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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]

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Date: 2025-03-04

Short and Sweet Above the Fold This Morning

Slava Ukraini!

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Thanks for your ongoing support, especially now. In your honor, Ukraine will catapult a rotten cabbage with your name on it into Red Square.

And now, our feature presentation...

Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Note: Since the government is gutting the NOAA, C&J will now provide full weather forecasts on demand. Just send your request, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to our regular address. Please allow 3-6 weeks for processing. Sorry, but no barometric pressure information is currently available as our thingamabob fell off the wall and broke. Naturally, we blame the cat. —Mgt.

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By the Numbers:

4 days!!!

Days 'til the MAGA Congress shuts down the government: 10

Days 'til the Denver Travel Show: 4

Percent of Americans polled by CBS News who say their incomes are keeping up with Trump's inflation policies: 22%

Percent in the same poll who believe the job market is good and bad, respectively: 42%, 42%

Total value of Maine's commercial fishing haul last year, up $74 million from 2023: $709.5 million

Average per-pound Maine lobster price, the 2nd-highest ever: $6.14

Years since the Maine lobster haul was as low as it was last year: 15

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Puppy Pic of the Day: Just my opinion, but I think this should've won an Oscar…

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CHEERS to great news from my new adopted continent. Top 'o the mornin', Europe! Guten Morgen! Buongiorno! Buenos Dias! Bonjour! Dzień dobry! And, of course… доброго ранку! It's Wilhelm, your new adopted lefty blogger coming to you live from the pit of hell known as This Shitty Fucking Country That Blows. Here's the latest news worth celebrating in your neighborhood:

Inflation in Europe eased to an annual 2.4% in February, supporting the case for another interest rate cut from the European Central Bank—but leaving open how far the central bank will go in lowering borrowing costs for an economy that's still struggling to show robust growth. Hi, Europe! (But not the Russia part.) The February figure for the 20 countries that use the euro currency was down from 2.5% in January as energy inflation dwindled and major economy France saw a rate of only 0.9%, the European Union's statistical agency Eurostat reported Monday. The lower consumer price inflation figure supports the view that the ECB is succeeding in its battle to get inflation back to its target of 2%

Meanwhile, we're struggling at 3 percent and by all appearances it looks like the shitheads in this country are gonna let inflation run rampant again. So, for kicking our ass, we're shouting from the rooftops this morning: "EU! EU! EU!" (Okay, not quite as musical as the "USA! USA!" chant. But we'll keep workin' on it.)

JEERS to must-not-see TV. Sure, Very Bad Man (VBM) is giving his first 2nd-term speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, but why bother watching? He's repugnant—an eczema-addled freak with Adderall stalactites hanging from what’s left of his sinus cavity who'll give a restaurant waiter a hundred-dollar tip one moment, then take away his health insurance and go find his girlfriend to cop a feel the next, all under the watchful gaze of his master Vladimir Putin. No thanks. If I want to watch a piece of shit talk to me for half an hour I'll throw on a Mr. Hankey episode of South Park. But I'll pop in to catch the Daily Kos live-debunking. I don’t know which front pager is on duty, but I hope whoever it is gets hazard pay.

CHEERS to the land of milk and hippies. Happy birthday to our commune-dwelling New England sibling Vermont!!! You became our 14th state on March 4, 1791.

True Fact: Vermonters are excellent anti-MAGA protesters.

Besides Ben and Jerry, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Peter Welch and a nuclear power plant that makes me nervous, Vermont—aka “The Green Mountain State”—is home to Howard Dean, who became the first governor to pass civil unions for same-sex couples and exclaimed, "YOU have the power!" It's also the birthplace of tractor dude John Deere, Brigham Young, Rudy Vallee, 21st president Chester Arthur, and 30th president Calvin Coolidge, who slept ten hours a day and once murmured, "When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results." Wow...no wonder Republicans are always thought of as the economic whiz kids.

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CHEERS to walking into a hornet's nest. Man, talk about hitting the ground running. On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. And on March 4, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated. Lincoln led the country through our nightmarish Civil War. FDR led the country through our nightmarish Great Depression and nightmarisher World War II. Meanwhile, our current Republican president claims he "has done more for African Americans in this Country than any President since Lincoln." Why do I bring him into it? Because it's my job to make you laugh.

CHEERS to Elon Musk: Getter of Things Done. Holy cow, folks. He came to Washington D.C. with his DOGE posse to root out the evildoers in the Deep State and put ‘em on trial for skullduggery, and by golly he’s got ‘em on the run. This should strike fear in the hearts of every federal employee who oh never mind...

x Worth tracking these data closely. — Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) 2025-03-02T21:02:51.975Z

Oops. Maybe today?

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Ten years ago in C&J: March 4, 2015

JEERS to TEN ALARM FIRE!!! Breaking! Having just personally performed one hundred abortions in a row and then raised everybody's taxes by 900 percent, but not before ordering missile strikes on U.S. diplomatic compounds and demanding that Christianity be outlawed, Hillary Clinton and the net neutrality Nazis fanned out and destroyed America from within, but only after they first forced God-fearing conservative bakers to eat their weight in gay-wedding cakes. Or, if you're not watching Fox News: Hillary Clinton blah blah blah something something emails. [3/4/25 Update: Good thing nothing ever came of that, huh?]

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And just one more…

CHEERS to Mardi Gras! Nothing but decadence and gluttony on the schedule today as Americans celebrate the religious observance of, um, decadence and gluttony. (I'm a bit behind in my Bible studies—half a century to be precise.) As I understand it, if I display some boobs you'll throw me some beads. Right? Okay then, check out these babies:

I'd like my beads to be made out of non-fungible tokens, please.

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 Cheers and Jeers is making the French-Revolution-era phrase “eat the snarksters” great again, leading some to ponder the hypothetical palatability of Bill in Portland Maine meat. —Rex Huppke

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