The Long Silence

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Don’t sound the alarm. Don’t send for the emergency services. For the next week (or so) things are going to be a little rocky and delayed both here and at instapundit, partly because my assistant and I both managed to be traveling at the same time. Which means I’m not here, and she’s not catching up for me.

Well, I’m here, sort of. Sometimes.

The biggest problem is that I’m having trouble thinking of topics, because I’ve been busy (nothing bad, it’s just family stuff — involved family stuff, both emotional and legal — though arguably it’s sequelas of bad stuff, since no one was counting on mom’s death, not for three, four or perhaps ten years.) and paying less attention to general things and politics than usual.

Seen in passing, the ridiculous slander against Homan (Anyone else want to call him Hooman in lol cat language? I’m fluent in lol cat!) does indeed seem to be ridiculous and slander. The left still hasn’t figured out that in the present day they can’t control all the media and make things stick that make no sense.

And apparently both the left and the Bulwark (BIRM) is convinced that “Republicans are afraid of the No King’s protest.” They’re not wrong. I mean, every time I read about it I roll on the floor laughing so hard I pee myself and I’m running out of clean pants, plus you probably should buy stock in detergent companies.

Let’s see, their first protest was unimpressive and the second no one notice. The third, I suspect we’ll notice, because I’m sure they intend to place piles of bricks and fire-starting materials. The thing is, that does worry us, because in fact we don’t like people’s property burned and people harmed. That’s a specialty of the left.

BUT it doesn’t worry us in the sense that people will think that political alternative which is destroying and burning things is preferable. no one thinks that. At best they can pretend for a while, if they lock the entire nation up– and that’s not going to happen again.

Part of the problem with the left is that, since the Marxist theory and its predictions — which they are enamored of — doesn’t conform with reality, and because they refuse to relinquish it, they have trouble even seeing reality, even with two hands and a seeing eye dog.

So instead they’re locked in this sort of memetic pseudo reality where instead of learning from history they try to repeat certain gestures as though they guarantee a certain result. And since violent demonstrations “worked” in certain countries at certain times in the past, they don’t understand the conditions are different, or that there’s no great interest in their policies. Violent demonstrations worked in the past and therefore they will automagically work again.

They keep running on that treadmill and pushing that button and failing to realize that none of it makes the political machine drop the desired power pellets.

It’s of course going to get worse before it gets better. Because the less they get their supply the more they’ll push the button.

So, yes, be afraid of the No King’s protest, because they will get violent and stupid. (They’re already stupid.)

On the other hand, don’t be afraid that they’ll start some amazing new movement.

For one the entire thing is incoherent. America — famously! — doesn’t have a king. And trying to claim Trump is being one while he gives more than due deference to the eructations of federal judges even in matters they CLEARLY have no jurisdiction over is self-obviously stupid.

Particularly after the Reign of Obama the Inadequate with his pen and phone, of which he bragged and which they cheered on. And also given their ridiculous, obsequious foot-kissing of personalities they anoint for… reasons that have nothing to do with competence.

I’ll close by saying, though it’s worthy of and the incident that prompted this will need a post of its own late: People who take great pleasure in imagined triumphs of people whom they’ve never met but who have some characteristic in common with them (female, same race, whatever) but nothing else just because they imagine this gives them power are idiots. And will always remain idiots. HOWEVER people who take great pleasure in the ascension of someone they consider downtrodden or marginalized for no other reason and regardless of perceived or real competence are even worse idiots. Poisonous ones, since their only motivation is to feel that they somehow have power to engineer society.

It’s all very exhausting.

And now forgive me if posting is sporadic until next Thursday. By then I’ll resume the usual schedule. Until then, I’ll have resort to a lot of guest posts (I just didn’t even get around to it yesterday or today.)

BUT I’ll do the meme post and the promo post, of course.

Sorry about the silence, and I’ll try to be more on it.

140 thoughts on “The Long Silence”

      1. Stay safe – and have an easy and comfortable journey. We’ll be waiting for you when you get back.’

        Oh, and thanks for the plugs for Luna City, and for Hills of Gold – orders zoomed up very satisfactorily because of the notice on Insty!

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      3. Good luck and congenial travels; and may the family reminiscences be many and thoughtful and warm.

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  2. This is the third No Kings protest? I thought it was the second. Oh well, if indeed they were waiting for this protest to reopen the government, then that should be open next week. But the longer it goes on, the worse they look.

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      2. According to Wiki, this is the second. The first was on Flag Day (DJT’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of the US Army). Nothing else under that name until this Saturday.

        OTOH, the left’s gotta protest/riot/insurrect on days ending in ‘y’.

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        2. Given Wiki’s leanings, the fact that they don’t mention an ineffective “protest” is no reason the assume there wasn’t one. The left doesn’t tend to trumpet its failures.

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        3. Sadly, I don’t have the link, but I recall seeing a meme in which Trump bet Putin $5 that he could make Democrats call him a king on his birthday.

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          1. I hope it’s a real post: Trump thanking the “No Kings,” protesters for protecting him from this “king,” they were worried about.

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      1. “Three Kings…”

        Three kings rode out on the road to hell, and the bloody-breasted hound
        Bayed where the darkening waters fell icy beneath the ground.
        Three kings a final judgment won from the High Gods’ lips that day:
        The Devil took the Briton, the Djinn took the Hun, and Hela took Norroway.

        Lyrics by Poul Anderson; used by permission of the Trigonier Trust

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-0RbFpQNE

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      1. Which Commonwealth? Last I remember at least 3 states (PA, VA, MA) claim to be commonwealths from their original charters and later constitutions. I’d swear there is at least one other state that uses the term commonwealth (Kentucky springs to mind, but I’m likely wrong).

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  3. Here’s a weird, off-topic question: is anyone else seeing weird ads at the top of their Utube recommendations—like really, weird?

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  5. By and large the people doing the idiotic “no kings” protest theater, are the same people who spent the last two years 1) cheering Hamas the day they committed the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust’ ; 2) protested against Israel the day after the attacks as “committing genocide” (talk about blood-libels) before Israel had even responded to Hamas heinous attack, and while the Gaza population had increased vastly subsequent to the Israeli withdrawal therefrom; 3) once Israel took action kept demanding “immediate cease fire now” while chanting genocidal slogans that called for the destruction of Israel in its entirety and the complete elimination of its Jewish populace (and any non Jews who were not part of Hamas’ particular brand of Jihadism as well); 4) once a cease fire was announced, were utterly silent, at least until they started coming out and further denouncing Israel and demonizing Jews while still calling for Israels complete destruction and the mass-murder of Jews; all of which made it very clear that their goal was never a cease-fire, peace with Israel, or anything other than a Judenfrei Arab state in place of Israel, while calling for global violence against Jews (which is exactly what “globalize the intifada” is a call for-nothing less than a call for the global annihilation of every Jew in the world).

    These are the people who denounce anyone who disagree with them as being a Nazi, consistently call Trump “literally Hitler” and even after two assassination attempts and the murder of Charlie Kirk, keep ratcheting up the hysterical rhetoric declaring that democracy is literally at stake as long as Trump is President and Republicans control Congress, knowing that it incites their violent activist brownshirts, blackshirts and red guard to pursue violent attacks and murders against their political opponents. Never mind that Trump’s governance in seeking to shrink government’s size and role in people’s lives is the exact OPPOSITE of fascism.

    They are also the same people who cheered rule by decree when it served their interest, both under Obama, and during the CCP-Virus, when mass house arrest of people in the name of protecting them was applauded. They are also the same people running candidates to “save democracy” whose answer to the Green Leap Forward they seek to impose is to run campaign ads declaring that “one day an ‘energy emergency’ will be declared and electricity prices reduced by decree (MIkie Sherrill) as if declaring an emergency and imposing prices by diktat is anything other than dictatorial, tyrannical or fascist/communist.

    The biggest problem is that by and large, they “believe their own BS” to borrow from Obama’s own admission that he is a BS artist who sometimes even believes his own nonsense. And as Sarah notes, Democrats had no problem with Obama’s “I have a phone and a pen”, or even earlier “If Congress won’t act, I will”. Talk about a declaration of intent to rule as a dictator.

    So once again they will go out and “protest” screaming things that apply to themselves and not those they claim to be protesting again. Time to put the protective cover over the laptop keyboard again so I don’t spray my drink in it while laughing at their idiocy this weekend.

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    1. Get pictures.

      Meme without mercy.

      (grin)

      When all else fails, a mirthful phrase is “Well! … Aren’t we -fierce-!”

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      2. Last protest, the crowd at the nearest site looked like the population of an assisted living community sans the summer Corvette baldies.

        15 miles away near the college campus was the hippos with body mods and colorful hair with their friend-zone boys with beards and dad bods.

        The more active idiots go to Dallas.

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        1. I had to look at the organizer’s page to find the Flyover Falls location. The local “news”paper had three lines, none of which were useful. (You leave that website knowing less than when you entered. The dead tree version is now a tabloid–a very thin one, too.

          I see the mostly peaceful protesters picked the busiest intersection in town for their mostly peaceful whoop-do-do. I’m going back home (the surgery seems to be a success, though my body wasn’t happy. Morning blood sugar was quite high; I gather such is common. I don’t have to pass through that area, so I’ll miss any excitement, especially via any ranchers who have to be there. F350 vs protester. Popcorn, anybody?

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            1. Co-worker has the Ford F-350 Super Duty “Tremor” pickup truck, with the “Godzilla” 7.3L engine. Perfect for “just passin thru” a road block (in that novel being written) (red speckle paint not included)

              I -love- this country.

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              1. A ‘Tremors’ truck? Now there’s an idea — let ’em go have their ‘mostly peaceful protests’ in Graboid country. Tell ’em stompy feet are particularly effective. (just not what they’re effective for) 😄

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            2. Back mumble decades ago, I was known to say “you might have the right of way, but he has the right of weight”. Useful reminder for overeager pedestrians at busy intersections.

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      3. I thought it quite entertaining when AOC said that we can’t stand being laughed at so they need to laugh at us.

        Sorry, child. We laugh at ourselves.

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  6. If folks see oddly placed pallets of stone/brick/poo, be a Good Citizen and phone it in. Let the pros handle it.

    Do not be like some novel character and booby-trap it, nor set an ambush on it. (grin) No. Dont. Leave it to the pros.

    If you -are- a pro, consider the value of firehoses…… and soap, lots of soap. (grin)

    Also, for the pros, the Fools from A.U.N.T.I.E routinely conceal their command and control cadre as “medics”, “reporters”, and “water dispenser folk”. Yes, they explicitly misuse the Laws and Customs of War to conceal their “leaders”. What part of “Communist” did folks miss? (grin)

    They also may be armed, quite heavily, and may have overwatch “sniper” positions ready in case of strong opposition by ungrateful Proletariat. The pros are far more likely to have effective retaliation for such mayhem, so dont expect the rioters to hesitate to shoot up BubbaForce.

    Like any other riot, if you find yourself in one, get the heck out of Dodge asap. Don’t join in the affray. Beat it. Skidaddle. Leave it to trained pros. Most folks do -not- have the skillset or mindset to play pickup-team-Infantry. Playing such games solo is usually a very losing proposition. Protect yourself and your folk, and stay -out- of the mayhem.

    If cornered? Defend yourself. Dont quit.

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  7. Mrs Hoyt, you can easily fill up a bunch of days with:

    Open topic day

    Gun day

    I found this cool gadget day

    Pet day

    Favorite music day

    Car/truck/unicycle day

    Prepper day

    Hobby day

    You had to be there day

    Hope that helps.

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  8. Wait, this is the THIRD “No Kings”?? Wow, the second one really WAS unnoticeable. (If I’m correct in assuming the first one was also when the nutjob shot the democratic lawmakers in Michigan, and the media was super thrilled until it came out his car was full of “No Kings” flyers, and the guy was obviously a supporter…)

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    2. I think they called the 2nd one something else. I seem to remember seeing one post about it, showing people coming out of the door of a care facility of some kind, all fighting to clutch their signs while dealing with walkers and such.

      Was it no emperors? No tyrants?

      No traction, anyway.

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  11. In addition to No Kings, Saturday is supposed to also be a “Don’t Buy Anything” day.

    I plan on spend some on mo’ supplies, (edible and pew-pew), and don’t expect the local affluent Dem’Boomer protesters on the route of travel to be blocking the roads. The younger idiots will be elsewhere at the county seats and city halls. Hopefully the rain forecasted happens.

    In the local school district drama, another elementary school is being closed. This is the 5th school closed in the last two years and is the largest and newest school in the district.

    The reason isn’t the drop in enrollment, but poor performance as measured by the State. (Ummm….) But 85% of the students are either ESL or minority, a complete demographic flip in last 20 years.

    I’m hoping we get tax relief, but all the bond packages keep passing due to voter apathy. Lots of stupid State Constitutional props on the ballot for the fall election, most targeted to help disabled, vets or Boomers, nothing really effective.

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    1. yes. I don’t have one, I don’t want one and they finally accepted the fact I’m not a citizen. Other than that…. Now dealing with medieval laws so we can leave my dad in possession of all his money without having to part it out, because Portugal is nuts.

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  13. The Reader sympathizes with the distractions of ‘family stuff’. The death of his son is an ongoing stressor. The Reader and his wife are not the executors of son’s estate – he picked one of his friends for that. Said friend is a solid young man who has never had to deal with any of this before. Also, we are the owners of the house (joint with survivorship), which we have to get emptied before we can figure out how to disposition it. It is completely wheelchair accessible and we hope to see if one of the veterans groups knows someone who can take advantage of it. We are also the trustees of his special needs trust, which we now have to go through legal channels in Maryland to close. And every time we go to the house it rips us up. As the Reader observed to one of his friends recently ‘we plan but God doesn’t necessarily read the Gantt Chart’.

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  14. About 2 dozen places in NH are supposed to be holding No Kings rallies. Barrington had 1 for the first and isn’t on the list for this time around. I was tempted to go sit in a lawn chair on the opposite side of the intersection where they were demonstrating while wearing my MAGA hat and holding a Trump sign, but I had too many lawn chores to take care of that Saturday.

    The only thing I took note of for this Saturday is which areas they were going to be occupying as those tend to have annoying traffic jams that avoid like the plague.

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    1. If they want it to be ugly, the organizers in F-Falls picked the one intersection that will screw the town up. Downtown is meh, and on a weekend, more meh. This is the busiest on in town, hard to avoid unless you really know the area, and a stone b!tch even if you do for some of the routes.

      No nearby really tall buildings, though there’s a 4ish story hotel on the corner. The rest is low buildings and the Rite-Aid pharmacy–I assume it’s vacant by now. The town is pretty conservative, so barring outsiders and the students at the tech college, it might be a fizzle. BLM tried to get something going for St. George of the Fentanyl in 2020, but the downtown business people were armed and had a lot of friends who were armed, so it was quite peaceful. (Trantifa got nasty later, setting a bunch of wildfires in September, but not in the city.)

      We might get an echo of the 2020 fires later on. Dunno.

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    2. Oh dear, I offended the WP autocensor. Guess using a term that implies Auntie fa-la-la is largely staffed by people of uncertain sexual identity is not allowed.

      (I wonder if it’s a) going to be a bust, and b) will get retaliation days or weeks later.)

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    3. And my comment about the WP censor got censored. (If it’s a bust, watch out for delayed retaliation.)

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            1. And something has happened that prevents me from posting comments on your site, or on MadGeniusClub. I have to go through the WordPress Reader page which, fortunately, has started working again after more than a year of its own mysterious problems.

              It started abruptly, from working normally on October 7th and not at all on the 8th. Everything seems to proceed as usual, but the comments just never show up. Not even in the SPAM bucket. They just vanish into oblivion. It pisseth me off muchly. WPDE!
              ———————————
              At my house, the ‘things that go bump in the night’ are cats.

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              1. Have I pointed out I can’t comment ON MY OWN BLOG unless I do it from the back panel? It asks me to log in, then refuses to acknowledge my login. It’s bizarre.

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                    1. Good heavens the AI is mildly precognitive. We are in such trouble. Sick the engineering cats on them NOW it’s our only hope…

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              2. The Reader can post comments here, but cannot like posts unless from WordPress Reader. Also he lost the ability to get email notifications on posts or comments, even if requested in Reader. WPDE.

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                1. A few “upgrades” ago, WP would send me email replies to comments I had made. Considering that I don’t have an account with WP, that was interesting.

                  No more, roughly since WP (usually) deleted the html coding in favor of their control panel widget.

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    4. On Monday I looked up where the local No Kings marches would be held. Thinking of going and getting an unfiltered view. I thought the choice of location was a bit odd. Just realized it is on a minor route to the ____ State Football stadium. No Kings 12 to 3. Home game 2:30.

      They could block maybe 50 cars or march half a mile and block a major route right at the stadium.

      We never go into little city on game days so will miss the fun.

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      1. I think they’re trying to draw a reaction so they can claim victim points while committing felonies of their own. The location for Flyover Falls is frequently at capacity, so even a small blockage will tick off a lot of people. I plan to be several miles away by noon tomorrow.

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        1. Oh.

          So that is why they had the protest in Des Moines on Friday…

          At the federal building.

          Literally where the parking garage has to exit, on a one-way street.

          ….they had plants circling the block and slowing traffic so they could honk and “show support” for the maybe a ten or so elderly “protesters.”

          On the upside, the usual protesters– an elderly clearly disabled lady, and the slightly younger gal who seems to caretake/get paid for bringing two protesters– wasn’t there.

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  15. Last night I re-watched Quatermass And The Pit — the movie about digging up an ancient Martian space ship in London. Near the end, wheen gangs of people brainwashed by the ship chased down the un-brain-washed and killed them with activated psychokinetic powers, I stopped and said, “Damn, they’re Democrats!”

    Because the Democrats have a compulsion to purge the un-brain-washed. No dissent is permitted. The Hive must be Pure!
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    They say I can’t be a nonconformist because I’m not like the other nonconformists.

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    1. Seen that one, and, yes. Some viewers may remember it under the alternate title, “Five Million Years to Earth.” (But whose face should be on the Giant Glowing Blob Creature..? Bammy the Unready? Hill the Shrill? We can’t blame their communo-tribal stuff on aliens, more’s the pity.)

      And I love the (implied but arguable) reference to Kipling. “Cold iron, cold iron, is master of them all.”

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  16. Best of luck.with everything.

    As for the No Kings silliness, I know some folks who will be at those. I’m trying to decide if I want to go with derision, questions, or concerned head tilt when they post about it.

    As usual, it’s all projection and a desperate attempt to regain the relevance they think they once had.

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  17. Hopefully Kash Patel has the FBI on site to arrest anyone who tries to drop off a pallet of bricks in the middle of a street, and cyber agents tracking the cash trail back to the perps. Maybe he could enlist Big Ballz. :)

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  18. …don’t be afraid that they’ll start some amazing new movement.

    To start some amazing new movement, they would have to have amazing, appealing new ideas. Instead, what they have is old and tired (Bernie, Obama), or shrill and entitled (Occasional Cortex). And their platform is “GIBS! GIBS! Also, SHAME AND GUILT!” with a side of “VOTE FOR US YOU RACIST BIGOTS!!!”

    So, yeah, no, that’s not happening.

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    1. I’m somewhat concerned that they may stupid and evil their way into a reaction movement that is sporty, but at this point it is possible that there is virtually no chance of that.

      I dunno, I have been pretty deliberately ignorant because I have felt that I really need some peace of mind.

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      1. Oh, they’re going to try to go kinetic. They have to, they have nothing else left.

        It’s going to work as well as Charlie Manson’s attempt to start a nationwide race war, though. Ugly, unfortunate, but very, very limited.

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  19. https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/16/the-book-burners-have-taken-over-the-publishing-house/

    Apropos of Sarah’s comments regarding The Woke, as they are styled, this article says Big 5 publishers are awash in “sensitivity readers” and even vice presidents of places like Random Penguin are too afraid for their jobs to say anything about it.

    It makes me giggle to think about what a “sensitivity reader” would do with one of my books.

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    1. “So what do you do for a living these days?”

      “Read Until Offended. No, really, read, complain, loop until quitting time. Pays the bills.”

      And the answer to the implied question is, bog down hopelessly. A Sensitivity Reader Critique would likely be longer than any of your actual books… interesting new figure of merit, that.

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          1. Paging Norman, the (clearly insufficiently paranoid) android.

            Plot bunny for those of you who write fanfic:

            Norman’s role on Mudd’s World is performed by Marvin from H2G2.

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            1. I presume you mean the original BBC audio play or Tv series? In the (most recent) movie Marvin has two farily famous actors. The man wearing the suit was Warwick Davis but Marvin was voiced by the inimitable Alan Rickman.

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    3. There’s a lot of scope to do your own thing in the offense arena. I mean, I probably hit it when my heroine defers to a general in a military situation.

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      1. I’m being -super- bad. Robot girlfriends. ~:D

        But even worse, Robot girlfriends who like humans. Given the choice, they hang out with humans voluntarily. For fun.

        It’s so wrong! >:D

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    5. Saw a Twitter post about inflation in Canada getting really bad (it showed a photo of a Kirkland pair of ribeyes selling for $109 and change). True, or photoshopped?

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      1. Could be real, if they were big ones. Food inflation is horrendous. To the point where they’ve shrunk the bags of Doritos chips so they can still sell them for under $6.00. Bacon doesn’t come in 453g (one pound) anymore, now it’s 350g, or .77 of a pound. Same price.

        Food banks have lineups. It’s a disgrace.

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          1. It’s evil psychology. They’re keeping the product in the customary price range by giving you less. Normies won’t pay $7 a bag for Doritos, but they might pay $5.49 for 30% fewer Doritos.

            Restaurants are closing all over the place, as you might imagine. McDonald’s is becoming a once a week Date-Night destination, Normies can’t afford Applebees anymore.

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  20. Lord help me I took a look at the site they’re organizing the “No Kings” nuttery for my state and my only thought is “who the HECK do they thing they’re going to get to show up in some of these places???” Tourist towns that are darn near shut down at this time of year, pure middle-class towns / cities where most of the people aren’t going to be appreciative of them (possibly) blocking roads…

    Lets just say one of the locations they’re planning to caper about isn’t far(ish) from me, and if they block the intersection, which will take more than I suspect is likely to show up (BOTH roads at this intersection are divided roads, 3-4 lanes in each direction). well, either the local PD will remove them or considering the volume of traffic (both civilian and commercial) someone’s likely to get flattened.

    Me? I’m going to do the best thing possible and just stay away from there Saturday…

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    1. “Tourist Towns” might explain the choices. If you’re not familiar with an area, you might pick the towns based on name recognition. And the names you and your friends will recognize are the tourist traps.

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      1. That’s possible, although the one town I looked at, they either talked to a local, or had been there, or it was being set up by a local.

        One landmark was named, the other is a “locals’ know where you’re talking about but a tourist will stare at you like you’re crazy” reference.

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      2. The one in our county looks like they’re trying to get a reaction. I don’t have to go near there, and I’m glad of it. Doubt the powers that be in town are likely to be happy with the protesters. People doing Saturday shopping will be frightfully annoyed ( to use Anna Russell’s description of Alberich in Das Rheingold).

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    2. “Me? I’m going to do the best thing possible and just stay away from there Saturday…”

      Wise, I think.

      Farnham’s Four Stupids:

      Don’t

      1. Go to stupid places
      2. With stupid people (or where stupid people congregate)
      3. At stupid times
      4. To do stupid things.

      While I’d like to attend counter-protests, I’m too old for that crap. I sent money to causes with which I am in sympathy – cheaper than hospitals and bail money in the long run.

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  21. If I could grant you any gift it would be a real vacation from work and stress. But I figure after about 12 hours you would go stir crazy.

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  22. In theory, if you buy every single critique of Lincoln, and consider that Lincoln was a tyrant and a king, there is a path to considering Trump to be a king.

    But, we are talking about fucking communists, so they don’t have the historical background to understand what a bunch of autistic Lincoln fanboys started screeching in 2021.

    Actual Republican presidents, who are actually paying more then lip service to both sides of the Lincoln disputes, are really the only thing standing between the Democrats and the consequences of them pushing those stupidly insane legal theories.

    It was not a mistake after Reconstruction for both mainstream factions to quietly agree to (vehemently) disagree, and to pretend that there was no substantive disagreement on the law, and to not fucking litigate to resolve whether Lincoln was in the right and future presidents had a justification in acting in exactly the same ways.

    We consistently after chose to limit the presidency in practice, while not actually resolving what Lincoln claimed in a way that would allow for the repeal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th ammendments. We passed posse comitatus to prevent the regular Amry being used again as it was during reconstruction. We, after WWII, very carefully set up the UCMJ that did not give the presidency loopholes to commit atrocities using uniformed military force internally.

    Everyone who is in a position to possibly enforce those provisions of the UCMJ in the future understands that the PotUS has some ability to revise the UCMJ in invalid ways, and that the last valid revision is the one that would be binding should things develop in that way.

    Trump passed a revision during his first term, and my understanding is that it makes no invalid changes.

    “SEal Team Six” under the UCMJ cannot be authorized to summarily execute Democrats even if the Democrats have it coming to them, and everyone understands that they have it coming to them.

    The only possible legal way to lynch Democrats under presidental authority is with unorganized militia, and the unorganized miltiia circumstances are almost impossible to establish in practice.

    But, the Democrats have made the stupid choice to make the legal claim that a) unauthorized militia attempted to lynch criminal Democrats, and failed to do so b) this was at Trump’s direction, and falls under any sort of legal discussion of the limits of executive power.

    (Okay, the Democrats and judges are also purporting to be non-criminal Democrats, but this is commonly understood to be open to question. We will no longer be clearly able to apply RICO over the 2020 arsons in 2030, but until that time Democrats are in potential danger if a careless venue can be found, or if the judges can discredit the official venues enough more that vigilante courts take over. Okay, there have maybe also been RICO enabling crimes in the last five years, but those are less broadly understood as being qualifying.)

    For the limits of executive power to be open to discussion in the example of Trump, then one has to establish a credible chain of authority and evidence of such a command.

    All of the subsequent proceedings has assumed that congress and the judiciary have the power to so testify, and then the situation is established. They have not actually proven that this situation can be established in a way binding enough for the needs of convicting Trump in such a way. Because they freaking need to convince a balance of unorganized militia not to support Trump, and that such orders to arrest and/or execute Democrats must be invalid.

    If you try too hard to seal a conviction, but by self impeaching means, you have the danger of as they have done, convincing a minority of extreme Lincoln fans that if such orders were to be given, they would absolutely be valid.

    Probably less than ten percent of Trump fans are extreme and unstable Lincoln fans, but if there are that many, seven and a half million is enough to be annoying to resolve.

    Anyway, this is the so called professional schools in academia being ultra retarded, because academics may be braodly idjits.

    Fucking communists.

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    1. They’re not just any old idjits, they’re Educated! Idjits. Ordinary idjits, when beaten hard enough and long enough with the Clue-By-4, can be taught.

      Not so with Educated! Idjits; they are ten times denser than ordinary idjits because they’re absolutely convinced of their own infallible genius. Why, all the other Educated! Idjits tell them so!
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      Some folks, you send ’em to college and you just wind up with educated idiots.

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  23. Also, the people who were maybe trying to set up a pet oligarchy or aristocracy of university faculty can shut their ancient regime mouths about kings.

    If we are a republic, we are a republic.

    If we are a democracy, we are a democracy.

    In both cases we would have remedies against being compelled to fund research against our interests, and against being compelled to accept decisions by a cabal of scholarly wnakers entirely divorced from the traditions of western civilization.

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  25. https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/10/16/hackers-take-over-pa-systems-in-multiple-airports-blast-pro-hamas-messages-scare-heck-out-of-travelers-n2195163

    This is interesting, but it is probably not worth all of the concerns expressed.

    It is interesting because it speaks to someone putting some effort into this purpose. (Though, they may have just talked to young Democrats working at the airports or something.)

    But I do not think the other speculation is based on a realistic estimate of the actual computers involved.

    There’s a temptation to think that all the airport and aviation computers are fully connected, and that if you can pipe stuff into PA speakers, you can as easily reprogram flight controls or radar systems.

    There’s a scene in a Patlabor anime involving military fighter jets being hacked, and basically creating a false impression of misbehaving fighters in the airspace that were not actually there. This is maybe more cyberpunk genre Hollywood thinking than inspired by a serious knowledge of the actual systems.

    Now, I am not going to say that all engineers are competent, or that all programmers have good security practices, or that IT contractors and businesses never do things they should absolutely not do.

    I am going to say that there is a good chance that the ground radars are significantly older than the PA systems, and are not running through computers that can be compromised in exactly the same way. You can definitely screw with radars in various ways, but you probably can’t do it merely by phishing someone’s smartphone.

    And screwing with the flight control systems on board the aircraft may tend to require a lot of domain specific knowledge.

    I’ve had a serious interest in some of this stuff, but, well, it looks like if you are doing all the research from scratch, remotely crashing self driving cars is harder than is really cost effective.

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    1. With respect to the last, there were some white(?) hat hackers who were able to do remote hacking of a car, overriding the brakes if memory servess; I suspect it was a non-selfdriving Tesla. OTOH, there have been some peculiar accidents where inconvenient people had the car go out of control with fatal results.

      Newer cars have lots of onboard computers. My ’19 Honda truck has electric steering, but that is weak compared to manual inputs. Not sure if it could be overridden, but with lots-o-computers, shenanigans are possible. I doubt the cars are well protected from interference, and those systems seem to be (too) closely intertwined.

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      1. I’m certain the problems are there to exploit.

        If someone goes nuts, and decides to commit a murder, and wants to keep the collateral damage small, then whatever the subject drives is the model to hack, and that is a lot of systems to research.

        Conversely, if one generally wants to commit crimes, or allows collateral damage, then one can specialize in one model and its systems long enough to find some doozies.

        I can buy that there are some specialized contract murderers who are up to date on several brands or models by now.

        Anyway, I may just be incompetent, but I find the total attack surface a lot to wrap my head around, and I’ve also been too sane or too busy to put in the work.

        Avionics and ground flight control worlds seem to be quite a bit less insane, but I am sure there are things a clever person can find. Just, a fair amount of work, and if you can do it, there is probably a lot more money in preventing accidents. Or at least, more reliable money.

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      2. The Reader notes that the first PUBLIC demonstration of remotely controlling a vehicle was done with a Jeep in 2014 or so. That system had a unique vulnerability – the infotainment system and the engine controls were embedded in the same FPGA. The community that the Reader was involved in back then at the Great Big Defense Contractor had a hearty laugh and went back to work securing military sensors from hacking attacks. We had discovered in the lab a decade earlier that having one FPGA controlling multiple subsystems that were separate was a guaranteed weakness.

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        1. Especially the volatile SRAM-based FPGAs – they basically have to continuously reprogram themselves just to keep running, so slipping in different circuitry for them to be is a lot easier.

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    2. ”…they may have just talked to young Democrats working at the airports…”

      They may just BE young dems working at the airport. Or the gf/bf of same. Inside access is always the best bet on stuff like this.

      And yes, the passenger area PA system is not the door locking system is not the baggage screening system is not the runway lighting system is not the ATC system.

      Besides, airports are the last place CNN is actually viewed, so they were already getting blasted HamAss propaganda anyway.

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      1. There are TV’s at the airports?

        Saw a lot of monitors, yes. All displaying Arrival/Departure lists. Saw no TV’s in Eugene, Denver, and Tampa. OTOH we were not hanging out in any of the bars either.

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  27. Should be a hoot, with the feds starting to look at insurrectionist groups, this protest should give them even more information…oops.

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    1. Nice fresh money flows to track right back to their source. [Palpatine voice] Yessssss. Follow the money. [/Palpatine voice]

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  29. Kind of late now, but I wonder how difficult it would be to convince the Left that “No Kings” is actually a false-flag PsyOp created by J.D. Vance, Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi to identify and target “political dissents” so that they can be stripped of their citizenship and deported by ICE? Or something similar but equally ridiculous?

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      1. Or at least voice them earlier: I came up with it over the weekend when I was visiting family in New England (Little brother continues to drink the kool aid after 10+ years in academia), we were out visiting an open-air market when an old hippie was out accosting people with “No Kings” protest flyers. More or less thought of the idea on the spot, but like an idiot I didn’t say anything for a week.

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        1. Truth be told. You want little brother to walk away. But you don’t want the idiot hippy to tattle up the chain of command. Those money funders need rooting out and their money eliminated.

          Okay if either the authorities stop them by prosecuting them or they find out the authorities are looking for them and “following the money” then from their own self interests they stop funding, the low level idiots don’t show up because not getting paid, mission accomplished. Still I’d like the funders to get an education that will echo both directions in history. If something is that bad you don’t have to be paid to show up and complain about it.

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      2. The United STates does in fact have an Emperor, Norton, a long dead eccentric who basically convinced a small minority of Americans to play along with his game of “let’s pretend”.

        Anyway, inside me are two political extremist lunatic trolls.

        One wants to push the idea of the denazification and return to lawful order of historic greater Nortonia. (We have six corrupt neighbors in our sphere of influence, Canada, UK, FRance, Mexico, PRC, and Russia. Suffice to say that my imagination went way way too far with the joke.)

        The other wants to push an extreme ideology of Americans are okay, and it is fine for them to live where they live.

        Anyway, sadly “In America, Nazism was always foreign coded” is an argument that is in conflict with an expansive ‘historic greater Nortonia’ line of argument.

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  30. “On this special day as we all gather to fight against blanket auto pen pardons and executive orders, lawlessness, and stealing citizen’s resources for illegal non citizens, I believe it has worked,” the six-time major champion posted on X, referring to criticisms of the Biden administration. “That is no longer happening so great job everyone.”

    — Phil Mickelson

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  31. I’m back after a very long 5 days … 2 very long travel days, starting with 3 AM PST – 11:30 PM EST Wednesday, ending with 3 AM EST – 12:00 PST. Not as bad as Sarah and company need to deal with flying to Europe (eek!!!!). But they shouldn’t have as bad of a rollercoaster ride. “Cannot get there direct from here.”, along with “Hurry up and wait.” Are the Eugene Airport Motto, I swear. For the latter? We had priority boarding because mom is in a wheelchair.

    OTOH a good time was had by one and all.

    Puppy missed me while I was away. She is now exhausted from all the greeting zoomies.

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