It’s New Year’s Eve. Goddamn, this has been an awful year.
There is nothing magical about this date, it’s just another day in a long series of them, we’re just going to change the number of the year, but there are things I’ll be wishing to happen (while having low expectations that anything will happen.)
For 2026, I would like to see the rule of law creep back. I want white nationalism to be repudiated. I want vengeance: I want the fascists in government arrested and locked away.
Is that too much to ask?
If not, throw in the end of capitalism, the collapse of the AI bubble, and the death of Trump.
My hope for 2026 is that the Democratic party can come up with better messages and better ads for the upcoming midterms.
Those Republicans who are now distancing themselves from Trump, for their midterm elections? Remind the public how those same politicians were being ever loving toadies to Trump in 2025.
Remind the public about all the ways the Republican candidates promised things to be better in 2025, only to help make those same things worse instead.
Did they pose with Trump? Have those images share space with photos of Trump and Epstein, the two people who the candidate hasn’t ever spoken against, while “thank heavens for little girls” plays.
I’m just a Canadian nobody. If the professional messengers of the Democratic party can only come up with worse messaging, fire them and replace them with the people who can do that job.
Besides the death of Trump, I hope for everything in Government with his name on it gets demolished. His ballroom, his arch, all the fake gold he has adorned the White House in needs to be removed, and anything else he touched. The Kennedy Center should also be demolished, his has tarnished and corrupted it, demolish it and build a sparkling new one with the just JFK’s name. His name must be eliminated from the history of our government, just like he tries to eliminate history he doesn’t like.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I recall 2019 becoming 2020 and sending memes alluding to 20/20 vision to friends and acquaintances. How did 2020 work out for us? Seems something was in the air already.
One would think the bar really low with 2025. Could it go lower? Maybe send James Cameron down to the trench in a submersible to retrieve that bar?
Hopefully Desantis gets prosecuted. Maybe a blue tsunami in November leads Trump and lickspittle cronies to a similar fate.
At least the Kansas City Chiefs won’t be in the Super Bowl so the power couple will be out of the spotlight. F1 cars will be a little different and Sergio “Checo” Perez returns with a…checks notes…Cadillac.
Measles and other diseases will increase thanks to Robert Felching Kennedy and MAHA loons.
Hate to be a downer, but I expect 2026 to be more of the same as 2025 and perhaps worse. If Donny and the Repugs don’t get their way in the mid-terms then lord knows what they’ll do. Remember January 6, 2020? It could go way beyond that.
I heard an English historian say last night that the reason we celebrate January 1st as New Years is because sometime in the 150s BCE the Romans needed to name someone to deal with a situation in Hispania but they could only fill that position on New Years. At the time, Romans celebrated New Years on March 1st. Rather than change the law about when they could fill the position, they changed when New Years was celebrated to January 1st. I don’t now if that’s accurate but the woman is a professor at Oxford or Cambridge so she has some cred.
It’s been a bad year. The next one will probably be worse.
YES! REVENGE!
You don’t need to completely tear down buildings like the Kenedy Center. Far more fun would be to remove his name in the most public and embarrassing manner possible.
Aside: I’m waiting for the Trump Reagan National Airport. 8-)
“vengeance”
I don’t think you want vengeance, you simply want actual justice. We’ve just had so damn little of it for the past decade.
“There is nothing magical about this date”
but … about 2025:
(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9) squared is 2025
1 cubed + 2 cubed + 3 cubed +… + 9 cubed is 2025.
@robro:
That story is in a serious “Time in Roman Religion” book: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hTDku_ZQ0JgC&pg=PA15
though it adds that “it seems likely that [January 1st] had long supplanted March 1 in marking the commencement of the Roman year (see Michels 1967 97-100).” So that’s arguing it was more changing the consular date (from March 15th, not March 1st) to the one that was already used by people for other purposes.
We, too, hope for a less destructive, less murderous new year. We hope you and your loved ones have a 2026 of health and safety.
However, we see that everyday the increasingly massive push by obscenely wealthy magat plutocrats make what you, and we, wish for less likely to happen. The sad part is that corporate democrats are aiding and abetting that Death Spiral.