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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday [1]

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Date: 2025-03-05

A Public Service Announcement

Via The Daily Show, this is American history on MAGA drugs:

x Is it possible to talk about MLK or Rosa Parks without using banned DEI words? Josh Johnson investigates — The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) 2025-02-28T23:08:17.146Z

Hey, I have a contribution for a DEI-free lesson. It goes like this: Rosa Parks was a woman who could’ve kicked Trump’s ass even on her worst day. The End.

And now, our feature presentation...

Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Note: If you were injured by a plastic baby in a king's cake yesterday, don’t take the law into your own hands. I'm Bill in Portland Maine, attorney at law, and I'll get you the biggest settlement possible. Call now!

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By the Numbers:

3 days!!!

Days 'til spring: 13

Days 'til the South Michigan Winter Beer Festival in Jackson: 3

Downgrade by Moody's of expected 1st-quarter GDP growth: 2.3% to 1.2%

Decrease in construction spending as of January: 0.2%

Percent of Americans polled by Pew Research who want to keep funding for Ukraine: 65%

Minimum number of wildfires that have broken out in North and South Carolina: 175

Length of Best Actor Oscar winner Adrian Brody's acceptance speech, the longest in Oscar history: 5 minutes, 40 seconds

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Mid-week Rapture Index: 180 (including 4 earthquakes and 1 sneak peek at Heaven). Soul Protection Factor 8 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.

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Puppy Pic of the Day: Cleaning day…

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CHEERS and JEERS to making cents (and also losing them). Being a world-renowned fauxconomist, I know that my opinion can have an overly-influential effect on the fiduciary proceedings of the global markets and non-fungible token futures. So I'll simply stay neutral and recap the week thus far in economics and horse tradin' with some traditional-media headlines we carved off of the internet. With Mr. Businessman in charge now, I’m sure everything’s just peachy...

$ Trade war escalates as countries retaliate against U.S. $ Stocks fall as tariffs take effect $ Tesla shares plunged 28% during Musk’s first month at White House $ Best Buy shares plunge as CEO warns price increases are ‘highly likely’ due to Trump tariffs $ Bitcoin erases all of its gain that followed Trump’s crypto reserve announcement $ Maine lobstermen hauled in smallest catch in 15 years $ Local farmers anxious over federal funding freeze $ Tariffs will cause food prices to rise “in the next couple of days” $ Pro-Trump techies enraged by president’s crypto reserve announcement $ Oil prices fall after OPEC affirms plan to raise production $ Major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike U.S. prices, report finds $ Single-family serious delinquency rate increased in January $ Construction spending down in January $ Maine maple syrup: tree tappin’ season has begun

Tonight on our dinner table: waffles and irrational exuberance.

JEERS to “the speech.” I'm going out on a huge limb here, because it's still Tuesday morning and yet I'm already writing my summary of Putin, Jr.'s speech last night to a joint session of Congress: it sucked. A bunch of hokum and bullshit wrapped up in nationalistic language that might as well have come from the Aryan Mad Libs for Dummies. It was stilted, stunted, uninspired, woodenly delivered, and pointless. On top of that, no one shouted "You lie!", meaning the slur has only been shouted at one president—the Black one. Now folks on both sides will go back to their respective corners and continue proving that the United States is a failed experiment in representative democracy for the foreseeable future. On the other hand, this was fun…

x Lauren Boebert was removed from the chamber for attempting to Beetlejuice 91-year old Chuck Grassley. — Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T03:12:55.073Z

And this was a moment…

x Mike Johnson forcibly removed @algreen.house.gov from the House chamber via the Sergeant at Arms after repeated disruptions during Trump's #SOTU speech tonight. Early in Trump's remarks, Democrats repeatedly interrupted him, with Green standing and shouting that Trump had no mandate. — Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T02:52:23.111Z

We now return you to our regularly-scheduled resistance.

JEERS to humans behaving badly. On March 5, 1946, prompted by the shenanigans of Joseph Stalin (who died on this date in 1953) in post-World War II Europe, Winston Churchill introduced the new phrase "Iron Curtain" in a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Or, as Bed Bath & Beyond would later call it: "our worst-selling curtain ever."

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JEERS to jumping on the birther bandwagon. A reminder of how even "respectable" media outlets played the "he's not like the rest of us" card with our 44th president back when he was still slogging away on the campaign trail. This was an actual CNN online poll question that was posted 17 years ago this week as the 2008 Democratic primary season kicked into high gear:

I think it's time for a new question, now that it’s been eight years since he completed his successful and popular two-term presidency: "Does Barack Obama show the proper patriotism for someone who is a former president of the United States?” Get on it, CNN. Because if he's not, I say we should haul him back and plop his hiney someplace we can keep a close eye on him. (I recommend a seat on the Supreme Court.)

CHEERS to processions with punch. Gotta give a shout-out to my homies (I assume over there they call them “hausies”) in Düsseldorf, Germany, which was my playground as a kid for four years back in the ‘70s. This week they had their annual carnival-related Rose Monday parade, for which they create outrageous floats that lampoon politicians and assorted evildoers the world over. You can see some of them here, but I’ll highlight one I love in all its crude glory: wanna-be dictator "Napo-Elon" wearing a diaper with the logo of the new German Nazi party (AfD) while holding his shit-spewing X bullhorn and a moth-eaten American flag as he’s being chased by an employee of the local loony bin. Gross but effective:

Six words for whoever’s in possession of the float now: Special delivery to Elon’s DOGE office.

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Ten years ago in C&J: March 5, 2015

CHEERS to starting the search. Nutty Dr. Ben "Obamacare is Worse Than Slavery" Carson says he has formed an exploratory committee to prepare for a 2016 White House run. Results so far are mixed. They haven't found any money yet, but they did spot a few polyps.

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And just one more…

CHEERS to a furry four-legger's best friend. Can’t let the day to go by without sending out a heartfelt “meow” in honor of Tricia Wyse LeFevre—aka Daily Kos's beloved animal rights activist and "Pootie Queen"—who left us nine years ago today. Tricia was the driving force behind the daily "pootie diaries" (and, for canine aficionados, "Woozle Wednesdays"), a lengthy strip of LOL pics that served (and still serves, thanks to her litter of a-“mew”-sing surrogates) as a welcome oasis on the Rec List amidst all the pie flinging and Trump insanity. Kossack bfitzinAR said it best in her diary that broke the news:

Triciawyse, aka The Pootie Queen It’s hard to even start on how and why she was so important. … She created a space where people could bring their joy in their pets, their questions about pets, and their sorrow at the loss of their pets. She created a safe space where we could come when the stresses of our personal lives became overwhelming. She loved our community, kept track of us, let everyone know when one of us needed help or sympathy—and put it on the top of every diary that she would defend the Peeps under any circumstances.

One of the nicest things this community did for Tricia was to pay her way to attend the Netroots Nation convention in Providence in 2011. Michael and I were there when she arrived at the hotel—yes, wearing her leopard-print cat ears (above)—and until the moment she left five days later she was treated like the royalty she was. Fair to say that was a highlight of what was a very challenging life for Trish. So, in her honor today, we’re serving up a giant tub of Fancy Feast Liver & Giblet casserole in the C&J cafeteria. Would you prefer a fork or a spoon?

Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?

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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial “The discovery in Cheers and Jeers, in an imperial context, of such a conspicuous nucleus of Egyptian blue confirms once again the refinement and very high specialization of the workers who worked on the decorations of the kiddie pool.” —Parco Archeologico del Colosseo

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