Let’s Check the DK Ukraine Support Toteboard
As we do every couple of weeks, let’s pop in and see how the Daily Kos relief fund is holding up for the Ukrainian civilians (and animals) affected by Russia’s daily acts of terrorism and war crimes, now slumping toward their eighth month. As of this morning, you’ve contributed over $15k more since we last checked, funds that go directly to providing food, medical care, housing, education, financial aid, and animal rescue efforts:
$2,752,440.14
If you'd like to support the five chosen groups—the World Central Kitchen, AmeriCares, the International Rescue Committee, Razom for Ukraine, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare—click here and ActBlue will help you take care of the rest.
As always, thanks for your continued support for Ukraine, and your continued middle fingers for Putin and his parade of drunk, arthritic orcs.
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Note: A reminder that the life of a refrigerated cheesecake is five days, after which it must be given a Viking funeral and gently pushed out to sea aboard a pontoon funeral pyre. The more you know…
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By the Numbers:
4 days!!!
Days 'til Jimmy Carter's 98th birthday: 4
Days 'til the Powder Keg Beer & Chili Festival in Exeter, New Hampshire: 4
Percent of Americans polled by ABC News/Washington Post who say they believe Democrats do a better job handling climate change, versus 31% for Republicans: 54%
Estimated amount in pandemic unemployment benefits that was likely stolen by fraudsters who used the Social Security numbers of dead people and prisoners to claim the aid, according to the Labor Department's inspector general: $45.6 billion
Number of judges Trump and Biden, respectively, had confirmed 20 months into their presidencies: 69 / 83
Age of Google as of today: 24
Age of Oscar winner Louise Fletcher ("Nurse Ratched") when she died over the weekend: 88
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Oh fer…..
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JEERS to the dicks in the dock. A historic trial begins today involving five of the worst human beings in modern American history. Yup, we're talkin' Oath Keepers, the swarm of ragtag, heavily-armed (and armored) anarchists who keep posters of shirtless Steve Bannon taped to the ceiling above their bed and store a month's worth of emergency Armageddon survival rations in their beards. If it was up to me, I would've designated these dangerous nitwits a terrorist organization—which they most certainly are—and given them 24 hours to disband or end up in Gitmo. But this is a start:
Elmer Stewart Rhodes and a coterie of his Oath Keepers cohorts will go to trial [today] for seditious conspiracy—and a host of other charges—tied to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Stewart Rhodes shot his own eye out because he thought it was collaborating with the feds. (It wasn’t.)
The trial begins Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., not far from where prosecutors are expected to tell jurors that Rhodes and co-defendants Thomas Caldwell, Kenneth Harrelson, Kelly Meggs, and Jessica Watkins arrived more than a year ago, intent on forcing Congress to stop the process of certifying the results of the 2020 election.
A seditious conspiracy charge, upon conviction, carries a 20-year maximum prison sentence. Rhodes, Watkins, Harrelson, Caldwell, and Meggs are facing multiple charges in addition to this one. The trial is expected to last four to five weeks.
May the best prosecution win.
CHEERS to today's edition of Up Is Down, Black Is White, And Nothing Makes Any Damn Sense Anymore. Courtesy of NBC News:
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Saturday that she would be willing to campaign for Democrats as she criticized her party's acceptance of candidates who deny the results of the 2020 election.
“Yes,” Cheney, of Wyoming, said simply when asked whether she’d be willing to stump for Democrats—the first time she has said so explicitly.
This has been today's edition of Up Is Down, Black Is White, And Nothing Makes Any Damn Sense Anymore.
CHEERS to the Founding Rabble Rouser. Happy birthday to scrappy Samuel Adams—second cousin to fellow hothead John—born 300 years ago today. His message in a nutshell: "Tyranny bad! Freedom good!"
Adams’s contributions to the independence movement were many and varied.
Ironic fun fact: Adams failed as a brewer.
During the 1760s and 1770s he frequently wrote polemical articles for the Boston newspapers, and he recruited talented younger men—Josiah Quincy, Joseph Warren, and his second cousin John Adams, among others—into the Patriot cause.
It was Samuel Adams who conceived of the Boston Committee of Correspondence and took a leading role in its formation and operations from 1772 through 1774. He was among those who planned and coordinated Boston’s resistance to the Tea Act, which climaxed in the famous Tea Party, and he later worked for the creation of the Continental Congress, helping propel it into supporting Massachusetts in the crisis.
And bonus points for this: “Beer and chocolate are two pleasures that should be enjoyed and savored." Pay your respects here. Then toast him with...I dunno, how about an ice-cold Sam Adams? (Or as he likes to say: "Slide me down a Mini Me.")
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to the beginning of the end. 241 years ago this week, in 1781 during the War of Independence, American troops backed by the French fleet Ronald Reagan riding a trained dolphin while brandishing a bazooka [Revision courtesy of TX Dept. of Ed. textbook approval committee], began their siege of Yorktown, Virginia. The British, trapped like rats in their stupid bright red uniforms, were forced to surrender, thus securing our freedom as an independent nation. Moral of the story: only fools go to war on a peninsula without jetpacks.
JEERS to a kick in the teeth of the country that looks like a boot. Congratulations, Italy. You just held free and fair elections in your lovely country of wine and pasta and ancient history. Good for you! The new governing coalition will be led by the country's first prime minister who is an actual Mama Mia! But what should we know about Giorgia Meloni? Who is she? What makes her tick? What are her thoughts, her dreams, her plans? We scoured the literature and here's the emerging profile:
Item #1 on her agenda: invade Ethiopia again, and get it right this time.
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Ten years ago in C&J: September 27, 2012
JEERS to nutballs in unexpected places. On Monday a judge struck down some yahoo's attempt to prevent President Obama from appearing on the state ballot on November 6th. The yahoo's contention: that Barack Obama isn't a natural born citizen. And where did this happen? Oklahoma? Arizona? The fetid swamp under Orly Taitz's wig? Nope—it happened in the bluer-than-blue state of Vermont. [Sigh] I swear, I can no longer predict with any certainty what's gonna be the last surviving organism on this planet: cockroaches or birthers. Or is that redundant?
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And just one more…
CHEERS to the wisdom of jbou. The popular member of our oddball Daily Kos community—one of several who departed during that awful purge of beloved humans in 2016—is gone but not forgotten. C&J promised to revisit his sharp George-Carlin-meets-Stephen-Wright zingers from time to time because, well, they will never cease to crack me up. And whaddya know, today is one of those days…
» As a kid, I'd get attention by saying inappropriate things and making fart noises. As an adult, I'm taller.
» The sad thing about Baby New Year is knowing he dies on his first birthday.
» Love is like the Force: it surrounds us, binds us, and people can use it to cut off your arms and legs and toss you into lava.
jbou
» I found $100 in my jeans. The kid in me says "Buy Nerf guns and candy", but the adult in me says "Buy weed, Nerf guns and candy."
» I ordered a plunger and a snare drum on Amazon so next time you order one and it recommends the other, that's me.
» This "judge people by the content of their character" thing is not working to my advantage.
» Autocorrect makes me feel like I'm friends with a nosy, incompetent know-it-all.
» Time heals all wounds. Unless you suffered a horrible disfigurement working in a clock factory. Then it's just a grim reminder.
» What we put into the Universe will always come back to us, so basically none of us can dodge the coming Fart Tidal Wave.
I think Einstein proved that last one mathematically. Sorry I contributed so heartily to your eventual demise, future generations.
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
The jury is in—Bill in Portland Maine is not a journalist.
—Wonkette
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