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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-04-01
Energize An Ally Tuesday
I need you to make a big ol’ donation today. But not money. Just a handful of positive liberal vibes sent in the general vicinity of—[gestures wildly with index finger]—Wisconsin, where perfectly-decent Judge Susan Crawford is facing a MAGA puppet owned and operated by Elon Musk with dreams of overturning legitimate elections, outlawing abortion, and going back to the old days of the state being ruled by one party. (Guess which one?)
Go get ‘em, Judge!
By my rudimentary calculation, a Crawford win would result in—[Clackity Clack Clack Clackity Clack Clack Ding!]—a major humiliation for the Republican party, while casting the state in a favorable light for refusing to reward the side that lies, cheats, and steals over the party that doesn't.
On that score, C&J offers a preemptive tip of the hat to the stalwart heroes of this and every election at every level: the poll workers, tabulators, and supervisors who bust their humps to make sure things are done with integrity and transparency. May every Republican who falsely casts them as villains develop horrible itchy rashes until they either repent or die and go to Hell, whichever comes first.
Things look promising for Judge Crawford, as it's dawns on Wisconsinites that her opponent would be a guy whose mind is so lost in the weeds that he supports Trump’s pardons of the Jan. 6 traitors who tried to overthrow the U.S. government lawlessly and by force. Everybody just pause for a moment to let that sink in.
It's health care, education, fact, science, empathy, and impartiality versus ignorance, incompetence, bigotry, and apathy. Polls close at 8pm. Send those vibes now and may the best Susan Crawford win.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Note: PolitiFact rates this note “False.” In response, this note rates PolitiFact’s rating “Pants-On-Fire.” Up next: a giant street brawl.
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By the Numbers:
11 days!!!
Days 'til Walk to Work Day: 3
Days 'til the National Grits Festival in Warwick, Georgia: 11
Minimum number of reported measles cases in West Texas, up from 1: 400
Latest estimate for 1st quarter economic growth (GDP): 0.25%
Percent chance that the President of the United States cares that his tariffs will mean an extra $10,000 tacked on to the price of your next car, according to his own big mouth: 0%
Magnitude of the initial earthquake and aftershock, respectively, in Myanmar: 7.7 / 5.1
Estimated death toll from the quake so far: 2,000
Age of Richard Chamberlain (The Thorn Birds, Dr. Kildare, Shogun) when he died over the weekend: 90
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Puppy Pic of the Day: I missed this one when it came out…
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CHEERS and JEERS to April. Wikipedia tells me that "The traditional etymology is from the verb aperire, 'to open,' in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to open." Or as we call that up here in Maine: May.
And what a packed month it is. The Trump tariffs are poised to tank the economy nearly as much as he’s already tanked relationships with our allies. Major league baseball gets into high gear. (Red Sox are gonna win it all again this year, as they have for the last hundred.) It's Poetry Month, Summer Tire Changeover Month, and Jazz Appreciation Month. Passover starts on the 13th, followed by Easter on the 20th.
Get busy. And this year throw in some extra lard.
But wait, there’s more! Like a "pink moon" on the 12th, Tax Day on the 15th, Earth Day, Patriots Day, Arbor Day, National 8-Track Tape Day, and Administrative Professionals Day. The April movie roster looks mildly interesting. But who cares about movies when there’s Season 2 of the best Star Wars streaming series ever—Andor—on the 22nd (Disney+), featuring the return of one of my favorite Imperial villains: Director Krennick from Rogue One, played to smarmy perfection by Ben Mendelsohn. May the force be with it.
CHEERS to my favorite detail. If you didn't read about it, you certainly felt the tremor from Europe yesterday morning as news spread that French presidential candidate and fascism humper Marine Le Pen was caught, tried, and convicted by a court for DOING CRIMEY BUSINESS! Yes, it turns out that she and her DOGE-style posse were caught funneling over twenty nine bajillion monetary units (equal to a kajillion baguettes) from an EU parliament fund to members of her own party. The judge's sentence includes both a couple years rotting in The Bastille and also a five-year ban on running for political office. And my favorite detail from the AP story written by Sylvie Corbet and John Leicester? This:
“Incredible,” Le Pen she whispered at one point. She then abruptly left without warning, picking up her bag and striding out, her heels click-click-clicking on the hardwood floor, leaving disbelief in her wake.
And this just in: Marine Le Pen wakes up in Kansas surrounded by Hunk, Zeke, Hickory, and Auntie Em. Film at 11.
JEERS to crazy fool stunts. On April 1, 1930, baseball Hall-of-Famer Leo "Gabby" Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs broke some kind of altitude record by catching a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles. He caught the ball awkwardly, and it broke his jaw. We think someone should faithfully re-enact that stunt on its 95th anniversary with complete historical accuracy. Is J.D. Vance free tonight?
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CHEERS to—squeaky squeak!—that clean plate sound. On today’s date in 1889, the first dish washing machine was marketed in Chicago. We have one in our house—a rescue mutt named Haley. Upside: she saves us a bundle on electricity. Downside: poops way more than a Kenmore.
Ugh to April Fools Day. It's the one day a year we have permission to put our scruples aside, make up wild stories, spew bullshit, and think of endless ways to make people dislike you. Or as anyone wearing a red MAGA hat calls it: Tuesday.
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Ten years ago in C&J: April 1, 2015
JEERS to a failure to budge. Today is the BIG DEADLINE for coming up with some kind of acceptable nuclear deal with Iran, and Bloomberg characterizes the final hours as a high-stakes game of chicken. But there's still the proverbial glimmer:
One indicator that a deal may be within reach on Tuesday would be the return of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov left the talks on Monday for a Moscow meeting with the foreign minister of the Pacific Island of Vanuatu. He would come back only if there’s a “realistic” prospect of a deal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi sounded an optimistic note, saying that “the scale of disagreement has shrunk” as diplomats enter what he likened to the final sprint of their marathon.
According to sources, all that remains is an agreement on what to do with Iran's enriched uranium, how quickly the west will remove economic sanctions and, easiest of all, a resolution signed by all six nations confirming that Senator Tom Cotton is a dick. And if they refuse on that last item, John Kerry is prepared to walk away.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to Rachel Maddow—TV host, razor-sharp political analyst, hypocrisy slayer, Rhodes Scholar and birthday chick! MSNBC's brightest bulb turns a spry 52 today. (I'm old enough to be her father, assuming I sired a child at 8.) Every night, piece by piece and brick by brick, she dismantles the GOP monolith and corporate shennanigans with such grace and dexterity that her conservative guests usually end up thanking her for the gutting. After throttling back to Mondays only (so she could pursue other projects), she’s back to her full-week schedule, and we’re better off for it. She tolerates no BS—and that's why we love her. In her honor, champagne cocktails all around:
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Cheers, Rachel, and—everybody say it with me—many blessings on your camels.
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 From now until April 19, your desire to play in the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool will be front and center. It’s a great time to focus your efforts fully on yourself and all that you plan to splash during your dips. —Sanctuary horoscopes
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