{"id":34679,"date":"2025-09-06T13:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34679"},"modified":"2025-09-06T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:45:37","slug":"violence-is-the-last-refuge-of-the-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34679","title":{"rendered":"Violence is the Last Refuge of the Incompetent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:khkaorxvl6o5xvmzmuxn2rl5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3ly6mbwbujk2i\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreife54bsj6ueyxd7u2xdvukhbl5afxiz2bbnabfvovwz5d346s7bnm\"><p lang=\"en\">The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn&#39;t a strongman, he&#39;s a scared man. Illinois won\u2019t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:khkaorxvl6o5xvmzmuxn2rl5?ref_src=embed\">Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:khkaorxvl6o5xvmzmuxn2rl5\/post\/3ly6mbwbujk2i?ref_src=embed\">2025-09-06T16:36:51.982Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To quote Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Foundation, &#8220;Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent,&#8221; and Donald Trump is not only a deeply incompetent man, he has surrounded himself with incompetent sycophants like Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clots and prayers&#8230; but JD Vance won&#8217;t be any better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Foundation, &#8220;Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent,&#8221; and Donald Trump is not only a deeply incompetent man, he has surrounded himself with incompetent sycophants like Pete Hegseth. Clots and prayers&#8230; but JD Vance won&#8217;t be any better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[4592,4258,780,781],"class_list":["post-34679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-chicago","tag-donald-trump","tag-foundation","tag-isaac-asimov","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}