Editor’s Note: “Cheers and Jeers” is a very-long-running column at Daily Kos, written by Bill in Portland, Maine. Originally, it served a simple purpose: a safe place for newbies to Daily Kos to post a comment, since there was nothing controversial about the column. (Thus the “Kiddie Pool” moniker.) It still serves that purpose, but also contains some Grade-A Snark, which I enjoy. I’ve gotten permission to cross-post it every weekday, so I would ask two things of all of you:
– Let me know if you enjoy it, or if the style is off-putting.
– Please add your own cheers and jeers in the comments (such as “Cheers to Bruce for bringing this to Forward Kentucky” 😉). You can see what people leave on that day’s C&J on dKos by following the link at the end.
(PS – All the links are in bold.)
Energize An Ally Tuesday
It’s been too long since we posted the Daily Kos relief fund for the Ukrainian civilians affected by Vladimir Putin’s delusions of empire. So far the Daily Kos community has raised well north of $4 million for the four groups that were chosen to receive much-needed financial support—the World Central Kitchen, AmeriCares, Nova Ukraine, and Razom for Ukraine.
This is just a quick reminder that you can help out by clicking here to donate via the ActBlue account. Many thanks—they need the help now more than ever, especially with Putin’s puppet back in office.
Speaking of which, a gold star goes to local Portland, Maine TV station WMTW for making viewers aware, with this graphic during their Sunday evening newscast, of the puppet’s bullshit deadlines that never result in action once they expire:
Heckuva job, King Cankles.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Note: Anyone seen my hydrogen bomb lying around? I think I left it at Applebee's. Text me.
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By the Numbers:
Days 'til autumn: 6
Days 'til the 50th Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne, Indiana: 4
Estimated number of work absences among National Guard troops during the first 8 months of the year because of Trump's deployments, the highest in 19 years: 90,000
Number of Augusta Health rural health care clinics closing in Virginia in part because of their "ongoing response to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the resulting realities for health care delivery": 3
Estimated percent of Twitter accounts that are bots, equal to 64% of all accounts: 320 million
Age of Pope Leo XIV as of Sunday: 70
Months besides September that have the same number of letters in its name as the number of the month: 0
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Puppy Pic of the Day: On the air…
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CHEERS to Kum Ba Yah in the Big Empire State Apple. Like the agreeable collision of milk chocolate and peanut butter in a Reese's ad, New York's Democratic governor and New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate finally reached their happy place, joined hands, and sang a few bars of We Are The World:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul formally endorsed Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday night, writing in an opinion piece that she is "confident that he has the courage, urgency and optimism New York City needs to lead it through the challenges of this moment."[…]
"Zohran Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting the president's extreme agenda—with urgency, conviction, and the defiance that defines New York. And we must never allow Mr. Trump to control our city like the king he wants to be… Zohran and I don't see eye to eye on everything, and I don't expect us to," Hochul wrote.
In related news, Republican Curtis Sliwa received an endorsement from the National Society of Dorky Berets, Andrew Cuomo was endorsed by Creepy Dudes LLC, and Eric Adams held a press conference to announce that he now has the full support of himself.
JEERS to The Adventures of Crime Solver Man. Let's check in with FBI director Kash Patel, now barricaded in his office until he solves the murder of Charlie Kirk:
"The butler did it in the library with the rope! No, wait…it was Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the pipe! Or—just spitballing here—it was Miss Scarlett in the conservatory with the dagger! Yeah, that's it. Gotta be, assuming that we can rule out Professor Plum in the billiard room with the wrench.
Hmmm…maybe I should use one of my lifelines and phone a friend. But I might need it later when I solve my next murder. This case vexes me! I suffer for my country! But no matter who it was, I can tell you this right now: they're not getting into Valhalla if I have anything to say to the Norse gods about it!"
I probably should've mentioned that he's barricaded in his office from the outside.
CHEERS to memorable moments in attempted comedy. Fifty-seven years ago today, in 1968, Richard Nixon appeared on Laugh-In and uttered the immortal words: "Sock it to me???" Here's the whole segment for context:
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I wish we had gotten the chance to sock it to him after the crook quit in '74. Thanks a lot, Gerald.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to Mary Had A Little Lamb. Back in the day, you could play that tune with the buttons on your touch-tone phone, which was invented this week back in 1963. It was almost as awesome as being able to spell out BOOBIES with your calculator by punching in 5318008 and turning it upside down. Man, we were wild back then. You kids have no idea.
JEERS to today's boring correction. Last week a co-host of Fox & Friends by the name of Brian Kilmeade told his viewers, via a functioning broadcast facility and a live microphone, that mentally-ill homeless Americans should all die via "involuntary lethal injection, or something, just kill 'em." The previous statement contains a glaring error that requires an update: the actual hosts of this program are fiends. Please make a note of it.
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Ten years ago in C&J: September 16, 2015
JEERS to germ awakenings. You can thank global warming for springing these critters out of suspended cryogenic animation:
Let's get one thing out of the way really quickly: The ancient, giant virus recently discovered in melting Arctic ice is not going to kill you.
But here's the bad news: It's not the first ancient virus that scientists have found frozen—it's the fourth found since 2003. And you can be sure it won't be the last. And with climate change causing massive melts, it's not totally alarmist to suggest that something deadly might one day emerge from a long, icy sleep.
And this just in: Ted Cruz walks among us.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to fun with numbers. With our 44th president's Sunday night Emmy win in the category of "Outstanding Narrator," it's time now to update the tote board:
Barack Hussein Obama
Primetime Emmy Awards: 3
Grammy Awards: 2
Producer of Academy Award-winning documentary: 1
Nobel Peace Prize: 1
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Donald John Trump
Primetime Emmy Awards: 0
Grammy Awards: 0
Producer of Academy Award-winning documentary: 0
Nobel Peace Prize: 0
Please update your titters and hee-hees accordingly.
Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial
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—Jamie Nadeau
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Written by Bill in Portland Maine. Cross-posted from Daily Kos.
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