Happy New Year

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Slid into 2026 in my family room, in my ratty jeans and old t-shirt, with younger son and wife singing songs from Kpop Demon Hunters and the cats looking difficult.

Yes, this year there’s an election coming up, and that always makes me nervous.

Yes, there’s unrest in Iran: pray for them.

Yes, we’re getting a year older, but each year takes us a year away from 2020.

It’s going to be a good year. We’ll make sure of it!

Go forth make 2026 an extraordinary year, you amazing people!

59 thoughts on “Happy New Year”

    1. There’s not a lousy idea that they can’t at least try once, is there? (Not that I’m trying to give them ideas, mind, just observing.) One wonders if they are trying to be California of the Taiga.

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      2. Why not, Colorado is trying to be California of the high planes. We’d have been better off if Polis had just had a one night stand with Newsom instead of trying to get Newsom to “Notice me, Sempai”

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      3. They don’t just try it once. They’re wedded to it–a bizzare form of idea-child marriage–and they’re determined to make it work. “It must be a good idea because it’s my idea, and anyone who disagrees is jealous and wants me to fail! I’ll show them!”

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    2. I will note (somewhat pedantically) that in making a New Year resolution not to make resolutions you have already broken your New Year resolution. Congratulations for getting that out of the way. :-)

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  12. Happy New Year, Sarah, and thank you for a place that soothes the soul. Hope 2026 is a year for blessings!

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  14. Happy New Year! Hey, it is not a perfect timeline, but we could have been in the second year of a Harris Administration or the second year of the Second term of the Turnip in Chief. Contrary to Dr. Pangloss’ philosophy this is not necessarily the best of all possible world(lines), but then again, things could be much worse. We could make the UK look like a haven of free speech, a place we seemed bound for at epic rates just over a year ago. I often wonder at the Author’s choices, but I suspect if we want to have free will, moderate amounts of failure by frail humans go along with it. Best to stay alert on the ride and see where we end up. Sometimes the scenery is worth the wait, although I could use a few more politicians a la laterne (pour encourager les autres) from my view.

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  15. Happy New Year!

    Nihil umquam est aeternum, for good or ill, but it’s nice to be on the upswing side of things for as change after the past half decade. Here’s hoping for more upswinginess for everyone in the new year ahead.

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  17. Happy New Year! I found the channel that’s not NBC, so the announcers actually talk about the parade, not breathless celebrity gossip. They let the bands play, talk about the flowers used in the floats and not a political comment in hearing.

    Choked up (again) when a band from Osaka came by, playing, “America, the Beautiful,” and simulating a walking American flag. Wonderful.

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  19. The Reader wishes everyone here a Happy New Year and offers thanks to all for helping keep the Reader sane in 2025.

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  24. This is a not so positive comment. I’m tired of reading in other blogs and social media platforms that people aren’t being arrested and thrown in prison. It reminds me way too much of how the French Revolution derailed. This are the type of clowns who caused that. We are NOT alike!

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    1. The bots and overseas sweatshop tweeters are working as hard as they can to fissure and fracture the U.S. non-left, as the media so openly predictively are “reporting” based pretty much solely on bots and overseas sweatshop tweets. It’s Orboros “reporting” by the j-skool TimWalzes, but the thing is, you don’t have to consume their black pills, so it does not actually have to be self-fufilling the way it would have been in the past.

      ”Be Not Afraid” (or the alternate translation, “Please Stop Screaming”) seems the appropriate frame to use to view these things.

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    2. Same. Not that there aren’t plenty of people I want to see in jail or facing a firing squad, and not that they shouldn’t be, given what they’ve done…but I keep reminding myself that to start hunting enemies without fixing what’s gone wrong with government would be the worst possible thing we could do. The goal is to restore Constitutional government, not to count coup. As we get closer to that goal, there will naturally be fewer places for traitors and criminals to hide, and I trust that we will see at least a few get what they deserve along the way.

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      1. “The goal is to restore Constitutional government,”

        Then you should have no problem with the proposal to remove the crooks and imports preventing that, by any means necessary. Because right now, you can wave that 250 year old parchment around, and they’re just laughing and calling you a sucker.

        Look up “middle-class anarchy”. That’s going to be way more expensive, in dollars and lives, than enforcing the law while a majority still respected it would have been.

        And no, I don’t see myself as hypocritical, because I’ve been pointing out what’s happening, with examples, for a while. Now it’s obvious.

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  25. I just read an article where the writer said that the congress has passed the least laws in years. They said it like is was a bad thing…Um no. Remember everything happening with healthcare is a plan, the democrats planned for Obamacare to fail, so they could usher in Government healthcare. We all know the way to fix healthcare is to get government out of it.

    Happy New Year and Peace when you need it.

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    2. They said it like is was a bad thing…Um no. 

      I hope you’ll remember that when the next Democrat undoes everything Trump hasn’t gotten codified into law, just like Bribem did with Trump’s regs and EOs in 2021.

      If we aren’t going to use the tools available before we get to the 4th box, somehow I don’t see the Opposition being deterred by that, either.

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      1. There are speculations that flooding the zone via the exec order route was intended to attrit the available lawfare so that the congressional stuff would have reduced headwinds. The idea goes that once the exec order stuff get distilled down to “but there’s no legislation!” , complaints filed about exactly that legislation should in theory be harder for the Boasberg-class judges’ TimWalz-class rulings to avoid getting reversed.

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      1. Thank you, Great Aunt. Hopefully the smoldering will go down this year and cleaning will begin.

        I do have a list of people that I would like to throw in the dumpster fire, to watch them burn while we have popcorn down-wind.

        And despite what our detractors might say, it’s about 90-95% domestic. Most of the foot-soldiers are just grunts trying to fill their rice bowl in time-honored tradition for any invading Bronze-age army. So, wasting ammo on them is a momentary satisfaction. Sometimes extremely necessary but save your good ammo for the true monsters of this story.

        And there are so many monsters to be slain…

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  27. We are all blessed to live in the greatest nation on Earth. She deserves our effort and support. Let’s all do some good this year.

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  29. Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

    St. Augustine of Hippo

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  30. Did you happen to see the map where the Northeast and the Pacific Coast are Kpop Demon Hunters, most of the middle is Ksoda Demon Hunters, and the South is Kcoke Demon Hunters?

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      1. The credit is not mine. I saw the map somewhere in December and passed it along to a friend who experienced the transition from coke=soda to coke=Coke during an early move; I thought of it just now. . . .

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      1. Ah, once again , I’m Odd. Grew up in Pop territory (Vernor’s Ginger Ale for the win), then moved to Commifornia after college, now in Flyover County in Oregon, but I’ve called it Soda for years. (Not sure why. I did live in a semi-rural portion of the Midwest during my college years, and drank a lot of carbonated beverages, most of which weren’t beer.)

        OTOH, a roommate in college turned me on to Cal-Mex spicing; decidedly different from what family (and especially $SPOUSE) are used to. Looks like she’s intolerant of paprika and other warm/hot peppers… :(

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        1. There is also Co-Cola in parts of the South. Also Nehi. But “I’d like a Coke,” is pretty dominant.

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  31. Here’s an idea to confound the Leftroids:

    Every language in existence, all the way back to the most ancient languages we’ve ever found, they all have words for ‘slave’ and ‘master’.

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  32. Occasional Weekly Vignette Challenge visitor Nigel Slim-Howland, along with his cyborg staff, Jenkins and Gwendolyn, would like to wish you and yours a Happy New Year!

    And so would I, and I’d also like to say how much I enjoyed According to Hoyt through 2025! I could go on, but I’m quite full of Korean barbecue, and feeling too languid to type much more than this.

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