(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-19 Potent Quotables This week’s Top 10... “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” —H.L. Mencken “Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us—and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next chalatan who comes along.” —Carl Sagan “We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.” —Bill Vaughn ”It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and I’m wearing Milk Bone shorts.” —Norm, Cheers “A man who will steal for me will steal from me.” —Teddy Roosevelt “For certain people, after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.” —Gore Vidal ”Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” —Robert Benchley “Religions are all the same—basically guilt, but with different holidays.” —Cathy Ladman ”You can’t appreciate Shakespeare until you’ve read him in the original Klingon.” —General Chang, Star Trek VI “And always remember the words of my grandfather, who said: ‘A truck!’’ ” —Emo Philips You have been enlighteneted. And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, June 19, 2024 Note: Please disregard your original horoscope for today. Due to a rounding error we've determined that your face won’t actually get chewed off by a mob of angry ferrets. The correct horoscope is: "You'll cheer up a friend with pantomime." We regret the error. —Mgt. - By the Numbers: 4 days!!! Days 'til the elections in Britain: 15 Days 'til the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City: 4 Planned spending by the DLCC, the States Project, and Forward Majority on state legislative races this year: $265 million Percent of Americans polled by Gallup who consider themselves pro-choice: 54% Percent who don't: 41% Amount Maine just secured from the Biden infrastructure law to expand high-speed internet access throughout the state: $272 million Number of people killed every year by coconuts, more than 10 times as many people killed by sharks and yet for some reason Steven Spielberg never thought to make a horror film called Coconuts: 150 - Mid-week Rapture Index: 187 (including 3 Satanisms and 1 new entry from the Department of Unintentional Satire). Soul Protection Factor 12 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today. - Puppy Pic of the Day: Ferocious Wednesday… - CHEERS to going where Congress fears to tread. Yesterday President Biden—the doddering, lost president who doesn’t know what's going on and is clearly in the advance stages of everything—focused on the immigration problem and, with clarity, intelligence, and steely-eyed conviction, took decisive action that will one day be considered one of the gutsiest moves by a president since Lincoln via two surgically-precise executive actions: The first action aims to streamline the process through which undocumented spouses and undocumented children of U.S. citizens apply for lawful permanent residence. The policy will allow noncitizen spouses married to U.S. citizens to apply to live and work in the United States legally without having to leave the country. […] Joe does strikes again. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that up to half a million spouses could be eligible for the program, and approximately 50,000 children of these spouses would also be protected. "President Biden is taking an incredibly important action by helping the spouses of U.S. citizens get a path to citizenship. This balanced approach, combined with Biden's border security actions, is much more popular than Trump’s mass deportation plan," Kerri Talbot, Executive Director of The Immigration Hub, told ABC News in a statement. The president [also announced] a new action that will allow some undocumented immigrants, including some DACA recipients and so-called "Dreamers," to obtain employment-based non-immigrant visas quicker, senior administration officials said. I’m not sure what makes me happier: knowing that so many immigrants and their allies are going to be pleased with this decision, or that so many immigrant-hating MAGA cultists are going to spend the day gnawing through drywall. CHEERS to leveling the playing field. 60 years ago today, the Civil Rights Act of 1964—now extended to protect LGBTQ citizens—was approved by the Senate 73-27 after making it through a 57-day Dixiecrat filibuster: "One hundred and eighty-eight years ago this week a small band of valiant men began a long struggle for freedom," [President Lyndon] Johnson told the nation. Two weeks later, LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act into law. "Now our generation of Americans has been called on to continue the unending search for justice within our own borders." The analogy was unmistakable. The president was comparing the work of the Founding Fathers with that of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, who was present at the White House signing ceremony, also had no doubts about the significance of the day or about Lyndon Johnson's role in making the civil rights bill law. "It was a great moment," King declared, "something like the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln." When Johnson signed it he reportedly said, "It is an important gain, but I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come." A regular Nostradamus in a Stetson, that guy. CHEERS to great moments in freedom. And speaking of civil rights, on June 19, 1862—aka ”Juneteenth,” now a federal holiday—slavery was outlawed in the existing and future federal territories. (See a handwritten order recently discovered at the National Archives here.) For such a groundbreaking event, the language was pretty straightforward: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the Territories of the United States now existing, or which may at any time hereafter be formed or acquired by the United States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” The good news: that was a long time ago. The bad news: not long enough. P.S. A reminder of yet another win in Joe Biden’s column. Three years ago… x Ms. Opal Lee is an incredible woman – and it was my honor to welcome her to the White House. Thanks to her relentless dedication, Juneteenth is now a federal holiday. pic.twitter.com/scPtk8cNJN — President Biden (@POTUS) June 19, 2021 I know the feeling. It’s the same one I get when the Pulitzer Committee sends me the pen they’ve used to reauthorize their latest restraining order. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x Laparoscopic box training with origami [📹 NAS]pic.twitter.com/B4DhofM8Uh — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 17, 2024 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - CHEERS to making it safe to eat Butterballs. 242 years ago this week, Congress approved the bald eagle over the turkey as the U.S. symbol. It was a tough decision, but in the end they decided it just didn't taste as good with mashed taters and cranberry sauce. CHEERS to today's boring correction. According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the NIH, Medal of Freedom winner and father of the "Fauci Ouchie," reveals a prediction by his former boss: Trump called Fauci from Air Force One on Nov. 1, 2020—just two days before the election—in “what turned out to be” their final exchange, Fauci wrote in On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, to be released next week. Released yesterday. Trump reportedly boasted to Fauci: “I am going to win this election by a fucking landslide. Just wait and see. I always did things my way. And I always win, no matter what all these other fucking people think. And that fucker Biden. He is so fucking stupid. I am going to kick his fucking ass in this election.” Trump did not, in fact, win the 2020 election against that fucker Biden, but lost it by 74 electoral votes and seven-million popular ones. We're sure he regrets the error, and enjoys his consolation prize of 34 felony convictions. - Ten years ago in C&J: June 19, 2014 CHEERS to Sweatin' to the 14th Amendment Violations. Given that the average age of participants, and the high temperature, at today's "March for Marriage" in DC will be in the 60s and the upper 80s respectively, I hope the Bible thumpers have plenty of water, paramedics, and mercy of God on hand. Mike Huckabee, the National Organization for Marriage, and their grifter friends will speak to their throngs about why it's so critical to prevent all the terrible things that never seem to happen because of gay marriage. It's so lame that Fox News won't even use it as filler now that they've fled from their Benghazi obsession. If you want to be endlessly entertained today, follow the twitter hashtags #1man1woman and/or#March4Marriage—the online elite of the LGBT community will be posting their thoughts, during which hilarity will ensue. And for you gullible Christian soldiers rallying today: don’t forget to give Huckabee your email address when he passes around the clipboard—otherwise it becomes more difficult to frack your bank account. - And just one more… JEERS to today’s weather for Portland, Maine. Let’s turn it over to our director of meteorological operations, who we sent out onto the sidewalk for this live report on the heat dome currently in full swing up here: “I’m gonna get you for this, Bill, you son of a...” Hey, thanks! Join us for our next live outdoor weather update, when we’ll check and see if our assistant director, Joanie Baconrasher, is ready to be turned. Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today? - Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial Soon All The Tourism Ads On TV Will Feature The Cheers and Jeers Kiddie Pool —Wonkette - [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/19/2247192/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Wednesday?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/