(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Monday [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-10-28 — The Following is a Paid Advertisement * — URGENT!!!!! 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On Tuesday, November 5, do your duty—vote GOP and Make America A Third World Laughingstock Again. Thank you. * Not really. Only Democrats actually pay their campaign debts. And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Monday, October 28, 2024 Note: Vote! Nothing else matters now. Not your spouse, your children, your job or even your ox. Which reminds me: go check behind the garage. You're now the proud owner of an ox. - By the Numbers: 4 days!!! Days 'til voting in the 2024 election ends: 8 Days 'til the start of San Diego Beer Week: 4 Years since Maine's worst mass shooting (18 killed) happened in Lewiston: 1 Expected 3rd quarter GDP according to estimates by the Fed, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America: 3.2% Portion of registered voters polled by ABC News-Ipsos who believe that Trump is a fascist: 1-in-2 Percent of election-day polling places that have been closed over the last 10 years: 20% Age of The Love Boat singer Jack Jones when he died last week: 86 EXCLUSIVE! → World Series Update ← EXCLUSIVE! The Los Angeles Dodgers lead the New York Yankees 2 game to 0 - Puppy Pic of the Day: In post-Helene Asheville, a little "paws-itivity"… - CHEERS to feeling happy. As we start the last full week before voting ends, it's worth noting that the state of the economy is pretty darn good right now: » Economic growth in the third quarter is running at a healthy 3 percent, above the expectations by the expectors at the Council of Expectation gathering What do we call the sequel to Bidenomics? Kamalanomics? » Unemployment remains low (4.1%), and we're now enjoying the lowest stretch of unemployment in 50 years » Hourly earnings are up 4.7% year-over-year » Record gains on Wall Street are beefing up retirement plans » Consumer spending is chugging along » Inflation is a whisker away from the Fed's 2 percent target » Interest rates have been cut by twice as much as expected And the punch line to all this good news: Consumer sentiment actually rose for the third straight month, and is now the highest in six months. Still, it may not be enough for Kamala Harris to win. After four years, the streets still remain unpaved with gold. CHEERS to order in the courts. A pair of rulings that are good news for the forces of liberty and justice: Ohio The most far-reaching of Ohio's laws restricting abortion was struck down on Thursday by a county judge who said last year's voter-approved amendment enshrining reproductive rights renders the so-called heartbeat law unconstitutional. … Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins said that when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned power over the abortion issue to the states, "Ohio's Attorney General evidently didn't get the memo." Where bogus Republican lawsuits go to die. Virginia A federal judge on Friday granted a Department of Justice request to block Virginia from systematically removing alleged noncitizens from the voter rolls this close to an election. U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles ordered the state to stop its program immediately and within five days restore the voter registrations of more than 1,600 people who were removed in recent months. Virginia's program “has curtailed the right of eligible voters to cast their ballots in the same manner as other eligible voters,” Giles said. And if you're wondering what the state of frivolous pre-election MAGA lawsuits is, here's Marc Elias at Democracy Docket with an upbeat update: x While Republicans are filing a record number of anti voting lawsuits, they are losing a record number of those cases. Voters should have confidence that we will protect their right to vote and have their votes counted. pic.twitter.com/oGCWHlucDo — Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 24, 2024 Chocolate gavels for everyone. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - Harvard Law, Class of ‘91. CHEERS and JEERS to the alma mater of our glorious overlords. On this date in 1636, Harvard University—whose endowment is now worth a mere $53-odd billion—was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts "by vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard of Charlestown." Very good Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama went to Harvard. So did very bad President George W. Bush. Very good Senator Elizabeth Warren went to Harvard. So did very bad Senator Ted Cruz. Very good = Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Very bad = Justice Antonin Scalia. Good = Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Bad = Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. And etcetera. So, a mixed record. More study is needed. CHEERS and JEERS to election mania. We got some fresh numbers in from our exclusive pollsters—excuse me, I mean from our EXCLUSIVE POLLSTERS PRESENTING THIS INFORMATION FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE ZOMG CLICK HERE CLICK HERE CLICK HERE!!!—regarding the 2024 elections. With only 8 days until voting ends, here's the latest from our multi-acre supercomputer, which is working overtime to plumb the depths of America's intentions: ✔ 42 percent believe that the election is now "down to the wire," while 35 percent believe it's "hanging by a thread," and 23 percent believe it's "holding together with spit and bailing twine." ✔ 58 percent of door-to-door canvassers prefer shoes with laces, while 16 percent prefer Velcro, 1 percent prefer snaps, and 7 percent prefer to be carried aloft shoeless on a Roman shield by a platoon of shirtless centurians. Current prediction map ✔ Any other results published by any other pollster is shit. We actually confirmed this with our computers and they all agreed based on the data and not, repeat not , our threat to shut them off and melt them down for "No Parking Here To Corner" signs if they disagree with us. ✔ 99.99999 percent of Americans want to give Nate Silver a wedgie. The 0.00001% who disagrees is Nate Silver. ✔ 71 percent of the MAGA "ballot drop-off box watchers" have gotten stuck inside the ballot drop-off boxes they were watching. ✔ And last but not least, we're not releasing any numbers related to actual races in the 2024 elections, because not even one percent of you said "Please." As usual, to factor in the margin of error on the above numbers, just add to them the fact that I'm in charge of crunching them. - Ten years ago in C&J: October 28, 2014 CHEERS to opening your mouth and saying, "Ahhh…it's nice to finally be able to go to a doctor to open my mouth and say 'Ahhh." More proof that Democrats are the party that actually helps people: The federal healthcare law has dramatically increased coverage among Latinos, according to a new report that provides a comprehensive look at the effects of the Affordable Care Act on a historically underinsured community. Overall, the percentage of Latinos ages 19 to 64 lacking health coverage fell from 36% to 23% between summer 2013 and spring 2014. […] In states that expanded Medicaid, including California, the uninsured rate among working-age Latino adults dropped by about half, from 35% to 17%. A quick reminder for you voters out there: the law was passed by Democrats. Please mark your midterm ballots accordingly. - And just one more… CHEERS to the ol' bull moose. Belated Happy Birthday to Teddy Roosevelt, who turned 166 yesterday. #26 has a few words from the Great Beyond for the wackos who are making a mockery of his party: "I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head." True fact: Teddy Roosevelt also believed he was a little teapot. "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.” "Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement." - And this, which Democrats agree with completely but Republicans never will: “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.” Ouch. Pay your respects here. (But do it softly...I hear he carries a big stick.) Have a tolerable Monday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today? - Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial “Every election I’ve ever personally been involved in, the feeling I want to have that night, that Monday night when I go to bed, is that I left it all in the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool.” —Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) - [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/28/2279724/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Monday?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/