Cheers and Jeers: Monday

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Since March 2020 you had one job. ONE JOB. Get individuals to remain protected till a vaccine was able to distribute. You failed miserably. 375,000 individuals are lifeless since you couldn’t persuade your military of morons to put on a masks… which is odd contemplating how simply they put on a hood. […]

You misplaced. It occurs each 4 years to somebody. Recover from it. Go away the White Home and take these god-awful youngsters and that sourpuss spouse with you. If potential take Cruz and Hawley too.

Keep out of politics. Return to constructing shitty inns or bankrupting casinos. Spend the remainder of your life writing a ebook or two that nobody will ever learn. You are actually merely a web page in historical past… a web page most of us will rip out and use as rest room paper.

So please. Simply go away. If we by no means have one other orange President once more, will probably be too quickly. I imply it. Actually.

Read the whole glorious piece here. I feel they need to get to learn that at Joe’s inauguration.

And now, our characteristic presentation…

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Cheers and Jeers for Monday, January 18, 2021

Word: Vital message for Joe Biden: if, in the course of the oath of workplace, Chief Justice Roberts provides “So assist me god…now whisper your ATM PIN quantity in my ear,” don’t do it. It is a entice!  —A. Ackbar, C&J Workplace of Skullduggery Detection

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By the Numbers:

Days ’til inauguration day: 2!!!

Trump’s approval score in Pew’s ultimate ballot of America‘s first Traitor-in-Chief: 29%

% in the identical ballot who price Trump’s and Biden’s “conduct because the election” nearly as good or wonderful: 23%, 64%

Present common approval of U.S. management amongst 60 nations surveyed by Gallup over the last 12 months of Trump’s presidency: 22%

12 months when an LGBTQ group (PFLAG) was featured in a Presidential Inaugural Parade for the primary time: 2013

First 12 months that the president’s inauguration (McKinley’s) was filmed: 1897

12 months that Dwight Eisenhower turned the one president to be lassoed (by Monte Montana) throughout an inaugural parade: 1953

D.C. Inauguration Day Forecast

Sunny with 42% humidity and a lightweight, patriotic breeze.

Excessive: 43.  Low: the Republican get together’s approval score.

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Pet Pic of the Day: Sensible canine who’re beneath indictment let their lawyers speak for them…

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CHEERS to the altering of the gatekeepers. With management of the Senate wrested away from each the Republican get together and the violent insurrectionists (pardon the redundancy), Democrats now get to regulate every thing from the temperature within the cloak room (72F) to the scale of the spit wads that may be thwooped at Josh Hawley’s head (at least 3 inches in diameter). That features the coveted committee chairmanships, which entitle the gavel-wielder immense energy to set agendas, launch investigations, approve payments, and provides the inexperienced gentle to presidential nominees. These aren’t in stone but, however this is who will probably be getting “Chairman” added to their official title plaques when Crew D takes over this week:

Agriculture/Vitamin/Forestry—Debbie Stabenow (MI)

Appropriations—Patrick Leahy (VT)

Armed Companies—Jack Reed (RI)

Banking—Sherrod Brown (OH)

Price range—Bernie Sanders (VT)

Vitality/Pure Assets—Joe Manchin (WV)

Finance—Ron Wyden (OR)

International Relations—Bob Menendez (NJ)

Well being & Schooling—Patty Murray (WA)

Homeland Safety—Gary Peters (MI)

Intelligence—Mark Warner (VA)

Judiciary—Dick Durbin (IL)

Guidelines/Administration—Amy Klobuchar (MN)

Veterans’ Affairs—Jon Tester (MT)

First thought: all white and never practically sufficient girls.  Second thought: however at the least they’re Democrats.  Third thought: When Dick Durbin turns into chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he’ll have the facility to inform Lindsey Graham to take a seat down and shut up. Fourth thought: Dick, you fortunate duck.

JEERS to 1 sorry-ass presidency. It’s going to be equal elements apathy, stupidity, and incompetence that outline the Trump administration’s legacy, and Exhibit A can be his dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic. Worldwide there are actually over 95 million circumstances—1 / 4 of them within the U.S.  Listed below are this week’s numbers for the C&J historic report—the ultimate verify earlier than Joe Biden grabs the disaster by the reins and lets science and customary sense take over—courtesy of the most depressing tote board in the world, as our demise toll now exceeds the inhabitants of America’s Forty seventh-largest metropolis Tulsa, Oklahoma:

6 months in the past: 3.8 million confirmed circumstances. 143,000 deaths.

3 months in the past: 8.3 million confirmed circumstances. 224,000 deaths

1 month in the past: 18 million confirmed circumstances. 325,000 deaths

This morning: 25 million confirmed circumstances. 407,000 deaths

And in different information, I learn that the pandemic has singlehandedly lopped 13 months off the average American’s lifespan.  If we’ve a alternative which of them, I would like my 13 to be Trump’s first month in workplace after which all of 2020. Thx.

JEERS to turning a deaf ear. On this date 60 years in the past, throughout his farewell address in 1961, President Eisenhower warned us all towards the rise of the “military-industrial advanced.”  (Though we’re fast to level out that Ike himself helped contribute to it, so his fingers aren’t precisely clear. However, hey, c’mon—he did D-Day.)  Yearly, as his warning seems ever extra prescient, this speech ranks proper up there with Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Deal with or FDR’s 4 Freedoms speech:

“Within the councils of presidency, we should guard towards the acquisition of unwarranted affect, whether or not sought or unsought, by the military-industrial advanced.

We mustn’t ever let the burden of this mixture endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We must always take nothing as a right. Solely an alert and educated citizenry can compel the right meshing of the massive industrial and navy equipment of protection with our peaceable strategies and targets, in order that safety and liberty could prosper collectively.”

Let’s examine how that is figuring out: We did let the burden of this mixture endanger our liberties and democratic processes. We did take it as a right. And we the ignorant and apathetic citizenry did not compel the right meshing of the massive industrial and navy equipment of protection with our peaceable strategies and targets, in order that safety and liberty are actually combating like rabid canine. Apart from that…Thumbs-up!

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JEERS to a shitty strategy to deal with your protectors. As in the event that they wanted anything to tarnish their reputations as monsters, the president’s son-in-law Jared and not-so-secret crush Ivanka are getting scowls for the way in which they handled their Secret Service element, apparently denying them use of any of their six loos at their DC mansion within the Kalorama neighborhood, close to the place the Obamas reside. The company lastly rented a little bit $3k-a-month rat gap for his or her outpost, however this is how convoluted it got earlier than that:

[O]ne legislation enforcement official aware of the state of affairs telling the Publish, “It is the primary time I ever heard of a Secret Service element having to go to those extremes to discover a toilet.”

The company spent months making an attempt to safe services, together with a porta-potty that was eliminated after neighbors complained, in line with the Publish.

Then…brokers started to make use of the loos in a garage-turned-command submit at Obama’s home utilized by his safety element. That choice got here to an finish when the Obama element banned the Trump/Kushner element after a Secret Service supervisor from the latter “left an disagreeable mess” in that rest room at a date previous to fall 2017, the paper reported, citing an individual briefed on the occasion.

Brokers then started to drive to Vice President Mike Pence’s home on the Naval Observatory a couple of mile away to make use of a rest room there, or used services at native eating places, the legislation enforcement officers instructed the Publish.

We hear Melania is so upset she’s began a brand new public service hashtag: #PeeBest

CHEERS to Synonym Fever!  Comfortable 242nd Birthday to Peter Roget, who printed the primary Thesaurus in 1852 (a decades-long endeavor undertaken partly to assist him take care of bouts of melancholy).  Curious if there was a synonym for thesaurus, I went to—the place else?—Thesaurus.com to search out out.  Their record is BOGUS, and let me inform you for the umpteenth time why:

A thesaurus is a glossary, however a glossary isn’t essentially a thesaurus.

A thesaurus is a language reference ebook, however a language reference ebook isn’t essentially a thesaurus.

A thesaurus is a storehouse of phrases and a treasury of phrases and even a thesaurus, however neither a storehouse of phrases nor a treasury of phrases nor a thesaurus is essentially a thesaurus.

A thesaurus is an onomasticon, however an onomasticon isn’t essentially a thesaurus.

Now you understand why the one factor my mother and father made certain by no means to expire of was earplugs.

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Ten years in the past in C&J: January 18, 2011

CHEERS to blessed silence.  Should you’ve gotten used to tuning in faithfully on daily basis at midday to listen to the newest from the Tremendous Docs on the situation of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and the opposite taking pictures victims nonetheless hospitalized, immediately your routine can be disrupted.  Everyone seems to be doing so effectively and progressing so shortly that the press gaggles are now not crucial.  Docs at College Medical Heart will re-emerge when Giffords is discharged, which they are saying could possibly be days, not weeks.  Boy, when individuals say they transfer to Arizona as a result of the dry warmth is therapeutic, they ain’t kiddin’.

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And only one extra…

CHEERS to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. As soon as once more we’re grateful, and fairly awestruck, by what he achieved for black America—and, consequently, all of America—in his way-too-short life. He was flawed, as all people are. However he had that cussed ‘ol dream. And are available hell or excessive water (or hearth hoses or weapons or nightsticks or jail time or no matter else the bigots may throw on the motion) he refused to close up and sit down, or match violence with violence. Take word, all you insurrectionist nitwits:

“When evil males plot, good males should plan. When evil males burn and bomb, good males should construct and bind. When evil males shout ugly phrases of hatred, good males should commit themselves to the glories of affection. The place evil males would search to perpetuate an unjust established order, good males should search to carry an actual order of justice.”

“Non-violence is a strong and simply weapon which cuts with out wounding and ennobles the person who wields it. It’s a sword that heals.”

As destiny would have it, King and I coexisted on this tiny blue speck in the course of nowhere, if just for three-and-a-half years. The older I get the cooler that truth will get. So I’m retroactively placing it on my bucket record. Sue me.

Have a tolerable Monday. Flooring’s open…What are you cheering and jeering about immediately?

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