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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-07-29
>>> NINE <<< Days 'til Netroots Nation New Orleans
Here's a quick update on the 20th annual convention that got its start right here at li’l old Daily Kos:
► The convention agenda is here (Click on the dates near the top, under where you see "NN25 Agenda" for day-by-day info). There are more than 450 speakers lined up throughout the weekend in over 80 panels and 70 training sessions. If you can't be in New Orleans or aren't able to come for the whole event, there's a low-cost virtual option, and also day passes. Click here to get your ticket or day pass. ► Two legendary Netroots Nation events are back this year: Netroots After Dark Karaoke—sponsored by ActBlue—is Thursday the 7th from 8-11pm at Republic NOLA on Peters Street. And the Chairman's (Emeritus)—aka Adam B's—Pub Quiz XVIII is Friday the 8th at 6pm in the convention center for team trivia and merriment. August 7-9 in New Orleans ► Saturday night's NOLA-style closing party is called Netroots Nation: Two Decades Louder, A 20th Anniversary Celebration. It happens from 6-9 p.m. at Howling Wolf on Peters Street with live music from Grammy-nominated Mardi Gras Indian funk band Cha Wa, a performance from J'TA & Friends, A GoGo Experience by DC Vote, drag and burlesque entertainment, food trucks, free drinks and more. Insider Tip: Mention my name and they’ll throw you out, so best not to mention my name. ► The Anarchy 101 workshop has been canceled due to a lack of disorganization. (Lookin’ at you, Gary, with your “note cards” and “reserved seating chart.”) ► Netroots Nation weather forecast for New Orleans: Thursday: Partly sunny and humid with scattered thunderstorms. High 89. Friday: see Thursday Saturday: see Friday. ► Info on getting around via New Orleans’ public transit system is here. ► Follow Netroots Nation via BlueSky here (and at hashtag #NN25) and Facebook here.
And finally, a trip in the wayback machine to 2007, when Bill O’Reilly delivered “The Word” just before our second conference (in Chicago), which was still called Yearly Kos:
“There is not—and I’m including the Nazis and the Klan in here—there is not a more hateful group in the country than these Daily Kos people. … Hateful, hateful, hateful. The rhetoric that they use and the rhetoric that the Klan and the Nazis use are the same rhetoric. It’s hate. Everyone knows that.”
No, Bill. We just hate unrepentant sexual predators, pathological liars, bigots and racists. Say hello to them next time you look in the mirror.
Fair winds and following seas to everyone heading to NOLA for the big event. Don’t forget to tip your Pullman car porter when you arrive.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Note: To maximize your C&J experience to its fullest, please make sure I am financially comfortable for the rest of my life. Together, we can make a difference. —Mgt.
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By the Numbers:
2 days!!!
Days 'til National Watermelon Day: 5
Days 'til Sweet Corn Days in Estherville, Iowa: 2
Mad King TACO's approval rating in the latest Gallup poll, with only 29% approval from independents: 37%
Trump's approval among 18-29 year-olds in February and July, respectively, according to CBS polling: 55%, 29%
Amount spent in the U.S. on new vehicles in July, up 4.1% from July 2024: $49.8 billion
Current average U.S. hotel occupancy rate, down 2.6% year-over-year: 71%
Age of Chuck "Feels So Good" Mangione when he died last week: 84
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Puppy Pic of the Day: In flooded Texas…Saved!!!
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JEERS to Billeh's Really BIG Tuesday Tariff Update. Oh boy, oh boy. August 1, the day all the tariff deadlines kick in, is only three days away and the excitement is palpable. I would tell you what all the tariffs are, but I've just been handed a bulletin about changes to a different tariff deadline: after promising to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Day 1, then Day 14, then Day 30, then within 100 days, then "within the next 50 days," Mad King TACO has altered the big beautiful peace deal again:
President Donald Trump on Monday reduced to less than two weeks his deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to either reach a peace deal with Ukraine or face massive “secondary tariffs” on Moscow’s trade partners. Trump’s hand-drawn tariff clocks. Trump previously gave Putin a 50-day deadline, which was set to expire in early September. “I’m going to make a new deadline of about ...10 or 12 days from today,” Trump said in Scotland alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. … Trump said that he likely will formally announce the revision in the deadline “tonight or tomorrow."
Ten or twelve. Today or tomorrow. Fifteen percent or 100 percent or one thousand percent. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this guy ain't destined for the Decisiveness Hall of Fame. Or maybe he is. I bet we'll find out in the next random, changeable-on-a-whim period of time.
CHEERS to tossing a big-ass hat into the ring. Control of the U.S. Senate just became a more achievable goal, thanks to yesterday's decision by popular two-term North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. After praying to God and guesstimating what the Big Guy in the Sky would tell him to do, Cooper made it official—he's in it to win it:
Cooper, 68, is joining what is expected to be a competitive race to succeed Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who said he will not seek reelection. … In a video shared on X July 28, Cooper said that he “never really wanted to go to Washington," before adding: “But these are not ordinary times.” Needless to say, this role model for truth and the American way will make an excellent senator. Cooper served as the North Carolina governor from 2017 to2025, during which he expanded Medicaid coverage in the state, raised teacher pay and worked to address climate change. He previously served in the state’s legislature and as North Carolina’s attorney general.
His MAGA opponent will consist, as they all do, of a human-shaped mold, produced by Satan with a 3D printer, containing pudding-like globs of equal parts evil, dumb, and corrupt. Plus an extra-large mouth hole. They all have extra-large mouth holes.
CHEERS to the hockey mom-turned-hepcat. My, how time flies when you're griftin' your way to irrelevance. This week marks sixteen years since Sarah Palin officially stopped governin' in Alaska, having resigned after half a term because "only dead fish go with the flow" (a lie, but whatever). After giving her farewell speech, she padded off to pursue her new passion of putting money before public service, but not before beat poet William Shatner (still with us at 94) put her tweets into the proper context on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien:
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That was truly a crazy and surreal moment in time. Conan O'Brien actually hosted the Tonight Show???
P.S. I was reminded this week that 11 years ago Palin threw up the web site “SarahPalinChannel.com,” a subscription-only channel that was going to propel the half-term Alaska governor to new heights of power, influence, and (most important) fabulous riches. I checked and the site is now an online gambling portal presented in a language that's not English. I guess her content was worth exactly what people ended up not paying for it.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to the first ringy dingy. 111 years ago this week, in 1914, transcontinental telephone service began when someone in New York called someone in San Francisco. The conversation ended with the successful sale of a couple hundred bucks worth of term life insurance, a Thighmaster, and an extended warranty on a Model T. Smooth sales rep.
JEERS to cranial malfunctions. Oops. Proving once again that when one light goes out in a Republican's head they all go out, Senator “Dr.” John Kennedy froze up during a press conference last week. His handlers say he recovered after they switched him off and then switched him back on. He suffered no permanent damage and his aides say he remains a healthy, functional, racist evil shit with no redeeming qualities.
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 29, 2015
CHEERS to arriving back in the land of, according to some, his birth. After charming the people of Kenya and Ethiopia and giving their leaders a lot to think about, President Obama concluded his historic trip to sub-Saharan Africa yesterday. Among the serious business:
President Obama convened a meeting with the leaders of several East African nations and the African Union on Monday in an effort to address the worsening situation in South Sudan, even as he met with Ethiopia’s prime minister to discuss how to strengthen human rights and democratic institutions here. With no resolution in sight for the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, Obama brought together top officials from Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan and the A.U. to chart out a strategy in the event that the latest round of peace talks fail.
On the lighter side, the president got to see the skeleton of "Lucy," the 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of modern-day humans. Or as the head of the creationist museum calls her: "Jesus' favorite agent down at the local Hertz Rent-A-Dinosaur."
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And just one more…
JEERS to today’s weather. Here’s today’s weather, brought to you by Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, Occidental, and their political sycophants:
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For tomorrow’s weather, see today’s weather.
Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial “Bill in Portland Maine sounds like an unhinged, deranged person has gotten loose and is out on the street and may be a danger to himself and others.” —Scott Jennings
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