Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

The words do not have to be perfect.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

No Justins, No Peace

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

I really should read my own blog.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

We still have time to mess this up!

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

This fight is for everything.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

T R E 4 5 O N

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  4. 4.

    different-church-lady

    Dear Mr. Cole: please make your New Year’s Resolution be to get off your own damn nut.

    You’re great people. I want you to believe it and start acting like it.

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    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    Happy New Year Cole! And a Happy New Year to all you jackals! I truly love this place and everybody here!

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    Happy New Year to all you Eastern time zoners and across the Atlantic. Seventeen minutes remaining in Chicago. Enjoying some Duck Soup on WGN here.

  17. 17.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    It’s 60 degrees right now outside in Ohio. Too bad it’s raining.

  20. 20.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Happy new year everyone! People at this party started making exploratory jokes about the democratic primary after midnight.

    Were there Bernistas there? Also, happy new year!

  21. 21.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Happy New Year from Sydney – had a nice day on Manly Beach watching all the water rescues (I think they were up to something like 20 by 1 pm). Water is rough, they were out surfing.

    Now onto happy hour….

  25. 25.

    Another Scott

    Happy New Year, everyone. 2019 is shaping up to be a very interesting one. Here’s hoping that it “bends toward justice” as the saying goes.

    But, as Adam reminds us, “hope is not a strategy”, so we have to fight for the future we want, and fight those that block that future every single day.

    365 days of struggle, one day at a time…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  27. 27.

    oatler.

    Only 11 here in AZ but I’m celebrating early with a “Paul Lynde Show” marathonon Antenna TV. Don’t envy me; live through me!

  31. 31.

    Gelfling 545

    It’s 56 degrees here in Buffalo and pouring rain. I’m awake because the wind is gusting to 65 mph and the house feels ready to take off for Oz.

  33. 33.

    CaseyL

    Happy 2019 to those in the easterly time zones! Still got a couple hours to go here in the West.

  38. 38.

    frosty

    To all you Left Coast and Hawaiian Jackals, 2019 is a beautiful year! Just wait ’til you get to see it!!

  40. 40.

    Beatrice

    Happy New Year! My Balloon Juice calendar arrived today, perfect timing. January is almost all tuxies. Ditto approves.

  41. 41.

    Emma

    Happy New Year, all! Dad and I drank our prosecco ( champagne gives me headaches), ate our grapes, and sat in our front patio, watching our neighbours shoot thousands of beautiful, glittering dollars into the sky. No guns, though. Safe neighborhood. Lovely end to a miserable year.

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    Yutsano

    Well the upstairs elephants are having a party, so I might as well stay up for the event. Happy Nw Year fellow jackals! May 12019 be better than 2018b was.

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    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Yutsano:

    May 12019 be better than 2018b was.

    Reference or typo? ‘Cause May 12019 is kinda super far away. 2018b sounds like a section of a tax form.

  44. 44.

    Yarrow

    Happy New Year, everyone! People are setting off fireworks so close to me that some part of one of them hit my neighbor’s house with a thud. Those neighbors came out to see what that was all about. A little further away it sounds like a city’s fireworks show. Went on for about twenty minutes. There is no fireworks show in that direction so no one can figure out what in the world is going on. A lot of the neighbors came out to see what was going on because it was so damn loud.

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    Fair Economist

    Gonna miss the left coast ball drop to go to the Rose Parade tomorrow morning. Night all, wish me luck (with parking and transit).

  46. 46.

    Mary G

    Still only 10:30 here, but then I have high hopes for the New Year. Saw someone on Twitter saying 22 Republicans in Congress will be indicted this year; I don’t believe it, but wouldn’t that be lovely?t

    Thanks to all you jackals and John for making this such a great hangout.

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    Suzanne

    We still have half an hour until midnight, but HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of the jackals! I am at home in my PJs with my dog, cuddling her when my neighbors set off fireworks. And I used my new Drillbrush to scrub my kitchen sink. Absolutely the best New Year.

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    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Yarrow:

    There is no fireworks show in that direction so no one can figure out what in the world is going on. A lot of the neighbors came out to see what was going on because it was so damn loud.

    Alien invasion obs, just like the light show a few days ago in NYC. That transformer was just a government cover up. THEY don’t want you to know the truth. You should probably begin kissing your butt goodbye

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    Yarrow

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: Nah, just regular old fireworks, but damn they went on a long time. And were LOUD. Since it’s illegal I kind of figured the cops would shut them down. Didn’t happen.

    I will say that in the middle of the fog and smoke a panel van with dark windows and no signage on the side drove by. That was kind of creepy.

  50. 50.

    Yarrow

    @Suzanne:

    I used my new Drillbrush to scrub my kitchen sink. Absolutely the best New Year.

    That’s a serious sign you’re an adult.

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    Yarrow

    @Suzanne: I’m too old to party on NYE too, but I did make a nice dinner and had a small glass of champagne. i almost never drink so it didn’t take much to make me a bit loopy.

    I watched some of Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper. They completely crack me up. I can’t figure out why but they do. I guess they tour around the country doing shows together.

  53. 53.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Yarrow:
    I doubt anybody could launch fireworks safely with the howling and gusting winds where I live. It never ceases to amaze me how loud those displays can be even from a few miles away. Nearly every locality near me has a fireworks show for Independence Day on different nights. It gets super loud and scares my poor cat, Bilbo.

  55. 55.

    RedDirtGirl

    Happy New Year to the jackaltariat! Spent the last three days at a music and dance camp in upstate NY. At midnight they lowered a big excercise ball from the ceiling draped in fairy lights! 2019 is off to a good start!

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    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Suzanne:

    We are having some nutty rain. Parts of the Phoenix valley are advised to put chains on the tires. HELL NO.

    Wintry mix? Ugh. That’s the worst. In November or December, freezing rain fell one day and then we got several inches of snow on top of that. The result: lots of fallen branches, shattered trees, and power outages. Thankfully, I wasn’t one of the 2000 affected households.

  59. 59.

    Gammyjill

    @Beatrice: Usually I send in my cats’ picture. Robin Obama is a huge, gorgeous male tuxie. Forgot to send the pictures of him and small sister, Alice Obama, a full tabby. Oh well…

  60. 60.

    Redshift

    Happy New Year, all! Just got home from our friends’ party, which was quite pleasant. Since it was a proper geeky gathering, as soon as the ball drop was done we switched over to NASA TV to watch the New Horizons – Ultima Thule coverage. (Which was more of a “be a part of it” event than actual news; as far as we know the probe flew by then, but the signal confirming it won’t reach us for six hours.)

  62. 62.

    Suzanne

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: Yeah, on the very rare occasions that the high parts of the Phoenix area get snow, it doesn’t stick, and instead they just have weird icy patches and sludgy mud. This is the first time that I’ve seen ADOT recommend tire chains down here, though. I don’t own any…..I just rent a four-wheel drive if I need to do snow driving.

  64. 64.

    spudgun

    Still 2018 here on the left coast for another 25 minutes…longest 25 min of my life!

    I already said this in the previous post’s comments, but I’ll just repeat, since it makes more sense here: Happy New Year, everyone (both folks and critters!)! ??

  65. 65.

    Yutsano

    10 minutes out.

    Settling into bed.

    Pretty quiet right now.

    Pretty sure that will change.

    Have a great 2019 folks!

  66. 66.

    CaseyL

    All right! Midnight on the West Coast; it is officially 2019 here.

    Happy New Year, fellow jackals!

  69. 69.

    James E Powell

    Happy New Year! Finished Bird Box just before midnight and now it’s time to drink a glass of wine and go to bed.

    Looking forward to a day of college football.

  73. 73.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    I’ll just repeat myself from previous thread, Happy New Year, to all jackals everywhere. Guessing our Hawaiian friends are the only ones left in 2018. Thank you all for being such wonderful people. You are my friends, I care about you all. Hoping this year will be better politically, (we have an election) and that trump is no longer in power by this time next year.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne

    @oatler.:

    Oh, my husband would have watched the HELL out of that if we had Antenna TV. We ended up watching all of the That’s Entertainment movies instead, and about half of That’s Dancing!, which is non-MGM musicals, many of which are actually better than MGM’s. Then we had to give up and go to bed.

    Happy 2019, jackals!

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    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    Happy new year to jackals and their animal companions. There was less of a cannonade than usual here this evening – maybe the high winds and chill kept people inside. We interrupted our charades, champagne, and chocolate to observe a tradition the teenagers in our group insisted on: watching the scene from The Office where Kevin drops the chili, timed perfectly so that the beans hit the floor exactly at the stroke of midnight. I did not understand this peculiar custom, and they subsequently all refused to get off my lawn.

  81. 81.

    artem1s

    @Fair Economist: I always wanted to see the Rose Parade. Hope you get a good viewing spot! Wave to TBDBITL (the Best Damn Band In The Land). Ohio State puts on a good show!

  86. 86.

    Miss Bianca

    Hullo, 2019! Hullo, Juicers!

    Well, it’s a balmy -8 degrees up here at the Mountain Hacienda, we’ll probably crank the upstairs wood stove early today.

    I remember my (semi) professional musician days, where New Years Eve was always a Big Night Out. Last night, went to bed at about 9:45, woke up just long enough just after midnight to mumble “Happy New Year” to the universe, and passed out again till dawn.

    But I have coffee and mince tarts for breakfast, so the New Year is off to a grand (if quiet) start!

  87. 87.

    J R in WV

    @Suzanne:

    “I just rent a four-wheel drive if I need to do snow driving.”

    Safety tip: 4×4 helps a little on snow, but is useless on ice unless you have high quality snow tires or chains. Studded snow tires work well on ice, but don’t wear well. We’ve had good luck with good snow tires, Bilzzak or a Finnish brand, I forget their name, it’s long and, well, Finnishly complex, but good snow tires.

    Happy New Year, may we all have a better 2019 than we had 2018!!!

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