Why So Slow?

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Where are the arrests? Where are the arrests? Where are the arrests?

Weirdly — ah! — the same accounts pushing that are also the ones who want us to “shoot back” or of course like the charmer yesterday to just go ahead and shoot all elected representatives. (Yeah, because they and not the bureaucracy are the “real” problem. Seriously? Also way to attract good people to government. what the heck is wrong with people’s minds, actually?)

Look, I know we saw the frauding of 2020 in person, in real time. I know we had our faces rubbed in “we can make you do things, and you can’t hit back.”

I understand being angry, and I understand how great that anger feels. And I UNDERSTAND how much you want to hit out and put all the smug smiling bastages in the pokey.

Something you should always remember about someone pushing your emotional buttons to get you to do what your emotions are telling you to do anyway, is that this is how they manipulate you. Because it works.

The other thing you should do is ask yourself “who would win if we did that?”

Look, Comey and Schiff and…. I get why you’d want their malfeasance exposed and them locked up. I DO.

But that’s not the way to do it. Not going forward.

The left did this stuff and largely got away with it, because they have the power of propaganda. They still own a substantial part of the information industrial complex. It’s not working as well as it used to, but it’s working better than our non-existent one.

So they can do things like make BLM a thing and George Fentanyl a poor victim by repeated propaganda. (The lockdown helped with that.) BUT we can’t do that. We can get word out to the extremely online, and some trickles out to normies, but not that much.

Don’t believe me? Go and ask some of your not-online co-workers who Comey and Schiff even are. Much less Eric Swalwell. Much less his online name of Fang Fang Bang Bang.

Also understand in our hierarchy of needs what we NEED is for the left’s malfeasance to be EXPOSED in the light of day. It doesn’t matter if we actually get them in jail or punished, but it is vital that what they did gets exposed for all to see, that they get discredited and reviled.

Yes, you want them punished. Well, I do too. But in the long run, for the principles of history, that’s not as important as their being THOROUGHLY exposed and discredited, and everything bad and illegal they’ve done laid bare.

If I had to choose only one, I’d choose the second.

Because the first, given their still superior hold on the machinery of propaganda, would make them martyrs for the cause, and give the left — and the foreign opinion, which shouldn’t matter but still does as far as the world is complex — the “certainty” that Trump is a dictator and evil. (No, they didn’t hear about Biden’s abuses.)

While the second makes it impossible for them to do it again.

So, do I know what the Trump administration is doing? No. I also don’t know how much deep state landmines they’re contending with, but I can guarantee to you 100% that the answer is “A lot, a lot”. BUT what I hope they’re doing is exposing the evil, the crimes and the corruption, and not moving legally till they have everything tied up.

Even our founding fathers, before moving onto their just cause had a “decent opinion for the opinions of mankind.”

We too need to have that. Because it would be stupid to paint ourselves as the real threat while struggling to save the nation.

OF COURSE you’re allowed to hope we get both AND. I too want it all exposed and the evil bastages in jail.

But I’m willing to give those doing the work elbow room to do the work. Because the alternative is worse than their doing nothing. And exposes us to worse than Biden.

So, sit back. Take a deep breath. And remember revenge is best served COLD.

205 thoughts on “Why So Slow?”

  3. After I finished yur Volume 2 yesterday finally started Kurt’s July publication. I’m only half way through but will finish later today. The two books are blurring together. Maybe you should co author something. 😜. Maybe a Skip Turnbull series?

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              2. And the unexpected downsides of same.

                ​“I’ve developed a cleanliness fetish from all the intensified smells. And I’ve heard things.” She shuddered. ​“Heard things?” ​“I made my parents invest in an extreme soundproofing upgrade on their bedroom after an emotionally scarring night. Just, eew.”

                Supes never mentions this…..

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                1. Chuckle Chuckle

                  I also liked the interview with Crash (a Speedster) in the same book and his view of the “downside” of being a Speedster.

                  Note, in this story-universe (Marion Harmon’s Wearing The Cape series), Speedsters “slow down time” around themselves.

                  Crash talks about doing a report that takes “just minutes” for an outside viewer but for him it takes over an hour.

                  Then there’s the fact that while “speeding” he does a “day’s amount of stuff” but when he’s done, most of the day remains after he finishes “speeding”.

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  4. When going after a big, connected entity it does help to follow most of the threads. While I cannot offer any details as the situation is largely opaque from the outside, things are proceeding more or less how I expect so far.

    Comey got indicted. That one’s a gimme. He did it out loud in public and in front of our faces because of course he did. Teh Duhrrative says that they win forever and any setbacksies are just there to make the story better in their heads. They want an underdog hero- they want to be that underdog hero, even if quite demonstrably they are most definitely NOT.

    But that one’s the simplest, most legally clean cut one so far in my opinion. There are others, of course. So. Measure thrice. Cut once.

    And if t’were me, I’d have distractions aplenty to keep the quivering quislings in the mememedia occupied. Trump’s good at that. Have faith. But keep your own life in proper order. Will he fix everything? No. And thank Himself for that.

    I just want enough fixed (neutered) that we can get back to the proper business of being a country again. That’s a taller order than it by rights ought to be, yes. But we deal in reality, not in fiction. Speaking of which, more battle to write. Cliffhangers ahoy.

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    2. I feel you on the writing process. Gearing up for a fight scene followed by some kind of dungeon trap thing that’s a rewrite of the first thing I wrote in current WIP. This is why I hate writing out of order.

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  5. Rushing around and doing BIG THING NOW!!! was getting pushed with a notable inclusion– “like they did to Trump.”

    …yeah, and that worked out for them, right?

    I want these cases air tight.

    I notice that every time a case screamed for does go through, it gets ignored– AntiFa charged and convicted? Networks of illegal criminals caught up?

    How many folks do they have with the Des Moines City School superintendent? If that’s actually him registered to vote back east…

    Well. The folks who would benefit from going off half-cocked would be the ones who set stuff up, and have lots of disposable minions designed to take the fall.

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    1. I’m with Foxfier. I’m willing to fidget quietly in the corner while the feds lock these cases up before bringing them to court. Make it impossible for even the wokest grand jury to dismiss. Make it impossible for the trial jury to nullify. Don’t waste taxpayer money on cases you know you can’t get a conviction on.

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      1. THIS. Evidence above all. I can wait for prosecutions.

        People blocking roads OTOH are doing an excellent job of providing evidence of their wrongdoing without my prompting. The question should be why the local politicians are being allowed to refuse to protect the citizenry.

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      2. My main concern there is how thoroughly partisan hacks continue to populate the ranks of the DoJ and federal law enforcement. My second concern is how to have the trials somewhere a jury would actually consider possibly convicting – i.e. not DC, EDVA, SDNY.

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      3. I’ve been waiting patiently (for values :) ) for Oregon to be under the Federal sights, and now, that’s starting to occur. “Our Lovely Governor” kept a lower profile than Despicable Kate Brown, but in many ways, she’s worse. I love seeing her trying to defend Portland as some kind of utopian uber-city, and shut up peasants!

        For medical reasons, I’ll be traveling to Medford in 6 weeks, and then likely will be on a nominal schedule of once every 3 months. Anything that helps make western Oregon a more civilized place (granted, Medford isn’t as bad as the NW corner, but still) makes my trips much less stressful.

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      4. Oh dear, WP (DE) moderation. I guess I used the former governor’s name in vain. I suspect the algorithm went woke, or it’s just WordPress being WordPress.

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      5. Am I the only one who remembers how Hildebeeste skated on Uranium One???

        https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/uranium-one-deal-obama-administration-doj-hillary-clinton-racketeering/

        Mikerin just had to plead guilty to a nominal “money laundering” conspiracy charge. This insulated him from a real money-laundering sentence. Thus, he got a term of just four years’ incarceration for a major national-security crime — which, of course, is why he took the plea deal and waived his right to appeal, sparing the Obama administration a full public airing of the facts.

        Interestingly, as the plea agreement shows, the Obama DOJ’s Fraud Section was then run by Andrew Weissmann, who is now one of the top prosecutors in Robert Mueller’s ongoing special-counsel investigation of suspected Trump collusion with Russia.

        And of course, now double-jeopardy has attached. So there’s no leverage for testimony. No, this is something that is going to take time.

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    2. The Powerline folks are lawyers, so although I disagree with some of their opinions, I do tend to think their analyses of the strength of legal cases is likely to be correct. And John Hinderaker thinks Comey will be found not guilty: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/09/the-misbegotten-comey-indictment.php

      If that analysis is correct (I’m actually finding it hard to follow the argument presented, as it assumes more knowledge of the details from five years ago than I ever had, and it’s very unclear to me who claimed to have authorized what), it’s possible that they needed more time to bring an air-tight case, but this one was running out of time (the indictment was brought mere days before the five-year statute of limitations would have run out on this particular case of allegedly lying under oath). I guess we’ll see what the actual jury thinks of it once the prosecutors have finished putting together the case and the defense has done their best to tear it apart. But even if that case is weak, the fact that it was only brought when it had to be when the deadline was looming, and wasn’t prematurely brought six months earlier, suggests that people are, in fact, trying to build solid cases rather than rushing things. And that, I agree, is a good thing.

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      2. I have a faint hope that Comey keeps the lawyer he had for his arraignment into the trial.

        Because that is the one he used as a cutout – a smart prosecutor would be slavering over the ability to call the defense lawyer as a witness.

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      3. One way to get around that (and they are using it), is by filing “conspiracy to” charges, because every act today that you can prove supposedly resets the SOL clock for every conspirator ever involved.

        The downside, of course, is gathering “beyond a reasonable doubt” proof… and then getting a jury pool thoroughly tainted with TDS to agree. Comey’s indictment is really a minor miracle…. not made easier by the systematic poison being injected by AI.

        https://freebeacon.com/media/it-was-a-fatal-right-wing-terrorist-incident-ai-chatbot-giants-claim-charlie-kirks-killer-was-right-wing-but-say-left-wing-violence-is-exceptionally-rare

        Corrupt the data going in, and then deem the output “too good to check”….

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    3. My reply to this post went into moderation, although it had but one single link in it. (Linking to the Powerline blog, where they’re not sanguine about the Comey indictment’s chances of getting a conviction). Would someone fish it out of the moderation bucket, please?

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    4. I read the lady who helped hire him is running for the Senate in Iowa.

      Also read the suggestion he was put in place by people who could then dictate his every policy position because they “owned” him -they could release damnning information at any time. They just didn’t expect someone else to do it

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      1. Going off of the radio this morning– WHO-AM is doing a ton of diving into this, for obvious reasons– that kind of control is a known issue, so they didn’t get to choose candidates. The suggestions all went through a hiring company that found qualified candidates they could then either approve or reject.

        ….so possibly it’s EXACTLY that, at one remove.

        Soon as I post this so WP doesn’t eat it, I’m going to see if they’ve put up documentation with searchable terms yet.

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      4. Alright, as more bits and bobs come out… apparently, the issue with the probably-didn’t-actually-get-a-doctorate illegal alien hire came out BECAUSE of the criminal investigation into “refugee placement” and related questionable behavior by Jackie Norris’ Horizon Group and related consulting businesses.

        She’s not running for the Senate in Iowa, she’s running to represent Iowa in the US senate, to replace Ernst. (Iowa Senate is both amaaaazeball drama locally, and actually matters nationally because the Dems love to try their corny tricks HERE first, establish a standard.)

        She was Michelle Obama’s chief of staff.

        Where’s my popcorn?

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  6. Yeah, the people pushing for quick action do seem like glowies (the Fed plants that practically “glow” with enthusiasm.) Then there’s the constant repetition of “release the Epstein files.” I could come up with a dozen reasons Trump hasn’t, one of which is that Democrats had four years to forge his name into them, and another is that it’s great blackmail material which Trump is using to forward his agenda. I do like seeing Comey indicted. Let’s have more. The way that will stick. And yeah, if all we can do is completely discredit them, I will take that.

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    1. The biggest problem with “the Epstein Files” at this point is chain of custody. Too many people have had too long to mess with the source data at this point that bringing charges can be very problematic, much less obtaining any convictions. We may not see some of these people brought to justice until year 4 of 47.

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      1. At this point, the Epstein thing is a red herring, used with intent by those who want to derail things. The man died 6 years ago. The man was a predator; you could see from the crowd photos outside the courthouse at the time of the Maxwell trial that many of his accusers were genuinely damaged. But time marches on; many of the victims are themselves approaching middle age.

        If the Biden team could have charged Trump, they would have. Epstein died, and Maxwell sits in jail. Neither had children. Let it rest.

        Dismantling USAID and investigating misuse of governmental powers and the public purse are far more important. Cleaning up the voter rolls is essential. When states are giving CDLs to immigrants like candy, that is much more important.

        It’s important to remember that elections matter more than temper tantrums. The best way to protect the Bill of Rights is to vote.

        Look at Europe and the UK to see what happens without a Bill of Rights.

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    2. yeah, the feeling I get is once they started looking in them, they’ve been finding “Well, we know that is impossible” sort of stuff, so now it’s extra work weeding out what is and isn’t.

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      2. Also, if they didn’t dope drinks and photograph people in flagrante while out of their minds, they’d be the first honeytrap operation not to do so.
        There is no JUSTICE in going after blackmail victims.

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        1. I don’t think I can agree with this. If someone is ONLY a blackmail victim, then perhaps. But, if they do (or do not do) something at the behest of the blackmailer, then they are not only a victim; they have become a co-perpetrator.

          Sometimes, a person gets caught up in circumstances and situations. “I was just sharing a flight back to my district; I didn’t know it was a drug fueled paedo plane!” works much better as an excuse if given immediately rather than years and millions of dollars later.

          I am willing to grant that a good definition of “justice” is extremely difficult in such situations.

          I remember back in my Air Force days that being a homosexual was grounds for denying a security clearance due to potential blackmail. I also remember years later being used as a reference for a gay friend who was trying to get a security clearance. Because he was up front about it (and times had changed), it didn’t matter: There was no possibility of blackmail if everyone already knew.

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        2. It was an intel op. The existence of the Venona stuff only came out in 1995, from teh US side of a program to intercept and decode Soviet cable traffic which was started in 1943, and declassifying things only through the 1950s.

          IIRC the UK still classifies some stuff for a century.

          It’s going to be a long time before anything real comes out of whatever code name rock the Epstein Island activities lived under.

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          1. And arguably the Venona declass was a “End Of History” performative by the Billy Jeff administration, so include grains of salt.

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      3. IIRC, an instance of that has already popped up. One of Epstein’s former female employees made a claim to the grand jury that a particular man (whose name escapes me) was at a particular location, on a particular date. The man in question produced proof that he was not.

        This sort of thing is a huge potential problem.

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        1. Prosecution has to cover every instance of these. No half measures. Because when Epstein perps go to trial, the defense gets a copy of the material. When the defense tries to point to someone else mentioned in the material the defense can eliminate with proof the information is wrong, that the defense had the material refuting it, and “oh by the way, here is the defamation suit being filed against the defense”. Can it work this way? No clue. It should.

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        2. This sort of thing is a huge potential problem.

          It’s also not a NEW problem. It’s been getting me called a “misogynist” and “r^pe enabler” since I started making an ass of myself 20 years ago by pointing out that

          a) women lie about sexual harassment / r^pe as a power play.

          b) it happens far more frequently than any women will admit to.

          c) the ONLY two cures for it are for trials, convictions, and terminations to only be allowed based on timely complaints with physical evidence of force or fraud, and for guys to have 24/7/365 tracking of their movements.

          The Epstein files simply involve people (Exhibit A, DJT) who were early adopters of the 24/7/365 tracker lifestyle, and so had those records available. Now, the panopticon we live under has brought that to reality for the masses.

          Of course, that kind of fishbowl means freedom and privacy go away, but, hey, tradeoffs. And as DJT has ALSO proven, in a corrupt jurisdiction (of which there are plenty), evidence can still be disregarded, or worse faked, and most of us deplorables don’t have the resources to fight that long or that hard.

          “Just move out of that corrupt jurisdiction…..” To which country? The problem is at all levels…. once we admit it exists.

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      1. On the other paw, the Epstein didn’t unalive himself memers tend to be a bit less cracked (i.e. not screaming the JOOS! at every opportunity). The bots running legacy code tend to default to ihatejoo with very little nudging.

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        1. Or claiming any who disagree with him are Jooooos… *eyeroll*

          (Seriously, last weekend some idiot on X was doing pretty much that. Also seemed irritated at my treating it as a vat-grown drone so I guess I’ll keep doing that.)

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          1. Even vat grown drones have the potential for autonomy. Sadly, the most commonly wasted resource in the universe is “potential.” Or rather, unrealized rather than wasted.

            The good thing about drones is they are, by and large, predictable. That can create opportunity for entertainment when you know their script. The NPC memes have been having a field day with the predictability of dronespeak.

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  7. While the second makes it impossible for them to do it again.

    Harder but not impossible. When they see embarrassment is their only price people with no shame won’t be deterred.

    See how they celebrate us being murdered to see how much shame they have

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  8. On the bright side of things, Oklahoma is arresting “No Name Given” CDL holders.

    They had to stop after 125 arrests because they ran out of jail space. They ran out of jail space.

    Now if we could just get Gov. “Wheels” to stand up for Texas. (He has to be careful not to irk the Teaxs RINOs that have been making mad money off the illegals for 40+ years…)

    But the big point is that the normies/NPC citizens are starting to notice issues more than they did a few years ago. Things had to get bad enough first.

    And if the Trump adminstration can successfully leverage the power of the purse against the states that issued these illegal CDLs that’s much better than some glowies mass carnage digital spew.

    Side note: Not only do I not want to fly anywhere, I’m uber paranoid about getting on the highways in the Dallas area, now more than ever.

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    1. Texas’ issue is Mexican drivers with no English. The allowing of cross border drivers was supposed to be “Command of English” only. While in Mansfield, I had two drivers with ZERO english. At least one of those knew how to operate his equipment, so our only issue was the tractor wasn’t his normal one and missing all the needed adapters. The other was clueless on how to operate the tanker.

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        1. We were getting Dibutyl Glycol Ether in either IBC tanks (20′ container shipping sized) or standard tankers. The first fellow had an IBC, but the second had a standard tanker and didn’t know how to open the inspection port, the “turtle” valve or operate the hydraulic that open the valves. And not a lick of English. Mexican co-worker talked to him for a bit and was stunned he could breathe, he was so slow.

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          1. Looking it up didn’t help.

            Diethylene glycol dibutyl ether is considered an inert solvent with low water solubility

            A sentence later:

            The compound is flammable and may form unstable peroxides when exposed to air, which can explode spontaneously.

            “inert” and “flammable”, let alone “expose to air and explode” do not seem compatible.

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            2. Solvent use by us and not haz mat according to the DOT oh and I mis labeled as I were not thunkin’ right.
              Dangerous that when chemnicals is involved. Diethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether Not Dibutyl, Monobutyl (Also GLycol Ether DB, or Butyl Carbitol,

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        2. iirc the first one thought he was going to drop his load in Laredo, but with the law change was told to run it to DFW. The trucking company had dual addresses. one in Laredo, and the other in LaCruz (‘Burb of Nuevo Laredo)

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    1. I like the fold-up stickybox traps. Add a crumb of bread or cracker for bait.

      Harris Roach Tablets are another low-tox method. Baited borax in tablet form.

      Miz Kitty tends to eat any bugs she catches, so high-tox stuff is a bad idea for my home.

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          2. My gravatar, Miss Fuzzy, didn’t want me to leave without taking her, and figured out that my black shoes were necessary for that to happen…. so she would take them and hide them, until she hid them under the bed and then couldn’t get herself out…..

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      2. Never had cockroach problems of that magnitude before. What you describe puts me in mind of entire floors covered in a seething mass of flesh-eating scarabs.

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  11. Someone I follow on Twitter is adamantly opposed to term limits for politicians. Voting is how we have any semblance of control over them.

    Rather, she proposed what we need is term limits for bureaucrats.

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      1. When the limits were up for a vote, one argument against it was increased dependence on (and control by) bureaucrats. I think that turned out as the critics said.

        Grandfathering Moonbeam, not sure if it could have been avoided, but yikes!

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        1. My understanding is also lobbyists here in California, since the politicians aren’t around long enough to become acquainted even with subjects that repeatedly come before the legislatures. I’ve also been told that the way California’s bill making process is set up, an inordinate amount of power is given to the leaders of each of the different committees. As a result, if lobbyists don’t want a bill to ever come up for a vote, they only need to lock down the politician in charge of the committee that’s handling it.

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      2. I would say “didn’t” but absent term limits we might be on term four of Jerry Brown for gosh sakes, so maybe without them it would be even worse.

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        1. Term limits at congress and senate levels sets up domino effect of politicians. They do not go away. They just move up to the next step.

          If Oregon did not have term limits for the governor, we’d have you-know-who’s from here to eternity.

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          1. Gavin is a moron, but Jerry is a moron with Big Ideas – that train was a Jerry project. Jerry has all the pull of his Dad’s legacy, plus all those years of splashing about in the political pool in the Bay Area and Sacramento, and the connections he built back in his own POTUS run. Hair gel is really just a nepo baby of the Baltimore mob-connected Nancy clan.

            I think Jerry for 16 years would have been scarier.

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          2. Um, as memory serves, California did have 4 terms of Moonbeam. First two were in the 1970s, than he bounced around (a lot!) before coming back. The term limit legislation could not use the first two terms to disqualify him, as grandfather rules applied.

            Part of his legacy from the first two was the incomplete interchange for US 101 and I-280/680. One of the bay area rock bands had the (then unused) portion of the raised roadway on an LP cover. The interchange was finished after Brown left office, and George Deukmejian (R, yippie!) took office.

            He probably has the record for the length of his hiatus between stints as governor.

            The only good news about his first two terms was that there was opportunity to undo some of the damage he did then. (3 of the 4 intervening governors were Non-D. Deuk’ was pretty conservative, Wilson GOPe, and Ahnold, RINO.)

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            1. Jerry V1.0 was also responsible for closing the insane asylum system in California. In a way, his run for president was helpful, since he couldn’t spend as much time destroying the state while he was runningl.

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              1. When Bill Clinton was running, all my AR relatives (now deceased, alas) voted for him just to get him away from female friends and relations.

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  12. Well said, Sarah.

    The alternate reality bubble persists. We still have huge swaths (half the country?) that think Russia Collusion was real, that January 6th was an insurrection where law enforcement officers were killed, and most of the disproven hoax claims against DJT. Things may not be moving as fast as they like, but we’re a nation of laws, and trying to speed that up the wrong way only plays into the Left and the Deep State’s hands. They stole the 2020 election on national television, “inspired the January 6 riot (which didn’t hold a candle to their years long “peaceful protests”, and used it as an excuse to deploy the National Guard to button down D.C.

    The pace is glacial, but proper. With luck, some of that Deep State resistance will be permanently out of a job when Schumer overplays his hand tonight.

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    2. I doubt it’s half the country. 30%, maybe? And some of them know it’s bull and go along with it because they think it gives them power.

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      1. Probably less – Kammy only managed 41% of 2024 registered voters in the deep blue fraud-by-mail Formerly Golden State. Nationwide has to be a lot smaller fraction than out here.

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        1. Note: methodology problems with most means of estimating the true thingy.

          One, state votes ‘stop’, on paper, when the state is decided.

          Polls are flat out absurd.

          California is one estimator.

          An opposite end is Oklahoma.

          We can look at Oklahoma, and go ‘what on earth just happened?’ So, Oklahoma has had electronic counting machines for well over a decade, and those were used again this time. There has also been attention to cleaning/securing the process.

          Why did Oklahoma break so hard for Trump? Well, one explanation oculd be that, barring the academics, Oklahoma Democrats were pretty utilitarian, and the place was more conservative anyway, and those inclined to be utilitarian and or crooked understood that Harris was not offering them any profit.

          There are some slightly more interesting explanations, that run through whatever the American instinct for combat teaming is. a) some number of Oklahomans were pissed off at the shooting b) preference cascade c) some number of Oklahomans were frightened or cautious, or simply did not wnat to go to gallows or prison for Harris.

          What, if anything, happened matters, probably. But the more obvious public evidence might seem pretty similar for all cases, for now.

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        2. How many of those ‘registered voters’ were dead, or downright fictitious?

          In San Diego alone there are 70,000 bogus entries in the voter rolls. State and federal law both require that they be purged, but they’ve been left there for years.

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          1. State and federal law both require that they be purged, but they’ve been left there for years.

            And “purged” is such a flexible word when recovery from backup is getting faster.

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            1. Like in Virginia, where a ‘true the vote’ organization spent months in the courts getting bogus voter registrations removed, while ‘somebody’ in the Secretary of State office was putting them back within hours, sometimes within minutes.

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              1. In very much related news, 2024 offers further proof that it was a miracle. Testing God to provide more would be unwise, IMHO.

                https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/10/01/maine-woman-finds-250-state-ballots-in-her-amazon-delivery-n2419776

                The misdelivery comes just 35 days before Maine’s Nov. 4 election, which features a high-stakes referendum on requiring voter identification.

                The initiative, Question One, has divided state politics, with Democrats warning it could shrink their vote totals and Republicans insisting it would bolster election integrity.

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                1. Well, duhhh, of course reducing election fraud will shrink Democrat vote totals. Why do they think Republicans are doing it?

                  Come to think, that’s solid evidence the Republicans are not indulging in election fraud.

                  One side is trying to eliminate election fraud.

                  One side is squealing “Voter Suppression!!” when the only ‘voters’ being ‘suppressed’ are the ones that never had a right to vote in the first place.

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  13. “But I’m willing to give those doing the work elbow room to do the work.”

    And speaking of work, how about focusing on our jobs instead of harassing the ones doing the work? Haven’t we got better things to do than yell “Where are the arrests?” Like, I don’t know, paying attention to local elections, school board meetings, governor races, and even cleaning up the local libraries (see here: https://open.substack.com/pub/upstreamreviews/p/a-great-disturbance-in-the-fandom)? Why nag people already busy? Idle hands, devil’s workshop, all that. Can’t we do our own work without beating others who are actually working over the head about not doing their jobs as fast as some may want?

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            2. I appreciate it. I had no idea a “last” was a mold of a shoe.

              Are those shoe-stretcher things one can buy these days called “lasts”? It works in Amazon search! Although I don’t see it in any of the descriptions.

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              1. The term might not be in common usage, but those of us with Feet of Unusual Size can be more familiar with it. (If your favorite shoe is suddenly made in a different country, the different last will have noticeable effects. Frequently unpleasant ones.)

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  14. Prosecutions require courts that don’t have an agenda. The Trump Administration has numerous judges that will hamper prosecutions, along with prosecutors that fail in preserving the mandates required for justice. Getting through the mine-field is tedious at best, but when through it, the result will show an increase in prosecutions.

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  15. “Where are the arrests? Where are the arrests? Where are the arrests?”

    This is a lot worse a situation than is going to be fixed with tossing a few miscreants in jail.

    Ashli Babbitt died on video, and the entire DC legal apparatus closed ranks to protect her killer. He’s not only still out walking around, he’s still employed. Probably got a promotion.

    Who goes to jail for that travesty? Did they even break a law?

    In my books, there’s this thing that keeps coming up. Overpowered characters who can defeat any opponent are tempted to simply destroy all their enemies. Because they CAN destroy them, and those enemies deserve to be destroyed. They are begging for it.

    But, and this is the part that we all need to pay attention to, destroying them will not serve the purpose, because other, dumber, worse enemies will spring up in their place. And because destroying them DOESN’T FIX WHAT THEY DID.

    So your invincible character ends up sitting alone in the desert they have created by blasting the enemy, and they’re a -demon- from killing all those guys.

    Or, as the werewolf says, “Vengeance avails thee naught.”

    The concept for today is “coalition of the willing.” Those who want to clean up the mess join together and get on with it. That’s what over-powered invincible beings do. They clean up.

    That’s what America is, when you get right down to it. A coalition of sovereign individuals, each a nation unto himself, sharing their abilities in common cause. That’s what a proper company is too. Everybody works together to get it all done.

    It’s the most powerful thing on Earth. Even Lao Tsu says so. That’s why tyrants of all stripes hate it, and try to spoil it.

    I’m disinclined to go along with tyrants.

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    1. And when the name of guy finally came out… it was the one previously (in)famous managing to “lose” his sidearm in a public toilet Yeah, there’s a guy you want wandering around with a gun. Barney Fife (With Sherriff Andy’s guidance, yes) would have been a step or several up.

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  16. My only quibble with today and yesterday is with “They’re shooting us! We need to shoot back!” I absolutely agree. When they shoot at us, we need to shoot back. But, in that context, shooting at us needs to mean that we see the bullets impacting around us and going over our heads. Most of us will never be in that situation, thank God, so we need to keep our guns where we can find them in the dark, not pointed at random targets.

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  17. I have found that ridicule is a powerful weapon against sanctimonious set.

    The Debil cannot bear to be mocked. And while I know better than to take him on, his minions are another story.

    Case in point, apparently Trump posted a doctored video of himself talking about the government shutdown with that fool Temu Obama standing next to him in a sombrero and long curly mustache because the dems are holding out for free health care for illegals.

    He makes his point with humor and not by incendiary language. He supporters are moved to laughter not violence.

    They froth at the mouth while we get a nice chuckle out of it. And, best of all, no one gets hurt.

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      1. I get the impression that his account embracing and tweeting that meme recently freaked the lefties the heck out.

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    2. Yeah, reminds me of that “Lucifer” statue some anti-theist group setup and it got knocked down and (of course) they played the victim.

      Someone should have put a statue of St Michael looming behind him. Like that meme showing some pro wrestler (Undertaker?) looming behind someone I see from time to time. Maybe even put an anime sweatdrop on Lucifer’s head.

      I suspect the “anti-theist” group would’ve smashed the Michael statue rather quickly.

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      2. That’s something I don’t get about some atheists. What do they expect to accomplish by pretending to pray to somebody else’s imaginary devil? They shouldn’t be praying to anything.

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        1. An atheist on Baen’s Bar talks about “atheists” (people like him who just don’t believe God/gods exist) and “anti-theists” (people who hate religion and/or religious people).

          IMO it’s the “anti-theist” folks that put up things like that Devil statue in public. They put them up just to “up-set” religious people. Nothing more nothing less.

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          1. I dated a witch, a Wiccan practitioner, for a while when in college. She saw that I was an atheist (at the time, I got better) and apparently thought, ‘Ooh, a non-Christian! Maybe I can rope him in.’ And granted, her statement that ‘sex is a sacrament’ in her milieu was intriguing to a 17 yo virgin. Still, once it became clear that to me atheist meant a-theist, no God(s), no triple goddess, no Greek pantheon, no Norse pantheon, no Polynesian pantheon (all of which had adherents at the U of MN at the time), no nothing, our relationship ended.

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    3. 🎶Can you see the memes, Hakeemo?
      Can you hear the mocking laughter clear across the Rio Grande? 🎶

      TTTO: Fernando, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsjAbZDx-4

      “Never annoy the bard….”

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  18. And my I remind the impatient ones that it’s been just over 9 months since 47 started. Given how fast government moves (especially how slow it moves on the occasions it is doing something properly) this is warp speed. And we have a lot of time on the clock yet.

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  19. I think any leverage we’ve got we have to use. Cases of perjury are ALWAYS tricky and unless they popped off in Texas or Florida the DC district will likely be unfriendly in both judges and juries. The line of attack I like is the mortgage front, especially the lying about the primary residences. Here there are very clear rules and especially when many of these folk are lawyers and economists/financial folks making them plea ignorance of the law is almost as good as getting them convicted.

    Honestly most of these people are narcissists and the most horrible punishment for them is to lose their fame. If we can find some Mamdani/AOC like person to primary them from the left of their party (a large expanse of idiots is available) we either get a much weaker person (especially in the senate, seniority matters in assignments) or if the replacement candidate is too screwy for the overall state we might be able to get at least a RINO in place if not someone even better. Heck, they’ve been using this strategy against us for eons. This is of course playing the long game and in general our side has had issues thinking past 2-4 years a bad habit we really need to lose.

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  20. “line of attack I like is the mortgage front, especially the lying about the primary residences. Here there are very clear rules and especially when many of these folk are lawyers and economists/financial folks making them plea ignorance of the law is almost as good as getting them convicted.“

    –

    Any kind of financial shenanigans. Even if it makes them point out that they are immune to prosecution because they are in senate/house, etc. That tends to piss people off, regardless of which side of the divide they are on (might get them symbolically tarred and feathered too, to be clear, still alive. Not saying martyred.) Which might get them out of power on their ass.

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    1. I am particularly fond of the mortgage one because the classic upper crust democrat faithful have mortgages and know what these kind of things mean. It throws cognitive dissonance that can have some (albeit small) chance of red pilling some of the faithful. And there is none so adamant as a convert…

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      1. Also, sending these to trial means discovery and thus court records will show the interest rate these anointed ones were able to get.

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  22. revenge is best served COLD.

    That’s one of those super annoying statements like “patience is a virtue”. It may be true, but it is not satisfying.

    Feathers are fairly easy to come by since they still make feather pillows. Where does one get tar? This stuff looks a bit permanent, given the words “plastic” and “epoxy”. Asking for a friend.

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    3. Really, anything sticky, readily-available, inexpensive, and glue-like and hard to get off will make the feathers adhere nicely. I’m thinking of a couple of buckets of B-7000 all-purpose B-7000 adhesive – I have a couple of big tubes I got for cheap from amazon.

      Swab it on naked human flesh and empty a pillow over them and allow about five minutes to set. It will really be hard to peel off the hairy portions of the body, too.

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      • tlhIngan Hol: 
        bortaS bIr jablu’DI’ reH QaQqu’ nay’
      • Literal translation:
        When cold revenge is served, the dish is always very good
      • Original French (1782) :
        Et puis la vengeance se mange très-bien froide, comme on dit vulgairement…

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      1. And as Klingon proverbs go, I like:

        ”Only a fool fights in a burning house.”

        • tlhIngan Hol: 
          meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH
        • Literal translation:
          Only a fool fights in a house that continues to burn.

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  24. there’s more to revenge than jail. Half of HUD is gone, a third of EPA. Half of Edumacstion. And as of midnight, me. Things are going well and we have to keep on keeping on so Fang Fang Swallows never get back to reverse it.

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      1. yep. Tried retiring 20 years ago, too early. The wife told me it wasn’t whether I got a job, but whether I stayed married to her since she’d divorce me and take all my money if I didn’t stop moping around. Became a Fed because ai was really done working hard. poachers make the best game keepers and all that. Now I’m out and will say what I like.

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    2. Congratulations! Retirement is cool, in most ways.

      Oct 1 is also the time I begin to re-read Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October.

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      1. I didn’t want to retire. I was comfortable going to work 1 or 2 days a week, doing a job that was easy for me but wouldn’t be so easy for anybody without my years of varied experience.

        But then the owner died of the COVID shots. His wife went on running the business for a year and a few months but our biggest distributor wasn’t paying their bills and the government got more and more insane. She shut it down, retired and moved to Florida. Can’t really blame her.

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        1. I’ve told my “retire” story here before. Did not think I was ready to retire (fear of “not enough finances?” FWIW I was wrong, but …) Always knew I’d retire years after hubby but before age 65, “Sometime” (he is older). Based on the between-employments, figured I’d be bored (wrong). Then something happened at work (not involving me), I decided “time to go”. I was 58 (59 before officially pulled the trigger). 100% not sorry.

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  26. Well apparently, the FlexSeal Flamingos will need sombreros and curly mustacheos. Temu Obama has become seriously unglued over that AI video.

    *snort*

    Turns out, in this case revenge is best served with an ice cold margarita, chips and salsa, and a mariachi band in the background.

    ¡Ole! 🥙

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  27. I have noticed that the Democrat politicians still think the old playbook is still working. That the old media is still in power, it’s not.

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      1. Type of mind, environment the mind is in, and the more specific errors of modeling, analysis, and understanding.

        Some people can hit eighty working in an occupation, and still have their minds flexible and doing original creative work.

        Quite a lot of people slow down, and stop pushing themselves. Someone who was ‘successful’ enough to start themselves in a holding pattern in their thirties or forties can probably be incredibly hidebound when it comes to their most basic assumptions.

        Though, maybe I ought not be throwing stones at other people for being ‘unthinking’ and ‘rigid’.

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  28. Well, the phrase: “Go to Hell!” has been tossed around too and that might be ok for some of the truly awful ones. I read once someplace that the true Hell isn’t fire and brimstone – it’s very, very empty and cold, very cold.

    The Iowa Superintendent mess continues to be reviewed and more and more is coming out that this whole hire was a scam from the start. Not a good look for all involved. It shall be of interest as additional facts are found and discussed.

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  29. ALL the sunlight on ALL the things they want hidden, yes.

    But people know that if you or I did a tenth of this stuff, we’d be in supermax for life-plus. The elites keep walking. So to put away even a few of the lying, scheming fuckers would not only be satisfying, but a message to the rest: Yes, the rules also apply to your arrogant ass.

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  31. Schumer was just addressing the Senate and said the secret part out loud. It doesn’t matter that they’re shutting down the government, or how many people will be affected; all that matters is that Republicans get blamed for it. 😡

    In that, I suspect Chucky is going to be disappointed.

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  33. ya know,

    from wayyyyy over here, it looks like

    SOSDD

    Just more BS from the ever present BS factory, anymore, it just feels like it never changes no matter what, as someone once said,

    ”stay away from crowds” thanks Ole Rehmus, miss ya dude.
    but seriously, just keep a wary eye and keep prepping no matter how slow.

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  34. And then there’s this:

    4.3.6 Choosing the Right Loop

    Use do-while when the loop must run at least once.

    Use for when you know the exact number of iterations.

    Use while when the number of iterations is unknown.

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    1. Except that a Computer Science Graduate (and don’t you forget it!) looked at my code and had a meltdown. “Thou Shalt Not Use do() Loops! Ever!!”

      Me: “Why? The do() loops do exactly what I want, and they’re more efficient than for().”

      “B- because you might forget to close them!”

      Me: “Well if you do that you’re an idiot, and it doesn’t matter what kind of loops you use.”

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      1. People have proposed that ‘come from’ statements are a language feature similar to ‘go to’.

        ‘Come at’ feels like it would be more interesting to define how a compiler should evaluate.

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      3. You can replicate a do-while loop with a while loop with a little code duplication (and a smart compiler might be able to compile away the duplicated code, at least in some languages, though emphasis on “might” there), and I’ve had to do that before when working in languages that didn’t offer the do-while construct. (Or you avoid the code duplication by moving the duplicated code into a private method, and hope that the compiler is smart enough to inline the method and avoid the stack overhead of the function call). It’s always annoying, though, and when do-while is an option available to you, it’s better to use it when the semantics are “do this at least once, then check whether you need to do it again”. Because both the alternatives (duplicate code or refactor it into a private method) need a pretty smart compiler to produce the same efficient assembly that the do-while loop could be turned into by a simple, dumb compiler:

        LABEL StartOfLoop
        … do work here …
        TEST EndOfLoopCondition
        IF FALSE THEN JUMP TO StartOfLoop

        The only difference between this and the while loop is where the test is done (the “while” loop puts the test at the start and jumps to EndOfLoop if the EndOfLoopCondition is TRUE). Both are very efficient in modern processors with good branch prediction, and both have good reason to exist. The guy who worried about forgetting to close the do-while loop was wrong.

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        1. Old COBOL (FWIW – definition of spaghetti code)

          For you newby’s. There is no Begin/End for If’s, or any loop. Must use loop options for everything. Do/While where must run at least once, were very common.

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        2. “The guy who worried about forgetting to close the do-while loop was wrong.”

          ALL the loops break if you don’t close them. The guy wasn’t “wrong”, the guy *WAS AN IDIOT* who doesn’t understand coding.

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          1. It’s easier to remember on the for() loop because it’s all there in one place.

            I looked at the generated assembly code. The for() loop tests for the terminal condition before the loop, and then again at the end. That’s a waste if you know the important values at compile time.

            All I wanted was to run through the loop body twice with different values in a few variables. do() allowed me to code exactly that, and I didn’t even need to assign an index variable.

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            1. “It’s easier to remember on the for() loop because it’s all there in one place.”

              Modern compilers *don’t care*. If you don’t close the loop, the compiler complains and refuses to produce the compiled program.

              And that’s true for ALL the loops, without exception. You could close it in the wrong place, use the wrong conditions, etc, but the loops WILL be closed. “Not closing the loop” is not a concern and hasn’t been in at least a couple of decades, unless you are using older compilers than that.

              The only sort-of exception I know of to that is in a few languages where, be default, you only get one command in the loop… and of course, 99.99999999999% of the time, the first thing you do is use that command to open some kind of grouping, like a BEGIN/END pair… and if you don’t have a pair, *it breaks*.

              But even then, *the loop is closed*, just in the wrong place.

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      4. Remember all those people being told “learn to code”?

        One of them might be maintaining your code. Always make it as hard as possible for them to commit such an error.

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  36. Oh, I understand the need for restraint. I really do. Nevertheless I’d clap to see Schiff and Swalwell’s heads adorning adjacent pikes outside the Hall of Congress.

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      2. When it comes to those two, I’m not on Team Heads on Pikes.

        That would allow the possibility of a quick and merciful end. Team Short Stakes, OTOH….

        That level of corruption deserves something memorable…..

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    1. Wouldn’t stop ’em. They get at least 10x more than their official paychecks from graft, insider trading and <s>bribes</s> campaign contributions. A broke waitress piled up $30 million in just 6 years! 😡

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      1. But what about their staff? All the checks stop, including for the staff. They don’t exist in a vacuum you know. I’m getting to understand better how attacking around a target is often times more effective in the long run.

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  39. “But that’s not the way to do it. Not going forward.”

    Sure it is. There’s exactly one reason it’s not: because we can’t all agree on when “the moment” is that they’ve crossed the line and it’s time to actually get violent. If we all agreed on it, we could do it *right now* (if we agreed this is the time). It wouldn’t be difficult (though there would be a body count, so it would be, in many ways, “hard”), as the numbers are quite definitive.

    There IS a line. We can all agree on that. At one end of the spectrum, we have “yay, everything is wonderful” and at the other we have “They are coming to kill us so we have to fight back.”

    Every possible infinitesimal point in between could be the line… and “they” (whoever it is that’s wants to get away with stuff) is very, very good at making at least a brief stop at nearly every single one (because those who *aren’t* good at that get crushed by unified opposition).

    What we need is a very, very good definition of where that moment is that we all agree on. That would help so much.

    It would help if it’s ever needed (God forbid), but it would also help prevent horribleness by “them” (same group as above) knowing where NOT to go.

    Sure, they will put their toe *RIGHT* up to that line, which will suck, but all but the dumbest would stop there.

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    1. I may be wrong, but I think there’s a “line” that when crossed will bring out the monster in all of us, pretty much simultaneously. The left thinks of their violence “dial,” but the right doesn’t have a single switch–each one of us has a switch, and most are set to the same frequency.

      I suspect it will get much, much worse before that happens.

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      1. One of the reasons for the “slow boil” the left usually engages in is to split as many as possible in terms of where “the line” is and when they cross it. Even if we are fairly close together, and certainly there are a few lines that would indeed set off a LOT of people at once, our “OK, morally, it’s time to get violent now” lines aren’t perfectly in sync.

        The objective is to set off the most sensitive early, in a small group at most, so they can be “dealt with”. Later, rinse, repeat. Avoid any actual sizable group getting set off at once, and (with the power of overwhelming numbers against the very few) give examples of how futile it is and how high the cost is (same thing they do with lesser resistance – destroying people isn’t JUST for fun, though they generally do enjoy it).

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