number of above-ground pools linked to the deaths of nine children over the last 20 years that are being recalled: 5 million
Number of firearms linked to the deaths of thousands of children over the last 20 years that are being recalled: 0
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Mid-week Rapture Index: 182 (including 5 volcanoes and 1 more inmate who escaped from the asylum). Soul Protection Factor 12 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.
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Puppy Pic of the Day: The next phase of understanding our best friends begins…
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CHEERS to order in the court. Remember that time when Congress pulled all the funding for Planned Parenthood, which does a helluva lot more than provide abortion services for family planning? Remember how all the menfolk who had just granted themselves massive tax breaks for the next ten years laughed with glee at how they'd also just threatened the health of countless women? Boy, that was something. But today it's a different story. Not total vindication for Planned Parenthood, but also not a handful of mud:
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston granted a preliminary injunction Monday that, for now, blocks the government from cutting Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood member organizations that either don’t provide abortion care or didn’t meet a threshold of at least $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in a given year. […] Still funded as of this morning. Planned Parenthood argued that allowing the provision to take effect would have devastating consequences nationwide, including increased rates of undiagnosed and untreated sexually transmitted diseases and cancer. “With no reason other than plain animus, the law will prevent Planned Parenthood Members from providing vital—indeed, lifesaving—care to more than one million patients,” they wrote. “This statute is unconstitutional and will inflict irreparable harm on Planned Parenthood Members and their patients."
Republicans responded to the ruling by beating rocks with sticks while shouting "Og! Og!" (As usual, they quickly got distracted and moved on to the picking-fleas-out-of-their-colleagues'-fur portion of their day.)
CHEERS to today's happy fun game! Hey, here's a competition the whole family can participate in, and it only takes a few seconds. All you have to do is guess which cluster of states contain the fittest and un-fittest cities in America, as determined by the latest report by the American College of Sports Medicine and Elevance Health Foundation. Ready? Let's play!
Cluster #1: Virginia Washington, D.C. Washington State California Colorado Cluster#2: Oklahoma Texas Nevada Tennessee Kansas
If you guessed that Cluster #1 has the fittest cities in the country, and Cluster #2 doesn't, congratulations. Depending on where you live, you win either a home treadmill with a year's supply of Gatorade or a jumbo bag of pork rinds taped to a BarcaLounger.
CHEERS to a good man to have on Lincoln's team. On July 23, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the larger-than-life general who helped beat back the Trump crowd's traitorous ancestors by winning the Civil War (even though he fainted at the sight of blood—really) and then went on to spend a rocky, cronies-run-amok eight years in the White House, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y. at 63. Today we appreciate him for this nugget (again, from the book Rating the Presidents):
He kept his own religious values and practice to himself. In the larger view for the country, he believed in a strict separation of church and state, stating in his seventh annual message to Congress: In terms of appearance, our 18th president was straight out of central casting. "As this will be the last annual message which I shall have the honor of transmitting to Congress before my successor is chosen, I will repeat or recapitulate the questions which I deem of vital importance which may be legislated upon and settled at this session. [...] Declare church and state forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres; and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation."
Go pay your respects here. But don’t leave him any cigars—they’re what killed him. Perhaps toss up a nice salad.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to nabbing the #1 gangsta. 91 years ago this week, in 1934, John Dillinger was gunned down after watching a movie at Chicago's Biograph Theatre. His final words: "Agghh!! The pain!! It hurts!!" Same thing people say today when they see anything directed by Kirk Cameron.
JEERS to today’s edition of Bye, Asshole. Courtesy of LGBTQ Nation:
Edwin Feulner...who rose to prominence as a co-founder of the influential Christian Nationalist right-wing think-tank The Heritage Foundation died on Friday. He was 83. The far-right policy group has long advocated against LGBTQ+ rights, including bans on marriage equality, LGBTQ+ military service members, trans service members, adoption by gay and same-sex parents, gender-affirming care for trans youth, and advocating for “conversion therapy” and draconian bans on LGBTQ+ content in libraries. […] The group gained renewed prominence in 2024 with their policy recommendations for a second Trump administration, called Project 2025, a nearly-thousand-page far-right conservative wish list that has been implemented with an army of appointees—many recommended by Heritage—at every level in every department of the federal government.
This has been today’s edition of Bye, Asshole.
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 23, 2015
JEERS to the latest pasty face on the dartboard. Yesterday Governor Mike Huckabee Rick Perry Chris Christie Scott Walker John Kasich became the 16th Republican to declare his candidacy for president. (Just four more GOP announcements and we all get a free round of putt-putt golf.) Here are his fun facts:
Age: 63
Home state: Ohio
Billionaire benefactors: Um…he's workin' on that.
Central campaign theme: I'm governor of the swingiest swing state in all of Swingy Land.
Voter base: Republicans with swing-state fixations?
John Kasich fun fact: During a speech in 2011, he flew into a rage over getting pulled over by a police officer whom he called "idiot" several times. Just the kind of temperament we need from the guy who would control the red button marked "Don't Get Mad, Get Nukular."
Kasich says he plans to offer the nation a style of governing called "compassionate conservatism." Because that worked out so well the last time.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to coming in like a lion. Woo hoo! My zodiac sign—Leo—just came roaring in. You know who's a Leo? President Obama. Neil Armstrong and 35 other astronauts. Robert Redford. Madonna. The Far Side creator Gary Larson. Loni Anderson. Steve Martin. Stanley Kubrick. Andy Warhol. And what do we all have in common? Oh we hate to brag…
The Leo Woman is glamorous and regal. She isn't complicated—in fact she's more up-front and honest. She revels in the spotlight and often finds herself the center of attention. No matter how happy she is in her personal life, a Leo woman needs more. That usually means a career or, in some cases, an involvement in social or community affairs that showcase her creative interests and organizational skills. "Blah blah blah blah..."
"Knock it off, Frank." The Leo Man [is] good-looking and personable and possess a swaggering grace that makes [him] attractive to women. They are friendly and good-natured, although they have a tendency to sulk. They have a strong ego and can seem preoccupied with their own concerns at times. Image is important to these men, and they take great care in cultivating just the right one for themselves.
…but brag we shall. Meow.
Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial Do you think cilantro tastes like Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool algae? You're not alone. —Caroline C. Boyle
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