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Cheers and Jeers: Monday [1]

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Date: 2025-04-07

Sneak Preview of the Week Ahead

Monday:

Tuesday through Friday: See Monday.

Courtesy of your friendly, competent, and fiscally-responsible Republican party, now in the process of passing tax cuts for their billionaire friends that will add a trillion dollars to the deficit for eight of the next ten years. Huzzah.

And now, our feature presentation...

Cheers and Jeers for Monday, April 7, 2025

Note: The internet tells me that today is "No Housework Day." Or as most people call it: "Day That Ends In Y Day."

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By the Numbers:

8 days!!!

Days 'til Easter: 13

Days 'til CheeseCon in Madison, Wisconsin: 8

Current estimated number (and growing) of measles cases in Texas, from which two kids have died: 490

Cost of that military attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen—the one whose national security team chat on Signal included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg: $1 billion

Number of Trump tariffs imposed on goods from Russia: 0

Number of thermal features (geysers, mud pots, hot springs) at Yellowstone National Park: 10,000

Rank of Loving You (Minnie Ripperton), Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John), and No No Song/snookeroo (Ringo Starr) on the Billboard chart this week 50 years ago: #1, #2, #3

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Puppy Pic of the Day: Little explorer…

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CHEERS to giving the world a hug. I have a great idea. Let’s start our week by pulling out the ol’ C&J bullhorn and giving a Monday morning shoutout to all of our best friends around the world in their native language. They love responding in kind with a hearty good morning in ours. This’ll be a fun and uplifting global moment of unity. Ah-hem:

Hey, Germany: Guten Morgen! Hey, United States: F*ck you! Hey, France: Bonjour! Hey, United States: F*ck you! Hey, Ireland! Dia duit! Hey, United States: F*ck you! Hey, Poland: Dzień dobry Hey, United States: F*ck you! Hey, Finland: Hyvää huomenta! Hey, United States: F*ck you! Hey, Canada: Bon matin! Hey, United States: F*ck you!

I think there’s an important lesson here for all of us. Never rely on me ever again for great ideas.

JEERS to swirling eyes of evil. If it's April, it must be hurricane season…or, to be more specific, hurricane prediction season. First out of the gate is AccuWeather, the Pennsylvania-based private company that in 2005 lined Senator Rick Santorum's campaign coffers in exchange for his promise to try and neuter the government’s National Weather Service and eliminate them as a forecasting competitor. And with Elon Musk dismantling the NOAA piece by piece, Ricky Boy may finally get his wish. But AccuWeather has some decent meteorologists, so it's worth hearing what they have to say about the upcoming season. In a word: Yikes...

[It] calls for another active season "with multiple impacts on the United States." The news comes less than two weeks after an unusual and brief tropical disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean signaled that hurricane season isn't all that far away. [...] AccuWeather's forecast, released Wednesday, calls for 13-18 named storms, of which 7-10 will be hurricanes. The canvas is now blank, soon to be filled with 2025’s squiggly lines of doom. Last year's hyperactive Atlantic hurricane season received a boost from climate troublemaker La Niña, a cooling of Pacific Ocean water that forecasters now say is weakening. It's being replaced by so-called "ENSO-Neutral" conditions, which mean that ocean water isn't particularly cool or warm. According to the weather service, hurricanes occur more frequently during the neutral phase (when neither El Niño nor La Niña are in effect) than they do during El Niño.

The names for 2025's tropical storms are listed here. As always, if you're named after a storm this year, you're in charge of the cleanup. (It’s only fair.)

CHEERS to great moments in synthetics. During this week in 1869, the first form of plastic—celluloid—was patented. 156 years later, the talking heads at Fox News swear by it for their almost-lifelike appearance. Memo to Jeanine Pirro: time to order another case—you're sagging again.

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BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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x This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this. — Nate Blouin (@nateforutah.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T19:06:40.776Z

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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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CHEERS to escaping hell in a handbasket. 259 years ago this week, in April of 1766, the first fire escape was patented—it consisted of a wicker basket lowered by a pulley and chain. Of course they've evolved a lot since then. The new wicker fire escape baskets have GPS and a cup holder.

CHEERS to hoops hopes. After a wild March of ups and downs and smiles and frowns—not to mention a road littered with busted brackets, we can finally say congrats to the UConn Huskies, the NCAA women’s basketball champs (over South Carolina). Tonight the less popular men’s division wraps up the Madness d' March with a board-stompin' dustup between Houston and Florida. My head says Go Cougars, but my gut's cheerin' the other guys because God came to me in a dream and, as I was levitating in a swirl of mystic fog, told me to put all my chips on the Gators. Hey, don't laugh...we agnostics take these things very seriously.

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Ten years ago in C&J: April 7, 2015

CHEERS to the call of the Paul. Today's the day! Roll out the bunting and hire every brass band within a hundred miles! Today American national treasure Rand Paul—Aqua Buddha his bad self—is officially announcing that he's running for President of the United States. The Washington insider says he plans to run as a Washington outsider, and as a libertarian-Republican he's guaranteed to piss everybody off at least half the time. His folksy-drawly persona may get him all the way. But the big question will loom large over his campaign: Is America ready for its first Human-Tribble hybrid president? I'm not quite sure we're there yet.

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And just one more…

CHEERS to them's who crossed the finish line first. It's a well-established fact by now that C&J's Friday "Who won the week" poll, introduced 17 years ago this month, is considered America's 500-pound gorilla of weekly polls. I can't remember what inspired me to create the first one, but today it's a feel-good feature that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with such time-honored American traditions as stickball, setting pies on window sills to cool, and Republican shitbag presidents who follow competent and humble Democratic presidents by fucking up all the work they did to make life better. As we leave behind the first quarter of 2025, let's take a moment to review the winners from January through March:

Jan 3 President Biden, for closing out 2024 with lower crime, lower illegal immigration, major climate and infrastructure initiatives, and an economy humming on all cylinders. Jan 10 The firefighters, first responders, and neighbors-helping-neighbors doing everything they can to protect residents and animals from the wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Jan 17 The California firefighters and relief agencies working 24/7, and the nations (including Mexico, Canada and even Ukraine) sending their own firefighters to help. Jan 24 Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, for speaking truth to power at the inauguration in front of Trump and his Fascist oligarch entourage, who clearly hated hearing Jesus's message of love and mercy. Jan 31 Judge Loren AliKhan, for blocking private citizen Elon Musk's unconstitutional attempt to freeze federal funding, including for Medicaid. - Feb 7 The federal judges who blocked Trump's attempts to end birthright citizenship, fire USAID employees, scam federal employees with a fake buyout offer, and freeze government spending. The winners have the honor of fighting over these six lovely pieces of luggage. Hey, it’s all we could afford. Besides, if they weren’t so effing greedy they could time-share them. Feb 14 U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and other attorneys and officials who resigned rather than participate in Trump's quid-pro-quo scheme by dropping charges against corrupt NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Feb 21 Ukraine and its allies, for telling Trump to go fuck himself for pledging his loyalty to Russia. Feb 28 Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, for calmly taking on tag-team bullies Trump and Vance in the Oval Office to let the world see again what thin-skinned stooges for Russia they are. - March 7 All of the above, related to world leaders and prominent Americans for telling our idiot president to go eff himself. March 14 Federal judge William Alsup, for ordering that the Depts. of the VA, Defense, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Treasury reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were fired in February. March 21 A trio of federal judges who stepped in with rulings cutting Trump’s overreaching orders off at the knees. March 28 Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, for cracking open the "Signalgate" scandal, documenting how Trump's closest and most incompetent lieutenants shared secret military attack plans on the unsecured chat app Signal.

Here’s some WWTW Poll trivia: "Senator" Barack Obama won our first poll back in 2008, and by the time he left office he'd won 84 polls voted on by the Daily Kos community, making him indisputably first in the hearts of our countrymen. (Sorry, George Washington, but we're just not into your "uniformity in weights and measures" shtick anymore.)

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

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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial Considered by many to be one of the most impactful advertising initiatives of all time, the 22-year-old "Got Cheers and Jeers?" campaign by Bill in Portland Maine forever changed the way Americans think about kiddie pools. —Daryl Austin, USA Today

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