(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: 2024-09-26 The True Face of “Sinister Niceness” The Daily Show reveals that Tim Walz is the monster we all knew that slow-mo, grainy footage, apocalyptic sound effects, and hardcore photoshopping could turn him into…. - Ironically, that was nicely done. And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, September 26, 2024 Note: Breaking news from the C&J newsroom: due to a clerical error, the breaking news we just broke five seconds ago is old news and therefore no longer breaking. But it did break back when it broke, and by god we were on it back then with full team coverage that SHOULD’VE WON AN EMMY. Anyway. We now return you to our regularly-scheduled episode of Blossom already in progress... - By the Numbers: 4 days!!! Days 'til election day: 40 Days 'til the Atlantic Antic Street Festival in Brooklyn: 3 Kamala Harris's lead over Trump among likely young voters, according to the Harvard Youth Poll: 31 points Percent of young Democratic voters who say they're definitely voting this year, versus 60 percent of Republican young voters: 74% Minimum number of active and retired Teamsters who have now endorsed Kamala Harris, including more than 500,000 members in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada: 1.5 million Number of economists and former high-ranking U.S. economic policymakers who endorsed Kamala Harris on Monday: 400 Percent chance that Coca Cola's permanent "Spiced" flavor is being discontinued cuz no one was buying it: 100% - Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment: Jimmy Carter needs no defense from me. The man is enough to give Christianity a good name. Following the Christian doctrine of works as well as faith, he has done immeasurable good in the world, and no mean-spirited attack from a petty pundit [like Bob Novak] can diminish him. The only reason I bother to note Novak's nastiness is because it left such a bad taste with me. I was traveling on the West Coast that day, and all through the airports and in cabs and hotels, people were saying to one another with real pleasure: "Jimmy Carter got the Nobel Peace Prize. Isn't that nice?" A genuine piece of good news in a world with little of it lately. Even the right-wing Wall Street Journal managed a negative editorial on what it feels are the inadequacies of Carter's approach without demeaning the man or his accomplishments. The implicit criticism of President Bush in the Nobel Committee's selection (made explicit by the chairman) should not detract from this recognition of how long and how hard Jimmy Carter has worked for peace and human rights. I think he is an invaluable asset to the nation. Like Nelson Mandela, he has unique stature, and wherever he goes to help with an election or to try to work out a problem, he is welcomed and listened to. In this season when the dogs of pre-emptive war are running loose, it is good to hear Carter pointing out the obvious: that we would be better off working with the rest of the world to disarm Saddam Hussein rather than annihilating his whole country. —October 2002 Jimmy turns 100 on Tuesday. - Puppy Pic of the Day: Gatekeeper fail… - CHEERS to money matters. I don’t expect Americans to be doing Broadway dance numbers in the street over the state of our economy. But the fact is, things are doing well now—we dug ourselves out of the pandemic hole faster than any other industrialized nation, and we're the current economic envy of the world. But the Conference Board's latest consumer confidence index reveals that We The People are now as whiny-complainy as we were three years ago, and such misplaced and ill-informed pessimism should embarrass us all. Yesterday Kamala Harris donned her green eyeshades and gave an economic pep talk to the nation from The Economic Club in Pittsburgh, and her threading of a very small needle required her to be part optimist, part realist, and all centrist: Harris proposed an “America Forward” agenda that calls for tax credits to boost investment and create industrial jobs, along with investments in artificial intelligence, science and energy development, as well as supporting American-made products. Versus Trump’s plan: “More cardboard boxes.” "This plan will cost approximately $100 billion and will be paid for by a portion of the proceeds of international tax reform, which seeks to prevent a global race to the bottom and to discourage inversions, outsourcing, or international tax strategies designed by corporations to avoid paying their fair share to the United States," the Harris campaign said in a fact sheet. Harris also called for cutting red tape to build in the U.S. and endorsed eliminating "unnecessary" college degree requirements for various federal jobs, mirroring a policy Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro enacted. “I promise you I will be pragmatic in my approach,” Harris told a tightly packed crowd here. “Because I believe we shouldn’t be constrained by ideology and should instead seek practical solutions to problems.” Nothing, though, about dropping money from helicopters. Maybe next speech. JEERS to previews of coming attractions. With the news that Florida Judge and MAGA cultist Aileen Cannon will be handling the trial of the guy who stalked the 45th president at Mar-a-Lago ("Home of America's Strongest Bleach Vapors"), here's how we can expect things to play out in the courtroom: Bailiff: Next defendant on the docket is Ryan Routh, who is charged with… Judge Cannon: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! The man is guilty! Take him out and string him up by his thumbs this instant! Bailiff: Um…okay. Next on the docket is the shuffling of the papers in the classified documents case against Donald J. Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith is representing the prosecution, and… Judge: I'm sorry, there simply hasn't been enough time for paper shuffling on the part of the defense. I'm ordering a twenty-month continuance. We'll meet back here whenever. Court adjourned. Methinks someone in a black robe is getting an extra slice of yummy chocolate cake poolside tonight. CHEERS to welcome visitors. Following his sober-but-inspiring speech at the United Nations yesterday, President Zelenskyy of Ukraine travels to Washington, D.C. today, where he’ll meet with President Biden. They’ll discuss the terrible conditions his country is enduring. The president will listen as his fellow democracy-centric ally describes the deplorable tactics being deployed by the thugs hellbent on seizing power by any means necessary. There will be talk about the effect the conflict is having on the civilian population, and how the future is uncertain because of the sheer robotic cruelty that has become the hallmark of the tyrants, who want to weaken the freedom-loving government and bend it to their will. And then, when they ‘re done talking about the conservatives on the Supreme Court, they’ll discuss what to do about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x That one time a great horned owl took a child's stickhorse and rode it around the town [📸 Eric Lind, Eureka, Illinois] pic.twitter.com/SlCycYbp1z — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 24, 2024 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - CHEERS to the beginning of the end. 243 years ago this week, in 1781 during our War of Independence, American troops backed by the French fleet Ronald Reagan riding a trained dolphin while brandishing a bazooka [Revision courtesy of the Florida Dept. of Education 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. CHEERS to amazing discoveries. Using a new method of doing sciencey stuff with sciencey gadgets, astronomers over in Holland have detected some seriously huge black hole farts happening in a galaxy far, far away. How big are they? So big that we’re gonna have to come up with a whole new vocabulary to describe them: The newly described jets have a power output equivalent to that of trillions of suns and are so massive that researchers have nicknamed the megastructure Porphyrion after a giant from Greek mythology. In space, no one can hear you blame it on the dog. The discovery is causing astronomers to rethink their understanding of how massive black hole jets can be as well as how these giant features can affect their surroundings and the structure of the universe. “This pair is not just the size of a solar system, or a Milky Way; we are talking about 140 Milky Way diameters in total,” Oei said. “The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions.” The largest black hole farts ever detected in our galaxy remain, of course, anyone standing in front of a hot microphone during a MAGA rally. - Ten years ago in C&J: September 26, 2014 JEERS to the internet robber barons. The ISPs are lickin' their chops over the prospect of creating fast lanes (for corporations and people—pardon the redundancy—rich enough to pay for access to them) and slow lanes (for the rest of us). But one rather significant figure wants the FCC to hear loud and clear that he, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, Thinks the idea sucks: "We need rules," said Berners-Lee. "If businesses are to move here and start here rather than start in Europe or Brazil or Australia—they're going to look around and make sure, 'Oh, does the power stay up?' And they'll look for other things. 'Is the Internet open?' Will they have to effectively bribe their ISPs to start a new service? That's what it looks like from the outside. It's bribery." […] "[The technical aspect of the internet] is something normal people in the street aren't going to understand—and they shouldn't have to! If you have to start understanding what's happening inside, then the Internet has failed already." The Washington Post reports that the FCC got nearly four million submissions during its open comment period, "more than the FCC has gotten on any debate in its 80-year history," and you can bet the vast majority are in Berners-Lee's corner. No word on when the FCC's town crier will reveal their decision. Apparently they're taking the slow lane, and in this instance…that's a good thing. - And just one more… CHEERS to the best places to do the happy dance. Do you remember what "fun" is? Or have the last several years on Planet Earth blotted such antiquated notions as the pursuit of happiness from your mind? It depends, in part, on where you live, according to Wallet Hub: America's #1 manufacturer of, presumably, hubs for wallets. (Enjoy that free plug, guys—it's on the house.) Their latest Most Fun States in America list for 2024 ranks our colonies in terms of how much their residents say they're having a ball: These states offer such a variety of activities that everyone will be able to find something that excites them, from people who crave the outdoors and athletics to those who would rather sit down for a film. With pure enjoyment in mind, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 26 key indicators of a jolly good time that won’t break the bank. They range from movie costs to accessibility of national parks to nightlife options per capita. And The Top 10 are... Florida California Nevada New York Colorado Illinois Texas Washington Minnesota Louisiana Maine rose from #41 to #38 on the list. It would be much higher if not for Hiram Tupperbaum over on Oakdale Street. He and his attack ferrets know why. Have a nice Thursday. 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