But are they friends with Ida Know?

Jesse reports an attack of the yeahbuts:

Not unlike the mice that have taken an illegal sublet in my kitchen and who gnaw and crunch on peanuts that have dropped too far behind the fridge to sweep, the yeahbuts are driving me insane. Close cousins of the whatifs, the yeahbuts are a truly unwanted nuisance, because instead of being followed merely by an innocent hypothetical question, they are sure to deliver a real punch, a full-on objection to some well-meant idea or another. ...