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And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Monday, February 23, 2026
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5 days!!!
By the Numbers:
Days 'til the next nationwide No Kings protests: 33
Days 'til the Maryland Home & Garden Show in Timonium: 5
Americans polled by YouGov who approve of the Supreme Court's decision striking down the Mad King's "emergency" tariffs, versus 24% who do not: 60%
Percent who believe the Mad King's tariffs made things more expensive for them: 66%
Percent of the penguins on Heard Island who approve of the SCOTUS decision: 96%
Factor by which Americans currently oppose ICE's Gestapo tactics: 2-to-1
Percent chance that Pope Leo XIV declined the Mad King's invitation to partake in his hedonistic 250th birthday festivities in D.C., and will instead spend the day with migrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa: 100%
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Another example of the perils of letting your puppy choose his own collar…
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CHEERS to shooting yourself in the grotesquely-swollen foot. As you might have heard by now, the Supreme Court—as expected, if we're being honest—took Mad King Rottinghand's "emergency" tariffs, crushed them in a compactor, lit them on fire, loaded them into a catapult, and launched them into the sun, where they disappeared with a barely-audible poof. Moments later, the 79-year-old manbaby threw a major hissy fit—again, totally expected—during which he called the six justices of the majority every name in the book, after which he insulted their kids, parents, ethnic heritage, integrity, and even items his staff found while rooting through their garbage. That might be a good idea, according to GOP strategist Susan del Percio on MSNOW:
"I'm just reminded of the old saying, you never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
Congrats on your win, kiddos.
So if you fast forward it to 2026, it's why would he pick this fight with the Supreme Court when there's so many other cases in front of it?
And frankly, I think it gives the Supreme Court now more chance to, more freedom, to feel less beholden to Donald Trump because this is upsetting. This upsets all nine of them. No one likes to see the president do this."
Meanwhile, as Trump tries to redeem his signature policy with tiny-portioned offerings from the children's tariff menu, businesses and We the People are demanding our money back, since—say it with me—tariffs are taxes on Americans. Flail on, little man. Flail on.
JEERS to the American people. You fools. You careless rubes. You bulbaceous spork-o-trons. You…oh, let's just say it: you America-hating Americans, all 349 million of you! Thanks to your complete and willful inability to carefully grasp and balance on a knife's edge the micro- and macro-economic subtleties of supply and demand as clearly outlined in the Ph.D.-level textbooks you were supposed to have memorized when you were pursuing your advanced degrees before you ended up selling steel-belted radials down at the tire store next to the mini-mart, you have once again turned America's mighty engine of capitalistic superiority into a fetid mound of stale, crusty pudding:
U.S. growth slowed more than expected near the end of 2025 as the government shutdown impacted spending and investment, while a key inflation metric showed high prices are still a factor for the economy, according to data released Friday.
It’s okay, folks. Our Treasury Secretary’s million-dollar Polygrip smile will save us. Truly it will.
Gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of just 1.4%, according to the Commerce Department, well below the Dow Jones estimate for a 2.5% gain.
Consumer spending increased at a slower pace for the period while government spending tumbled sharply in a quarter marked by the record-length shutdown. … For the full year in 2025, the U.S. economy grew at a 2.2% pace, down from the 2.8% increase in 2024.
May God have mercy on your souls.
CHEERS to Massachusetts liberals. Ted Kennedy was born 94 years ago (yesterday) and it goes without saying that we on the left still miss him with vigah. Here’s some of our favorite classic Ted talk from 2007: lambasting Republicans for turning down the first increase in the minimum wage in ten years. (Two years later it was raised to $7.25 an hour...a laughable sum today.) I love the routine: like a seasoned baseball player he steps up, knocks the dirt off his shoes, goes through his warm-up moves, gets the nod from awestruck newbie senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and then…Thwack! Off he goes. I will never tire of hearing Ted in righteous-bellow mode…
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Pay your respects here. Today in the C&J cafe: Boston cream pies and keep ‘em comin’.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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JEERS to really crappy odds. On February 23, 1836, three thousand Mexicans attacked 182 Texans at The Alamo. By this account, it was intense:
Brandishing his assault rifle, Six-star General Donald Trump and his second-in-command, Colonel Ronald Reagan, took turns picking off the attackers as Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz loaded and fired the two functional cannons.
Only known photo of Reagan helping save the Alamo.
After Democrats fled in panic, Randy Fine and members of the House Freedom Caucus arrived in the nick of time to save the day. The surrender ceremony was conducted on a battleship, followed by a ticker tape parade featuring all the tanks and missile launchers in the glorious American freedom arsenal.
That's why today San Antonio is the capitol of the United States and God hates libturd moonbats.
Um, Texas school board textbook committee? I think we need to have a little chat.
CHEERS to watching heroic feats of athleticism from the comfort of my La-Z-Boy. The Winter Olympic Games wrapped up yesterday with a classy closing ceremony by this year’s Mambo Italiana hosts. Among the highlights for the 232-member team USA:
Alysa Liu came out of retirement and won the gold in figure skating and the first U.S. medal in the event in two decades … the women's hockey team won the gold, thanks to Megan Keller's winning goal in overtime … the men’s team also defeated Canada (their first gold since 1980), putting Mark Carney’s government at risk of collapse ... Alex Ferreira won Gold in the men's Freeski Halfpipe … Mikaela Shiffrin broke an 8-year Olympic drought and took the gold in the women's slalom …
In lieu of medals, the winners got a big bowl of spaghetti.
Jordan Stolz: a gold in both the men's 500-meter and 1,000-meter speed skating … Elizabeth Lemley took the gold in the Women's Moguls Freestyle Skiing event … gold medals to the USA figure skating team … Breezy Johnson took the gold in women's alpine skiing (a resourceful Albanian with rocket shoes won the gold in the uphill event) … and, unlike Russia in 2014, the Italians were fully competent in the basics of indoor plumbing.
Final U.S. medal tally: 12 gold, 12 silver, 9 bronze. Thanks for the show, Milano and Cortina. Up next: the summer games in Los Angeles, which start in 872 days. I hear ICE is already licking its chops.
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Twenty years ago in C&J: February 23, 2006
JEERS to Port au Preznit. For god's sake, Mr. Bush, there are just so many ways you can scramble the rational part of my brain before it shuts down (that's your goal, I'm sure). The latest: the president vigorously defends turning our ports over to the United Arab Emirates, but later claims he didn’t know a thing about it. If utter cluelessness qualified as a high crime or misdemeanor, this guy would be breaking large rocks into small ones at Leavenworth.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to rendering Rachel Maddow speechless. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it's a wonder to behold. Seventeen years ago this week, despised Louisiana governor, failed presidential nominee and creepy exorcism advocate Bobby Jindal loped into a southern foyer scented with jasmine and gave his famous "Welcome to Mayberry" response to President Obama's address to Congress. The ensuing rhetorical disaster, during which, among other things, he invoked the government response to Katrina as an example of why Republicans should be trusted more than Democrats, provided an unforgettable moment in mass pundit shock…
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Some years back Jindal had a brief moment of lucidity when he called the GOP "The stupid party." Little did we know back then that he apparently meant it as a compliment.
Have a tolerable Monday. 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 will live in infamy as one of the biggest assholes in all of American history, and Lord knows we’ve had our fair share of gaping, festering, calloused assholes in our time."
—Moe Davis
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