Hugh Hyatt
@hugh.freeshell.org
A politically opinionated, deeply concerned, MAGA-appalled, retired software engineer & native Delawarean.
No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. ―H. L. Mencken
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. ―H. L. Mencken
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need. ―William L. McKnight
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need. ―William L. McKnight
I love my country too much to be a nationalist. ―Albert Camus
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I love my country too much to be a nationalist. ―Albert Camus
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ―Ella Wheeler Wilcox
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ―Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, "I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with." ―Will Rogers
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, "I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with." ―Will Rogers
This is one reason I avoid doing business with Meta products.
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is one reason I avoid doing business with Meta products.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ―James Reston
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ―James Reston
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ―Natalie Clifford Barney
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ―Natalie Clifford Barney
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. ―John Adams
October 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. ―John Adams
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. ―Bill Mauldin
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. ―Bill Mauldin
“… not fade away” ―I Peter 5:2 (earliest use I know of; best known as the title of a song written by Charles Hardin, AKA Buddy Holly, and released on 27 October 1957 as the "B" side of Buddy Holly and The Crickets' second 45 RPM single, "Oh Boy")
October 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“… not fade away” ―I Peter 5:2 (earliest use I know of; best known as the title of a song written by Charles Hardin, AKA Buddy Holly, and released on 27 October 1957 as the "B" side of Buddy Holly and The Crickets' second 45 RPM single, "Oh Boy")
In politics, being deceived is no excuse. ―Leszek Kolakowski
October 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
In politics, being deceived is no excuse. ―Leszek Kolakowski
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ―Doris Lessing
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ―Doris Lessing
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. ―Arthur Miller
October 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. ―Arthur Miller
“I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke telling a very offensive stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives,” Vance said.
Here're headshots of four of the "kids" J.D. was referring to.
Here're headshots of four of the "kids" J.D. was referring to.
October 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke telling a very offensive stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives,” Vance said.
Here're headshots of four of the "kids" J.D. was referring to.
Here're headshots of four of the "kids" J.D. was referring to.
He who has a why can endure any how. ―Friedrich Nietzsche
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
He who has a why can endure any how. ―Friedrich Nietzsche
Responding to the email pictured:
No, thank you. Nothing against Bad Bunny; however, for me, the thought of “pledging” to watch anything is distasteful. The culture I choose to enjoy is based on my artistic sensibilities, not my politics.
No, thank you. Nothing against Bad Bunny; however, for me, the thought of “pledging” to watch anything is distasteful. The culture I choose to enjoy is based on my artistic sensibilities, not my politics.
October 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Responding to the email pictured:
No, thank you. Nothing against Bad Bunny; however, for me, the thought of “pledging” to watch anything is distasteful. The culture I choose to enjoy is based on my artistic sensibilities, not my politics.
No, thank you. Nothing against Bad Bunny; however, for me, the thought of “pledging” to watch anything is distasteful. The culture I choose to enjoy is based on my artistic sensibilities, not my politics.
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. ―Dwight D. Eisenhower
October 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. ―Dwight D. Eisenhower
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters. ―Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
October 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters. ―Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. ―Lin Yutang
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. ―Lin Yutang
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.
―John Lennon
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.
―John Lennon
October 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.
―John Lennon
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.
―John Lennon