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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-04-17
Clap Harder, People. Clap Harder.
Via Colbert, the answer to all our prayers over the death of the economy...
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He sure has a tiny wand. (Snork!)
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, April 17, 2025
Note: A reminder that tomorrow is International Jugglers Day. Not sure how we’re celebrating yet. Our plans are still up in the air.
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By the Numbers:
8 days!!!
Weeks 'til May Day: 2
Days 'til the 58th Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans: 8
Percent chance that independent voters are "abandoning Trump in record numbers," according to CNN: 100%
Current number of measles cases in Texas, up from 1: 565
Number of vice presidents besides JD Vance who have dropped and damaged the National College Football Championship trophy: 0
Weight of the ancient Dacian treasure discovered by two metal detectorists in Transylvania: 550 grams
Ocean temperature off the coast of Portland, Maine: 40F
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
In the United States, we do not have full-throated, full-throttle debate about Israel. In Israel, they have it as a matter of course, but the truth is that the accusation of anti-Semitism is far too often raised in this country against anyone who criticizes the government of Israel. Being pro-Israel is no defense, as I long ago learned to my cost. Now I've gotten used to it. Jews who criticize Israel are charmingly labeled "self-hating Jews." As I have often pointed out, that must mean there are a lot of self-hating Israelis, because those folks raise hell over their own government's policies all the time. I don't know that I've ever felt intimidated by the knee-jerk "you're anti-Semitic" charge leveled at anyone who criticizes Israel, but I do know I have certainly heard it often enough to become tired of it. And I wonder if that doesn't produce the same result: giving up on the discussion. —April, 2006
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Portland, Maine's new officer on the beat…
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CHEERS to Billeh's Thursday Morning Tariff Report. If it's Thursday morning—and it is, cuz I checked—it must be time for Billeh's Thursday Morning Tariff Report. It’s the tariff report for you and me and all the common folk in the diners who can't wait to hear the latest on how President Trump is filling up our nation's depleted coffers with shipping containers full of MONEY MONEY MONEY! His tariff plan is so perfect, so beautiful, so amazing, like nothing ever before in the history of our country, so let’s see his well-oiled machine in action:
Trump has repeatedly said the United States is taking in $2 billion per day from tariffs. “Tariff power...ACTIVATE!!!” CBP says [an] average $250 million a day was collected.
Brilliant! Beautiful! Hitting 1/8 of your goal—AS WE ALL KNOW—is exactly the same as hitting 100 percent of your goal or even MORE. I'm sure this same business acumen is the reason why I reckon his casinos are still raking in money hand-over-fist, a fact of which I'm so sure that I haven't even bothered to check on them since the mid-1980s. I don’t know about you, but this might be my favorite tariff update ever!
CHEERS to little flipperoonies. Don't forget to put a large red Canadian maple leaf in the box for April 28 on your wall calendar. (Or, if your calendar is only online, grab a red indelible marker and draw a large maple leaf on your screen.) That's the date, after a grueling five-week campaign period, of the elections up yonder. If all goes as expected, the results are going to be wholly unexpected. And for that, says a Canadian pollster, we have a certain wanna-be King south of the border to thank:
[A]s Donald Trump talked more and more about tariffs and annexing Canada, [Frank] Graves—and the rest of the country—watched as the Conservative Party’s 25-point lead evaporated. Now, Graves predicts a comfortable win for Mark Carney and his fellow Liberals. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney will be North America’s rock when he wins a full term. “This is unprecedented,” Graves said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine. “I have never seen a transformation of our voter landscape in Canada of that nature. … The Liberals in my latest numbers, they would get a massive 200-seat majority. Now I think there’ll probably be a little fall back, but they’ll have a big cushion. This is unprecedented. I have never seen a transformation of our voter landscape in Canada of that nature. The biggest factor by far is President Trump."
What do you even say to that? You're welcome, Canada?
CHEERS to Saddle Sores for Freedom. During this week in 1775, Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott hopped on their hoverboards and trundled from Boston to Concord, Mass., warning the citizens of the approaching British army (Prescott was the only one with enough juice to make it all the way). Their focus group-tested talking point: "The British Are Coming." Tomorrow: The thrilling conclusion.
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CHEERS to money in the bank. A quick alert: I’m told that that the sky will open and the angels will sing tomorrow. It’s “Tax Freedom Day”—the day on which Americans have earned enough to pay off their tax obligations for the year. The next financial milestone arrives when Americans earn enough to pay off their credit card debts. "Plastic Freedom Day" will arrive on... [flip flip flip flip] ...December 31. 11:59 pm, to be precise.
CHEERS to Janet vs. Goliath. Not content to do the boring old job of nabbing evildoers and criminals, the Justice Department has decided to marshal all its resources to interfere in our high school sports programs. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who never met a brain cell she didn’t want to deport, is coming after Maine with guns blazing:
The Justice Department has filed suit against Maine in an effort to challenge the state's policy regarding transgender athletes competing in girls' and women's sports, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges Maine's policy violates Title IX and stems from a broader effort by the Trump administration to spotlight an issue that they see as politically damaging for Democrats.
Meanwhile, the administration's ham-fisted attempt to steal food from Maine students' mouths met a brick wall via a federal judge. And when all this is over, Bondi is going to have to carve out five minutes to re-re-re-re-explain to her master the difference between unconstitutional executive orders scrawled in Sharpie and federal laws properly passed by Congress. Be sure to include pictures, ma'am. You know how confused he gets without pictures.
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Ten years ago in C&J: April 17, 2015
CHEERS to getting real. While the Republican presidential candidates are busy shouting their lungs out about death and gloom and destruction, Hillary Clinton quietly rolled out her campaign with a video that more than a few people said moved them to tears. And unlike the stock-footage-happy Republicans, Team Hillary populated the ad with real people, including what I believe is the first gay couple in a campaign-launch and definitely the first gay couple planning marriage in a campaign ad:
The video features the couple among other Clinton supporters in a segment in which they are shown holding hands as they walk down a street. Overheard is [Jared] Milrad’s voice, who says, “I’m getting married this summer to someone I really care about.” [Nathan] Johnson and Milrad plan to marry on July 19 in Chicago in a park adjacent to Lake Michigan, then hold a reception at Center of Halstead, an LGBT community center in the city.
Not to be outdone, Ted Cruz is working on a video featuring his own base of supporters. Unfortunately it's taking longer than expected because their natural inclination is to skitter away from sunlight.
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And just one more…
Atrios, aka Duncan Black, at Netroots Nation
CHEERS to the Baby Blue Cherub. Everybody stop by and say "Heh indeedy" to Atrios (aka millstone-around-Philadelphia's-neck Duncan Black) today on the 23rd blogiversary of his Eschaton blog. Few dirty f*cking hippies can reduce the traditional media and punditry's wankery to one or two lines of cool-as-a-cucumber snark like this communist peacenik can. He was especially ahead of the curve on the ‘08 economic meltdown and the Iraq debacle, led the charge to expand Social Security, and predicted the inevitable doom of driverless cars. Besides that, his is a classic, old-fashioned blog that looks the same as it did during the Dark Times of 2002. By the way, this was the moment on April 17, 2002 when he flicked the switch for the first time:
Is this thing on? by Atrios at 22:13 0 comments
Yes, it still is. And if it ever shuts down, civilization is doomed.
Oh, and Philadelphia resident Ben Franklin died on this date in 1790. I guess that explains why he never returns my calls. Have a nice Thursday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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