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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [1]

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Date: 2025-09-11

Pity the Poor Pouting Plutocrats

This bit of online mischief from the Mamdani campaign is delightful in its mockery of the freak-out among the hoity-toity elites who fear that commoners may benefit as the New York City mayoral election rolls toward its expected conclusion. Narration by The Gilded Age’s Morgan Spector:

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We hear the Vanderbilts are so upset that yesterday one of them missed a putt.

And now, our feature presentation...

Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, September 11, 2025

Note: According to the internet, today is National Make Your Bed Day. Fortunately, according to me, today is also Eh, Maybe Tomorrow Day.

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By the Numbers:

7 days!!!

Days 'til Christmas in Venezuela: 20

Days 'til Ohio's Oktoberfest Zinzinnati: 7

Expected rise in consumer prices when CPI is released today: 3%

Cost of the basic model iPhone 17: $799

Number of recommendations in RFK Jr.'s latest "MAHA" report: 128

Number of them that will actually be enforced by HHS: 0

Percent chance that Cracker Barrel has decided to scrap a plan to update its ratty, dingy restaurants because they're afraid the MAGA cult will be mad: 100%

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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:

You gotta admit, prejudice is as American as apple pie. I hear tell these Mexicans keep crossing the border so they can get on welfare and get healthcare and all these goodies. Funny, we don’t have goodies in Texas, but they keep moving here to work anyway. Bush was planning to take a stab at resolving the problem, particularly on the Mexican border, with a guest-worker program. But the House Republicans had a hissy fit, claimed it was an “amnesty program” and demanded harsher measures, militarization of the border, a big fence. Not gonna work, y’all. Build a 50-foot fence, and they’ll build a 51-foot ladder. Hire Halliburton with a no-bid contract to build the fence, and it will hire illegal workers to do it. —July, 2006

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Puppy Pic of the Day: Meanwhile, in Toronto…

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JEERS to That Day. Today we revisit for the 24th damn time one of those dates in our nation's history which will live in infamy. But at least the guy who orchestrated it finally met his fate in the raid of the century (thanks, President Obama), as did his second-in-command (thanks, President Biden) and a new tower stands at Ground Zero like a middle-finger salute to al Qaeda. Time to dig up the 2001 C&J time capsule and remind ourselves of some truths that all the right-wing spinners in the world will never be able to whitewash:

» Most of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, yet the country paid no price for producing and harboring terrorists. » The 8/6/01 PDB said: Bin Laden determined to Strike in U.S. » Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. Yet the Bush administration falsely connected 9/11 to Iraq to justify its invasion. » Sitting in a classroom for seven minutes after being told "America is under attack" was a poor display of leadership by the President of the United States. NYC’s middle finger salute to al Qaeda and Taliban. » Donald Trump did not see thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the fall of the towers. He did not pay hundreds of workers out of his own pocket and he did not help clear the rubble. But he did brag about how Trump Tower was now the tallest building in Manhattan after the towers came down. » We will never be able to put into words the scope of the heroism that first responders displayed, nor the cruelty of the Republican party that turned their backs on them when they needed medical care for Ground Zero-related health issues because, despite their promises, the air was not fine. » Rudy Giuliani built his anti-terrorism command center in the World Trade Center against the advice of experts who knew better. » Giuliani was not "at the site as often, if not more, than most of the workers." » The Republicans' go-to spiritual adviser, Jerry Falwell, Sr. really said: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way…I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen." Falwell lives in Hell now, decked out in feather boas and strapped to a rotating disco ball for eternity. » Republicans were the first to propagandize 9/11 in political campaign ads, despite insisting no one should ever do that. » Osama bin Laden was not caught by Bush dead or alive. He continued making videos and plotting more attacks until President Obama snatched him from his Pakistan porn palace in 2011.

I sometimes wonder how bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers reacted when they found out the 72 virgins they met in the afterlife had orders from Allah to beat them with shoes for eternity. We'll never know. But I hope it was a Kodak moment.

CHEERS to news that doesn’t involve bombs, ICE raids, sex scandals, or Mike Johnson telling us what he’s been told right before he backtracks by telling us that moments ago he was told something else about what he’d originally been told so skip the first part. Some good news, for a change…

Universal child care New Mexico will become the first state in the country to begin offering free universal child care, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced. … Starting in November, the state will offer child care, or reimbursement for child care costs, to every family in the state, regardless of income. Lujan Grisham’s office said the program’s expansion will save families in the state $12,000 per child per year on average. Women's health Philanthropist Melinda French Gates has announced anew partnership that will commit $100 million to accelerate women's health research. The partnership between Pivotal, a group of organizations founded by French Gates, and Wellcome Leap, a nonprofit organization, will focus on areas of women's health with the highest rates of mortality, including autoimmune disease, mental health and cardiovascular health. Vaccine skepticism skepticism Only one in four Americans believe that recent recommendations for fewer vaccines from President Donald Trump's administration were based on scientific evidence and facts, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. … Asked if they were worried that in the future children wouldn't get the vaccines they need, 48% of respondents said they were concerned, compared to 38% who said they were not.

And this just in: Covid has dropped out of the list of leading causes of death among Americans. It's been displaced with a scourge much, much worse: RFK Jr.

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BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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CHEERS to great moments in music. On September 11, 1962, The Beatles recorded their first singles for EMI, including "Love Me Do." Or as it's called today: the British Hairdressers' National Anthem.

JEERS to today's edition of You Idiot, What the F*ck is Wrong With You??? Via NBC News:

Ed Sheeran says he is moving stateside. The English pop singer broke the news that he is moving to the U.S. on "The 2 Johnnies Podcast" on Sunday.

This has been today's edition of You Idiot, What the F*ck is Wrong With You???

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Ten years ago in C&J: September 11, 2015

JEERS to a gathering of loons…but not the kind that real loons would ever want to be associated with. Yesterday the tea party faithful—meaning old people with nothing better to do than wander the countryside looking for free snacks—held a pro-war rally at the U.S. Capitol. The money quote courtesy of future Secretary of Energy Sarah Palin, who reminds us every day that we underestimated the instability of her brain back in '08 by a factor of a bajillion:

"Only in an Orwellian Obama world full of sparkly fairy dust blown from atop his unicorn as he’s peeking through a pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty."

But I'll admit this was among the more successful tea party rallies. The politicians who spoke only confused passages from the Constitution and Declaration of Independence sixteen times—a new low.

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And just one more…

CHEERS to a bright spot on an otherwise infamous day. Be sure to take a moment today to face Berkeley, California and shout (as required by law), ”Happy Birthday, kos!”

Birthday boy Kos laying intellectual waste to Chuck Todd’s whataboutism back in the day.

Yes indeed, our malevolent benevolent kingpin, troll slayer, gate crasher, MSNBC guest, and blogging pioneer Markos Moulitsas Zuniga completes another revolution around the sun, and we wish him many blessings on his camels. On behalf of the C&J community, I got him the usual gifts: a new star pin for his Che beret (they tarnish so fast—drives me nuts), a new pair of "I brake for AOC" mud flaps, and a renewal of his subscription to Popular Hispanic Hippie Commie Pinko Socialist Libturd Moonbat Vegetarian Election Stealing Cyclists Monthly.

It's the least we could do. So that's what we did.

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 "We cannot understand the true nature of Cheers and Jeers unless we splash in the kiddie pool deeply, even if the answer is total obliteration of my consciousness." —Elon Musk

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