(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: 2024-10-25 Late Night Snark: "My Kingdom for a Von Rundstedt!" Edition “In a new interview, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said that former President Trump spoke positively about Adolf Hitler more than once, and added he wanted ‘the kind of generals Hitler had.’ You know what? I’m starting to think that Trump doesn’t watch the ends of documentaries.” —Seth Meyers “This is the first election where reporters have to ask: Who’d you root for when you watched Saving Private Ryan?” —Jimmy Fallon “Trump is raising less money than he did during his run in 2020, mainly because his contributions from small-dollar donors have plummeted. Well, of course they have. They’ve got no money left. They already spent it all on sneakers, bibles, watches, silver coins, NFTs, Trump’s new book, Melania’s new book, and Eric’s new ‘zine, a printout of his face smushed on the copier.” —Stephen Colbert - “How the f*ck is Donald Trump in a McDonald’s apron in the window of a fast food restaurant talking about whether or not he’ll overturn the popular vote real life? How is this real life? Did we all die during Covid and this some strange, surreal purgatory? Or maybe A.I. has already sucked up the sum total of human achievement and endeavors, and what we’re all experiencing are merely the crumbs and detritus of human existence that A.I. thought was just too f*cking weird to vacuum up.” —Jon Stewart “What a weird story to try and poke holes in. It is hilarious to see Republicans go from ‘Obama wasn’t born here!’ to ‘Kamala never worked at McDonald’s!’ ” —After Midnight's Taylor Tomlinson "At a rally in a Pennsylvania high school, Elon Musk promoted the debunked theory that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 elections, saying: 'The last thing I would do is trust a computer program.' Y'know…like the ones driving all of his cars." —Colin Jost, SNL And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Friday, October 25, 2024 Note: Vote! - By the Numbers: 6 days!!! Days 'til 2024 voting ends: 11 Days 'til Treat Street in Chico, California: 6 Fine levied against American Airlines for flagrant violations of disabled-passenger rules: $50 million Estimated number of North Korean troops now fighting Ukraine for Russia: 3,000 Number of noncitizens found on voter rolls during a Georgia audit, out of 8 million voters: 20 Percent of Americans who say they carve a pumpkin for Halloween: 46% Percent chance that Halloween is one of the top three deadliest days for pedestrians: 100% - Puppy Pic of the Day: Weekend plans… - CHEERS and JEERS to the state of the race. Heading into the weekend, this is the state of the race: You are now as informed as anyone on the state of the race. CHEERS to allies in unexpected places. Gotta give a shout-out and a gold star this week to a trio of patriots who stepped up to bang some pots and pans about the fascism openly lurking in our midst: General John Kelly Trump's longest-serving chief of staff finally went on the record via an audio interview in which he warns that Trump is an out-and-out fascist, and would love to bring back Hitler's generals to help him rule as a dictator. He follows in the footsteps of former Joint Chiefs chair Mark Milley who warned of the same thing. How can we believe them? Because they have a combined sixteen pounds of medals on their chests that signify defense of our country and its constitution, versus the only thing Trump has ever had on his, which is ketchup stains. Well done. Los Angeles Times editorials Editor Mariel Garza Garza quit her cushy job after the Trump-humping paper's owner issued a fascist order forbidding the planned endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. Said she: "I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent. In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I'm standing up." Waukesha, Wisconsin Mayor Shawn Reilly He changed his party affiliation after January6th, and now he's openly telling his red-city residents that Trump has to be relegated to the dustbin of history: “It would be easier for me to stay quiet and vote my conscience privately, but the stakes of this election are so important that I feel compelled to share publicly that I am voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and I encourage other Wisconsinites who care about our country to do the same.” He would also like everyone within the sound of his voice to buy and eat yummy Wisconsin cheese. These are the people whose reputations will shine in the history books. They recognized the stakes and took a stand against evil. May their liquor cabinets always be stocked with grade-A hooch, and their pantries overflowing with candy corn. CHEERS to busting "state's rights" in the chops. On Sunday’s date in 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers was released under the name "Publius" (later revealed to be Broadway star Alexander Hamilton). The goal: to make the case that "the insufficiency of the present confederation" (i.e. weak federal government and strong “states rights” governments) required a new constitution that would mean "nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world." Hamilton, along with co-authors Madison and John Jay, knew they'd have critics, and this snip shows that they'd be dealing with their own version of the MAGA cult: [W]e have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. The essays that put meat on the Declaration of Independence's bones. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good. Scary accurate. But I'll say this for the original MAGA cultists of yore: at least they could wear tri-corn hats without looking like idiots. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x Growing up in Detroit, I never thought I’d hear President Barack Obama spitting bars from Eminem. 🔥 Donald Trump has Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock. We have Em and Megan Thee Stallion. No contest! 🇺🇸#KamalaHarris2024 pic.twitter.com/mjJpXJMBxv — Ryan Shead (@RyanShead) October 23, 2024 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - JEERS to the teabaggers of yesteryear. 101 years ago this week, a Senate committee began investigating the Teapot Dome scandal. This political cartoon was popular back then: A Republican scandal centered around oil? Say it ain’t so. Fourth-worst-president-ever (moving down a notch post-Trump, and only slightly better than Buchanan and Bush II) Warren Harding's cronies were allowing private companies to lease government oil reserves from public land in Wyoming. As a result of the investigation, Interior Secretary Albert Fall became the first cabinet member to go to jail. He was a Republican. Shocking. CHEERS to home vegetation. If a poltergeist doesn't suck us into the TV first ("Come into the light, Billeh! We haz teh candy corns!"), we might get some decent cathode-ray-tubage in this weekend. Game 1 is tonight. Game 2 is tomorrow night. Chris Hayes and the MSNBC crew start by haunting us with the day’s news roundup. At 8 you can live-tweet tonight’s classic Star Trek episode with me (H&I Network) at hashtag #allstartrek , catch back-to-back episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway? on the CW, or tune in for game 1 of the World Series on Fox. Michigan Attorney General Jocelyn Benson and election lawyer Ben Ginsberg talk about post-election scenarios as the guests on PBS’s Firing Line at 8:30. The most popular movies and streamers are all reviewed here at Rotten Tomatoes. The NFL schedule is here. SNL is a repeat with host Jean Smart. A cold case from the 1980s is reopened Sunday night on The Simpsons. And John Oliver returns from a week off with a fresh edition of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. Now here's your Sunday morning lineup: Meet the Press: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Politburo stooge JD Vance (Drunk-Moscow) Also Sunday: Mr. Hyde joins the networks to share sexy hair care tips that’ll get you noticed. This Week: Mark Cuban; independent Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn; Senator Lindsey Graham (Weird-SC) Face the Nation: Vice President Kamala Harris; Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt and Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes; Liz Cheney. CNN's State of the Union: Liz Cheney; JD Fuckface (Weird-OH). Fox GOP Talking Points Sunday: Senator and man whose penis Trump is also obsessed with “Little” Marco Rubio (Weird-FL); Governor Jared Polis (D-CO). Happy viewing! - Ten years ago in C&J: October 25, 2014 JEERS to the school that makes the University of Phoenix look like Oxford. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill got busted this week for allowing over 3,000 students to take a class in which they didn’t have to think, learn or separate fact from fiction…and for their final reports they got A's and B's from the adults in charge for just making shit up. Education officials around the country call it a travesty. Fox News calls it their new talent pool. - And just one more… CHEERS to a woman who had to debate Republicans with 90 percent of her brain switched off just to make it a fair fight. Happy 77th birthday (and many blessings on your camels) tomorrow to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the only human in world history who can boast of having First Lady, United States Senator, Secretary of State, and first female major-party presidential nominee on her resume. She should have “45th president” on it, too, having clocked Trump in every debate, secured every major newspaper endorsement, run on positions far more popular than Trump’s, possessed more brainpower by a factor of a gazillion, and handily won the popular vote. (Thanks a lot, Comey. And Russia. And Wikileaks. And Jill Stein. And you, too, f*cking lapdog media.) Some pearls from the walking fountain of wisdom: "Climate change is real. It is here. It has to be dealt with. If I hear another politician or public official say they don’t know what to say because they’re not a scientist, I’m just going to yell, ‘Go talk to a scientist!’" "We can’t hide from any of these hard truths about race and justice in America. We have to name them and own them and then change them." "To LGBT men and women worldwide, let me say this: wherever you live and whatever the circumstances of your life, whether you are connected to a network of support or feel isolated and vulnerable, please know that you are not alone." "The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman thinks about the next generation." "Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different. They are dangerously incoherent. They're not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." "If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all." "You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion." This year I got her a new sweatshirt that says "3,000,000 More Than Orange Doofus" on the back. (I hope it's not too subtle.) Have a great weekend. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today? - [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/25/2279020/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Rum-and-Coke-FRIDAY?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/