LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 days agoTrump's own fans turn on him over new Iran deal: 'You can't fool your base'www.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square105linkfedilinkarrow-up1328arrow-down16
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minus-squareWhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down2·6 days agoYou fool me once…You fool me. The point is you can’t get fooled again. -George W. Bush
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·6 days agoFool me once . . . Shame on . . Shame on you . . Fool me twice . . . Y- . . You can’t get fooled again.
minus-squaremic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·6 days agoFor the curious, this quote is because he realized mid-sentence (literally as he was saying “fool me once”) that he was about to give democrats a nice juicy “shame on me” sound bite to use in all of their ad campaigns.
minus-squareusernamefactory@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 days agoSo instead he mangled the phrase so badly we’re still making fun of him for it twenty years later?
minus-squarestephen01king@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 days agoHey, but no ad campaigns, though.
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoI think he just forgot it midway through. He wasn’t a great speaker so it was initially kind of weird they had him speaking everywhere, all the time. And he’d inevitably say something wrong, offensive, outrageous, stupid, whatever. Which is why we were sure he’d go down as the worst predisent evar.
minus-squareW98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agohttps://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q
You fool me once…You fool me. The point is you can’t get fooled again.
-George W. Bush
Fool me once . . . Shame on . . Shame on you . .
Fool me twice . . . Y- . . You can’t get fooled again.
For the curious, this quote is because he realized mid-sentence (literally as he was saying “fool me once”) that he was about to give democrats a nice juicy “shame on me” sound bite to use in all of their ad campaigns.
So instead he mangled the phrase so badly we’re still making fun of him for it twenty years later?
Hey, but no ad campaigns, though.
Mission accomplished!
Boom.
I think he just forgot it midway through. He wasn’t a great speaker so it was initially kind of weird they had him speaking everywhere, all the time.
And he’d inevitably say something wrong, offensive, outrageous, stupid, whatever.
Which is why we were sure he’d go down as the worst predisent evar.
Those were the days
https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q
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