the April fool

April Fool’s Day is the closest thing we satirists have to a national holiday. My favourite prank was posting in the staff logbook of the psych unit where I worked that we would be installing a drive-through window similar to McDonald’s. Now that I spend all my time in awe from living in a temperate rainforest, I leave the tomfoolery to others. I expect this AFD to take all month.

Consider: Trump will be wowing us tomorrow with THE BEST TARIFFS EVER!!! Don’t worry that economist after economist has raised red flags with gale warnings about doing so. It’s what God wants him to do. Don’t worry about the collapsing health system caused by the DOGE debacle. Pay no heed to the massive security breach his minions are still bumbling. If that had happened on Biden’s watch, Aging Orange’s goon squad would be storming the Capital again.

I’m eager to see how three elections go today. In the battleground state of Wisconsin, a liberal judge is going up against a conservative one for a seat on the state supreme court. If the conservative wins, that will flip the court red. At $90 billion spent on advertising, canvassing and such, it’s the most expensive judicial election in American history.

Two U.S. House seats in Florida, vacated by Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz so they could do more damage on a national level, are available and more in play than the GOP would like to admit. If any of these three votes are close, the floundering Democrats could genuinely take heart. A win for the Dems could give the White House genuine reason to worry.

Good luck to us all when Trump liberates the world come the morrow.