(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-06 Oh! More Things I Know… » Former President Donald J. Trump is a convicted felon. » Since conservative white men seem to be committing the vast majority of domestic terrorism in this country, we should deport them all until we find out what the hell is going on. » When our galaxy collides with another one in four billion years, it'll make a coconut-butt sound that cracks up all the other galaxies. » Drivers: you look silly wearing a life-protecting seat belt in your car while you’re texting and driving. Also what I know: if this is true, it’s big. » Everybody calm down. Mrs. Alito is only flying the flag upside down this morning because she broke a nail. » The election results from Mexico and India are encouraging. The election results from Britain next month will be jolly good. » Whenever I sign my name to anything, I use a separate pen for each individual letter. Then I hand the pens out to random people on the street and thank them for their support. If they then want a selfie with me I say fine but it’ll cost you one pen. » Energy companies will never transport wind energy by train because a single derailment could blow down an entire town. » The right-wing evangelical kooks who criminalize American doctors for performing abortions here have no problem with doctors performing abortions in Israel because they don’t want to rock the Rapture boat. » Attorney General Merrick Garland will never sing "Let the Eagle Soar." Vice President Kamala Harris will never shoot a lawyer in the face. President Biden will never throw a bottle of ketchup at a wall inside the White House. » The tenants in our apartment complex will be so excited when I tell them that my corpse flower is about to bloom! » And: Larry Johnson still insists he’s thiiiiis close to releasing that damning Michelle Obama "whitey tape" that he first told us he had possession of in—[checks notes]—2008. And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, June 6, 2024 Note: Chef Billy's secret for the perfect 1-minute omelet: Cook an omelet in one minute and eat it. Try it sometime. I think it’ll become a cherished family favorite in your home, too. - By the Numbers: 14 days!!! Days 'til the debate between Joe Biden and Convicted Felon: 21 Days 'til the Cranberry Blossom Festival in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin: 14 National median monthly apartment rent as of May, down 0.8% from a year ago: $1,404 Estimated number of votes cast in the India elections: 642 million Number of Trump's buddies who were just charged for their roles in the Wisconsin fake-elector scheme in 2020: 3 Asking price for Muhammad Ali's childhood home in Louisville: $1.5 million Percent of Americans who smoked cigarettes regularly in 1969 and today, respectively, according to Gallup polling: 40%, 11% - Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment: When, in future, you find yourself wondering, "Whatever happened to the Constitution?" you will want to go back and look at June 8, 2004. That was the day the attorney general of the United States—a.k.a. "the nation's top law enforcement officer"—refused to provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with his department's memos concerning torture. In order to justify torture, these memos declare that the president is bound by neither U.S. law nor international treaties. We have put ourselves on the same moral level as Saddam Hussein, the only difference being quantity. Quite literally, the president may as well wear a crown---forget that "no man is above the law" jazz. We used to talk about "the imperial presidency" under Nixon, but this is the real thing. —June, 2004 - Puppy Pic of the Day: Stable relationship… - CHEERS to famous firsts in flight. Here's some good news from mission control. Thanks to the groundwork laid—Layed? Lain? Lied? Layeth'd?—set down by President Barack Obama a lifetime ago, yesterday morning the Boeing Starliner capsule carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams soared into the heavens on top of an Atlas V rocket and will dock with the International Space Station. Take a look at the historic moment: - This was Boeing’s first humanoid-centric launch, and a welcome threat to anti-Semitic whackadoo Elon Musk and his SpaceX Crew Dragon shuttles. That’s one small step for humans, one giant clutch-pop for humankind. CHEERS to D-Day. The largest amphibious landing in history, during which American anti-fascist (“Antifa” for short) forces invaded Europe to restore representative democracy, happened 80 years ago today. Ten years ago, President Obama flew to France and delivered a moving tribute to the rapidly-dwindling number of veterans who waded ashore on that horrific yet awe-inspiring day: Lengthy applause rang out as the U.S. President said he was humbled by the presence of some of those veterans at the ceremony. "Here, we don't just commemorate victory, as proud of that victory as we are; we don't just honor sacrifice, as grateful as the world is; we come to remember why America and our allies gave so much for the survival of liberty at this moment of maximum peril," Obama said. Their story should remain "seared into the memory of a future world," he said, describing Omaha as "democracy's beachhead." President Obama and WWII veteran Kenneth (“Rock”) Merritt talk on Marine One after departing the 70th French-American Commemoration D-Day Ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, June 6, 2014. President Biden will be there today. He said, "It was here, on these shores, that the tide was turned in that common struggle for freedom. What more powerful manifestation of America's commitment to human freedom than the sight of wave after wave of young men boarding those boats to liberate people they'd never met?" And today President Biden will deliver remarks that will be just as moving as we consider the sad fact that there will likely be but a handful of living D-Day veterans, if any, when the 90th anniversary is marked in 2034. The Atlantic has an interactive feature that shows you various scenes from D-Day and, with a click of your mouse or a touch of your finger, what they look like now. It's pretty mind-blowing. True fact: to this day, George W. Bush is still a little confused as to why we went through all the trouble—after all, the intelligence was accurate, the threat was real, and there wasn't any oil there. Crazy. JEERS to life on planet Easy-Bake Oven. We know what's causing global warming and our vicious climate calamities. We know the havoc they're wreaking on us. We know how to stop it. The IEA now says we're not stopping it fast enough. The future damage, once easily preventable, is now literally baked in the cake. But for what it's worth, the global effort to go green continues to move along at a pace slightly above a sputter: Heymi Bahar, a senior energy analyst at the IEA and co-author of the report Cop28: Tripling Renewable Capacity Pledge, said: “There is a gap, but the gap is bridgeable.” This graphic is made from 100% bamboo fibers. Last year, there was a record increase in renewable capacity, amounting to about 560GW added in one year, a 64% increase on the new capacity added in 2022. Solar and wind are still cheaper than fossil fuels, and the IEA does not foresee that changing. There is plenty of solar manufacturing capacity, and supply issues with wind power components are being resolved. Some wind companies that had been in difficulty owing to high component prices were moving back to profitability, said Bahar. Some countries are moving faster than their national targets. Last year, China added more new renewable generation capacity than the rest of the world combined. “It was incredible,” said Bahar. “Everyone was very surprised. One of the reasons is that solar and wind are so much cheaper than coal.” Even Santa Claus is trying to help. Instead of giving coal out to bad little boys and girls, he’s switching to something much worse: bowls of beef stew from Mar-a-Lago. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta timelapse [📹 Jesse Sansom, AirscapeABQ]pic.twitter.com/d2pBucJe7A — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 4, 2024 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - JEERS to eye-rolling moments in history. 94 years ago this week, in 1930, The New York Times took a huge step forward in the civil rights movement. I do believe audible gasps were heard across Manhattan when the editors agreed to start capitalizing the 'N' in "Negro." So to refresh our collective memory: negro = old, unacceptable usage. Negro = new, acceptable usage. And we all lived happily ever after. CHEERS to the well-oiled wheels of justice. The trial of Hunter Biden continued yesterday under the watchful eye of a judge and jury. The prosecution did their thing. The defense did their thing. The witnesses swore to tell the truth. The spectators were respectful. Evidence was presented. Objections were noted and either sustained or overruled. And then court was adjourned for the day and everyone went home for supper, watched Wheel of Fortune, and turned in for the night. IT WAS ABSOLUTE BEDLAM, I TELL YOU!!! - Ten years ago in C&J: June 6, 2014 JEERS to today's boring correction. Earlier this week, the National Rifle Association took several Texas yahoos with NRA memberships to task for aggressively brandishing weapons inside restaurants and retail stores, calling them "weird" and "downright scary." They would like you to know that those same yahoos are now considered to be proud flag-waving American patriots whose colors don't run as they protect their freedoms from federal tyranny (and the occasional mugger). Why the change of heart? Mostly because the NRA quickly remembered that NRA members are weird and downright scary. - And just one more… CHEERS to self-critics from the great beyond. These words of Theodore Roosevelt’s were trotted out a lot by the left during the previous administration, and for good reason. The dude occupying the office was a narcissistic crybaby who made it dictatoriously-clear he would brook no criticism. Now we have a fact-based, thoughtful, well-read, experienced, and compassionate president at the helm. And Roosevelt’s 106-year-old words apply to our guy just as much. As a public service, C&J publishes our annual reminder... The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. True fact: Roosevelt once took a bullet to the chest and only sought medical treatment after he’d finished delivering his scheduled campaign speech. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. —Theodore Roosevelt And so we shall. Have a nice Thursday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today? - Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial “I’m sorry. I don’t agree with anything Bill in Portland Maine just said.” —Attorney General Merrick Garland - [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/6/2244745/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Thursday?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/