(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-10-04 Late Night Snark: Oh What A Night Edition “We just got finished watching the Vice Presidential debate between two men who couldn’t be much more different. One of them called Donald Trump a reprehensible idiot who shouldn’t be president. The other is Tim Walz.” —Jimmy Kimmel “Trump really tried to encourage his VP before the debate. He told J.D. Vance, ‘Remember: just don’t be yourself.' ” —Jimmy Fallon “After tonight’s debate, Vice President Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are set to kick off a bus tour through Central Pennsylvania. But Walz is gonna be pretty disappointed when he finds out someone else is driving.” —Seth Meyers x JD Vance when a journalist tells him that Haitians aren't air frying golden retrievers in Ohio pic.twitter.com/2l9SGMrhoE — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 2, 2024 - “Ohhhhhh...it smells like consequences.” —Stephen Colbert, sniffing special counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page legal filing against Trump "During a campaign stop in a Pennsylvania supermarket, Donald Trump gave a woman buying groceries a hundred dollars. Because at this point his knee-jerk reaction to seeing a woman is to pay her off." —Colin Jost, SNL "Happy birthday to Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 yesterday. I have been lucky to interview Carter three or four times. He's an extraordinary man who redefined the post-presidency. He should be a model for anyone who seeks public office. What I love is that he's 100 and he's holdin' on against everybody's expectations because he says he wants to vote for his party's candidate one last time. That's his dream. His other dream is to tour with Cirque du Soleil." —Stephen Colbert And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Friday, October 4, 2024 Note: Cheers and Jeers is manufactured in a facility that also produces products containing peanuts, pollen, mildew and/or large, out-of-control robot dogs. Do what you will with that information. We just work here. —Mgt. - By the Numbers: 7 days!!! Days 'til Indigenous Peoples Day: 10 Days 'til the Hood River Valley Harvest Fest in Oregon: 7 Gallons of rain hurricane Helene dumped, according to the NOAA: 40 Trillion Year-over-year increase in annual pay, according to ADP: 4.7% Percent by which Twitter's value has dropped since Doughy Idiot Boy bought it: -80% Earliest date Portland, Maine has ever seen snowfall: October 10 Number of letters in "blessing," which is the term for a group of unicorns: 8 - Puppy Pic of the Day: Weekend plans… - CHEERS to a spirited game of Whack-a-MAGA. Over the summer the corrupt and compromised conservatives on the Supreme Court deliberately threw the worst president in U.S. history a magic shield—and a badly needed run-out-the-clock delay—to prevent him from bearing the full weight of another trial that could derail his re-ascension to the throne to finish off our democracy once and for all. And their fiendish plan would've worked if it wasn't for those meddling kids Judge Tanya Chutkan and special counsel Jack Smith, whose message couldn’t have been clearer: f*ck your shield and f*ck your clock: Smith’s 165-page filing argued that the Republican presidential nominee can still be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, despite a Supreme Court ruling in July that Trump has presumptive immunity for his official presidential acts. Jack Smith is ready for showtime. “When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office,” Smith wrote. “With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost,” he wrote. Trump “acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted,” Smith wrote. He noted that the president has “no official role” in that function. Smith urged Chutkan to rule that Trump “must stand trial for his private crimes as would any other citizen.” Among the crimes: attempted rigging of the electoral college votes, planning and inciting a coup attempt, abandoning his vice president at the scene of the crime to potentially die at the hands of his own cultists and, most heinous of all, being born. CHEERS to today’s edition of First I Saw Pigs Fly, And Then This Happened… This has been today’s edition of First I Saw Pigs Fly, And Then This Happened… CHEERS to life the way they say it never was. On this date in 1957, Leave It to Beaver premiered on ABC. June Cleaver did housework in pearls, frilly dresses, and high heels. Or as I like to call it: me on gutter cleaning day. (Hi, Tim!) - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x Monkey snapping green beans [📹 Gaitlyn Rae]pic.twitter.com/tqpiAaQUS8 — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 2, 2024 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - CHEERS to Great Moments in Republican Gaffery. With election season in full swing, it’s worth noting that 48 years ago this Sunday, President Gerald Ford claimed during a debate with Jimmy Carter—who turned freaking 100 Tuesday—that there was "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe." The GOP let 72 hours pass before correcting themselves, giving Carter time to drop the hammer. Today, of course, Republicans don’t even bother owning up to anything. They just get Fox News to stick a “(D)" next to the offender's name and send in the clowns from Q-Anon to concoct a new conspiracy theory. Corrections...how quaint. CHEERS to home vegetation. Here are a few tidbits on the TV schedule for the weekend. As always, Chris Hayes and the MSNBC crew pick up the Friday news dump pieces and put 'em back together. There’s a Whose Line Is It Anyway twofer at 8 on the CW. Or you can join the live-tweeting of tonight’s silly but classic Star Trek episode ”Who Mourns for Adonis” (8pm, H&I Network) at hashtag #allstartrek. At 11 on BBC America, the guests on the season premiere of The Graham Norton Show include Lady Gaga, Demi Moore and Colin Farrell. Once again, the Red Sox have graciously bowed out of the post-season peaceably so another team can have a chance to win the trophy. The most popular movies and streamers are all reviewed here at Rotten Tomatoes. The NFL schedule is here, the WNBA schedule is here, and the glorious post-season baseball lineup for homeland and superior American pastime havings is here. Stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze hosts SNL. Sunday night at 8, The White Lotus gets lampooned on a new episode of The Simpsons, or you can catch the 50th American Music Awards on CBS. And the weekend comes to a close at 11 with a witty Britty recap from John Oliver on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. Now here's your Sunday morning lineup: Meet the Press: Rep. and soon to be Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA); Senator Tom Cotton (WEIRD-AR). This Week: FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell; Speaker Mike Johnson (WEIRD-LA). The ghost of Lincoln shows up Sunday to officially endorse Kamala Harris. Face the Nation: Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, former CENTCOM commander; Rep. Mike Turner (WEIRD-OH); UNICEF head Catherine Russell. CNN's State of the Union: Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ); ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt; RNC nepo baby Lara Trump; former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD); Senator Thom Tillis (WEIRD-NC). Fox GOP Talking Points Sunday: Senators John Fetterman (D-PA) and Joni Ernst (WEIRD-IA); Speaker Mike Johnson (WEIRD-LA). Happy viewing! - Ten years ago in C&J: October 4, 2014 CHEERS to a mighty wind. Happy to see more encroachment on Big Oil and Big Frack's turf by Big Solar and Big Wind. Last week in California, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made a big announcement: The plan released Tuesday recommends designating a total of 2 million acres as appropriate sites for future solar, wind and geothermal projects. Another 4.9 million acres under the U.S. Bureau of Land Management would be among the areas set aside as conservation areas, if the draft plan is adopted. [...] California is on track to meet a state goal of having a third of its energy come from renewable sources by 2020. Then there's a project under consideration that would use giant hollowed-out salt caverns to "store wind" that would be compressed and used to run the turbines when the wind isn’t blowing. They say it would allow the wind farm to consistently generate twice the power as Hoover Dam. Not to be outdone, the big oil companies announced their own big idea. They call it more oil. - And just one more… CHEERS to cool science. When all the death, doom and destruction get to be too much, there's always one place I can count on to restore my faith in humanity. I'm speaking of course about Hiram’s Chowder House and Lobster Pound in Harpswell. But when they're closed, the next-best place is NASA, a jewel in the federal government's crown. If you happen to live under a sky where you are, here's a preview of what you'll be seeing this month—including a comet flyby and planets gettin’ their grooves on with the moon—courtesy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: - We now return you to your regularly-scheduled shit show in space known as life on Earth, where everyone can hear you scream because we have social media now. Have a great weekend. 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