{"id":37003,"date":"2018-11-28T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37003"},"modified":"2018-11-08T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T22:30:49","slug":"qotd-never-interfere-with-the-enemy-when-he-is-making-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/28\/qotd-never-interfere-with-the-enemy-when-he-is-making-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Never interfere with the enemy when he is making a mistake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>That\u2019s a line that the Rod Steiger character uses in the the 1970 film <em>Waterloo<\/em>. And it\u2019s a line I have been repeating to myself again and again over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>My enemies in the Establishment, whether it be the media, communists, social justice warriors or the last-ditch Remainers have been obligingly making error after error. I could point out their mistakes and laugh but there is that danger \u2013 however remote \u2013 that they might listen and learn. You see, I don\u2019t want them to learn. What I want them to do is to keep the gas pedal pressed down hard as they can as they drive the juggernaut of bad ideas over the cliff and into oblivion. In such circumstances it is best to keep ones counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Crozier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2017\/01\/never-interfere-with-the-enemy-when-he-is-making-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Never interfere with the enemy when he is making a mistake&#8221;, <em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>, 2017-01-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s a line that the Rod Steiger character uses in the the 1970 film Waterloo. And it\u2019s a line I have been repeating to myself again and again over the last few months. My enemies in the Establishment, whether it be the media, communists, social justice warriors or the last-ditch Remainers have been obligingly making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[10,53,41],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-37003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-criticism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9CP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37004,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37003\/revisions\/37004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}