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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-07-24
Oh! More Things I Know… ❀ It's another day ending in y, and that means it's another day that the federal government-hating, state's-rights-humping red staters will be happily accepting a disproportionately large share of federal tax dollars distributed from blue-state taxpayers while simultaneously labeling them commies, socialists, thugs, deadbeats, groomers, and welfare cheats. ❀ I don't stomp on bugs anymore. I just apologize to 'em for what we've done to their planet and toss 'em a pizza crust. ❀ I have mixed feelings about taking strong positions. ❀ Today the president will divert attention from his pedophilia scandal by changing the subject to, in order: taking away George Clooney’s citizenship, moving our monetary system over to the “ketchup standard,” and renaming all our country’s plant species after Confederate officers. Also what I know: Hawaii is not sending their best. ❀ I've submitted my name to Pope Leo XIV for sainthood after performing the miracle of getting through the plastic packaging surrounding my new laptop mouse without having to call 911 afterward. ❀ If you ever find yourself getting a second opinion from Dr. Ronny Jackson, there’s one thing you must follow it up with: a third. ❀ Cleaning up after a major solar-power disaster mostly involves hosing bird shit off one of the panels on your roof. ❀ One difference between liberals and conservatives is, liberals correct their mistakes to keep up with reality while conservatives correct their reality to keep up with their mistakes. ❀ A stopped clock that's on military time is only right once a day. ❀ Throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn’t as much fun when you can see the parents off in the distance scowling at you. ❀ And one for our visiting Q-Anon trolls: "Palmolive releases chemtrails while you do dishes. You're soaking in it now." And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, July 24, 2025
Note: Just a heads-up that there will be no C&J on Monday for disciplinary reasons. Back Tuesday with a retraction, an apology, a mea culpa, and...regrets? I'll have a few. But then again, too few to mention. —Mgt.
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By the Numbers:
6 days!!!
Days 'til Lasagna Day: 5
Days 'til Vintage Farming Days in Lynden, Washington: 6
Decline in GM's profits during the 2nd quarter: 35%
Expected hit GM expects to take from Trump's tariffs this year: $5 billion
Percent of Americans polled by Strength In Numbers/Verasight who believe America is on the wrong track: 58%
Percent of San Francisco residents polled by The San Francisco Chronicle who approve of Mayor Daniel Lurie: 73%
Water temperature off the coast of Portland, Maine: 61 F
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
Here's what we do. We run Bill Moyers for president. I am serious as a stroke about this. It's simple, cheap and effective, and it will move the entire spectrum of political discussion in this country. Moyers is the only public figure who can take the entire discussion and shove it toward moral clarity just by being there. … One time in the Johnson years, LBJ called on Moyers to say the blessing at a dinner. "SPEAK UP, Bill," Lyndon roared. "I can't hear you." Moyers replied, "I wasn't speaking to you, sir." That's the point of a run by Moyers: He doesn't change to whom he is speaking just because some president is yelling at him. —July, 2006 (RIP Bill Moyers. 1934-2025)
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Puppy Pic of the Day: L'il mistake…
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CHEERS and JEERS to that empty-chamber feeling. To avoid the still-mushrooming Trump-Epstein pedophilia cover-up scandal, House Speaker Mike Johnson did the pious Christian thing and shut down the House early for summer vacation, and it will remain closed until September. The good news: we don’t have to endure the MAGA leadership's gaslighting and finger-pointing in the service of pretending like it actually wants to get things done. The bad news: as Democrats meet their constituents in districts both blue and red, Johnson's team will be enjoying surf and sand and yachting adventures in between whining/complaining sessions on Fox News, after which they'll return to Washington to complain about strapping young bucks and welfare queens sinking into chronic laziness because of their unlimited access to vaults full of taxpayer money that keep them living high off the hog with their fancy refrigerators and microwave ovens. They call it their "August vacation." We prefer the more accurate "seventh-month extension of their January 2025 vacation."
CHEERS to Rx-efunds. Hoy, crap, ladies and gentlemen. The drug companies are gonna be sending us so many checks we’re gonna get bored with all piles of cash. But don’t take my word for it. Listen to the most powerful man in the world who, we add without a moment of hesitancy, possesses the world’s greatest brain:
x Trump: This is somebody nobody else can do. We will get the drug prices down… 1000% 600% 500% 1500%. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable. — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T01:26:29.860Z
It’s all part of the exciting new Republican plan known as “The sicker you are, the richer you’ll be.” (Not to be confused with the official slogan of the right-wing billionaire class.)
CHEERS to compassionate conservatism. Thirty-five years ago this week, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was a passionate believer in it. He didn't want anything to stand between his son and the White House.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to great moments in standing around fake display kitchens. Sixty-six years ago today, on July 24, 1959, Richard Nixon—then Ike's veep—engaged in a verbal fisticuffs with Nikita Khrushchev on the merits of capitalism versus communism, an event that became known as the Kitchen Debate.”
I chose a small image so you wouldn’t have to see Dick’s face up close.
It was a civilized discussion (said the Russki: "Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? Many things you've shown us are interesting but they are not needed in life.") until the Soviet leader got pissed and gave one of Nixon's aides a nipplectomy with a cheese grater. Khrushchev later paid to have them replaced, after which the aide sent him a brief note: "Thanks for the mammaries."
JEERS to hard life lessons. The heavy metal world is in mourning this week with news that the guy who many say started it all, Ozzy Osbourne, died on Tuesday. He certainly wasn't for everyone, and the evangelical whackadoos had a field day admonishing their young'uns to stay away from that Satanic troublemaker and his brain-controlling lyrics. He leaves behind a string of classic metal/rock anthems, millions of faithful fans, a loving family, and a valuable lesson: Don't bite the head off a bat during a concert in 1982 or you'll regret it 43 years later.
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 24, 2015
CHEERS to heading back home. Before C&J posts tomorrow evening, Barack Hussein Obama will have strapped on Jetpack One and become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Kenya. It's especially noteworthy, since Kenya is where his paternal family roots are, um, rooted. As for his agenda…
Obama is scheduled to arrive in Kenya on Friday, the first stop on his two-nation African tour in which he will also visit Ethiopia. In Kenya, Obama will address a meeting on international entrepreneurship and hold talks with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who has said trade and security are key topics. The current president will never get a reception like this in any country outside the U.S. Ever. The United States and Kenya are allies in the fight against al-Shabab, the Islamic militant group based in neighboring Somalia that has staged numerous attacks in Kenya, including the mass killing of students at Garissa in April and the 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall.
During his stopover, he'll also attend a ribbon-cutting to open the new Jade Helm-15 Kenya-to-Texas transatlantic invasion tunnel. He'll return Sunday with memories, souvenirs and, secretly stashed in the cargo hold, his hand-picked communist Marxist Muslim socialist death-panel successor who will take over in the January 20, 2017 coup d'tat. Breitbart.com says the new guy has laser eyes!
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And just one more…
CHEERS and JEERS to floaties in my not-so-limpid pools of blue. As we mentioned on Tuesday, over the last month or so my big, beautiful eyes have become a playground for floaties, flashes and flickers. So we headed off to our trusted optometrist so he could literally look into the matter. After acing the eye chart test, the color-blindness test, the peripheral vision test, the glaucoma test, and the algebra test, my pupils were dilated and Polaroids were taken of my retina (back of the eye). What happened next will SHOCK you!
Eyes.
Here's what happened next: my optometrist informed me that I'm getting old and, long story short (but not as short as if I hadn't bothered to include "long story short"), the gel inside my eyeball is starting to shrink. And when the gel in the eyeball—I'm told to think of it as the white of a raw egg—shrinks, little bits of protein can separate from the back of the eye and enjoy their first taste of true freedom in their little gelatinous wonder world.
In my case, it's not serious enough to warrant surgery; the floaties should "mostly" settle down in a bit. That makes me happy, because I'm told that retinal detachment surgery involves a melon baller, a trip through a car wash, several months encased in carbonite,149 stitches, and only two minutes of anesthesia. On the down side, I'll be dealing with floaties for the duration of my existence on Earth, which I'm told is the third planet from our sun and is populated by morons.
In conclusion: President Trump’s name is all over the Epstein files and they MUST BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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 "As part of his ongoing innovation agenda, this fall in the United States, Bill in Portland Maine plans to launch an offering made with kiddie pool algae to expand our Trademark Coca-Cola product range." —Coca-Cola
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