(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: 2024-06-27 Our Next Word Is… Before we move on to tonight’s debate, let us first finish—via The Daily Show—this morning’s Spelling Bee now in progress, with the Greatest Speller and Wordsmith Of All Time (including Lincoln and even Jesus, according to sources that the corrupt press refuses to mention) at the helm: - Fearless prediction for tonight: Joe’s gonna eat him for lunch and then feed the bones to Commander. Hannibal Lecter will be so jealous. And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, June 27, 2024 Note: To receive your coupon good for half-off your next coupon, please send 20 coupons from specially-marked packages of Acme Coupons, along with $50 to cover our pleasantness and courtesy, plus $9.95 for shipping and handling. Coupon not valid with any other offer. Promotion expires the moment we receive your cash. —Mgt. - 6 days!!! By the Numbers: Weeks 'til Trump's sentencing: 2 Days 'til the Key Lime Festival in Key West: 6 Number of winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics who signed a letter stating that another Trump term as president would reignite inflation: 16 Number of the 10 Commandments that have any business being posted in public school classrooms: 0 Cost of a typical home in Maine now (a record high): $398,000 Percent chance that Israel's highest court ruled that Ultra-Orthodox Jews have to serve in the military like everybody else: 100% Annual wage for a manual laborer in England during the late 1700s: $67 - Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment: [I]mmigrant-bashing is such an old American tradition. Back at the time of the Revolution, many Anglo-Americans worried about the terrible number of Germans engulfing the country. Since then, we've managed to work up a snit over the Irish, the Jews, the Polish, the Swedes, Bolivians, Bavarians, Bosnians, Russians, Italians, Sicilians, a great variety of Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Maltese (sorry you missed that one—the Maltese once overran New York City deli counters), Cubans, Puerto Ricans and so forth. If you haven't been here long enough to get upset about at least one other group moving in, you must still owe the coyote (as immigrant-smugglers are called). Think of the rich verbal history of ethnic insults—Bohunks, Krauts, Polacks, Micks. […] Bush was planning to take a stab at resolving the problem, [b]ut the House Republicans had a hissy fit, claimed it was an "amnesty program" and demanded harsher measures, militarization of the border, a big fence. Not gonna work, y'all. Build a 50-foot fence, and they'll build a 51-foot ladder. Hire Halliburton with a no-bid contract to build the fence, and it will hire illegal workers to do it. —July 2006 - Puppy Pic of the Day: It’s just science, people… - CHEERS to the rumble in the Peach State Jungle. Moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash think they have an agenda all laid out for getting the candidates to weigh in on the issues tonight during 2024 presidential debate #1. But that'll be difficult considering one of the candidates (take a wild guess which one) will only be there to hurl insults, lie, sweat, complain about his 34 felony convictions, and generally make an ass of himself. (The mic cutoffs by the moderators may or may not help. We’ll see.) The verbal fisticuffs start at 9ET at CNN's studio in Atlanta. As always, the nimble-fingered Daily Kos front-pagers will live-blog from their moms' basements—Ha Ha Ha, that joke never gets old! Basically, if Joe wants to win the debate, he needs to show a command of the issues and a willingness to throw a punch at the opportune moment. If Trump wants to win the debate, he needs Joe to get vaporized by a meteor. But not before... x I will write a check to Biden for $1000 if he comes out at the debate and says "I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew!" $2000 if he threatens to come at Trump "like a spider monkey". — Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 26, 2024 A weapon Joe should brandish, in my opinion, as a long-term campaign strategist: glitter cannon. JEERS to getting handed an undeserved victory. Sad to report that we'll have Lauren Boebert, the current member of Congress and theater groper with the lowest ratio of brain cells to booger balls, to kick around some more. On Tuesday she won her primary in Colorado's 4th District after fleeing certain doom in her current location of CO-03. But at least the punsters and word players had some fun on Twitter. A random sample: Three primaries under her belt. She's an old hand. She won it handily. Gotta hand it to her Of course Boebert won—she's pretty handy at political theater. Happy Ending for Boebert on Primary Night. She beat off all comers. Gotta admit, she didn’t blow it. Hands down winner She has a firm hand on her campaign Shameless. Tawdry. Crude. Uncouth. Well done. CHEERS to the growing season. A quick reminder that this morning, June 27th, at 10am, everybody—you included—needs to meet at the city square (between the post office and the bank) for the annual lottery. The lottery is fun for the whole family. Well, maybe not for the one who gets the black spot, but other than that…. Please get there promptly (I'm looking at you, Tessie Hutchinson, the breakfast dishes can wait) so we can start picking the ballots out of the hat and determine who has the black spot. Once the action starts, follow the guidelines set by the safety department: lift only those rocks that won’t cause back strain or wrist injury. ("If it's too big for thee, leave it be.") Let's try to finish up by noon so we can all go home and enjoy a nice midday supper, shall we? Also: today is the day to slap a new "Lottery In June, Corn Be Heavy Soon" bumper sticker on your car, per city ordinance. And don’t forget sunscreen—those UV rays can kill ya. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x The funny, clever digital art by Zlu [📹 iam_zlu]pic.twitter.com/xENKIvArxJ — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 25, 2024 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - CHEERS to workin' on the wire without a net. On June 27, 1846, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires for the first time. Unfortunately people kept tripping over them, so the following week they invented the telegraph pole. CHEERS to a puckin' good time. The NHL hockey season ended Tuesday night when the Florida Panthers clobbered the strange foreigners from Edmonton 459 games to 2 to take home the Stanley Cup, with which they will spend the next year using to bail flood waters from their locker room. I hear the only people more giddy than the Panthers’ fans are the Panthers’ dentists. - Ten years ago in C&J: June 27, 2014 JEERS to overcooked mouthfuls of low expectations. I don’t expect fast food to be all that great, but considering we have a love affair with it in this country, I'd have thought that we'd judge it a little better. According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), the best-tasting fast food in their latest survey belongs to Subway and Wendy's, which are tied with a score of 78. That means there's literally no chain you can go to that will give you food deserving of more than a C-plus. Turning up dead-last for the 19th year out of 20: McDonald's, at 71. But the company expects that to change this year when they unveil their exciting new specialty sandwich: the McLipitor. - And just one more… CHEERS to the Greatest Moment in World History. I grew up with the bleeps and bloops of Atari games ringing in my ears, and to this day I see a shadow image of those iconic graphics every time I blink. Atari marked its first full day as a company 52 years ago today, and for that my inner geek thanks founder and personal Yoda Nolan Bushnell, who a couple years back mused on how far we’ve come since those early glory days, and where video games are headed: x YouTube Video - My first addictions on this wacky planet, besides candy cigarettes and Hogan's Heroes, were Missile Command, Battlezone, and Asteroids, each following Bushnell's formula of being "simple to learn but impossible to master." They retain their simple elegance and pulse-quickening qualities five decades later. Go ahead...click to release your inner nerd. Time spent with an Atari classic will not be deducted from your lifespan. Have a nice Thursday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today? - Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial Trump-Appointed Judge Scolds Bill in Portland Maine: "I Don’t Appreciate Your Kiddie Pool" —Mediaite - [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/27/2248627/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Thursday?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/