Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Be aware: As of as we speak, right here in C&J chances are you’ll now not say homosexual. As an alternative, yell it by a bullhorn and we’ll haven’t any issues. Thanks.  —Gov. Billeh

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By the Numbers:

Days ’til the beginning of the NHL playoffs: 5

Days ’til the 2023 Specialty Espresso Expo in Portland, Oregon: 9

Individuals polled by Pew Analysis who say their largest criticism in regards to the tax system is that firms and rich folks do not pay their justifiable share: 83%

Common bank card rate of interest now: 20.92%

% of Individuals who considered Trump favorably per week after his indictment, in keeping with a brand new ABC Information/Ipsos ballot, down from 29% within the earlier ballot: 25%

Anticipated yr by which 2/3 of of the automobiles bought within the U.S. can be electrical: 2032

Approximate variety of years I’ve carried this identical tube of cherry ChapStik in my pocket: 5

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Mid-week Rapture Index: 186 (together with 4 world turmoil occasions and 1 basket of furry sinners). Soul Safety Issue 24 lotion is beneficial if you happen to’ll be strolling amongst the heathen as we speak.

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Pet Pic of the Day: Group photo gets organized…

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JEERS to snubbing the desire of the bulk. In a C&J ballot earlier this yr, 51 % of you selected Atlanta as your most well-liked website for the 2024 Democratic Nationwide Conference. In second place was Chicago at 34 % and New York Metropolis at 16. Taking our flawless knowledge and strategic prowess into most consideration, we’ve got a winner and it is after all ATLANTA!!!! If by Atlanta, you imply…

The Democratic Celebration has chosen Chicago as its 2024 conference, three sources shared with NBC Information Tuesday morning.  The choice got here after deliberations and website visits from Democratic Nationwide Committee members. In latest months, the DNC considered Chicago and Atlanta because the frontrunners, with New York Metropolis remaining within the combine.

Contained in the DNC, Chicago was considered as the favourite due to the enchantment of its venue—the United Heart—and its inventory of resort suites and eating places, in addition to the political and monetary pressure of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, whom DNC members believed wouldn’t permit the conference to fail.

The victory of a brand new Chicago mayor—Brandon Johnson—a 46-year-old Black progressive member of the Prepare dinner County Board of Commissioners, who rose to victory regardless of being outspent within the race, additional fueled momentum behind a Chicago bid.

Presumably firing up the Democratic trustworthy in higher Midwest states like Wisconsin (the MAGA cult’s conference is in Milwaukee), Michigan, and Minnesota is considered as extra helpful from an electoral faculty standpoint than Georgia. So Chicago it’s. Please maintain your applause till the networks name the election for Joe Biden.

CHEERS to the tip of our lengthy nationwide nightmare. It is over, of us. At present the Biden administration made it official: due to the devoted work of scientists, well being care staff, and an American public devoted to the therapeutic energy of Ivermectin and bleach injections, the satan’s virus has been subdued…

President Biden on Monday signed a Republican-authored invoice terminating the nationwide emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic, a day earlier than the White Home had stated the president would unilaterally finish nationwide emergency declarations associated to the pandemic. […]

The brand new legislation instantly ends the nationwide emergency and public well being emergency first enacted through the Trump administration and continued by the Biden administration. … The declarations allowed for federal funding to be freed as much as cities and states for issues like testing and vaccination facilities.

Taking one last peek on the tote board of woe, we see that the pandemic resulted in over 106 million instances of Covid within the U.S., and over 1.1 million deaths, amongst them a whole swath of MAGA cult preachers, politicians, anti-vaxxers, and no matter Herman Cain’s title was when he acquired the ‘Rona at a Trump rally. To the remainder of you: good job, everybody. Thanks for masking up and getting your Fauci ouchies, and we’ll see you on Zoom when the following thriller virus sends us again into lockdown. And to you, China, to your fixed lies and cover-ups and refusal to take accountability for what y’all unleashed: Bless yer hearts.

JEERS to days we would wish to overlook. On April 12, 1861, in one of the crucial tragic mix-ups in American historical past, Accomplice troops by accident fired cannons loaded with large lead balls—as a substitute of the “prank” cannons loaded with confetti—at Fort Sumter, thus igniting the Civil Struggle.  Northerners…so sensitive.

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BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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JEERS to cerebral hemorrhages. They suck.  President Franklin Roosevelt died from one 78 years in the past At present down in Heat Springs, Georgia.  His non-public Secretary Grace Tully recounts what occurred right here. A snip:

The shock was surprising and the reality of the occasion was exterior perception.

With no phrase or a look towards the others current, I walked into the bed room, leaned over and kissed the President calmly on the brow.  Then I walked out on the porch and stood wordless and tearless.  In my coronary heart had been prayers and, lastly, in my thoughts got here ideas, a flood of them drawn from seventeen years of acquaintance, shut affiliation and reverent admiration. By way of them, one recurred consistently—that the Boss had all the time shunned emotionalism and that I need to, for the instant current at the least, behave in his sample.

I did, for a matter of hours.

Whereas FDR’s technology acquired a rendezvous with future, ours acquired a rendezvous with a fuckup named Dubya and, eight years later, one other fuckup named Dampnut, and we’ll be paying for it the remainder of our lives—thanks so much, destiny.  Now comb your hair and go pay your respects.  As all the time, regards to Eleanor.

JEERS to as we speak’s version of Positive, That’ll Work. Courtesy of ABC Information:

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee known as on U.S. Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday to open an investigation into the undisclosed acceptance of luxurious journeys taken by Justice Clarence Thomas and his spouse that had been paid for by a Republican megadonor.

This has been as we speak’s version of Positive, That’ll Work.

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Ten years in the past in C&J: April 12, 2013

CHEERS to mutts on the mend. Yesterday C&J’s new 16-week-old rescue lab-mix pet Haley acquired her hoo-ha plumbing eliminated, and the affected person is resting comfortably after taking her handful of morning drugs. In reality, she’s asking me if she will be able to perform a little liveblogging. Positive:

That is so groovy, man. For those who wave your paw within the air it paints a rainbow. I imply, critically, why is the federal government suppressing our rainbows, man? It is so unhappy. Additionally I simply need to say that Jerry Garcia lives proper right here, man—proper on this ol’ dawg coronary heart ‘o mine. Y’know I would like to provide the peace signal however with paws it simply comes off wanting like Heil Hitler.

Oh wow, it’s Previous Yeller in a Buick Regal. That is gotta be chased. Keep based mostly, peeps.

I believe perhaps we’ll decrease the dose.

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And only one extra…

CHEERS to U.S. Mint’y freshness. The brand new American Girls Quarter is right here! The brand new American Girls Quarter is right here!  Sure certainly, the newest within the sequence of U.S. quarters celebrating achieved American ladies was launched a pair weeks again, and this one involves you from the nice state of Hawaii:

A commemorative quarter that includes a beloved Hawaii icon has been launched into circulation. The quarter options Edith Kanaka’ole—a cultural chief, composer and kumu hula.

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The coin reveals a portrait of Kanaka’ole along with her hair and lei po’o (or head lei) morphing into components of Hawaii’s panorama—symbolizing her lifelong dedication to preserving Hawaiian land and tradition.

On the underside of the coin reads, “E ho mai ka ‘ike,” which interprets to “granting the knowledge.”

Here is “Aunty Edith’s” entry on the Nationwide Girls’s Historical past Museum. She’s the second graduate of the Mint’s Class of ’23.  C&J will maintain you posted on the following honoree forward of her arrival. It’s going to give regular folks time to be taught extra about these trailblazing ladies, and misogynists time to take their coronary heart treatment.

Have a cheerful humpday. Flooring’s open…What are you cheering and jeering about as we speak?

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At present’s Shameless C&J Testimonial

“I’ve all the time recognized that magnificence is deeper than the bodily physique Invoice in Portland Maine is strolling round in.“

—Halle Berry

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