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The New Year's Eve celebration drew spectators from around the world, despite cold and blustery weather.

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Happy New Year, you filthy animals.

#1 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-31 09:09 PM | Reply

... The New Year's Eve celebration drew spectators from around the world ...

... and if I may be so bold as to give my rare praise to CNN for its ~New Years Eve Live Around The World~ coverage.

Here in Eastern Time, tomorrow is still nearly 3 hours away.

But in parts of Asia, tomorrow is already nine or more hours in progress.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 09:11 PM | Reply

** A vision of sugar plumbs (or, in this case, dancing bananas) ... **

A projection for the future, starting tomorrow:

The Epstein thing will still be on-going, starting Fridays tens of millions of Americans are going to receive their new healthcare premiums, people will continue to be snatched from the streets of America (Details on your local TV news, sound up, down or muted, same impression - *), the on-going war in Venezuela will get hotter, the buffoons running federal agencies will continue to prove their incompetence, writ large, inflation and rising prices will continue unabated, and ostensible allies will be further insulted and isolated, while economic adversaries will continue to, as they say, Laugh all the way to the bank, while laughing and insulting the Trump right to his face.

Oh, and did I mention that there will be a major national election in less than 11 months?

Happy New Year to most ! ! !

* Thank you to the Trump administration for this in-kind contribution to the Democratic Party and its candidates (oh, and shrimpsizedgenitalsdisguisedbyataco"Dan" too!).

No need to spend a single dime pointing how cruel, yet totally incompetent, is the entire Trump Administration...

Oh, and to all my dear friends on the Reich ** right side of the aisle...

The Happiest of New Years to you and yours

** - in keeping with the Trump's theme of unity this new year.

#3 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 09:12 PM | Reply

@#1 ... Happy New Year, you filthy animals. ...

Why, thank-you. And the same to you.

:)

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 09:12 PM | Reply

Why, thank-you. And the same to you.

:)

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 09:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

You're so welcome.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-31 09:13 PM | Reply

screw new year.....ohio state is 9.5 fav and getting clobbered........

I knew when they beat the aggies IN college station they could beat anybody

LET'S GO CANES...START THE YEAR WITH LOBSTER / STEAK AND A CIGAR..

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-12-31 09:17 PM | Reply

New Years is a great time to announce things like pulling Nat Guard troops out of Blue states and releasing Jack Smith's testimony about DJT's J6 crimes.

You know, while the Base is out drinking beers and shooting off fireworks.

They'll never know it even happened!

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-31 09:18 PM | Reply

U2 - New Year's Day (1983)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
The lyric had its origins in a love song from Bono to his wife, but was subsequently reshaped and inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement.

[Verse 1]
All is quiet on New Year's Day
A world in white gets underway
I want to be with you, be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day
On New Year's Day

[Chorus]
I will be with you again
I will be with you again

[Verse 2]
Under a blood red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspaper says, says

[Pre-Chorus]
Say it's true, it's true
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one

[Chorus]
I, I will begin again
I, I will begin again

...

[Verse 3]
And so we're told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you, be with you night and day
Nothing changes New Year's Day
...



#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 09:18 PM | Reply


Happy New Year, you filthy animals.
#1 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

This isn't the New Year, most of the world the New Year starts Feb 17th, year of the Horse.

Americans are so parochial.

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-31 09:19 PM | Reply

#6 Is the public library open late on New Years Eve?

* Thank you to the Trump administration for this in-kind contribution to the Democratic Party and its candidates (oh, and shrimpsizedgenitalsdisguisedbyataco"Dan" too!).

No need to spend a single dime pointing how cruel, yet totally incompetent, is the entire Trump Administration...

#10 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 09:22 PM | Reply

#9 To our dear friend onepigironsmoothbrainaut ...

The Happiest of New Years to you and yours ! ! !

#11 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 09:23 PM | Reply

So, it turns out that Vlad was lying about 'fireworks' from Ukraine at his hacienda:

www.themoscowtimes.com

Shocking, ain't it?

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-31 09:23 PM | Reply

To our dearest friend, shrimpsizedgenitalsdisguisedbyataco"Dan" ...

The Happiest of New Years to you and yours

#13 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 09:25 PM | Reply

#6 Remember shrimpsizedgenitalsdisguisedbyataco"Dan", there's only so much room in your rectum for, as you say, "LOBSTER / STEAK AND A CIGAR.."

Pace yourself, my friend.

One at a time.

One at a time.

#14 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 09:28 PM | Reply

"This isn't the New Year, most of the world the New Year starts Feb 17th, year of the Horse.
Americans are so parochial"

Awww that's cute. My colleagues in China get 3 days off for the Solar New Year. In Feb I'll wish you Gong Xi fa Cai you propagandist.

#15 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-12-31 09:29 PM | Reply

Happy New Year!

#16 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-12-31 09:29 PM | Reply

#9 In your honor, onepigironsmoothbrainaut ...

...we'll celebrate the year of the horse's ---.

#17 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 09:31 PM | Reply

#12 You say, "it turns out that Vlad was lying about 'fireworks' from Ukraine at his hacienda"

Is that like LZK seeing the Atlantic Ocean from her balcony in Chicago?

Or Sarah Palin seeing Russia from her front porch?

#18 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 09:33 PM | Reply

CIA also says, No Drone Fireworks at Vlad's House:
www.cnn.com

#19 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-31 09:37 PM | Reply

I have heard disturbing rumors that onepigironsmoothbrainaut, or perhaps shrimpsizedgenitalsdisguisedbyataco"Dan" are the actual Barbie Doll Man of Eugene.

Can anyone here confirm or deny that well documented and verified rumor?

Many thanks!

And Happy New Year

#20 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 09:47 PM | Reply

Chinese New Year
en.wikipedia.org

... Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival (see also Names), marks the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture and was placed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in 2024.

Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, this festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve (the evening preceding the first day of the year) to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year.

The first day of the Chinese New Year falls on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.[a] ...


#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 09:49 PM | Reply

This will be a year when Candace and Tucker are the right's closest thing to a voice of reason and Republicans banish them both for it.

It's already in the works!

#22 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-12-31 09:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I also notice that many (most? nearly all?) Asian stock markets are closed of New Year Day.

Actually, it seems to be the week between Christmas and New Year.

They are closed.


#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 09:52 PM | Reply

Happy New Year to all!

#24 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-12-31 10:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Time is going by way too fast for me. Happy New Year anyway.

#25 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-31 10:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#25 ... Time is going by way too fast for me. ...

Yeah. It seems to me that the older I get, the faster time seems to progress. Wish I knew why. But, there it is.

Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game (1970)
www.youtube.com

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

[Chorus]
And the seasons, they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down

We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go 'round and 'round and 'round
In the circle game

[Verse 2]
Then the child moved ten times 'round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like "when you're older" must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams
...


They don't write lyrics like that anymore...

Happy New Year to you also.

#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 11:59 PM | Reply

Happy New Year.
Death to Leftist.

#27 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2026-01-01 12:31 AM | Reply

@#27 ... Death to Leftist. ...

Why?

#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-01 12:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Happy New Year dips*&^s!

#29 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-01 12:54 AM | Reply

#26
Shared experiences on time seemingly speeding up. There's this: "Why We Feel Time Speed Up as We Start to Get Older" (
www.psychologytoday.com). And the lyrics! Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot always worked magic for me. Happy New Year.

#30 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-01-01 06:51 AM | Reply

2025 was the worst year this country has had since 1930.

The repression, the official criminality, the tawdry excesses of Donald Trump are responsible.

How many human beings did Trump kill, directly or indirectly in the year 2025?

The land that Donald builds his ballroom upon is cursed ground. There will be TV shows produced about all the insane paranormal activities.

His vainglorious "triumphal arch" will be worse.

There's going to be a boom in ghost tours in DC.

After completing one, tourists will have this intense need to shower.

#31 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-01 09:13 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"His vainglorious "triumphal arch" will be worse."

If he gets it built it should be the first thing torn down when the Psycho-Chief is replaced.. It wo7uld be great i8f the demolition could actually, physically begin during the Inauguration!

#32 | Posted by danni at 2026-01-01 10:04 AM | Reply

Tengo cruda.

#33 | Posted by shane at 2026-01-01 10:06 AM | Reply

Happy New Year, party people!

I celebrated in the usual way, falling asleep at 10 p.m. watching TV instead of waiting for the ball to drop.

#34 | Posted by rcade at 2026-01-01 10:22 AM | Reply

2026 has to be better than 2025...

FFS, I died in '25.

True story.

#35 | Posted by Wardog at 2026-01-01 11:03 AM | Reply

34

LOL...we went to a concert/party last night that wrapped up at 9:30.

home by 10...watching TV. it was perfect.

#36 | Posted by eberly at 2026-01-01 11:04 AM | Reply

#34

You stayed awake until 10pm? You're an animal!

#37 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-01-01 01:17 PM | Reply

Zed,

I wonder what this past year would have been like if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were in the White House.

Leave Trump out of the story. No TDS.

AI can write interesting stories. That might be a fun task to give it steering the story line as needed.

Really...what realistic events might have occurred?

What would be different?

There are some givens we can assume.

The border would be more open and we would likely have more immigrant processing centers.

Military policies about transgender affirming would be more supported.

I'll let AI write the story and I'll just steer the story as needed.

That would actually be an interesting project.

#38 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-01 01:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

" I'll let AI write the story and I'll just steer the story as needed."

Last time you did that, AI said that I was wrong, because the billionaire would do much better than the waitress in the new tax code ...

... which is EXACTLY what I said.

Then it told me I was wrong again, when I said Trump's four centrals cuts for the average Joe ("No Tax on Tips", "No tax on Overtime", "No Tax on Social Security", and "No Tax on New Car Interest") expire before Trump leaves office.

AI said I was wrong, BECAUSE THEY DON'T SUNSET UNTIL THE END OF 2028.

Meaning they sunset three weeks before the inauguration on Jan 20, 2029.

What kind of slop instructions did you give AI?!? It seems like your prompt was "Prove him wrong", and when AI couldn't, it just started making bogus claims.

#39 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-01 02:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A projection for the future, starting today:

The Epstein thing will still be on-going, starting tomorrow tens of millions of Americans are going to receive their new healthcare premiums, people will continue to be snatched from the streets of America (Details on your local TV news, sound up, down or muted, same impression - *), the on-going war in Venezuela will get hotter, the buffoons running federal agencies will continue to prove their incompetence, writ large, inflation and rising prices will continue unabated, and ostensible allies will be further insulted and isolated, while economic adversaries will continue to, as they say, Laugh all the way to the bank, while laughing and insulting the Trump right to his face.

Oh, and did I mention that there will be a major national election in less than 11 months?

Happy New Year to most ! ! !

* Thank you to the Trump administration for this in-kind contribution to the Democratic Party and its candidates (oh, and shrimpsizedgenitalsdisguisedbyataco"Dan", too!).

No need to spend a single dime pointing how cruel, yet totally incompetent, is the entire Trump Administration...

Oh, and to all my dear friends on the Reich ** right side of the aisle...

The Happiest of New Years to you and yours

** - in keeping with the Trump's theme of unity this new year.

#40 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-01 02:14 PM | Reply

#39 You might want to cut BJ boi some slack.

Consider his situation:

He's a gay incel, who's married to a b****.

.
.
.

Now that I think about, don't cut BJ boi any slack.

He doesn't deserve it.

(And since he has me blocked, please pass along my Happiest of New Years to BJ boi and his "family.")

#41 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-01 02:18 PM | Reply

A FEIND,

I read you.

#42 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-01 02:52 PM | Reply

#42 Everything I cook is fiendishly delicious.

#43 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-01 02:55 PM | Reply

Dan,

I've had AI write before. It's surprisingly good.

But there are some givens such as Trump's executive orders would not have happened and we can pretty well assume the border would not have been shut down.

In fact Biden was wanting the funds to build more processing centers for those arriving and he anticipated the numbers increasing so needed more centers.

AI is still free to write at will if you instruct it as so.

AI is fascinating to someone like me who started repairing IBM PC's in the 80's and has watched the gradual evolution of computers with a strong interest. When I got my BS in Accounting, I also got a minor in Computer Science. I've always loved computers and watching them change.

AI seems so lifelike but it is wrong at times (just like humans I guess). I screenshot a Chinese sign once and uploaded it to AI. It could read that. In another 10-20 years it likely will be a threat to the human race if we aren't designing checks and balances into it so that humans remain in control.

#44 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-01 03:02 PM | Reply

Dan,

"billionaire would do much better than the waitress in the new tax code"

I don't recall those conversations you mentioned about that particular topic.

#45 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-01 03:05 PM | Reply

#44 The border is not shut down.

#46 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-01 03:11 PM | Reply

"we can pretty well assume the border would not have been shut down."

What are you talking about?
Trump didn't shut down the border.
People are crossing the border right now.

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-01 03:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#47 Thank you, Snoofy.

The BS line "The border is closed" is just that:

Bovine Excrement.

#48 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-01 03:20 PM | Reply

BillJohnson is a good example of how someone can behave like a normal person, while being an absolute monster.

Complete inability to discern fact from fiction.

He's right to be worried about AI.

He doesn't realize he's already being manipulated by Republican propaganda.

#49 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-01 03:26 PM | Reply

Believe that some things will be better, but some things will never change:

scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net

#50 | Posted by MSgt at 2026-01-01 03:36 PM | Reply

#50 Indeed, some things will never change

#51 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-01 03:38 PM | Reply

#50 Indeed, some things will never change.

#52 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-01 03:39 PM | Reply

#50 Indeed, some things will never change.

#53 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-01 03:40 PM | Reply

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