{"id":893,"date":"2024-03-08T04:29:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/kathy-hochul-leftist-idiot\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T04:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T04:29:09","slug":"kathy-hochul-leftist-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/kathy-hochul-leftist-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul, Leftist Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Head over to Malcolm Pollack's place for some sensible commentary<\/a>. Meat quote:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Political thinkers from Hobbes to Schmitt have understood that the fundamental principle that legitimizes the power of the State is the reciprocal obligation of obedience and protection. We cede to the State the awesome power of coercion by threat of violence, and in return we expect a guarantee of our public and personal security. This means that when the State abandons its side of that obligation, it is the right, and the duty, of the citizenry to secure their own protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's right. It follows that citizens have the right to keep and bear arms.  The rate of exercise of that right stands in inverse relation to the failure of the State to guarantee our public and personal security.  The more the government fails to do what it is supposed to do, chiefly, protect life, liberty, and property, the more citizens will arm themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

From this you can see just how preternaturally stupid<\/em> (or deliberately self-enstupidated<\/em>) libs, lefties, and wokesters are. Presumably, they want fewer guns in civilian hands.* Their policies, however,  incentivize gun ownership by Joe and Jane Citizen. <\/span><\/p>\n

In a piece<\/a> defending Viktor Orban against the mindless charge of being a 'fascist dictator,' Rod Dreher writes,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unlike London, Paris, Washington, New York, Brussels, and elsewhere, street crime is very low in the Hungarian capital \u2014 and that\u2019s not because the police are everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Think about it: just this week, the governor of New York [Kathy Hochul] ordered the state\u2019s National Guard troops to patrol New York City\u2019s subways to crack down on violent crime there. This never, ever happens in Budapest. Ever. A British friend traveling this week in New York said the scene outside his lodgings in Manhattan is appalling, with scores of African men \u2014 illegal aliens who came through Mexico \u2014 loitering on the street and urinating in public. That doesn\u2019t happen in Budapest either, because Hungary is a country that controls its borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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*And so do I. It can't be good to have all sorts of untrained people packing heat.  I defend 2A rights, but I would never try to persuade people to arm themselves. Gun ownership is a grave responsibility. You have to get training, you have to practice, and you have to know the law.  Before you even think about buying a gun, you need to develop situational awareness. As the noted trainer Steve Tarani says, "If you have to go to guns, there has been a failure in situational awareness." That is a very slight exaggeration, but not by much. Another trainer, retired Navy SEAL Chris Sajnog here<\/a> discusses ten ways to improve your SA.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the worst enemy of SA? The smartphone. Don't be a dumbass with a smartphone. Don't walk around with your head up your app!  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Head over to Malcolm Pollack's place for some sensible commentary. Meat quote: Political thinkers from Hobbes to Schmitt have understood that the fundamental principle that legitimizes the power of the State is the reciprocal obligation of obedience and protection. We cede to the State the awesome power of coercion by threat of violence, and in … Continue reading “Kathy Hochul, Leftist Idiot”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,165,29,72,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-political-nihilism","category-political-ponerology","category-sage-advice","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}