{"id":3424,"date":"2005-07-07T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T22:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/07\/here-we-go-again\/"},"modified":"2005-07-07T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T22:16:35","slug":"here-we-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/07\/here-we-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The 24-hour Moonbat Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tEvery time a terrorist group explodes a bomb, we see the same range of reactions: rational, sane people commiserate<\/a> with the victims of the attack and their families, cutting through the confusion and getting to the essentials. When the smoke clears, they connect the dots with similar attacks and resolve to fight even harder against the terrorists.<\/p>\n

And then you have your moonbats who go “see – this proves the hobby horse I’m riding is going in the right direction!” somewhere toward Appeasementville<\/a>, Chimpy McBushitlerburton-bashing-ville<\/a>, or off on some bizarre tangent that intersects with Internet triumphalism<\/a> or Sinn Fein triumphalism or politically correct triumphalism or whatever.<\/p>\n

Moonbats, the next time you have a chance to embarrass yourself, why not wait 24 hours or so for your head to clear before showing the world what a nutter you are? You’ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: For a good case study in what happens to those who violate the 24 hour moonbat rule, see the total destruction of “DarkSyde”<\/a> by rational people. (Q: Why do these lunatics always go by pseudonyms?) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time a terrorist group explodes a bomb, we see the same range of reactions: rational, sane people commiserate with the victims of the attack and their families, cutting through the confusion and getting to the essentials. When the smoke clears, they connect the dots with similar attacks and resolve to fight even harder against … Continue reading “The 24-hour Moonbat Rule”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Te","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}