Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday January 24, 2025 · 4:16 PM PST

2025/01/24 · 16:16

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

Late Night Snark: Inmates Return to Run the Asylum Edition

"Well, ladies and gentlemen: it happened. Donald Trump is president again. I have an important announcement to make: for the next four years we get to live by airport rules: calories don’t count, and it's perfectly reasonable to have a vodka tonic at 8am."

—Stephen Colbert

"Trump's inauguration day falls on Martin Luther King Day. And if King were alive today I bet Trump would walk right up to him and say: 'Oh, snap! It's Ben Carson!'"

—Michael Che, SNL

"Former president Obama was there. George Bush seemed kind of there—definitely high. Even Mike Pence showed up, I guess to let the crowd finish the job. Only Michelle Obama seemed to have the consistent ethical stance of saying: when they go low, I stay the f*ck home."

—Jon Stewart

x
Back on the grind tomorrow
— The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) 2025-01-20T23:26:30.884Z

-

"A lot of people were talking about Melania's outfit. People weren't sure if she was there for the inauguration or to kill Indiana Jones."

—Jimmy Fallon

"After the pompadour and circumstance, Trump took out his Sharpie and signed a stack of executive orders—about a hundred of them that covered a variety of subjects, including renaming the Gulf of Mexico the 'Gulf of America,' renaming Mount Denali 'Mount McKinley,' and renaming Melania 'Ivanka.' "

—Jimmy Kimmel

"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg flew down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Donald Trump, and boy are his knees tired."

—Colin Jost, SNL

"When asked by a reporter yesterday if he would continue to sell products like the Trump meme coin that enriched him personally while in office, President Trump said, 'I don’t know much about it, other than I launched it.' Not a sentence you want to hear from a guy with the launch codes."

—Seth Meyers

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

726 votes Show Results

Who won the week?

Election integrity, as the Supreme Court refuses to hear a Montana case that would legitimize MAGA's "Independent State legislature" theory to rig and/or steal elections

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, for speaking truth to power at the inauguration in front of the brain-dead president and his Fascist oligarch entourage, who hated hearing Jesus's message of love and mercy

President Biden, for showing class during the transition, and setting a benchmark for effective presidential leadership and competence that won’t be matched for many years

The federal judges who are angrily speaking out against the dictator's blanket pardon of all Jan. 6 insurrectionists, including the ones who attacked police officers

The anti-MAGA patriots who turned out by the thousands to march in the anti-fascism People’s March

Danish European Parliament member Anders Vistisen, for his response to Trump’s plan to conquer Greenland: “Let me put it in words you might understand: Mister Trump, fuck off."

Federal judge (Reagan appointee) John Coughenour, for blocking the doddering dictator's executive order ending birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional”

Marriage equality in Thailand, as same-sex marriage ceremonies officially begin after being approved by the government

The kids down south who got a rare snow day to go sledding and make snowpeople

726 votes Vote Now!

Who won the week?

Election integrity, as the Supreme Court refuses to hear a Montana case that would legitimize MAGA's "Independent State legislature" theory to rig and/or steal elections

22 votes

489 votes

President Biden, for showing class during the transition, and setting a benchmark for effective presidential leadership and competence that won’t be matched for many years

47 votes

The federal judges who are angrily speaking out against the dictator's blanket pardon of all Jan. 6 insurrectionists, including the ones who attacked police officers

16 votes

The anti-MAGA patriots who turned out by the thousands to march in the anti-fascism People’s March

7 votes

Danish European Parliament member Anders Vistisen, for his response to Trump’s plan to conquer Greenland: “Let me put it in words you might understand: Mister Trump, fuck off."

62 votes

Federal judge (Reagan appointee) John Coughenour, for blocking the doddering dictator's executive order ending birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional”

54 votes

Marriage equality in Thailand, as same-sex marriage ceremonies officially begin after being approved by the government

4 votes

The kids down south who got a rare snow day to go sledding and make snowpeople

25 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday January 23, 2025 · 4:51 AM PST

2025/01/23 · 04:51

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

Life Lessons & Other Bon Mots from January Birthday Kids

“Speak truth to power. It’s the right thing to do! When Trump does something abhorrent, we’ve got to call it out, even when it's exhausting. I won re-election in my swing district even as I called out Trump and pushed for bold change, because voters knew I called out BS and fought for them.”

—Katie Porter

“Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.”

—Ben Franklin

“Butterflies are like women—we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane.”

—Betty White

"Becoming who we are is an ongoing process, and thank God—because where's the fun in waking up one day and deciding there's nowhere left to go?"

—Michelle Obama

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”

—J.R.R. Tolkien

"When we see you we see ourselves, and we see ourselves as intelligent and beautiful and proud. You turn on your television and the news comes on and you see us marching and peaceful, you see the peaceful civil disobedience, and you see the dogs and see the fire hoses, and we all know they cannot destroy us because we are there in the 23rd century."

—Martin Luther King, Jr., as quoted by the late Nichelle Nichols. Dr. King convinced Nichols to continue as Lt. Uhura on Star Trek after she’d told creator Gene Roddenberry she was leaving the show.

-

“A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest—at the command—of his head.” —FDR

"I've had heartaches, headaches, toothaches, earaches, and I've had a few pains in the ass, but I've survived to tell about it."

—Dolly Parton

"Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100-percent strong—economically, defensively and morally—we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens."

—Jackie Robinson

“Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.”

—Buzz Aldrin, still with us at 95

"Huffhrrrrr duhrtrr gurrrburr! Aqua Buddha loves horsey paste!"

—Rand Paul

To all of the above and those in our Daily Kos community who made another trip around the sun this month: happy birthday and many blessings on your camels.

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

491 votes Show Results

I'm renaming the Gulf of America. From now on it shall be known as the Gulf of Squirrely Land. Are you with me?

491 votes Vote Now!

I'm renaming the Gulf of America. From now on it shall be known as the Gulf of Squirrely Land. Are you with me?

Yes

187 votes

27 votes

Squeak

186 votes

Nut sure

91 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday January 22, 2025 · 4:51 AM PST

2025/01/22 · 04:51

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

We’ll Return to Our Blog After This Message

Via The Daily Show, a new service from Republicans designed for blue-staters in need. Message: they care...

GoF**kYou: the new crowdfunding site from Congressional Republicans pic.twitter.com/S4ICMu99du
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 14, 2025

To sign up, just complete the online form and send $1 million to Mar-a-Lago.

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

462 votes Show Results

Did you have "The president immediately jacks up the cost of prescription medications Americans need to stay alive" on your inauguration day Bingo card?

462 votes Vote Now!

Did you have "The president immediately jacks up the cost of prescription medications Americans need to stay alive" on your inauguration day Bingo card?

Yes

231 votes

213 votes

Not sure/No opinion

18 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday January 21, 2025 · 4:51 AM PST

2025/01/21 · 04:51

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

As Joe Rides Off Into the Sunset…

Instead of the Very Bad Man (VBM) who took over the job, we take a moment to leave Joe Biden's most important action items from his farewell address here at the top of today's C&J, where we know we'll always have them archived for future reference:

✎ Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families, and our very democracy from the abuse of power.

✎ [U] nless safeguards are in place, AI could spawn new threats to our rights, our way of life, to our privacy, how we work, and how we protect our nation. We must make sure AI is safe and trustworthy and good for all humankind.

✎ We need to get dark money that’s hidden funding behind too many campaigns’ contributions—we need to get it out of our politics.

✎ We need to enact an 18-year term limit and the strongest ethics reforms for our Supreme Court.

✎ We need to amend the Constitution to make clear that no president is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office. The president’s power is limited---it’s not absolute, and it shouldn’t be.

✎ And in a democracy, there’s another danger to the concentration of power and wealth. It erodes a sense of unity and common purpose. It causes distrust and division. Participating in our democracy becomes exhausting and even disillusioning, and people don’t feel like they have a fair shot. But we have to stay engaged in the process.

And free eggs and gas for everyone. He forgot that but I'm sure he meant to include it.

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

499 votes Show Results

Tennessee MAGA cultists are filing a bill to rename the Nashville airport after our current president. How does Convicted Felon International strike you?

499 votes Vote Now!

Tennessee MAGA cultists are filing a bill to rename the Nashville airport after our current president. How does Convicted Felon International strike you?

Love it

306 votes

Like it

48 votes

Meh

46 votes

Nah

99 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Monday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday January 20, 2025 · 4:50 AM PST

2025/01/20 · 04:50

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Once again we're thankful, and rather awestruck, by what he accomplished for Black America—and, consequently, all of America—in his way-too-short life. He was flawed, as all humans are. But he had that stubborn 'ol dream. And come hell or high water (or fire hoses or guns or nightsticks or jail time or whatever else the racists could throw at the movement, which they still do) he refused to shut up and sit down, or match violence with violence. Take note, all you insurrection-fomenting nitwits:

"When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring a real order of justice."

-

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

With LBJ at the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

"Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."

-

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”

-

"Morals can’t be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. The law cannot make an employer love me, but it can keep him from refusing to hire me because of the color my skin."

As fate would have it, King and I coexisted on this tiny blue speck in the middle of nowhere, if only for three-and-a-half years. The older I get the cooler that fact gets. So I’ve retroactively put it on my bucket list and crossed it off. Sue me.

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

720 votes Show Results

What final grade would you give Joe Biden for his four years as President of the United States?

720 votes Vote Now!

What final grade would you give Joe Biden for his four years as President of the United States?

A+

183 votes

A-

275 votes

B+

190 votes

B-

42 votes

C+

13 votes

C-

10 votes

1 vote

2 votes

Not sure/No opinion

4 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday January 17, 2025 · 4:14 PM PST

2025/01/17 · 16:14

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

Late Night Snark: Honk If You’re An Oligarchy Edition

“Trump is full of bigly ideas. Just in the past week he's proposed buying Greenland, taking Greenland, co-opting Canada, reclaiming the Panama Canal, and changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And then yesterday Uncle Scam announced his plan to create a new government agency to collect all those beautiful tariffs he wants to impose. He calls it the External revenue Service. Trump says the ERS will make other countries pay their fair share. And who knows more about paying your fair share than the billionaire who paid $750 in taxes in 2016 and again in 2017?”

—Jimmy Kimmel

"This Monday the three richest men in the history of mankind will attend the inauguration, where they will be seated together on the platform with Trump's cabinet nominees and elected officials. Sweet Jesus in a sky box, that is the most corrupt-appearing thing I have ever heard. If we’re gonna go complete Roman Empire then at least throw Denzel Washington in there.”

—Stephen Colbert

"An Arctic blast is about to hit the country and it could make Monday the coldest inauguration ceremony in 40 years. There's a real chance that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg's lips could freeze to Trump's butt."

—Jimmy Fallon (The shitshow will now be held indoors because of Trump’s delicate skin and fear of flying Arctic sharks.)

x
Trump: Okay, day one, no bad ideas. What are your ideas to --

Mel Gibson: NO MORE JEWS https://t.co/r8UL5TsVpo
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 16, 2025

-

“A military cannot function unless it’s staffed by a system based on pure merit, where only the most qualified people rise to the top. So says the next Secretary of Defense, who will run the most complicated, powerful, deadly organization the world has ever known, and whose only qualification is that Trump liked watching him sit on a couch on Saturday mornings.”

—The Daily Show anchor Jordan Klepper on Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing

"Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon criticized Elon Musk in an interview with an Italian newspaper last week. He told the newspaper that he would have Musk run out of the MAGA movement by inauguration day. 'Oh, he runs out on his own,' said his kids."

—Seth Meyers

And Jon Stewart on MAGA cultists in the House and Senate who want "strings attached" to emergency relief for California:

“Republicans appear to want to attach their I told you so’s as a condition of funding California’s disaster relief. What the fuck is wrong with you? Really, senator [Tommy Tuberville] from Alabama, the state near the bottom in math, reading and test scores? Next time you get hit by a hurricane, why don’t we have a little parent-teacher conference to say that if you got your scores up you would get the money? Or actually, let’s not do that, because you’ll get the money anyway—because we’re not psychos. [...]

“Yes, improvements can be made in leadership, in management, in design, in materials, in myriad ways. But sometimes fire fucks a tornado and makes a mockery of human infrastructure and our ability to dictate the terms of our existence on this planet. But the one thing it shouldn’t dictate is the cruelty that we would show to those in pain, just because we don’t think they consistently vote right.”

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

736 votes Show Results

Who won the week?

Environmental justice, as the Supreme Court nixes an appeal from the fossil fuel giants trying to dodge a lawsuit holding them liable over claims of deceptive marketing about the effect of greenhouse gases

The California firefighters and relief agencies working 24/7, and the nations (including Mexico, Canada and even Ukraine) sending their own firefighters to help

Rachel Maddow fans, as the MSNBC host moves to 5 nights a week for the first 100 days of the convicted felon's emperorship

President Biden: warns of evil oligarchs in farewell address; declares ERA "ratified"; finishes last week on the job with an enviable list of accomplishments; brokers Israel-Hamas cease fire

Senate Democrats who are giving Trump's vicious, lying cultist cabinet nominees a good grilling

Sky watchers, as Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) appears for the first time in 180,000 years (and it won't be back for another 600,000)

Norway, where 9 out of every 10 cars sold last year were electric

French sailor Charlie Dalin, for setting a new round-the-world record during the Vendee Globe race: 24,300 miles in 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes (beating the old record by 9 days)

Michelle Obama: Happy Birthday and excellent decision to skip Monday's installation of Elon Musk and whoever his orange-haired lapdog is

736 votes Vote Now!

Who won the week?

64 votes

The California firefighters and relief agencies working 24/7, and the nations (including Mexico, Canada and even Ukraine) sending their own firefighters to help

345 votes

Rachel Maddow fans, as the MSNBC host moves to 5 nights a week for the first 100 days of the convicted felon's emperorship

10 votes

President Biden: warns of evil oligarchs in farewell address; declares ERA "ratified"; finishes last week on the job with an enviable list of accomplishments; brokers Israel-Hamas cease fire

174 votes

Senate Democrats who are giving Trump's vicious, lying cultist cabinet nominees a good grilling

9 votes

Sky watchers, as Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) appears for the first time in 180,000 years (and it won't be back for another 600,000)

1 vote

Norway, where 9 out of every 10 cars sold last year were electric

14 votes

French sailor Charlie Dalin, for setting a new round-the-world record during the Vendee Globe race: 24,300 miles in 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes (beating the old record by 9 days)

4 votes

Michelle Obama: Happy Birthday and excellent decision to skip Monday's installation of Elon Musk and whoever his orange-haired lapdog is

115 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday January 16, 2025 · 4:50 AM PST

2025/01/16 · 04:50

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

An Announcement

In the interest of giving you a brief moment of respite from the nuttiness enveloping this crazy planet, this space contains no wildfires, conservadem handwringing, nimrod Republicans, voter suppression, climate change, Elon Musk belches, Nazis, convicted orange dotard felons, income inequality, earthquakes, Fox News gibberish, racism, J.D. Vance histrionics, concern trolling, intra-party squabbling, ocean acidification, slo-mo drug commercials, Proud Boys, Trump boys, fearmongering, LGBTQ-condemning evangelical grifters, worries over egg prices, asteroids hurtling straight for us, inbox-clogging money begs, mansplaining, effing MAGA hats, hate crimes, car trouble, foreclosures, wars on women, melting ice caps, invasions of Greenland, gerrymandering, Chuck Grassley fossilisms, mulligans, tar sands, truthers, skyrocketing tuition bills, droughts, floods or methane pockets.

Courtesy of the management. Stay as long as you like. We’ll deal with the asteroids tomorrow.

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

627 votes Show Results

How would you rate the job performance of Secretary of State Antony Blinken over his four years in the Biden administration?

627 votes Vote Now!

How would you rate the job performance of Secretary of State Antony Blinken over his four years in the Biden administration?

Excellent

297 votes

Good

241 votes

Fair

36 votes

Poor

28 votes

Not sure/No opinion

25 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday January 15, 2025 · 4:51 AM PST

2025/01/15 · 04:51

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

Oh! More Things I Know:

❧ Donald J. Trump is now and forever a convicted felon.

❧ I’m going to make it rich within minutes after unveiling my creation of the most valuable currency in America: Eggcoin.

❧ The accomplishments of the Biden administration piled up so fast that almost no one remembers how he eradicated windmill-noise cancer his first year in office.

❧ Democrats block Republican policy ideas because facts show they don't work. Republicans block Democratic policy ideas because facts show they do.

❧ So far in the new year I've been really good at writing 2024 instead of 2024.

Also what I know: Republicans are the #1 violators of their own billboards.

❧ Next Monday the oath of office will be interrupted when the president-elect stops Chief Justice Roberts mid-sentence to sway to Ave Maria for 40 minutes.

❧ When visitors from another planet arrive and offer to give GOP leaders a tour of their spaceship, Speaker Johnson and majority leader Thune will just have to figure out on their own that To Serve Man is a cookbook.

❧ Why was Secretary of State Antony Blinken so successful at negotiations? Two words: ”judo chop!"

❧ Coming soon to a GOP line of attack near you: voter fraud studies showing no voter fraud prove that voter fraud studies are rife with voter fraud study fraud.

❧ Kamala Harris will leave office having failed to partake in the time-honored vice presidential ritual of shooting a lawyer in the face while quail hunting.

❧ Trickle-down economics doesn’t lift all boats. It just floats the yachts.

❧ And, as with every previous year, the #1 phrase of 2025 will be: "I swear this is not from The Onion."

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

605 votes Show Results

How would you rate the job Deb Haaland has done as our Secretary of the Interior?

605 votes Vote Now!

How would you rate the job Deb Haaland has done as our Secretary of the Interior?

Excellent

464 votes

Good

94 votes

fair

4 votes

Poor

0 votes

Not sure/No opinion

43 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday January 14, 2025 · 4:50 AM PST

2025/01/14 · 04:50

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

Energize An Ally Tuesday

As soon as it became apparent that the California wildfires were going to be a disaster of epic proportions, I knew one thing: Chef Jose Andres and his World Central Kitchen would be on the ground keeping bellies full for the duration. Via email:

Our Relief Team was on the ground within hours of the fires igniting to provide immediate relief to first responders working around the clock and families forced to evacuate.

WCK teams quickly mobilized to shelters and first responder control centers to assess food and water needs. At the same time, we began coordinating with our food truck and restaurant partners to begin serving warm, nourishing meals. By the first night of our response we were providing hundreds of meals to people in need.

We have served tens of thousands of meals since first responding on Wednesday by working alongside our network of restaurant and food truck partners.

WCK is expanding meal distribution sites to serve communities impacted by the California fires. Our efforts include supporting first responder hubs to ensure firefighters have enough food and water to sustain their nonstop work.

If you'd like to provide some financial support as southern California braces for another round of gale-force winds that'll require an expansion of WCK’s relief efforts, the donation link is here. Many thanks.

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

554 votes Show Results

Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth wants to honor the Confederacy by renaming U.S. military bases after their generals. Should that disqualify him from the position?

554 votes Vote Now!

Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth wants to honor the Confederacy by renaming U.S. military bases after their generals. Should that disqualify him from the position?

Yes

539 votes

7 votes

Not sure/No opinion

8 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Monday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday January 13, 2025 · 4:53 AM PST

2025/01/13 · 04:53

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

Encore, Encore

Trackdown was a TV series that ran from 1957-59, and took place in the fictional Texas town of Porter following the Civil War. The great Robert Culp plays Ranger and de facto Sheriff Hoby Gilman. I'd never heard of the show until five years ago, when someone unearthed this clip from a 1958 episode (“The End of the World”) in which a con artist named—wait for it—Trump rides into town and tries to—wait for it—bamboozle the citizens into buying into a—wait for it—big beautiful wall to protect them from—wait for it—non-existent threats. And here we are again...

YouTube Video

You can watch the full episode here. My favorite line, now and forever: “You’re under arrest, Trump.”

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

643 votes Show Results

Since the Trump administration will be a security risk to democratic nations, should our allies carefully limit how much sensitive intelligence they share with us?

643 votes Vote Now!

Since the Trump administration will be a security risk to democratic nations, should our allies carefully limit how much sensitive intelligence they share with us?

Yes

632 votes

3 votes

Not sure/No opinion

8 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday January 10, 2025 · 4:14 PM PST

2025/01/10 · 16:14

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

Late Night Snark: Go Home, 2025, You're Already Drunk Edition

“Canada can’t become part of America. That’s the country I pretend to be from when I’m traveling abroad.”

—The Daily Show host Desi Lydic, on Trump's concept of a plan to annex our northern neighbors' territory

“To handle Greenland, Trump will send the army. And to deal with the huge canal, Trump will send his proctologist.”

—Jimmy Fallon

"Ultimately, the certification ceremony that we all look forward to every four years went off without a hitch. Because it's amazing how smoothly our democracy can work when you don’t act like a little bitch when you lose."

—Jon Stewart, on the Jan. 6 House vote to certify the election results

When you put in the same karaoke song as someone you don't know and you both go up to sing it.
—The Daily Show

-

"It was reported that the House Ethics Committee has voted to release its report on sexual misconduct charges against Matt Gaetz. Gaetz says he's just glad his girlfriend is too young to read the news."

—Michael Che, SNL

“The Bear. The Penguin. Baby Reindeer. These are not just things found in RFK’s freezer, these are TV shows nominated tonight.”

—Host Nikki Glaser at the Golden Globe Awards

"The first severe case of bird flu in the U.S. has just been confirmed. But don't worry, I'm sure this deadly animal disease will be handled perfectly by the Road Kill King."

—Colin Jost, SNL

And now, our feature presentation...

Poll

766 votes Show Results

Who won the week?

Karma, as District Judge Lewis Liman finds Rudy Giuliani in contempt for not paying what he owes to the Georgia election workers he defamed

The Affordable Care Act, as 24 million Americans (including 3.2 million first-timers) enroll for ACA coverage for 2025, up 9% from 2024 and a new record high

The firefighters, first responders, and neighbors-helping-neighbors doing everything they can to protect residents and animals from the blazes in the Los Angeles area

President Biden: first POTUS in 20+ yrs to expand Soc. Security benefits; sets record for most land/waters conserved by a president; halts new drilling on both coasts and Gulf; visits NOLA and CA; 256k new jobs in Dec.

Democracy in Virginia, as special election wins for JJ Singh and Kannan Srinivasan leave Democrats in control of both chambers of the legislature

The leaders of Panama, Canada, Mexico, and Greenland/Denmark, for telling draft-dodger Trump that he can take his Hitlerian fantasy of world domination and shove it

The Medal of Freedom winners, including breakers of MAGA microbrains George Soros and Hillary Clinton

Karma, as Judge Merchan's sentencing hearing officially cements Trump's status as a convicted felon

The U.S. supply chain, as East and Gulf Coast port operators reach an agreement with dockworkers union, averting major strike

766 votes Vote Now!

Who won the week?

Karma, as District Judge Lewis Liman finds Rudy Giuliani in contempt for not paying what he owes to the Georgia election workers he defamed

10 votes

The Affordable Care Act, as 24 million Americans (including 3.2 million first-timers) enroll for ACA coverage for 2025, up 9% from 2024 and a new record high

17 votes

The firefighters, first responders, and neighbors-helping-neighbors doing everything they can to protect residents and animals from the blazes in the Los Angeles area

344 votes

149 votes

Democracy in Virginia, as special election wins for JJ Singh and Kannan Srinivasan leave Democrats in control of both chambers of the legislature

20 votes

The leaders of Panama, Canada, Mexico, and Greenland/Denmark, for telling draft-dodger Trump that he can take his Hitlerian fantasy of world domination and shove it

104 votes

The Medal of Freedom winners, including breakers of MAGA microbrains George Soros and Hillary Clinton

13 votes

Karma, as Judge Merchan's sentencing hearing officially cements Trump's status as a convicted felon

102 votes

The U.S. supply chain, as East and Gulf Coast port operators reach an agreement with dockworkers union, averting major strike

7 votes

Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

Bill in Portland Maine

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday January 09, 2025 · 4:49 AM PST

2025/01/09 · 04:49

Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.

From my teens through my adulthood, President Jimmy Carter was a constant presence and role model in my life. I’ve spilled a lot of ink here in C&J related to his presidency (he more than deserved a second term) and his philanthropy-on-steroids post-presidency. But today, as he receives his state funeral in D.C. and then burial in Plains, I have just five words here above the fold:

Farewell, Jimmy. And thank you.

Poll

529 votes Show Results

Should our country change its name to the United Oligarchs of America to reflect our new form of government?

529 votes Vote Now!

Should our country change its name to the United Oligarchs of America to reflect our new form of government?

Yes

311 votes

183 votes

Not sure/No opinion

35 votes

Newer
Older

RSS